Back to work today with the best possible start after the holidays!! Got two big gigs tonight starting with the first at Echo Arena in Liverpool!! woo,cant wait. Get my stuff together and head off late afternoon for the venue, as its a one off gig im making my own way there so its not very good when some pathetic police man pulls me follows me through the tunnel in liverpool slowly before flashing and pulling me over, as i couldn't stop in the toll line i crossed the road to pull over on the other side in the bay..bad move apparently, he then gets me out of the car like ive just done a hit and run and talks to me like a piece of shit, when he was pulling me over for my broken break light i illegally crossed over a road that had a no u turn sign apparently, also in front of the toll meaning i dodged the toll charge too!! wow, what is he on..stupid dick, obviously the robbers and murderers in the city weren't worthy of chasing with crimes like this going on in the city..jesus!! he lectured me and wrote me a ticket which took the best part of half an hour writing down details of my build and clothing on my ticket but not my crime!! aargh!!things like this make me mad,i dont get mad often either but when you get spoken to like a criminal even when against all instincts you remain polite while people get away with actual crimes its infuriating.The result was a fine anyway suprise suprise, the whole police, government and council is just one big money scam, its all one big con..anyway rant over.. i finally get on with my travels late now and get to the arena, park the car and with all my show stuff and prezzies iv'e got for the girls tooked in my arms everyway possible i struggle to find the entrance to the arena, after a mile trek in the wrong direction i finally make it in-the wrong entrance might i add and get escorted through the huge building with loads of security codes like Madonna. This is more like it haha. It's great to see everyone and we all have a quick catch up then swap presents and have a second xmas day before going to Toyah's room to deliver hers and watch her open them, she was very prepared and got her's to us before xmas, she loved her gifts anyway which was great. After all the excitement and buzz of presents and the size of the venue we grab some food have a glass of wine and chill in our dressing rooms until the show. Denim is watching tonight which is cool and before i know it its showtime!!
The show was amazing, the huge crowd was such a buzz and the sheer size of the stage was awesome, such good energy on stage because we were all so glad to be back, what a work out ha. The dressing rooms were miles away which was a stress as we have so many costume changes during the show so we brought them to the corridor and did most changes there.All in all what a show, Vampires Rock ended 08 with a bang for sure!! it all ran smoothly, sounded and looked fantastic. when your used to doing the show and working with the same people so closely you vibe off each other so get a real sense of someone having a bad gig or not feeling it etc but tonight we were all abng on it and it was electric.
After the show we sat on a long table for a signing which is always interesting cos you meet all sorts of people, as it was such a huge show the que was never ending, we felt like superstars, denim wasn't allowed backstage so had to que with the crowds bless her to get to me but she loved the show so all good. we went back to grab my stuff and zoomed off straight after the signing to get to the second gig of the night for me at Krazyhouse a three storey rock venue . Rock on..
Saturday, 10 January 2009
xmas week!!
Monday is xmas shopping day which i planned to do in cardiff before the booze won me over, i did really well today though and pretty much completed the task..
Tuesday went snowboarding again, need something to excite me especially as trapeze isnt on for xmas, next year im getting regular practice with trapeze, snowboarding, breakin and running and stuff. its hard to keep it up on tour cos im never home the same days but im definately going to give it a good go. Let it all slip a bit with touring and partying recently so a bit of balance is needed me thinks.
wednesday Xmas Eve.. denim comes over to catch up and rehearse for our show on the 27th at Krazyhouse, Liverpool, the glitter kittens are doing the afterparty for the Vampires rock show were doing first at the Echo Arena, im so excited about doing a full arena gig, done them before for one number with bands and such but never a full show where they are all there for that reason, i cant wait!! At night get absolutely smashed with my other bro Nathan in town, both stagger home at 4am ish after much drinkning and dancing in the village and drop into bed dreading having to wake up and eat xmas dinner...oops.
Xmas Day.. got up late morning and got ready, got my present together and headed to my mums for a great big family get together, lots of food and drink and chatting to my ace soundtrack of lisa lashes new album haha, not really dinner table music but they loved it.. spent the night drinkning,catching up, playing deal or no deal and guitar hero drunk before chilling out to Gavin and Staceys xmas special and that was it over for another year.
