All the latest news from the official website of Does It Offend You, Yeah? en-us http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/ Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:00:00 GMT here.]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=34 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=34 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:00:00 GMT shop or digitally from iTunes.

We'll be playing an in store tonight at the Fopp in London's Covent Garden around 6pm. Come down and say hello!]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=32 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=32 Wed, 21 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Two super literate bookshop assistants working at Strands (the 18 mile bookshop) who I cant see because of the massive bookshelves, are two voices directly across from me as I pick out a book. This is an excerpt from their conversation

Assistant 1: “Man your just like a child”

Assistant 2:”What are you talking about?”

A1:”See there you go. You don’t understand what I’m saying. That’s an intrinsic part of a child’s fragile personal makeup and underdeveloped cognitive ability”.

A2:”So because I’m questioning your opinion of me, that makes me a child?”

A1:”Well you know I have seen you knocking back those sugary drinks…, I be hearing you on the phone to clothing stores getting all irate because they ran out of Osh Kosh Gbosh”

A2:”No I don’t…when have you ever heard me do that!”

A1:”See there you go again. Whining…just like a child”

Pure gold! So yeah man there’s six hours left on this Motherfu@Łer, and I’m gonna try to break down the DIOYY America experience as best I can. Due to the nature of a short attention span and/or an obvious lack of writing skills (you take your pick) this will be presented in the form of lists, observations, and badly put together “sentences”, rather like Macauly Culkins recent novel. Oh you haven’t read it? Don’t worry neither has anyone else.

FAMOUS POP CULTURE LANDMARKS WE PASSED IN OUR VAN

That place where Hugh Grant got blown by Divine brown
The Honey Bunny robbery dinner in Pulp Fiction
That place where Eddie Murphy was trying to help a transvestite by picking him up and accidentally placing several 50 dollar bills in his pocket in exchange for services/favours that could be construed as sexual…. allegedly.




NME AWARDS USA

We play rock stars in Skeleton costumes. I tell Evan Dando that I learned to play guitar listening to “It’s a Shame About Ray”. Alice Cooper tells Dan that we “Rocked” onstage. L8er on that night Rob and Dan hang with Ron Jeremy, Carbon Silicone, and Evan Dando. He gives us an award that we will produce a picture of in due course.
I’m not really sure what happened after this, we had a few days to kill in LA before Coachella. I think these were filled with rehearsals, an in store show at Amoeba records, appearing on the Carsen Daily show (it’s filmed in the same place as they shot the Fresh Prince of Bel Air), and me walking around LA trying to get my bloody computer fixed.


RECURING WORDS OR PHRASES OUR MERCH GUY CHRIS WOULD SAY EVERY WEEK, IF HE WAS A COOL INCIDENTAL CHARACTER ON AN AMERICAN TV SHOW, SORT OF LIKE THE FONZ

“Awesome”

COACHELLA

We find intense heat, an intricate circuit of pool-parties and press junkets, some incredible performances from the Verve and Portishead, and an odd jazz-fusion set from Prince, Our set is amazing, and we’re lucky to be on at 5:30 when the sun is going down. Its coolish in our tent and the place is completely packed with dudes and dudettes spilling out the sides. Har Mar Superstar and a bunch of our friends join us onstage, and the crowd becomes a sea of raised arms and smiling faces. Check the video on our page. Shout outs to people we got to meet/hang with go something like this; hello Portishead, Rosanna Arquette, David Hasselhoff, the coolest peeps at E-Rockster, Cassette Playa, Sean “spacebag” Superstar, Peaches Geldof, that one dude I was talking to at Kraftwerk, Katie “lifesaver” Hawbaker, Sean Penn, and everyone who hung at our trailer party backstage.

CLASSIC HEARTFELT INDIE ROCK SONGS OUR TOUR MANAGER PETE MAGDELENO RENDERED HILARIOUS BY SINGING IN THE VOICE OF DROOPY DOG

Creep - Radiohead

TOURING BEGINS 30TH APRIL!

SAN DIEGO-CASBAH: We meet Yo Majesty and hit it off. The venue is packed out and I discover that tequila shots in the USA are more like whole cups, but for the same price as those crappy little thimbles they give you in London bars.

LA-EL RAY: Another rammed gig, all our people come out and we do an after show party at a place called Pash I think. Me and Rob stay out, and I head to a friends house alone. Due to crossed wires it takes me ages to find the right address and I end up spending the night sleeping on the streets. The particular street was called Normandine, in an area known as Korea town. I’ll never forget it.

POMONA-GLASSHOUSE; We’re all knackered from the night before and I’m in another dimension of tiredness. After my nights vagrancy we all have to head over to fuel TV at ten in the morning and play Rockstars live on air. Still it’s impossible to stand still on stage and a couple cups of tequila later its business as usual. We’ll be back here with Bloc Party.

PORTLAND AND SEATTLE: Now I cant really remember these two dates; blame the tequila cups.

VANCOUVER-RICHARDS: Good show and a really nice city. Wish we could have stayed and hung out more but we have to drive to Utah.

SALT LAKE CITY-URBAN LOUNGE: There was talk that this might be a difficult gig, but I think it went down as one of the best for us all. The place is completely rammed out and the crowd are up for it, I think this is the first night that we get called back for an encore (which is unheard of for a support band). DJ Orion (from Yo Majesty) hypes up the crowd and they cheers us back on.


FOODSTUFFS INGESTED TWICE IN ONE DAY, SUCCESION OF HOURS, OR MATTER OF MINUTES, BY THE BAND

Hamburgers Beef Jerky “Real” cheese flavoured popcorn
Cheetos flaming hot chips French fries Beef in general


DENVER-BLUE BIRD: We arrive 20 minutes before our set and have to drag our gear through the crowd to set up. We leave stuff at the side of the stage while the first act is playing. The security guard screams at me, “you caint leave that sh*t here man, it’s a fire escape!”. I assure him I’ll move it, walk off and don’t come back until we play. The gigs a goodun. Denver’s a city one mile high above sea level and everyone warns us not to drink. Tequila cups flow though, and we all feel “Pretty f**kin invincible”. In the morning three groups of strangers knock on Dans hotel room at hourly intervals beginning at 9:30. Each group swears they’ve been “talking” to Dan via e-mail and when the last couple of guys turn up with a folding table and some towels Dan’s about ready to blow…with anger I mean. We never did uncover who those dudes were trying to find.

