All systems go!

Yes, its been very quite here for a while but things are afoot.

Finally, we have a new bass player to take over from Nev. In the end we didn't look very far and we've now acquired the services of Graham who has been our and the Smurphs sound engineer of choice for many a year.

Last night we had our first practice of the new line-up, which includes a fully reinstated Paddy, and after half an hour of knocking the rust off it was starting to sound pretty damned good.

First order of business is to get a live set polished up and then we are straight into writing and rehersng album number 4.

Give it a couple of weeks and I'll be chasing some support/opener gigs to get up to speed.
Bands/promoters please, feel free to get in touch with any gig offers?

It's great to be back!

Spam Bastards

Looks like some spam bots are using our domain again. Sorry if you've got some spam from this grinnuk.com - it's not from us. The bloody responses are cluttering up our inbox!

Bootlegging

The live bootleg "Grinn live at Bannermans" is now available for free listen/download via lastFM along with all of Grinn's other albums.




The recording was made during Grinn's recent gig supporting The Begrudgers in Edinburgh on Jan 26th 2008.

Moonlighting again

Last Wednesday (27th Feb) Ian and Paddy could be seen supporting The Mission at Shepherds Bush Empire in some other band which also feature original Grinn bass player Mark!



Also visible in the photo on the far right is Rhombus front man Ed havening invaded the stage to join in the vocals for the final song of the set.

Sad news

It is with a heavy heart that we have to inform you all the Nev will be leaving Grinn with Immediate effect.

Last year he suffered a fork lift truck related industrial accident which although sounding spectacular has left him with a severely injured hand. Nev has struggled on valiantly for the last few months, through some extreme pain and played some cracking gigs but after further medical consultation advising a recovery time of 3-5 years he has made the very sensible decision to step down from Bass duties within Grinn.

Nev's last gig was the stormer at Edinburgh - I've just heard a bootleg recording and you'd never guess Nev's predicament listening to the expert bass playing demonstrated.

Grinn will continue in some form to be decided, and any interested bassists should therefore drop us a mail.

Good luck Nev.

Edinburgh Gig

I'll write up a bit more about this gig when I have chance - but suffice to say it was a corker!

The Dirty Pickups debut was a stormer, we really enjoyed Cezare and The Begrudgers were excellent!

We played fast and loud and thanks to everyone for giving us a fantastic reception. As promised to those we spoke to after the gig, email us your postal addresses and well send you some CDs and stuff - info@grinnuk.com.

Edinburgh gig poster

Originally uploaded by GrinnUK

Veging out

Marvel at the vegetable orchestra.