Every cloud etc...

I've by and large been too busy to post recently, this week has been absolutely non-stop.

After the belting gig I went to last week, where I interviewed The Subways I went, as a follow up to interview BlackBud, the other band who won the Glasto battle of the bands last year, in Reading. The interview went really well, and the next day I file my feature with Spill.

Then I get a phone call saying that they need pics for the feature, and they ask me if I know a photographer I can take to their gig at The Borderline in London. All expenses paid, and I have to do nothing in return apart from chapperone the snapper. Considering my resignation from Sketch, you'd think I'd be pretty bummed, but this has actually been one of the best weeks ever for my prospective career.

In other news, it's good to see that the vatican are making well thought out decisions on their choice of pope. What's that you say? Homosexuality is fundamentally evil? Contraception is evil? Excellent, another hard line, right wing pope. One day the church will arrive in the 21st century, until then, well at least they always choose an old git who's only got a few years left for pope.

Perhaps one of the finer moments this week, in the news anyway, was the bit in Michael Howard's (aka Dracula) speech that went something like:

"On May 5 make a stand for change...vote Conservative."

Brilliant.

Subway to Heaven

Life is good. Life is awesome.

No that's not me being ironic, it's me being the jammiest bastard around right now. Not only am I on the guestlist for tomorrows Subways gig (see link bar) but I also got a call from Spill Magazine who asked me to review and interview the band on how the year following last years triumph in the Glasto battle of the bands has been. That in itself is truly legendary, I mean how many students can boast that they've been randomly phoned up and offered a job?

What makes it better, though, is the fact they've offered me the chance to go to Reading on Monday and interview another band (whos name evades me at the moment) and offered me the chance to report from Glastonbury for them. Me, a Glastonbury correspondent. Get in!

Now all I have to do is work out how the hell I'm gonna get a larger than life cut-out of Boris Johnson for this years totem. Suggestions to the usual address...

Glastonbury here we come

Well I don't know about you, but I bagged me a couple of Glasto tickets on Sunday. I can't wait. It was awesome last year, and with The White Stripes headlining and Bloc Party also playing, it is set to be even awesomer.

It took nearly two hours of phoning, and just as I was about to lose all hope I thought the internet deserved another bash. Straight through. Oh yes! You beauty! Myself and a matey mate are off to the biggest and best party in the world.

In other music related news, I'm off to see The Subways next week. I was going with three friends but annoyingly one has to work and one of the others can't make it because, well his band has been asked to support!

All of which should make it easier to stroll backstage for an interview with the main event despite being on the guestlist. Yeah that's right, I'm up there in the music world.

What's more, I'll also get a chance to check the NME hyped Battle. Roll on Thursday!

Keeping the bandwagon rolling

I've been frequenting the Notes From Kaizer for a while now, and in response to a post there I have decided to add coal to the furnaces of the gravy train and keep the link exploring coming.

Now readers of my previous posts should know that I'm not a big fan of religion. I am a student, meaning I drink, swear, blaspheme and generally sin like crazy 24/7. That's why I find sites like this absolutely brilliant. Ignorant people are funny, and often ignorant people are religious, after all that's what religion is all about. Along with this you find a lot of religious people in the States, a country obviously unable to learn from past mistakes. On this site young Josh (he might be old, but saying he's young gives him an excuse for foolishness) appears to be ranting continuously about the evils of alcohol. Apparently Jesus didn't turn water into wine, and if he did we wouldn't know about it because the disciples were all lightweights and would obviously have got completely hammered on a single beaker before attempting to push Jesus into the canal in a trolley.

Unfortunately I know a man who looks just like Jesus (and therefore is him) who works as a barman and performs the miricle of transmuting sobriety into drunken revelry on a daily basis.

Wow! Neo fell in love with this?! How shallow...

Hmm, funny how all these bad, bad blogsites are from america. Anyone for more Catholicism?> Am I the only one who finds all of this gobshite a wee bit patronising?

I'd better stop before this turns into an anti Christian rant...