A Couple of Scaremonger Firsts

The Great Pete Ashton made The Scaremongers' Combined Days when he wrote the first online review - in fact, the first review of any kind - of The Scaremongers. Pete has always been a Diviner of the Zeitgeist and an Online Legend in my book, and he further wrote himself into The Scaremongers Story by also winning The Glorious Scaremongers' Facebook Group First Friend Challenge, for which he wins a bespoke t-shirt.

And The Scaremongers entered the national media for the first time in an interview Armitage gave to The Guardian Travel Section. To quote:

I've always been as interested in music as in literature. I'm just putting the finishing touches to a book called Gig, which is about growing up listening to music. I was a punk, a mod, a new romantic. The basic premise is that I became a writer through failing to become a rock star. I formed a band with an old school friend, Craig Smith, about two months ago, called The Scaremongers. Our single is out next week. That's given me the opportunity to live out some of these daydreams.

In this case, 'old school friend' is shorthand for 'a bloke at met at Peter Sansom's Poetry Workshops who was on the dole at the same time as me so we dossed about in the Merrye Englande together'!

In other news, Matt Padmore, Forest Fan and Darling of All Osaka, has become the first person to do The Scaremongers' MySpace/Facebook Friendship Double, an achievement of which even his hero Brian Clough would have been proud.