The following: photos of our underground gig on Thursday. Pun intended.

(All photos taken by Bronagh McCrudden)

We're proud to present a photo or two taken from last week's brace of gigs. On Wednesday, we played at Death Disco (at Notting Hill Arts Club - a venue one can scarcely help but adore) - again, augmented by the inspired percussive antics of Chris Browne on drums.

And on Friday - this time drum-free - we were back in Oxford: an OxJam gig organised by Stuart of Sunnyvale Noise Subelement fame (who also played). Headlining were the Half Rabbits. Oxfordbands.com reviewed the gig thus:

Angular guitar-and-cello duo Cogwheel Dogs got the evening off to a more-than-decent start, with an immaculately played set of occasionally awkward, but often highly potent ballads. Latest single ‘Cress’ is a grower (pardon the pun) and tonight is performed with tremendous bluesy brio. The excellent, misty-eyed ‘Ghostwriter’ doesn’t suffer much from the absence of the hypnotic typewriter which graces the record, and even the underwhelming-on-CD ‘Anticoagulant’ seems better balanced tonight, with Rebecca Mosley’s ever-more-authoritative singing keeping Tom Parnell’s screeching cello from freaking out the squares just that little bit too much.

(Read the full review on Oxfordbands.com)

If you so desire, you can see an assortment of photos of the OxJam gig on Flickr ...

Cogwheel Dogs supported Eliza last night. Rebecca wore blue suede shoes and red stockings. Less distinctive in the footwear department (but hardly less sartorially remarkable, all things considered) were Tom and Chris – the latter of whom joined us onstage for the first time, adding drums and percussion to Cress, Ducking Stool, Anticoagulant and Queues.

We're playing a live session on this week's The Download programme on BBC Radio Oxford. By the time you read this, indeed, it may well already have happened.

Edit: Well, yes, we did this, and were live on your airwaves, playing live versions of Anticoagulant and Cress, as well as our own improvised 'jingle'. Meanwhile, our kind hosts Tim, Dave and Alex munched on some dried fish. All good clean fun.

Here is the rather eye-catching flyer for Off-field 3, the micro-festival at which we're playing on 10 February.
Stage times will be something along the following lines:

7pm – FROGSPAWN
7.45 – TRATC
8.30 – COGWHEEL DOGS
9.15 – WIRE ROOMS
10 – ELAPSE-O

See the calendar for more information.

Last night's gig at the Purple Turtle (courtesy of BeardMuseum) was thoroughly enjoyable. Accustomed to playing in small, low-ceilinged places with interesting walls, we felt entirely at home. Rebecca created a tiny blu-tac fairy to commemorate the occasion, which now perches somewhere in the Purple Turtle.

We very much enjoyed listening to our co-performers (The Black Hats and Richard Walters).

We enjoyed playing at the Carling Academy on Thursday – and were only mildly disconcerted by the uniform stickiness of the floor. We'll upload some photos as and when we lay hands on them.

One thing (sticky floors aside) with backstage areas, though: why always copious beer + conspicuous lack of bottle-openers? Normally, a bottle-opener is just the kind of mechanical implement we'd have to hand. But not, alas, on Thursday night. So Rebecca made fine, though unorthodox, use of a convenient loo door instead.

Thanks to all who came to the gig, and to Tunng and Eugene McGuinness, both of whom it was a pleasure to support.