Hibernation Sickness

Greetings,

A couple of things right out the gate. Firstly, i'm knackered. Really, truly, wiped out. Reasons for this will soon be apparent.

The second point which i feel is prudent to make is that my blog is precisely that. MY blog. It contains only my thoughts and opinions and do not reflect those of anybody else. I say this because the internet is a big place and you never know who is reading your writing and i feel that if i'm about to talk about how i spent a weekend and a pair of weekdays in the company of people and profer my own assessments of them then I should point out that it isn't the opinion of my band or friends, merely my own.

That's not to say that what i have to say is all bad, far from it. But anyway, to business...

Thursday : Thursday of last week, the 8th of may, saw me attend college through the day and play a gig in glasgow in the evening. College was the standard grind, fairly uneventful and filled with some reasonably good banter. There followed a car journey with drummer Carl and bassist Doug through to Glasgow venue 'Rockers' which in all fairness was a bit of a dive. The performance suffered from us being bored for 2 hours waiting to get into the venue, no clear organisation and having to deal with another band who we have little in common with. They're called Forsaken and are from Glasgow. Their music may be to the liking of others but it doesn't appeal to me.  They sound like 4 people who have been given the fritzl treatment but with copies of Metallica's black album taking the place of incestual abuse with an equally traumatic outcome.  Unfortunately I had to witness their musical stylings more than i'd like over the course of the four nights. We were, however, also sharing the bill with Lucretia Choir, who had a nice classic rock/metal sound and some top female vocals.  And so we get to...

Friday : Motherwell. the land that time forgot. time and fashion. And technology. And progress.

We played in the Starka bar. Typical mini skirts and tube tops downstairs, upstairs it was all camo netting and marshall backline. Epic. We played well, some good stage banter and interaction and a tight performance. But then on...

Saturday : I took a break from touring to work. A long day (9:30 - 7) and then returned to the world of gigging in the evening. Playing at Bannerman's in edinburgh and we were subject to the whims and wiles of a promoter called Sherri. I absolutely despise her. In her infinite wisdom we were put on last and thanks to Forsaken (or as the posters read 'Foursaken' which just reads like foreskin to me)  we didn't take to the stage until just after midnight. Thankfully it was busy and we were RAGING and managed to deliver a BLINDIN' performance. The evening was capped off with me standing atop the front of house monitors having a feedback soaked shred-out.  Smells like win.

And so to....

Sunday : Working AGAIN and then a train journey to Glasgow on my lonesome to play with the Fifty Caliber Smile lads at Ivory Blacks. I kept falling asleep on the train listening to joni mitchell. The big mistake in the ivory blacks layout is that there's enough room on the monitor platforms to plant one foot on the platform and then the other on the crowd control barrier. This was executed. I'll post a blog soon with some photos of this. For your eyes.

I'm writing this in the front room of my good friend Kirst's flat. We're staying up late cos at 3 in the morning we're going to Alton Towers. Oh yes, rather than spend my week working on college work i'm actually going to a theme park. How's THAT for procrastination?

More later in the week. Bye.