The band are actually considering various packages of songs for the future, with degrees of 'extras', but in the meantime, here's a brief guide to using the new tip jar set up on the music downloads page.

1. You listened to a song.

Suggested tip: £0. It's free. No conditions.

All seems to have gone a bit quiet since the release of Just A Bud. The band are still recording but decided to take a break to concentrate on finishing the top songs, since b-sides were proving distracting (as I think James mentioned).

In addition to this they have added three new songs into their electric set, all sung by Bean, and have started revisiting the acoustic set.

And here they are! Learning To Get Out Of My Skin backed by Which Song Is Our Song, (sung by Mayes) and Harpers Cameo. Sounds a bit Sixties to me, the last one. The second is, well, pretty hard rock, rather The Darkness or Queen. The first... not sure really! But very nice wah from Mayes and a cool drum intro from Captain.

At least, that's the plan. Learning To Get Out Of My Skin + 2 more. Available here, MySpace, Bebo, Facebook, Reverbnation, Stickam, LastFM, Virb, iLike, and your friend's house.

There's a new mp3 available for those signed up as fans of Ether City on their ReverbNation page. During the recordings of Just A Bud, Bean started laughing while laying down his vocal track, and ended up doing an impression of David Bowie (which happens a fair amount in rehearsals; that and Jimmy Savile, Jools Holland, Bruce Forsyth, etc.

New Ether City single, 'Just A Bud', is now available for download. It's backed by Ready For Round Twelve and Why We Were Men. All three are cracking songs, we all love them already. Watch out for two great solos from Mayes, and sexy trumpets (we call them strumpets).

The next single released by Ether City will be 'Just A Bud'. Other tracks accompanying the release ('B-sides', if you like) are 'Ready For Round Twelve' and 'Why We Were Men'.