Hello all.

Well with New Year over and Christmas just a fragmented memory (like some nightmarish hangover), and most of our new-year resolutions just about hanging in (except maybe for Dave), we thought it was time to break cover with some kick-ass news to kick-start 2015.

First up is the news that we are planning to convene early in Feb to start song-writing sessions, with a view to heading back into the studio to churn out a new LP sometime later in the year. Why is this news I hear you ask (you did ask, didn’t you?). Well this time around we thought it would be fun to get everyone together in one place and have a real good thrash and jam to see what fell out. Whilst our previous sessions working in our regular writing pairs/groups (and in Will’s case on his own) have worked well, we somehow ended up churning out stuff that not everybody agreed on. This led some of our followers and fans to accuse us of “padding out” albums. So this time we have decided to break with tradition and see where it takes us. We have booked ourselves a “retreat” (and no, it’s not the Priory!) somewhere far far away to aid the creative process.

This leads us onto the next (and arguably the most important) piece of breaking news…

Following our (reasonably) successful Winter Tour, we decided that we got on so well with Nancy Killjoy as a support act that we simply had to bring her into the family full-time. So as of today we can happily announce that Nancy is joining Voodoo Salami. She brings with her that epic female vocal range that we know so well, and also her fiendishly demonic axe-wielding prowess.

Nancy still plans to keep her own band ticking over in the background (see her post over on her own blog for more details), and hopefully we can get her to scribble some prose for us over here too in due course.

Well that’s all for now. I don’t know about you, but I need a stiff drink and a sit down after all that news.

Keep smiling.

Chuck.