Update 26|09|2009

where to start..
we havent really been updating this as much as we planned to.
over the last few months a hell of a lot of alterations have taken place, due to jobs/family/situations ect, and its a strange thing to take time out amongst all the 'change' to write it down, so as i sit here in the control room, Saturday morning, recording our new record lungfish, I'm going to attempt a bit of an update.

so as most know, a few moths back robin (guitar) decided to leave heretics, mainly due to "musical differences", we were then joined by elliot withers of rookie error (temporarily), who has been just amazing, adding a new life to the band.
so heretics continued as rob(me), chris, Jow, tinny and elliot, we continued gigging and writing new material.

every artist works differently, and Jow is a perfect example, every lyric every melody was thought-out days, weeks or even months before he even made a sound. this shaped the way we write our music as a band. our average songwriting/jam session, would usually be we(me,chris,tinny,elliot) write the music while jow absorbs what we play and writes his lyrics and melodies around it, it worked beautifully.

eventually three songs/ideas we're born, with the working titles: viking song, chris's house, and happy doomsday.
with little contributions from jow, the songs we're all instrumental, with some vocal ideas but no solid vocal material.
the four of us progressed, the songs evolved, we grew tighter stronger, our children we're growing up!
gigging continuously, so eager to get the new material heard, despite the fact of no definite vocals we booked studio time.

11 Sep 2009, we had a local gig set, pretty last minute but all totally up for it, Jow calls us to say he's not going to be able to do it.
usually we would give it a miss, but at the practice previous, we somehow come up with the idea of doing an instrumental gig.
no reason, just an experiment. some fun.
the gig went down fucking amazing, with amazing feedback from people who have seen us play many of times before, not just oh "good set guys" people were actually totally stoked but what they heard/saw.
this gave us a massive buzz about the new material, it felt natural, it felt 'us'

next practice, no Jow, we start to get really concerned, i get a message saying he needs to talk.

the reason for Jow leaving is purely down to him being torn between his home life/ work and the band, its such a hard thing for anyone to be in a band, its one of those things where its 'all or nothing', there is no compromise, and Jow feels he is holding us back by not giving paying enough attention, not having enough time.

its made us realize how important this is to us, its cliche, but what doesn't kill us will only make us stronger.
three songs. four dedicated friends. and a love for making music.... LUNGFISH is born.
tbc...

Role on September...

We will be recording Three new songs in September. Pretty much all of the music has been written, Just vocals and the odd bit here and there left!

The tracks are:

Where Chris Lives.
Viking Song.
Happy Doomsday.

We are super excited. Eliot from Rookie/Error will be filling in on guitar duties for the time being.

Here is a live video of 'Half Hour Of Silence..' from our show last Thursday which was Robins last show with us. Keep watching to the end to see Jow take a guitar shot to the head. Epic.

Robins Last Show

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Last night, Robin made the decision to leave Heretics And Lovers. He explained his reasons and it is something that he has clearly been thinking about for a while. As much as we dont like the situation we respect his decision and himself as a musician. You only get one life so live it and be happy. That Being said, our show this Thursday (31/07) at The Angel, Coleford will be Robins last show with us, tonight will be his last practice! We are going to make Thursdays show one Robin, Us and possible you never forgets. The past 2 and a half years with Robin have been amazing, playing shows all over the uk, self-releasing one EP and realsing our album via Attic Room. We will continue to remain a band, we are not looking to cancel any shows and we will continue to write our next record. What doesnt kill us will only make us stronger!

Updates and that

The past few weeks we have been making some really good progress, we have a handfull of songs on the go. I can only describe these as our darkest and heavyest songs to date. If all goes well we could be playing at least one new song at our shows in July. I am currently listening to a potential new song called 'Cuddles' which we recorded a live jam of it this week. It's a beast!

Chris, are you excited to play these shows at the weekend?

Bank Holiday Shows

Sunday 24th May - AngelFest
We are playing Angelfest @ The Angel, Coleford. Its Free Entry with a whole bunch on bands. Below is the full list of setimes for each band:

12.30pm Exposure; 1.15pm Getaway Car; 2pm Nights At The Circus; 2.45pm Rough Diamond; 3.30pm Elmbridge Court; 4.15pm Twist The Knife; 5pm Heretics & Lovers; 5.45pm Thyrd Eye; 6.30pm Lizzee Swallowes; 7.15pm Paper Stereo; 8pm Toadstool; 8.45pm Joe & The Sluts; 9.30pm The Peppermint Hunting Lodge; 10.15pm The Artisans; 11pm The Dandelion

As you can see we hit the stage around 5.00pm, please come hang. Make sure you check out the other bands too..this gig should be killer in true Forest style!

Monday 25th May -The Atom, Am and Eve Festival
We are playing The Atom, Am and Eve Festival. Tickets are £8 in advance. £10 on the gate. Below is the full list of setimes for each band:

2.45pm Nights At The Circus; 3.45pm Twist The Knife; 4.45pm Rigadoo; 5.45pm Bob Smith; 6.35pm Vic Bailey; 7.15pm Beth Williams; 7.45pm Rebel Lust; 8.45pm The Artisans; 9.45pm Heretics & Lovers

We are the last band on, playing at 9.45pm so come party with us and see off what should be a great weekend!

We will have CD's and Tee's for sale! Both available from http://www.hereticsandlovers.bigcartel.com

Hit Us Up, Check Us Out, Come Make Friends!

Viking Song - Sneak Peak

Welcome to Viking Song, This what we have been working on this week. Its Unfinished and was recorded on a phone. We do these videos just as a personal reference for ourselves, then we get excited, upload them to You Tube and post them all over the internet.

Maybe we shouldn't?

@work

5.00am

It's 5.00am, I'm not even tired!, I have spent the majority of the night catching up on everything i have missed over the past week. Now i am just lying in bed thinking about the band, how the new songs are sounding and how we have progressed since recording 'Prayers...' We have talked alot recently about concepts and ideas for the new album, but over the past couple weeks we have taken a step back from concepts and such and have found there has been a lot more freedom in our songwriting. We have been writing these songs for ourselves and not for any record. Dont get me wrong the ideas we have talked about for 'recond secord/HelLP2/our next full length' have been very intresting and ones i personally want to explore, but it has been very refreshing to write songs for the sake of writing songs again. I'm pretty sure we will have at least 3 songs to record when we hit the studio and then we will just need to decide what we are going to do with them. GoodTimes...No Sleep!

P.S. names of our new songs are 'Where Chris Lives','Happy Doomsday' and hasn't really been discussed but im calling our other new song 'ShitDisco#3'