MINNEAPOLIS-FIRST AVENUE: This is Princes club, the one they use in the movie Purple Rain. I have that movie and it sucks, luckily our gig didn’t. Awesome show to a packed house, which included Jemaine from Flight of The Conchords.

CHICAGO-MANSION: Sort of like a hometown show this one. We arrive late and have to drag our gear onstage. The place is absolutely massive and we set up in disbelief. However, sure enough people turn up and the place jams out. We also meet the living incarnation of Hercules as a club promoter; I kid you not.

CLEVELAND-NOT SURE WHICH VENUE: Wicked show this. Head to an awesome after party at this dudes house in the burbs, its absolutely huge and he even drops us off at our hotel afterwards. Guest list for life is assured.

PHILADELPHIA-JOHNNY BRENDAS: This was the only weird show of the tour. By now we are all completely and utterly exhausted, homesick, and highway drunk. The club is cool though but we’re a little reluctant and so is the crowd. I meet a friend afterwards and to make up for the gig she takes me to see the “real” Philadelphia. We head to a club where every other person says hello to us and they serve the most amazing long island ice teas, ever. Mos Deaf is around, and I also run into Chris merch chilling with two honeys “AWESOME”. The dance floor is rammed and we party till the break of dawn. After the drive I throw up for the first time in 4 years. Yes!! Shout out and big thanks to Nikki. The next morning we head to WXPN to do a live studio audience broadcast with our buds Black Kids and it’s a blast. The station gives us these papers with a list of expletives we are not allowed to say. Everyone’s amused by the inclusion of the word clit, and the exclusion of the word wanker.

NEW YORK-HIGHLINE THEATRE: Amazing show, the place feels absolutely rammed and the audience is well up for it. During let’s make out I run over some dinning tables at the side of the club and knock over a load of drinks (woops). James absolutely tears up With a Heavy Heart. We get called back onstage to do an encore and give whip it a shot. Unfortunately the soundman has pulled out Dan’s keyboard and sampler cables and in the dark it’s impossible to recover em. We give the track a shot but without the keyboard parts as a geographical beacon I mix up a part and the tune hurtles towards a brick wall. We stop the song and fall into hysterics. Forgive us New York we were the support band and didn’t count on an encore, plus sabotage was afoot…oh okay then, I did have a couple cups of tequila….



WORD, PHRASES AND SHIZZLE YOU’D FREQUENTLY HEAR ON THE DIOYY TOUR BUS ON OUR TOUR OF AMERICA THAT WE FINISHED JUST NOW AND IM GONNA KEEP WRITING COS I WANT THIS TO ALIGN PERF-

“Oh what a ball ache” “Are we stopping, again!” “I’m George Takay”
“Twelve hours?” “Put Southpark on ” “Ten hours?!!!” “Put Portishead on.” “Eight Hours!?” “What happened 2 U last nite!”



BROOKLYN-SOUTHPAW: This was our last show and DJ Orion did the hype up deed nicely by introducing us before we took to the stage. The in house crew were cool too. Despite the fact that I heard one of em say “If one of these bands doesn’t sound like XTC i'm gonna be walking out that f*cking door”, woop wait till he hears us I thought. Everyone’s on form tonight though and the set is wicked. I, unfortunately, miscalculate the audience’s reaction wildly and produce a sleeveless, customised; I love New York t-shirt to almost no applause. Apparently Brooklyn’s Brooklyn, and Manhattans New York City, don’t confuse the two Asshole! I wish someone had told me. Hercules and Love Affair are playing elsewhere in New York, but I don’t make it to the gig. We have two hours to get back to our hotel room, pack, shower, and get to the airport to fly. I end up passing out somewhere and missing my flight in the morning. Everyone leaves and I end up back at the hotel frantically searching for a passport that I realise I have lost. Stranded in New jersey without a soul, Katie Hawbaker, and Victoria take care of and ferry me around Brooklyn looking for my passport, give me a place to stay, take me to an amazing sushi restaurant for lunch, show me the most illogical program in televisual history (Flavour of Love) and make sure I catch my flight the next day. Thanks Katie and Victoria you guys are amazing! You stopped me crying like some oppressed housewife, who realises, whilst washing the families metaphorical and literal dirty dishes, that she’s wasted her life and should have gone to art school. I owe ya big time!!! ;-)


HUMOROUS EXCHANGES BETWEEN ROB BLOOMFIELD AND AMERICAN SHOP ASSISTANTS UNABLE TO DECIPHER THE DELICATE PEAKS AND TROUGHS THAT SINGLE OUT ENGLISH AS THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE SPOKEN BETWEEN BOTH PARTIES

ROB- “Excuse me, do you know where I can get a cab”

SHOP ASSISTANT-“You want a hat?”


And that’s how I find myself tapping away on this laptop on flight VS4 to London. There’s an airhostess on this flight that actually hates me for some reason. I asked for extra pretzels and she almost scratched me in the face. I’m sure I heard her hiss like a cat. Look its not my fault your fifty and that when you apply make up to your face it resembles the texture and haphazard arrangement of crayon colours applied to paper by children…”oh thanks”, she just gave me two bags of pretzels, woops.


NUMBER OF INSTANCES OUR ACCENTS WERE MISCONSTRUED AS COMING FROM AUSTRALIA AND WE PRETENDED TO BE OFFENDED AND FROM NEW ZEALAND

1


So there you have it, our American experiences summed up in writing that’s as bad as Russell Brands Guardian sports column, WOOOAAAAHHHHH, I mean as good as that column. I’m just jealous really, c’mon give me a column. Ha! No…. So we just all want to say a huge thank you to the following people for making our US trip such a massive Ball Ache, no I mean a cool ass ride. Could the following people please stand:

Peter Magdaleno
Chris Merch
Isaac Green
Ian (I cant remember your surname right now)
WXPN radio
Alternative radio in LA
Jason Farrer
Regie and the Black Kids
JR, Kathryn and everyone at biz 3
Yo Majesty
Orion and Shunda K (sorry for callin you at six in the morning on Sunday dude)
Nikki
Katie Hawbaker
Victoria
Connor McNichols
Evan Dando
Portishead
The Verve
Dan Mcbean
The spirit of Andrew Sweeney
BOOST mobile
Mirith Rast
Staff at Forbidden Planet, New York
Fiona Gardner
Natasha at TOAST
FUEL TV
AOL
The Carsen Daily in house crew (sorry we couldn’t get ya that overtime)
Elie Kaya
Valerie
Sara Nooks
AND EVERYONE WHO CAME TO THE SHOWS, HUNG WITH US, GAVE US RIDES, TOOK US TO PARTIES, AND TRIED TO MAKE OUR STAY A COOL ONE, YA’LL ARE TOooooooooooOOOO DOPE.

