Balcarres Street

Balcarres Street is in the Morningside area of Edinburgh.  We rented our first apartment there back in 2004.  We spoke at the time about needing to find "a space" with the right vibe although it was only years later before we fully understood what we meant by that.  That's why we chose Morningside.  It was the only part of Edinburgh we felt had the right energy for us.  We stayed in two further flats there and by the third one we had a sense there was nowhere left to go in Edinburgh but move somewhere else.  So we chose Barcelona or it chose us.

From 2004 to 2007 we went through a lot of stuff in that Balcarres Street apartment.  Looking back at it now, it was kind of the making of us, setting us up for what is to come.  So the song "Balcarres Street" is really symbolic of any situation of feeling hemmed in or not belonging and needing to find "a space", whether that is inside yourself or a physical location or maybe even both.

The Professionals

We have been keeping a low profile over the last few months - not deliberately, just the way things have went - but things are still moving under the radar.

Here is a new song we've just finished mixing with a new video.  It's called "The Professionals" and was written and recorded a few months ago, developing into a full song from an original idea recorded over a year ago in Budapest - a melody and some chords which formed what are now the verses.  We have loads of these little parts of songs scattered around waiting to be developed into full songs.  Some make it and some never see the light of day.  It never feels like it's up to 'us' which songs make it, when songs are recorded, mixed, released... it all seems to happen in its own time and the process is always a discovery for us everytime we go through it.

Anyway, here is the video and below that audio from Soundcloud.