"It's gonna be biblical"

who saw us in rocksound???

tour blog numero uno!

So we've been on tour for 5 days so far and to say that this tour has been the most mental experience of my life would be an understatement! I've really been buzzing from playing the new songs live. I'll start with Birmingham, the first day, our manager is from Brum, so we always feel like we need to pull out the stops here! The first show of any tour is always a tad shakey, but it went well, kinda painlessly for us! We had some friends out with us so we contemplated going to a bar, but alas, we didn't. As a side note, i also watched a bit of the Arsenal game, come on you gunners!

I told myself i wouldn't drink on this tour because of all my health problems at the moment.....hmmm.

Newport was quite eventful as well. Show ruled and then we were making our way to a club when my friend's car broke down, needless to say we pushed it for like 500 yards before we admitted defeat, at least we tried, right?

Sheffield, the big one! Dan, Max and i went to the drop dead warehouse during the afternoon to hang out. Played some fifa, lost at some fifa, i know, un-heard of right? Dan stepped his shit up! Shef was a big one because we had a massive guest list and had to go to dj at some club after. This is where my plan to not drink went to poop. Oh well, i had an amazing time, i grinded, i crowd surfed and boogied, all on my friends, they weren't best pleased.

Manchester, the Apollo, biggest headline show of our bands career. 3,400 people. I can't really put this night into words. It was a strange day for us and i can't begin to express my gratitude towards all of you who come to our shows, it seriously means the world. Thank you.

More soon guys, and more interesting.

'Spoken Word Pack'

Hey guys!

Hope you're all good!

Just wanted to say a big thankyou for all your orders during our Haiti appeal, we raised something like £500 (i'll get back to you with an exact figure, ha) ; we really couldn't have done it without you so thanks so much!

As i'm sure you've noticed by now we launched our new 'Spoken Word pack' yesterday, the response so far has been really positive so good vibes! The idea behind these shirts was to really get a message across and to feel like you're wearing a tee that really makes a statement.

Anyways I look forward to seeing you all on tour over the next week or so! In the mean time keep your fingers crossed for Arsenal against Porto tonight!

One love

Josh x

We Are The World

Hey guys

Hope you're all doing good

Just wanted to take some time out to thank you all so much for your continued support in our help Haiti campaign we've been running for just over a week now. We'll be keeping this going for a few more weeks so don't let your efforts drop; we're helping make a real difference. Lionel Richie and pals are doing their bit by remixing the 'We Are The World' aid song that was made about 25 years ago now with some fresh faces like Akon, Snoop Dogg and Vince Vaughn!! If you haven't seen this yet check out a preview...

Haiti Earthquake Aid Appeal

Hey guys!

So we’re about 3 weeks into January now and we at DBNO really wanted to make a New Year’s resolution by giving back to causes we feel deserve our attention. So for the next 4 weeks we’ll be giving 20% of the money taken from your orders of specific items to the Aid Appeal in Haiti following the disastrous earthquake. So when you buy any DBNO logo (Grey,Black, White, Pink,)or Santa logo tee (white or Blue)20% of the money will be going to this important cause. We encourage you to check out exactly what’s going on and why we want to help by visiting the site below.

http://www.dec.org.uk/donate_now/

Thanks a lot guys, lets all try and get together on this one to help those who really need us.

NEW YEARS

I wanted to draw a line under 2009 and with a blog.

Hope you guys like it!

I wanted to post what 2009 brought my way and what i learnt, and in turn, i am interested to see what you guys all experienced and what you learnt from those experiences.

In the past year i've toured all over the place, France, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, America, Canada and of course the UK & Ireland.

We played some of the biggest festivals of our lives, Rock am Ring, Rock im Park, T in the Park, Oxygen Festival, Download Festival and of course Reading & Leeds fest!

We did multiple headline tours of the UK and Europe. Took part in a childhood dream when we embarked on the Vans Warped Tour in the summer, we then carried ourselves around America and Canada for two months on the Alternative Press tour, had a week off, and then travelled round mainland Europe and the UK hitting up arenas where ever we went with Paramore.

We were nominated for multiple awards including Best British Band at the Kerrang Awards. We signed to a new label, got new management, surrounded ourselves with a whole new team all in aid of making the most of the upcoming year.

It's safe to say i've had an amazing time.

I've learnt a lot, that despite all the wannabe 'rock stars', hanger on's and general arseholes i've met in the last 12 months, thanks to what i do, i've met some seriously amazing people who still do what we do for one reason and one reason only, for the love of music.

Definitely restored my love for music, so thank you to 'the good ones', you know who you are!

What can i expect in 2010? I am lucky enough to be part of a band who are going to tour Australia, Japan, all over Europe ( again ), do the whole of the Warped tour and hopefully hit up some more festival appearances all over.

So when i look at the new year, and when i look back at the year i've had, i thank god, whoever and whatever it may be, there must be something out there giving me and my friends a hand, right? 

Sure i could list all the band shit thats happened this year too...but what's the point? Whatever bad things have happened, have happened. They are done, i can't alter the fact they have happened, just have to accept they have, and hope I can make things better and prevent similar stuff happening again!

New years resolutions? Sure i've got some...

- Listen more. Countless arguments i ve been involved could have been prevented with a bit of patience and a whole lot less of me speaking. I am not always right, so i should bare that in mind, from now on.

- Fuck the haters. I spend more time reading and responding to negative people online, or in person, rather than show time and love towards you guys, the people support our band, or even my own family, and friends. So that ends now, you don't like our band, that's cool. I am only interested people that do, and that do care. 

- For our band to better 2009....always gotta aim high or you'll hit low.

- and Finally...to read more...yeah right!

Below are some pictures of my year, twitter at me your new years resolutions on New Years Day! - Josh