Hurtling towards legitimacy with unnerving speed, The Monotremes have almost a demo’s worth of material on the MySpace. And gosh, what an attractive site ( by jingo by gee by gosh by gum). I’m still not sure whether songs ought to automatically stream when you load the page – in general I find it a pretty obnoxious feature in a web page, but on the other hand if you’re visiting a band’s MySpace there’s a more-or-less tacit expectation that music is going to play right off the bat. For the time being it’s automatic.

Anyway, we have a new song, called Hometown, featuring the vocal talents of guitar-playing, cravat-sporting impresario Alex Sones. It’s a ball of bouncy pop goodness. Hear and download it here:

http://www.myspace.com/themonotremesuk

Other big news – The Monotremes have their first gig! We’re playing at the Dry Bar, near Barbican tube station, on Thursday 3 July. Assume we’ll be bottom of the bill (weighed down, no doubt, by all the industry hype) so should be onstage at eight-ish. We’re going to head down there soon to investigate the venue, so expect more details in the near future.

Here’s the venue’s website:

http://www.myspace.com/drybarlondon

And a Facebook Event you can join:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=13477869901

Apologies that this blog is taking on the form of a series of links. We’ll have something chunkier up here soon – a genesis story, the first baddies bested, the results of who is the new Mayor of the Monotremes (I was tempted by the English Democrat candidate. It was the hair) and our top-ten Wikipedia disambiguations (“Low may refer to:”).

-Mike