Hello!

Katie P is putting together a special Xfm rock show (Saturdays 10pm-2am in London and Manchester and xfm.co.uk) to feature an alphabetical list of her listeners' favourite bands. Starting at A and ending in Z, to air the week after next.

I'm only telling you so that you can email katie@xfm.co.uk with your personal list and maybe she'll play your selection and give you a 'shout out' live on air. Oh and if you want to Kill Casino in as your K... that would be cool too. I know that Kill Switch Engage, Korn and Kill Hannah are basically shitting it now that we are in the running.

Here's my list:

Against Me!
Billy Talent
Converge
The Distillers
E town concrete
Fear Factory
Gay for Johnny Depp
Hole
Incubus
John Frusciante (Does he count as a band?)
Kill Casino
Lost Prophets
Marilyn Manson
Nirvana
Operation Ivy
Pantera
Queens of the Stone Age
Rancid
System of a Down
Tegan & Sara
Unearth
Vision of Disorder
Waterdown
Xray specs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Zounds

By the way, I found the best way to do this is scroll through itunes when you get stuck for a band on one of the tricky letters. Or use one of those guitar tab websites if you don't have much music.

Catch ya soon
Chris kc

We've had a few questions about the lyrics to Underwater so here they are in all their glory..
 
Underwater

I like the quiet moments
Tranquility and Me
Chasing down the wall of sound
And defying Gravity

Put an ear to the ground
Never know what's lurking underneath
Taken by surprise
A thousand onlookers, a thousand pairs of eyes

Underwater it's so distorted
But I'm safe from prying eyes
I fight and I'll keep fighting but I'm drowning at the same time

I like the tender moments
Just me, myself and I
Taking time to realign and
Taking time to satisfy

All I need, you're all I need
All I need is a little sanctuary, a place to call my own

Karen xx

Thanks to Emily in Donnington who put our poster up on her wall and very kindly sent us this pic to put on our wall.
Emily, you Rock!

We were back in the studio today (errmm... technically yesterday now cos it's late). I managed distract Karen whilst she was recording some shouty vocals through Ben's megaphone.

 

Yesterday we went back into the studio with Ben the Magician to work on some new tracks. We've got drums and guitars recorded for four new songs and yesterday we put down vocals for new track Reykjavik and got started on another as yet untitled track.

As always, to get in the 'zone' Karen donned her Corey Taylor from Slipknot mask and red boiler suit. She kept on muttering something about the 'sickness' and 'new shit for the maggots' and was refusing to have her picture taken.

I thought it was probably best to leave her alone, so here's a pic of Paul-Luc at the controls and me looking goofy on a sofa.





Catch ya soon
Chris kc

Heading home to eat lots of food and wrap presents this weekend, I picked up a copy of Rocksound to read on the train out of London. I was pleased to see two girls on the cover, Cristina from Lacuna Coil and Hayley from Paramore, and not a hairy dude in sight!

I've just seen on youtube that our end of year podcast received a rosette for being the 92nd most viewed UK musician video yesterday. Safe! Girls Aloud were at number 1, Biffy Clyro only at number 25. Who said the charts are dead? Chris kc

Not only have the nice people at kerrang! printed a Kill Casino poster in their mag this week but also our podcast has been featured on the frontpage of kerrang.com. Check it out here...