Right so i'm going to try and get some sleep now, man these chairs are the most uncomfortable thing since London bus stop benches started being made with a slope! Also we’re doing an in store show on the 2nd June in London somewhere. Details to come soon, plus a gig at the push club on the 31st of august. So please make my homecoming a decent one and ply me with as many tequila cups (not shots) as you can muster. We’re back to play, hang with you all, and get high as towels, if you hear anything else its all just a giant ball ache.

I love you all.

Morgan and the DIOYY gyang]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=31 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=31 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT
We'll be playing a bunch of shows with Bloc Party this summer. Tickets go on sale on the 2nd of May. The full dates are:

July
28 - The Glass House, Pomona CA (w/ Bloc Party)
29 - Mayan Theater, Los Angeles CA (w/ Bloc Party)
30 - Fillmore, San Francisco CA (w/ Bloc Party)

August
04 - Drakes, Toronto ON (headlining)
05 - Theatre of Living Arts, Philadelphia PA (w/ Bloc Party)
06 - Webster Hall, New York NY (w/ Bloc Party)

We'll also be playing Lollapalooza on the 2nd of August.]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=29 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=29 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT
If you don't win, you could still win some t-shirts and signed CDs.

Check out the competition here: absolutepunk.com]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=28 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=28 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Tickets are Ł10 from the Scala box office with no booking fee, or you can get them online.

All proceeds go to War Child, so pony up the dough.]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=27 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=27 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT
This blog is being bought to you by the number 6 (as in hours I've been sat in this bus) and the letter B (because we're going to Berlin)

Cheers to everyone who came on our tour in the UK around the album launch, every night was rammed so we were happy to see everyone there. It all seems like so long a go now, maybe it was the excessive partying which is making it a hazy memory. Just like to say thanks to Cut Of Your Hands and George Pringle who were together a bunch of really nice people!

We've been on tour in Germany for the last few days, you don't realise how big a country Germany is until you have to drive vast distances every day and only seeing nothing but service stations, sausages and the odd car chase in between. Yesterday we hooked up with The Foals which was good as the last time we saw them was in Barcelona was a pretty odd night! Shame we had to leave early :( their set was really good though.

After tonight we're going to go to Amsterdam to play at one of our favourite venues; The Paradiso, then we'll probably wander around from bar to bar slyly watching stoned English people fall into canals and trying to sneak into porn shops.

When we get back we've got a whole week off. I'm not sure if you saw our touring schedule, but we've been on the road since january so it'll be good to recoup and prepare some new stuff for when we get to the USA for Coachella and our tour! Our album has just come out in the states on Almost Gold records, so if you live out there go and buy it and come to one of the dates we're playing.!

We're going to be touring with Yo Majesty who are frankly crazy, so we're looking forward to it massively! Keep you're eye out for news about Lollapalooza too!

Ok see you all soon]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=26 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=26 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Last night we plYED (woah caps lock off though)...last night we played in hamburg at one of my favourite venues in the world...the molotov...its in a distric called the reeper-bahn. Imagine soho in london ( a shadow of a red light district) and then imagine soho unabashed, unashamed and exposed. Place us in the middle next to two sex shops; one called sexy heaven, and another called komakino, or something else sexual in german, and then you have it. i love the reeper-bahn. I saw an amazing panda t-shirt last time i was there and the dude who was selling them only had small sizes.He offered to sell me a sexy mouse instead ( a sexy mouse is basically a normal computer mouse but with ladies boosoms for left click, and right click). so yeah the reeper-bahn (listen if anyone is from Hamburg they will know im spellimg that wrong)....ahhh incredible this dude has just burst into our dressing room spurting Arnie schwarzenegger film quotes "who is your daddie and what does he do????" and then the classic "im a cop you idiot"...he also just informed me that it was "black power day"....funny guy that guy..who knows what comedy Mr bungle rip off band he comes from, he looks like an ugly version of the lead singer from the Blood hound gang!

man i'm missing Foals because of this blog!! I love you!!

So god yeah how long has it been since we last spoke....no you hang up..seriously though, some amazing crap has happened to us since SXSW in tex-ass, i just cant seem to remember any of it. You know, im so sick of sausage and cheese that im ready to scream. Listen germany is cool yeah, but why do they have sausages that are to long for the bun the sell you to put it in? Do you know what i mean? You pull up in a service station, buy a sausage that like a foot long, and then they give you this roll thats about three inches long. It's actuall quite hilarious. Picture all this butch truckers walking around service stations eating the ends of a foot long sausage thats to long for the bun/roll, comedy gold...just nibbling the end sort of thing...wierd..omg!!

listen i love you, but i've got to go. there's just so much more to tell, unfortunately you havent deposited enough funds to hear all the details of our hot, and
juicy road tales. Tune in for DIOYY road blogs "nights". It's like Hollyoaks nights only longer. My understanding of grammer is as good as G W Bush's understanding of democracy, or perhaps Boris J's understanding of multicultural society as a positive thing. Listen im gonna keep saying it...DONT VOTE BORIS J'...make sure he doesnt get in..Also fingers crossed for Morgan Tsvangirai (i know i've spelt that wrong)....MDC now..Zanu PF never!!!

I love you and i need the loo.

stay in touch, M xx

P.s. So its the morning after last night. Hung out with the Foals dudes (i love those bwoys). They alsmost convinced me to go awol and stay out all night with rachel our merch girl. I caught the Stereo Total set and was invited onstage to dance by Francois (singer in the band), unbeknownst to me the song was all about the joy of threesomes and i ended up being in a Stereo Total, 80's "oh ahh" pump sandwhich...woo hoo! Im not sure if many of you will know Stereo Total, but i used to listen to their album "total pop" everyday for about three months way back in 2002 or something.

