...BAND DIARY .............

6TH APR 2004
Well it's the end of an era, well not the end, just a break. As you all know Gareth is off to New Zealand + Australia for 6-8 months or so. We have toyed with the idea of playing on while he is away but I think we're going to have a break and wait for his return. I must stress that we are not splitting up and this is not the end of Second In Line. We will be back when Gareth returns - that's definite. I will be playing in a new project - all details will be released soon, we have some shows booked - a couple of warm up shows, but our official band launch date is May 15th. The website is being worked on and I'll announce that on here soon too. So that leaves me just to say thanks to all of you who came and saw us, the people that put us on, the other bands, all the great friends we've made along the way as well. We'll see you all in 2005 for more Second In Line action!
Mr. T

22ND MAR 2004
We've just finished our weekend jaunt with Junk Culture and that was one helluva lotta fun. Kidderminster on Friday wasn't too shabby and Swindon on Sunday was ok cause we got some free bowling. But the Newbury once again was awesome, somehow we managed to play 9 songs and it took us nearly an hour with the kids. There was wall of deaths, skateboarding (skating off th stage over people!), monkey dancing competitions and lots of drunken amusement. The worst bit for me was when I jumped off the stage (which is about 3ft high) during the last song and as I landed both my feet just slipped away from me and I landed right on my back, so I just laid there playing the song! Still a great weekend, thanks to Junk Culture + everyone who helped out.
Mr. T

3RD FEB 2004
We have the most part of this month off to work on new material as we have a bundle of shows booked in for March and the small 4 day janut with those rogues Junk Culture. I know we don't write in here enough, sorry about that - blame the other 3 they haven't made 1 entry! Anyways we might be a 5 piece soon, we'll keep ya all informed. Take it easy.
Mr. T

23RD DEC 2003
So that's the end of Second In Line's 2003 and we did indeed have a damn cool year. We played with so many great bands this year, made loads of new friends and played some awesome venues. We're still chuffed we played the Forum with Conflict and Anti Flag, that show will take some beating, but we also love going to Manchester, it's a good laugh up there. It's been a decent year though, we're finally heading into the studio next year to record and there has been talk of tours in UK and also Europe for next year, but we'll see how we go, we're going to be spending the first couple of months working on new songs and getting the record out (whether it be an album or e.p) and ensuring it's mixed and produced right. But once that's done we're going to try and play shows all over, we don't have many booked right now, so do e-mail us if you can put us on. Have a good festive season. Drink copious amounts. Cheers.
Mr. T

2ND DEC 2003
That weekend rocked, the support in Oxford with Farse was cool, we played ok considering Alex hadn't had much time with us (maybe 3 hours) and Sunday in Manchester was amazing. Bliss and Zero Pretties were both awesome and we had such a fun night, one of the best nights we've had in SIL. So thanks you Mancunians! Alex is fitting in nicely and we're gonna be kicking it in London soon. Cheers.
Mr. T

24TH NOV 2003
We've played the last couple of shows as a three piece and they have gond really well. Alex will be making his live debut soon, but for now we will continue as three until the time comes for Alex to rock with us. It's better as 4 as we get a rockier sound with the two guitars. We're in Oxford and Manchester this weekend, which will be damn cool so I hope we'll see some of you at the shows.
Mr. T

17TH OCT 2003
Well that went surprisingly well last night with Gareth and myself playing a set. I went on acoustic and Gareth just played a clean electric. We'd never tried it before and it went better than we imagined. Cheers to The Stats for supporting us, and they did a great job on their first gig. And cheers to Jonny Glueball for giving us heckles and for the chicken burger, was a damn tasty treat.
Mr. T

26TH SEPT 2003
Last night in Kidderminster was quality. Great show, great night. We ended up headlining and can't wait to go back next month. Also, we made it back to the dodgy take away that's dirt cheap but damn tasty and once again had chip fights. Don't ask. I'll try and get some of the other lads to write an entry on here soon as well.
Mr. T

22ND SEPT 2003
Yesterday's show was awesome - we played the Forum in London, massive venue and had a great time. Thanks to Colin from Conflict for putting us on and it was cool to meet Anti Flag and Blaggers. The venue was huge and we've got to now face the reality of playing the pub gigs again. We've had a bite of the apple as they say and now we want more of the massive shows. I think we played reasonable, we've been better in my opinion but we had a few people dancing and that was cool. Nice to see the Shrewsbury crew made it down and put in a sterling effort for us on the dancefloor. There were people there taking photos and reviewing the show (we know Terrorizer mag was one of them) so I expect we'll be slated in there in the future if they can be bothered to put us on the review.
Anyways, this band diary is a new feature and we'll try and write stuff in it every now and then, I hope I won't be the only one doing it and the other lads will get involved too. The bad news is today we've had major website problems and lost around 8 months worth of updates to every single page. This majorly sucks and it's gonna never recover as we can never recall the links we've added, fanzone names and everything like that - it's a major downer after such a high yesterday. The next gig is a small pub in Kidderminster. We've played there before and it's a good laugh up there - hell we're going back another two times this year after Thursday and if we didn't like it we wouldn't bother I can tell you. Should be a damn good laugh with our mates The Penitraitors. OK, take it easy everyone.
Mr. T