Spanish Exam and More Cinema

Meant to post this yesterday but didn't for some reason.

Anyway, my exams are now over and i feel a sense of freedom somewhat. I will feel a greater sense of that in a few weeks coz i am back to school for the start of a new year on Monday. It will be a taster as to what my 5th year in high school will be like.

But that's Monday, my final exam (Spanish) was yesterday and it went pretty much without any problems. Louis gave me a lift to school and we went into the exam room feeling pretty confident and rightly so. The reading was easy, the writing was easy, only the listening proved a little difficult but Louis and I both feel confident of getting an A.

After it, there was a big meet-up of quite a number of people in the year for playing football and lazing around on the grassy area not far from the school. It was great, and one of the hottest days of the year so far. It wasn't hot when i left the house so i didn't pack shorts. Whoops. )I did get a little burnt tho, bit of colour in me hehe)
Apart from that it was great fun, just being with friends, having fun, celebrating the end of the exams. Steven wasn't even there!

He wasn't around today either! I got invited to the cinema again and without hesitation i accepted that invite. Alan was there, Louis was there, Alex was there and so were a few other people.
It was quite funny, i said to Alex i would meet him at his house and we would go down to the train station together. When i got to his house he invited me in for a game of football on his ps3, which, in the end, caused us to miss our train :P
We were just rounding the corner to the train station and we seen the train sitting there with the doors open, we ran full pelt to it but two seconds before we got to the doors, they closed and the train pulled away.
Since it didn't matter too much, we laughed about it, the next train wasn't long after that thankfully.
So yeah, we caught the next train and Alan got on this one too, sat beside him again :D
There were 7 of us today as opposed to 5 on Thursday but it was all good, great fun.
Like last time, i wasn't bothered about what we seen and it ended up being what we didn't see the other day - Prince of Persia, starring....Jake Gyllenhall, who also starred in....Brokeback Mountain :P
The cinema was a lot busier tho, so the 7 of us got a bit split up looking for seats, i didn't get to sit beside Alan again (one of these days i will!!!)

I thought the film was ok, although others said it was crap. As i said, im not bothered, i watch quite a lot of films so it would have to be really crap for me not to sit through one. I think i enjoyed The Losers more tho.
After the film, everyone just walked around town for a bit again, went into a few music stores and caught the train home. Another enjoyable day out i would say.

The past few days have been surprisingly social for me to be honest, its not often i got into town twice in a week and i have done twice in the past 3 days.
Just relaxing a little now my exams are over i suppose and what better way to celebrate than being with your friends?
I also want to thank all you guys for your support over the past few months, it has been quite a long slog but i'm finished now and all your kind words and encouragement have been most welcome, means a lot, so cheers!
But my cousin is now about to start her month of exams, so if you will please, be enouraging to her too coz exams can get pretty stressing but i'm sure she can do it!

I suppose you'll all be happy to hear that my exams are over as well, i know it probably got a little boring and monotonous reading about them all the time but it's all done now until next year :)


Hugs,
Rowan


Not a big fan of Status Quo but i recently found this fun song by them called Burning Bridges. It's a really cheery and sort of celebration sounding thing. Suppose you could say it's been my song for the past couple of days :P
Don't think it's very well known but i remember Muse played it as a little jam when i went to see them, i like it.

Good Day :D

I woke up today dreading it, mainly coz i thought i was just going to be doing schoolwork all day and hopefully try and read a few blogs in between, you know, just a general day stuck in the house.

But as soon as i opened the curtains i decided that was not happening, probably the sunniest day of the year so far, i was doing something.
Funnily enough, i was a few minutes away from calling Steven when he text me asking me if i wanted to go play football so i said i did and he came and picked me up and took me down there.

Alex was there too as well as two other friends, Jon and Dave.
Only 5 of us, i thought there was going to be more but we paid for a pitch and got the whole thing to ourselves so we could do whatever the hell we liked.

And we did...

