Merry Christmas Everybody.
And have a Happy New Year, when it gets here.
I haven't got much to say, but I thought I'd post something, or it gets stale y'know? Also, I'm bored so it gives me something to do. Crimbo, as my Nan calls it, is the most wonderful time of the year. Presents, whoop! Well I got some good ones, including my Parents promising me 80 big ones towards a new bass guitar of my choosing. Well I've already had a firm decision in my mind I'm after the Hofner Ignition Bass (http://www.thomann.de/gb/hoefner_ignition_beatles_bass_v_bundle.htm), so hopefully I can save up for that shizzle by March. Also, on account of me drumming for a good 4 1/2 years my parents agreed to get me a nice new drum kit, which is great as the one I currently have is, no offence to my parents, a piece of crap. March is gunna be good.
That's all I really have to say. Well, all I have to say that I'm willing to put up here on this blog.
Good day, and a very, very merry Christmas to all,
Elliott
Tuesday, 25 December 2012
Friday, 14 December 2012
Last Week of School
So, another term down, and its the last week of school before the (unusually late) Christmas Holidays. Christmas is great, you gotta love it. Great films on T.V. for about three weeks, its good.
Anyways, the revision pressure stuff is piling up, I've got the following exams in January:
English Lit, English Lang, Chemistry (Unit 2), Geography (SDME), Maths (Methods), Maths (Applications),
So that'll be fun. Its worth it in the long run. I've applied to college, got in, no problems there. I'm taking Physics, Maths, English Language and Philosophy. That should be amusing. Most of my friends are going to the same college as me, only a select few aren't. As I've said before, I bloody well love music, and I've played in some school band stuff, which is alright, but hopefully I'll be in a proper band soon. Me and two of my friend have 'started' a band, we haven't actually done anything yet, but we will.
Speaking of my friends, this year I met a bunch of new people, new friends. Our groups of friends all had one friend in common, Heather (http://till-you-reach-the-sun.blogspot.co.uk/), and we started a Facebook chat to organise a BBQ down on the beach for her birthday, that was in... umm.. about early August or late July, i cant really remember exactly. Anyway I cant remember what happened after that, but we all sort of became best buddies. Fast forwards 4 months and we're thick as thieves so much so that we're known as 'The Incest Group' in our school, since we're so close people forget we aren't related, then get freaked out when we stared pairing up... or something. I don't know, that was how it was explained to me. Yeah, well... Long story short: The Facebook chat now has over 117,000 messages.
Time is a wonderful, powerful and mysterious thing isn't it? I can literally barely remember the days before being friends with all these guys, and It really is like I've know them forever, but we've actually only been buddies for four months... I hate being totally clichéd but it really does feel like yesterday that it was the first day back at school...
Goodnight,
Elliott
My good friends:
http://till-you-reach-the-sun.blogspot.co.uk/
http://just-add-deenie.blogspot.co.uk/
http://oaatbreviews.blogspot.co.uk/
http://make-believe-land.blogspot.co.uk/
Anyways, the revision pressure stuff is piling up, I've got the following exams in January:
English Lit, English Lang, Chemistry (Unit 2), Geography (SDME), Maths (Methods), Maths (Applications),
So that'll be fun. Its worth it in the long run. I've applied to college, got in, no problems there. I'm taking Physics, Maths, English Language and Philosophy. That should be amusing. Most of my friends are going to the same college as me, only a select few aren't. As I've said before, I bloody well love music, and I've played in some school band stuff, which is alright, but hopefully I'll be in a proper band soon. Me and two of my friend have 'started' a band, we haven't actually done anything yet, but we will.
