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[chris sharp <sharpy@he...freeserve.co.uk>]

Hi everyone

TIme for an update...

Firstly the website is almost ready to go live. There will be a  
couple of unreleased or very rare tracks and some videos which will  
change on a regular basis as reported earlier. It's best to check it  
every Friday as Gerard meets up with the graphics guy on Thursdays.  
Once the last few problems have been ironed out he will be able to  
post new files from home. I think he said there will be an aeroplanes  
email too so any questions/comments can go directly to the band.  
(This was inspired by Abi's email which I showed to G - he seemed  
quite flattered btw Abi!)
I showed him Mark's question about the Purple Helicopters track and  
he not only remembered it very well but said he still has a copy. He  
said he'd probably put it up as one of the rare tracks on the website  
over the coming weeks.
As for the album, there are now 15 tracks with guide vocals and  
another 3 or 4 which Gerard is finishing lyrics for. I'm in  
Switzerland for a couple of weeks and the band are going to a local  
studio while I'm away to transfer the audio files and continue  
overdubbing guitars and other instruments or re-recording some of the  
drum tracks.
It's ironic that this material has all been put together in a very  
short space of time and recorded over the last 6 weeks by the same  
band considering the last album took 10 years and involved so many  
different musicians. Now that I have heard the songs with vocals they  
make a lot more sense and I still maintain that this is shaping up to  
be one of the all-time great Aeros albums. My personal favourite is a  
track called "Sulphur" and is already in my top 3 Aeroplanes songs of  
all time!
Also Gerard has asked me to set the record straight regarding the  
Glastonbury incident. They had played Roskilde the day before and had  
to travel straight to Glastonbury therefore arriving knackered  
(that's "exhausted" to you Americans) and very hungry. Having been  
treated like kings in Scandinavia it was a real culture shock to come  
back home to the "band on a conveyor belt" treatment and to be  
informed there was no meal as that was only for the most important  
bands! Gerard went into the dressing room and kicked a chair out of  
frustration (and hunger!). It was one of those not-very-strong  
flexible plastic chairs commonly seen in marquees at weddings and it  
got wedged under something. When Gerard went to try to free it he  
said it kind of sprung free and flew through the window. People  
naturally (and wrongly) assumed it had just been thrown straight  
through the window! So it's not as rock'n'roll as it appeared!  
Strangely he told me this story about a week before anyone bought it  
up on this forum!
I can personally vouch for this as I play in bars around Europe and  
always get brilliant hospitality. Free drinks all night, usually a  
fantastic meal, mostly free hotel or similar accommodation, very  
friendly and enthusiastic bar staff etc etc. Whenever I come back to  
England I am very lucky to even get my first Guinness for free and am  
generally made to feel unwelcome by the attitude of the seemingly  
jealous bar staff! Can anyone else verify this? It seems to be a  
common tour bus gripe!
Finally I can't yet confirm anything regarding the Fiddlers gig. I've  
asked Gerard a couple of times. It seems that he needs to pop in to  
the venue to organise or confirm a date but has not yet managed to  
get around to it. It is my personal opinion that this album is taking  
up so much time with the band that a Christmas gig this year may not  
materialise but I may well be proved wrong!
So thats all for now ;-)

Chris

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