Now im waiting for everyone else to get up so we can get back on the autobahn, that for today anyway, is bound for Berlin. City of art and culture and my new home town if Boris J gets in. Hopefully they will have run out of crap eighties movies to play on the tour bus...man i hate eighties films! Flight of the Navigator, Labrynth, Never ending story...jesus its enough to make you want to kill yourself. When i get home i'm gonna go out and buy El Topo, just to counteract this culture industry bullcrap.....the bullcrap thing doesnt extend to the movie "lost Boys", though, just any movie with a zany DX7, synth-pop, based soundtrack, and a character (or the possibilty of a character) in it called "Styles", or "Blaine", Or "kyle", or "Cynthia". Peace. "I still believe".......

Oh an p.p.s. (what does that mean anyway) we are pleased as punch, (well Kool Aid really) to announce that our album is now released in the US of A!!! Woo Hoo, anybody wanting to get their hands dirty but getting them stuck to a copy of it (our album i mean) can buy it here!!!! Wump there it is!

p.p.p.s I just got a taxi back to my hotel in Berlin (we're on a tour of Germany at the moment), the driver was a complete ass, but get this: the radio was playing a version of Leroy Brown by Elton John! Elton John! How wierd is that. "bad, bad leroy brown, baddest man in the whole damn town"......curioser and curioser. pace....]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=25 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=25 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT
So as you might have heard our album came out on the 24th its available in your local high street shop and online.. More importantly however we were beating Michael Jackson in the charts on monday, but he's ahead of us now, do you really want that on you're conscience. Come on think of the children! Go out and buy it!

So anyway we're just coming to the end of our UK tour which has been amazing, the venues have all been sold out so we've been going pretty crazy. All we've got left to do is Leeds and Newcastle which are both going to be insane.

After that we're off to Germany for a few dates, so hopefully we'll get big in Germany Hasselhoff style, Last time we went it was like a week long party, we're finishing that off in Amsterdam this time so we're going to go off with a bang.

At the moment we're trying to get lots of video together for our website, we're going to try and have some kinda update quite often letting you in on where we are and what we're up to. The next one will be a short video of what we got up to in SXSW in Texas, which if you haven't heard of it is a festival that takes over a whole city, its amazing. If you ever get the chance to go, do it....

So after all the touring we're gonna take a week off which is going to be just enough time to get our heads together. Then we're straight back to America for the Coachella festival in California followed by a tour in a big van with Yo Majesty! You should check them out. They're like a hardcore crunk electro Salt N Pepa! Its going to be like one big roadtrip with a throwdown each night!

Ok that's the end of this message

Go buy the album!!!!

Dioyy? Xx xx x x]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=24 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=24 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Our album 'You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into' is definitely out and in shops.

You can get it digitally at iTunes or you can get it on CD or 12" at good record stores (both online and on the high street).

We're in the middle of a short UK tour at the moment, so if you've managed to get tickets, please make sure you come up and say hello.

Back in a bit.]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=23 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=23 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT


The definition of off key is arriving in london after a seven day jolt in texas to discover you have no heat, your boilers broke, and that people have tried to squat the downstairs of your flat whilst being away! Also nobody sells thermoses anymore.



True to form tho, we played some pimp shows at SXSW with the likes of Clipse, Crystal Castles, The Ting Tings, Spank Rock, Joe Lean and the JJJ, Flosstradamus (you'll hear of em soon) and more. We also dj'ed at a few nights, including a sweet DIM MAK pool party where we caught our old drinking mates the Whip, and Dan (keys) and Har Mar Superstar bonded over sunglasses or something. I also totally wrecked my right arm riding a mechanical bull for 30 seconds (trust me that is a long ass time to ride one o' them hoes...wow notice how my language has turned ghetto since i reached back!), and trying to throw myself a pass with an Amercan football.



After texas we flew to LA to do the video for dawn of the dead, which looks incredible. This dude called Ace shot it, and the video looked amazing as we were doing it, which is something that rarely happens these days. The crew on the shoot were really cool to, there were no frazzled middle aged c*ke heads dying to tell you they'd seen it all before, just a bunch of cool people trying to get the best out of the time we had.



So yeah, theres been a few rumours flying around that i, or rather we,feel we need to respond to:



The first rumour is that Rob and I are somehow not part of DIOYY, that we are sort of "hired hands" if you know what i mean. This couldnt be farther from the truth, both rob and I are fully functioning members of DIOYY. DIOYY is our band as much as it is James and Dans. If we were session players, i doubt you would know who we were. You definately would never had heard us speak in public or onstage about the band, record, or anything for that matter, and you definately would not have heard our written contributions to the live arrangements, and songs on the album.



The second rumour is that i am the frontman of DIOYY and that im waiting to jump ship to focuss on my side project PLUGS. This is just complete nonsense. First of all, from the word go DIOYY have functioned under the proviso that there is no real frontman and that if anything you have two, in me and James, ying and yang, Dempsey and Makepeace, Del boy and Rodney. To put it simpler; nobody ever said flavour flav was the frontman of public enemy (now please god nobody out there think im trying to be him...please), and nobody ever said that Guy Piccioto, or Bob Mould were the frontmen of Fugazi or Husker Du respectively. Secondly, PLUGS have been going for as long as DIOYY and the two of us have been functioning together for that long. We all know one another, and my prescence in another band is not a sign of my breaking away from DIOYY it's just another avenue for me to pursue the thing i like doing most...music.



Okay the last thing we want to say is that we are not criticizing anyone journalistically speaking. Freedom of the press is a concept i wholly embrace, and im just happy we're getting written about. The reason why i, and we, are responding is (as God obbsessed RnB artist as this sounds) because of the people who come to see us play, the fans. We dont want you thinking that there's some sordid swindle going on and tht the band onstage are some kind of fabrication. All we want to do is play music, throw down on stage, have a party, and get F**cked with a bunch of friends old and new. If you hear anything other than that, it bollocks.



