29 June 2010

You can't spell "Comfy" without "Fy"....wait....what?

Hung out in The Glen with Sarah after doing a bit of shopping. Ended up at this wee secret ruin. Climbed the ruins a bit (lost my camera doing a super awesome swinging maneuver on a rock but went back and found it later)

I took some photos and made a panoramic. Photoshopped it pretty well considering the bottom photo is at a different angle.

28 June 2010

Didn't really get up to much but played some Yoshi's Island. After the weekend I felt like I've been out of my routine for weeks.

27 June 2010

The Bangover

So Sunday we got the Peacock Rally stripped down. That was some task. Here's a photo of the hippy sleeping in his poncho in my car!

26 June 2010

Sackled

The 2nd day of the Peacock rally saw silly games including Tug of War, Sack Race and 3 Legged Race. Gail and I got into the finals of the 3 legged race but managed to lose stride in the final and not only did we fall but we snapped the tie that binded our legs.

Shackled headlined at night with Andy Chung supporting us. A good night was had by all!

25th June 2010 - Peacock Rally

Definately our biggest set yet!

Here's a picture of Riding Hard Thunderbeard holding our setlist for The 1st Annual Peacock Rally. Definately our biggest setlist yet! We even through in The Kids Aren't Alright despite out tendency to butcher it. The gig was a belter and the encore was a banger! The crowd were superb with folk dancing to Ramones, going mental for Duct Tape and just going aff their heeds to Surfing Bird. Hope to be back next year!

24 June 2010

Why did the hedgehog cross the road?

To see his flatmate! Saw this little critter hanging in my front garden. We actually get a lot of hedgehogs in our street.

23 June 2010

Gardening

Murmour as I sprout your vegetable and make me eat at that long red trunk thing then trowel this dirty fruit hole.

Gotta love Fridge magnets!

22 June 2010

Short Sighted

Went to Vision Express for an eye test as my current glasses are fucked and I felt my eye sight has been worse lately. This decision was a bit short sighted (pun intended) as they slapped a big fucking bill on it cause I'm not on jobseekers but I've made a new claim for jobseekers now and they've promised me a refund if I provide my jobseeker proof.

They took a picture of my retina, but they wouldn't let me keep it :( Here's one from google

21 June 2010

Horses Arse

Was in Edinburgh today. Took this picture of a statue of a horses arse which amused me!

20 June 2010

Birthday Boy Barbeque Beer Bong Budweiser Bonanza.......Blogged

Here's a picture of Birthday Boy Craggus taking a drink from the beer bong I bought him for his birthday! Great night out! Everyone was wrecked! Hangover was brütal!

19 June 2010

Blue skies and long lies

Today was just a great day! Gorgeous weather, gorgeous company, hanging out the in the glen under a tree. Should've snapped a pic in the glen but I didn't so I snapped this one on the route home. See if you can guess where this is. It was at the point I realised "that sky looks really nice" For a driving snapshot it's not too blurred too!

18 June 2010

Now I wanna sniff some glue!

Now I wanna have something to do!

Now I wanna sniff some glue is the caption underneath the picture of the shark which I saw on a piece of paper in the college as I went in today to hand in my Graded Unit. Also while looking for a pen I discovered the rather artistic white board!

17 June 2010

Sock Fan

Absolutely ROASTING today! Had to stick the ceiling fan on in my mum's room. Then I kicked off my socks to let my feet breath. Then I thought "wait a minute..." and that was how Sock Fan was born. Spent a good time throwing socks at the fan! Trying to get a picture was hard though!

16 June 2010

Take my breath awaaaaaay

Defenestrators practise was brutal. My lungs are gunky from illness and everyone was feeling rough. Needless to say vocals were not in top form. I took my keyboard though for some keyboard shredding on Motorbate, Inside Her and This Town. Rab said we were sounding tight too, coming from him I take that as a great compliment.

15 June 2010

Hate Face

More folk are catching up with the Download uploads. Here's a picture of me taken by Craggus.

14 June 2010

Uploading Download

SeewhatIdidthere?

After the journey home I showered and washed all my manky clothes and camping gear then proceeded to upload all the photos to facebook and update this blog (still in the process of course)

Here are 4 awesome photos from Download 2010, the last one was taken in Napalm Death's moshpit.

13 June 2010

Download Day 5

Bands seen:

Saxon
Cinderella
Napalm Death
Slash
Billy Idol
Motorhead
Zebrahead
Suicidal Tendencies
Aerosmith


Low points:

• fucking rain pelting down during Billy Idol, forcing me to retreat to the camp for extra layers and miss the most of Motorhead's set and damn near ruining the weekend
• Suicidal Tendencies NOT playing Institutionalised.
  

Highlights

• Saxon being a surprisingly amazing band
• Cinderella being also very good
• Me being drunk as fuck during the two aforementioned bands
• Napalm Death's moshpit with Dougie and Mouse
• Somehow managing to get a photo of us in the Napalm Death pit
• Lemmy singing with Slash
  
• Proper hardcore moshing and singing along to War Inside My Head, Can't Bring Me Down, Cyco Vision and Possessed to Skate by Suicidal Tendencies!
  

