I AM CLONES

And another... So, my good friend Rob has a solo project

I Have Clones

and because he's cool, he's got me playing bass and screaming for him. Which is fun.

and we're playing the first gig tomorrow night at Aston University. It's still early days (I'm learning lyrics now...) so we probably won't be as good tomorrow as we will be soon but fuck it.

A draft post from 2008....

Listen to Flogging Molly!

Seriously, go do it. Now.

I haven't forgotten you blogger!

But tumblr is a lot more casual, and therefore better for the everyday stuff. This is for SRS bloggin ONRI

Anyway, back to the original purpose - today I think you need to listen to

Emarosa
Dance Gavin Dance
Burden Of A Day
Lower Than Atlantis
Blackhole
Blakfish (RIP)

New York part 4

DAY 9

Black friday - the day after Thanksgiving is well known for it's sales. We'd found this out earlier in the week, and to make the most of this, we saved all our shopping money till then. It's not the most exciting day, but I enjoyed it a lot! Two pairs of shoes, red/black/white Nike highs and Black/White Reeboks Highs, a pair of Levis, chocolate, cuddly toys, another pair of shoes from a secondhand shop White/lime Nike Highs and a brand new snowboard! At 70% off I really couldn't say no! I knew I'd have to pay an extra $50 on the flight back, but with all the other stuff I bought I would've ended up paying that anyway, it's a good thing my tee-s all fitted in the box with the board as my bag was full of shoes!

When we got back after an interesting metro ride home we dumped the stuff got some food and met up with the Uni guys from the night before. After a quickie in the local we headed back out to Brooklyn again, Barcade and Crocodile bar and Union Pool were all hit, before heading back to jump in the hot tub again. But oh no! The tub was out of action - so back down to the local to finish the last night of our trip in style and in comfort. Having picked up a few of the others from the hostel, and met more in the bar it was a pretty rowdy night of giggles.

Sandwhich and bed.

DAY 10

Our last day in NY, and we were feeling lazy, so we headed out to brooklyn, checked out a skate shop with a half pipe, and a massive (but too chic for us) secondhand store. Then we grabbed milkshakes and cookies and headed to the river shore again. While it was painfully cold and hard-to-stand windy it was good to say goodbye to Manhattan. It's an amazing place to be - if you've never been I seriously recomend it! Meeting up quickly with the girl from Santos we hit one last secondhand store and got another pair of Nike Highs (all white) then headed back to the hostel to chillax before the flight. Chilling and watching Anchorman - what better way to relax.

And then we went home...

I love NY and will be going back at some point, soon I hope!

New York Part 3

DAY 6 tuesday

Today was the first day we really explored Williamsberg. A real haven of arty types, hippys and hipsters. This place is cooler than cool, it's fuckin' Ice Cold! Seriously though, the shops here are not like anywhere else I've seen, everything is made in some super cool ethically perfect warehouse nearby, it's all done with a great little attitude. There's secondhand stores, book shops, and the cutest little places, with the cutest little waitresses and the cutest little cakes! It's all good there, and a fair bit cheaper than manhattan - good times :)

In the evening we headed out to the saosin show - couple of local(ish) supports, but including Inner Party System who do impress, but from our lovely comfy seats we can see the sound guy doing additional vocals and effects - which makes you wonder how much of what's going on is actually the band... Soasin were the only band I cared about though, and from the get go they were on fire. Tune after tune of awesome guitar licks and just perfect vocals, these guys are pro. An amazing encore is a great ending as well, epic repeated climaxes, finishing on 'They sit...' A real rock song that just makes you move. And then the second encore, for some reason the drummer doesn't re-appear so the bassist switches over as they improves crazy brutal hardcore and metal shiz then shred their asses off, after a few repeats the singer comes back out to growl and scream like some demented slayer fan. It's all a bit retarded, but fuck me does it make you feel good to be there with them - it was a real special show!

