Rob Howard has just popped up a Lime Chalks video on YouTube. It’s the start of the recent Totally Acoustic gig at on 30th April with Dunc’s Skiffle trickling into B.A.B.E.

Do you ever see videos of yourself and worry that you don’t look like how you thought you look like? Why was I not smiling? It’s a Uke, the happiest of all intruments. Smile me, smile.

Now really I should have posted this up before Indietracks Festival where it was on sale, but you can still get hold of the recent Oddbox Records sampler from their website, which excitingly features Thank You Daniel by Falling and Laughing.

I think the idea that as well as being able to buy it on its own for £4, it also goes out as a freebie if you buy other stuff from Oddbox, it’s worth having a shuffle through their back catalogue they do have loads of ace releases on the label already, despite only being a few months old.

Full Track list

01 It’s Always the Quiet Ones – The Kick Inside
02 2000 & Something – The Sunday Reeds
03 Deerland – Pinkshinyultrablast
04 Four Day Week – The Give It Ups
05 Shine – The Crack Babies
06 You Should Be Your Light – The Monorals
07 Soft Silver Young (Single Mix) – Golau Glau
08 Thank You Daniel – Falling & Laughing
09 If You Lived Here – Play People
10 Are You Dead? – The Humms
11 Sun Don’t Reach – Lovelust
12 Ooh Wee – The Millipedes
13 One 2 One – Sparky’s Magic Piano
14 Oso Panda – Papa Topo

Fans of the multimedia popshow experience will hopefully be delighted to note that Falling and Laughing have started to use a whiteboard to write stuff on during the gig. If ever you want to jot down ideas, or present a thought graphically, then it’s more handy to have a whiteboard on you than to not have a whiteboard on you, as the saying goes.

This whiteboard from the 18th July gig contains a good list of anwers to the question which has troubled generations “what can you look through unclearly?” (thanks everyone) and there’s a few ideas for suggested things to between songs jotted down here - jokes, impressions and a pub singer competition. I’m not sure what a pub singer competition is? I’m guessing it’s like Singstar, in a pub?

The barman suggested we do a drum roll which was also added to the board and ticked off. A is for action.

Thank you to everyone who came down to the gig, and of course the other bands who played!

There’s another DIY Falling and Laughing gig coming up on the 18th July at Island Bar.

On this poster I’ve again plundered the artistic talents of those far better at this sort of stuff. This time from Tony Millionaire, who’s work swings from profound and beautiful to straight up gross.

We’re trying a pay-what-you-want on the door experiment. Kind of like the whole Radiohead/In Rainbows thing. Except we’re not going to release the gig for full price in HMV after a few months. Um, and unlike Radiohead we’re trying to cover travel costs for The Kick Inside.