12 June 2010

Download Day 4

Band seen:

Hell Yeah
Atreyu
Flyleaf
Cancer Bats
Rock Sugar
Lamb of God
Megadeth
Deftones
Rage Against the Machine

Highlights

• Big Vinnie Paul from Hell Yeah giving a shout out to the "big pink beard one watching us from the sky"
• Meeting up with Sarah for Atreyu and Flyleaf, who were both pretty decent bands.
• Flyleaf's bassist jumping off a speaker and running about like a nutter
• Cancer Bats mosh pit and getting right up close to the singer
• Rock Sugar ripping the pish out Axel Rose
• Ok mosh pit for Rage, folk going crazy to Bullet in the Head
  

11 June 2010

Download - Day 3

Bands seen:

36 Crazyfists
Lawnmower Deth
Killswitch Engage
Them Crooked Vultures
AC/DC

Highlights of the day:

• Attempting to crowdsurf to every single band (except Them Crooked Vultures)
• Dougie getting involved in a crowd surfing race against a guy in a bunny costume and the singer from Lawnmower Deth
• Getting "rubbered" after being hit on the head with giant green balls at Lawnmower Deth
• Crowdsurfing the longest distance I'd ever crowdsurfed (and going down somewhere near the front) during Killswitches cover of Holy Diver, losing my camera in the process, then a really sound gentleman found it and gave me it back
• John Paul Jones and Dave Grohl playing for Them Crooked Vultures and rocking the fuck out
• AC/DC's Rock and Roll Train on the stage
• AC/DC's "titty cam" during The Jack
• Brian Johnson running full pelt and swinging off the bell for Hell's Bells
• The giant inflateable Rosie, riding the train
• Angus Young's massive facemelter
• Crowdsurfing to Highway to Hell
• Standing on the hill in awe at For Those About to Rock
  

10 June 2010

Download - Day 2

Spent quite a bit of time in the village, and plenty time drinking. Ended up going for beer run number 2 to ASDA out of my face. Got more sleeping bags and pillows and a ridiculous amount of beer on 3 for £20. Then Mouse, Dougie, Jenny, Vicky and myself snuck off for a meal in a pub where I braved a chicken tikka masala! Then back to camp to tank more beers! Doug got a beer bong too which was was just mental banter.

9 June 2010

Download - Day 1

Arrived at Donington after a healthy car journey, then fired off to the Orange camp to pitch our tents and build a wee commune, then sent a few guys on a beer run. The trek to the car park was hellish but we did get pitched close to the car parks in comparison to the other camps. We also got a couple of gazebos fired up, then got plastered!

8 June 2010

Napalm Death

This will be my last blog post before our trip to Donnington where I should have some interesting pics. Tonight Craggus, Mouse, Doug, Alan, Keith, Rachael, Gemma, Sam, Jay, Dougie and Eggy all went to Nando's for a big nosh up and to discuss plans for Download tomorrow! I had an Extra Hot half peri peri chicken with Extra EXTRA hot peri peri sauce! Facemelting!

7 June 2010

Ready to Download

Right now I'm blogging from inside my tent which I've set up in the back garden to test it out (seems to be fairing against the rain at the moment :/). I've also worked out me schedule of bands I want to see for Download so here it is:

Friday

36 Crazy Fists
Lawnmower Deth
Killswitch
Them Crooked Vultures
AC/DC

Saturday

Hell Yeah
Flyleaf
Atreyu
Cancer Bats
Rock Sugar
Lamb of God (will catch the end of their set)
Megadeth
Deftones (cause there's nothing better on)
Rage Against The Machine

Sunday

White Wizzard
3 Inches of Blood
Nonpoint
Saxon
Cinderella
Napalm Death
Slash (end of set)
Billy Idol
Motorhead
Steel Panther (may miss the start of their set)
Airbourne
Zebrahead (end of set)
Suicidal Tendencies

I love how the band I am most looking forward to seeing is the last band I'll see!

6 June 2010

Quite Con-TENT

Got my tent for Download! Also got my last student loan payment, so I should have cash for down there! Gonna have a practise run putting it up.

5 June 2010

BBQ

Went to a pre-download BBQ at Dougie and Laura's. Was great weather till the rain decided to show up. Managed to get 3 crates of 15 Millers for £20 out of ASDA! Score!

4 June 2010

3 June 2010

Walkies

Gus searching for his ball in the field where I walk him. I just noticed how summery everything was looking!

2 June 2010

Put a cork in it

So Iain and I are working on starting up our own web company called Spinneret, (which is the name of the gland on a spider that produces silk to make a web, see what I did there?) Here is one of the prototypes I designed for our website.

1 June 2006

Burn Baby Burn

This is a burn in Wilson Street in Kirkcaldy at a play park me and my sister used to frequently play at as children where we would often jump the burn. Reason I was hear today was to go and meet with the lovely people from Fife Society For the Blind to apply for a volunteer post as a web content editor to get some EXP and something good to write on my CV (which lately people keep telling me is already pretty awesome yet once they meet me they won't give me the job, what's that about?)