ALL ENTRIES | DAVINA | ROSS | STEPHEN


Written Friday 24th October 2008
Mic check, 1,2,1,2. Is this thing on?!

Hello my good people,

I hope this diary entry finds you well. Firstly I think it's important for me to express how glad we are to be 'up and running' and busier than ever! As you all know we've suffered a lot of setbacks (completely out-with our control), but as they say, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and we're back stronger than ever!

We played a show on Oxford Street here in London on tuesday. A pretty awesome location for a gig. I still get a bit overawed by the city centre here. It's big and glitsy and very far removed from Edinburgh. I love it though, I can't say I've been bored once since moving here! Always something to do! Anyway, the show was great, you guys are getting pretty vocal! Keep that up for sure!

So what's next? Well we're coming up to Glasgow on friday 7th November to play with The Rifles at the Garage, we can't wait for that! Then we hurry back down to London to play at KoKo in Camden with our friend Finley Quaye on saturday 8th November! Busy weekend! The best kind!

And then? EDINBURGH!!! Our first home town show in over a year! That's far too long! We are gonna be in the mood for a party so please come and join us! It's on saturday 15th November at Studio 24 with Army Of Freshmen and you can get tickets from themarspatrol.com/tickets. If you haven't got them yet... GET THEM NOW!!!

Ok, I'm gonna try to get out for some air. My room is far too small to be sitting in all day!

'Join the Patrol. Wear red.'

Stephen xxx







Written: Thursday 25th September 2008
Hi lovely people, i hope this wee message finds you well :)
Welcome to our new site!! It's so nice to have a make over! I feel good when stuff is new...this new site is so cool i now have my own diary page and photo page!

So TMP is back out on the road, we are playing live again and jeez it feels good! We have been busy as always behind-the-scenes as well writing and recording new tunes all fit for one massive eargasm lol!! Some of the songs we have introduced into the set already. As soon as we can we shall let you hear them online. We have recorded some of them in rough demos.

As you know we all live in London now, we are lovin' it and i'm enjoying the new inspiration i'm feeling. I believe its good for the soul to change things up a bit in life and set yourself some new challenges. The area in London that we are staying has lots of creative people and its nice to brush shoulders with like minded people.

I am looking forward to writing on here more and keeping you up to date with everything that's going on, but for now I'll leave you to browse around the new website and check out all the cool new stuff. Hope to catch up with some of you soon at the upcoming shows!

Take care,
Love DD.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 where 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 on 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