Since nobody reads this journal I'm not that inclined to keep it up to date, lol.

I've spent most of the last month travelling. I visited the South Island for a conference and to see my dad. I'm also going to Auckland this weekend. But that's going to be it!! I'm not moving from Palmy again!... until September lol. Thus music-wise I haven't been able to focus on it very well.

I'm trying to sort out a venue for my 23rd. It's been a long time since I've played and what better excuse than your own party? I've also got 2 or 3 other bands hopefully lined up to play, the only real concern is finding a venue. Bar Mode is awfully busy and my house is totally inappropriate. If you are reading this, keep Saturday the 7th of June free! Also, come along to Bar Mode next Friday for Tane's 30th. Lots of awesome bands are playing.

Hopefully I will have some disposable income in the next few weeks and I can buy myself some more gear. I've been aching for a new wah pedal because my current one is an old piece of crap. But I'd love a classic strat guitar.

Not much has been happening music-wise. I've been spending WAY too much money going to see lots of gigs over the last week, and there's heaps more in the next few weeks that I need to attend as well... sigh... lol.

Alice Cooper totally rocked Rock2Wgtn.

Thanks to the awesome  thewickerman, we have videos from our performance at Kindy! I spent tonight fixing the video/sound and splitting them into files and putting them onto YouTube... and here are (IMHO) the best three out of the six songs we played:

Green Day - Espionage


Mary Had a Little Lamb Old McDonald (oh yeah! )


Random Blues Jam

It's been a long time since my last entry. How unusual

Since coming back from Australia, I've spent most of my time moving in and working on my studies -- but I haven't neglected my guitaring responsibility at all. Over the last few days I've been introducing myself to Stevie Ray Vaughan... what else is there to say except, he's excellent!!



I especially love his driving blues shuffle in this clip. The clip isn't great, especially lol @ the dude dancing at the end.

I'm hoping I can set my Saturday aside to record something. It's been WAY too long, and I'm getting tired of my Bebo page having nothing new except crappy acoustic covers

So after the quiet hiatus after our last gig, we (me + Aaron + Ian) finally played our last show of 2007 at a friends' friends' birthday party on last Saturday. It went pretty well! After playing the songs we knew, and massacring the ones we had only just learnt, we had a bit of fun screwing around which went off quite well.

We also got our first noise control notice . I don't think anyone told the neighbours. But it was fair enough -- it was midnight!

I recorded the first set onto audio only -- I'm yet to find the time to edit and mix it properly, and then hopefully put some clips online here.

An interesting side note -- I've played at only eight parties this year! I'm hoping next year I can at least double that... if anyone wants us to play... lol

After all this craziness of travelling, I want to start studying more classic rock and blues. In particular, I want to learn some Opeth and some Jimi Hendrix, which should offer an interesting balance. I also want to start writing some tunes, and start singing... I suppose those are some of my new years resolutions!

Have a happy 08 everyone!