Speaking of my friends, this year I met a bunch of new people, new friends. Our groups of friends all had one friend in common, Heather (http://till-you-reach-the-sun.blogspot.co.uk/), and we started a Facebook chat to organise a BBQ down on the beach for her birthday, that was in... umm.. about early August or late July, i cant really remember exactly. Anyway I cant remember what happened after that, but we all sort of became best buddies. Fast forwards 4 months and we're thick as thieves so much so that we're known as 'The Incest Group' in our school, since we're so close people forget we aren't related, then get freaked out when we stared pairing up... or something. I don't know, that was how it was explained to me. Yeah, well... Long story short: The Facebook chat now has over 117,000 messages.
Time is a wonderful, powerful and mysterious thing isn't it? I can literally barely remember the days before being friends with all these guys, and It really is like I've know them forever, but we've actually only been buddies for four months... I hate being totally clichéd but it really does feel like yesterday that it was the first day back at school...
Goodnight,
Elliott
My good friends:
http://till-you-reach-the-sun.blogspot.co.uk/
http://just-add-deenie.blogspot.co.uk/
http://oaatbreviews.blogspot.co.uk/
http://make-believe-land.blogspot.co.uk/
The xx, Dec 13th 2012
I saw The xx last night at the Guildhall; They were excellent, really really great. Their music is very slow, and chilled, so I was a bit skeptical as to how they'd be live, y'know, in terms of if they're music was engaging, because The xx's music isn't exactly the kind of music you'd jump up and down to. (Im not *that* well acquainted with their music)
Well anyways, we rolled up at 6:30, queued for about twenty minutes and went in. We were some of the first in, luckily, so we got to be literally at the front. The support act came on, I didn't get their name, unfortunately, as they were quite enjoyable. Best described as... prog-electronic, I guess. Musically they were good, but as there were no vocals they had no mic, and didn't have all that much stage presence to be honest.
So they finished, and whilst we were waiting for The xx to finish being set up and all, one of my friends with me- lets call him Noah, because that's his name- suddenly turned to us and muttered "Guys, I don't feel too good,". He started to sort of fall over a little. At first we thought it was just a ploy to get to the front (He was just behind us) but he was really pale and his pupils huge. So we let him to the front and he started going limp. At this point we were all sort of going "Oh shit, shit, is he okay? Oh bollocks...". Noah fainted.
The security guys helped us lift Noah over the barrier, and they took him off to the side where he was checked over by the medic guy. He regained consciousness almost immediately after, and was fine all evening. Unfortunately for him he lost his space at the front. He still got to see the gig though, just from the back.
Anyway, so after all the kerfuffle The xx come on. Their music wasn't quite the same, by which I mean, it wasn't as slow and chilled. Don't get me wrong, it was slow, and it was chilled, but it was more engaging, in a gig-y way, if that makes sense. So, the bass was loud as a motherflipper- It was great. Big old booms of the electronic drum pads, and loud (but gentle) humming of the bass guitar. Good shizzle. The loudness of the bass, combined with the mellow weeping guitar and Romy and Oliver's calm vocals gave the performance a weird kind of intensity. The setlist was a thorough nineteen songs (bearing in mind The xx only have about twenty songs anyway), encompassing all the crowd-pleasers and whatnot. Musically they were great, performance wise they were great also.
The two singers had great stage prescence, but I felt sorry for poor Jamie stuck at the back in amongst all his electronic drums and gadgets. He didn't really get the attention he deserves for that. They began their first song (Which was not Intro) with a giant white curtain in front of them, which was just about see-through-ish. At the climax of the song it fell down and revealed them, which was pretty badass. Then at their 'final' song the curtain at the back rose to reveal a giant X, which filled with smoke. This was a brilliantly inventive use of effects, it was cool. They came back on for an encore of three more songs, then it was all over. They were great.
8.5/10
'Till next time,
Elliott
P.S. About half way through, this incredibly drunk woman came up near us and began dancing. She then proceeded to literally finger my friend George in the arse- No idea why. Well, I mean, obviously she was drunk, but it was still a bit weird...
