Flaming June, except that a mean breeze sweeps down this little road right now and I feel the urge to put my coat on as I type…  Maybe it was because I was so recently spoiled by the Mediterranean sunshine in that brief but thoroughly enjoyable trip to Tel Aviv where Patrick Q. joined us onstage for the first time in many years. We’ll do this again for sure.
Meanwhile we’re preparing for the new album which is due imminently on Metropolis Records (“The Gethsemane Option”) ,while The anxiously awaited vinyl picture disc (The Curse of Marie Antoinette) is also available on pre-order as of today.

BUT FIRST…..THE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR……………… Continue reading June 2013 Newsletter →

Schiphol Airport. Dog-tired but feeling satisfied after putting a new set of songs to the test in our Amsterdam show last night. It had been a while since we last played live and nerves were on display like neon red flags above our heads, but it held together and felt good.  Now we’re preparing to refine it and expand it for our first ever show in Odessa, Ukraine in a few days time and then a special occasion with ex-LPD violin player Patrick Q. Paganini joining in Tel Aviv. And then? Well, America here we come if the Gods favour it….

2013  is beginning to be quite an intense year. Continue reading May 2013 Newsletter →

It’s the first day of Spring.  Predictably, it’s cloudy, treacherously cold and I make no apologies for staying in.  It’s the perfect day for wrenching off the headphones and composing a newsletter.  You could say the state of activity at Chez Dots has been almost frenetic of late.
For a start, there’s a brand new Dots album of all-new material slated for release in May by Metropolis Records, entitled “The Gethsemane Option”.  If all goes to plan, we’ll be promoting this with a North American tour in The Fall.
A second album of new material entitled “The Rainy Day That Never Comes” (also slowly prepared throughout last year) is also now recorded, mastered and waiting in the can – more about this one in the next newsletter.

Lastly, in this coming week three new CDR releases with a new design look will become available – also 100% new studio material.  For more information read on my friends…..

Continue reading March 2013 Newsletter →

2013.  So who said we wouldn’t get there? Hands up -to the back of the class…..

I’m fresh from a break in the sun with batteries recharged and ready for an intense year at Chez Dots.

Several releases are already in the pipeline as recording was frequently fruitful in the last 12 months, but we’re also making early plans for a

little more live action in the coming year including a tour of USA and Canada in Autumn.

A HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you….. Continue reading January 2013 Newsletter →

Just back from Moscow and we’re ready to unleash the first fruits of all our recording adventures over the last 9 months. It has been a creative and rewarding year and we’re extremely proud of the music about to be delivered to an unwary public.

On the ultra-limited edition of Chemical Playschool 15, I would ask anyone who wants it to send an email first. Our mail-order is small, very personal and there should be enough to go around… but we can only accept orders on a “first come-first serve” basis.

Address to use is: qaspel@gmail.com Continue reading October 2012 Newsletter →

The Comfort Inn at Clacton-on-Sea is the unlikely location for the creation of this newsletter. It’s July and summer arrived late in the UK, but as it’ll probably be here for just a few days, perhaps it is wise to make the most of it…. indeed by writing a newsletter in a hotel room….

Seagulls woke us at 5 am this morning. I recorded them and will have my revenge by setting my host of plug-ins on them after slowing them down and turning them backwards.

Still, on to Pink Dot related matters…. Continue reading August 2012 Newsletter →