Well well boys and girls, it's been a long time since I've been writing on here so I'll bring you up to speed...

We've had a funny old summer, since playing at Ashford-in-the-Water a lot has changed in the land of Rio 5

Big Dave became a fully-fledged member of Debyshire's Finest AND he, and his good lady wife, Helen, became 1st time parents, with the arrival of Joel - many congrats to them.

This major life change meant Big 'Un had to change his priorities and he has opted to bring up his son, something that the rest of the band whole-heartedly agree with.

So the search was on for someone to step into the, not insubstanial, shoes of Big 'Un... we scoured the land, held numerous auditions and finally plumped for Dave Micklethwaite (it made sense as we wouldn't have to change the business cards) from Elsecar (oop North) and the plan was to play at The Grouse on Hallowe'en then...

Ian, the guitarist, decided to go playing badminton (?!) and managed to snap his achilles tendon (I think there's a lesson to be learnt here) and so, Hallowe'en had to be cancelled - much to our dismay.

Thats where we're at then, Ian in plaster and Big Dave changing nappies. We have got a couple of private functions lined up for December, hopefully there will be a pub gig in there soon, but really we are at the peril of Ian's foot. But 2009 is, at the moment, looking very rosy for Rio 5!