Boxing day
Watch movies and laze around until late afternoon when i went to the pub with Scarlet for a chilled drink and gossip. Dont see her as much at the moment because were always busy but its great when we do. Chilled at night and packed my show stuff for 2 gigs tomo!! no rest for the wicked..
Tuesday went snowboarding again, need something to excite me especially as trapeze isnt on for xmas, next year im getting regular practice with trapeze, snowboarding, breakin and running and stuff. its hard to keep it up on tour cos im never home the same days but im definately going to give it a good go. Let it all slip a bit with touring and partying recently so a bit of balance is needed me thinks.
wednesday Xmas Eve.. denim comes over to catch up and rehearse for our show on the 27th at Krazyhouse, Liverpool, the glitter kittens are doing the afterparty for the Vampires rock show were doing first at the Echo Arena, im so excited about doing a full arena gig, done them before for one number with bands and such but never a full show where they are all there for that reason, i cant wait!! At night get absolutely smashed with my other bro Nathan in town, both stagger home at 4am ish after much drinkning and dancing in the village and drop into bed dreading having to wake up and eat xmas dinner...oops.
Xmas Day.. got up late morning and got ready, got my present together and headed to my mums for a great big family get together, lots of food and drink and chatting to my ace soundtrack of lisa lashes new album haha, not really dinner table music but they loved it.. spent the night drinkning,catching up, playing deal or no deal and guitar hero drunk before chilling out to Gavin and Staceys xmas special and that was it over for another year.
Boxing day
Watch movies and laze around until late afternoon when i went to the pub with Scarlet for a chilled drink and gossip. Dont see her as much at the moment because were always busy but its great when we do. Chilled at night and packed my show stuff for 2 gigs tomo!! no rest for the wicked..
Friday, 9 January 2009
monday 15th-21st dec Party Week!! Xmas countdown.
Monday is a chilled one for me, go to my mums and catch up with my family and stuff, speak to matt and emily on the phone and basically do nothing, get excited about heading to LA with Em for my b'day in Jan!!
Tuesday decide to go snowboarding because xmas is lazy and im determined not to get unfit, at night Denim comes over as we have a Glitter kittens set at the Roadhouse in Manchester tonight, its just podium dancing burlesque style for a dance night called Sex With Robots so should be easy and fun. Catch up with Denim and speak to Kitty and Dan and Mag in Cardiff on the phone as im back down there tomo, walk to the venue as its not far from my flat and sit in the dressing room getting ready and having a couple of drinks. Take to the stage around 12.30 am and get our groove on, love every minute, its a really intimate,sweaty venue so its not used to podium dancers so it went down a treat. We have done proper Gk shows here a few times and its a legendary venue, I remember seeing Muse here when they were new, Oasis used to play here etc etc so were in good company. The night goes really well and they have projections on our bodies as we dance which looked really effective, we even got to dance holding strobe lights on the audience like some robot star wars type girls, good fun. Finished dancing around 2.30 am and hang about to dance with everyone else and get drunk, finally get to bed about 5am very tipsy indeed and exhausted. A few hours kip before driving to Caerphilly tomo to meet Kitty.
Get to hers and get ready for the night before jumping in a cab to Minskys for What the Butler Saw, i love this burlesque night, its so friendly and relaxed and i always have a laugh. Kitty looked awesome in her little black fairy wings for xmas we got a couple of drinks and settled in, mingling with everyone, my friend Dan and his girlfriend Angela along with the amazingly stylish Allie turned up and the party really began. The girls were great as always and a typical night of drinking and decadance was in full swing. Later on we all headed to Buffalo to carry on where Kitty got us drinking coffee tasting cocktails, after all the booze i had during the night they sent me over the edge and as they say i was smashed haha, great fun though and dropped into bed when we got back a little worse for where..its ok its xmas!!
me and kitty
me and lolly
angela,allie,kitty and moi..
Woke up late and had breakfast with Kitty and a chill out before heading to cardiff to xmas shop with Dan and later Margena, we decided to quit shopping and get drunk insted..it is xmas after all ha. We went to meet Annie for a few drinks as she was out with the girls before going to the pub for a bottle of wine and a good girly chat, had a really nice chilled evening and it was great to just relax and enjoy with no madness. Another enjoyable evening in Cardiff.
