Writing The Album

Let's Record.

We're booked into the studio with Thomas Mitchener of Broadfield Studios on the 29th/30th of this month to get another two album tracks recorded, we're still kinda deciding on what tracks we're gonna record but their looking likely to be White Snow & Mantis.

Progress on the writing front is smooth and has been the most collaborative writing we have done to date. The tracks are shaping up nicely and we're almost at a point where we're happy enough with the songs we've got to feature as album tracks.

Track listing/Ideas so far-

Polly Attack

Feels Right Inside

Re-Arrange

Say It Again

White Snow

Mantis

Devil Comes To Dine

My Grandmother Builds Machine Guns

Little Miss Lead

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Charlies Dead

What Lead Me

Commit No Nuisance

Riot Patrol

We've been working on a short video blog which covers our writing/show at the indigO2 as well as us generally messing around in the Studio to date which you can view HERE!

We're gonna be in the studio from this month on so watch out for part 2 of the blog 'Recording The Album'.

It looks like we're gonna be doing a spot of recording this weekend commencing the 8th where we may get a couple of the new tracks recorded acoustically for you all to have a listen to.... keep your eyes PEELED!

SAFE

Polly & Co.

WRITE REHEARSE WRITE REHEARSE

The writings going well and we're after only 3 and a bit months we're up to about 5 decent solid tracks

* My Grandmother Builds Machine Guns

* White Snow

* Charlie's Dead

* Mantis

* Devil Comes To Dine

Our plan is to have the album written and recorded by March 2011, which so far is looking likely to happen.

We're filming the rehearsals to eventually edit into a montage of what we get up to in the studio which will hopefully be up in a couple of weeks which will include Lee's impression of the mouse from Phone Jacker which by the way is amazing and Duncan making a sound by blowing air out of his perforated ear drum which is also quite amusing.

We recently recorded 'My Grandmother Builds Machine Guns' with Thomas Mitchener from Broadfield Studios as a taster of what's to come which is now up on our myspace, facebook and is available as a free download from musicglue.

Thanks a lot to everyone who came down to our Halloween show, we were overwhelmed with the amount of people that turned up! It was a blast and we hope you all enjoyed yourselves as much as we did. (sorry about the excessive smoke at one point)

We've decided to keep four tracks from the EP to feature on the album which will be Polly Attack, Re-Arrange and Feels Right Inside and Missing You which we'll be giving a facelift.

We'll be back in the studio in January.

Polly & Co.

What We Have Been Up To Of Late.

So as most of you already know we've been tied up in quite a long monotonous string of

competitions in the last 4 months which has meant we've not really had any time to write any new tracks. We've decided to cancel all our upcoming booked gigs and not take any booking for the next few months so that we can focus only on rehearsing and writing.

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We will be playing one show which will be the Halloween Party at The Boot Inn in St.Albans on the 31st Oct - It will be your only opportunity to see us play any time soon.

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We're booked into Broadfield Studios on the 20th October to record our new Single 'My Grandmother Builds Machine Guns'. Once done it will be available as a free online download.

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Surface Unsigned

We recently played the IndigO2 for the Surface Unsigned National Final. Thanks to everybody who came to support us throughout the competition the support we got was overwhelming.

We managed to get the second highest judge score out of all 15 bands that played but still didn't manage to get into the top 3 winning bands.

WARNING: Surface Unsigned is NO T a talent competition

We're well excited about showcasing our new tunes.

See you on the other side.

Polly & Co.

Lately...

Sorry, been a bit slack on ye olde blogger recently. Mainly due to the fact that we've been pretty busy playing shows and sorting out other bits and bobs.

Here's the low down on what we've been up to -

ALBAN ARENA

Thursday 9th September saw us support the legendary John Cooper Clarke at the Alban Arena in St.Albans. It was such apriviledge to play alongside one of the early most influential punk poets of all time. Big thanks to John, his management

and the Alban Arena for having us.

SURFACE UNSIGNED NATIONAL FINAL

On September the 4th we competed in the Surface Unsigned Regional Semi Final in Tufnell Park, which we're

pleased to announce we qualified and will be playing again at the Nation Final at the IndigO2 on the 25th September.

Tickets for the event unlike the previous rounds are only available on ticket master HERE

LOCAL PRESS

Find out how YOU can help local St.Albans Band Polly Poison & Her Electric Antidote win National Music Competition Surface Unsigned in this weeks copy of the Herts Ad.

NEW SINGLE

We're in the process of writing and rehearsing a new track that will be released independently and available as a free download through musicglue and bandcamp titled 'My Grandmother Builds Machine Guns' we're aiming on getting it recorded with Steve Rodford (of The Zombies) in the next couple of weeks so keep your eyes peeled on our myspace and facebook pages for updates on how the tracks coming along.

In the meantime, don't forget you can still get your free download of Polly Attack from our Music Glue page HERE.

T-SHIRTS/MERCH

After our last 2 shows we completely sold out of all our tshirts - we received a fresh batch last week so their back on sale either from shows or online fromBigCartel along with our EP.

Free stickers are also available from all our shows.

Looking forward to seeing you at The IndigO2 -

We're Stoked.

Polly & Co

MERCH AND SHIT.

T-SHIRTS

Due to demand we've ordered some more T's which will be available from our Merch Store or from future shows as from next week.

BBC DUNSTABLE DOWNS

Want to see us play at BBC Dunstable Downs?? Click HERE and vote for us!

HERTS ADVERTISER

Press coverage from our show at the reopening of The Pioneer Club in St.Albans.

SURFACE UNSIGNED REGIONAL SHOWCASE

The tickets have arrived and are now on sale. Reserve yours by either contacting us through our myspace, facebook or twitter channels - you can also email electric.antidote@btinternet.com to reserve your ticket.

Remember folks - We really need your text votes in order to progress to the Final -

TEXT

"South 5215" to 64343

So......

JOHN COOPER CLARKE

We're pleased to announce that we've have been confirmed to support the legendary John Cooper Clark at The Alban Arena on the 9th September.

tickets for the event are available HERE

SURFACE UNSIGNED (SEMI FINAL)

A HUGE thanks to everybody who came and supported us at the Purple Turtle, thanks to you we've secured our place at the Regional Showcase on the 4th September At The Dome, (Boston Music Rooms) In Tufnell Park. Tickets for the event will be on sale from members in the band very soon, we'll keep you posted.

You can check out some liver shots from the Purple Turtle HERE courtesy of Mike @ First Sight Images

Don't forget you can also help us get through to the final at The Indig02 by text vote -

Text "South 5215" to 64343 to vote for us!

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!

Thanks!

REAL EVENTS - THE PIONEER

Big up everyone who came down to the reopening of the Pioneer - it was a superb night with a great mix of bands, we're glad to see that place back in action - Exactly what St.Albans needed! The new sound and light rig is ACE and we definitely recommend playing there. We hope to play there again soon.

Check out some photos from the event HERE courtesy of Benji Photography

NEW TRACK

Early art work for our up and coming new track 'My Grandmother Builds Machine Guns' by Joshua K Marshall

One more BIG THANK YOU if you came down to the Purple Turtle - you know who you are.

Duncan's away for a month on holiday so this month we'll mostly be plotting ideas for our next EP and Booking Future Shows.

N'uff Love

Polly & Co.

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