Guess the stresses of Hell Week and general Year 11-ness were all worth something then. Although I WAS convinced that they wouldn't have my envelope, because that would have to happen to me.
They proved me wrong, it was okay. Hope everyone's happy with what they got :)
2 A*s in Music and the 'other' English, 8 As and then a B in Graphics, which I very much expected since we never really knew what was happening;) I don't care about that at all, the lessons definitely are the highlights of my GCSE life.
So yeah, I'm really happy with the results :)
Wish I was geniuinely completely happy with things though. Still got this dragging ache at the back of my mind about something, but maybe if I'm patient we'll sort it. I goddamn hope we sort it soon. I'm never patient.
After 6 weeks or whatever I've finally started the holiday reading. Eurgh, I think I'd forgotten how to read. Almost done with the second book already though, WE'RE ON TRACK PEOPLE.
What else is there to report? Oho, the FREE CHARITY CONCERT WITH A BAR happened on Saturday. (I don't know why I continue to shout, there's not a lot to advertise anymore.)
Apart from a few minor stresses, slip ups and fluffed MJ covers on my part, it was a great night :) Becky reckons we raised almost £80 which is AWESOME considering it was all donations.
I don't think I'll be doing much tech work again in a hurry however.
A week on Monday we're back at school. 4 months today it's Christmas Eve.
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
I guess I'll wait another week...
I kinda feel I've been cheating on my blog a bit with Twitter. Whoops.
Oh well, not like I have anything new to say, apart from THE CHARITY CONCERT WITH BECKY IS THIS SATURDAY AT CHEQUERS AT 7:30 AND ENTRY IS FREE AND THERE'S A BAR AND ARGH just go to it.
Rehearsed with Becky last night and I'm about to meet her again, and we have great plans and ohhhh I'M SO EXCITED SO JUST GO TO IT.
Oho, the power of caps lock.
Seriously, when people type in caps lock, it does actually take me by surprise and sometimes even scares me. I'm such an idiot.
Sort of like this whole semi-pro musician thing I've got going on now, now I'm (almost) getting paid for working my backside off musically. Maaaaan, all the stuff you do to try and get yourself known a bit.
Writing the songs is hard enough, let alone forcing people to listen to them.
Bass players, especially the female ones, are a rare breed indeed however, and so I've got 3 jobs nicely lined up and ready before Christmas now. OHO.
It was a good idea to pick up an amazing instrument only a few other people bother with.
I don't have many good ideas.
Only trouble is with this bass-playing lark is that my gear is SO heavy and this Taylor is weak. Meh.
I want a flying carpet. Now THAT'S a good idea.
I don't understand why my dog is so against the doorbell. Why can't she be a welcoming host to guests like the rest of us have to pretend to be, instead of deafening them within the first few moments they arrive at the house?
Elliot Minor HMMMMM <3
About 5 people are on MSN, and I'm lonely. This is like a record, usually about 172 people are online about now.
I'm gonna go sleep for a bit like the lazy so and so I am before rehearsal.
TA-RAH :)
Oh well, not like I have anything new to say, apart from THE CHARITY CONCERT WITH BECKY IS THIS SATURDAY AT CHEQUERS AT 7:30 AND ENTRY IS FREE AND THERE'S A BAR AND ARGH just go to it.
Rehearsed with Becky last night and I'm about to meet her again, and we have great plans and ohhhh I'M SO EXCITED SO JUST GO TO IT.
Oho, the power of caps lock.
Seriously, when people type in caps lock, it does actually take me by surprise and sometimes even scares me. I'm such an idiot.
Sort of like this whole semi-pro musician thing I've got going on now, now I'm (almost) getting paid for working my backside off musically. Maaaaan, all the stuff you do to try and get yourself known a bit.
Writing the songs is hard enough, let alone forcing people to listen to them.
Bass players, especially the female ones, are a rare breed indeed however, and so I've got 3 jobs nicely lined up and ready before Christmas now. OHO.
It was a good idea to pick up an amazing instrument only a few other people bother with.
I don't have many good ideas.
Only trouble is with this bass-playing lark is that my gear is SO heavy and this Taylor is weak. Meh.
I want a flying carpet. Now THAT'S a good idea.
