Today marked a huge first for Silent Call - our first interview. Intense! I ended up talking to this guy called Christoph, from Germany. I was trying to record the interview for posterity, so I could have something to listen to when I’m home alone and things are slow - but I don’t own a telephone with a speaker phone function. So I ended up wiring up my microphone into my POD; blasting the input gain, putting huge amounts of compression on that - and now, I can barely hear him in there, Christoph, wheezing away amidst all the electromagnetic noise left over from the birth of the Sun, and if You try really, really hard You can discern something while Your mind works in “A Beautiful Mind” decoding mode, but as it’s so quiet You’ve been forced to turn up the volume, so when my unmitigated response comes booming back at You - I tell You, I have sensed the end of the world. And it is no pleasant end.

It was weird talking to someone so far away though - and easy to have little mental images of what the room of the person You’re talking to looks like! All I ever wanted a few years ago was to tell my side of the story. After the Big Breakup, I kept reading interview after interview and getting more and more infused with anger and putrid bitterness - but You know what? I felt none of that yesterday. I was just talking to a really cool guy who listened to our album and wants us to do well.

Thanks for curing me of a real malady, Mr Poeschl. Whatever Your room looks like.

Well, we got in touch with the company hosting the files of our album, and at least managed to temporarily plug the torrent of illegal copies. Fruitlessly, I’m sure, and not for long, but it was important to do something.

And to all our fans, please don’t get us wrong - we don’t want to hide our music from You, or disrespect You, or accuse You of anything. We love each and every one of You and Your support has been invaluable to us from day one. It’s hard to take something away from You all, but trust me, it’s worth the wait. New bands that are just coming out need Your support, to convince the business part of the music business that their investment is viable. We depend on these people as much as we depend on You, and sometimes it’s hard when the blade falls their way. Trust us, it’s worth the wait.

A funny thing just happened. I just did a Google on my band and found out that our album’s available on filesharing. And a funny sort of “punch-in-the-belly” feeling started spreading in me.

The thing is, the album’s not out until August 22nd! Some ‘rock journalist’ took an advanced copy of the album and shared it and is just eats me alive - Give us a damned chance! These days if Your first album doesn’t make a profit You don’t get to make a second one, so for us it’s so vital to make a decent turnaround just to stay alive in the business…

Record companies can’t afford loss leaders anymore, and You need to be making them money from day one unfortunately. I know that for us as a band, the more people that hear our music the better, so from that perspective filesharing is great, since more people show an interest in the band, spread the word and show up at gigs, and that kind of support is invaluable - but none of that, absolutely none of it is worth it if You get terminated by the label for losing money…

And the worst thing is, right now there isn’t even an option to buy it legally since it isn’t out for another month - which means we run the risk of saturating the market before we’ve even set off.

I’m in no denial about the times we live in, I was expecting the CD to show up online eventually, I just didn’t think it would happen this early on - obviously it was someone that received a promo CD, meaning a magazine, radio station or what not, and these are not people out of the business, it’s a guy or girl that should know exactly how broke the music business is these days…

I know it’s inane not to believe Your stuff will end up online, but give us a damned chance.

I’m sitting at home working on some really cool material we’re going to be releasing when our album hits the shelves - it’s a documentary film of sorts, and I harbor hopes to answer some questions that I harbor still more hope someone will want the answers to. Sound cryptical? Well, check it out on our release day and You’ll see

Video editing software is not particularly fun. But hopefully the finished product will be