Across The Universe

Apologies for the vagueness of my last blog post.

These couple of weeks, infact this month, has been amazing. I've been everywhere.

~College in general is excellent - playing guitar; playing Beatles songs and learning about the band themselves; learning all we need to know about being a session musician; making songs using only a midi keyboard; learning how to read and write music. At the moment it doesnt seem to be too demanding which thankfully leaves me time to do other things.

~ I went with my big sister Jennifer to Manchester the other weekend so that she could audition for the "Move like Michael Jackson" dance competition, due to be aired on tv next year. Unfortunately she didn't get through, but she thought "sack it" and we went around Manchester and enjoyed ourselves. Saw the sights, took some photos, and had the best burger i've ever had in my life!!!! At a dingy looking restaurant run by a 'not so enthusiastic' foreign family. Will definately be stopping there again if i go back to Manchester. Unfortunately didnt stop in Liverpool and do the Beatles tour. Gutted... didnt have time...

~Recently our band 'Eat Dr. Ape' has encountered a major stepping stone in its path to success:
Our last few gigs in Glasgow have went really well and have led to two managerial interests;
We have been gigging consistenly now, to the extent that we have been and will be, playing at least one gig every week, up until Christmas. The next gig being this Saturday at the Twa Tams for Halloween :D

Last Thursday we were invited to play live on Stirling Uni Radio - "Air 3", which was absolutely amazing! We got to be interviewed, request songs and play three of our own songs acoustically. John played the Djemby haha :) and during Yellow Brick Road the clock fell off the wall and hit one of the cameramen on the head! Ahhh, the laughs we shared... well... we laughed. Almost forgot the words after that haha

We have one the first round of the songwriting competition we heard about through college and entered through college. All we need now its to be one of the seven bands/individuals picked to play in London on the 26th of November! So fingers crossed...

Oh, I finally have lyrics to our new song "Irony" which we will play on Halloween. Will be the first ever performance of the song so dont miss out! :P
Ice factory afterwards. Cider. Jager bombs. Tequila. Steamin. Kebab. Spew. Good night sleep. Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh! x

Eight Days a Week

This long week has been soooo ****ing amazing i cant describe it! haha



So i wont........








Stay tuned though for my next post on Thursday.

P.s. E.D.A, i-Tunes, yeeaahhhhhhh!

Get Back

After years of chronic procrastination (that’s procrastination), I realised that I really need to GET BACK TO WORK!
I have plenty of work that needs catching up on: Moving house; knocking down walls; tidying my room; practicing and writing music/lyrics; homework!

I really do piss myself off sometimes…the way I always manage to find something “more interesting” to do than any of the things that actually need to be done.

And so, things are going to be different now.

I went into college on Monday for eight hours, and managed to get a lot of my overdue/recent homework done. I also went in for a few hours on Tuesday and did the same again, and I actually enjoyed myself.
Better that, than sitting at home doing nothing…

Anyway, rant to self over... Not a lot happened at college last week.
We took lyrics to a existing Beatles song and created a new chord progression to sing those lyrics along to, which was quite productive, as that same song isn’t going to waste and instead will be used again for our Beatles style original song in band class.

Note to Marlisa: I am thinking about studying Ringo’s song writing for my Beatles presentation, which should be quite fun… funny



En otras noticias, Eat Dr. Ape have a gig tomorrow (8th) at ‘The Buff Club’ in Glasgow, which we hope all goes well :)
Last Friday we played at ‘Maggie Mays’ in Glasgow - we had to get at least 15 people to come to the gig otherwise we would have had to make up the difference and pay the venue. Thankfully we managed to get 16 there, so we made a fiver to share between the four of us… yeaahhhhh!

We have a new song in the making! Another Mind reader-esque / Seventh Heaven sounding song. Although allow me to stress that it is not just a rip-off of these two songs, it is a unique song in its own rights. We look forward to performing the song at our next gigs, after it is completely finished. After... I have... written lyrics... yeah

So yeah, I'd better get back to work.