I love you all,



DONT VOTE BORIS JOHNSON



Morgan XX :-)]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=22 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=22 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT

 
DAY 1


 
We all met up at Heathrow and checked in our luggage and got on an uneventful flight to CHICAGO! I had a whole row of seats to myself so i got my head down and listened to Led Zeps mothership whilst at 30,000 feet and got completely pissed on Vodka, The airline hostess were fucking amazing and just kept coming up with the goods!



After we got to Chicago things turned to shit, our airline had lost probably the most important bit of equipment we need for our show, and then we found out our flight had been delayed and we weren't flying for another 5 hours.



I hadn't really slept in about 24 hours so the jet lag really tripped me out and i could see the carpet moving as i stared at the floor not knowing what to do... I ended up spying on some really huge dude in a wheelchair who was trying to chat up a sorority girl. fun times.



We finally got our flight to AUSTIN and we touched down with a bump... After making it to the hotel we found out that we werent in the middle of the action and the only two things close to us were a Denny's and a strip bar called "The Landing Strip".. If it wasn't for the fact that we hadnt slept for so long im sure we would've ended up there.



DAY 2



We woke up feeling alot better and decided to get some breakfast at Denny's. The food they sell there is like a coronary waiting to happen, but there was nowhere else to go so we loaded up on pancakes and coffee ready to start a long days sightseeing.



The only sights we actually saw though were bars. We walked into a bar called Jackalopes and the rest is history, we spent from midday to 3/4 in the morning drinking... getting tattoos.. getting drawn... getting drawn on... drinking... smoking... laughing... getting thrown out... drinking...


We met some pretty cool people, the dude out of Supersize Me (who was eating fast food in a sports bar) two guys called art, a guy out of Trail Of Dead.. All in all we had a really surreal day


DAY 3
I made it back to the hotel around midday to find everyone else going to Denny's to talk about the day/night before... everyone was too hungover to really speak, so we all ate and went back to hotel to sleep it off ready for more fun tonight...



DAN SIGNING OUT
p.s. There was a movie showing yesterday called "I Slammed my Dick in the Drawer" God knows what it's about but i want to see it
p.p.s There is a band out here called ASS COBRA
p.p.p.s. Late at night theres this dude on TV called REX RAVEN.. ive never seen something as weird as that. Its like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas but homemade
p.p.p.p.s They have a shopping channel here for dildos on TV

BYE!]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=21 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=21 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT
We're all going to the SXSW festival in Austin, mainly because Dolly Parton is playing, but we've also got some of our own gigs lined up.

Unfortunately not all of the gigs are open to the public unless you registered as a SXSW delegate which is a bit weird

HOWEVER

Because we can't stop moving, we're going to do some public shows.

March
14 - Austin City Limits (Live on KEXP) 5:30pm
15 - AP SXSW Party 2:30pm

So hopefully see you there

P.S. If you don't live near Austin we'll be back for a tour which starts around our date at the Coachella festival]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=20 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=20 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT

So yeah we attended the sweet carnage that was the NME awards the other night, and got reet proper steamed like! I managed to stay the course and only left the Hoxton Hotel after we we're booted out. Me Rachael merch, and the bwoys from Hadouken (plus some random vougers) went down to the russian bar to meet up with Alex kapranos' crew but i only made it half way. I remember looking at my phone, seeing the clock read　４：３０ in the morning, and then shot off home. Six hours later i was on a plane to tokyo, watching the chronicles of Narnia with a raging hangover while some girl, sat two seats to my right, let off silent but violent farts that had james retching in his seat.


Five hours after we landed in Tokyo we were onstage at the venue, jumping up and down like madmen and talking in japanese. What a gig!Japan is awesome, i love it here!! No rest for the wicked though, as after the show we had to head over to this bar called Le Baron for a DJ set. [I should say that earlier at the venue we caught this gig by a band called Queen Adreena which had two of my childhood heroes in it: katy Jane Garside, and Crispin Gray of the mighty Daisy Chainsaw] Anyways, we had a tab at the bar and the whole band, plus Crispin and the bass player from Queen Adreena, stayed up all night drinking Sake, mohitos, and this stuff that tasted a bit like water but got you completely suckered after one sip.


The funniest thing about that night was this fight that broke out between these two Japanese guys by our table　(now don't get me wrong i don't support violence in any way, but this was just so surreal). The skirmish proper kicked off saloon style, and from the first punch thrown there were people flying all over our table and randoms just jumping in for the hell of it. After it all cleared up we helped the dude worst off, and put him in a seat where he promptly passed out. Now here's the mad thing: a full ten minutes later, after this guy had been sleeping like a baby, he jumps up and starts swinging at anyone and everyone in the vicinity and it all kicks off again; there's people jumping over tables to get involved, girls grabbing their handbags screaming, the bouncers come over again and this huge mass of bodies piles up. I mean i half expected to hear some dude playing an out of tune piano along to it all, or at least see a chair broken over someone's back!


So yeah, got back to the hotel at 6 am, after eating noodles at a local place. Man the mad thing about japan is how late things stay open for. I mean i left the place at 5 in the morning and there were people just casually walking about going into restaurants and shizzle, oh and check this: when a cab stops to pick you up, the doors open automatically! No shizz! And when you get out of the cab the doors close automatically to!!!.....okay, okay, okay...i have to go now im gonna meet the peeps at a place called chandelier.


Man i think this blog has been a little to long...nobodies gonna read this....


Oh News flash...we're gonna try to get Corey Haim to be in the video for Dawn of the Dead!!!


L8ers, M


p.s. nothing beats Slayer when it comes to Karaoke. I just did Angel of Death, with Simon White. P.I.M.P.


p.p.s. Japan Rocks


peace.]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=19 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=19 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT
The covermounted CD will be available from Tuesday in London and Wednesday everywhere else and features covers from 14 artists including Bloc Party and CSS.

But 'Whip It' kicks ass, right?]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=18 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=18 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Just to let you know that we're starting to take preorders of our album (out on the 24th March). And if you order now from our website merch section you get a free digital ep straight away... It's some tracks from a live show we did at the Reading fez club in October.

It's quite special for three reasons
A) it was a homecoming show
B) it was james's birthday
C) the club has now shut down.

