This was our entry at the Hard Rock Battle of the Bands...a beautiful song!
Saturday, October 27, 2007
What do you know? I got an A...so many things that A can stand for!
| You Scored an A |
 You got 10/10 questions correct. It's pretty obvious that you don't make grammatical errors. If anything, you're annoyed when people make simple mistakes on their blogs. As far as people with bad grammar go, you know they're only human. And it's humanity and its current condition that truly disturb you sometimes. |
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Monday Blues...
It is in these quiet moments of the day, just before the dawn, that I can sit down for a while and gather my thoughts about the previous day's happening. These dark quiet moments of absolute silence help me concentrate on what I want to say, and more importantly, how to convey my feelings.
Monday has always been a day I hated ever since I was a kid. Going back to school when I was a kid, and now going to work following a weekend has never been too appealing to me. I guess this happens to most people.
So it is Monday and I am nursing a large cup of coffee, while sitting in my balcony, just before the big red panic button is depressed, waking up the angry traffic that buzzes just beyond the tree-line avenue I inhabit, and thinking about the last two days of quiet.
The weekend wasn't too bad really. It was a case of resting properly on Friday, and enjoying the Saturday morning, what with a few house-hold DIY jobs to do, and of course helping my little Rox with her homework. The early hours slipped by quickly enough and soon the little and big hands on the clock were pointing to the time that to me means a well welcome period. Band practice.
A late emergency in the band has caused us no little harm , both psychologically, and of course, in a practical way. I am really disappointed in what happened, since we were on such a roll, what with shows coming up, preparing for a charity concert, promoting our new album and all...so to have everything plucked out from beneath you is nothing short of dismal.
No amount of pleading could sway our erstwhile drummer from suddenly calling it quits. So, okay...you've got no drummer, and suddenly the phone rings.
Ah..it's the Hard Rock Cafe promoter. Oh, ok, I guess it's just a call to inform us when we would play the next gig. But...to my horror I realise that we had just been told that we finished just 0.8 points from the final qualifier.
This is bad.
Alright, maybe (but just about) we weren't the best band, but three of the bands occupying the space above us were terrible to say the least. I simply could not believe the lack of experience and originality. And to make matters worse, I went to see these bands and noticed that the judges were different from the ones who were passing their criticism on us. Needless to say they were more generous with their marks, otherwise the bands I mentioned would not be above us.
The guys in the band just shrugged and said that this was normal in our country, and to be taken with a pinch of salt. Hell. I don't want to take this with a pinch of cow droppings, let alone salt. Two weeks back I had to draw attention to the HRC that they were adding up the votes incorrectly, and now they expect me to take this lying down. Changing judges is simply not within the confines of the contract. But then... we are without a drummer.
Right.
Time to shut up then.
Sunday was a good day, a nice quiet relaxing time, watching a couple of movies with the wife, relaxing with a good book...aah the simple pleasures of life...and then thoroughly having my nerves destroyed in the evening as the Brasilian Formula1 Grand Prix brought the racing season to a close. A tightly fought affair, with both McLaren drivers making use of officially illegal machines, the championship was finally won by my favourite Ferrari driver.
This meant so much to me...I just love motor racing. My kids were amazed at the outpur of emotion I showed. Later on in the night there was the Juve match in which my heroes battled away to a single goal victory over plucky Genoa. Del Piero got that, so I am really happy for the guy.
The church bells suddenly bring me out of my musings as they peal out their call to the faithful and I realise that it is already half past six.
I swirl the dregs of coffee left in the mug, take a last sip, and finding no solace, get dressed for work...
Monday has always been a day I hated ever since I was a kid. Going back to school when I was a kid, and now going to work following a weekend has never been too appealing to me. I guess this happens to most people.
So it is Monday and I am nursing a large cup of coffee, while sitting in my balcony, just before the big red panic button is depressed, waking up the angry traffic that buzzes just beyond the tree-line avenue I inhabit, and thinking about the last two days of quiet.
The weekend wasn't too bad really. It was a case of resting properly on Friday, and enjoying the Saturday morning, what with a few house-hold DIY jobs to do, and of course helping my little Rox with her homework. The early hours slipped by quickly enough and soon the little and big hands on the clock were pointing to the time that to me means a well welcome period. Band practice.
A late emergency in the band has caused us no little harm , both psychologically, and of course, in a practical way. I am really disappointed in what happened, since we were on such a roll, what with shows coming up, preparing for a charity concert, promoting our new album and all...so to have everything plucked out from beneath you is nothing short of dismal.
No amount of pleading could sway our erstwhile drummer from suddenly calling it quits. So, okay...you've got no drummer, and suddenly the phone rings.