Back to the local and then off to bed :)

DAY 7 weds

So from our lovely barman at the Local, we head of to Coney Island to check out the fairground rides but specifically looking for the freakshow - a collection of screwed up people who can do freaky stuff, just like you'd ecpect really. It sounded pretty sweet so off we went on the epic metro ride south. About three trains later we come to Coney island - the metro trundles along by the sea front giving a great view of the amusments. It looked a little quiet, but we didn't expect much for a drizzly day in autumn. But when we get out of the station it tells a different story. Big fences, tarpaulin over all the rides, half dismantled go-carts and parts along with the grim weather and total lack of people makes us feel like horry movie victims. Through the centre of the park, between the abandoned rollercoaster, the stationary big wheel and the deserted dodg'ems we wander... finding a few gems. Live human paintball shooting looks awesome and the old rickety pier is worthy of a quick stroll. Still, the place is somewhat lacking in actual content so we grab a quick (vile) coffee and head towards manhattan.

Stopping off to get directions on the way we head to a fabled Bikini bar. Pretty simple concept, it's a bar, where the barmaids are all females in bikinis. There's a stage with a pole at the far end, but it's hardly made the most of. The girls are friendly enough, or greedy for tips, either way the conversation is a bit awkward, but we discover that all the girls there are eastern european. It's not long before we're questioning how much of this place is a front for a brothel. Mmmm easter european sex slaves, how far we've come in the last 100 years!

Finally we're off to check out shimmys, or chavys, or slippys or something like that. It's Andrew W.K.s club, a door in a wall and a room with a shouty indy(ish) band. It all looks like they spent a lot of time making it look cool but it mostly looked like the standard rock bar in every city in the world. At least it didn't try to be be Irish! The band were good, but finished not long after we arrived, and the DJ, and 'contest' were a bit pants. It was all pretty quiet thanks to thnksgiving so we'll forgive it that. We met some cool people there, and ended up getting an uber late night maccies.

A good day, if a little slower paced than normal - skipped the local, and went to bed.

DAY 8 thurs

Thanksgiving! Wooo! So we went to see the parade, and saw many giant things floating in the sky! There was a pikachu, and mickey mouse, a Dora the Explorer and some more! It was quite interesting while there, not so great to talk about though! So from timesqaure we went north to central park, stopping off in the Time Warner centre which is just a mall, but we bummed out in the samsung experience stealing plays on games and decks and sequencers. We even figured out how to work some of them! Back outside and into central park again, it was a good day for a wander, sunny but still bloody chilly! we looked at the ice rink, and nice as it would've been to go, (romantic too) it was a bloody rip-off so we bailed and headed to the Zoo.

The zoo was pretty awesome, we saw sea-lions dancing, polar bears snoozing and snow-leopards falling down hills. There are many cute animals in zoos, so it's always worth a quick look. Small, but cheap this zoo seems very new york - focusing on the biggest and best stuff out there. Red Pandas are dead cute little things as well! I still need to see a real panda though. Best bit of it though, you get a free ticket to the kids zoo next door, so in we wandered to see turtles and bunnies, goats and pigs. Lols were had hiding in wooden rabbits and trying to squeeze into a turtle shell. If only we were 10 years younger maybe we wouldn't have looked so weird!

We headed back to the hostel to take advantage of some free thanksgiving food, which was in fact awesome. Not much in the way of veg, so pure turkey it was! We met a lot of people around the table that day, including a few guys from a uni upstate somewhere, One a british guy, and two german girls, a Danish guy doing god knows what everywhere he could, another brit traveling the world giving out hugs (hug it on/hug it through - something like that - pretty cool concept really, raising money via hugging!), a chap from easter europe (I forget where) and a simply gorgeous french girl studying down south who was doing something in NY. After diner and much talking we make a move down to the local where we discuss many things and bump into a rather delightful austrailian chap. After quite a few drinks a few of us, head back to take advantage of the hostel hot-tub. It's really quite fantasic to be chilling in New York, in a hot tub with friendly people. Even better still when the cute french girl jumps in next to you in her undies!

They say the greatest things in life are free. They're not wrong! Bed!

New York Part 2

DAY 4 sunday

Ok, so after much confusion we worked out what we did on sunday! We went into manhattan again, wandered about a bit trying to find the rather obvious Rockefella building - the second tallest building in New York. We were told it was cheaper and better than the empire state, and it sure proved to be one hell of a view! It almost hurts when you realise how huge that city is. So many thousands of people everywhere you look. And beyond the island, the sprawling masses of brooklyn, queens and the bronx just blow your mind. In each tiny chunk of this huge city there's uncountable stories, possible a person you could spend the rest of your life with - on every block! It's amazing how much you can see, central park strectching out to the north, and downtown, and the business district to the south.

