Haven't updated in ages. played my first solo show on saturday since the warrington one in June. Was great to be travelling on my own again and playing shows solo, ok lincoln wasn't exactly far to travel to but it felt good folding my mini comic on the train there. Really enjoyed playing apart from when annoying girl (who tried to be an extra member of every fucking band that played) shouted something about the toothbrush i was using just to hold something in place. sorry the toothbrush didn't make any novel sounds it was purely a weighty functional object that stopped tape getting caught and it was all i had to hand when i needed something so it just stuck. Just have more respect for the people who paid £5 to come to the show and may have wanted to listen and watch, if your not going to show any respect to any of the bands that is. infact just go to a club in the future where there aren't live bands playing.
anyway I was supporting coughs and I really enjoyed them, probably show of the year infact it was that good.
I also played in designer babies the next night in nottingham but it was really load and i couldn't always hear what i was doing and the songs seemed so much louder than in the practice we had and i felt quite lost at times but some bits worked and it was just another experience and a chance to play with different peoiple and learn things and also i got to see coughs again for free which was great as they where fantastic again and quite different even though they played quite a similar set (mainly secret passage stuff i think). i wanted to hear more off fright makes right but in a way it didn't matter, it should be about playing the hits and what people know, they are probabkly fed up of playing 3 year old songs it must be good to have a bunch of new songs and a new sound. They were all very nice people, its a shame they are splitting up this month as I can't really think of another band like them. I'm just so glad i saw them before they split. It'w weird when you really want to see a band and then you see that someone is trying to book them and then the date approaches and then passes and its gone and thats that, i'm glad it made such an impression. i feel like i will have strong fond memories of my weekend with coughs. this is just such a short part of everyone's life. It seemed like this nottingham coughs show was booked ages ago and i've been looking forward to it for so long and now its gone but at least my experiences where better than i could ever have imagined. opening two nights in a row for a band i really like who are coming to an end of there 5 year existance and then what next...
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