Disgusted!!!!.............

This is just a quick blog post to say i am absolutely disgusted with what happened today!!!

Me and my mate Vin was just walking around trying to pass the time till he had to go to the job centre when he decided he wanted to go to the toilet, so we walked down to ASDA in Blackwood, we got there walked in and my mate dresses like an emo but he isn't one at all!! he wears a hoody like me but he had his hood up!!! As we were walking in just so he could go to the toilet some stupid old twat at the door turns around to him and tells him to take down his hood!!!!WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT ABOUT!!!!!!!!

well we couldn't believe it!! so this is a call to everyone who wears a hoody and goes to any ASDA store!!! We all should go there and boycott them for what the did cos in my eyes it is outrageous!!

what do you think?

We Are Sorry......

To start things off we apologize for it being 2 weeks without a post and I hope you trust me when we say it wont happen again!!!!

Well I had a lovely day today!! it started with me getting up at(I wont say cos it is to early for a normal person) and started to watch a little TV, trust me when I say that there is not a lot on at the time of the morning that i was up!!!  I went on the Internet for a while and started our own little group on facebook called...................well you guessed it Kalmar.

I was then talking on msn to my ex which as you can imagine was very nice!!  We got into it a little as you do, she started to tell me about how her and her boyfriend of 3 years have just broke up!!(in the nicest way possible I couldn't give a rats arse)

I had a phone call of my mate asking me if i wanted to come down his for a bit(were I am righting to you from), so I did.  We went out for a little game of footy and played a little x box on a game called Army of 2, the bast game in the world in my opinion!!

well it was nice to speak to you again, we should do this more often.

http://blogs.ign.com/EA_ArmyOfTwo/2008/02/28/82165/

Today............

Well today wasn't great, we were supposed to have a band drink at 3 pm till 5 pm and then a practice from 5 pm till 8 pm, but of course it all went wrong!!! I had a phone call at about 3 to say that Jules didn't know what was happening today, so I told him, so I left the house at about 10 min later thinking that they would be on there way to meet me at the pub for band drinks. I got there and there just after 4 and no one was there!!


So Jules text me saying they haven't left the house yet and to phone Mike and ask what was going on!!! I phoned Mike and he said he was watching the football at this point I had been waiting at the pub for about 45 min. I had a phone call from Mike about 4.50 and he said we will have a compromise, he will miss the second half of the football and I will have to miss some of the program I wanted to watch at 9 called Lost!! So I agreed, they got to the pub at 5.30, so if you have been keeping a count I had been waiting at the pub for over an hour for them to show up!!



To cut a long story short they got there like I said at 5.30, we had a band meeting till 7.00 and then had a practice till 10.00! everybody was getting a little angry at the end of the practice and after all that I missed the whole episode of lost instead of the compromise and miss some of it!!!



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M.O.T's...........

The fucking trouble it was getting my car to pass a M.O.T was horrific, if it wasn't one thing it was another.

It started out as me tacking my car down and it failing on bits of welding and my emissions!! Put it this way with the emissions my carbon footprint was horrendous!!! On my car the Co levels is supposed to be 3.50 it wasn't even close, it was up to 11.68, as you can tell that isn't good. So the first thing i thought to do was change the oil filter, air filter, oil and spark plugs so i did, that was a improvement but still not enough, it took it from 11.68 to 5.16 which still isn't enough.

I then thought 'what the hell could it be now?' i took it to a garage to have it tested to see what was wrong with it and he said that something called the oxygen sensor was broke! which isn't good cos they cost 50 pound! The only problem is when that goes it screws up other things and i thought it would screw up the CAT and that would cost another 300 pound!!! Well luckily when the changed the oxygen sensor it was fine and i didn't have to pay for the other part.

Mike had a problem with his car also this week and he had to drive to Swansea to get his fixed!! There was something wrong with the spark plugs and his brakes needed cleaning and he had a bulge growing in his back tire, so all I can say this past week hasn't been that good for us with the damn cars.

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Recording studio's........

At the moment we are looking for recording studios to record 3-4 songs in!! It is not the easiest thing in the world to do, there are just so many of them, you never know which ones are good and which are bad. I have a Friend that owns his own recording studio in the valley of Blina in Gwent, it's called blossom studios.

