Hello!

How have you all been? We have been well. We have been catching up on sleep and living a relatively normal existence that doesn’t involve hotels. Although last night I did dream I was on tour and I had to wake a friend up at 4am to eat fast food. Foul.

So after a little over 2 years of touring, Rearrange Beds has largely been…oh I can’t resist…put to bed. Well sort of. We have a handful of European festivals coming up in the next few weeks. Check them out here.

Summer in Europe is going to be awesome! The shows we have played this year in Germany have been so great. We know these festivals are going to rule! It makes sense to us that the last shows we play for Rearrange Beds are in Germany and Switzerland because they got the record last.

To everyone else all over the world who has come to see us play and supported us and even given us random things from Tim Tams to toy sharks to books to pj’s – THANK YOU! Your support and excitement about An Horse is nothing short of amazing and reaffirming. Every musician knows touring can be amazing, exhilarating and outstanding one minute and very literally the next minute the binary opposite. Playing each night to people who really enjoy what we do, and people who understand we aren’t trying to be anything other than people who like what we do, is pretty unbelievable. We are pretty lucky and we know that! So thank you!

Also of course we want to thank all the incredible bands we have been lucky enough to tour with and work with and hang out with. You are all excellent humans and we want you to know how much we think you are!

Hmmm… on a different note I have this bird called Peter. He is kind of awesome and ugly. He doesn’t have many feathers and he likes to sing which sounds cool BUT he only has two notes. I just put a record on and he started again. He also wakes me up at 6am. Like a barking dog. He just wants to hang out. I don’t usually. As some of you know Damon and I have been busy writing a new record. I have been demo-ing at home and Peter features all over the demo versions of this record. I actually send demos to Damon and our upcoming second album’s producer, the LOVELY Howard Redekopp, with huge warnings in the subject line like this “WARNING AT 2:25 mute for 2 seconds”. Peter’s singing is piercing. I think, he thinks, he is going to come Vancouver with me to actually be on the record. He isn’t but I haven’t told him. I am actually scared of him (hence the random reoccurring The Birds dream I keep having where I am Tippi Hedren. I enjoy the part of the dream where I am a well dressed Tippi sporting a lime green ensemble. I don’t enjoy the part where the birds attack me and stain my outfit with blood).

We are recording RECORD NUMBER 2 (that’s our working title thus far or “Peter SHUT UP”) beginning late July in Vancouver! To say we are excited is a ridiculous understatement. We get to work again with Howard who mixed ‘Rearrange Beds’. We have seen him work on our friends’ records and he exudes a calm that Bodhi exuded for most of Point Break. He kinda lost the calm and his shit in that last Dead Presidents robbery, but we all have bad days right? I feel like we will get to the studio and I will be a Johnny Utah to his Bodhi. I think Damon will also be a Utah. There is no Pappas in An Horse. Pappas kinda looks like my Dad but that’s another story for another blog. So Vancouver, get ready. We are going to see you soon. And more seriously I think I will go to Tofino for a surf.

Okay so sit tight. Keep checking back for updates. We will give you plenty when we are in the studio. If you are in Europe, see you at a festival!!!!

I am going to go for a ride on my new bike. My friend from Bike Curious in Montreal made it for me. It rules and Peter needs to sing along for a bit. Get it off his chest.

Love lovers, it’s all An Horse does.

Kate + Damon.