Friday i get up late and go to get my car which i left in town near the stadium in a multi storey and the stupid thing wouldnt start!! great!! i had to push it out of the car park space on my own and thankfully got some lovely lady to jump start me bless her, i dont know who you are but you saved the day and i hope lots of kindness goes your way! what a star. Finally got on my way heading back to manc which was a bit annoying because i was going out in Birmingham tonight and had to pass there on my way, the sensible thing would have been to bring my stuff and meet people there but when am i ever sensible?!
Got home about 6, grabbed some food, a shower and a chill before my bro came round and we headed to Birmingham to see Neil Navarra who had kindly guestlisted us for Godskitchen. i couldnt wait, Armin van Burrin and Mickey Slim were playin too so all good!
Had an awesome night dancing on the speakers, esp to Neil's set (and im not just sayin that) and we got our groove on til morning as it was a 6am finish before heading back to crash out for a lazy day as tonight was Kiddfectious in Middlesborough, my last night of my 5 days of raving haha.
the best podium dancer ever!! godskitchen!!
Neil strutting his stuff
Wake up and get ready with my usual routine for this week and pick my bro up and head to Middlesborough to check into the hotel,get ready and have a drink. get there with loads of time to drink and chill and must of got a bit carried away as Mathew text to see where we were as it was almost 10pm..ha we were sat drinking and watching little britain like we had all night so got a move on and headed to meet them at the venue. Straight away it was great because cousin rick and shakey were running the show so we had a catch up and i headed off to grab a drink and meet mathew,trigg, paul and rob round the back. we got our vip passes thanks to maf and got stuck in. We spent the first part of the night backstage and on the side of the stage before me and trigg decided it was way better in the general crowd and moved us all over to there to go mental for god knows how many hours straight ha!! we were all jumping about and going crazy like a bunch of mentalists..happy days!! Alex Kidd was amazing as always, he blows my mind every time, i cant handle it, i think i want to be him haha!! mathew was stood on the side of the dj booth going mental and luckily never dropped off the side-i dont know how playing air guitar ha. We all danced ourselves silly before sadly the music stopped at 4am and absolutley gutted nowhere near done we all relocated to the hotel and waited for shakey to start the second part of the party in his room, there was loads of us there, all our lot and the kidd lot so lots more fun to be had. What a night, i didnt sleep for even a minute which i regret on the way home when i looked like the living dead and was so spaced out i didnt know what was going on but it was well worth it.
with Aled Kidd
What an awesome week, with some of the best music,best parties and adventures ive had in along time with some of the best friends..
Tuesday decide to go snowboarding because xmas is lazy and im determined not to get unfit, at night Denim comes over as we have a Glitter kittens set at the Roadhouse in Manchester tonight, its just podium dancing burlesque style for a dance night called Sex With Robots so should be easy and fun. Catch up with Denim and speak to Kitty and Dan and Mag in Cardiff on the phone as im back down there tomo, walk to the venue as its not far from my flat and sit in the dressing room getting ready and having a couple of drinks. Take to the stage around 12.30 am and get our groove on, love every minute, its a really intimate,sweaty venue so its not used to podium dancers so it went down a treat. We have done proper Gk shows here a few times and its a legendary venue, I remember seeing Muse here when they were new, Oasis used to play here etc etc so were in good company. The night goes really well and they have projections on our bodies as we dance which looked really effective, we even got to dance holding strobe lights on the audience like some robot star wars type girls, good fun. Finished dancing around 2.30 am and hang about to dance with everyone else and get drunk, finally get to bed about 5am very tipsy indeed and exhausted. A few hours kip before driving to Caerphilly tomo to meet Kitty.
Get to hers and get ready for the night before jumping in a cab to Minskys for What the Butler Saw, i love this burlesque night, its so friendly and relaxed and i always have a laugh. Kitty looked awesome in her little black fairy wings for xmas we got a couple of drinks and settled in, mingling with everyone, my friend Dan and his girlfriend Angela along with the amazingly stylish Allie turned up and the party really began. The girls were great as always and a typical night of drinking and decadance was in full swing. Later on we all headed to Buffalo to carry on where Kitty got us drinking coffee tasting cocktails, after all the booze i had during the night they sent me over the edge and as they say i was smashed haha, great fun though and dropped into bed when we got back a little worse for where..its ok its xmas!!
me and kitty
me and lolly
angela,allie,kitty and moi..
