A quick notice before the main bulk of this update -we are no longer playing King Lynn tomorrow (16th August) due to illness in the band. Big sorry to everyone that was coming out to see us. On with the main news...

As you may have noticed, we've recenty had 4 gigs cancelled on us for various reason beyond our control, and besides gigging alot over the past month, been a bit quiet. The past blogs have also, all been deleted.

After nearly 100 gigs over the past 20 or so months in support of 2006's 'Regret-Redeem-Refine', and since becoming a 4 piece, we've had the good fortune to share stages with some incredible bands, such as Prong, Panic Cell, Speedtheory, Outcryfire, Evil Scarecrow (our oldest gigging buddies) and Raging Speedhorn to name but a few. We've played all over the UK, put out new merchandise, including the recently released 'Screen for me Peterborough' live DVD, and visited every dive where it was at all possible. We feel we have well and truly exhausted the setlist and we are badly in need of a new start, material wise. Now we're gonna allow ourselves a bit of time off to have a break for ourselves and focus on playing the last 4 or 5 gigs up until the end of 2008, then launch a brand new set around March/April time 2009 all being well, cooking up the makings of our next recording. There will also be some more details on our label situation very shortly, currently Redskin Records as you might already know.

 So after this last run, you won't see us for a while, we'd like to extend a HUGE thanks to absolutely everyone who has been there since day one, and made especially this past nearly 2 years such a great ride for us and supported it/made it happen in any way/ Be it in a band, venue staff, sound guys, drivers, nice people who's floors we slept on or just anyone who came out to the gigs and picked up a cd, THANKYOU!

 We'll be back soon with some crushing new sound, be afraid

Be very afraid...

Thanks ;)

Tom Sam Oli and Dave

Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control these 3 upcoming dates have been cancelled by the venue/promoter:

Thur 14th Aug, Norwich
Sun 17th Aug, Wales
Fri 26th Aug, Leicester

The dates will not be rescheduled this time around. We're planning to play the remaining dates of this current stretch before taking a break for a while to regroup and write some new material.

Next gig is at the Queens Arms in Kings Lynn with Safehouse Massacre, Cocoon and Termoil this Saturday, 16th August.

We had a great few days on the road last weekend playing with some great bands, clocking up around 400 miles in 4 day.Big thanks to Gama Bomb and our friends in Evil Scarecrow as well as all the other bands we shared the stage with. We finished off out weekend watching Panic Cell and Speed Theory in Nottingham - a great way to end our weekend.

We're working on new material, including recording some of it - hopefully that will be sorted out in the new few weeks / months. Our next gig is at the Queen Charlotte in Norwich alongside Serillian and Something To Sacrifice. 14th August, £3, 18+, 8pm. Followed by the Queens Arms in Kings Lynn.

Cheers to everyone who came down to see us last night at the Met Lounge in Peterborough. Big thanks to the awesome Gama Bomb - if you weren't there to see them, check them out. Also a big thanks to Shawn for putting us on the bill.

We're in Louth tonight at the Town and Country alongside Until The End, Cold Hard Truth and From A City In Ruins. £4 entry, doors are at 7.30. Bring your ID's if you're drinking.

Tomorrow night we're hitting the Travellers Rest in Lincoln. Music from 2pm til midnight. Healining are our good friends in Evil Scarecrow also playing are Plaguesfire, Dead Sentinal, Safehouse Massacre, Between the Ashes, Defnation and A Twist of Fate. entry is £5 with ticket, £6 on the door.

Huge thanks to everyone who came today to the Party in the Park at Holbeach. There was a huge crowd and hopefully we have a few new converted SS fans, hope y'all didn't get too hot! Was a scorcher up on that stage...

Next gig is this coming Thursday with the mighty GAMA BOMB on 31st July at the Met Lounge. Tickets available here. Big thanks as always to Shaun for putting us on. Has been a while since we played at the Met so we can't wait to head back to kick off this next little stint. On Friday we will be the at Town and Country in Louth and then on Saturday we will be hittin' up the Travellers Rest in Lincoln.

Hope to see you there!

Thanks to everyone who came out and watched us play in Derby on Tuesday night. Thanks to Nefarious boys, Andy and Gadd, Span and anyone else who made it down. We hope to return to The Vic Inn in the not so distant future, so keep your eyes peeled.

We play Holbeach later today, if you're in the area. It's free entry and we hit the stage at 3.15. Come down and check out everything thats going on.

So the summer tour continues tomorrow night with a visit to Derby's Victoria Inn. We're playing with Last of Summer and What Makes Us Heroes. Come down and check us out if you're in the area. We follow that date up with playing Party in the Park in Holbeach, Lincolnshire on the 27th July alongside Verax, Came By Plane, Sirius and more, I'm sure.

You can buy tickets for our date at the Met Lounge in Peterborough on the 31st July and for our Underworld date on the 24th September in our online shop - click here to buy them. Buying these tickets from us helps ensure you see Smokescreen as these venues in future - if you don't have PayPal and want to come along, send us a MySpace message and we will reserve you a ticket for the gig. We've also added the new DVD 'Screen for me Peterborough to the shop. Filmed at the Park, Peterborough earlier this year - click here for that.

Lots is happening behind the scenes with Smokescreen. New material is in the works as ever in anticipation of a long awaited follow-up to 2006's Regret Redeem Refine soon.

We are VERY sorry to announce that we will no longer be playing Party in the Park this Saturday in Donington due to Sam being ill. We hope you understand and fear not - we're back playing in the area again on the 27th for Party in the Park in Holbeach, Lincolnshire. So if you had plans to come this Saturday, try get down to that one instead.

Cheers to everyone who came down to see us at the DraGun Festival and Belushi's in Brighton - great way to kick off our touring through the summer. Big thanks to the bands we shared the stages with. The tour continues this Saturday at Party in the Park in Donington, Lincolnshire. Get down if you can.

We have tickets available for both the Peterborough and London gigs - if you want to know more, send us a message on MySpace. And just to remind you the 'Screen for me Peterborough' DVD is now on sale. Get yours now before they're all gone! Again send us a MySpace message for those.

See you on the road...

Welcome to the brand new Smokescreen site to accompany the upcoming 'Screen for me England tour... Full dates for the tour are now up. Check to the right, or the tour page above or seek out the flyer that is splattered about all over the place to see if we're playing near you. We're making our preperations for the tour as you read this and the first date is less than 48 hours away. The first date see's the release of our new DVD - 'Screen for me Peterborough, recorded earlier in the year. It's a limited pressing - so get them while you can.

Mesh caps are back again - see the 'treasures' page for more details - and get 'em now before they're all gone. If you haven't yet you can get t-shirts, CD's, beanies and lots of other things over in the treasures section too. Pillage the goods... in a less illegal manner - via paypal.

We've got some new things on the site, including some desktop backgrounds available in the 'Media' section - so you can jazz up your computer with some SS imagery. Video's from several shows, including footage from the upcoming DVD's are on the site as well as new live tracks on the player at the top of the page throughout the whole website, be sure to check the tracks out if you haven't heard them yet. There's also a new 'links' section - so check out some of our friends listed there. There will be more and more stuff added over the summer through the tour, both to this site and to the MySpace, so keep checking back!

See ya'll on the road!