An Unavoidable Ending - Wednesday 1st April, 6:20

As you may have read, night 2's jam was less successful than hoped, due to physical effects from lack of sleep. We played for approx. 40 minutes before Andy asked if we could break for a little while, as he couldn't find the energy to play drums whatsoever. We broke for around an hour, and then attempted to resume. We managed to play for roughly 10 minutes before coming to the conclusion that Andy was not in a strong enough state to play; hopefully we'll be able to show you some video footage at some point, which shows just how weak Andy became by this point.

Because of this, we discussed at length, and came to the conclusion that if 48 hours of sleep deprivation caused the physical ailments that it clearly had, 72 hours would be an absolute impossibility for Andy playing drums. We felt that we would be able to survive sleep deprivation for at least 60 hours, with the potential for 72, but without the ability to play drums, the entire intentions of our experiment go up in smoke.

We have therefore decided to end the experiment at 48 hours, as we would not have been able to add any more relevant data because Andy could not play at all.

We are going to record a jam in the studios in the coming weeks which will be under as perfect conditions as possible (i.e. as soon as possible after a healthy nights sleep) so that we can use this as our control variable, as it is an example of what the creative process would be under perfectly rested conditions. We can then compare this to our two nights of creative processes here, in which we were deprived of sleep for 18 hours and 42 hours respectively.

We will also update you all with general comments and thoughts from myself and Andy later on today, after we have had a chance to somewhat rest and gather our thoughts from what was a gruelling but strangely rewarding 48 hours.

Thank you to everyone who showed an interest in our experiment; it really shocked us that many of you took such an interest in what didn't seem like something an audience would take to.