ALL ENTRIES | DAVINA | ROSS | STEPHEN

Written: Thursday 22nd October 2009
Hey all, it's been a while!

Since last time I spoke to you we have been doing many different things including recording in the United States! At the begininning of the year we were offered a music publishing deal by a company based in both Nashville, TN and Sydney, Australia. We ended up signing it at the end of the summer and headed out to beautiful Nashville to record some new songs!

We recorded four tracks out there, three of which we will be releasing on a new EP. The songs are currently being mixed in a couple of different places including London. We are just trying to get it sounding as good as it should be. We'll be doing a video soon too for our leading single...yet to be announced!

Nashville was such a great place and completely different to what I'm used to. It has a great music scene and it was a pleasure to see so many fantastic musicians striving to be the best they can be. We recorded in a beautiful place just on the outskirts of Nashville, in the countryside where there were no distractions, just a big lake and many lovely horses taking it easy in the ranches. We took loads of pictures, there is a link to them at the bottom of this diary. Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to see as much of Tennessee as I would have liked because I was in the studio the entire time, but I'll definitely be going back at some point.



We are in the process of making a documentary. The entire trip was filmed and is being put together into episodes for a new Web TV Series! There's some awesome stuff in there, including Stephen getting tattooed for the first time and us all sticking out like sore thumbs in country bars!

We've also written many new songs as you can imagine and have recorded loads of them acoustically. We are hoping to maybe put a couple of them on the EP along with the three Nashville tracks.

Davina has been doing some amazing photoshoots recently, you should all check out the pictures on our Official Facebook Page. She plays some brilliant characters in these pictures, including a Cowgirl...



The next thing you will most likely see from THE MARS PATROL is the trailer for the new documentary, it looks amazing and it will give you a good insight to what we've been doing. The cameras will continue to follow us so we can have regular episodes for you all.

Stay tuned and add your name to our mailinglist if you're not on it already. This way you'll know when things are launched and released :)

Thanks for reading,
Ross x

P.S. The Nashville pictures and the Davina pictures are on Facebook here. Enjoy.







Written: Tuesday 17th February 2009
Hello, just thought Id give you a wee update, it’s been a few months I think!

We are all doing really well here in London. There are five of us in the band now and it sounds really amazing. Our shows have been getting busier and busier too.

Yesterday we did our first full band photoshoot and it went really well. I have seen some of the shots already and they look fantastic. Doing photo sessions must be one of the most exhausting things. I know it sounds stupid but it really is. Those shots will be coming soon and will be part of the launch of our awesome ‘new band’ so keep a lookout.

We’ve been rehearsing loads, both electically and acoustically and we’ve got many new songs. We plan to add quite a few of them into our set over the next few months. Some titles include Say It To My Heart, The Note, It Started With A Kiss and The Secretist.

There’s also loads of new merch and we just got some new badges too so keep a lookout in the store for those.

We hope to start playing shows more regularly soon so let us know where we should play! We’d like to hear from you :)

Talk soon,

Ross x







Written: Saturday 20th September 2008
Hello to you all. What a pleasure it is to have a new website up & running. It feels good to have something fresh and it’s taken us a little while but we had to start something new and positive now that we are back on the go.

Today is a beautiful day here in London which makes for a much happier city I think. And I’m even happier because I met Ronnie Wood from the Rolling Stones today. I was thinking about asking him to join THE MARS PATROL haha...just kidding.

We’ve played two shows in London recently, both were amazing and I think the general response from people was that we are better than we have ever been. There’s quite a few new tracks in our set now too and Davina’s voice just keeps getting better and better! We’ve got more gig plans on the way too so stay tuned for that. (Check out the tour page for current gigs)

I have been working on a mix of our new song ‘Mrs Materialistic’, it’s really dancy, passionate and vibey all at the same time. It’s an awesome tune and a great one live. A lot of our tracks are sounding so distinctive, it’s brilliant. When the track is done we will be putting it online exclusively somewhere so if you want to know then sign up to our mailinglist here.

Gonna go just now, can’t tell whether I should take advantage of the sun and go out for a bit or if I should just keep getting with stuff. I think I’ll probably get on with stuff actually, then it’s done and we can move on quicker.

Thanks for reading!

Ross x