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Good news coming in threes

Some of you may have noticed that Running Club have been rather quiet this year. Thank you for noticing. There were two reasons for this, firstly we lost another drummer (three apparently is a pattern), and secondly we couldn’t find a drum machine capable of interpreting Tim’s air drumming. Shame.

Fortunately however, throughout the resulting summer of parties and onesies, Tom continued to toil away on the project some began to believe might never see the light of day, or even worse turned out to be a hoax. I am of course talking about the much anticipated debut long player from ‘Britain’s most entertaining Running Club’.

Surely not, I hear you gasp in the front row. The album we began work on way back in 2011, when Osama was still on the run, and Manchester City were just noisy neighbours? Yes, that very same album.

How, I hear the desperate cries from the back, can we possibly get our hands on this? Well, it’s quite simple, make your way to our website on January 1st, and you will be offered links to several reputable online dealers to stream, download or playlist to your heart’s content.

But! I hear the drunken revellers at the bar chip in, you said good news comes in three, what could possibly top that? Well how about this. To celebrate the release of this seminal classic in the making, we shall play a launch gig somewhere in London on February 1st.

What!? The front row gasp yet again, a Running Club gig? It’s true, it’s all true, so now you must do two very important things. Firstly, put February 1st in your diary, replacing any ‘drinks with old work friends’ you may have there already, and secondly tell everyone you know that you have the perfect finale to your ‘no drinking January’. Assuming you made it that far.

So that’s the first two pieces of news, and what of the third? Well if you come to the gig on February 1st you’ll find out. Until then.

Sea legs.

Do you remember the first time? I do, it was last night and it happened on a boat.

Why wait so long you ask? Well we wanted it to be special and boy was it.

The 1st ClubRunningClub was on board a vessel which appeared dry-docked, but as the Thames closed in became surprisingly mobile. So much so that  punning sensation Steve from Rhyl’s missus* had to abandon ship, which I must say crossed my mind at one point, but we hadn’t actually played yet.

Things kicked off well with Acoustic Jim, who apologised for having no bass player as he was apparently ‘sh**ging his way round Uganda, or Uruguay’ – they couldn’t be sure which. We then had soothing Germanic harmonies from Wide Sea – very on message for this nautical night, and the raucous Motorcycle Display Team – who climaxed with an inspired version of Bowie’s Let’s Dance. And why not?

But this was not just a night of firsts. It was also the emotional return of Mr Leon Cave- who hadn’t joined the navy like he’d told us, just moved to Highgate. Drummers eh?

All in all this was very encouraging.

So much so in fact that we’re now actually organising our official album launch party. We’ll let you know as soon as we have the details, but if we book it, it has to be finished!

The question remains however, if the second album is meant to be the ‘difficult’ one, does that mean this one was easy?

Viva la Club

*Sorry for naming you as so Laura, but I wanted to get a link to the pun blog in there.