Seems like a while since I last did one of these kiddos. Well, a lot has happened in my life lately, I really don’t know where to begin!
Let’s start with the two gatherings I held at my house, both pre and post-Results Night. Both of which were a huge success and finally showed that if my parents were OK with it, we could have a great night in my awesome house. Having lived in what could best be described as a shed in Brackla, I’m so proud of my house and my parents and I love to have people round, because we never used to have them round. I’d like to thank all those who came and enjoyed each other’s company. It particularly sorted out what was a sucky results, getting a C-D-E-U. By far my worst ever results/report. I’m disappointed with myself for underachieving so much, but, it’s certainly been a massive kick up die arse. Then, on Thursday, there was Dan’s gathering, which was a good evening in the end. Although that San Miguel did not go down particularly well with my large Dominoes and I only had 1 hours sleep! So I came home, slept until 4, woke up and ahead over James for a great evening which I hope to do tomorrow as well.
Quick paragraph on Man United’s success thus far. 3 wins from 3. First time we’ve had that kind of start to a season and against Charlton we were fantastic. “Who need Wayne Rooney? When you’ve got Louis Saha!”. Delighted to see Ole get a goal as well, particularly after missing an absolute sitter about 2 minutes before. So much for my pre-season prediction of a Liverpool-Arsenal-Chelsea-Man Utd top four! Ha.
I’ve also finally decided to actually save up for my Thunderbird. Using some funds I have acquired lately through various kind sources, I’m about £80 into the £310 target, which is good, and I hope to have the axe in my hand by Xmas, which would be fantastic. I’ve really felt, particularly in the last week or so, that my bass playing is beginning to come along again. Blakk Noise is looking pretty promising right now, with all four of us desperate to practice. I can also reveal that Lloyd wants me to play in his prog band with Dylan, so it will just be like AFE, but we have a singer and a drummer :O
Speaking of music, my religion has coughed up some new stuff lately. I was a big critic of Muse, but I just watched their performance at Reading, and bugger me, they pwned. What an awesome live band! I’m also surprised at Van Halen. There is certainly more to them than just the DLR-era. Some of the Sammy Hagar-era stuff has some promise and I’d like to cover one day if I’m lucky enough to be able to play some bass lines! I’ve officially put Savatage on the same plateau as Megadeth now. Reason being I listened to Fight for the Rock (ahem, Nightmare), and it wasn’t as bad as people made out. It’s paralell with Risk, which is an awesome hard rock CD. It made me realise just how much that band means to me. Seriously. Savatage are so fucking under-rated it makes me sad to think that particularly the guitar genius of the late Criss Oliva, the awesome sound of Al Pitrelli and Chris Caffery’s guitars and Jon Oliva’s lyric writing genius is simply overlooked by a lot of critics who simply pass them over as “another hair metal band”. I’m no fan of Hair Metal. It’s better than the emo shite that dominates the mainstream press today. Leads me nicely on to Kerrang readers voting “My Chemical Romance” as the “Best Band on the Planet”. WHAT…THE…FUCK. That proves, once and for all, that Kerrang readers are 12-year-olds who simply have no idea what their music taste is. It’s shocking. It really does leave the bands of this world who have a shed load of talent, who I could roll off the tounge right now but would dramatically increase the size of the blog. It just makes me sick. Kids, if you want a proper metal press, go online. And if you are gonna read a magazine, Metal Hammer does give it a proper coverage, despite what others say.
On the subject of supporting metal, if you are free Wednesday evening, head to the Old King’s Head pub in Pencoed. My good buddies Shamed Angel are playing a gig there and it’s only £3 entry. Read Between the Lies, who I’ve heard so much about and know a few of the guys but I’ve never seen play, are also playing the gig as well. So go on, support some quality local bands and go support them. There may be a surprise awaiting, so I advise you bring a few extra quid in because it won’t be beer money!
I feel I have to touch on the subject of women. It’s time you people who have seen my ignore the subject completely in a while have a chance to laugh and chuckle at my expense once more. It’s not like it doesn’t happen very much. I dunno what’s happened this week. Something funny has been put in the water. A few times this week, it’s been obvious to see the trail that has been following some girls, and although some will be a total hypocrite and deny their involvement, it was obvious to the few of us who didn’t participate what was going on. It kinda just makes me wonder sometimes about what the hell I’m doing that’s just not working. Yes, there are girls who I think tick all my boxes, including the ones you don’t know about (believe you me, it’s good it stays that way!), but, as usual, nothing’s going happen, but I’m glad in a way that that is all that’s going to happen between us.
So, this week, I’ll be out and about, as usual. It’s been good to be blogging again, and I might get a few more entries done between now and when we go back to the hellhole (Chances of that happening now I’ve said that are pretty slim, but, worth saying anyway). I’m off to try and play some Deep Purple on bass. Until the next time humanoids, I bid you all adiou.