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Real life is shit!!! I write this statement of disgust from Strathclyde Library where I seem to be currently residing like an old dusty book; discarded, probably disproved and definitely never desired or needed enough to be removed from said library and taken on a three day or even six week long adventure before being returned to my dusty shelf.
However, this week we were taken out on short loan to play our first electric and full band gig in ages! That was awesome, big thanks to Calum and the rest of the Skip the Winch team for a great night. We’re gonna be out and about again next Friday for Pinup nights at the Beat Club which should be a pretty sweet gig! Whoever is responsible for checking us out that weekend better get ready to incur some late fees ’cause I’m gonna be going for it that weekend!!!
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ps. apologies for the over extended metaphor
I spent all day today staring at my calendar shouting ‘WHEN?!!’ as I realized things that I had entered months ago were quickly approaching. Note to self: time does not in fact stand still regardless of how much I stare at a clock like Hiro Nakamura prepped to shout ‘YATTA!’ when I make the seconds hand stop long enough to finish real life stuff so I can spend more time on band stuff. Last night, however, we did have an evening to spend on band stuff at Richard’s house. We managed to piece together a song which needed Mark’s parts put in and learned. I always love that stage of putting a song together cause it’s the first time you start to really hear how a song is going to sound, and by all accounts this one should be really sweet, even if I do say so myself. So we’re heading into Berkeley this weekend to flesh out a couple of more things and get that new one electrified hopefully in time for our gig next Tuesday (20th Nov) at Nice ‘n’ Sleazy in Glasgow, it’s gonna be our first electric gig in ages so we’re all really excited to plug our gear in and make some noise for a change.
In other news I’ve been passing the time between stress related psychotic breakdowns the last few days by listening to Make Model… A lot, just thought I’d share how excited I am about them. Think there new single is out soon check it out here.
PS. Thanks to We Hung Your Leader for inspiring this blogs title.
anyway, help the endorly
Hello again, cheers to everyone who came down to the Observatory last night, a massive thank you to Stacey for putting us on, feeding us some of the best food we’ve ever gotten from a venue (Buffalo Mozerella pizza from the observatory is a must try!!) and keeping us well hydrated in Peroni (not your standard yellow death) we had a great night. I was doped up on the new Lemsip uber-strength pills, I think that I’ve become immune to regular strength medicine now but they really seemed to do the job and kept me in the moderate to good vocal range which was nice. I nearly lost it at the end of WLID but I kind expected that to happen. Anyway, that’s the acoustic ‘we’re back’ gig out of the way which is pretty pleasing to us all. Calum, Richard and I were laughing at some of the comments we’ve recieved individually over the last few months about us having potentially split up. I trumped them all. One time about 2 months ago I was on a night out I Glasgow and found myself in Mojama (don’t ask), I was in the mens room at the urinal when some guy walks in, stands next to me, looks at me and says ‘Hey weren’t you that guy who was in endor?’ First of I hate when people talk to me in the toilets of pubs and clubs, it’s just weird but secondly the past tense of his question threw me and I just left saying something like ‘Umm… yeah.. well.. you know we’re not, like… cause… yeah…in… you know… Cuba and like.. eh… South America.. but.’ I blame half of this statement on every drink being £1.50 and the other half on having never had toilet conversational elocution lessons. If you were that guy incidentally please get in touch we could maybe sort out tickets for a gig for you or something to prove we didn’t split up. Anyway, thats enough nonsense for now I’m off to batter some Nytol and get to sleep.
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Well as night turned into day and October turned to November, 3 hours after the witching hour of Halloween I awoke with a really intense pain at the back of my mouth unlike any sore throat I’ve ever had. Believing that this horrible sensation was directly related to some sort of ghost who was making the most of 3 in the morning I tightly closed my eyes and returned to sleep. I was telling Richard and Calum about this tonight as we were practicing some new songs at which point Richard reminded me; It’s 1st November it’s cold season for me! Every year I get a cold as soon as winter starts and it remains with me until spring (for proof listen to the vocals on We Live In Doors or Hold On, recorded in consecutive winters they have lead me to beg to record in summer next time!) Calum pointed out the irony that I don’t really like summer and when it’s hot I always look forward to digging out my big coat and scarf for autumn and to a lesser extent winter, but then I spend the entire time complaining about a cold or flu or what I am sure at the time is frostbite, but later turns out to be wet socks due to holes in my shoes. Anyway this week I made the trip through to Edinburgh to see friends Make Model at Cabaret Voltaire (they were awesome!) and record some ideas in Richard’s flat which has insanely high ceilings which my new microphones love!! We managed to knock one which had been bothering us for ages together and I wrote the lyrics in the car home stuck in traffic on the M8. So if you want to hear it sang in a very nasal voice then I suggest you get along to the observatory on Saturday night! (details in the blog below)
Jarv
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