From the Bottom of Your 'Ignore List'...

…And well, yeah, where was I?

So, the last few months have been a little more quiet after that initial burst – but there are good reasons. I’m not going to lather you up with excuses but I can assure you that things have been trundling along in a more steady than slow manner. The line up of Dec Club Juniors has been enhanced, weight has been lost and regained and a new shirt has been bought. The Stick has been in and out of the potting shed with his four track, making and melding in the manner that only he does, Stuart has taken these leads and scoured his thesaurus for rhyming couplets and delved into the darkest recesses of his teenage diaries in the never ending search for tales from the back room of the Blue Boar circa 1987 and it’s elusive fairground with which to fill in the gaps.

Whilst all this was going on Sam and Steve have been much more productive, revisiting the studio with Dave to set down the foundations for more songs for the ever distant album. Working titles of ‘Paulie’s Dead Nice’, ‘Menace’. ’Doppleganger’ and ‘Songs in D and G’ (which owes more to Stuarts vocal range than a fashion label) have all been worked around and on. So you can see, even though I have been a little quiet, maybe even tardy, things are progressing and the album is starting to take a distinct shape.

With all this in mind, the band will converge on London again in a couple of weeks to see what they can make of these tracks. It has been haphazard in the way that all things Decoration tend to be, on then off and then on again – not always our fault though, you can blame Paul Weller and his indecision and the thankful vision of the big Decoration jar of coppers for where we find ourselves now – braced for a few days in the city with the hope of a bunch of songs that we all love at the end of it.

I’ll keep you informed, I promise.