Happy New Year!!!

To the outside world we've been pretty quiet over the festive season, but that's largely because we've been busy having lots of Christmas fun together! Lots of great food (especially Amie's Chocolate cake and Mother of Steels nommy Christmas dinner!) plenty of booze and some lovely (and hilarious!) presents.

RIP The Old Wharf

Two days ago the best little venue in Birmingham shut its big red and black (or cream and black as it is now!) door for the last time.

It's hard to imagine where Dakesis might be today if not for the support and friendship we found inside this little pub in the back end of Digbeth.

Our live photographer Tony Gaskin, and his wife and daughter who we count as our closest friends now? Met them there.

DJ Beerman and Mrs J of Top Rock Radio who have championed us far and wide, booking us for festivals and being our staunchest supporters? Met them there.

Trial by Fire - Pre-Orders!

Head over to www.Dakesis.Bigcartel.com to pre-order your copy and get free guestlist places for the album launch at The Roadhouse in Birmingham on Wednesday 2nd November!

Why not treat yourself to the deluxe edition which includes:

• Signed Cd
  
• Blue album artwork T-shirt
  
• 2 x tickets for launch party
  
• A3 poster
  
• 2 x Badges
  
• Keyring
  
• 6 signed photo-cards
  
• Sticker set

Order deluxe edition here

Dont forget you can save on postage by choosing to collect from the launch party too!

       Pre-order "Trial by Fire"  | Pre order "Trial by Fire" deluxe edition

Dakesian visit to the "Home of Metal"

So last weekend was a fun and action packed event.

Kicking off with Oxjam in Kidderminster, despite muchos technical difficulties we managed to pull through the show.

On Sunday, the band, our lovely merch girl Jo and Mother of Steel decided to take a trip into Birmingham City Centre to the Home of Metal Exhibition.

As soon as we entered and saw the 10ft high steel clad sign reading "Home of Metal" we all felt as though we were at home.

We even managed to learn a little about the history of Birmingham, and how people of some eras ago went about their everyday lives in factories. Wayne began to educate us all on the history of Gibson SG's when a blinding light hit both Wayne and Matt from the other room. 

On opening their eyes, they saw the shimmer of lacquered wood, the snake-like appearance of some sort of lead, all surrounded by magical looking boxes. OK so they found the room of SGs and a flying V plugged into numerous amps. 

Wayne being himself, got into the spirit of things by teaching some of the bystanding children some chords, whilst Matt busied himself with his new hair style and corroding some of the necks with his "simple" exercises.

When we finally coaxed the guys away from the guitars, there was a display showing some of Rob Halford's costumes, and the massive iconic cross from a Sabbath tour, on loan from our favourite music shop PMT. We even came away with a colour-your-own Rob Halford.

Lots of interesting artefacts to see, and lots of information on various Midland's bands, and how they all interlink, once again, it made us proud to be making music in "The Home of Metal."

We finished off the day with stuffing ourselves with MSG hidden deeply in some chinese food, and sorting out the rehearsal room whereby we accidently packed Matt away ....

Now it's back to normality for a couple of days until we are together again, wreaking havoc and causing mischief!

Amie xx

Happy New Year!!!

Looking back at the last year, we as a band have had so many wonderful experiences, met so many fantastic people and have achieved so much that could not have been possible without each and every one of you.

From releasing our début demo (which thanks to you guys sold out!) getting our beloved steelmobile, and welcoming Adam into the Dakesis family, to playing with and supporting so many great bands, including of course our heroes Thunderstone – this past year has been an incredible experience for us.

As you no doubt know, we spent almost every day of the summer recording what should have been our first full length album, however due to circumstances outside of our control there has been a problem with the files at a fundamental level, and sadly we are going to have to re-do the album from scratch. Although we are of course dissapointed, we know that the album is going to be well worth the wait, and with the experiences we have gained, attempt two is going to be stronger than ever.

The good news however, is that drum tracking will begin sometime in mid January, and we are wasting no time in getting things back on track.

More news and updates about the album will be hitting very soon!

We're really looking forward to coming back with our first gig of the year at The Roadhouse on Wednesday 19^th January, which is also going to be an early Birthday celebration for Adam, and as such is going to be FREE ENTRY, support and more details will be appearing very shortly.

We have some crazy new songs that we cant wait to share with you guys, and we will be debuting a currently untitled power metal spectacular at the first gig of the year. We've been working on a lot of new material over the past few months, so you can expect new highs of indecent cheese throughout the early shows of 2011

We're also gearing up for the first ever @Twitrfest at Eddies on Saturday 12^th February, alongside Furyon, Oaf and our good friends Triaxis! With all proceeds going to the Solihull and Birmingham Woman's Aid and tickets only £7 for such an amazing line-up, you'll want to make sure you get yours early! Tickets are available from HERE

We just want to say thanks again to everyone for a wonderful year, and send best wishes that 2011 will have great things in store for you all!

Wayne, Gemma, Matt, Amie & Adam

Dakesis

Welcome to our new Blog!

Hello there!

We've decided to start a blog to let you in on all the mischief we get up to when you're not looking. All band members are hopefully going to post here, so you can get a bit of an insight into what it's like to be a Dakesian, whilst staying up to date with all the latest news.

We're all new at this Blogging malarkey, so bear with us whilst we get to grips with everything! 

Maybe I'll have something interesting to say soon, and I'll make a real post instead of writing things here just to make it look like a bigger post.....!

Gem
xoxo