Woke up late and had breakfast with Kitty and a chill out before heading to cardiff to xmas shop with Dan and later Margena, we decided to quit shopping and get drunk insted..it is xmas after all ha. We went to meet Annie for a few drinks as she was out with the girls before going to the pub for a bottle of wine and a good girly chat, had a really nice chilled evening and it was great to just relax and enjoy with no madness. Another enjoyable evening in Cardiff.
Friday i get up late and go to get my car which i left in town near the stadium in a multi storey and the stupid thing wouldnt start!! great!! i had to push it out of the car park space on my own and thankfully got some lovely lady to jump start me bless her, i dont know who you are but you saved the day and i hope lots of kindness goes your way! what a star. Finally got on my way heading back to manc which was a bit annoying because i was going out in Birmingham tonight and had to pass there on my way, the sensible thing would have been to bring my stuff and meet people there but when am i ever sensible?!
Got home about 6, grabbed some food, a shower and a chill before my bro came round and we headed to Birmingham to see Neil Navarra who had kindly guestlisted us for Godskitchen. i couldnt wait, Armin van Burrin and Mickey Slim were playin too so all good!
Had an awesome night dancing on the speakers, esp to Neil's set (and im not just sayin that) and we got our groove on til morning as it was a 6am finish before heading back to crash out for a lazy day as tonight was Kiddfectious in Middlesborough, my last night of my 5 days of raving haha.
the best podium dancer ever!! godskitchen!!
Neil strutting his stuff
Wake up and get ready with my usual routine for this week and pick my bro up and head to Middlesborough to check into the hotel,get ready and have a drink. get there with loads of time to drink and chill and must of got a bit carried away as Mathew text to see where we were as it was almost 10pm..ha we were sat drinking and watching little britain like we had all night so got a move on and headed to meet them at the venue. Straight away it was great because cousin rick and shakey were running the show so we had a catch up and i headed off to grab a drink and meet mathew,trigg, paul and rob round the back. we got our vip passes thanks to maf and got stuck in. We spent the first part of the night backstage and on the side of the stage before me and trigg decided it was way better in the general crowd and moved us all over to there to go mental for god knows how many hours straight ha!! we were all jumping about and going crazy like a bunch of mentalists..happy days!! Alex Kidd was amazing as always, he blows my mind every time, i cant handle it, i think i want to be him haha!! mathew was stood on the side of the dj booth going mental and luckily never dropped off the side-i dont know how playing air guitar ha. We all danced ourselves silly before sadly the music stopped at 4am and absolutley gutted nowhere near done we all relocated to the hotel and waited for shakey to start the second part of the party in his room, there was loads of us there, all our lot and the kidd lot so lots more fun to be had. What a night, i didnt sleep for even a minute which i regret on the way home when i looked like the living dead and was so spaced out i didnt know what was going on but it was well worth it.
with Aled Kidd
What an awesome week, with some of the best music,best parties and adventures ive had in along time with some of the best friends..
dec 9-10th york, vains of jenna
Get up and do the usual stuff including all my emails and gk stuff i need to get done,before getting my stuff ready to go nickys house (vampires rock drummer and awesome dude). Set off late as always and get stuck in major traffic so the 1hr 20 trip takes me at least 3 hours!! not happy but its gonna be a good night so its still worth it. Finally get to nicks about 6ish, get ready to go out, chill with the kittens while nick gets ready and get a cab into town. its so cold its untrue, my teeth are chattering so opt for the nearest restaurant where we got dropped off. Me and Nick settle down and order our food with a bottle of wine to start the night off. The food was gorgeous. After taking our time there and catching up with whats been going on in each others lives away from the show we headed to Fibbers where Vains of Jenna and Viking Skull were, we met up with Phil (ex Kid Ego member and old friend). i hadnt seen him for ages so it was great he was out, Arthur ( vamps keyboardist) joined us and we even bumped into Zakk Kid Ego's old singer! Vains took to the stage then joined us hanging out but again couldnt stay out as they were staying 20 miles away and JP was designated driver, after much persuasion on my part to let everyone come out to the next bar he met me half way and they deciced to stay there until it closed and then set off. Had a laugh catching up with them, i got very drunk for the endless drinks being bought me mainly off nick-cheers dude and lots of the drunken conversation is a blur haha, i remember Phil telling Nicky Vains of Jenna he was gonna kidnap him and something to do with having genitals like a ken doll?! Nicky VOJ decided i looked like Katie Price too tonight, minus the boobs i had to add obviously. After a few hours of mad drunken catching up with the bands the Jenna boys had to leave. I chatted to JP outside for a while and then said my goodbyes to them for probably another year..they aren't in LA anymore which is a shame cos im back over in Jan and they are so LA to me, there back in Sweden for now but hopefully our paths will cross again soon. There great guys and an awesome band, true rock n roll!!
