Yeah... well, there is nothing TOO important in this blog. I am blogging because I am bored. Thats it... how dull is that. I can't think of anything to blog about at the moment, other than...
Last night I had a great bottle of Red Wine, called Ball Island (and if you know me, you will know my surname is Ball) I bought it purely on the strength of its name... that being it having my surname in it... I can confirm it was a bloody great wine. Made by Banrock Station. I have a soft spot for this particular wine producer now (don't look for Ball Island on the site, it's not listed as a) It's a new wine, and b) They mainly show off their expensive wines on the site as opposed to their cheaper wines (and imagine what their expensive Shiraz would be like if Ball Island Shiraz was so good eh?) so yeah...) where was I, ahh, yes... my soft spot, Banrock Station also do conservation work for the australian wildlife, which as an animal lover and a bit of a hippy at heart, I think is great news. Yeah, go to your local Bargain Booze or Thorougoods, and grab yourself a bottle of Ball Island, only £3.99 a bottle or £7 for 2!!. BARGAIN!!
Yeah, in other news, I am playing a gig on Sunday with my old band, The Deserters, I say band... it's actually just me and the old bassist playing acoustapunk or puncoustic, call it what you will. It should be fun hopefully, hopefully I will be HAMMERED!! Singing like a drunken twat is a great skill and takes seconds of practise. Ahem.
Also, later on, most presumably next week, there will be an organised visit to Pizza Hut, take advantage of the £3.99 pizza buffet, eating all the pizza we can cram into our fat little faces, and take advantage of the refillable drinks too, I don't know how long we are allowed to be in there, but we will try and stay in for as long as we can, and I am not eating the night before, so when I get there, I will be eating a SHITLOAD!! So if anyone fancies coming along, just leave me a comment saying you wanna come, and I will confirm dates and times with y'all.
I shall leave you with a link to a great Blackpool Band too. The Sound Of Superstring
Laters reader(s).
Kristoff x
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Saturday, August 05, 2006
A big catch up... It's been a while
This blog contains : 2 gigs, A move of house and other rants and rambles. I will try and keep it in chronilogical order, be warned, I am on a laptop which I am not used to, so please forgive any spelling mistakes.
Ok, so then, first up, I will start with the first of the gigs which we played.
The Emotional Problems of Dirk Diggler, Live @ The Royal Oak in Poulton - 30th June
So, we were second on the bill on the night after the first act didn't show up, but we didn't go on earlier thankfully, we played a good show, and interestingly enough, for the first band on in the night had a fair few people stood in the "semi circle of appreciation" who looked to be quite enjoying the noises we were making. This made us happy, we had a fair bit of fun, we opened with UK Fans Can't Skank, Sheena Is A Ska Punker [Punk Rocker], Arthur Theme, The Ballad Of Sonny Gritts and finished off with a showstopping rendition of my favorite cover in the set, The Timewarp!! Oh yes, there I was jumping around like a crazed mentalist, probably high on sugar, but actually a wee tipsy on Guinness. This was a very much enjoyable show!!
So, on Tuesday, my Dad moved into his new house in Layton, so obviously as I am going to be living here more often than not, I was helping. It's quite a nice place, not too magnolia either with a warm yellow living room and a blue and yellow country style kitchen. My room however IS bloody magnolia, this shall change! Anyhoo, so I gave him a hand, which involved going to pick up the van, then picking up Alison who was giving us a hand, then flitting between various places to pick up my dads stuff, my grandads sofa as he wanted more room in his place, and going to get the beds, which mine didn't fit, so we had to go back to get another, all in all not very exciting, but it's a major thing in my life having a new home as well as my Fleetwood home.
Now I am gonna completely fuck over what I said about chronical order, as I am going to jump straight to last night (Friday 4th August) as I want to keep time wasting in one big chunk.
So last night was... The Emotional Problems Of Dirk Diggler, Live @ The New Bergeracs - Bolton.
Ok, so it was't mega packed, due to an annual young bands all day festival gig thing taking place until 11pm, and we were on at 9:15, but we wern't going to let that stop us from playing our best performance to date. The 10 or so people there seemed to enjoy it. We opened with UK Fans Can't Skank, then Arthur, then Sheena, then The Reggae Song, then Emo Suck, then The Ballad Of Sonny Gritts, and ending with the Time Warp.
