NAME: Adam

LOCATION: A school classroom in Bloomsbury

DATE: 8th March 08

Its been quite a long day and I've learnt that if there is any advice I would give to any aspiring musicians who havent been through this yet, it would be to bring lots of things to entertain yourself with! The shoot is going quite well so far, so rather than spoil the fun of you seeing, it I thought you might like me to explain what I can see from my corner of the classroom-cum-green room in which I currently reside.

Leigh is sat directly across from me looking a bit like a Victorian undertaker with full bowler hat and bow tie inexplicably holding a baby. Why he is holding a baby, and indeed where this baby has come from are both interesting and as yet unanswered...

Mark is (I think) horribly bored mainly due to the fact that I am rubbish at chess so he keeps beating me without too much bother and as I'm a terrible loser I have stopped playing. He seems to be hitting the Stella with much gusto...

Other notable mentions must go to Andy the manager for bringing the beer and nibbles, Marianne for the cakes and chocolate, Edie and Mimi for being here all together, Laura for the Make-Up and Sam for the coffee! Also to the several people and babies who have been, performed and gone - I'm sorry, I don't know all your names!

Anyway I'm being called, so I'd better sign off and get on with the job in hand! Hope you're looking forward to seeing it, and no doubt it will be posted everywhere we can think of!!

Photo of the week:

Edie, one of the lovely Remodel extras, gets IN the beer,

 rather than Mark, who definately got ON the beer

Number 2

NAME: Adam

LOCATION: A Virgin Pendalino train somewhere between Stafford and London

DATE: 17th Feb 08

His Holiness Sir Bob Moog (him of the synthesiser toy and who is fully to blame for prog-rock) once said that the computer was the greatest discovery for music since the catgut. Now I’m not entirely sure that what I am doing at the moment was necessarily what he had in mind, but the computer is a bloody cool bit of equipment which I am particulally fond of. To this end I am currently utilising all sorts of cool computery things by writing this to you on my laptop whilst on one of those weird tilting trains (the ones that make you spill your £200 coffee all over some poor old lady who is sat in the wrong place, and where you get shot if you answer your phone in the ‘quiet zone’) trying to look official and important as the standard bit looks a bit full, so I’ve stowed away into 1st class. Will keep you filled in if I need to move or get charged huge amounts of money for the privialge.
Moving swiftly on welcome to this weeks Remodel Sunday Sermon, where we try to impart some sort of Remodely type wisdom into your everyday life and generally fill up your inbox with meandering thoughts and questionable logic.
And what a week it has been! We have had a few very exciting things happen which I can tell you about now as a Remodel Sunday Sermon exclusive! (haha oh dear….) Firstly those of you unfortunate enough to have one of us as your friends on Facebook may have realised that any versions of Formula and Cognoscenti that may have popped up on your ilike application have disappeared, or anyone who looks at our myspace very often will see they are no longer downloadable. This is because (drum roll please!) those fabulous people at Sad Gnome Records have kindly agreed to us being able to release them as a download only single which will be out at some point in April. We are quite excited about the whole thing (not least because I like looking on itunes at my own band!) and hope that we can rely on your kindness once more to go on and download and give support. Sometimes it feels like we are constantly asking our friends to come and see gigs and buy stuff and all that sort of thing and we never actually speak about anything else, so for your continued patience and kindness we thankyou! (plus if we ever get anywhere your all first in line for backstage Glastonbury tickets!)
Sadly that has taken up quite a lot of our time this week, so there is no other exciting news of note, we are going to start booking gigs for when Joey gets back (he says hi by the way!) very soon, and of cause we will start begging for you to come as soon after as possible!
Which brings us on to something a little more interesting, if you are based in some part of the world that is not London (or even in London I guess) and think that we would go down well in the local area, let us know! We are starting to get a little bored of playing the same venues all the time so any extra pointers in the right direction of places you think we should be going would be gratefully accepted.
Right the ticket man is coming and he has a disconcertingly Hitler like moustache, I’m going to scarper before he tries to bludgeon me with his ticket stamper thingy. Have a lovely week and try not to cause too much mayhem!

Photo of the week:

Leigh is actually Popeye in disguise....

Number 1

NAME: Adam

LOCATION: Maida Vale

DATE: 3rd Feb 08

I knew it wasn’t going to be my day the moment the door handle fell off in my hands at Marks place. Britney was still going mad about something or other (possibly the most astonishing case of antidrug abuse this generation is going to have- rather than show loads of nasty crackheads in doorways the police should show pre-pubescent children a video of her career – they’ll never touch anything stronger than caffeine!) and the world was generally ticking over the same as it had done for countless centuries before.
Except today had been different. For today was the day that it was suggested to me that we should start keeping a blog on the websites and general social networking sites (apparently around 4 million people in the world have found love using the internet- crazy….) and use it to make you lovely people listen to us and generally take notice of us a little more than if we sat (as per normal) in our respective houses eating toast in our pants (apart from Mark, who, obviously has pantaloons).
Yes so today we decided to start writing a blog and I was the mugins who was going to do it (quote: “if Lilly fucking Allen can do it then your going to do it as well”). So unlike every other day that has ever gone through the countless ages of time I was now looking for something…. Endlessly checking emails and talking to people trying to find interesting and exciting things I could write to you about on this ‘ere bloggy thing. Needless to say (and I’m sure by reading this vast amount of filler you probably have already realised!) I struggled…
I could write to you about how the band is doing and all that sort of thing and generally about what is going on in our lives, but, well, to be perfectly honest we’re not the most ‘rock-star’ of personas and I’m afraid I can’t recount you with any hilarious accounts of Leigh or Mark shovelling misery onto the streets of London with an alcohol fuled rage of half a bottle of Jack Daniels suddenly making friends with 10 pints of Stella in Mr Heff’s stomach (well I probably could actually but the glory of writing means I don’t have to- I mean your not standing over me with a gun now are you?!).
I was thinking about using it as a kinda pre-autobiography, a glorious account of how Remodel are currently battling adversity to find the elusive record contract and Glastonbury headline spot, but as I have a sneaking suspicion that my life is generally going to account to a brief and unhappy spell managing a shop, 3 illegitimate (but charming) children and a small house in Peckham I thought I might be jumping the gun somewhat.
So this is a blog about a band… a band who you (hopefully!) know of, and probably know at least one of the members within. Its going to be sent (hahaha if this happens it will be a miracle) on a Sunday for those of you who don’t go to church but still require a few moments of reflection after the Sunday lunch (messiah complex? Me?). As time goes on hopefully I’ll get a bit better and writing this blog thing and will make it a bit more interesting- if you like it tell your friends- we need all the fans we can get! If you don’t then keep quiet and shove off! ;-)
Oh its supposed to be about 500 words aswell…. Hence why the actual important bit is an after thought at the end… I really need to practice this don’t I?

Photo of the week:

A Cricket playing Duck...