So how's this for a debut blog post?

So how's this for a debut blog post? If you look really closely there on the "Saturday 19th May" column of this poster, you can actually see Ironside, about halfway down. That's because we're playing our first show of our 2012 UK tour at this marvellous festival, Liverpool Sound City! We'll be opening proceedings on the Saturday at midday, playing at the iconic Liverpool venue Heebee Jeebes, on their outdoor 'Aussie BBQ' stage. Later on in the day or early in the evening (TBC), we'll also be playing at yet another iconic Liverpool venue, Screenadelica.

Daniel Kuhle, the hirsuit/bearded singer/guitarist of the band will also be playing a show on Thursday 17th of May as part of Liverpool Sound City. Details TBC!

On top of this, we have a show confirmed in Glasgow, Scotland at 13th Note Cafe on Wednesday 23rd of May, playing with The Deetees and Andy Gallagher. We're still also waiting on confirmation of a few other shows, hopefully in Edinburgh, Scotland, London and Leeds.

Things really have come a long way for little ole Ironside and this is our biggest achievement (or attempted achievement: it hasn't been achieved yet so it technically can't be called an achievement at this stage) to date. It's by no means an exhaustive tour of the UK but for most of our band members, it's our first time out of Australia so we want to make the most of it and take in as many sights as possible too. Be sure to keep up to date with this blog as we'll be trying to update it daily whilst we're on tour with anecdotes of drunken adventures and shortcomings of the band. We signed up for this blog account nearly 3 years ago so it's about time we actually used it like it was intended.