Got tired tho after a while of course and then i hurt my knee when i stretched too far for a ball so i just laid there in the sun, pretending to be more hurt than i was which was nice.
Then Dave "the medic" came along.
Dave, is kinda small for being 15 but he is so so cute i think, i wonder about him sometimes, if he might be gay or bi and what happened didn't change my train of thought.
I was lying on my front out of tiredness and complaining my knee was hurt and he came over and sat on my back and started rocking back and forth.
Gawd i did not want to move, even if it was in the middle of the pitch with other people around lol.
So i said "Dave, it's my knee that hurts" and he just said "Oh right, i knew that" and got off me :P

That was definetely my main event of going to play football today!
Not long after that, our time was out but it suited coz we were way past tired anyway, so Jon walked home with Dave and Steven's dad took me and Alex home.
Alex came back to mine for a bit, we went on the trampoline, sat in the garden coz the sun was still out at this point then i went round to his for a few hours, messed around on the guitars (he has 3), played his playstation then i walked off back home.

So no schoolwork or blogs read today. Whoops.
But a very good day tho, hope tomorrow is sunny as today but that might actually be a bad thing coz i have biology easter school to go to :(
But when i get back i should be able to go read some more blogs.
Here's hoping it rains tomorrow lol, nah just kidding, the UK needs as much sun as it can get!


Cheers,
Rowan


And speaking of sun, here's a new Rage song i found that i really love right now, its awesome!

Easter School (Eugh.) and Britain's "Gay Capital"

I woke up this morning (somehow) and the first thing i knew was that i had Easter School to go to today.
Not helped by the fact that the rain was extremely heavy and i didn't get to sleep until at least 2am, so i only got about 5 hours sleep. (I swear msn will be the death of me :P)

I quickly jumped in the shower, got out, dried my hair, had some cereal then went out the door. Luckily my dad was on hand to give me a lift but regardless, i was still in a very zombie-like state.

So when i got to school i eventually livened up a bit, there were more people who i get on with who i didn't expect to be there. Alex was there, Louis was there, Steven wasn't haha, actually i have a funny story about him but i'll tell it later on.

My first class was english, and these aren't normal 50-minute lessons, one class lasts the whole morning (9-12) and the other lasts the whole afternoon (12:30-15:30)
Good thing i got to sit beside Alex, but it was also quite a handy lesson.
The teacher went over the best ways to answer questions from an unseen passage and, admittedly, i did find it quite useful.
One point we were talking about a journalist describing George Bush as a political dinosaur (as you do), then she put me on the spot and asked me another way to describe a dinosaur and i just blurted out "Prehistoric animal" without even thinking....
Got a well done from her and a few nods of approval from other people lol, i was quite chuffed with that :)
Not much else to mention about english tho, was rather uneventful apart from that.

At lunch, i just made a quick trip to cafe as there wasn't enough time to go to the shops on the main road and i returned for 3 hours of maths, what fun....

Sat beside Alex again this time, as well as Louis.
It was quite a good lesson too, the more maths i do, the more i will learn obviously, and therefore increase my mark in the final exam here's hoping.

Overall, Easter School was quite a good thing i think. I'll be back in tomorrow for modern studies in the morning and biology i think next monday afternoon.

But with today's lessons all done with, the only thing left to do was return home so Alex, Alan (the cutie :D) and i got the train home.
Alan had to get off early :(
Me and Alex got off the next stop which is actually one stop before mine but i wasn't gonna let Alex walk home in the rain by himself of course.

So i got drenched. But it was worth it, we stopped caring about the weather and just started laughing about what's been happening with Steven and a three-legged dog we seen being walked in the street lol, which then moved onto a conversation about a no-legged dog being transported around on a skateboard lmao, ahhh good times.
We parted ways tho, still laughing about Steven.

So here's the story :

For the past few days, Steven has been in Brighton. Brighton is also renowned for being the "gay capital" of Britain.
Steven goes down there with his dad maybe once or twice a year as his grandparents live there.
So anyway, he has been sending me a few texts one saying that the weather was sunny, 27 degrees celcius and another said "English girls are hot and think i'm hot too"
Lol, you wish Steven.
So i thought i would share some of these texts around with a few friends coz i just knew the reception they would get.
And i was right, everybody just laughed lol.
So i sent a text back saying that 27 degrees celcius doesn't exist in Britain, let alone in April.
And he's all "Well my granda's barometer is really accurate"
"What? More accurate than the Met Office?"

