After long consideration, we decided to do the ProjektFest Bazaar show. Ryan had hoped to just fool around and see Philly, but I think it would be good for us to play twice. We’ll get the chance to meet some of the fans and be more personable than we would be the first night, too. Sam hopes we’ll do a totally unique show, but I don’t see how we can with only one album. We sure can’t do acoustic versions of our Ecstatic EP material, haha! I think we’ll play a few covers, for fun, and to spice it up a bit. Still working on our main live set, so no time to plot the acoustic set out just yet. Always working, it seems….

Trying to perfect our band bio before it goes to press. It is really hard to be objective about your own art! We ran into a friend at Gabe’s the other day who writes for the WB network and he offered to help out, but he’s been too busy this week to hook up. Hopefully we’ll still get a chance to work with him on this, because I think he could spruce it up some. Luckily we had Sean Flinn to write our ProjekFest guide text. Seems like we’re always running around trying to get things together lately, with no time to catch our breath.

Now that we’re done redesigning the official website, as well as launching the Windblown Kiss press site (not to mention designing the album cover) it looks like its time to start practicing for Projekt Fest! Ryan’s pretty much gotten his stuff together, and I’ve more or less figured out which parts of the vocal harmonies I’ll sing, but we have yet to get together with Doron to play through everything together. Hopefully we’ll have a few good days to go through the set with him, so we’ll be nice and comfy for our first live show. Wish us luck!

Tonight I really realized just how lucky we are to have awesome friends to work with! Dom and Susan have been so kind to grant us their immense visual talents for our site and album artwork, Sean and Doron were very generous to lend their tremendous musical talents to our album, Robert was a dream to work with on mastering… We also had friends lend us equipment — thanks John and Todd! Plus I can’t forget Gabe, who not only let us borrow Doron from his band, but also gave us some cool samples to use. Yeah, it is great to have good friends.

I think we’re finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel with the website now. Ryan’s been working almost non-stop on all the nuts and bolts of the site. I have it pretty easy compared, since Dom did all the major design work. I’m just working on content, much of which I already created for windblownkiss.com last month. But I’m adding in new things, too, so that the two sites aren’t just mirrors of one another.

Thank goodness Gabe is having a party this Sunday, we could REALLY use a little fun break this weekend!

I thought it would be fun to include a little band journal on the website, to keep fans up to date on all our doings, newsworthy or not. We’ll still have our official newspage with band announcements, but this will have a slightly more casual focus.

Anji and I are on the verge of completing a new track, called “Love Survives,” which has a bit of a Morcheeba feel. It’s good to get back into the studio again! We look forward to picking up some much needed software with the proceeds from the sales of the Love Spirals Downwards Live DAM and Payback earnings. We really appreciate all the support you’ve shown us on MP3.com!

Yes, it’s the REAL new Millenium and certainaly a time for change. Anji and I will be busy this year writing and recording our first album as Lovespirals (hear a sneak preview at mp3.com/Lovespirals). We also plan to add a new audio page on this site with RealAudio and QuickTime files from every LSD album sometime in the near future. Later in the year, the whole site will be redesigned with the new lineup and album in mind. Hopefully we’ll find a new way to host our e-store, which is closed for the time being.

We are currently in the process of changing our name to our long-time moniker, Lovespirals. Anji and I will be redesigning the site to reflect the new band name sometime in the future, but perhaps not until we’re closer to releasing a new album. (The last two site redesigns coincided with the release of Temporal and Flux, based on the cover art and color scheme, which seems like a good tradition) There may not be many site updates for awhile, but be sure to check our mp3.com page occasionally to find out the latest news and to get a sneak preview of the upcoming album’s material!

Well, “Hand in Hand” lost out to a more traditional songwriter on “The Women of MP3.com” contest — ce’st la vie! CyberMuse is interested in featuring us on the site sometime, though, so we’ll keep you up with news on that.