December 2025 Blog Post: Better Than The Book announces its "Ten Years On" debut live show, practices and project updates, Bandcamp Friday, press features + a video from Better Than The Book's Live Drummer Andy Forman for the $10 patrons!

​Hi everyone and hope you're having a great start to the festive season! With the weeks closing in on Better Than The Book's "Ten Years On" debut live show, its been a super hectic month and only set to get busier! Let's start this one with a round up of the news since last time!

First of all and the BIG news for the month, Better Than The Book announced its debut live show "Ten Years On" with Special Guests Look What Happened & LUVD for Thursday 5th February 2026 @ The Hope & Ruin, Brighton (UK)! You can read all about it below:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/144011666

And grab your tickets on Fatsoma! Use the promo code "TENYEARSON" (ALL CAPS) for a £1 off your ticket!

https://www.fatsoma.com/e/q2ub5sxo/better-than-the-book-presents-ten-years-on-with-special-guests-look-what-happened-luvd

It's set to be a fun night of ska, pop punk and alternative rock as you'd expect from BTTB, and we'll be playing a 14 track, 1 hour set to celebrate 10 years since the Two Years On debut full-length album was released, and 14 years of Better Than The Book! Not only that, but our special guests Look What Happened and LUVD will each be playing 30 minute sets before we get on stage! I can't wait and I hope to see you there!

With the gig only 2 months away now, it's been a very busy month of practice for everyone involved! We unfortunately couldn't coordinate our schedules again this time, so there were actually 2 big group practices this month, one without our drummer Andy, and one without me (which I'm told was very strange)! Things seem to be taking shape well though and I'm looking forward to our next session in January where things should be pretty much solid! We did (video) record both sessions, with that second session (sans me) recorded with a fancy audio multitrack system allowing me to mix the band in post in the studio! I've been playing around with it and it's VERY fun! Expect to see and hear some clips from those in the coming months, and if you're a $10 patron, you actually have an early sneak peek clip from one of BTTB's live drummer Andy Forman's solo practice sessions now! Become a $10 patron and check out the post below:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/145126996

In other project news, as I've been away and/or busy with preparing for this BTTB gig, there hasn't been too much time for Jabun's Lost Tracks, but I have made a start on the projects artwork! Slowly but surely moving forward, but this'll likely be on the back-burner again for a while as it has been since 2019. I'll be aiming to start releasing the first batch of tracks soon next year. Back to BTTB, there have been some other interesting developments happening too, buuuut I'm not allowed to talk about them just yet! Expect some more updates in January!

Next for this month's news, it's the final Bandcamp Friday of the year! You know the drill by now, so if you want to help support the independent artists you love (not just me) go pick up something from Bandcamp today! Thanks so much for supporting independent music!

Better Than The Book: https://betterthanthebook.bandcamp.com/
Jabun: https://jabun.bandcamp.com/

Finally for this month's news, word of BTTB's debut live show is spreading and a huge thanks to The Punk Site & Pete's Rock News & Views for featuring Better Than The Book's "Ten Years On" debut live show on their news site! Check it out the features below and thanks so much peeps:

November 30, 2025 - Better Than The Book's Ten Years On Debut LIVE Show announcement featured on ThePunkSite.com
​November 26, 2025 - Better Than The Book's Ten Years On Debut LIVE Show announcement featured on Pete's Rock News & Views

That about wraps things up for this post! It's set to be a super busy time practicing and preparing for this big gig, and hopefully I'll get a chance to finish off that Jabun Lost Tracks artwork while I'm at it too! Until the next one, go grab your gig tickets before they're gone, happy holidays, and thanks as always for supporting Better Than The Book, Jabun and my various projects as always! Enjoy the rest of 2025, and I'll see you next year!

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