Monday 28 February 2011

SCHNELL!

"If at first an idea isn't absurd, there is no hope for it." - Albert Einstein. probably one of my favourite quotes, helps me feel cosy with what ever I do.

One of my main musical influences (the Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster) split up after their 2010 tour, due to the actions both on and off stage of their lead guitarist Tristan McLenahan. Although I can't find any information about whether they plan to re-form or not, or even if it is all because of Tristan this video shows him making an arse of himself. At the very Start Guy Mcknight can be seen mockingly mimicking Tristan, its hilarious! and again at 2 minutes 45 seconds, Tristan shows off, the band give him a look of death! Worth a watch. I hadn't seen this video until last week, but had heard rumours of the split.


(Video edited by me, Music by N. J. Apostol)
This trailer is for a university festival we as second years have to run to showcase the third year students. For more information on the upcoming UCLan Production Line festival check out the Facebook event page, or if your a twitter user I'm running a profile for the event there to. There will be a official website up and running soon, keep trying this link until it works somewhere in the near future(whenever the uni put it back up). We intend to make this years production line festival something to look forward to. It's spread over 2 full days (21st-22nd May) blah, blah, blah.



Went to see Reel Big Fish on 22/02/11 at 53 Degrees. It was well fun, Skanking around with everyone. The Skints played in support and they played a blinder. Made me realise how much I miss gigging. 


After an insane amount of e-mails (talking with booking agents) efforts to book Mad Sin & The Creepshow for the upcoming Wampy have been unsuccessful. The Creepshow we're booked up whilst in the UK, as for Mad Sin the agent was requesting far to much money. So I scratched my cranium and wondered where to try next, Peter and the Test Tube Babies popped onto my iPod so I thought what the hell I'll give it a bash. Got in touch with them and so far things are looking good, I've got e-mail confirmation from the band just need to agree on a booking fee now and we can get promoting this mo'fo! There may be another event in the pipeline as well waiting on the headliner, they haven't confirmed any details yet so save that for the next blog (fingers crossed).
HOORAH FOR CLUB: WAMPY


(Poster by me)
As for the music projects I'm working on, mine and Zannes skin graft documentary score is going well, we've made four different versions of the piece now each completely different so the client has more choice. The wedding band I mentioned has turned into a dead duck, so meh! Rampant Foetus may have a new member, more on that when I know the crack. Got excitement built up for a potential flower punk band (think the Mothers Of Invention) as well, hopefully that kicks off soon. Me and Winst have also had some encouraging feedback from the adverts we placed on  joinmyband.co.uk, currently looking for locations to jam, aiming to begin jamming in May, if anyone is interested please don't hesitate to contact us. 


Chu got me book this for valentine's day, it's proper blagging! I thought it would be a laugh on how to survive the fictional undead. Instead this book trys to convince you that the living dead do actually exist and that the government's of the world have just been covering up the small outbreaks everywhere (apparently since pre-historic man). As if this wasn't all blagging enough it goes on to say that the undead will take over soon and goes through a lot of scenarios explaining why our military forces and polices forces are useless when the undead rise. It's funny as the 'experts' employed to analyse the scenarios have all asked to remain anonymous, the authors claim that zombies are real is bat shit crazy. Anyone heard of zombiology before? me neither, dam head fuck! Fun read though.  

(House, 1977)
Gonna watch this treat that Mr. Teasdale introduced me to, it's fecking brilliant pianos chew on fingers in this beast and that's probably the most sane thing that happens in the entire film;



=D
(p.s Also just set up a personal Twitter page so if anyone is on there holla at me)


(p.p.s Show support to Nathan Fillion in attaining the rights to Firefly here)

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