We did a lot of walking today, like most days really, but this one was definately heavy on the feet! After some cool photo taking and a quick wander around Bloomingdales, where I felt less welcome than a brick through the window we headed back home.

We wandered to the local, looking for a good place to go on a sunday night, and got the recomendation to head to williamsberg again and look for a place called the black beauty. We never found it, but luckily we did find another bar, with live comedy. After the first guy made us laugh a lot, and called me a music snob (he was staring at me so much during his whole rant!) the host killed the mode a bit, and introduced number two, who had a few good jokes but few and far between - He was called Jermaine, but wasn't the jackson. Then the host bombed a bit again and introduced a fat beardy indian bloke who seemed to think being a fat beardy indian was enough to be funny. He told lame stories of being a fat beardy indian and his fat beardy indian dad, and fat indian (and probably beardy ) mum. The only laughs he got were when he improvised some shit about a lightbulb or talked about how lame his material was. I'm sure there's plenty funny fat beardy indians out there - pity he wasn't one.

Still, we left in a good mood, and decided to hit the Kellog diner, 24hours of glorious junk food and fat people. Scarily filled with ultra hip scenesters with fake fur and huge glasses, these kids seemed to be rebelling against the revolution and going back to commercial meat eating bastardry! Long live the revolution revolution!

Then we went home for some sleep :)

DAY 5 monday

Today we put on our tourist hats - wish I'd put my fluffy one on though, it was damn chilly where we went! Into Manhattan again and southewards he headed, to hop out at the bottom of the brooklyn bridge. We wander back and forth across this a bit, more of a photo bit this, so have a look on facebook :) Needless to say, it's damn cool and New York is very picturesque from a distance!

From there, past the big ass law courts, and the city hall, we wandered through the financial district down past ground zero, which is now nothing more than a building site, to Wall Street, which is dissapointingly secure and won't let two scrappy brits in for a nose about. But it's a cool area to check out, with a big ole' George Washington to chill with. Heading on south some more we got to our destination, the Statton Island Ferry.

Saying goodbye to manhattan as we drifted past the Statue Of Liberty, the big green lady looking rather dull in the grey light of the day. A reasonable trip over, but we're hungry, so we take a stroll into the ghetto of Statton Island looking for somewhere safe to eat. After dodging some pleasant looking italian places we come across the worst looking (and best)Taco Bell I've ever seen. And we get some meaty sludge with far too much cream cheese in a squishy yellow packet. All in all, a real American meal!

Back on the ferry, and it's dark now, which makes the trip so much better. Seeing the reflection of manhattans light in the water ahead of us is just awe inspiriing. If there's one thing I say you have to do while you're there - do this! It's a truly beautiful sight! At this point we helped out a couple of portuguese girls with some photos, in return for some photos of us, looking suitably moody of course. After a bit of fun, and some great photos by pro-photographer scott we're back on land and in search of a warm drink with our new friends. Due to an alarming lack of Starbucks, we resort to beers (and coke) in a bar, where we drink and are merry. From here we walk back up wall street for more photos and hi-jinks, back past ground zero where say goodbye to the girls. From here we head to Times Square. Another pretty amazing site - it's as bright as day there, with the stupid amounts of lights all around you. The shops are lavish and expensive, with a concentration on being fun, not practical considering the sheer amounts of people that are there! A Bite to eat in Maccies (it's better and cheaper here) and a few laps of the square and we dive into Toys-R-Us, one with a ferris wheel, transformer and dinosaur in! A few gifts later and we're heading home again, back to the local for beer and sandwhichs

oh and bed :)

New York

What we did like...

