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Bone Idol play live at The Bo'ness Town Hall with Ryan Anderson guesting on bass, 6th October.

New Pic's Now Online, Check Out The Live Photos Page.

Bone Idol have now started work on their long awaited debut album, it is still too early to tell which songs are going to feature on the album, but we suspect that it shall feature most of the classics as well as some new, and as of yet, currently unheard songs. It is also too early to say when the album will be released or what the album will even be called. But we do know that the artwork for the album will be designed by none other than our very own Laurie Bell, we are also in talks with Laurie about the possibility of him producing some of, if not all of the album. Bone Idol plan to have an official launch night at The Double "0" Bar to celebrate the release of their debut album. Check back here soon for more information on upcoming events involving the album as recording is due to start soon.

Bone Idol have now finished 1 of the new songs, called I Can't Breathe Without You.

Bone Idol are currently working on about 4-5 new songs. 2 of which are almost finished.

Bone Idol play live at Johnny's 19th on the Tuesday the 19th July. POSTPONED

Bone Idol play live at " The Double 0 Bar ", 14th June With Soulstarr and The Rushes. You can find them at,

www.soulstarr.co.uk

www.therushes.co.uk

Vacant play live at The Douglas Park, 11th June

Robert is due back from Australia on the 3rd of June

Vacant play live at Grangemouth Town Hall, 20th May

Vacant play live at Falkirk Town Hall, 16th May

Vacant play live at St. Andrews Church, 29th April

Vacant record the Bone Idol song Your Eyes at The Livingroom Studio's.

Vacant record new song Little Things at The Livingroom Studio's.

The gig on the 15th has been cancelled due to a tight schedule.

Vacant Play Live with Soulstarr at Grangemouth Town Hall, 15th April.

Vacant Play Live at Grangemouth Town Hall, 18th of March.

Vacant Play Live at St. Andrews Church, 25th of February.

Vacant record two songs, Jealous Stalkers & Midnight Walkers, and Skytsofrenya, at The Livingroom Studio's.

The band choose a name, from now on the band will be called, "Vacant".

With Robert in Australia, The others members of the band were left to carry on with the band but found it very difficult to continue with the keyboard player missing, so instead they decided to form a new band, they recruited Christopher Williamson, formerly of 4Play, on guitar. The band still have to decide on a name.

Bone Idol are currently taking a four month break.

Robert Leaves for Australia on Wednesday the 2nd of February and is due back anytime in May.

Roberts Diary From Australia

Hello everybody,

My travels so far; after spending almost 2 months in Cronulla in Sydney doing very little but drinking, going to the beach, lazing around and working the odd shift doing labouring or similar, i decided to make my move north up the east coast.

To begin with keith, steve (irish chef that we met in Cronulla) and 2 canadians; Mckinley and Kavita- freinds of Steve's, hired a 3 berth campervan for a large amount of money and headed to Byron Bay for the Blues and Roots Music festival. On route we spent a night at a campsite in Coffs Harbour as the journey was longer than expected to Byron.

On arrival, the following day, Byron Bay was heaving. All campsites, hostels and other forms of budget accomodation were fully booked. This being down to the festival and the fact that it was the Easter weekend. For that night we headed about 20 km south to a place called Lennox Head where we were lucky to get one of the last remaining spaces at the campsite there.

That night we got a taxi to Byron for the festival where the notorious vanishing key incident happened (Keith!!...only joking) I'll say no more than that for now as Keith might try to kill me when i see him next. Due to our late arrival a saw 2 bands; the 1st being a Canadian band called Pilate, who were very good, and "The Dave Matthews Band" who, despite not knowing very well, were excellent.

The following day we headed to Surfers Paradise as campsites around Byron were still all full. However, we encountered the same problem there (this being Good Friday). So.........after many attempts to get a campsite, we had to settle for staying in an appartment. This was great, but made our camper a waste of money( a lesson learned then...........book ahead!!)

After a trip to Sea World and the Ripley's Believe it or not Museum and a couple of good nights out in Surfers it was time for the camper, along with Keith and Steve to start making the long journey south back to Sydney.

In Byron i spent 3 nights at the Cape Byron Lodge. It was ok as hostels go but was a 15 minute walk from byron bay town centre and beach.

I was then sent plumitting back to the real world of hostels by staying at the Prince's Consort backpackers, again in brisbane.

During the 3 nights that i spent there I did some shopping, went to Australia Zoo ( Steve Irwin's place. Didn't see him though!!!!) and met Dave and Adam from Northern Ireland who I'm currently travelling New Zealand with.
From there i trvelled to Hervey Bay to do a 4 by 4 safari on Fraser Island (the worlds largest sand island)

The 3 day/2night trip was a fantastic experience made so by the great people in my group. However, due to insurance purposes i was too young to drive the vehicle (discrimination!! thats what i say)

After spending 1 more night in Hervey Bay after Fraser Island, i caught the night bus up to Airle Beach where i spent 6 nights
waiting to depart on my Whitsunday Islands sailing trip on the boat "JADE". 

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