On Tuesday, my mate dug out the N64 which, after but a few minutes, gave me a hankering for some Mario Kart. Dan and I immediately went out to try and find a copy of Mario Kart satiate this craving. This was about two in the afternoon.
I awoke hungover Wednesday morning, in Bristol, with a crowd of strangers.
I don't live in Bristol. I don't know strangers.
I did not get Mario Kart.
-Chris
Friday 25 April 2008
Monday 14 April 2008
Christmas Room
Ok, so we've been a little lax lately as to updating our "at least once a week" blog, but with good reason. On Saturday we all crammed ourselves into the festively titled "Christmas Room" at Matt's house and played our little acoustic hearts out to a few friends and family. Don't worry, we're not just nice guys who do nice things to the people who help us out, we actually had an ulterior motive.
We played our acoustic set to our trusted sound engineers Aled and Matt "the Sound" in order for them to record us. In the mixing stage as we speak, the live acoustic album which is yet to be titled will soon be able to be bought from gigs.
It was a peculiar experience. Cameras at every angle, including one IR camera that made everyone's hair look grey, were surprisingly easy to get used to. We started rolling and the pressure was on. We took a while to get swinging, but once we did, we accidently started having fun. The energy of the later songs is apparently something to behold and which I personally look forward to after only the preliminary mixes played through tiny speakers to go on.
A video is also being editted by a kind gentleman I was not introduced to, hopefully one of the band will reply with all the necessary props he's due. No idea when he'll be done since he's doing it in his spare time, but this means the next few updates will probably have some footage snippets from the event, so keep checking back.
Stay festive,
- Mike
We played our acoustic set to our trusted sound engineers Aled and Matt "the Sound" in order for them to record us. In the mixing stage as we speak, the live acoustic album which is yet to be titled will soon be able to be bought from gigs.
It was a peculiar experience. Cameras at every angle, including one IR camera that made everyone's hair look grey, were surprisingly easy to get used to. We started rolling and the pressure was on. We took a while to get swinging, but once we did, we accidently started having fun. The energy of the later songs is apparently something to behold and which I personally look forward to after only the preliminary mixes played through tiny speakers to go on.
A video is also being editted by a kind gentleman I was not introduced to, hopefully one of the band will reply with all the necessary props he's due. No idea when he'll be done since he's doing it in his spare time, but this means the next few updates will probably have some footage snippets from the event, so keep checking back.
Stay festive,
- Mike
Tuesday 1 April 2008
Spot the deliberate mistakes
Macca and Matt told me all about some excellent japanese band we were listening to in my car on the way to the Leytonstone gig, who apparently sit down immediately after every gig and watch a video of the whole performance in order to learn how to do it better next time. Who are they again? Can't remember...they wear matching visors, I seem to remember...
We prefer to try and get good BEFORE we play, but in this particular case (since for whatever reason the gig was a bit shambolic) I think a breakdown of this video someone posted onto our myspace page would at least be a good way to piss off the rest of the band:
1) Inexplicable northen accent on my part
2) I'm sharp by maybe as much as a third when the guitars come in
3) Sophie's flat as a pancake when she comes in
4) Mike's got flowers all over his mic stand - what a gay
5) Matt 'never learnt the melody'
6) Macca and i don't come in together for the last verse
Any more? Andy's laughing at the end, and it makes me suspicious... We'll have none of this 'merriment' thank you very much...
-Alex
We prefer to try and get good BEFORE we play, but in this particular case (since for whatever reason the gig was a bit shambolic) I think a breakdown of this video someone posted onto our myspace page would at least be a good way to piss off the rest of the band:
1) Inexplicable northen accent on my part
2) I'm sharp by maybe as much as a third when the guitars come in
3) Sophie's flat as a pancake when she comes in
4) Mike's got flowers all over his mic stand - what a gay
5) Matt 'never learnt the melody'
6) Macca and i don't come in together for the last verse
Any more? Andy's laughing at the end, and it makes me suspicious... We'll have none of this 'merriment' thank you very much...
-Alex
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