New Album - 'Born Under a Threepenny Halfpenny Planet': A most psychedelic and eclectic collection of songs and downright weirdness. This is the album where my iPhone has come to prominence, with orchestral arrangements and a whole host of different textures and flavours that have made this one so much fun to put together. It's always about the songs though, and there is still a very traditional type of 'craft' to most of the songwriting on this album. So... we have full-blown psychedelia (lots of!), brit pop, indie rock, 1930's Berlin jazz, classical string quartet movements, traditional Japanese and Indian-sounding pieces, and some acoustica. In ...

Music Competitions: I was just wondering do many of you enter music competitions in any way or level ? I have done in the past, but over time have found them to be quite random etc. For instance, on a few occassions now I have entered some songs I've done in the past and made it to the final stages, the following year I've entered the same songs in the same competition, but not even made it to the early stages. The only difference being a different selection of people on the judging panel. Now I know they are top music professionals and know the industry, but I feel that what a panel of say 10 judges may co...

Birds Fly To America: Dearest Birds, You may want to sit down for this blog, ita€™s a big one. Our biggest news ever in facta€¦ Birdeatsbaby are proud to announce we will be going to America!! a€¦to record our next full length album with award winning producer Jason Rubal. http://www.myspace.com/jasonrubal His production facility in Pennsylvania is one of the best, and many AMAZING artists have benefited from his skills. Namely friends of ours Bitter Ruin who had their incredible album recorded by Jason early this year. If you havena€™t heard it, you can check them out here... http://www.myspace.c...