Red and Green Should Never Be Seen

Hello all, first off a major thank you to those who made it along to our show at Pinup nights on Friday, we would have loved to stay about for a dance but we all had to rush off and get our gear home before the stairs of the club were too busy to carry the stuff down. A big special mention should go to a specific panda who struggled up the stairs of death with a busted knee and crutches. Some people will stop at nothing to get an endor fix it would seem (or so I’d like to think)

In other news Richard and I will be playing a wee acoustic set at the Say Dirty Christmas Party next thursday so come and get festive with us. The reason I mention this is because I’ve always loved the combination of red and green that you can get away with at Christmas, however I’ve just learned as of an hour ago that I have a major red/green deficiancy and am thus colourblind! So I’ve probably got no idea how heinous a fashion faux pas this is! There goes any chance of being a pilot, policeman, electrician, bomb disposal expert and most of all a fireman… since I was a kid I’ve always wanted to ride in the big green trucks but now I’ll never have the chance. oh well.

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ps. red, green… I know

Put that book back on the shelf.

Real life is shit!!! I write this statement of disgust from Strathclyde Library where I seem to be currently residing like an old dusty book; discarded, probably disproved and definitely never desired or needed enough to be removed from said library and taken on a three day or even six week long adventure before being returned to my dusty shelf.

However, this week we were taken out on short loan to play our first electric and full band gig in ages! That was awesome, big thanks to Calum and the rest of the Skip the Winch team for a great night. We’re gonna be out and about again next Friday for Pinup nights at the Beat Club which should be a pretty sweet gig! Whoever is responsible for checking us out that weekend better get ready to incur some late fees ’cause I’m gonna be going for it that weekend!!!

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ps. apologies for the over extended metaphor

Time WILL stand still!!!

I spent all day today staring at my calendar shouting ‘WHEN?!!’ as I realized things that I had entered months ago were quickly approaching. Note to self: time does not in fact stand still regardless of how much I stare at a clock like Hiro Nakamura prepped to shout ‘YATTA!’ when I make the seconds hand stop long enough to finish real life stuff so I can spend more time on band stuff. Last night, however, we did have an evening to spend on band stuff at Richard’s house. We managed to piece together a song which needed Mark’s parts put in and learned. I always love that stage of putting a song together cause it’s the first time you start to really hear how a song is going to sound, and by all accounts this one should be really sweet, even if I do say so myself. So we’re heading into Berkeley this weekend to flesh out a couple of more things and get that new one electrified hopefully in time for our gig next Tuesday (20th Nov) at Nice ‘n’ Sleazy in Glasgow, it’s gonna be our first electric gig in ages so we’re all really excited to plug our gear in and make some noise for a change.

In other news I’ve been passing the time between stress related psychotic breakdowns the last few days by listening to Make Model… A lot, just thought I’d share how excited I am about them. Think there new single is out soon check it out here.

PS. Thanks to We Hung Your Leader for inspiring this blogs title.

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Thanks for your Observations

Hello again, cheers to everyone who came down to the Observatory last night, a massive thank you to Stacey for putting us on, feeding us some of the best food we’ve ever gotten from a venue (Buffalo Mozerella pizza from the observatory is a must try!!) and keeping us well hydrated in Peroni (not your standard yellow death) we had a great night. I was doped up on the new Lemsip uber-strength pills, I think that I’ve become immune to regular strength medicine now but they really seemed to do the job and kept me in the moderate to good vocal range which was nice. I nearly lost it at the end of WLID but I kind expected that to happen. Anyway, that’s the acoustic ‘we’re back’ gig out of the way which is pretty pleasing to us all. Calum, Richard and I were laughing at some of the comments we’ve recieved individually over the last few months about us having potentially split up. I trumped them all. One time about 2 months ago I was on a night out I Glasgow and found myself in Mojama (don’t ask), I was in the mens room at the urinal when some guy walks in, stands next to me, looks at me and says ‘Hey weren’t you that guy who was in endor?’ First of I hate when people talk to me in the toilets of pubs and clubs, it’s just weird but secondly the past tense of his question threw me and I just left saying something like ‘Umm… yeah.. well.. you know we’re not, like… cause… yeah…in… you know… Cuba and like.. eh… South America.. but.’ I blame half of this statement on every drink being £1.50 and the other half on having never had toilet conversational elocution lessons. If you were that guy incidentally please get in touch we could maybe sort out tickets for a gig for you or something to prove we didn’t split up. Anyway, thats enough nonsense for now I’m off to batter some Nytol and get to sleep.

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Remember remember the colds of November!!!

Well as night turned into day and October turned to November, 3 hours after the witching hour of Halloween I awoke with a really intense pain at the back of my mouth unlike any sore throat I’ve ever had. Believing that this horrible sensation was directly related to some sort of ghost who was making the most of 3 in the morning I tightly closed my eyes and returned to sleep. I was telling Richard and Calum about this tonight as we were practicing some new songs at which point Richard reminded me; It’s 1st November it’s cold season for me! Every year I get a cold as soon as winter starts and it remains with me until spring (for proof listen to the vocals on We Live In Doors or Hold On, recorded in consecutive winters they have lead me to beg to record in summer next time!) Calum pointed out the irony that I don’t really like summer and when it’s hot I always look forward to digging out my big coat and scarf for autumn and to a lesser extent winter, but then I spend the entire time complaining about a cold or flu or what I am sure at the time is frostbite, but later turns out to be wet socks due to holes in my shoes. Anyway this week I made the trip through to Edinburgh to see friends Make Model at Cabaret Voltaire (they were awesome!) and record some ideas in Richard’s flat which has insanely high ceilings which my new microphones love!! We managed to knock one which had been bothering us for ages together and I wrote the lyrics in the car home stuck in traffic on the M8. So if you want to hear it sang in a very nasal voice then I suggest you get along to the observatory on Saturday night! (details in the blog below)

Jarv

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New website!! Hurrah!

Hello one and all, this is the new endor website. It’s a blog format like the one we tried a while back which news wise was the most successful endor site ever for updates but, frankly, looked shit. I’m quite a fan of this one, and not just because it is my photo on the header (it’ll change soon I just thought: ’screw it i’m a narcissist let everyone know’). Anyway we’re back from our short break, refreshed, eager, busy and (for some of us) without passport. We all had a great time on our various adventures. We’re currently working on new songs with some new gear and some fresh ideas on some areas we felt could be tarted up. Anyway more soon. Please come along to our gig next Saturday at the observatory in Glasgow (map here). It’s gonna be a wee acoustic one for Stacey Sievewright’s new night up there so please come along and support that. Hopefully see some of you there.

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