few more things

Being such a full on weekend, a few things have just come to mind

highlights

-bjorn rise and fall singing the last part in eye for an eye by blacklisted
-ceremony guitarist's make up.. wow.. just wow
-todd jones singing for blacklisted

and the lowlights..

-every member of carry on was at the show.. could of played at least 1 song.
-cold world played again on the saturday, i was outside and thought it was being played over the pa. fucking retard.

SOUND AND FURY

Santa Barbara, CA. 25th-26th-27th July 2008

FRIDAY 25TH

Highlights

-Rise and Fall.. BEST BAND I HAVE EVER SEEN, LIVED UP TO EVERY EXPECTATION I HAD. AWESOME/AMAZING/GREAAT!
-Cold World.. I BLED
-Have Heart
-Reign Supreme
-Trash Talk
-The Carrier

Lowlights

-Being jetlagged as fuck, 36 hours or some bullshit of traveling and stop overs. i was pretty much running off nothing.
-When i got to the hostel i was 20mns early befor check in, and they still wouldnt let me put my bags in the room. so they were left in the reception til midnight, lame.

Saturday 26th

Highlights

-No Apologies..second hardest band to play the fest behind rise and fall.. der
-Paint it Black were amazing
-Pulling Teeth
-Trapped Under Ice
-Underdog
-War Hungry
-Guns Up!.. "break up, play a show, break up.. play another show" but soo fucking good. stage dive-stage mosh-no shirt mosh.
- Because sooo many bands played this band. and there was alot i hadnt heard befor or cared about. i spent most of the day at the bar. but the werid thing was ryen and myself were the only "hardcore" kids in there.
- Hanging with a drunk Gabe of internet and Jungle Fever fame.
- Trying to get 18 year old Ryen drunk off Jameson on the rocks.

Lowlights
-Getting busted up during Pulling Teeth. i heard my neck crack. ouch
-Life Long Tragedy were ment to play this day, but they broke up a few weeks befor. worst
-Not being amped enough for Terror, by the time they played it was nealy midnight, i was dead in the ass.

Sunday 27th



Highlights
-Blacklisted.. the first guitar part of "Wish" made me shiver.
-Bitter End
-Alpha & Omega
-Mother of Mercy.. probs the best band i saw that i hadnt heard of befor
-Shipwreck
-Sinking Ships (Last Show)
-The Mongoloids..kill it live
-Ceremony.. finished off the show.. sooo fucking nuts

Lowlights

-Missing Pressure

The high clearly out weight the lows, making it an awesome weekend and worth the money and travel i put into it.

yes....

after 36 hours of traveling and stop overs, to see rise and fall and cold world. so worth it.

this weekend

im back in london now and im taking off to the states tmr, alot of flying to do. but it will be worth it.

amsterdam

red light/shrooms/weed.. amsterdam
not much else can be said.

berlin part 2

had a couple of nights out, one spent with the netherlands girls rowing team, another ending up riding a bike home. messed up. i also spent a shit load of money here on clothes. ouch.

berlin

flew a direct flight from lisbon to berlin, best 110 euro spent yet, i needed to get out of the south and into the real world. i haven't had any trouble blending in here, everywhere south we got weird looks, i still think it was Leon's colorful new era hat cause he's still getting the weird looks here, but he reckons it's my fringe, i do not think so. anyway this place is hands down the best city i've been to yet. today i spent the day by my self cruising around just taking in the place. some real good shops and there is a lot of skaters around, makes me wish i had a board with me. I'm not even worried if we don't go out here cause i already think this place is rad, but if we pull off a good night it will be even better.

lisbon

Portugal

we were kinda bummed out after going to malagas cause of the coast line and beach, so went headed to lisbon cause a few people had talked it up and the stories sounded amazing. we endured a ten hour over night train ride. i took 2 sleeping pills which worked more like dexies and i smashed 100 pages in the book i'm reading. weak. place was a bit of a let down as well, for starters we were staying on the wrong side of the inlet, so we didn't even see the beach. the night life was dodge as fuck, we tried to get into one club owned by john malkavich and the bouncers told us it was 240 euro to enter. pretty much laughed in he's face and walked off. clearly he knew we were going to get all the girls in there.. faggot. by this time its midnight and trying to find some where firing. no real luck. just a place called the loft which was like a version of Bunbury exit. drank absinth. night was over. before it began.






mega douche bag

malagas

this was clearly our first fuck up of the trip. we tried to book a direct train from madrid to lisbon, but somehow ended up coming here thinking we could get to lisbon from here. wrong. this place was like a spanish bali haha, but no where near as good. pretty much only good thing was the hostel had free wireless net, which i took massive advantage of and stayed in the night to live it..



photo looks better than real life

listening and reading

currently listening to:

blacklisted - heavier than heavan, lonelier than god
the brian jonestown massacre - bravery reptition and noise
dead swans - southern blue
killing the dream - fractures
leeway - born to expire
paint it black - new lexicon
the smiths - meat is murder
trash talk - plagues

currently reading:

bryce courtenay - the power of one

madrid

next i did a 5 hour bus ride down to madrid, cool place. just a huge city, spent 2 nights there. one mellow night, the other not so mellow.

bulls on parade

far out, this had to be the crazyest couple of days ever. opening ceremony in pampalona town was insane, the streets were just packed it was so hard to move and everyone was just throwing drinks over everyone, it was srsly caos. i wish i had more photos from this but i didnt take my camera out once, and as you can see it was probs a good idea. the bulls ran the next day after the opening ceremony and i just went into the areana to watch. shits waay to mental, but after watching the bulls i wish i got out of pampalona. the camp site was shit full of dead shit aussie mates. shit im trying to stay away from. but oh well, it was all good in the end.

san seb

this place was great. nicest beach with good nightlife, we camped for 2 nights there.cheap and easy.

french

fuck its been hard to get on the net since leaving london. emotional.. suicide watch shit, i need the net to live and live to net.
anyway, flew straight into tours in france. went out that night and got out of the place down to spain the next morning. one of the crazyest nights of my life. sooo so lost.

so pretty much this goes from the start of the night til the end.

"just fucking relax aye"

wow today was such a nice day, 28 and sunny. we've scored the nicest weather here in london this past week and today was our final day. so being such a nice day we decided to go see the sights.


the big time

waaaaaaaazzzzzzzaaaaaaaaa

the lion king

coppers, copper punch em in the head..coppers coppers..

the queen lives here.

..being a wanky tourist.. completed