I don't understand why my dog is so against the doorbell. Why can't she be a welcoming host to guests like the rest of us have to pretend to be, instead of deafening them within the first few moments they arrive at the house?
Elliot Minor HMMMMM <3
About 5 people are on MSN, and I'm lonely. This is like a record, usually about 172 people are online about now.
I'm gonna go sleep for a bit like the lazy so and so I am before rehearsal.
TA-RAH :)
Thursday, 12 August 2010
If only words broke windows...
So today was the day. First gig. In fact, first festival, too. Excited? Hell yes. Nervous? Definitely.
Pretty good day though in the end...apart from the storms. We certainly picked an interesting day weather-wise...
Think the actual set went okay, minus the first song, meh. But the tent was FUNKY (seriously, it was from funky tents.co.uk or something) and the crowd were good :) Some of the other acts were pretty awesome too (apart from the idiot band who tried to do Killing In The Name when we'd been told countless times fruity language was off limits...how stupid can you get?)
But yeah, even had a dressing room with a STAR ON THE DOOR :') Shared it with the 2 other acoustic acts who were lovely as well :)
Music and general art-ness introduces you to lovely lovely lovely people.
Bless Burty and Ellingwoof (i.e. the manager and publicist) for braving the rain and for coming all the way down to MH :')
Also saw someone we hadn't seen for AAAAAAAGES who we went High School with :) She greeted me with 'I'd forgotten how short you were'. NO COMMENT.
This new Hoosiers song is really growing on me.
Readers, I have sad news however. The Live Music Night at the Piano Room that was supposed to be next week has been CANCELLED due to lack of interest :/
It's so depressing throwing piles of tickets away.
Fingers crossed for a better response at Christmas or New Year?
So lonely tonight. WHERE IS EVERYONE?!?!?!
Really tired and in PAAAAAAIN. Ohh, how we must suffer for the art.
Now just have the charity concert to plan and rehearse for...Saturday 21st, Ullesthorpe blah blah blah FREE blah blah blah THERE'S A BAR.
It'll also be amusing because I think I'm doing sound as well at the moment. Things might blow up, so it might also turn into a free fireworks show.
I think I'll spend tomorrow sleeping and lazing first.
Pretty good day though in the end...apart from the storms. We certainly picked an interesting day weather-wise...
Think the actual set went okay, minus the first song, meh. But the tent was FUNKY (seriously, it was from funky tents.co.uk or something) and the crowd were good :) Some of the other acts were pretty awesome too (apart from the idiot band who tried to do Killing In The Name when we'd been told countless times fruity language was off limits...how stupid can you get?)
But yeah, even had a dressing room with a STAR ON THE DOOR :') Shared it with the 2 other acoustic acts who were lovely as well :)
Music and general art-ness introduces you to lovely lovely lovely people.
Bless Burty and Ellingwoof (i.e. the manager and publicist) for braving the rain and for coming all the way down to MH :')
Also saw someone we hadn't seen for AAAAAAAGES who we went High School with :) She greeted me with 'I'd forgotten how short you were'. NO COMMENT.
This new Hoosiers song is really growing on me.
Readers, I have sad news however. The Live Music Night at the Piano Room that was supposed to be next week has been CANCELLED due to lack of interest :/
It's so depressing throwing piles of tickets away.
Fingers crossed for a better response at Christmas or New Year?
So lonely tonight. WHERE IS EVERYONE?!?!?!
Really tired and in PAAAAAAIN. Ohh, how we must suffer for the art.
Now just have the charity concert to plan and rehearse for...Saturday 21st, Ullesthorpe blah blah blah FREE blah blah blah THERE'S A BAR.
It'll also be amusing because I think I'm doing sound as well at the moment. Things might blow up, so it might also turn into a free fireworks show.
I think I'll spend tomorrow sleeping and lazing first.
Sunday, 8 August 2010
Sat right down on broken roses...
*guilt at forgetti...I mean, not being able to post*
Blog. Blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog.
Blog doesn't feel like a word anymore.
This is actually take 2 of this bloody post, oh I ADORE crashing and the lack of auto-save features on this here site.
Run out of water. Can I be bothered to boogie on downstairs and get more? No. I've been so utterly lazy this summer it's disgusting.
Erm, Rock On The Rec. Thursday. Yeah, come.
OOOO, more incentive to come to the Charity Concert...it's now free. FREE.
FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE.
21st August, 7:30, Chequers in Ullesthorpe...and it's free.
Well, we'll be asking for donations. For the charity, doh.
This is why I don't post in summer. I actually have nothing to write about. I'm so boring. So boring, in fact, I bore myself.
Myself myself myself myself myself myself myself....myself is no longer a word.
Blog. Blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog.
Blog doesn't feel like a word anymore.
This is actually take 2 of this bloody post, oh I ADORE crashing and the lack of auto-save features on this here site.
Run out of water. Can I be bothered to boogie on downstairs and get more? No. I've been so utterly lazy this summer it's disgusting.
Erm, Rock On The Rec. Thursday. Yeah, come.
OOOO, more incentive to come to the Charity Concert...it's now free. FREE.
FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE.
21st August, 7:30, Chequers in Ullesthorpe...and it's free.
Well, we'll be asking for donations. For the charity, doh.
This is why I don't post in summer. I actually have nothing to write about. I'm so boring. So boring, in fact, I bore myself.
Myself myself myself myself myself myself myself....myself is no longer a word.
Monday, 2 August 2010
You're lonely, I'm lonely, we're lonely...there's nothing else left to say.
Feels like a few forevers have passed since I last did one of these here posts.
If I start to wander/rant/spout a load of rubbish more frequently than usual, you'll have to excuse me. Some of us got up at 3am this morning to be dragged down to Heathrow to send our mothers off to Prague.
Mean Girls on the way down, then MCR blaring out the radio at 5am. Beautiful. Obligatory Mcdonald's breakfast at 6, before driving home to Rent blasting out the stereo, and going back to bed at about 7. For 3 hours.
The rest of the day was spent Wii-ing - the games console, idiots - and general musicalness and laziness, as per usual.
Rock on the Rec is about 10 days away, which is terrifying, as I'm still putting a setlist together.
And Facebook tells me about 3 people, myself included, are attending the charity concert Becky and I are holding.
COME ON PEOPLE, move your backsides! £3.50 tickets, a bar and it's Ullesthorpe, not exactly the North Pole.
Most importantly, it's for charity. 'ave an 'art, guv'nor.
So soon Ellingwoof and I will be launching my official YouTube channel, exciting times. Not only will you be able to listen to my mediocre creavity, but you will also be able to endure my actual image at the same time! Aren't you in for a treat?
Elliungwoof is awesome so she's going to be filming some gig stuff and uplodaing it, because her vlogs are HILARIOUS and she's a real YouTube expert and the like.
Go find her channel - abzizkul.
OH OH OH also, I'm a fan of Avenue Q (the hilariously crude musical with puppets and awesome songs) on their official Facebook page, and every week they hold competitions where you finish quotes or make up captions or whatever...and I mindlessly entered one last week without really thinking about it; I think I was bored or whatever.
Then, today, out of the blue, I see I have a friend request from Trekkie Monster (this crazily furry monster character who has a rather adult obsession...all I'll say is he's featured heavily in a number entitled "The Internet is For PORN") which was pretty surreal in itself, and then he (well, erm, actually the official FB Avenue Q peoples) sent me a message telling me I'd won a poster signed by the current London cast....OH JOY OH RAPTURE UNFORESEEN :')
See, more logical unexpected stuff.
If I start to wander/rant/spout a load of rubbish more frequently than usual, you'll have to excuse me. Some of us got up at 3am this morning to be dragged down to Heathrow to send our mothers off to Prague.
Mean Girls on the way down, then MCR blaring out the radio at 5am. Beautiful. Obligatory Mcdonald's breakfast at 6, before driving home to Rent blasting out the stereo, and going back to bed at about 7. For 3 hours.
The rest of the day was spent Wii-ing - the games console, idiots - and general musicalness and laziness, as per usual.
Rock on the Rec is about 10 days away, which is terrifying, as I'm still putting a setlist together.
And Facebook tells me about 3 people, myself included, are attending the charity concert Becky and I are holding.
COME ON PEOPLE, move your backsides! £3.50 tickets, a bar and it's Ullesthorpe, not exactly the North Pole.
Most importantly, it's for charity. 'ave an 'art, guv'nor.
