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

Latter day hood member Mark Wright's lovely new pop group Maggie 8 hit London this weekend. Maggie8 10th October at World International John Peel Day Bloomsbury Bowling lanes, London, http://www.myspace.com/maggieslovelymusic

A new project from occasional Hood member Nicola Hodgkinson and Chris Coyle who were formerly known under the Empress moniker. It's just been released on the Mobeer label of former Hood members Craig Tattersall and Andrew Johnson. This 3" CD is limited to only 375, so best be in there quick. New North Wales on MySpace Buy: Norman Records | Home Normal

An entire radio show devoted to Hood I hung around in your soundtrack... recently compiled a brilliant radio programme entirely dedicated to rare and obscure Hood tracks spanning their entire career. Visit the site to download the entire show.

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.