So everyone was laughing at the crap he was spouting there.
But of course, the main point is Steven and his dad actually being in the so-called "gay capital" of Britain.
Two of the most unlikely people you would think of going there.
And then, before he goes there, being all talk as usual, he's giving it large about how he's gonna go to Brighton and turn everyone straight "the way they should be"
Aye, just get walking.
Pretty glad to see the back of him last week to be honest :P

Wish i had grandparents in Brighton lol, that would be cool.
Funnily enough, one of my cousins goes to university in Brighton....wait a minute....naah, she's got a boyfriend from what i know :P

And speaking of cousins, in a few posts time i have something very cool to mention about when i will be seeing them next, it's gonna be cool!


Love you guys,
Rowan




Hehe :P

Just gotta love that guitar solo, no?
One of Queen's longest from what i know.....

So Very Sleepy.....

So today was a very drowsy day, i woke up at 4am for some reason....

I have no idea why, i tried to get back to sleep but it just wasn't happening for me so i decided to leave sleeping and i just messed around with the internet on my ipod touch for a few hours.

I should have been all up and ready to get in the shower early but somehow my brother nicks in just before me!
He never has a shower in the morning, always at night.

So i had to wait for him to finish, have a rushed shower, grab a nutri-grain bar and hurry to the bus.
Not a great start to the day but at least i caught the bus.

Things didn't get a whole lot better, i struggled my way through most of my lessons and i swear i fell asleep during 2nd period.

At least chatting with some friends at break livened me up a little. Only a temporary bosst, mind.
Alex offered to let me borrow a Scissor Sisters album that he bought for his mum ages ago so i said that would be cool. Steven called me a faggot :(


So, i continued to amble my way through the day, not even music class woke me up.
Biology kinda did tho somehow, the teacher was in a good mood and it was a generally fun period, although there was still no news of a pass mark for the prelim.

That was last period so i staggered to the bus, got home and fell asleep almost immediately when i did.
I was only awakened about an hour ago by my mum.
Been doing homework since then coz i got loads today.
I was doing French, for this particular piece i had to use the computer for research so i was just doing my work on my bed, something my mum gets really irratable at coz she complains about me not using my desk.

Then it quite turned into an argument "Why aren't you at your desk? Surely, you can't concentrate with the music on"

I tried to explain to her but it just wasn't getting through.
Then she starts interrogating me about why i fell asleep when i came in.
I slept bad i told her, but she seems to think i sit on the computer until about 2 in the morning, which i do not.

I normally have everything in my room off by 11pm at the latest.


But anyway she stormed out the room obviously not buying what i said.

I just want to finish my homework and go to bed. Got that maths test tomorrow so i need to be in tjhe right frame of mind for that.


One bit of good news tho.
JJ handled his bully situation rather well.
It did involve fighting although i had a feeling it would anyway.
He got detention but at least he didn't get hurt and hopefully those cowards won't say anything about JJ or Mike.
I'm proud of JJ i must say.
He handled the situation well. He tried to sort it with words but the bully obviosuly wanted his ass kicked :P

Happy that's been put to bed now :)


Anyway i must scoot and finish my homework, perhaps jump on msn for a little.

Oh and tomorrow marks a very important day for me, but i will post about it tomorrow :D


Cheers,
Rowan

Week Recap (50th post!!!)

50th post woo!

:P

This week for me was, as expected very busy, eventful and amazing!

Don't worry, i'll explain.


Tbh, it wasn't as busy as i expected it to be, it was busy enough but i still had the time to come on the computer etc.
But i thought i would leave it all for one big post.

So, on Monday i had my first prelim.
In Music.
Had to get there early so me and Alex arranged for his mum and my dad to taxi us to school each day coz the bus can be unreliable sometimes.

But the Music prelim wasnt really a proper test. It was more like, "Let's just get this out the road, eh?"
So, i did my test working on a hardback book resting on a xylophone :P
As i said, not really a test.