Ahh, the Time Warp last night, probably my best performance of the song to date. It started with me walking off the stage onto the gear boxes at the front to sing a bit, then I climbed on top of the 8 or so foot high PA system, James the promoter came and held it steady for me, then about halfway through the first verse, I threw myself to the ground, still singing in mid air, Mully the bass-tard had to stop playing due to him laughing he was telling me after the gig, and then I was running around the venue, grabbed some randomers arm to drag him onto the dance floor, harrased him by not letting him off trying to get him to do the timewarp, I pelvic thrusted at the soundguy too. Then I climbed the PA again, and threw myself off... again, this time I did (for the second time and most definatly not the last haha) bust my lip open on my microphone, I ran to the back of the venue streathing my mic lead as far as I possibly could, then ran to the front of the dance floor and did the time warp (again)... then fell onto the floor. That was the end of that.
The promoter really liked us and is definatly putting us on at the next gig he puts on next month, which is fantastic news!!
*snipped*
Come see TEPODD live @ The Royal Windsor on the prom in Blackpool on 17th August!!
Ok, so then, first up, I will start with the first of the gigs which we played.
The Emotional Problems of Dirk Diggler, Live @ The Royal Oak in Poulton - 30th June
So, we were second on the bill on the night after the first act didn't show up, but we didn't go on earlier thankfully, we played a good show, and interestingly enough, for the first band on in the night had a fair few people stood in the "semi circle of appreciation" who looked to be quite enjoying the noises we were making. This made us happy, we had a fair bit of fun, we opened with UK Fans Can't Skank, Sheena Is A Ska Punker [Punk Rocker], Arthur Theme, The Ballad Of Sonny Gritts and finished off with a showstopping rendition of my favorite cover in the set, The Timewarp!! Oh yes, there I was jumping around like a crazed mentalist, probably high on sugar, but actually a wee tipsy on Guinness. This was a very much enjoyable show!!
So, on Tuesday, my Dad moved into his new house in Layton, so obviously as I am going to be living here more often than not, I was helping. It's quite a nice place, not too magnolia either with a warm yellow living room and a blue and yellow country style kitchen. My room however IS bloody magnolia, this shall change! Anyhoo, so I gave him a hand, which involved going to pick up the van, then picking up Alison who was giving us a hand, then flitting between various places to pick up my dads stuff, my grandads sofa as he wanted more room in his place, and going to get the beds, which mine didn't fit, so we had to go back to get another, all in all not very exciting, but it's a major thing in my life having a new home as well as my Fleetwood home.
Now I am gonna completely fuck over what I said about chronical order, as I am going to jump straight to last night (Friday 4th August) as I want to keep time wasting in one big chunk.
So last night was... The Emotional Problems Of Dirk Diggler, Live @ The New Bergeracs - Bolton.
Ok, so it was't mega packed, due to an annual young bands all day festival gig thing taking place until 11pm, and we were on at 9:15, but we wern't going to let that stop us from playing our best performance to date. The 10 or so people there seemed to enjoy it. We opened with UK Fans Can't Skank, then Arthur, then Sheena, then The Reggae Song, then Emo Suck, then The Ballad Of Sonny Gritts, and ending with the Time Warp.
Ahh, the Time Warp last night, probably my best performance of the song to date. It started with me walking off the stage onto the gear boxes at the front to sing a bit, then I climbed on top of the 8 or so foot high PA system, James the promoter came and held it steady for me, then about halfway through the first verse, I threw myself to the ground, still singing in mid air, Mully the bass-tard had to stop playing due to him laughing he was telling me after the gig, and then I was running around the venue, grabbed some randomers arm to drag him onto the dance floor, harrased him by not letting him off trying to get him to do the timewarp, I pelvic thrusted at the soundguy too. Then I climbed the PA again, and threw myself off... again, this time I did (for the second time and most definatly not the last haha) bust my lip open on my microphone, I ran to the back of the venue streathing my mic lead as far as I possibly could, then ran to the front of the dance floor and did the time warp (again)... then fell onto the floor. That was the end of that.
The promoter really liked us and is definatly putting us on at the next gig he puts on next month, which is fantastic news!!
*snipped*
Come see TEPODD live @ The Royal Windsor on the prom in Blackpool on 17th August!!
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