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Friday, September 05, 2008
FUCK YOU
Someone seems to have "hacked" into my Yahoo mail account and changed the password.
If you get any email from me from my reepacheep_99 email IT'S NOT ME (until further notice). And I apologise for what they might do with it.
This has upset me somewhat, seeing as this is my primary email address. :(. Have contacted Yahoo, but so far only recieved faceless DO NOT REPLY responses.
FUCK YOU WHOEVER YOU ARE.
Sigh.
 Reepacheep rambled at 10:30 AM
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Everybody leaves and I'd expect as much from you...
OH GOD! SO BEHIND!
Okay. Tuesday I went to the pub with ItDan... actually I said that already.
Wednesday night I went to the Electric Ballroom to see Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band. They were pretty good, but I was kinda disappointed that there were no Bright Eyes songs played, as this recent stuff isn't near as good. We (being ITDan, Sophie and Becca) sat at the very top at the very back which was rather plush and lazy, but it was a great view. I did very nearly fall asleep at one point as I was absolutely knackered - seeing as the only night I had been in was the week before (Monday didn't count as I was semi-comatosed). I dont wanna Die (in the hospital) was awesome.
Thurday night I finally stayed in but ended up on a WoW raid to Karazhan with my guild. (I am now usually offtank, which I really enjoy doing) The high point was when we were towards the end, it was close to midnight I'm sure, I fell asleep with my laptop on my lap. I wake up at about 2am with concerned MSN messages and I am disconnected off the game server. Phail.
Friday!!! Ahh! Fridayy was awesome. After running home from work and flying out again to reach Islington Academy, Scott and I interviewed Goldfinger!!!!!!!!!!111 I was really nervous, seeing as I absolutely love this band. We are taken to the bowels of the venue to where the dressing rooms and productionn offices are.
Back later, got to go back to work :(
Reepacheep rambled at 2:47 PM
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Reading roundup
So last (last) thursday I took myself off to Reading at some godawful time in the morning. I reached Reading station, and met up with Toby, whom had been on the same train, and we made our way to the festival site. They're changed it all slightly so you get your wristbands as soon as you go through the gates (ala Glasto) so once all the epics queuing was done, I had to wait for Scott to arrive onsite. So, Toby went off to meet his mates and I set myself up in a field in my camping chair reading the programme until he did!
Camped in Indigo (basically a bit of what used to be brown, kinda in the middle at the back).
The rest of the day was spent drinking, buying too much in Aldi and being visited by several people, mostly Ash and Toby.
I started to rain at some point, so I retreated to my tent, get in my sleeping bag, and fell asleep with my door open. Scott shouted at me to close it up... so I fell back to sleep again :P. Eventually when everyone else had gone to sleep I woke up again and closed it up.
And still found that although the tent was closed up, I could feel rain. STUPID TENT. Note to anyone: Don't buy a cheap pop up tent. At some point in the early hours of Friday morning some stupid cow came through the campsite shouting "I DON'T LIKE POPUP TENTS" and proceeded to kick everyones. She got berated by another camp, so it's all good.
Friday morning Scott and I went into the arena first thing to see Anti-Flag. They were awesome. So this day I saw (not in order):
FRIDAY:
Anti-Flag (main stage)
Taking Back Sunday (were pretty shite - they only played one old song :()
Serj Tankian (he was kinda bad too - his opening song was amazing, then it got a bit dull)
Biffy Clyro (really good)
Rage Against the Machine (crazy - but damn good)
Frank Turner (awesome)
Goldfinger (brilliant)
Anti-flag (lockup) were even better than when they were on main stage.
(part of) Pennywise - they had been billed in the timetable as last and Less than Jake were second to last.. turned out LTJ were headlining and so when Pennywise came out, everyone was rather confused!
It took us about an hour to get back to the campsite because EVERYONE had gone to see RATM and so everyone was going back to camp at the same time. I don't remember doing too much - probably just a campfie.
OH!!!!! ACTUALLY! Someone FELL on our campfire! A random guy was geing chased by a steward, tripped on a guyline and went splat, face down onto our campfire. OW. He got up and carried on though. He'll regret that in the morning.
It was one of the coldest nights I have ever slept in a tent for - everyone thought they were going to die (slight exaggeration, but damn it was horrible).
Saturday morning Scott and I went into the arena early to meet Dijana and Graham, our Planet-Loud "employers". Scott's never met Dij so that was nice. We stood watching the Blackout. They had Stormtroopers stand on their set. That was cool.
SATURDAY:
The Blackout
Seasick Steve (yay, awesome)
(part of) Kids in Glass Houses (I got bored so we moved onto see...)