But i learned most the stuff and from the attitude the teacher took, we all did fine.

Good times. :)


Tuesday brought about French.
This is where it started, Music was like a preparation to settle into the week but French was full on.
Not that i had any problems as it is one of my best (although disliked) subjects. Found no problems with the reading paper, listening paper or my writing piece.
The listening was the toughest really, but nothing major, so all good in the French department.

Spanish on Wednesday was the same. One of my best but hated subjects and i don't think anything went wrong.

Thursday and Friday were the most challenging days tho. They saw the prelims in Modern Studies and English, if you don't study for them, you're in trouble.
So Wednesday and Thursday night i studied like a madman.
And it is difficult to gauge how well i think i did in both.
You can tell with languages but you can't really with these two.

They both pretty much consisted of writing for 2 hours non-stop, that was quite something!
I finished both papers which is good but i doubt i got full marks or anything.
Modies looked at subjects like British Parliament *yawn*, Crime and Law in Society and American Culture so i needed to know my stuff there and i answered all the questions but i still dunno how the results will be.

English consisted of writing two essays. One Prose (a novel) and one a poem.
My prose was Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (i book i find i can very much relate with) and my poem was To a Mouse by Scottish poet Robert Burns. *yawn*

Jekyll and Hyde essay went very well i think, wrote non-stop. But i was a bit more hesitant on To a Mouse and i think i started rambling a bit. (Like right now :P)

But anyway, in terms of tests last week, they went very well.
Although on Friday i woke up feeling dreadful but i knew i had to go into my Prelim so i grinned and beared it. Went home straight after and went to bed. I'm better now tho.


Well thats all for school and tests but there's something else that made my week very exciting.


Thats to say, the Discussion Page on "A Rent-Boy Named..."

It started on January 18th actually.

On the FAQ page, a poster named JJ started having a discussion with one of the site's most known readers...G.


I didn't think anything of it first (i wasn't spying on them lol, i usually read most comments posted)
But then JJ revealed he was 13, and everything halted.


13. Wow.

I thought i was the youngest RB reader! lol.

Nah, thats not it.

G suggested they move to the discussion page and this is where i disappeared for a few days for studying.
I returned to find G asking on the page if i would like to talk to JJ, and of course, i obliged.
This was after some misunderstandings between people but then it sorted itself out.

The reason for my last post was to let JJ get my email address and i was delighted when i got an email from him.
The whole reason for these emails was that JJ was able to ask me questions tht he didn't want to ask adults.
And boy did he ask!
I'm not the best person for asking advice but i think i did myself proud on answering JJ's questions.
He said i explained as well as G! And if you know what G sometimes says then wow!
That made my day when he said that.

So the emails went back and forth for a couple of days last week and i suggested MSN to him, which he didn't really know about but then his....special friend, (M, we shall call him) helped him out and i stayed upto 3AM on Saturday morning talking.
But man, it was worth it. JJ and M are great guys.
That doesn't even say enough.

They are special.

They have found each other at such a young age, and they both know that each other is gay and i don't doubt that they will have many years together.
So i was talking to them again last night and got a little teary thinking about alot of things.

That is - With all the hatred in the world, all the killing and wars, if there is a God, how can he let that happen?
But then you see something like these two boys finding each other in a small town and it makes you happy. You thank God for things like that i guess.
It made me happy anyway. The relationship between the two is just....phenomenal. I hope it never ends.

It makes me happy that they have found each other coz they can be open as they like.
And at the same time, it makes me sad coz i don't have anyone like that i can speak to.

But one day, i will move away from where i live in now. (it's not too bad, but i don't really like where i live)
And go somewhere else.
I've always thought about returning to California coz i remember it well from when i went there on holiday....

Anyway, that's a wrap people.

Thank you if you have read this far, i know i have typed a lot.

Cheers,
Rowan


This song sums up my week in a nutshell. It's a lovely song and fits perfectly with the week i had.
Hope you like it.

