20 Years of The Neutrinos 26.01.19

Celebrating 20 years as a band brought with it hind-site and experience. When we were preparing and rehearsing, we imagined ourselves onstage. I realised that I had enough breath to sing everything well and that feeling breathless onstage was mainly nerves. I decided not to be nervous and to have enough breath. It worked. The same with learning lyrics, I remembered the feeling of only knowing them sketchily. I didn't want that feeling, so I decided to learn the lyrics and over-learn them, so that my nervous in-the-moment brain could cope. It worked. I fluffed them a bit, but I recovered immediately, because I had made the decision that I would be alright. We had moved the stage into the centre of the NAC auditorium before and played in-the-round, so we had good experience to plan and imagine potential difficulties. We hired in more sound equipment because we knew it would help the audience enjoy the experience more. The show was a clear demonstration of our experience as so many comments from audience members said we looked like we were having such fun, "a joy", they said. It's a privileged to get to this point. 20 years of The Neutrinos didn't feel like, 'oh you still doing it then,' it felt like a celebration of 20 years of what were had learnt in a huge noise-clash of fun. The Butcher celebration Weekend inspired us to bring in the extra guitarists for the final song Isotope... it was immense.

10 years of The Butcher of Common Sense 10.11.18

We invited some mates, gathered many instruments, we made soup, we wrote an album in an hour, we played, we searched, we explored, we ate curry, we sawed up lots of instruments, much to some folks distress...it sounded immense though... we played covers of Butcher songs, we played loud, we drank booze, we asked for help and something special happened. 10 years of the Butcher of Common Sense celebrated.