January 2009 began fast. It took in the time the band "lost" in December. Payload assigned a new bassist, Iikka, and started to focus on the upcoming demo recording. The songs which the band was going to record on the demo were decided and the band started to practice and fine tune the selected material.

Ripa threw a little party for the band in January to celebrate the starting season. Payload also had another photo shoot in January after Iikka was signed to get pictures of the whole band.

As February started the Lintukorpi training place started to feel a bit too shitty. 4 hours weekly training time which almost every time shrinked to good 2-3 hours just didn't do the trick for the band anymore. Payload started to look for a new training facility. Soon they found a few private training places and got to choose the cream from the crop. February also came with bad news, Henna's school and day-job taking so much time on her schedule that the increasing pace of the band was too much and she had no choice but to resign, although promising to be available as a session keyboardist when needed.

March began with Payload in studio. The demo "Bad Coffee" was recorded without Timo, who was running a fever and had to stay at home while Vic did all the guitars on the demo. Demo and this website were both published in same day, the 3rd of March 2009. In mid-March more bad news came out. Jontte decided to leave the band and did it behind the band's back, without telling others and just taking his drums away from the new practice place leaving others to wonder that what happened.

By the April the band had gone through some big changes. No more keyboardist, no drummer and on the positive note, a new training place called "Indie Center".

April and May was slow progress for the band. Without a drummer the band couldn't really practice the material and therefore the plans to start gigging in the summer had to be sacked. Timo stepped up in terms of writing new material and it was soon discovered that his style and music fitted extremely well with Vic's style. Soon they both wrote new tunes together and the springtime was very fertile in terms of getting new material done.

As the band kept on looking for a new drummer while writing new material, the spirits started to get low. At the end of May Payload got a boost injection in self confidence, the band ended in top 50 at the Radio Rock's demo competition, which had over 800 bands in it. Few drummers were audited without finding the right person. June passed the same way as the previous months: Vic and Timo kept writing new material and Ripa did his best to provide lyrics for the composed tunes.