DAY 1

Wake up with a boy in my bed :S lounge around and pack shit up - get excited, sit on the tube for ages getting from one side of london to the other. Get on a plane and sit on that for ages getting from one side of the planet to the other. Arrive in New York, get shocked by everything around us! Massive cars, and no signs for anything anywhere mean we feel lost. After a couple of metro transfers through some dodgy looking places we arrive, in a dodgy looking place! It's dark, there may be grues, there sure is a lot of run down looking brooklyn around us. No lights, not many windows... But we wander the way we've been directed, seeing a graffiti'd up car with slashed tires and some massive freaking trucks! Finally we find a door in a wall that says 'New York Loft' and wander in. Surprisingly it's a super nice hostel, not the crack den it looked like! After dumping the gear we wander back down towards the hostel looking for a bar that we're told exists. And sure it does! You just can't see it, because the sign is tiny, and the door is covered by a curtain.

But hell, in we go - and it's a really sweet little hipster bar. Artwork on the walls and music from who-ever got the iPod on first. It's small and dark, but warm and friendly and we meet Ben - who should write a book for lame-ass tourists like us, he sure filled enough napkins with places and things to see! After a couple there, and a little chat with some locals we head out to the next closest bar. It's cool, but not as cool. We end up in the corner shop buying the most awesome sandwhich you can imagine. It's just freakin' rammed with food!

Then - sleep :)

DAY 2

Today we have no real plans, so he head to Manhattan, hop out at Union Square and grab a starbucks. We get talked to by a man, then wander into bestbuy where Scott breaks a drumkit and I break a bass guitar. Then off we trot - not sure which way, down broadway, towards Houston... maybe. Got Pizza, saw shops, resisted shoes! We grabbed milkshakes too big to fit in the glass so they gave us the mixer as well! Then wandered soho way, found a small park with a big arch and saw probably the best buskers of the week. Double bass, 5 backing singers and a lead singer, awesome harmonies, and a great jazzy feel. A quick stop in a classic rock bar, then up 5th for a bit and we were on the way home.

Back to the local for couple and we're told Williamsberg is the place to be - so back on the train a couple stops west and we're in the another bit of Brooklyn - as Scott liked to say "winhamsvillton" where we found the bar with the free pizza (crocodile longue) the bar with the arcade games (barcade - get it!) where we spent many quarters on games we sucked at and finally the bar with the pool (Union pool) except the pool was filled, but it still had a campfire and gig room with elctro and a taco van. Two tacos later and many awkward conversations later we wander our way back home, praising the all night metro!

and Bed! :)

DAY 3

Thanks to some lady on the plane, today we got up 'early' and headed to Grand Central station - after gawping a bit too long and missing the train we got another fatass sandwhich and headed off an hour later to the home of Yale university - a town called New Haven. We were told that 'the game' was being played (Yale Vs Harvard) so the town would be full of partying students! We arrived and walked into the town, following the randomly placed and more randomly direction signs to Yale uni campus, where we tried to look smart but failed. Then we found out we'd missed the game, and were still miles from the stadium. Oh well, they'll all be coming back to party! So we follow some undressed blue people untill they all dissappear into various halls and dorms, asking a few people where the party is, and getting a dissapointing "what party? I'm studying tonight" responce. We soon decided that American uni students are too fucking lame to party, so headed back into town to find anywhere that would be fun. Finally a shitty sports bar appears, and tolerating the stench of bbq sauce we head in for a drink.

And it's here we meet Mike. Now Mike was both the best and worst thing about the night. Providing us with retarded promises of chicks up north, and dumb schemes of how to get there, but also helping keep us amused while underage americans had diner with their parents. From sports bar to pizza bar, to tequila bar (where I buy the boys the gayest cocktails the waitress can make! And I have a virgin Mohito(sp) which looks less gay, but sounds more) we party hard in here, tequila shots for all(ish) then head out again. One last irish bar, for one last drink - we're getting scared Mike will kidnapp us by this point! and we think we left without paying by accident - it was mikes round!

Part way down the road and we find a library that has ciabatta for $1 and after much confusion, scott discovers that just ciabatta is not pronounced see-a-batty and that he wants a sandwhich with ham. After poking some drunk chick in the face, without blinding her (a miracle considering he couldn't walk straight!) and yelling at an escaping piece of ham ("Fuck you ham! Get back in my sandwhich now!") we start to head home. Mike asks for money to get, so we run, but not before I notice a really nice looking jazz bar with live music... fuck you mike!

