02-11-09 – Zombie Pyjama Party / Kerrang still likes YAWA!
Hey there guys! I’ve been pretty swamped lately, hence the lack of last week’s blog. I’ll try to catch up this week!
It’s entailed…
- Finishing the 7 day Song Trance Tutorial (15 freakin’ videos!)
- Starting on a multi-part video tutorial explaining how to record distorted guitar
- Some issues with friends
- Playing a YAWA gig in front of a Kerrang DJ in Walsall!
- A costly YAWA gig in High Wycombe
- A pyjama-tastic gig in Barrow
- Recording and mixing the new YAWA tune “Zero Gravity”
- Keeping up with my Primeloops blogging
- A bunch of commissioned tutorials
- Having a tutorial accepted onto Audiotuts.com
- Hitting the 1000 visitors in a day mark on boyinaband.com
- Producing Kieran’s new 12 Story Fall song
- Selling and Sending off a bunch of YAWA merch
- Getting and Playing Brutal Legend
- Hitting 1500 subscribers on YouTube
Dis is 4 da Trance Heads
Man, my 7 day songs are usually intense experiences, especially combined with attempting to keep up a normal social life, gigging with YAWA and… uh… sleeping and eating, but this was something else.
12-10-09 – There’s no money… / A City of Owls?
Hi there!
This week has involved…
- PAPA ROACH LIVE! 
- A TON of biab videos
- Keeping up my primeloops blogs
- Another commissioned tutorial
- Doing a sweet YAWA press pack
Papa Roach
For my birthday, my homegirl Rachie got me a ticket to go and see Papa Roach with her and my other homegirl, Louise. This week entailed that show – and it was ace.
Not so much for the first bands – a rock group whose collective ego could outweigh your average steam liner and Madina Lake who, whilst seeming lovely people, managed to play a set that I forgot 3 seconds after it was over. Barring the guy’s scream, that was pretty good.
05-10-09 – The only bit of carpet! / Guess who’s back…
Hey Guys.
I’ve been neglecting my personal blogs lately – I just couldn’t find the motivation to do them. But now, as a result, I feel kinda lost, not sure what I have to do, so I figured I’d try blogging again in the hope that it would put me back on track.
Okay! So this week, I…
- Went on a Mini-tour with YAWA and…
- Played a Gig in Liverpool
- Played a Gig in Mexborough
- Played a Gig in Leeds
- Worked on an awesome new YAWA song
- Got back on the Primeloops metaphorical horse
- Made a few video tutorials I’ll be releasing next week
- Had a 203 meeting where we tried to combat lack of motivation
Mini Tour
This weekend, Zak had organised 3 gigs in a row, working our way up the country so we could save money on petrol and play more places. This is really difficult to organise considering how hard it is to get gigs in the first place and how hard it is to control where and when they take place if you’re an unsigned band – so well done to Zak for that!
So we packed our camping gear, since Zak was intent on camping out in a random field both nights (Something I’m pretty sure is illegal, but hey…) and hopped in the van with Eamon and Scratch. Our first destination was…
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31-08-09 – Kieran and the Alcosalt / Pilots can RAVE.
Catch up time! This week entailed…
- Chilling at Kieran’s in preparation for…
- A YAWA show in an American Airbase o_O
- A Businessy Business Meeting
- My Sister Leaving for Japan
- Blogging for primeloops and biab
24-08-09 – 22 and STILL Crunking! / I’m UP in this Jazz Club!
So! A Quick recap of this week… it entailed:
- My Birthday Partay!
- A novel little YAWA gig in London
- Making the Drum and Bass 7 Day Song!
- …Yeah, that 7 day song pretty much took up most of my time.
- Letting the Lolcats have some rest
17-08-09 – Yeah, I was late / *Waves goodbye to formal education*
Hey guys! A littttle bit late with this one (okay, 6 days) but let’s pretend it wasn’t!
This week entailed:
- Doing my (hopefully) last piece of uni work
- Writing blogs for primeloops.com
- Mixing a gorgeous new YAWA song
- Finishing the song for the 7DS Drum and Bass Tutorial
- Paid for some tickets to my own gig =/
- Played through a new YAWA song or two at YAWA practice!
- Had a business meeting!
- Lolcat:
10-08-09 – The Puppies are Coming / Nearly finished…
Alrighty! I feel like I’ve got a zillion things to do, so I’m gonna try and be concise (by which I mean this will inevitably take up far too much time as usual).
The week entailed…
- A seriously fun gig in High Wycombe (6/10)
- Releasing the “Interabang : ON TOUR Episode 2″ animation
- A bit of boyinaband blogging
- Some more primeloops blogs
- Making another new band (The Puppies are Coming)
- Writing another massive single with K and J @ YAWA practice
- Much chilling with Emmie
- Helped Pete get his Technicolor Flipbook online!
- Working on my Uni assignment (so close to never having to think about it again…)
- I want to save time, so here’s an ASCII LOLCat
03-08-09 – Interabang’s BACK! / Epic Road Trippery
Okie dokie! Frickin’ busy week! It entailed…
- Interabang’s Re-release! (New member, new song, New site and New video blog!)
- A YAWA trip to London to speak with a potential manager
- Half finishing the YAWA July video blog (christ there’s a lot of footage…)
- A YAWA gig in Daventry (7/10)
- A massive road trip to Ipswitch and back with YAWA and Sketch!
- Writing my first blogs for primeloops.com
- Two boyinaband video tutorials
- inevitable LOLcat
27-08-09 – Attacked by a LION! / I design webs
This week entailed…
- Playing an AMAZING show in Kendal with Kyra (8.5/10)
- Watching Bruno ><
- Designing and Setting up graphicsgirl.co.uk for Emmie!
- Designing and Setting up guywithaguitar.com for Kieran!
- Helping Scratch redesign dudeinadrama.com
- Blogging about Electro House on biab.com and making this weeks biab video blog
- Getting an awesome phone call from primeloops!
- Releasing an Intera Video Blog in readiness for the August release!
- Watching through hours of YAWA footage for the video blog O_O
- My lovely sister’s birthday
- LOLFISH!!!11
24-07-09 – 25200 Degrees / 7 Day song numero uno!
Ok! Once again I’ve been so crazily busy that I haven’t had time to write my personal blog on time, but will pretend that I have.
This week, I…
- Paid to get the YAWA van working… and changed its name!
- Attended my homegirl Rebolio’s birthday!
- Played my first ever promoted gig in Worcester (8/10)
- Played my hometown’s local venue The Haygate (6/10)
- Made Jamie’s website boywithabass.com
- Watched Harry Potter 6!
- Made 7 video tutorials on Dubstep for boyinaband.com
- Had my advertising rate increased!
- Found this LOLCat!