finally

so i finally decided to turn this into a proper blog...not something i just write in like once or twice a year!
as far of the band goes we've had such an exciting few months, with the release of our debut 7" on Cherryade records, which is an amzing amazing label!
It's run by rachel and adam who are the loveliest people you could meet and rach is actaullyl they are so passionate and involved in music and it's great to work with people like that; likewise our crack team of press and radio, leah and luke are so lovely and it's really nice to work with people that you actually get along with and can have a pint and pack of crisps with ya know?!!

so Count in My Head picked up some great support from huw stevens, steve lamacq, zane lowe and nick grimshaw and it was great to get some recognition; we even hunted down Lamacq at the camden crawl and gave him a copy of our vinyl, luckily he seemed please and not scared that we were crazy stalkers!!
a few highlights would be recording our first radio session at Maida Vale and being chosen to play on the BBC Introducing stage at Radio One's Big Weekend which made us all feel like proper rockstars!!
in true ellen fashion i downed a cup of beer that had fag butts in it just before i went on stage....PUKE!!
but it was great, the lovely nick grimshaw introduced us onto the stage and we got a really good crowd in there so its just given us a taste to play more festivals...

when we played in brighton last weekend these 2 guys called Ben and Jim who had driven 3 hours to come to our gig after seeing us on the radi one website...it was sooooo nice to chat with them and really hit home that gaining fans and getting people to hear your music is far more important than getting a major label deal!|

here we are playing some slot machines in brighton arcade,,,,,i broke the machine after this with a faulty 2p!





this is matt, leigh and raf's dance which they will take to britains got talent next year...it's called 'Women's bits'



So then as soon as we got back from brighton we had to spend the day in a lovely recording studio called Miloco in North London where we began recording our next single Under the Bed with amazing producer Mark Williams. He actually went to school with Raf but is a totally established producer and has worked with loads of great bands like Bloc Party, The Cribs, Placebo...so we felt great to get into the studio with him and so far we have the drums and bass finished for the A & B side so are very very very excited....i cant wait to release it!!!

here we are with mark







roll on the bloody 21st june which is when we'll be finishing off recording....in the meantime, we'll have some exclusive free acoustic tracks out this summer before the next release so keep your ears peeled and your eyes posted...
lots of love
ellen xxxxxxxxxxxx