Thursday, 5 March 2009

Broken Down Pictures


Tour - Day 1

So yesterday was the first day of the You Me At Six tour. I'm heading out with Brad helping out Emarosa at each of the dates with load ins and outs, making sure that when Emarosa finish, their entire back line is offstage in around 5 minutes so that The Spill Canvas can set up their shit.

It strikes me as weird that The Spill Canvas weren't keen on doing a backline share. It's not cheap and it causes so much hassle having to change 3 sets of back line for 3 bands. Ah well, my guns are made of steal and can hack lifting a few amps each night haha.

We set off at around 10.30am, picked Booley up from his house, went to change some of the back line then headed off to a service station near Nottingham to pick up a dude called "Mole". He's a 49 year old monitor tech, such a legend. He's been on some crazy tours before and it was funny hearing them all.

After we picked Mole up we headed down the M1, only for the van to break down, leaving us stuck at the side of one of the busiest motorways in the UK. After 30 of so minutes the RAC van (Dan YMA6 so kindly pointed out is CAR backwards, explaining the reason why he thought it was called the RAC haha) came and sorted stuff out so we could carry on.

We arrived at the last stop before seeing the rest of the guys to pick up some merch boxes and a few more dudes. By this point the van was getting rather full, so much so that we had to store some of the merch and drums in the actual passenger area, not the back. Not fun for them, fun for me as I was sat upfront with Brad and Mole, in the warmth.

We met all met up at Max's houses, dropped part of their back line off, which includes Dans absolutely amazing Truth drum kit. Literally the nicest kit I've ever seen.

I beat Max at a game of Fifa 09 on 360. He was in the lead 2-0 with Liverpool, but, my boys in Manchester United managed to pull it back to win 2-4, result. I'm sure there will be many more matches, results of which I'll post in here haha.

After the bus arrived to Max's, Brad and I left and went to Sophias house to hang out for the night. We watched Road Trip, sweet.

Pretty eventful first day if you ask me !

Today will a lot of chilling out, catching up on sleep and possibly a trip into London to see that Big Ben lad haha.

Picking up Jonas from Emarosa at around 9pm from Stansted airport.

I'll post more about today, tomorrow.

Peace,

Steffen

Thursday, 19 February 2009

It's been awhile...

Things have been pretty good recently !

Nothing major has really happened, just "things" in general have been going smooth.

I got a first in one of my modules at university, stoked on that.

My band are going to embark on their first tour come May/June with a band called Tell It To The Marines. That will be fun.

I've just got to go through the process of booking the whole thing. All part of the learning process though.

Chris just came in and said his signature catchphrase of "HIYAAA". Earlier asking me "What time is it?". I guarentee i'll miss that when he moves out at the end of June.

Recording in April. Ep should be out in May in time for tour.

This is more of a brief overview of what the fuck is going on right now. I'm going to spend a little more time writing tomorrow.

All the best me,

Steffen

Thursday, 5 February 2009

Song Lyrics

Don't forget that you're never here but you're never alone, self respect is the only thing
not killing you, so go ahead and buy yourself another drink cause you're not coming home with me !

What do you think? I think they're pretty good !

Tuesday, 27 January 2009

Hmmm.

I wish I knew what words to write down.
How to express the way I used to think I could.
Missing the way things used to be.
Not knowing which direction my life Is heading.
Believing in myself is one thing.
But delivering is the other.
Striving for perfection.
But seemingly coming up short.

I'd like to know what it would be like to have everything go right, maybe just for one day.

I look around me and I see so many people I know in places I'd one day like to be.

My question to myself is, what am I really good at? What do I really excel in?

Some things just aren't feeling right for me at this moment and I don't really know how to go about changing them without effecting too many people around me. Seemingly I put other peoples feelings in front of my own sometimes, do I change that, or is that just who I am?

We'll see I guess.

xo

Wednesday, 14 January 2009

Lameee.

I just spent so much time editing my personal myspace page haha, so lame.

Monday, 12 January 2009

Friends

I'm also going to say that i'm questioning a lot of "friends" recently.

What determines a friend?

To me, it's someone that would go out of their way to spend time with you, someone who wants to see you and has a general care of what's going on in your life.

It's time some people shone through a bit brighter, I still want them around.