Eden Festival is one of our favourites. It seems like pretty much everyone dresses up and the atmosphere is wonderful.
This year we were back playing at Rabbie's Tavern - the beer tent - to a small but very appreciative crowd on the Sunday afternoon.
As Kim is a professional photographer, one of his great frustrations is not being able to photograph us while we're playing. However, in the audience he spotted fellow photographer, Chloe Adams, and handed his camera over to her. To our delight she took some great photos.
It's now one year since The Cracked Man was created, and we've been working on our debut EP.
The artwork has now been created, the tracks have been mastered and everything has been sent off to Discwizards.com where we're getting 300 printed up.
We played around with several ideas when trying to think of a cover for the EP, and decided to go for a mix of both our heads blended into one. Originally it was going to split it straight down the middle, but after playing in Photoshop we discovered it was more interesting if it wasn't exact. So although the top half is an even split, Kim's nose is more dominant, it's Marcus's upper lip and Kim's beard.
That was quite fun, but then we played with aging it - sepia toning and a mold-speckled glass overlay - and then it leapt to life like some bizarre Edwardian creation. We knew we had the cover we wanted.
On Friday 13th March, we're going to be officially launching the EP with an event at The Gordon House Hotel in Kirckudbright. As a wee taster of the EP, we've put together a short video of photos of us performing and about 40 second bursts of each of the 3 tracks.
On the day of the launch you'll be able to buy CDs or download the tracks online. But if you're in the area, do come along to see us play live.
And if you don't live elsewhere in the world, then we're open to travelling if you fancy being our manager for the country you live in :)
It was a dry and mostly sunny day and we played our set twice - once at 1pm and again at 3pm, with a bit of time off in between to eat our sandwiches, chat and be treated to a coffee by our friend, Rachel.
Lots of fun in July playing the Acoustic Main Stage at The Wickerman Festival.
Unfortunately technical problems at the start of our slot (lots of buzzing and sound cutting out) meant we lost about 10 minutes of our set getting it sorted out. However, what we did perform went down really well.
Here are a few photos of us, courtesy of Pete from PR Imaging - www.primaging.net
And this one, taken shortly after the gig by Lee Medd of Kim with radio presenter and magazine editor, Andrea Thompson, wearing feather earrings that match his glasses