Spanish Speaking Exam and Wolfmother Concert

I'll start with the Spanish :D

Which went just like my French : Absolutely lovely with only one part that i got stuck on.

It went almost perfectly, i delivered my presentation which was about a minute and a half long.
Then the discussion was the only bit i messed up on, but it wasn't anything major.
The discussion is about 4 mins long with the teacher asking questions and near halfway through she asked

"Do you think the learning two languages is a important?"

"Si"

"Porque?" (Why)

And then i couldn't think of why but after about 30 seconds of thinking i stumbled an answer saying it opens doors in the future and it was plain sailing from there!

So, nothing to worry about. :)

Will probably get our final mark back next week along with french.


Just had to wait for Wolfmother now.

School finished, Alex picked me up at about 6 and we got dropped just round the corner from the venue, made our way to the queue with 30 mins until doors opened and met up with some school friends who were also going. (It wasn't even planned :P)

Doors opened at 7 and we went straight in....to the very front row, at the barrier!!! Just a little from the right of the centre.

(Never been at the barrier in my life and i was a bit apprehensive as to whether it might be too much for such an inexperienced gigger haha, but we survived.)

Got robbed for water but i needed to keep hydrated of course and then the support band came on.
Played their set which was pretty good and then cleared their gear away, in the process knocking their setlist onto the ground, in the space between the barrier and the stage, so i asked a security guard if i could have it and he let me!

A little souvenir, how nice. XD

The support band were called The Black Angels btw.


Another hour of wait while people slowly but surely filled the gaps in the crowd.
I started getting a bit nervous coz it was getting so cramped but what else do you expect at the front?


Anyway, Wolfmother came on and everyone went instantly mad!
I couldn't get a note of the set or any videos but they played all the good stuff and some stuff i'd heard but didn't know the words.

They finished with Joker and the Thief tho, which brought with it more crushing and crowdsurfers and with that, it was finished.

I could finally breathe again!

The barrier is good tho, you don't miss a thing that happens onstage but for that privilege, you get mauled against the barrier and can't jump around so freely.
But it was worth it by far.
I let my arms take the brunt of it instead of my ribs tho, so my arms are quite bruised today :P

Also at the barrier, you get looks from the guys onstage which me and Alex definetely got, that was awesome.
Eye-to-eye with someone who inspires you....

Words....


Can't....


Describe....



So afterwards, i got a lift home again from Alex's dad and crashed out almost immediately in my newly organised room.

Pretty awesome week this week!

Ending on a high with my Unofficial 1000 Visits!

Yay!


(Although it is more than that :P)

Haha


Cheers guys,
Rowan





(There's 4 of them now, not 3) :P

Hope you like it!

Steven's House

I always enjoy going to my friend Steven's house, it's laugh after laugh and great fun excluding all the racism and homophobia etc.

And i was off to stay again yesterday, in celebration of his birthday.
Alex came too and Steven's brother was around as well.
We didn't go to his house straight away, he picked me up at about 11am, then Alex, then off to this big fun centre place with loads of different places inside. (forgot it's name =P)

We played crazy golf firstly, which was awesome, i played not bad, neither did Steven, Alex played a stinker but Steven's dad won in the end.
Just loads of banter flying around though so the final score wasn't all that important but about halfway through, an incident occured. This group of 2 or 3 young children were running around and getting in the way, so Steven's dad told them to stop or else he would "wrap the gold club around their head"

Smooth.


Coz near the end of our round, their parents approached us and had a go at Steven's dad. He argued that they shouldn't have been unsupervised in the first place, but he was the one that threatened them at the end of the day.
It was quite a serious although funny thing to watch but ultimately, they were both in the wrong.

(Anyway, i've learnt from that that Steven's dad doesn't take any shit, you don't wanna mess with him.)


With that all behind us, we headed for Burger King and then went Ten-Pin Bowling.


Now, i never considered myself to be any good at it, and i was secretly not looking forward to it (would happily have gone straight home) but i surprised myself!
And i would have won, if it weren't for Steven's brother using the barriers to stop his ball rolling off =P

I enjoyed it again and found i was actually not bad at it (got 3 strikes!) the rest played averagely (haha) apart from Alex who again played awful lol.

