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Thursday, 5 March 2009
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
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
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 !
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
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
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.
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.
The Year of Change
First of all, I'd like to say sorry to myself for not committing as much time as I'd have like to to this blog. I said to myself when I first clicked "sign up" that I'd actually make use of it, write down thoughts, ideas which later I could look back on and see if I'd achieved or made use of.
I find myself wondering daily what would life be like if I did this, what would life be like if I decided to do that. Where will it take me, what will I be doing in a few years time. When I leave uni, where am I going to live, where is my money going to come from.
Starting to look at life as a bigger picture, questioning the world in so many ways. I asked my mum not so long ago, why is it that a little piece of metal and a thin sheet of paper can make and ruin lives and determines that is worth more than something else. Which lead me to think about myself.
Inevitably after I finish my course at university I'm going to have to step out into the big wide world. I won't be getting a loan every 4 months to see me through, I'm going to have to make myself money, I'm going to have to find somewhere to live, I'm going to have to get around places, pay for petrol, small things like that which I guess we take for granted when we're young. Our families, our parents have worked a lot of their lives to get to where they are, to have enough money to raise a family, to be able to provide.
I have the utmost respect for people who do this properly and I for one can't wait to be able to do the same.
The title for this blog is "the year of change".
Now, I'm going to try and live up to this. Not so much change myself as a person or the way people perceive me, I'm fine with that. What I want to change is the way I go about things. I pay £30 a month for a gym membership which, to be fair I do use, but, I need to benefit. I want to be comfortable enough to take my top off and walk around, I don't want to feel self conscious anymore. It's something only I can change. I'm not fat and this isn't a "OMG I'm sooooo fat" bitching spree. I've felt this way for a long time but really haven't done much about it.
So that's one thing I'm going to add to this "new me" list.
1) Tone the fuck up.
Brad, my flat mate, had made his aim for this year to watch 365 different movies. Absolutely brilliant, he saw that someone else had done it, I can't remember the dudes name now but, it will be such an achievement at the end of the year.
"So Brad, how was 2009 for you?"
"Well you know, I watched 365 different movies, you?"
I need to set myself something like that, complete all my video games, read x amount of books. I think it will be something band related seen as that seems to have a lot of my focus at present.
Maybe set out to play a certain amount of shows, could be something in that. I really want to get to know the country I live in. I'm a very well travelled person for my age, I'm 20 years old and I've been to (in no order) :
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
France
Spain
Scotland
Brazil
Argentina
Mexico
USA (East & West coasts)
The Bahamas
Several Islands in the Caribbean
And over the next year or two I should be able to add to that list :
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Not bad really huh?
Anyway, I'm sat in my dressing gown, it's exactly 3am and I'm not really that tired.
I have an exam on Wednesday which I plan to cram study for tomorrow. I've been told it's easy and multiple choice, so there are good odds of being able to blag it.
I love my uni course, it's going to help me a lot.
I still hate moths.
I need to stop eating as much shit food.
I absolutely love playing live music.
Looking forward to later life.
Love living my life how it is.
Might be an idea to say yes to a lot more things, see where that gets me. Yes Man, the film old Jimmy boy was in, just gave the general impression that we pass a lot of opportunities in life by saying no. We'll see haha.
Kind of a rambled blog but I've said a fair bit, I've done my part for now.
Have a good one,
Steffen
xo
I find myself wondering daily what would life be like if I did this, what would life be like if I decided to do that. Where will it take me, what will I be doing in a few years time. When I leave uni, where am I going to live, where is my money going to come from.
Starting to look at life as a bigger picture, questioning the world in so many ways. I asked my mum not so long ago, why is it that a little piece of metal and a thin sheet of paper can make and ruin lives and determines that is worth more than something else. Which lead me to think about myself.
Inevitably after I finish my course at university I'm going to have to step out into the big wide world. I won't be getting a loan every 4 months to see me through, I'm going to have to make myself money, I'm going to have to find somewhere to live, I'm going to have to get around places, pay for petrol, small things like that which I guess we take for granted when we're young. Our families, our parents have worked a lot of their lives to get to where they are, to have enough money to raise a family, to be able to provide.
I have the utmost respect for people who do this properly and I for one can't wait to be able to do the same.
The title for this blog is "the year of change".
Now, I'm going to try and live up to this. Not so much change myself as a person or the way people perceive me, I'm fine with that. What I want to change is the way I go about things. I pay £30 a month for a gym membership which, to be fair I do use, but, I need to benefit. I want to be comfortable enough to take my top off and walk around, I don't want to feel self conscious anymore. It's something only I can change. I'm not fat and this isn't a "OMG I'm sooooo fat" bitching spree. I've felt this way for a long time but really haven't done much about it.
So that's one thing I'm going to add to this "new me" list.
1) Tone the fuck up.
Brad, my flat mate, had made his aim for this year to watch 365 different movies. Absolutely brilliant, he saw that someone else had done it, I can't remember the dudes name now but, it will be such an achievement at the end of the year.
"So Brad, how was 2009 for you?"
"Well you know, I watched 365 different movies, you?"
I need to set myself something like that, complete all my video games, read x amount of books. I think it will be something band related seen as that seems to have a lot of my focus at present.
Maybe set out to play a certain amount of shows, could be something in that. I really want to get to know the country I live in. I'm a very well travelled person for my age, I'm 20 years old and I've been to (in no order) :
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
France
Spain
Scotland
Brazil
Argentina
Mexico
USA (East & West coasts)
The Bahamas
Several Islands in the Caribbean
And over the next year or two I should be able to add to that list :
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Not bad really huh?
Anyway, I'm sat in my dressing gown, it's exactly 3am and I'm not really that tired.
I have an exam on Wednesday which I plan to cram study for tomorrow. I've been told it's easy and multiple choice, so there are good odds of being able to blag it.
I love my uni course, it's going to help me a lot.
I still hate moths.
I need to stop eating as much shit food.
I absolutely love playing live music.
Looking forward to later life.
Love living my life how it is.
Might be an idea to say yes to a lot more things, see where that gets me. Yes Man, the film old Jimmy boy was in, just gave the general impression that we pass a lot of opportunities in life by saying no. We'll see haha.
Kind of a rambled blog but I've said a fair bit, I've done my part for now.
Have a good one,
Steffen
xo
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