Despite my earlier decision that the gig would be terrible, it was actually really good. The audience was great and everyone played very well, including me, of course xD. Unfortunately I won’t have the video until Monday 2nd November, my camera was running low on batteries and I had none spare, so I’ll have to wait until the school footage is edited. However I did take many photos, some of the good ones are below (click to enlarge):

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Just a quick update. I’m doing a charity thingy inside school on Friday for tickled pink, me and Matt are doing a random improvisation that we made in like an hour, it is most likely going to be terrible, but meh xD.

Also on Tuesday I’m going to Eurogamer Expo 09 with Kurt and Curtis, expect many pictures ^_^

Byez.

Spent the most part of today in a recording studio making Burnt Toast, it came out quite nicely. Unfortunately I didn’t get time to record the preview of the song I am composing.

Burnt Toast the video series will be released shortly.
Burnt Toast is copyright to me, all rights reserved. Usage without my consent will result in legal action.

Just a quick update: tomorrow I will be recording the theme tune for Burnt Toast and possibly the preview of my song if we have time. Will also be making a logo for it shortly, if anyone is or knows of a decent video editor who can make a good intro video to go with the theme tune, contact me and I’ll give you more details.

I have finally decided on an idea for a video series, I am going to review Xbox 360 games, most of the time it is going to be making fun of the game. Going to start making these shortly, but even better I should be making a theme tune for it too as long as my uncle is all good helping me with it in his recording studio.

My band will be working on our own song soon, a few days ago a tune popped into my head and I’m doing my best to translate it to guitar, I’ll get some sort of preview for it shortly.

Also I won’t be online as much for a week or two because my cat jumped onto my laptop with lots of force and somehow killed the harddrive on it :/

One more thing, if you are into Metal and such, check out Dope’s new album, No Regrets

Last thing, I promise, check out my band’s drummer’s YouTube channel, a few great covers on it: Right Here.

Byes.

“Wow, Nerd” and “OMG, sad” have been thrown around the past few days as I downloaded the WoW trial to see what the craze/hate was all about. It transpires that the game itself is pretty good however it is very confusing, kind of overpriced and there are some hella annoying people on it, will not forget the guy following me around for a good 30mins trying to get me to sign a guild thing or something? All in all, it is an okay game that I wouldn’t really pay for, if it was free I may play occasionally I guess.

I currently have 3/4 of my band at my house staying over. Kurt is extremely smug with himself because he made his own Skate dice xD – Me and Curtis are just chillin’ listening to music and playing retro games xD

Oh yeah will try to work on the other pages shortly.

In a bizzle

“I’ve never seen a pan cook eggs that quickly!”, was the first thing I heard this morning at a very loud volume, must have fallen asleep watching Scuzz last night and left my television on, it was one of those dumb Teleshopping programs where a fat old guy talks about how great a product is, even though he probably has never used it.

In other news it is nearly 6 week holiday time and going into Year 11 the rules are changing, apparently our school is putting a rule in place where no ‘Extreme Hair’ is permitted, this might be an upsetting goodbye to my purple streak. Also I’ve watched four terrible films in the past two days, Prom Night, about a crazy stabber guy who gets obsessed with a girl, St. Trinnians which was just awful, Cloverfield which had shockingly bad acting and a terrible plot and finally some old mexican film which I can’t remember the name of.

Finally, any metalheads our there should really check out DevilDriver’s new album that came out today, some proper good stuff on it. Also I will be working on the other pages of the site very soon, may even have a reviews page…

I was going to write this last night but I was way too pissed off to consider writing anything. So, we rode down to this gig and discovered that, yet again, it was another tiny venue. Starting 40mins late because of the sound guy not knowing anything about equipment.

At this point our singer’s dad had to leave because he got so frustrated with how they were setting it up; he has been gigging and setting equipment up for over 20 years. We were listening to the bands before us and the sound quality was shockingly bad. So when our band got on to play I was supposed to do the backup vocals but the sound guy said it was too much of a hassle to move the mic from the drum kit to the right side where I was standing… They also managed to get the mics the wrong way round and the lead vocal mic was quieter than the backup vocal mic. We played good but it is a shame that the equipment was so bad.

After playing our band went outside for some fresh air and to get a drink and, when I came back in to lock my guitar away, I discovered that someone has opened the case, ripped out one of the straps inside it that holds the case’s lid up (it’s a hard case), and someone must have stood or fallen on the case because the frame is all out of alignment. Also because of that I have two scratches on the side and back of my guitar, f***ing brilliant.

After that me, Kurt and Curtis were so pissed off we decided to leave early and on our way back we thought of some awesome plans that we are going to pursue soon. Will post what they are after I’ve drawn up some plans for it.

Check out the River Cover on the Media page and you will see and understand how terrible it was, they even managed to mess up the stances, Curtis (the bassist) was in the centre and Kurt was on the left and he is Rhythm/Vocals…

Well, the gig is roughly two hours off and I’m just chilling with Kurt (the singer guy). As far as the straplocks are concerned, I strongly advise not buying the overpriced and ineffective Dunlop contraption. It doesn’t fit correctly and will easily snap off. Luckily my uncle told me that they are bad and recommended buying some Schaller locks instead – will be getting some soon and in the meantime my uncle let me borrow his. Also got a chance to check out his new recording studio which was awesome.

Was hoping to have band practice today but we couldn’t because our music teacher was teaching all day

Hopefully Mr. Kurt will sing ^_^ – he’s deciding when he gets there apparently. Will post a video up of our success or fail later.

Took a bad picture of the badge btw, so hard to take pictures of shiny things >.<

I had two plans for today – buy some strap locks ready for Monday’s gig and then play guitar. So this morning I rang three different music stores in our area. At the first one, Music Box in Accrington, I had to speak to someone who clearly didn’t know anything about music and must have been a ‘Saturday staff’ guy and I then had the exact same thing with Reidy’s in Blackburn. Luckily I remembered the beasty store Rimmers in Blackburn who were actually helpful and they told me a black metal Dunlop Straplock would cost £1.99. So, thinking this was an awesome deal, I headed down and also planned on buying more for Kurt and Curtis.

So here is the interesting part – when I got there it transpired that they were £23.99 each and the guy read out the wrong price tag, so I managed to get myself a straplock, as I wasn’t prepared to spend another £50 for the rest of my band xD

I returned home and had a look at the instructions which made no sense because they gave every part two different names and told me to assemble things that are already assembled… Knowing nothing about this I decided to ring my Uncle who is a beasty guitarist. Will be going down to his tomorrow so that he can install them for me.

Decided to have a jam on my guitar and learnt three songs, Seven by VAGIANT, Vasoline by Stone Temple Pilots and Nightmare by Crooked X. Love all of these songs and they are so fun to play that I will be suggesting them as band songs.

(To the people who wanted to see a picture of the Slipknot badge, the lighting at this time of day is bad and I can’t get a good photo ).