Hi all

After a feverish weekend of work in the Chicken Shed, what we affectionately call our studio, we have made excellent progress on a few fronts.

Can Someone Tell Me has been brewing in the Big Love pot for about 3 years and before that was a favourite song of Tim and Steve's. Well, it has been re-born! After a few technical problems, four minutes of summer has been found and we can't wait for you guys to hear it. It's not your usual pale summery whitewash of a song, but it's a bit quirky and definitely has balls to it! Keep your eyes peeled here and at our Drugstore for more information.

We have also signed off on the mix for Mes Cahiers Bleus, and now we are just waiting on the artwork before we send it off to iTunes (and everywhere else). Again, keep your fullest Big Love attention here to get the scoop when it is released.

Exciting times at Big Love HQ - it's going to be a busy March, April and May - with June holding a big moment for all of us. Make sure you're around to be a part of it! Register with the Doctor to be kept up to date with what's going on.

Big Love

Chris x

We had a rehearsal yesterday afternoon, me, Steve and Tim. It was quite a nostalgia trip really, as we were back in Tim’s kitchen, where the whole Big Love thing really started properly. We were playing through tunes and remembering when, eight years ago or however long ago it was, Steve sang the brass part he had in his head onto the tape recorder for me to transcribe/fiddle with for Dr J, or the first time Steve played me The Town I Never Knew, or Tim and his great bass part for Brown Eyed Girl Again.

Good stuff.

Last night, whilst celebrating a friend’s birthday, we also realised something quite startling about Big Love... but keep your eyes peeled here for more info as the year unfolds…

Big Love, y’all

Chris

And clearly it has caused the Doctor to come over all philosophical.

He hasn't said much, but in nine words scribbled on the front of a business card presented to him, he has summed up what we presume to be his current state of mind.

Look at the latest Message from the Doctor to see for yourself.

Big Love

Dr Big Love attracts all kinds of people for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes it's purely musical reasons. Sometimes it's comical. Sometimes it's hysterical. Sometime's it's psychological. Sometimes it's emotional.

Often it's a healthy mixture of any of the above.

The Doctor's most recent correspondent, a Arnie Oscillator, has taken to sending the doctor a thank you / introduction letter and seems to be calling the man by the name Horatio.

We've uploaded the letter to the site so everyone can see the handiwork

Now, we work with the doctor and have done for years and he's never honestly told his first name. Of all the names he's presented of the years, Horatio was not one of them.

You need to see the letter from Arnie yourself. He is either destined for Great Things or will pale into insignificance, probably being tracked down by the IRS. Either way, the Doctor seems to object to this kind of thing landing on the mat at Big Love HQ.

And we'd agree to a certain extent. But you really couldn't make this stuff up!

Stay swampy everyone x

Hi there everyone

What happened to January?! The last thing we noticed was the snow had shut the country down, then it rained a bit, now it's February. Maybe they'd be kind enough to extend February by a few days to make up for what must have been a shortened January?

The Doctor has been musing and sent us a brand new page for our book of Potions, Lotions and Brews.

In Steve's words:

• Immersed in a life of "beach, bar and bedroom", the Doctor has managed to collect some fool-proof hangover cures from around the world. Check them out here.
• There you have it folks. When the cranium is set to explode, the bowels start to rumble like imminent Krakatoa and you found you've shut the cat in the refrigerator, switch on the deep fat fryer and look for the neighbour's parrot.

Enjoy!

If you have any potions, lotions or brews you would like to share with the Doctor and the world, drop us a line.

Keep up the good work, everyone.

The Bishop