Mid summer check in!

I've spent the summer at the beach and in the pool, burning my poor irish skin and fading my tattoos.

On the Darling Waste front, we are talking about play a very brief tour of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New York. We may be doing this in late August. If we do it will be our last tour of the United States for 2010. We are touring England in October and December and we are touring France, Germany, Holland and Belgium in February of 2011. We are really excited for these new opportunities.

Our new album, "Good and Bad Angels" has been pushed back from an August release to an October release date because our label has double the size of the the record! We went in to the studio hoping to have a budget for about 4-5 songs. We managed to get six songs done. Now the label loves the songs so much they have asked for 6 more! So I am writing and recording now and we are heading into Yellow Fish Studios in Sept to finish it up.

I am still slowly writing my solo record. It keeps getting pushed back because we keep making more Darling Waste music. As of right now I am leaning towards collaborating with another person on the record and making it a duo. For now I will just keep writing quiet little songs until I feel like it makes sense to put it out.

My management agency, The FOCOTheory Agency, is doing really well this summer, we have some new and exciting artists on the roster including female fronted Skartlett Riot from Manchester, Welsh power trio Nine Plan Failed, Atlanta rapper Bank and Pennsylvania hip hop quartet Phresh Muney. All great acts I am privileged to work with.

Right now I am doing a lot of number crunching, money worrying, travel planning for the big move over to England. I shouldn't officially call it a move because I don't know how long I am staying over there. But I am establishing a branch of FOCOTheory in Brighton, England, touring the new record and seeing some good friends. We will see how long that takes :)

That's all for now.

Lance