So go preorder the album and get one for your best friend too.]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=17 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=17 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT

So anway, the after show bash upstairs at the Dogstar was awesome, Barry (from CLOR) spun a blinding set and everybody that i really wanted to see turned up. We stayed until throwing out time and then headed round the corner to my friend Leons house. I think it was about six in the morning when they put on the Willy Wonka soundtrack and i discovered i'd lost the power of speech.


So yeah what more to say? Think i might go and check out Metronomy tonight at the ICA but have promised my body a break from the booze. I know, i know, theres people out there who say annoying things like "man you dont have to drink alcohol, just drink cranberry juice" but they're also the sort of people who say "You know what? High school musical is actually quite a good film", and put "OMG" in text messages.


Next stop Japan. OMG!!!!!!


Morgan xx


p.s. Thanks to everyone who came to see us on the tour and generally hung out afterwards. You really made the whole thing work for us and that really is a thing..(choke, choke)..that you cant put a price on. No but seriously thank you especially to the girl who made them T-shirts for us. See you all on tour in a few weeks. OMG!!!!!]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=16 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=16 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT
The shop is at:
Dray Walk
The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London

See you there.]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=15 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=15 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Tried to get tickets to see Pina Bausch, that failed, so we headed into Soho and danced all night at a strangely empty DURR. The mad thing was, i kept bumping into people i hadn't seen for ages, check the roll call;

kai from ebony bones
joey from we smoke fags
Hadoukens manager
Flo Bascombe
This one dude that i met one time.
This other dude that i met one time in offspring.
This other weird dude who seems to pop up whenever i go out.
This one dude who i've known for like the longest but can never remember his name. (don't you hate when that happens)

So yeah, pretty mad night. I always feel awkward when i go into the loos though man. You know there's some dude there with all them fake aftershaves, an alba cassette player, and a mug full of chuppa chups lollypops, waiting to get tipped cos he gunked some cream cleaner in the palm of your hand and then handed you a paper towel (from a hand that's paradoxically always weighed down by a few sov's). Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for free enterprise and that and some of the best conversations i had in my life have been with toilet attendants, its just that i feel a little, sort off, embarrassed really. What's with them chuppa chups as well man.

Lasts nights gig in Bristol was perhaps one of our best, this is probably due to us watching John Carpenters "They Live!" on the way up. Ed Warren our lighting guy brought it down.

DIOYY CREW PERSONNEL # 2
NAME: ED WARREN
DOES: LIGHTS

BIOG: Ed is probably the coolest person in the universe and the thing is he just keeps on getting cooler. I mean is it possible, or fair, for one person to have done, owned, and seen the sheer amount of coolness he has? I don't think so. Trouble is you cant hate him because he's so cool about it, which makes him that much more cooler.

erm....yeah so Katie was really ill yesterday but Jules stepped up and dj'd for half an hour. Us and the crew put on these horror clown masks and danced around on stage. Picture the Insane Clown Posse dancing to Kung Fu Fighting, and your there man.

Right i've gotta go. Getting things organised for my after show party in Brixton! Its where i grew up man! I used to bunk off school and take my skateboard to the park next to the academy!

l8ers, M

p.s. er stay in school.]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=6 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=6 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT
'We Are Rockstars' is Zane Lowe's single of the week on his Radio 1 show.

He's going to play it tonight on the show (between 7-9).

Laters.]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=5 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=5 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT
We're halfway through the NME tour and it's actually probably one of the best tours we've been on. All of you guys have been super responsive, as soon as we finish this we can't wait to go back on tour and see you all again... but more on that in a second.

First thing... we're writing a blog as we go which is on NME.com's site. You can read it here.

So back to that other tour news. We've just confirmed a bunch more UK dates in March after we play SXSW in Texas (which is going to be totally pimp). The full dates are:

March
23 - The Met Lounge, Peterborough
25 - ULU, London
26 - Club Academy, Manchester
28 - Cockpit, Leeds
29 - Academy 2, Newcastle

That's all you get for the moment.]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=4 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=4 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT
After the show all the DIOYY crew headed over to the Leadmill for a Ting Tings dj set. We rolled in and headed straight for the dancefloor, some girls came over and stuck paper love hearts to our chests, the theme from Ghostbusters came on and then Andrew Patrick Sweeney (our tour manager) burnt up the floor.

DIOYY PERSONEL INTRO # 1:
NAME: Andrew Patrick Sweeney(DIOYY tour manager) , AKA, Sweeney, Sween, Sweenster etc etc etc.

BIOG: Andrew Patrick Sweeney is an all round top lad, all the girls fancy him and all the lads want to be him. He completes arcade games on a pound. He's filled up a whole transformers sticker book without doing any swappsies, or anythin. He could probably have Mike Tyson. He's seen the last episode of Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be him.

Okay so the rest of the evening involved Dan , Shug and Sween (the DIOYY crew) MCing (just basically talking over the mic), Sweeney breakdancing, bouncers threatening to kick our heads in, me wandering around after the club had shut and going "wheres this party then" to terrified looking teens, and us nearly getting thrown out of the hotel for making to much noise at 4 in the morning, the cheek of it!

I ended the night by wandering blindly into our shared hotel room, waking Dan (keys), saying as quietly as possible "I love girls Dan...oh sorry mate did i wake you up...yeah go back to sleep.....dan....i love girls they're great...oh sorry mate.....dan.....you awake mate...wow what a night....oh sorry mate...you awake....dan"

NME shockwaves 2008 its just getting started.

M :-)

p.s. "dan...you awake mate....sorry mate....dan...its the nme tour..sorry mate yeah go back to sleep....dan"]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=7 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=7 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Highlights since i've last checked in have included:

All the people who have been at the front rows at each show, you guys have been amazing.

Getting my brand new Nirvana t-shirt ripped of my back like it was a Hulk Hogan prop top, at Leeds.

Meeting two geordie gangsters at a local newcastle gym (i watched these dudes exit the sauna wearing shell suit tops, Nike shorts, and slippers).

Seeing the look of distain that party of wealthy tourists gave me as i stumbled into the Radisson hotel lobby stinking of beer, "hey lets party!".

Meeting Jonny Marr.

