As this month draws to a close I can’t help but feel that I’ve just sat and watched it float by without doing anything substantial. After several days, three big plastic bags, four cloths and a Hoover bag my room was subjected to it’s annual gutting-out. Unlike the past few years however almost everything went, with the only exceptions being school jotters, Onion Terror paraphernalia and things of childhood / adolescent significance.
Speaking of the Terror, the intensity of recognition is definitely increasing, which is amazing because there are few things more satisfying than hearing someone tell you a story about a gig, how much they enjoyed a set or just pointing out that I’m in ‘that band’. We even managed to get a bystander laid by someone ‘way out of his league’ just because he ate a cherry pie on stage. I can’t believe our fair-weather fans have more success with the groupies than we do.
Had the first party at Ye Oldé Thain Tavern since Amy’s D.I.Y job a few years back in the form of a Hawaiian Knight out. It was good to see folk from work inebriated and dressed like speshul kids, everyone seemed to have a decent time. The only downside was my second spot of babie-sitting in two weeks, which included my third ever attempt at female toilet fishing. Whilst one could go on and moan about not being appreciated blah blah blah it was my fault for caring too much. Won’t be making that mistake again.
I was going to continue the moan about my balding brother Scott and I not being appreciated but I’d rather point out that my soundtrack to the summer has been dominated by three albums; All – Problematic & Mass Nerder and The Descendants – Everything Sucks. Not only are they musically sound, but they totally sum up the immediate post-teen lifestyle, so i'll just say that we’ve decided to make "I'm the one" by the Descendents our anthem.
Some other events of this month have been; abusing the hot weather by playing football with old schoolmates (it’s amazing how quickly half time changes from water and stretches to beer, fags, farts and joints), busking ‘Chewbacca’ on the violin at 4am, finally talking to my favourite goth customer from work – who turns out to be an interesting guy that’s been in the music industry for ages and sitting in my garden at ridiculous o’clock just chilling out with music and taking in the view of Aberdeen wakening up.
Speaking of the Terror, the intensity of recognition is definitely increasing, which is amazing because there are few things more satisfying than hearing someone tell you a story about a gig, how much they enjoyed a set or just pointing out that I’m in ‘that band’. We even managed to get a bystander laid by someone ‘way out of his league’ just because he ate a cherry pie on stage. I can’t believe our fair-weather fans have more success with the groupies than we do.
Had the first party at Ye Oldé Thain Tavern since Amy’s D.I.Y job a few years back in the form of a Hawaiian Knight out. It was good to see folk from work inebriated and dressed like speshul kids, everyone seemed to have a decent time. The only downside was my second spot of babie-sitting in two weeks, which included my third ever attempt at female toilet fishing. Whilst one could go on and moan about not being appreciated blah blah blah it was my fault for caring too much. Won’t be making that mistake again.
I was going to continue the moan about my balding brother Scott and I not being appreciated but I’d rather point out that my soundtrack to the summer has been dominated by three albums; All – Problematic & Mass Nerder and The Descendants – Everything Sucks. Not only are they musically sound, but they totally sum up the immediate post-teen lifestyle, so i'll just say that we’ve decided to make "I'm the one" by the Descendents our anthem.
Some other events of this month have been; abusing the hot weather by playing football with old schoolmates (it’s amazing how quickly half time changes from water and stretches to beer, fags, farts and joints), busking ‘Chewbacca’ on the violin at 4am, finally talking to my favourite goth customer from work – who turns out to be an interesting guy that’s been in the music industry for ages and sitting in my garden at ridiculous o’clock just chilling out with music and taking in the view of Aberdeen wakening up.