We bump into some girls in that station from the pizza bar, they're heading to brooklyn too, but seating means conversation sucks on the train, and they're all soon asleep, leaving me to work out the riddle on the poster. (5 hats, 3 blue, 2 green, 3 people in a line. The one at the back is asked to say what colour they are wearing and doesn't know, then the middle one is asked and doesn't know, and the one at the front shouts out! What colour do they call out?) and we head home (via the local) for bed :)

I will continue writing this later :)

Please comment :)

looking back

Well, I just went through my old blogs a bit, pretty interesting if you ask me.

A few things I noticed.

1) sam is now my bestest best fwend - not just some guy I go pulling with
2) Forx is still awesome
3) I'm a lot more obsessed with girls than I was - I blame girls.
4) I'm not in the most awesome band in the world anymore - because I moved
5) I still don't write my blog enough!
6) I need to write up some new york shiz (more for me than you fools!)

I still wish more people read this on my blog, not facebook - then they'd see the uber cool tags I put in...

I know no-one listens but here's some bands I like at the moment

Saosin - amazing live
Circa Survive - just amazing
Sounds of Animals fighting - unspeakably amazing
Brand New - you should know how I feel about them by now
Don Bronco - british goodness
Deaf Havanna - more so
Fei Comodo
Dividing the Line
Proceed
We Butter The Bread With Butter
HORSE the band
iwrestledabearonce
rolo tomassi
genghis tron

and... sad to say it, but the BMTH remix album is really good!

another daily playlist :)

spotify:user:terrorvision101:playlist:6WRu0aGu6wyT51w8fiverY

pop punk, hardcore, nintendocore, adhd metalcore, hardcore, emo, alt-rock

I love my music :)

and no paramore today! (yet :P)

http://open.spotify.com/user/terrorvision101/playlist/6WRu0aGu6wyT51w8fiverY

here's what I'm listening to today :)

also, if you're on last.fm add me terrorvision101 as usual. There you can see how much I love brand new and paramore!

Go see some bands people :P

Music, people and music.

MUSIC1

It's been too long, so here's a megapost to keep you filled till something else happens that makes me write something.

I've been going to lots of gigs lately, it's one of my favourite things about living in london, but last night was somthing special. i went with Rob (of I Have clones) to see Blakfish, a band we played with a few years back while still with Allucinere. They were supported by Bats, and another band I've forgotten the name of. To put it bluntly the show was incredible. Highly technical, emotional, dynamic music, the kind that just isn't seen elsewhere. All the bands had a similar style, but their own unique sound added to the mix, elements of so many genres thrown together to make this intelligent hardcore type thing.

It sure makes the poppier bands I saw on monday look rather tame by comparison. While all the bands had a good sound, and some great catchy tunes, it was nothing compared to the intensity and complexity of last night. I can understand why the music scene is so disperate, and seemingly unhealthy, as unoriginality seems to be a key way to make it big.

I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, maybe just that bands like Blakfish and Bats deserve to be so much bigger (not that they're not doing pretty damn well these days) especially while other bands on the UK touring circuit are actually quite shit. I suppose in many ways I'm happy that these bands aren't huge, as their whole style would be lost in a room too big, the intimacy lost. Maybe one day it'll all work itself out.

PEOPLE

My greatest happiness and the deepest depression comes from the effects of other people. I expect this is the same for everyone. I've said this many times before, that I'm certainly not a perfect person, I don't like upsetting people and when I do, I feel very bad about it. But there are some people that seem to take solace in the destruction of others. There is no reason to deliberately talk down about people, I understand that bitching occurs, it's something that happens a lot and is usually quite healthy. It allows you to exhaust your greivences about a person before it blows up further. No-one wants to know it happens about the as well, so I think most people don't pass on this information. I know for damn sure that I wouldn't tell someone about a person bitching about them. It causes unnessesary grief for all involved - which just ain't cool - it's shit stirring.

