So things have been pretty great of late, despite having my bag stolen last Wednesday. It had quite a lot of my stuff in it, including passport, provisional drivers license, debit card, cheque book, Young Person's Railcard, a Twofold hoodie and an AC Milan scarf amongst other things. I was watching Rolo Tomassi at the time, so that numbed the pain somewhat, but it still sucked.
Anyhow, while piecing my life back together I suddenly realised I wouldn't be able to buy tickets for Sunny Day Real Estate without a debit card, but thankfully someone else bought them for me so all is well! They've just announced that they're playing Groezrock Festival the day after so I'm very tempted to make the trip across to Belgium for it... we shall see!
Had a nice weekend with Esmee, introduced her to some people at the hockey club, had a few drinks, then we headed off to Brixton to see Johnny Foreigner. Because of the situation with my stuff being stolen I couldn't buy a ticket in advance, so Alexei kindly sorted us out and Esmee got him a small bottle of gin to say thanks. Aw.
The next morning I'd promised to cook her breakfast and then in horror realised that I actually had no food in the fridge. Thankfully I had enough things to make pancakes, which was pretty great. Band practice was good too, we finally managed to agree on a link between a 3/4 and 4/4 part of a new song, which meant we're pretty close to finishing it now. It's quite cool, starts off quite twee and then completely changes into some kind of American Football-esque guitar playing sorta thing, it's nice. Bit epic at the end too. Don't think we'll play it live though.
The rest of the week has been fairly laid back, another practice last night, also went well. I'm seeing Oceansize play tonight, which is a bit odd because I hadn't actually planned to (I really don't like Heaven as a venue). The thing is, I was clearing out the stock room at work last Friday (now that we're pushing ahead with plans for the studio) and I found a box of their merch on one of the shelves. Before they played Kingston in October they sent all their merch over to me to collect at the Peel and sell that tour, and I genuinely thought I'd given them all their boxes - especially as noone mentioned to me that there was anything missing. Turns out this had just been put on a shelf by my dad to keep out of the way and he hadn't told me. I rang the band and they've kindly sorted me out for tonight but I got a bit of a shitty text when they insinuated that I'd held onto the box as a ploy to get guestlist. Fucking hell. Maybe a few years ago it would've crossed my mind but if I'd wanted to go to the gig, I'd have bought a ticket ages ago, like I've done with every band I've seen so far this year (bar the JoFo fiasco, but that couldn't be helped, given the situation). It does suck when I'm genuinely trying to do a good thing and I get pulled up about it - although I understand their grievances.
So, I hope it will be a good gig and as a show of goodwill - not that I really need to, but I feel like I owe it to them to show it's not about getting into places on freebies.
The weekend looks good. Seeing Esmee on Friday, hockey on Saturday followed by a gig in Epsom. Can't wait!
Current listening:
Otterley - EP 1
Radiohead - My Iron Lung EP
Oceansize - Home And Minor EP
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
good things are coming our way
Been a LONG time since I wrote anything here, this isn't going to be a massive update but I think I'm a lot happier at the moment so I might as well have this page starting on a better note or something.
So yeah as of yesterday I am going out with a lovely girl called Esmée, we went away at the weekend to St Ives together which was pretty fun. She'd basically had a bunch of holiday time from work that she'd not used, and her sister's fiance's family own a cottage there, so we made use of it. The weather was lovely, and it was nice just to spend some time together away from all the hustle and bustle of our usual climes.
It also pretty much reminded me how much I like her and showed that we can go for a while without getting annoyed at each other. Which was good. And I think a bit of a turning point. Usually I fall for girls straight away and I'm like all "omgzz" about them, not this time, but I think it's been much healthier and I hope it gives the relationship a bit of time and space to flourish. It's just nice to feel wanted!
In other news, we're building a studio in my workplace. I've budgeted for all the gear we need, it's going to be incredible. Am so stoked but it's going to be a lot of hard work learning how to use all the equipment and operate well in a day-to-day studio environment. However if it works out, then I'm pretty much set up for life.
Myself, Reevesy and Chris from our hockey team were talking about moving in together but I think I may have to put that on the back-burner for the time being, at least until summer, what with the new developments - also we're looking at buying more property, at which point I can live in it then we can use the income from rent to go towards my dad slowly retiring. It's pretty exciting times all round, to be honest.
Sunny Day Real Estate just announced a London show but allegedly it's part of a bigger UK tour. I'm doing everything in my power to try and get a support slot, but also I think I might have holidays sorted out once I find out what cities they're playing in. Can't fucking wait!
Current listening:
Johnny Foreigner - Grace And The Bigger Picture
And So I Watch You From Afar - s/t
Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another
Mew - No More Stories...
So yeah as of yesterday I am going out with a lovely girl called Esmée, we went away at the weekend to St Ives together which was pretty fun. She'd basically had a bunch of holiday time from work that she'd not used, and her sister's fiance's family own a cottage there, so we made use of it. The weather was lovely, and it was nice just to spend some time together away from all the hustle and bustle of our usual climes.
It also pretty much reminded me how much I like her and showed that we can go for a while without getting annoyed at each other. Which was good. And I think a bit of a turning point. Usually I fall for girls straight away and I'm like all "omgzz" about them, not this time, but I think it's been much healthier and I hope it gives the relationship a bit of time and space to flourish. It's just nice to feel wanted!
In other news, we're building a studio in my workplace. I've budgeted for all the gear we need, it's going to be incredible. Am so stoked but it's going to be a lot of hard work learning how to use all the equipment and operate well in a day-to-day studio environment. However if it works out, then I'm pretty much set up for life.
Myself, Reevesy and Chris from our hockey team were talking about moving in together but I think I may have to put that on the back-burner for the time being, at least until summer, what with the new developments - also we're looking at buying more property, at which point I can live in it then we can use the income from rent to go towards my dad slowly retiring. It's pretty exciting times all round, to be honest.
Sunny Day Real Estate just announced a London show but allegedly it's part of a bigger UK tour. I'm doing everything in my power to try and get a support slot, but also I think I might have holidays sorted out once I find out what cities they're playing in. Can't fucking wait!
Current listening:
Johnny Foreigner - Grace And The Bigger Picture
And So I Watch You From Afar - s/t
Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another
Mew - No More Stories...
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