Ah..it's the Hard Rock Cafe promoter. Oh, ok, I guess it's just a call to inform us when we would play the next gig. But...to my horror I realise that we had just been told that we finished just 0.8 points from the final qualifier.
This is bad.
Alright, maybe (but just about) we weren't the best band, but three of the bands occupying the space above us were terrible to say the least. I simply could not believe the lack of experience and originality. And to make matters worse, I went to see these bands and noticed that the judges were different from the ones who were passing their criticism on us. Needless to say they were more generous with their marks, otherwise the bands I mentioned would not be above us.
The guys in the band just shrugged and said that this was normal in our country, and to be taken with a pinch of salt. Hell. I don't want to take this with a pinch of cow droppings, let alone salt. Two weeks back I had to draw attention to the HRC that they were adding up the votes incorrectly, and now they expect me to take this lying down. Changing judges is simply not within the confines of the contract. But then... we are without a drummer.
Right.
Time to shut up then.
Sunday was a good day, a nice quiet relaxing time, watching a couple of movies with the wife, relaxing with a good book...aah the simple pleasures of life...and then thoroughly having my nerves destroyed in the evening as the Brasilian Formula1 Grand Prix brought the racing season to a close. A tightly fought affair, with both McLaren drivers making use of officially illegal machines, the championship was finally won by my favourite Ferrari driver.
This meant so much to me...I just love motor racing. My kids were amazed at the outpur of emotion I showed. Later on in the night there was the Juve match in which my heroes battled away to a single goal victory over plucky Genoa. Del Piero got that, so I am really happy for the guy.
The church bells suddenly bring me out of my musings as they peal out their call to the faithful and I realise that it is already half past six.
I swirl the dregs of coffee left in the mug, take a last sip, and finding no solace, get dressed for work...
Friday, October 05, 2007
The day after the battle.
It is the day after the band I play in, Stillborn, came head to head with the sheer power of FIRE. I am absolutely shattered, and have aches and pains in my darkest recesses of my body! Hehe...we can say that we thoroughly enjoyed every minute of the evening, although to be totally honest I cannot for the life of me imagine how the fuck the judges came up with the results!
I thought mathematics was simple...but not to the management of the HRC in Baystreet. What was supposed to be an easy addition turned up completely funny and damaging.
I was also totally blown away by the lack of sensibility from two of the judges present, and while taking it sportingly, would like to add some comments in the hope of taking the mickey!
Carrie, you poor poor misguided soul. A 2/10 for originality is not only unthinkable, it is also downright insulting. 45 minutes of original material only qualifies as a 2? Oh, and the only stiff I saw on the stage yesterday was in my pants.
Lee...what were you looking at? I guess you gave us a 4 for stage presence when you were yawning at the beginning of our show and nodding off to sleep! Petrified? What the hell are you talking about? Petrified? We can hardly call the amount of people present as a crowd! We are used to playing to far more people... Again originality...we are Malta's Evanescence? I guess Evanescence are Hollands's Stillborn...we started before the Dutch band for sure. Anyway, it would be an honour to be accosted to such masters. But then, if you don't like Evanescence you will hardly enjoy our style.
All in all, I enjoyed every bit of it, and would like to offer my best wishes to my friends at FIRE. A great band with a beautifully classic sound. Lee was not too happy with the blazing guys type of music...but hey they are a classic rock band..what would you expect...still they got more than us for originality!
Keep Metal!
\m/
I thought mathematics was simple...but not to the management of the HRC in Baystreet. What was supposed to be an easy addition turned up completely funny and damaging.
I was also totally blown away by the lack of sensibility from two of the judges present, and while taking it sportingly, would like to add some comments in the hope of taking the mickey!
Carrie, you poor poor misguided soul. A 2/10 for originality is not only unthinkable, it is also downright insulting. 45 minutes of original material only qualifies as a 2? Oh, and the only stiff I saw on the stage yesterday was in my pants.
Lee...what were you looking at? I guess you gave us a 4 for stage presence when you were yawning at the beginning of our show and nodding off to sleep! Petrified? What the hell are you talking about? Petrified? We can hardly call the amount of people present as a crowd! We are used to playing to far more people... Again originality...we are Malta's Evanescence? I guess Evanescence are Hollands's Stillborn...we started before the Dutch band for sure. Anyway, it would be an honour to be accosted to such masters. But then, if you don't like Evanescence you will hardly enjoy our style.
All in all, I enjoyed every bit of it, and would like to offer my best wishes to my friends at FIRE. A great band with a beautifully classic sound. Lee was not too happy with the blazing guys type of music...but hey they are a classic rock band..what would you expect...still they got more than us for originality!
Keep Metal!
\m/
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