With them sadly gone off in the rock Volvo, me, nick, arthur and phil headed to a late night cocktail bar and continued to inihilated completely until it closed and we got a cab home. Me and Nick got back and made a giant sized jack and coke at 5 am which i couldnt finish i was so gone and thats not me to waste a good jack!! put a film on and fell asleep during the opening credits haha there we go, great night though with some great mates ive known a while.
Got up late and chilled with the Millers who are the kindest and best hosts you will ever meet!
Jordan and birdy were round so we all had lunch there before heading off back to Manc.
me and nick
J.P
Lizzy
phil,arthur and me..
With them sadly gone off in the rock Volvo, me, nick, arthur and phil headed to a late night cocktail bar and continued to inihilated completely until it closed and we got a cab home. Me and Nick got back and made a giant sized jack and coke at 5 am which i couldnt finish i was so gone and thats not me to waste a good jack!! put a film on and fell asleep during the opening credits haha there we go, great night though with some great mates ive known a while.
Got up late and chilled with the Millers who are the kindest and best hosts you will ever meet!
Jordan and birdy were round so we all had lunch there before heading off back to Manc.
me and nick
J.P
Lizzy
phil,arthur and me..
Thursday, 8 January 2009
dec 6 and 7th 08 manchester
saturday
had a bit of an up and down sort of week lots of extreme high points going on and extreme lows.. lifes a bit up in the air at the minute, i did have an amazing saturday though thanks to the great ladies i tought at my workshop, that cheered me up straight away and set me up for a good night ahead. after teaching in blackburn i headed home to change quickly, have a few beers with my bro and then head to the MEN to see The mighty Boosh live, i couldnt wait when i got in there, there was so many people in the audience dressed up it was awesome, there was the usual old greg's and hitcher's but the best i saw had to be a beta max guy with a video tape on his face and a moon with a paper plate and cream all over his face haha!! that cant be comfy for a show.. anyway loved the gig, laughed myself silly and then met my mate steve o'neill at the station as he was going to come to ben's birthday with me and the cast from vampires rock. we all met up and went round a couple of bars before settling in tv21 for a messy drinking night..was great to catch up with everyone and have a laugh, ben was very rock n roll and did not disapoint as the birthday boy, i remember him at one point trying to drink 3 bottles of beer at the same time, drinking a full glass of jaeger and as the bar was closing he insisted on drinking all of his about 6 drinks he had left before leaving, what a star haha, proper smashed he was. good night and day and i felt loads better thanks to all my cool mates.
some of my burlesque workshop ladies
birthday boy ben
emily,steve and me
me and ben
sunday
got up late and chilled, caught up with my emails and normal home stuff before getting ready to go to music box to see my friends from Vains of Jenna who were over here from Sweden touring with Viking Skull so i was looking forward to seeing them all, we did a gig in cardiff barfly supporting viking skull in january of this year so it was set to be a cool night. had a few drinks watching there set, they were awesome as i remember, i havent seen them since i was in LA in Jan as they were living out there when i was over for a while so a few mental parties went on then..this time however they were left to their own devices and had to load and unload themselves as well as drive themselves gig to gig so unfortunately no mad partying for them tonight as they had to travel out of town to where they were staying, shame, we went to party without them in grand central where my bro was pretty proud of himself for making friends with jess margera ( bams bro,cky etc) haha. not a super late one but a good catch up all the same so agreed to do it again in york on the tuesday night, its december its almost xmas so the more patying the better i think!!
