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Newsbeat.

Been away from the internet for the last two weeks, holed up in our recording bunker, not speaking to other humans. Except for Simon's boozy birthday last Saturday. Which hurt my insides for several days. 

We've been getting our second record together for the last few months, and we've got some new stuff that we're really excited about. So we might not be heard from again for a few weeks, as we're about to take on the beast that is... recording 20 songs, on a farm in the middle of nowhere, with no-one's help. 

The video for Robots Learn To Love will be up pretty soon... here are some stills from the shoot. A shiny new version of Robots is going to come out in the next few months so we’ll be back playing some shows in England pretty soon, and we’re hoping to get out to the U.S. this year to play some shows on the east coast. Look forward to seeing you beautiful America.

Love from Larsen B

Trying to come up with songs that don’t involve strumming C to A minor whilst singing “ooh yeah baby” is proving to be quite a challenge.

Been listening to a lot of Eels… the Hombre Lobo album and End Times…the song “The Look You Give That Guy” is super duper.

Also, when you get the chance, check out this 14^th century bastardisation of Bjork harmony…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5U8p5W-Srw&feature=related

For a composer to invent a time machine solely to plagiarise Medulla is surely a sign of severe mental illness.

Other musicians who went crazy include Aerosmith, Britney, Gnarls Barkley, Beyonce (in love) and Seal.

So in sum, we’re never gonna get by unless we get a little crazy… but not going as far as ripping off albums that haven’t been invented yet or punching a pig full on in the face with a bag of sugar.

Paddy

Just to elaborate on the below mention of cake-cutting, thought this was worth sharing...

Filming down in the village, we found ourselves without a knife to cut a cake we were using in one scene. We asked our assistant Josh to go grab us a little plastic knife... he came back with a machete that was the best part of 2 feet long. Borrowed from the butcher.

Can't decide whether it's a good thing that in quiet little villages, that still have community spirit, a butcher will hand over something that could fell a tree to a complete stranger without worrying that he's a psychopath.

Or, was this in fact madness. If so, I think the only option we are left with would be to go down to the butcher's with an even bigger machete (this would be difficult) and tell him to stop handing out machetes or we'll machete him. It's your classic reverse machete tactic. If we don't blog next week, then you'll know things didn't go to plan.

This Robot will be featuring lightly in the video to 'Robots Learn to Love'. Just lightly though. Don't get too excited.

Hullo.

The past week has seen us shoot the video to ‘Robots Learn to Love’. Was hard work and very enjoyable. Must say a big thank you to the director Andrew Gaston and our unforgettable assistant Josh Stovell and his cake-cutting machete. Call that a knife? I see you’ve played knifey-spooney before.

Had to do some outside shots in our local village for local people, Watamestede or Wheathampstead as it's more commonly known. Not sure if the shots will make the cut, but it did cause us to cross paths with local councilwomen, Annie Brewster who has invited us to play the local fete in June, which we'll record and put online if we play there.

The video is performance based which meant we had to listen to ‘Robots…’ at least 50 times, so that is what we’ve been listening to this past week in a completely non-vain/self-absorbed way.

Here’s a drunk Aussie to keep you amused:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWDb8Zv3-MA&feature=related

Goodbye.

Simon.