Ok, so yeah, the tour party is really coming into its own as a kind of collective thing now, i think. You know, i mean, we're all kind of hoping shows go well for each other and blah blah blah. More importantly we're all going out and getting totally wasted together, every night, which is really what its all about no?

Okay time for a Does it Offend You, Yeah? Public safety announcement for bands on tour.

NEVER GO TO RANDOM HOUSE PARTIES WITH A RANDOM PERSON FROM THE AUDIENCE, EVER!

Dudes i know this might sound harsh and there's probably some peeps out there who aren't looking to damage us psychologically, but seriously we have had some shocking house party experiences on this tour.This all stems from a state of affairs i have dubbed; THE THREE STAGES OF DISENCHANTMENT, or the, I THOUGHT YOU GUYS WERE AWESOME WHEN I WAS DRUNK BUT NOW THAT IM SOBER I WANT YOU TO LEAVE MY HOUSE, reaction. I hope I'm proved wrong soon and we go to a house party filled with positive vibes and nice peeps as opposed to sinister smirks and people crying in the bathroom.

Remember Hulkamania is the most powerful force in the universe!!

L8ers, M]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=8 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=8 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Arrive in manchester, me and dan head to topshop to do a dj set in the middle of the store, feel like im gonna throw up about 4 times but manage to stave off the bile by spinning some Soft Pink Truth, Minutemen, Chicks on Speed, and erm Melt Banana!

The gig itself is perhaps the definition of pimp. We've really hit our stride man. Only down side is, i managed to uppercut myself with the body of my Fender, resulting in a busted mouth and a whole lot of blood. This happened during the second to last track; pretty wierd sensation actually, being uppercuted. Your jaw feels like its been pushed into your forehead, and you cant really see or hear for about 3 minutes. So i guess imagine that sensation, and then imagine Rockstars blarring out and a massive strobe flashing in your face...PIMP.

After the show all the bands headed over to the Ting Tings aftershow party in their loft. Awesome party peeps, awesome. I dont know how many times we danced to its raining men, but it just felt so right :-) The high point of the party has got to be this dance clash between me and this other dude who chose to be known as Chad. Left the party feeling finer than a m***^^f**ker. I knew i had to go home when we all ended up back at Steve Stranges hotel room. I kept hassling him about Leigh Bowery: "so you really knew him? no way! What Was he like?"

see ya on the flipside Hoe's. morgan xx ;-)]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=10 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=10 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT
I think we're in Manchester, one of our favourite cities as we always get such a good reception here. The venue is brand new and is MASSIVE. We had to do a few press things before we go on, then we work ourselves up a bit with rum and more rum. The set starts of really well, but then my sampler blew up somehow, thankfully Sgt Shug was there to fix it before Battle Royale, which would've sounded very weird without it working.

Things got a bit raccous that night, with a few fights starting out in the mosh. We don't mind people going crazy, but when you see fists starting to fly and girls moving out of the way you start to wonder wether to stop the tune, luckily people calmed down a bit when morgz said something.

That wasn't the end of it though! Morg smacked his guitar on his chops after jumping off the drum riser, we all thought he had lost a tooth, but I think he just came close to knocking himself out, still someone in the crowd can now clone Morgan from the bloody towel he handed out ugh!

We all stuck around and watched the Cribs and Johnny Marr, which was good fun, Rachael our merch girl ended up dancing on the table at the back, the we all headed outside where we saw the first ever bootlegged "dioyy" t shirts, which made us feel like we're almost a proper band now!

The Ting Tings were throwing a party so we all jumped into cabs and ended up at their place which is an amazing ex warehouse thing. They had decks set up and Jules Ting Ting was playing 80's tunes from a thousand raided jukeboxes. People were handing out piles of records and we all started getting down until dawn. We got some pretty amazing photos that night, some which should be stored in a high security vault.

Day: ???+1
"Tay tay tay tay Tttt tay tay... Take or leave us only please believe us, cos we're never gonna be respectable."

If you wake up with that in your head and have hazy memories of watching various music industry peeps getting down to "It's raining men" the night before, then you have clearly had an amazing night. Respect to the TING TINGS who know how to throw a party.

We all piled in the wagon and set of for Newcastle, passing the Angel Of The North.
We ended up in our dressing room watching clips on youtube of The Ultimate Warrior shouting about stuff before moving onto seeing how fucked up Corey Haim has got since he grew up. There was also some funny Australian dude who fucked up his neighbourhood with a massive party. Try checking that out!

The gig itself was probably one of the tightest ones we've done on the tour and we got a real good response all the way to the back.. Cheers to everyone there

Signing out for now]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=9 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=9 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Glasgow has been all i dreamed it would be. The day started off with an early morning swimming sesh at Duncan Bannatynes gym (you know the scottish dude from Dragons Den, the one who always says "i'll stop this nonsense right now by saying i'm out"), and has ended with me here, drunk, having left my bag at one of the many chinese restaurants i price checked until i found the cheapest.

Man the tour is getting pretty sweet; Jonny Marr is here...Jonny f*****g marr man!!! Also bumped into Calvin Harris backstage hanging with the Ting Tings; really nice dude that Calvin Harris.

But yeah, our set was pretty pimp. As usual the first 16 rows were having it large! I was the proud recipient of an onstage golden shower (a whole pint glass of Stella Artois), which resulted in the first slippage of the tour; i literally slid from one side of the stage to the other. Crowd surfed a whole bunch of times and managed to tight rope walk the hazard marked metal scaffold poles, that separated audience and stage, loads.

J Lean and the JJJ went down a storm (really tight band actually), but i still haven't managed to see the Cribs. Joe said THE most hilarious comment of the tour so far yesterday. We where all sat round eating a little lunch and then Joe goes- "I cant believe the Sun have written 'Beadles not about'-. That pretty much busted everyone up. What's wrong with the sun man? Beadles not about! I mean that's almost as bad as the "Bonkers Bruno" headline.

Right, my money and valuable sleeping time are running out so I'm out but not before i reveal:

DOES IT OFFEND YOU, YEAH? TOUR BUS ACTIVITY NUMBER 1: Celebrity super hero team (anyone can play).

