Well well well..."News"

Finally I have some non pope related news, or at least with reduced pope content. Los Capitanes will be playing a mega-phat show on the 6th of May at 'The Round House'. Apparently this is on UNSW campus, so if you live in Sydney and have a fake ID, come and check it out because all signs tell me that this is going to super-tacular. That same weekend on the Sunday (the holiest day on the pope's calendar) we'll be playing at 'In Blue' in civic as part of the huge 2XX fundraising events happening all around the capital. It's an all ages show and is for a bloomin' good cause, 2XX has been helping out local Canberra bands since 39020804500 BC, in fact many believe that the very first kooky breakfast 'gang' consisted of two lovable dinosaurs named...George...and...Kevin... (?).

Moving right along, we don't have any specific details for either of these shows just yet, but rest assured they'll be up in lightening speed.

Long chastised for his silence on the genre debate, closet ska fan John Paul the 2nd has finally passed on to that big heaven in the sky...heaven.

"What the heck does this have to do with me?" I hear you inquire.
"And further more, what the shit is a pontiff?"

Well the answer to both these pressing questions can be found below:

This weekends Youth Week gig has been cancelled because the governor general has selfishly decided to head on up to the funeral of 'senor dead pope'. This means that the gig can't go ahead because it was meant to be at his house, or like in his backyard or something. Now when I first heard this I couldn't decide who was more selfish, the pope or the governor general. After much thought on the issue, I decided however that real culprit was in fact the Bush Administration. Regardless of who died where and who bombed who, the point is that we are sorry to once again cancel a gig so close to the date.

At the moment, the next gig on the horizon appears to be a 2XX fundraiser at the Holy Grail in civic on the 7th of May. It's going to be an all ages affair so everyone get on down and support 2XX, they do an amazing job and its up to the locals to keep 2XX kickin'.

Pontiff is a title of certain religious leaders. It comes from the Latin word pontifex, which literally means bridge-maker, and is in turn derived from an Etruscan word that means a religious leader, not a bridge-maker. It could therefore be construed to mean a bridge between God and humanity. - Nick

Big sloppy kisses to all the super-excellent bands who came up from Melbourne last weekend and helped unite the ska, punk and emo community. Unfortunately last Friday night was the last chance that any of you will be able to get the No Butts EP as it is now officially SOLD OUT. Feel free however to burn 10 million copies and give em to all your friends or just hit up www.mp3.com.au and download them first hand.