The Declining Winter (inc Hood's R V Adams and G S Brown) and Fieldhead are going on tour in February 2010 - catch them in the following places: 13 - Birmingham (UK) | Colour at Island Bar 14 - Welwyn Garden City (UK) | Ludwick Family Centre 15 - London (UK) | Wilmington Arms 16 - Gent (BE) | Cafe Video 17 - Antwerp (BE) | Kavka 18 - Brussels (BE) | Les Ateliers Claus 19 - Metz (FR) | L'Emile Vache 20 - Luxembourg (LU) | D:Qliq

On November 28th come to Leeds Holy Trinity Church where you can witness a performance by The Declining Winter alongside Songs of Green Pheasant, Lanterns on the Lake and Michael Rossiter. There will be visuals and dj's and you can bring your own refreshments. The usual apologies to those not near Leeds. There are plans afoot to attempt to document the night in some way, visually, audio(ly) or however.

The Declining Winter (Hood's Richard Adams and friends) have several autumn shows lined up off the back of their recent 'Haunt the Upper Hallways' 7" and CD set on Home Assembly Music. 24 October FZW Dortmund, Germany with The Pattern Theory 25 October JAZ Rostock, Germany with The Pattern Theory 26 October NBi Berlin, Germany with The Pattern Theory 28 November Holy Trinity Church Leeds, UK with Songs of Green Pheasant, Lanterns on the Lake and Michael Rossiter

It seems one of our bigger jobs on a yearly basis is to update this page and just move the year ahead by one. So the band is continuing its extended hiatus, once again though below is the latest on the side projects and a few re-issues. Chris is working under the Bracken moniker and is currently working on the follow up to his We Know About the Need album on Anticon. Richard is working on new The Declining Winter material following up 2009's Haunt the Upper Hallways opus on Home Assembly Music. Gaz is Gareth S. Brown and has released two albums on Misplaced Music. New material on Misplaced Music is due in Spring 2010. Mark is Maggie8 and is working on his debut album after several limited edition releases. There are some plans for re-issues of older Hood material in the pipeline, the first of which will be a limited vinyl pressing of Singles Compiled and Compilations 1995-2002 on Misplaced Music due autumn/winter 2010.

New album is out now on Home Assembly Music! It comes in elaborate packaging which includes a three track 7-inch and a ten track CD all in their own artwork. In addition to this the first 200 come with a bonus remix CD including the likes of Part Timer, Strategy, Winter North Atlantic, Fieldhead, Library Tapes. The Declining Winter is the current project from Hood co-founder Richard Adams.