Well anyways, we rolled up at 6:30, queued for about twenty minutes and went in. We were some of the first in, luckily, so we got to be literally at the front. The support act came on, I didn't get their name, unfortunately, as they were quite enjoyable. Best described as... prog-electronic, I guess. Musically they were good, but as there were no vocals they had no mic, and didn't have all that much stage presence to be honest.
So they finished, and whilst we were waiting for The xx to finish being set up and all, one of my friends with me- lets call him Noah, because that's his name- suddenly turned to us and muttered "Guys, I don't feel too good,". He started to sort of fall over a little. At first we thought it was just a ploy to get to the front (He was just behind us) but he was really pale and his pupils huge. So we let him to the front and he started going limp. At this point we were all sort of going "Oh shit, shit, is he okay? Oh bollocks...". Noah fainted.
The security guys helped us lift Noah over the barrier, and they took him off to the side where he was checked over by the medic guy. He regained consciousness almost immediately after, and was fine all evening. Unfortunately for him he lost his space at the front. He still got to see the gig though, just from the back.
Anyway, so after all the kerfuffle The xx come on. Their music wasn't quite the same, by which I mean, it wasn't as slow and chilled. Don't get me wrong, it was slow, and it was chilled, but it was more engaging, in a gig-y way, if that makes sense. So, the bass was loud as a motherflipper- It was great. Big old booms of the electronic drum pads, and loud (but gentle) humming of the bass guitar. Good shizzle. The loudness of the bass, combined with the mellow weeping guitar and Romy and Oliver's calm vocals gave the performance a weird kind of intensity. The setlist was a thorough nineteen songs (bearing in mind The xx only have about twenty songs anyway), encompassing all the crowd-pleasers and whatnot. Musically they were great, performance wise they were great also.
The two singers had great stage prescence, but I felt sorry for poor Jamie stuck at the back in amongst all his electronic drums and gadgets. He didn't really get the attention he deserves for that. They began their first song (Which was not Intro) with a giant white curtain in front of them, which was just about see-through-ish. At the climax of the song it fell down and revealed them, which was pretty badass. Then at their 'final' song the curtain at the back rose to reveal a giant X, which filled with smoke. This was a brilliantly inventive use of effects, it was cool. They came back on for an encore of three more songs, then it was all over. They were great.
8.5/10
'Till next time,
Elliott
P.S. About half way through, this incredibly drunk woman came up near us and began dancing. She then proceeded to literally finger my friend George in the arse- No idea why. Well, I mean, obviously she was drunk, but it was still a bit weird...
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Blog Time.
Yo, Word up bitches!
Me: I'm Elliott, I'm a self declared badass and genius. I love watching films, listening to music, and a little bit of reading. I'm loud and blunt, so I sometimes offend people by accident.(Its not my fault though)
I very much love music, If I'm not listening to music Ill be playing it. I play bass and drums, and I'm not too bad at either. I love all genres of music, personal favourites being Outkast, Mumford & Sons, Flight of The Conchords, The Police and The Killers. Live music is pretty much the best thing ever, whether I'm in the audience or the band.
Not much else to say, I'm a pretty regular Mo'fo' to be honest.
- Elliott
(PS, If you got the reference in either the title or the URL, you kick ass. If you didn't, Google them, and enjoy.)
Me: I'm Elliott, I'm a self declared badass and genius. I love watching films, listening to music, and a little bit of reading. I'm loud and blunt, so I sometimes offend people by accident.(Its not my fault though)
I very much love music, If I'm not listening to music Ill be playing it. I play bass and drums, and I'm not too bad at either. I love all genres of music, personal favourites being Outkast, Mumford & Sons, Flight of The Conchords, The Police and The Killers. Live music is pretty much the best thing ever, whether I'm in the audience or the band.
Not much else to say, I'm a pretty regular Mo'fo' to be honest.
- Elliott
(PS, If you got the reference in either the title or the URL, you kick ass. If you didn't, Google them, and enjoy.)
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