And then there's those that seem to need to tear others down in order to build themselves up. In game theroy this is called Amoging, taking the piss out of another guy to make you look cool, however in game therory this is used to get the girl. Not that that makes it ok, it's still for wankers that don't have the personality to impress girls normally. But to do it with the sole intention to stop the other man from talking to a girl. That's just spite. If you think I'm a dick, I don't care, but at least give other people the chance to come to that conclusion themselves - I'm pretty good doin it myself, I don't need jealous losers doing it for me.

Makes me glad I've moved sometimes, knowing that such people are now a much smaller part of my life.

MUSIC2

It seems to me that the issue of music piracy is still a very big deal, from Lilly Allen, to Lil Boosie bitching about how it's destroying the industry, to band members sending download links to fans just so they hear the songs. It's so hypocritical when it comes down to it, when an artist is just starting, they just want people to hear the songs, but when they get big (sometimes because they have some actual talent) it all becomes about the money. I can understand that people want the money they have worked for, and I work for the company that helps them! But you can't use file sharing to get yourself popular then denounce it when it's losing you money. I look forward to a day when artists are making music because they want to, not because it might pay well, use your talent - get paid for it if you can - but if you're rich enough to waste money on fucking stupid jewellery and 10 holidays a year, then you're rich enough to not worry about some downloads. People make the assumption that every single person that downloads an album would have otherwise bought said album. This is not the case! I expect less than a quarter of downloaders would have even thought about buying it.

Get over it people, you're not too important to face facts - how about you be thankfull that people want to listen to what you create. How about you be thankfull that anyone at all would pay for it! You're doing a lot better than a lot of others, so stop your whining.

FINALLY

Where's all the scene/emo kids in london? and don't say camden.

Cunts that don't like music

I know a lot of people that list music as an interest.
I know a lot of these people won't pay £2 to see some new bands and support a friend.

Comfortable?

I wasn't last night

I guess someone who is truely confident will be comfortable in every situation. Last Night I dressed up as a pirate, and while people said it looked good, I felt pretty unhappy. I made me think - I'm a confident person, I get on well with people and I very much enjoy my life, but remove me from my comfort zone, and will I be the same? Or will I collapse into a neurotic, self hating wreck?

I don't think I would, but I'm gunna be trying it anytime soon!

IN OTHER NEWS

I'm attempting to book ATWE a tour atm, I need dates in the UK and perhaps a tour support to come with us. As well as that, I need to sort out a van and make sure everyone can make it! Check out

At The Waters Edge - Facebook
At The Waters Edge - Myspace
and VsVsVs Booking - Myspace


ALSO!

SCRUFFY MURPHYS 13th MAY



For everyone that's reading these posts on facebook, they get imported from a blog, I import it to save effort, not so everyone reads it.

I saw some ace bands last night.

much respect to

Canterbury
All Forgotten
LYU

all great bands.

On the theme of great bands - I'm putting on a show at Scruffy Murphys again in two weeks time. It's only £2 and theres some awesome bands playing, including my band At The Waters Edge and the amazing Dissolved in.

It's all being run through my new promo company VsVsVs which you should become fans of on facebook and friends with on myspace :)

www.myspace.com/versesvsversus
www.myspace.com/atthewatersedgemusic
www.myspace.com/dissolvedin

It should be a really good night, and it's always good when my mates come down, so - if you're in brum around that time and aren't too busy, come along.

It really does mean a lot to me when my friends come along :)

x0x

music

GO LISTEN TO SOME FUCKING MUSIC!¬!!!!!

Chiodos
Circa Survive
Shiny Toy Guns (they're not fucking scene!)
MC lars
Brand New (obviously)
Charlie Brown JR.
Chasiing Victory

and for lolz

BrokenCYDE
the Medic Droid
them other ones...

Rob, what did I miss?

Blessed by a Broken Heart

So, I went to a gig last night, it was very good!

I wrote a review for Birminghamlive.com so it should be up there soon. But because I know you're all too lazy to go looking I'll post it here as well, at the end of this post.

Yeah, so me and Emma went, while watching Fei Comodo we met two member of I Am Ghost, then met another one before they went on. Met most of Fei Comodo while Lennon/Devils Gift was on and they are lovely guys. Hopefully a band of mine will be supporting them when they come back to brum in March. After I Am Ghost we met the rest of the band (expect the lead singer who was ill :( but all the others) Emma is a huge fan so got autographs n photos... So BBABH were fucking great, stupid music, stupid hair, amazing live band. More like a party than a gig! Met some of them as well, and have photos to prove it!

