Tony The Lion

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Love when bands give themselves a really over the top description. Then you listen to them and they sound like another pop punk/rock band. Brilliant.

23/5/2012

I don’t really want to write this blog.

Things went wrong, “friends” disappointed me, it was hot, more things went wrong.

All I will say is, we stuck around for the other bands, watched them despite the venue being a fucking oven. Yet they didn’t see fit to return the favour for us. They did however, watch the band after us.

One member of one of the bands in question, I’ve known all along, for 7 years throughout my two bands. Even the bass player from the first band on, who I’ve never met/spoken to watched us and stood at the front.

They let me down. I said to myself I wouldn’t discuss other bands and their sets in my posts anymore, so I won’t name them. But you can probably guess from the lineup, and what I’ve said above who they are.

One of them said he watched us despite me asking “Are the other bands here?” from the stage, and the only person who said anything was the aforementioned bass player from the opening band.

The headline band had legitimate reasons for not watching us. As they explained afterwards. It’s not my business to say what, but if I’d been in their shoes, I would have done the same.

IF there had been a crowd there, I would have just shrugged off the other bands not watching us. But when they are the crowd, and they all sit outside…. Not cool.

So yeah, two and a half people who I considered to be my friends made it on to my shit list last night.

Timing

I was about to type out a right old rant.

But then I got a notification on my iPad that the new Flash and Batman comics are out.

Priorities. This shit can wait til morning.

I swear

So many bands are shedding band members lately.

Every page I look at, bands are either announcing they’ve broken up, someone has left, or “mutually agreed to leave” (read: got kicked out).

Must be something in the air.

Studio…..

We’ve booked some studio time to record 4 songs.

My initial reaction was a lot of excitement and planning. Now it’s sunk in, I’m just fucking nervous.

One of the songs we’re doing, we’ve only really played a couple of times, never live, only in a practice. It worries me that one of us won’t know all the parts properly, or keep getting it wrong.

I may just be being paranoid, as after listening to the demos, they sound pretty manageable. 

But there’s just something in the back of my head worrying me about it. Only intense practice will get rid of it I guess.

Anonymous asked: Loving the blog dude. Keep it up!

Thankyou Anonymous!

11/5/2012

This gig was quite weird. Under normal circumstances, I’d be writing an angry blog right now. But I actually had a really good night.

The other two bands involved in this gig were a bit of a nightmare to organise. I took it upon myself to organise gear sharing in advance. WHY?! 

That is a question I will ask myself for the rest of my life. Well, that’s a bit extreme. But at least until the end of this week. The other two bands were from about 10 minutes away from Milton Keynes, yet didn’t want to bring any gear. So we supplied everything except one guitar cab.

The first band on were originally meant to bring it, but then when they saw that we were bringing one, decided they didn’t need to as they only have one guitarist.

Then the next band on ended up bringing two cabs despite me saying they could use ours. Still, at least the brought their stuff!

Anyway, we got to Milton Keynes around the same time. Me and Nigel were supposed to go and find out where to let the other two in with gear, but we kind of got distracted by the pool table. Oh yeah, I smashed the other three, so I’m the champ again. Not bragging.

Venue was a really quite nice place. It overlooked the dry ski/snowboard slope and we could watch the people snowboarding. Which was a little distracting during soundcheck. Was fun to watch though.

The promoters of this gig were probably the nicest guys I have ever met. The fact I was greeted by Oz calling me “Norwich Scum” was…. nice?! Ah well, Wolves fan (booooo)!

I felt like I’d known them years. It was the first time I’d met them. Cannot stress enough how fucking awesome they are. We had a little moment in our pants at the end of the gig, but I’ll probably save that story for therapy.

The gig itself, the openers brought a few people with them. Mainly their WAG’s I believe. One of whom left a pair of her knickers on the guys mic stand. Despite me egging him on, he wouldn’t wear them.

Next band up, same deal. Brought a few people who all basically fucked off after their set. At least this band stayed, despite staying at the back of the room. Barely anyone (except the people I knew) spoke to us all night. 

We always make a point of being visible and standing fairly near the front for every bands set who we play with, and saying ‘good set’ afterwards. We did this to both of these bands, but neither returned the favour.

We played our set. Dropped ‘Destroy Him’ for the first time in a few months. Made a few little tweaks to it that weren’t quite up to gig standard yet. But threw back in ‘Cross my Path’ and the Drowning Pool cover.

‘…Path’ was interesting, I now play guitar in it rather than just vocals. It’s also now in Drop B rather than Drop C, and I’ve only tried singing it in that tuning once. So the vocals were all over the place.

Aside from that, we decided to play our tits off despite it being empty. Not the emptiest we’ve played to mind. But still, fair empty. A couple of friends of mine have been wanting to see us for a while, and both turned up. Was really nice to see them both.

Playing our tits off worked, because Oz came up to us and said he enjoyed our set, wants to promote us a ‘fuckload’, and wants to put us on a few more times, but with a bigger MK band. So a big yes from all of us.

Normally, playing to an empty room would inspire an angry blog, but we had such a laugh, that I’m not even bothered there was nobody there.

Next time, May 23rd at The Crackhouse Cornerhouse

Gig tonight!

So will my blog post tomorrow be positive, or rage filled?

Ahhhhh

Nothing finer than the day the new issue of batman comes out.