So soon Ellingwoof and I will be launching my official YouTube channel, exciting times. Not only will you be able to listen to my mediocre creavity, but you will also be able to endure my actual image at the same time! Aren't you in for a treat?
Elliungwoof is awesome so she's going to be filming some gig stuff and uplodaing it, because her vlogs are HILARIOUS and she's a real YouTube expert and the like.
Go find her channel - abzizkul.
OH OH OH also, I'm a fan of Avenue Q (the hilariously crude musical with puppets and awesome songs) on their official Facebook page, and every week they hold competitions where you finish quotes or make up captions or whatever...and I mindlessly entered one last week without really thinking about it; I think I was bored or whatever.
Then, today, out of the blue, I see I have a friend request from Trekkie Monster (this crazily furry monster character who has a rather adult obsession...all I'll say is he's featured heavily in a number entitled "The Internet is For PORN") which was pretty surreal in itself, and then he (well, erm, actually the official FB Avenue Q peoples) sent me a message telling me I'd won a poster signed by the current London cast....OH JOY OH RAPTURE UNFORESEEN :')
See, more logical unexpected stuff.
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Hold your breath, count to ten, fall apart and start again...
*insert sarcastic comment about the logical unexpected and keeping my mouth shut*
You know the drill...
12th August - Rock on the Rec, Harborough
20th August - Live Music Night, The Piano Room (Lutterworth)
21st August - Charity Concert with Becky, Ullesthorpe
Really can't be bothered to shove the details up there tonight, I'm sure you know where to find them by now though...
If you're even still interested...if you were even interested to start with...
Anyone left NOW?! Give us a wave?...
You know the drill...
12th August - Rock on the Rec, Harborough
20th August - Live Music Night, The Piano Room (Lutterworth)
21st August - Charity Concert with Becky, Ullesthorpe
Really can't be bothered to shove the details up there tonight, I'm sure you know where to find them by now though...
If you're even still interested...if you were even interested to start with...
Anyone left NOW?! Give us a wave?...
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
We'll taste the coffee houses...
I love how my Spotify goes from Ke$ha to Nine, this could only happen to me. DON'T SHOOT ME. There is a reason I'm listening to Ke$ha, come along to the Charity Concert with Becky and you might find out why...
This post's title is from one of my favourite songs EVER, 'Piazza, New York Catcher' by Belle and Sebastian (it's also used in Juno). Seemed an appropriate quote considering my day was pretty caffiene-fuelled.
I took the looooong long bus journey up to Hinckley today so Roz could shoot me...just with her camera, course. She's not a murderer.
Seemed a good deal really...my profiles now look better and she gets a load of new stuff for her portfolio :)
And her results are awesome...
Our current favourite. LOL.
She's brilliant, go go go to reginald-tribianni.deviantart.com for more of her stuff :)
We even got caught in some SUMMER RAIN. Haha..hahahha...
I feel like I'm at the Oscars. I'd now like to thank Ellingwoof for the kind donation of her guitar capo, now Costa has near bankrupted me...again.
OH OH OH, new gig people :) Live Music Night, Friday 20th August, The Piano Room in Lutterworth...it's £10 a ticket, but this also includes fancy free food and a disco.
Lol, disco. Makes think of the GCSE revision song...
Maybe, just MAYBE one day my blog will be about something less musical?
This post's title is from one of my favourite songs EVER, 'Piazza, New York Catcher' by Belle and Sebastian (it's also used in Juno). Seemed an appropriate quote considering my day was pretty caffiene-fuelled.
I took the looooong long bus journey up to Hinckley today so Roz could shoot me...just with her camera, course. She's not a murderer.
Seemed a good deal really...my profiles now look better and she gets a load of new stuff for her portfolio :)
And her results are awesome...
Our current favourite. LOL.
She's brilliant, go go go to reginald-tribianni.deviantart.com for more of her stuff :)
We even got caught in some SUMMER RAIN. Haha..hahahha...
I feel like I'm at the Oscars. I'd now like to thank Ellingwoof for the kind donation of her guitar capo, now Costa has near bankrupted me...again.
OH OH OH, new gig people :) Live Music Night, Friday 20th August, The Piano Room in Lutterworth...it's £10 a ticket, but this also includes fancy free food and a disco.
Lol, disco. Makes think of the GCSE revision song...
Maybe, just MAYBE one day my blog will be about something less musical?
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