CAMP FREDDY / CIRCUS DIABLO frontman Billy Morrison has issued the following update:

So how’s everyone doing this fine Tuesday morning? Or Tuesday evening if you are in the UK. Or Friday lunchtime if you live in Outer Mongolia!! It’s a trippy thing, that whole time difference shit. And it gets brought home when we are doing CFR every week. Callers from the UK, from Canada, from Australia …. All listening on the world wide web. Makes me smile. Makes me actually believe that we can make a difference, however small. Also makes me realize that music is a personal thing, and that there are so many people out there just searching for a fix – the next song that takes them to that place. The place we all know and love, and miss so much. Remember the first time you heard that one sound, that one band or singer, that changed everything for you? Remember the first time you heard GUNS N' ROSES? Or JANE'S ADDICTION? Or for me, THE SEX PISTOLS? Whoever it was, we all had that one defining moment that made us realize what music could do to us, where it could take us, and how high we felt listening to it.

Conversely, we battle against contrived, manufactured, empty music. Constantly fed a stream of emotionless rubbish, we are forced to look deeper for the sounds that really move us. And sometimes it’s a long and fruitless search. We need to remember that what moves one person leaves another one cold. Its an intensely personal thing – when I was having my world changed forever listening to 'God Save The Queen', most of the UK was left staring nonplussed at the radio wondering what was going on. My point? Well, my point is this – keep looking. There is still amazing, well crafted, emotion filled music out there, and its up to you to find it. Don’t sit back and listen to your old AC/DC album, content that it will always work for you. It WILL always work, but music needs you to be out there finding more great bands, great songs, great shows. I have had similar experiences throughout my adult life, and its always fantastic ….. hear a song that feels right, has a great sentiment, with a beat that shakes my soul and guitars that fill the space. I get the album, and there are nine more tracks that do the same thing!! It renews my faith in music, in the fact that my day can really be made better by a song. I doubt there will ever be another time as intense as the first Pistols song (or your first ZEPPELIN, or AEROSMITH, or Ozzy …. Or even Christina, if that’s your bag….) but keep searching, cos the power of music is pretty much unique in this universe, and I for one love that I get to listen to it, make it, and share it.

All questions will be answered midweek. I just wanted to ….er…..whats the word?…….pontificate!!!……. today. The podcast is up on the PODCASTS page, we move into organizing the Indie Wreck The Halls Xmas Show this week, and continue working on some Diablo details for early 2007. All that kind of stuff will be coming at you during the week.

BUT - breaking news .....

I can tell you that the Christmas single from Camp Freddy - a cover of SLADE's 'Merry Xmas Everybody' - will be available exclusively on I-Tunes US, UK and Europe, on December 12th. The song features Scott and Donovan sharing the vocals in the verses, and the whole band on the choruses!! It was loads of fun to record, and was always one of the best christmas songs when I was a kid. I'm glad we decided to record it, and very glad that we managed to get it out and online as quickly as we did. So go ahead and download it on the 12th - at this rate, we'll be releasing the album track by track, over a period of about 18 months!!! Now wait a minute - there's an idea ........."

Peace

Billy