had a bit of an up and down sort of week lots of extreme high points going on and extreme lows.. lifes a bit up in the air at the minute, i did have an amazing saturday though thanks to the great ladies i tought at my workshop, that cheered me up straight away and set me up for a good night ahead. after teaching in blackburn i headed home to change quickly, have a few beers with my bro and then head to the MEN to see The mighty Boosh live, i couldnt wait when i got in there, there was so many people in the audience dressed up it was awesome, there was the usual old greg's and hitcher's but the best i saw had to be a beta max guy with a video tape on his face and a moon with a paper plate and cream all over his face haha!! that cant be comfy for a show.. anyway loved the gig, laughed myself silly and then met my mate steve o'neill at the station as he was going to come to ben's birthday with me and the cast from vampires rock. we all met up and went round a couple of bars before settling in tv21 for a messy drinking night..was great to catch up with everyone and have a laugh, ben was very rock n roll and did not disapoint as the birthday boy, i remember him at one point trying to drink 3 bottles of beer at the same time, drinking a full glass of jaeger and as the bar was closing he insisted on drinking all of his about 6 drinks he had left before leaving, what a star haha, proper smashed he was. good night and day and i felt loads better thanks to all my cool mates.
some of my burlesque workshop ladies
birthday boy ben
emily,steve and me
me and ben
sunday
got up late and chilled, caught up with my emails and normal home stuff before getting ready to go to music box to see my friends from Vains of Jenna who were over here from Sweden touring with Viking Skull so i was looking forward to seeing them all, we did a gig in cardiff barfly supporting viking skull in january of this year so it was set to be a cool night. had a few drinks watching there set, they were awesome as i remember, i havent seen them since i was in LA in Jan as they were living out there when i was over for a while so a few mental parties went on then..this time however they were left to their own devices and had to load and unload themselves as well as drive themselves gig to gig so unfortunately no mad partying for them tonight as they had to travel out of town to where they were staying, shame, we went to party without them in grand central where my bro was pretty proud of himself for making friends with jess margera ( bams bro,cky etc) haha. not a super late one but a good catch up all the same so agreed to do it again in york on the tuesday night, its december its almost xmas so the more patying the better i think!!
november 29th 08 cardiff party night..
Wake up after a week of vampires rock gigs at emilys as last night when we got dropped off at hers at 3am my car wouldnt start, the funny thing is i said exactly that on the way home, i keep doing this lately, im sure im psychic, maybe its since partying with ian lawman maybe he passed on some skills haha anyway i ended up sleeping at emilys and getting up late as we were both shattered from touring. we tried to jump start my car but it was having none of, i wouldnt care on a normal day but i was going to cardiff to stay with annie and adam and had planned it weeks ago. after checking train times which were pointless i borrowed my brothers car and set off finally for my night of catching up and partying that id been looking forward to for ages. Got there about 8 and sat with them watching tv, chatting and drinking while we waited for rob, mag and paul to arrive. think me and annie were pretty drunk by the time they got there and after us all getting carried away chatting we realised it was 1am and we better get a move on. we had got tickets for eric prydz so off we went for a bit of a dance. the club was rammed so didnt stay too long after all and went back to the house to party on our own until i called it quits at 7am!! great night with a great bunch of people, i always have fun with these lot, its just a shame they live so far away..
17th nov..
Get back home off the bus all disorientated as usual..get back to the crap you always face coming home, bills, washing, tidying and unpacking etc..catch up with emails and stuff before having a lazy evening at my mums watching russell brands ponderland and gavin and stacey. only got monday and tuesday off before back with the tour so not much to report in this blog for this week as its all vamps stuff!! Do however get some very bad news via the internet on the tuesday which completely ruins my frame of mind..sounds random but heartbroken and confused pretty much sums up the next couple of weeks in my personal life..say no more..the shows are a blur and i pretty much for the first time feel distracted by the strange occurances going on in my life. i have the best job in the world,im so lucky to travel around doing what i love with people i love and meeting cool people everywhere and going on adventures and i know that but sometimes you lose something you love too and it hurts so much you cant imagine getting over it. im not going to say what it is because some things should be private and all is good now but hey what doesnt kill us makes us stronger..everything happens for a reason etc etc etc...
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