Hearing myself on the radio is a strange new experience.

I'm already aware of how strange it is to hear myself recorded and played back, but having 15 minutes of radio interview chopped up, rearranged, and played to thousands of radio listeners three days after it was recorded is even stranger.

This week my band are being played on Nova FM (93.7 FM in Perth, Western Australia) on high rotation.

This is part of a program called 'WA Made' which is supposed to take one local band each week, and play their song, and a small snippet of an interview with them approximately 40 times in the week. This is great, and is doing wonderful things for our publicity, but it also means that we're being played more than Britney, and that somewhere out there in Radioland there's people so sick of our song that they swear they're going to hunt us down and kill us if they hear it once more.

They might never do it, but it's still not a happy thought. My friends come up to me and tell me what a goon i sound like on the radio. How nothing I said makes any damn sense. You wouldn't make much sense if every sentence you said was cut up and rearranged to make it more 'radio friendly' either.

But all in all, I'd say it's a good thing. More people hearing my noise is always a good thing.

I'm looking into getting a tattoo.

After being in this band for the last six and a half years of my life, I figure it's the most significant undertaking I've ever been involved in, and that I need to make it a permanent part of me somehow. Others have asked what I'll do if the band breaks up the day after I get my tattoo. I say to them that it will only give the tattoo MORE significance in its role as a reminder of this amazingly important part of my life.

I'm still working on what sort of design I should have, but the current front runner is a very stylised abstract guitar shape with the band's logo as part of it.

Suggestions and designs are welcome.