Sunday August 30th 2009

Ah, glorious bank holiday weekends...
This one has been particularly lazy on the Vampyrouss front, but I thought we all deserved a bit of a break anyway. Having said that, I am still sat here writing this blog, and another blog for my Musings Of Maars page at the North Devon Journal website, and I have been slowly adding and adjusting the Vampyrouss website, there are lots of new pictures and content to be found!

So, the rest of the month then... what is new? Well, the aforementioned Musings Of Maars blog and my official website of the same name (coming soon) are both building some steam, and keeping me busy! Azrael has been playing around with some new ideas for songs, Robert popped off to Bloodstock, Padraich celebrated his birthday whilst moving house, and as a whole band we have been furiously rehearsing, adding 2 new songs to our repertoire and readying ourselves for the next recording...

On the gigs front, we couldn't make it to Southampton last month, as our van broke down in the pouring rain... but luckily we didn't get stranded halfway between here and there... so we were able to get back home eventually.

We did however enjoy a great gig on my birthday, the much belated CD release party for "A Dark Desire". I didn't really enjoy the gig too much, as I was really ill... but in my opinion it was the tightest gig the other guys have played so far since we've been a full live band. It was still a really energetic performance! The amazing duo of "Shake The Earth" fame played a completely different set for us to open and close the night under the name "The Ghost". This made the night worth it for me by itself, due to them playing Anathema classics "Flying" and "Fragile Dreams" as well as their own brand of introspective acoustic doom!

So, what have we got planned for September? This time last year we were working on finishing off "A Dark Desire" and this year we have only just started thinking about the next recording... we are very eager to record something with our final definitive line up, and we already have masses of songs from the early days which we've been playing live with the full band... so to us it seems like the perfect chance to re-Vamp(!) this material as Vampyrouss 2009 (or, more likely 2010...).

We have no immediate upcoming gigs, but we are always on the look out for more chances to get on stage, however recording will be our priority for now. Next year I hope to organize something in Europe, so that's something to plan towards, even if half the band haven't sorted out passports yet... (Hey, there is something I can add to my list of things to do this bank holiday weekend!)

Thanks for all the kind messages and support, and we hope you've had a great Summer! Let's see out this year with loads of creativity during the dark days!

You can expect a more regular studio blog once we are ready to record, and hopefully more pictures or video from that as we go along!

Cheers,

- E.S.L. Kazraine Ruthven Maars -

Sunday August 9th 2009

Thanks to all those who came along to the CD release party on Saturday, we had a great time and will be uploading plenty of new photos and videos from the night soon!

Sunday August 2nd 2009

Vampyrouss did not make it to the gig in Southampton on the 31st July 2009 due to the band getting stranded in a van for hours!

Our next gig is 08/08/09 in Barnstaple which will be our belated album release party.