So we're hanging around at the merch stand at the end of the night, I bought myself a BBABH tee. We're just standing about, chatting to random members of the bands and being cool like that (wishing I wore my nike high-tops, then I'd have been really cool) and Lennon, Suicide girl and singer tells me to buy a cd. So I'm like "I'm not sure I can afford it" knowing too well that I can, but I didn't want to, so she knocks it down to £5 and I'm feeling mean for not buying anything from her, and then she offers a t-shirt as well. So I fell well bad. But then Emma says she wants to see the suicide girl boobs. She's quite good looking, so, I ask like you do, and there we go, she pulls up her top, and the boobs look weird, all squished and nasty looking, then down comes the bra, and she has these freaky tits! Like a food bag half-filled with sand stapled to her chest! It was a sight I'd rather forget! She even kept them out for much longer than you'd Anyway, she got her tits out and I bought a cd and tee for £6, all good! Then, as expected from a drunk girl who just got her tits out, she wanted to see Emmas (far far nicer!) I think Lennon felt a bit sad when she saw Emmas awesome rack!

Damn it was a great night... shame on you for not coming! Oh, and just incase you think this might me think brum is any good. NOPE! hardly any people to see awesome bands, fuck you brum!

Review!


Blessed By A Broken Heart, I Am Ghost, Devils Gift, Fei Comodo

It's rare that I queue for a gig, but with a Line-up this good, I didn’t want to miss a thing. While I'm not the only one, the queue is very short, and the moving of the gig to the main barfly room meant the lack of people was very noticeable.

First on are Fei Comodo, probably most famous for the 'Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers' theme tune they did a few years ago. Now with a full length album and second single on the way the band have stepped things up a notch. They performed very well, the Essex boys bouncing all over the stage, the most impressive being the lead singer, jumping down to the barrier to sing along with the few diehard fans. His voice is incredible, pitch perfect and very powerful, a true front man. However while the band play good songs and put on a great show, there's the overwhelming feeling that this has all been done before, a lot. It's good but the band really aren't pushing any boundaries, this is solid emo/hardcore but it's nothing groundbreaking. Even so, I'll be back to see them in March, and I think you should be there as well.

Next on was supposed to be Devils Gift, but (as she put it) the band wussed out, leaving only the female lead singer to do her solo material. While she can certainly sing, the set was really a massive come down after the high energy stuff of Fei Comodo. Lennon is a suicide girl, which caused some heckling, mostly "Get your tits out!", but she held her own - accusing the worst culprit of being a virgin. But this was not enough to forgive 30 minutes of bland, un-dynamic piano/vocal pop.

I Am Ghost were pretty big about a year ago, with lots of Kerrang! play, so it was a really surprise that the room was still so quiet, the gothic-punk styles of 'Our Friend Lazarus Sleeps' having made waves in the UK. The band have lost their female vocalist/violinist so were using a laptop to recreate her parts. It was a little odd to hear her voice coming through the speakers while the whole band is guys. Unfortunately the sound was not great so most of the songs sounded very similar, and with the lead singers flu most songs were hard to recognise. They still managed to create a truly epic feel at times though, every band member singing, adding to the huge harmonies. Even through sickness the band looked like they were enjoying themselves, definitely worth seeing again.