I have known him for about 3 years i think, he is a good guy and he is good at what he does. I used to work with him in a pub called the Arena in Abertillery, but i only a couple of months ago seen him down at a pub called the dolls house(were by the way we are playing in April check the myspace) and we got to talking, he was telling me about the studio and how i should come and check it out, so me(Coran) and Jules went down to have a look around, it is a cool place we had a listen to what he has recorded for other bands and it was really good!!

The only problem is by the time we have looked around for recording studios he will be gone!!! Yes that's right he is moving his business to London. So, the whole point of this story is if anyone knows of any good recording studios could you tell us!! Because the quicker we record the quicker all you lovely people get to have a CD of us all to yourself.

Hope to hear from you soon!!

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Rugby.... Officially the bane of my life.

I hate Rugby. I didn't used to, then I worked on Saturday night.

Wales won the triple crown. They seem to be winning everything. Instead of being safely closeted away in the kitchen, I was on the floor, on the front line of the battle. Literally, from seven, when I got onto the bar til we closed, we were insanely busy. The only time we slowed down was when a guy fell down our admittedly steep but extremely well signposted stairs to the toilet. He was dragged out on a stretcher, and two of the staff had to clean his blood up etc... So in a very real way, there were even casualties.

It's not that good a game. Really it isn't. It's certainly not good enough to justify God knows how many fights there were on the night, it isn't good enough to justify the guy who (and yes, I had him thrown out for this) leant over the bar, grabbed me by my hair and screamed into my face that the English are wankers, and he will call me a wanker and that I'd like it, and I should be grateful he wasn't beating seven kinds of shit out of me. The rest of the Bars special forces, S Company (Saturday) all had similar tales to tell.

Not only that, but I had to deal with what can only be described as an insubordinate employee. I didn't do it well and lost my temper, but this is not the first time him and I have crossed paths... However, it is quite clear that I am going to have to assert my authority, something I'm not terribly comfortable with and something I'm not all that precious about, but I will not have staff who've been there for three weeks telling me what to do, especially seeing as I've already read the riot act to him.

Watch this space. There will be resolution tommorrow!

The End... A new beginning

Undeniably, we were a little rougher than we should have been. Undeniably, we were a little out of sorts, and undeniably, we're working out what works with regards to playing live. We're all on a fairly steep learning curve, and it's been a while....

That said, we kicked arse. And I couldn't be happier with how we sounded.

All of the stuff that happened in the set, all the mistakes made... that'll be just down to practice and lots of playing live. That's just what we have to do. We have to get out there again and get used to it. But we delivered. It may not have been Hammersmith or Donnington, but it was ours and the mission began with a total victory.

We even had a heckler. It's something of a tradition of the bands that we've been in before that there's always some pissed dude ruining it for everyone, and I'm not sure I understand the mentality of the lone heckler. He's always going to be shouted down, and why argue with people who have mics? All you end up doing is bringing the rest of the crowd on the bands side, unless the band is Nickelback.

But there we are, the first gig is out of the way. And my nerves are well and truly gone.


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In other more heartwarming news, Shannon Mathews the schoolgirl who went missing nearly a month ago was found alive and well... admittedly there may well be some questions raised as to why it took the police so long to search the home of a man who was by all accounts some sort of relation to the family and who lived less than a mile away from the familial home... but it is still heartwarming.

Since I was about sixteen, I have carried myself with a certain level of cynicism when it comes to stories like this, namely that when you hear that a little girl has gone missing, my first thought is "You won't find her alive, and she'll probably have been raped." It's hard not to view the world through grey tinted spectacles when the empirical evidence of your eyes ears and historical knowledge can only prepare you for the greyest of outcomes.

This is why my cockles have been warmed. She's alive, and appears to be unharmed. Whatever dark details of the case may later emerge (there was talk of some sort of stockholm syndrome) the fact remains unchanged that in a culture of cynicism and preparation for the worst, one of the better outcomes against all odds and past experience has in fact happened instead.

It seems like a lesson for life. Don't abandon hope.

For the full story, visit

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/15/nshannon315.xml