Okay so celebrity super hero team is a game we invented to pass the time whilst driving from town to town on tour. It basically involves picking a celebrity, giving them a super power and aligning them with either the force for good, or the powers of darkness. So far we have a 6 man force for good team, of which (for personal safety reasons) i can reveal only two members. Okay so the kind of Charles Xavier of the team is superstar DJ Carl Cox. Coxy kind of stays at base, devours KFC buckets and Big Macs, and is a computer wiz. His job is to co-ordinate the team and warn em when danger is around the corner. Trouble is coxy's always sleeping due to food coma, and hard house fatigue. The second guy i can tell you about is MIKA. Or Depth perception deficit MIKA. I don't know how this came about but MIKAs super power is an ear drum shattering banshee scream, brought about by confusion due to his lack of accurate depth perception. Basically things that are far away appear to be to small, and things that are close appear monstrously large......i cant believe i've just written that...time to sleep i think..

peace out people. Morgan

p.s. its just started snowing outside...little white dots against a black scottish night, illuminated by a blue neon sign, which reads Novotel...NO..VO..TEL.]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=11 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=11 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT
I caught the whole of the ting tings show, which rocked the house, but i missed out on joe leans as i was upstairs, barefoot, ears ringing, mixing things together in a glass that any right minded bar man would have me flung out for. Thats about as far as my memory will take me. Dublin was much the same peeps, though i haven't seen the cribs set yet...maybe tomorrow night, yeah maybe in Glasgow.

So yeah, not dirt to dish as yet. Boringly enough everyones really nice and we all get along really well. I've got a sneaking suspission that things are gonna get messy in Glasgow and Manchester tho man. OMG, LOL, WTF, those are my two favorite places to play (second to brixton)..

Seriously though, the question on everybody's lips (tour bus wise) is should we use the theme song from Big Trouble In Little China as our intro music or not. Man i love that movie, Kurt Russel is the man. I challenge anyone out there to find better gangsters then the three Chinese triads that steal the "girl with green eyes" at the airport. Also we're seriously considering changing our name to the Lords Of Death.

Okay okay, listen up, lets all extend the virtual hand of sympathy, or better still, the virtual shoulder to cry on, to our good friend Britney over there in the US of A. We've all been there right? Crying outside the house, with a dog in our laps, wearing a pair of batty riders...stay strong Brit, Stay Strong.

LOLz DUDEZ, M yeah ;-)]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=12 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=12 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Morgan and James are opting for the Death From Above approach and our flying in straight to soundcheck.... This is like the fucking A Team and literally its all systems go. We've got all our bases covered. (All we need is a red stripe painted down the side of our van)

We drove for what seemed like a very long time, stopping off only for Rob to buy a pie that was amusingly called a Beef Growler, and for me and Ed to stock up on DVD's, Aliens and Big Trouble in Little China were the order of the day, you can't go wrong with a bit of Ripley and Lo Pan.

We ended up in the port town of Stranragh where we stayed in what was called a 21st century hotel, but actually seemed more like something out of Royston Vasey (if you've watched The League Of Gentlemen, you'll know what I'm saying).

We ended up in Stranraghs only "disco bar" and loaded up the jukebox and turned off the tv's which pissed off the landlady as the stuff we were playing wasn't disco. (Apart from the Abba tracks that Sweeney selected)

We all went to bed fearing our lives. Thankfully we all survived and Racheal got a four poster bed, we didn't check for cameras though.

DAY 1

This is it the actual start of the tour, we dashed for the ferry in the morning and managed to disappoint the border police who were kinda hoping Coldplay were in the back of our wagon. A short ferry ride later and we took our first steps as a band into Northern Ireland, right outside the venue.

Typically all the bands on the first day of the tour are very sheepish if they don't know each other, but to dissapoint all the journalists who are trying to talk up rivalry's, it all looks like we're going to be one happy family, Joe Lean set up a record player in our dressing room and the party began, with The Cribs and The Ting Tings dropping by later in the evening. We all ended up doing a tour photo for the NME and went on to what we were here for.

It's now 7:00am on the day after and I thought the gig went really well but if you were there we'd rather you let us know how it went.

Now it's off to the biggest city in the world...... Dublin.]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=13 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=13 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT
First things first though, let us tell you about our album, We’ve finally finished it after fucking around for about a year and writing it multiple times whilst getting forced into stress positions / having to put up with waterboarding.

So the album is called “You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into”. Which basically means what it says on the tin. It’s not a full on electro album, it’s not a full on rock album, it’s a big mishmash of all the stuff that’s influenced us whilst growing up, so if you’re a child of the 80’s you’ll probably get it straight away. The Album comes out on March the 17th so you should go and buy it.

We’re finally going to release We Are Rockstars on 7" vinyl and all usual online retailers. There will be some remixes and other bits coming out too... 10th March is the date.

...and the video for We Are Rockstars is getting an exclusive airing on NME.com... check it on the front page.. will be on youtube real soon too.

We’re also putting up a new track from the album, you’re going to have to log on to the myspace and listen to it, we’ve been playing it on our last tour in Europe, and has the words “Oh God” it in. Its called "With A Heavy Heart (I Regret To Inform You)"..]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=2 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=2 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT
So yeah from this point in we're gonna keep you up to speed with all the shiz nizz thats gwannin on the tour, and to say we're excited is perhaps the understatement of the century. I haven't been this pumped since Hollyoaks Nights...oh wait no, i haven't been this pumped since christmas day Eastenders ( remember Max Branning was like "what you think thats real, its just pretending...well tell em stacy..we was just havin a laugh").

So yeah, erm, i guess thats it for the mo, all thats left for us today is repetition, repetition, and more repetition. We're shooting of to Belgium tomorrow to play a gig, and then its off to Belfast. Man! I cannot wait to see the Ting Tings. I cant wait to step out onstage and say the first hello of our NME tour, its going to be incredible. The plan is no sleep. The plan is to party. The plan is give it all on stage or die trying. The plan is to avoid double whopper breakfasts.
see you in Belfast.
Take care of yourselves and each other. M yeah.]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=14 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=14 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Doors are at 7, so you will need to show up early to be sure of getting in.

Come down and raise hell with us!

Luv DIOYY?]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=1 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=1 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMT
We will be back in London in January.]]> http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=3 http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/story.php?newsID=3