Blessed By A Broken Heart come on stage, with the room still hardly half-full but this doesn't dampen their spirit. They're an odd band, taking modern hardcore and mixing it with 80s' hair metal and cheesy pop. Think Motley Cru, sleeping with Tina Turner’s synth player, Oli Sykes of Bring Me The Horizon all covered in grated cheese. While the lesser known tracks are easily forgotten in a haze of constant shredding and double bass drum pedal, and the PA struggles to keep any definition in the rhythm section, songs like 'Show Me What You Got', 'Blood On Your Hands' and the ultra cheesy 'Move Your Body' really show off what BBABH are about. Only one band could scream, 'Throw your hands up' and 'Do the robot' and this is them! It's hilarious, but it's obvious that they are in on the joke. It's explained that bassist and second vocalist Tyler was arrested the previous night in Glasgow for defending a fan from a bouncer, which explains the rather nervous appearance of the stand-in guy, his movements minimal, especially in comparison to the rest of the band. As I watch from the balcony there is a guy beside me, joking with the guys from Fei Comodo, and when the band leave the stage a mic appears in his hands. "Guess who's free!" he shouts down, then running down to the stage to join his band mates for the ridiculous song that is 'Mic Skillz 2' A 10 minute epic, no structure, just awesome riffs, brutal screaming ("COOKIE MONSTER!") and stage invasion by members of I Am Ghost and Fei Comodo. Whether you love or hate the music this band makes, you will love them live. An amazing party atmosphere and an amazing show.

Allucinere Website now up and running!

It's here!

More thanks than I can say to Forx - the most awesome guy ever.

There will be more stuff added as there's new news and shizzle, and a flash player with 'da toons' but for now, have fun reading some stuff I wrote last night :)

www.allucinere.com

What If Punk Never Happened

So, first up, Props to rob @ Ihaveclones.com for linking this first

I have just been to see The King Blues and I know the PUNK WILL NEVER DIE

So long as we have have inpirational bands like themselves amazing support act the Skint, and even the highly impressive brum lads Tempting Rosie then I will be happy sleeping knowing that somewhere out there are people that are those that make the nessesary changes.

I suppose I am the kind of person they hate, I'm love punk, I 'am' Punk, but I do fuck all, I'm far too lazy! So thank fuck for all the bands that Itch namechecks, and of course for current UK Punk bands.

And I mean PUNK bands, roots back in the old school, but putting a spin on things that makes it their own. If you have no idea what I'm on about, chances are you never will.

So, in my rambling way I move on to those bands which I think every person that thinks of themselves needs to know about.

Old...

Crass

Minor Threat

Operation Ivy

Agnostic Front

Sick of it All

Madball

Ramones

Oldish...

No Comply

Lightyear

Refused

Rancid

NOFX

F-Minus

Fucked Up

NOW...

The King Blues

Sonic Boom Six

The Skint

Failsafe

The Mercury League (or whatever they're calling themselves these days...)

don't tell me what bands I've missed, I'm sure there's loads, and most importantly, listen to the last lot. If you don't I don't like you.

Oh yeah, and read Last Hours mag. it's good.

bye bye, and sorry for not being able to structure my rants.

maybe that's part of the charm?

Stylelife Challenges

So, after reading the game a couple times I thought I'd buy the second book - The Rules of The Game. And now, as I'm single again I'm going to do the Stylelife Challenges

I know you're all thinking that it's a 'how to pick-up girls' book, and to a certain extent you're correct. But what guy doesn't want to know how to pick up girls better? So as an experiment I'm going to be doing these challenges, hopefully with a couple of friends of mine, to see what it does to us, will we become new people, sex machines, man hos' of the worst kind? Or will it simply help us to overcome shyness, and more confident?

Either way, I'm doing it. Fuck you if you think it's lame or un-cool.

I'll be posting my thoughts on each days challenge here, so keep up to date!

Marketing

Everything is marketing

Marketing is everything

Every person you meet is judging you, so make a good impression. You need to behave and appear to be exactly how you you want them to think you behave and appear. I get a fair few digs for my emo fringe - but I play with a band, my fringe ties me to my music as does my sense of dress. I'm polite and well mannered, reasonable and fair and this sells the product of Ben Duff well to everyone. People who meet me may then listen to my band based on my recommendation, or perhaps listen to other bands I suggest. This is simply one example of how everything we say effects other peoples opinions of us, and how they make further judgements of what you say based on those opinions. 

I suppose this is very obvious to a lot of you, but it's something that has a huge importance to our lives. While I'd love to say I don't care what others think, what other people think is what my living depends on. I need people to like me, like my band, think I can do the right job, trust me etc.

Apologies for the last post, I know no-one else was confused, but I had set out to write about one thing, then forgot what it was and wrote about something else entirely! Meaning Tim had no relation to the post really. I'm sure the original content will come back to me and then I'll blog about it!

love n peas ;)