Congratulations to Pete Ashton on winning a Guardian New Media award for his Created In Birmingham website.

Pete has been kind about our band in the past and in a round-up of other Birmingham blogs/websites he has this to say:

And also on the “lovely people” tip, Friends of the Stars blog well because their souls are pure. What started off as a jokey diary of how rubbish they were at getting their album out has turned into a savvy promotional tool for their music and the scene they operate in, though I suspect a lot of this savvy was accidental.

Rubbish? Savvy? Accidental?

Being this slapdash and chaotic takes time and effort, Pete.

Here we are at a recent strategy meeting.

Congratulations!