HiFi Handgrenades (who were excellent - they had supported Trio at koko a few days before)
Gaslight Anthem (were BRILLIANT - my "find" of the weekend - I'd heard good things about them, but dismissed it. But damn, I like them - theyre like soul/gospel/punk - they sound like a puckrock killers)
King Blues (ace)
Thrice (OK - i had found Toby and Jim so was pissing about with them more than taking notice)
Alkaline Trio (ZOMG YAY - the tent was packed - i had to cling on from dear life at one point)
Gallows - were alright i guess, but i wasnt that impressed. I wanted to see them just out of interest. I made Toby flit between them and the Killers because wasn't really capturing my attention.
Toby followed me back to camp and found scott sitting there already - and then we went on a little expedition to red camp to find scotts mates to ensure he had a lift home (long boring story, and he got the train anyway). We spent about an hour trying to find their bloody camp - scott would walk through all the tents whilst Toby and I stood on the paths chatting. I had made myself up a large quantity of Jager and that was soon demolished. The can of cider after that was a mistake!
We returned to our camp, defeated (and rather drunk) and found that everyone apart from one of our campmtes, Claire, had gone to bed. She had found a new friend in the forms of some irish bloke. At some point in the early hours of Sunday morning it started to rain once again, so I went and passed out in the tent.
And woke up feeling a bit worse for wear. We saw:
SUNDAY:
Beans on Toast (ace)
Plain White Ts (meh)
Dropkick Murphys (good)
Feeder (awesome)
Tenacious D (AMAZING)
Metallica (surprisingly amaaaaazing)
Scott and I met up with Dij and G once again, but everyone was a bit subdued from the amount of alcohol consumed the night before, so they wandered off to get food or crawl in a hole or something equally hungover.
It was freezing watching Metallica, but I was enjoying them so much that I refused to leave.
The last night was spent once again trying to find Scott's mates in Red, but this time we were successful. So sat in their camp for a while. Eventually returned to indigo to find that ALL of our camp had gone home (rubbish) so Scott, shifted his tent so we could chat whilst sitting in our sleeping bags until I fell asleep mid conversation.
We woke at crazy o'clock to grab the train before the epic queues.
Annnnnd Monday was spent sleeping mostly, in the confort of home.
Reepacheep rambled at 1:32 PM
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
If I miss you well that's my fault
Okay! So I returned from Reading on Monday morning. I shall cobble together a report when I can be motivated enough. Needless to say, it was brilliant fun, it's unbeliable how much I still bloody LOVE going.
Yesterday I went to the pub with ITDan, Drew, Chris, Tom, Ravini and Sarah. We played darts.
Today I returned to work.
Tonight I shall be going to see Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band (aka Bright Eyes).
Tomorrow I might actually have a night in.
Reepacheep rambled at 2:32 PM
Thursday, August 21, 2008
There's a party in my closest, calling all skeletons...
Alkaline Trio at Koko?
HAMAZING. With a capital H(AMAZING).
I don't think the people in my vicinity really appreciated the fact I was shouting along to every single word. I don't fucking care. Good setlist spread over most Albums. Warbrain (y). Armaggeddon was my fave song by a mile. I'd have liked for them to play Over and Out, but thats getting all a bit too emotional I guess.
Argh, just a few days until I get to see them again :).
Leaving the house at 7am tomorrow (er, Today now, Thursday!) to mosey on down to Reading (Scott and his crew are driving down, leaving at 6 I think so I'm getting there roughly the same time, plus methinks Toby may be getting the same train so I shall bug him) - that means I have to get up and ready in 5 1/2 hours.
Think I better be off to bed then!
ZOMGTRIO!
See you Monday!
Reepacheep rambled at 12:26 AM
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Just wanted to wish everyone who's going an ace Holiday in Greece. :)
TRIO TOMORROW :D
READING TOMORROW +1 :D
Reepacheep rambled at 10:49 PM
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Help me get my boots on, help me get my boots on
Firstly, RIP Jerry Finn. For those who do not know, he is the man who had produced so many of today's greatest punk and pop punk albums that you would have most likely listened to at least one or two(Dookie, ...And Out Come the Wolves, Enema of the State, From Here to Infirmary - and so many more (see here for a pretty big list)) His life support machine was switched off last week after suffering with a brain haemmorhage a month ago. Now don't know the man other than the work he's done, but it really made me sad as the things he has done have been a big part of my life for the past 8 or 9 years. He was only 38.
My week was very uneventful - I quite enjoyed the fact I had the house to myself, but I did get a little bored. Sis came over a couple of times, first I cooked her dinner of awesome paella then the next day she came over during the day as I had the day off work and we pretty much flanged about. There has been some weird noises coming from our sealed chimney which we put down to a beetle or something stuck milling about, but damn it was a bit scary if one was dossing on the sofa at night then suddenly theres a big scratching noise. Parents returned home about 1am Saturday morning brandishing a 1 litre bottle of Jagermeister for me. Woohoo! That's me sorted for Reading :).
Not much else. I am going to order a new wardrobe today I have decided on this one.
3 days 'til 'Trio :D
4 days 'til Reading :D
Reepacheep rambled at 10:58 AM
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