Our LP is being released by the excellent Hardware Records before the end of the year. Artwork is being organised at the moment, once that is sorted the record should be out within about a month. We'll then put more songs online from the LP as well and will look to play a few weekenders in the UK.

http://www.hardware-records.com

We finally got the van back last week, so I've updated our bandcamp with all the leftover merch. Tour shirts, patches, and the final few copies of the tour tape we had made are up for sale now.

https://jackalshc.bandcamp.com/merch

Our van broke down halfway through our tour on the motorway in Croatia the other day, about three hours from Zadar. We managed to play the show that evening after it got towed to a garage in a town called Karlovac, and we found that there was a coach going to Zadar that evening. After arriving at about 10.30, getting picked up from the coach station and borrowing literally everything from the other bands, we played on a basketball court right by the sea. The van wasn't properly fixed in Croatia though when we got back the following afternoon and despite managing to drive it to Ljubljana (instead of Bosnia, where we were supposed to have the next show) that evening it still wasn't ok to drive any further. We got it towed to another garage, but they were unable to fix it at all, meaning we had to leave it there earlier today taken elsewhere to be fixed and eventually returned to the UK.

We have spent most of today looking into trying to hire a van, but our breakdown insurance won't cover nearly enough of the costs to make that a possibility given the short notice, where we are and the fact that the van will need to be returned from the UK, which means we have to fly home tomorrow afternoon and cancel the rest of the tour. 


We are really sorry to anyone who helped us book the dates on our tour that we have to cancel/have cancelled already or anyone that was planning to come and see us. I think most/some of the shows might still go ahead, so please go and make them worthwhile for the people involved!  Thanks to anyone who tried to help us out of this shitty situation in any way and everyone we've spoken to over the last few days, and also to everyone that made the first week of the tour great.


I'll put our remaining tour tapes and t-shirts online whenever I get home.  

Hopefully we can come back and do things properly as soon as possible.

TOUR TAPE

As I mentioned in the last blog post, we'll have some tapes with us in Europe featuring 4 songs we recorded a few months ago for our LP. We didn't get stuff sorted in time to have records but hopefully they'll be organised not long after we get back. We got 55 tapes sorted, any leftovers we'll put online. 

We also have some new patches and t-shirts Same deal with those as far as leftovers go. 

EUROPEAN TOUR

We're coming to Europe in August. If you can help us with a show on any of the dates we don't have filled get in touch at jack.pitt@uea.ac.uk

We recorded some new songs this weekend. More news soon.

The gigs we played this week with Lich and Cloud Rat this week were great. If you get a chance to see them in Europe over the next few weeks (or Cloud Rat + Resurrectionists later this month) you definitely should. 

We are recording again at the start of May and are still writing some new songs for that which looks like being the main stuff we will focus on for now.

We don't have any more gigs planned as yet until July, when we are playing with DESPISE YOU and loads of other UK bands. Hopefully we'll have a few more gigs sorted before then, including a weekend somewhere maybe.

Finally, we're currently in the early stages of sorting out coming to Europe again for a couple of weeks this August. If you want to help us out, you can email jack.pitt@uea.ac.uk