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!!

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Come see TEPODD live @ The Royal Windsor on the prom in Blackpool on 17th August!!