Duotone are brilliant, you really need to check them out – lovely blokes too. Like I said before, stunning hats and moustache action. What more could I want when watching a band? Salt & vinegar Square crisps, that’s what. None were available so I had to do with raisins brought from home, bought from Mr J. Sainsbury.

Feedback from the show has been brilliant.
One avid Twitter follower said:
“Ballet, ballet, ballet: just a week to go until professional ballet Coppelia arrives!”
But that’s on a completely unrelated topic, so of no use here.

We’re fairly quiet Kent-wise over the next lots of months but we will be getting some cello down on the album in December looking towards a release in 2056.

Friday 12th October on the University Campus

Saturday 13th October at Penny Street Bridge Hotel

Sunday 14th October at Ring ‘O Bells

See the listing online for times.

We absolutely loved the festival the year before last and met some very kind and interesting people.  If you are kind and interesting and want to come to one of this year’s gigs, you will be welcome once more.  If you’re not, you’ll be in good company.  None of us are kind or interesting.  Except Marf, but that’s the kind of interesting that only brings you bad publicity.

Me, stroking a cat.

While this has been fun, I’ve become increasingly aware of my deadline, so have been trying to be more constructive.  Writing this blog is clearly going to help me with my dissertation.  In fact, taking pictures of me stroking a cat, uploading it and then writing about it is definitely going to help.

Perhaps more interestingly to you readers, we are just getting ready to start preparing for autumn’s gigs, which include a very exciting gig on the LV21:

Marf is excited because it has a massive lightbulb (its a light ship after all), Gareth is looking forward to leaping onboard and pretending to be a captain, Hannah is just happy because its her favourite colour, and I’m looking forward to the possiblities of travel sickness (I’ve been known to get ill on a pedalo). But one thing that unites us in our excitement is that we’ll be supporting Duotone, who are such an inventive and creative band. I just hope that I can concentrate on playing before their set!

The gig is on 29th September in Gillingham (see http://www.lv21.co.uk/ for more details of where to find the venue) and you can buy tickets here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/157013 so please come along if you can!

One thing that has always remained is our name.

So. Where did it come from?
Back in 2004 we were a punk band. A punk band that was quite literally thrown together with little direction in mind.

We needed a name and decided to play on the fact that we definitely were not the best band in the world. Los Salvadores was born – it is Spanish for The Saviours – a tongue in cheek reference towards us not being the saviours of music.

I was re-studying Spanish at the time – that’s the cultural link right there – there never was and still isn’t any Spanish stylings in our music.

Does that matter? How many people first looked at our name and thought ‘they are clearly going to be playing Flamenco’? Did any of these people turn up to toilet venues expecting such? I’m not sure.

Recently we’ve discussed the ups and downs of changing our name. How we should have something that depicts our style, sound and ethos now. We’re writing songs whose subject matter fits with the music and whose music fits with the title. Makes sense to do the same with our name, right?

Perhaps. Although a name change at this stage would be a huge undertaking. Websites, social media, emails, hundreds of contacts, logos….the list goes on. What if we changed the name to KENTFOLK-ADORES and someone leaves and we get in a thrash metal lead guitarist who only writes songs about Massachusetts?

Another of my concerns is that people would turn up after the name change and say “Oh, same members, same songs. Why all the bother?”

On the flip side yo, one of the main plus points is that nobody would relate us to the previous ‘punk version’ of the band. Every now and then we still get people trying to book us as a punk band, having not listened to any of our material from the past 2 years. Less so, but on odd occasions we get disappointed gig attendees asking whether we are going to change back to being a punk band again.

No, we aren’t.

After so many years the name is merely an identity tag to me. Nothing more, nothing less…which is shocking really given the variations on our name we’ve had over the years on posters, flyers, venue walls, websites….

Los Salvatores
Los Salvitores
Los Salvadors
Los Salvadoors
The Los Salvadores
Los Salchichores
Lost Salvadores
Loss Salvadores
Los Salvatrocities
Albatrossadores

You’ve visited our website – typed it in to your browser – how could you still get it wrong?

I might have made the last two up. Only a bit though, that’s the funny thing.

We also get hundreds of visitors a month looking for religious saviours. That’s not us. Sorry. Although perhaps it is and we’ve just not ascended yet.

Again we reach the end of another blog where I give no conclusion.

This is the first time our cellist Liv has been in the pit of all things dreadful and the depraved markings on the walls, the echoes of screaming ex band members, and the pot of mustard tried their hardest to phase her.

Nothing, not even a blink.

Not even when Hannah projectile vomitted for a solid 6 minutes without breathing did she falter.

Every time we have a cello practice we get more excited and so far, we’ve broken down 4 songs from our forthcoming album, reworking them to include the new addition. Red Blood on a White Horse, The Plunderer, When the Vespiaries go Pop and I, The Ventriloquial Figure have all been given an extra push, pull and prod to place them in their perfect position. Too many Ps? Yes, I think so.

The word beautiful springs to mind.
But that’s when I look in the mirror.

There’s some sort of loose plan to debut the cello when we have 5 or 6 songs down to sort of filter it into the set. When we’ve decided on the show where this will happen, we’ll be sure to let you know.

Just to clarify, I am beautiful.