To add to things, the parents and their children at the crazy golf showed up in the lane next us (call it a coincidence) but they never said anything.

:S


They clearly weren't bothered about earlier and were just trying to make something big out of nothing at all.


So, after this we headed to Steven's house and listened to Muse in the car, us three looking like loonies bouncing around in the back lol.


When we got there, the Arsenal game was put on.


Wasn't too exciting.
Me and Alex cheered when West Ham scored just to piss off Steven and his dad but Arsenal went onto win 2-1.


Not much happened after that until later but it marked the start of Steven and his dad sharing their discrimination when they felt necessary.
And they clearly felt very necessary.

Now i admit, while they can be funny, what they said kinda got to me but i just sorta pretended to laugh and didn't say anything to add to it.

The house seems works on a "whatever you want to say, say it....as long as it's rude and insulting" policy.

I didn't really chip in.

Honestly.



But some of the things said were a bit much.
I know to expect that in Steven's house but it still annoys me, it's the only downside really.

Things like :

Muslims offering their sons to Hamas as suicide bombers cause they found that there sons were gay.

(Double whammy there)

This was said by Steven in front of his dad as well. He doesn't care what you say, there are no rules there which is cool but it means things like that are said.

Unfortunately, it didn't get much better.

After his dad went to bed the porn channel was put on.


*Yawn*


Then more gay jokes started - mostly from Steven.


*Yawn*


The matresses were placed in the living room for the three of us, so we had the big tv and wouldn't disturb anyone else.

It was getting late and the porn and gay jokes weren't entertaining me at all so i went to sleep, leaving them to say what they liked.


But this is where the worrying part happened.


I woke up at some point and the tv was still on and they were still talking, so i just pretended to be asleep, but they were talking about me....rather, talking about my sexual preferences.

How nice of them, behind my back.

I think i latched onto the end of the conversation but here it is anyway.

It was Alex who said, "Did you notice something about Rowan?"

Steven : "Huh, what?"

Alex : "Well, he fell asleep when we were watching porn."

*Silence*

Alex : "You would have thought he'd be interested in it, no?"

Steven : "I dunno, maybe he was just tired"

Alex : "Well, to tell you the truth.....i've wondered for a while if maybe he was.....gay"

*I'm petrified at this point*

Steven : "Nah, he's not one of them, he's not a bum-bandit"

*Ha*

Alex : "I'm not sure"

Steven : "He better not be"


And with tht it ended, although we did talk together later about school and stuff....nothing was mentioned but i wasn't getting much sleep after that.

I just felt like yelling at Steven.
Not so much at Alex coz i don't know where he stands on it, but it's a dead-cert with Steven. He wouldn't be happy if he knew.
Alex is one of the only two people i've ever thought about confiding in it with, but now i'm having second thoughts.

Either way, i'm not looking forward to seeing them tomorrow.....in school.


Which brings me nicely to school actually.


This holiday has just flown by, wasn't the most enjoyable holiday, was nice to relax but tomorrow marks the start of the so-called "Term of hell"

Tests, Prelims, Studying, Exam Preparation.

And the rest.


It's gonna be tough, and as i've said previously, my posts may be limited in the next few months. Although i've done okay so far i don't know how bad things might get.

I have my Spanish speaking exam on the same day as the Wolfmother concert in a few weeks. And the prelims start at the end of this month. The final exams start at the end of April, are spread throughout May and finish in early June.


So i fully expect to be bombarded with work.


Wow. It's come quick.


That's really all i've got to say for now,
I've got to go and prepare for tomorrow, oh joy, i'll probably post again a couple of times this week and i'll let you all know if/when it's getting tough to do so.

Cheers,
Rowan

Finito!

I'm done now!

Got my blog looking good (at least to me it looks good, hope it does to you too =P)

The picture was really annoying to get the right size, i spent ages cropping it to fit, but it's fine now.
Like it?

10 points if you can guess where the original photo is from!


Just wanted to add that i'll be going to Steven's tomorrow for bowling, lunch and mini-golf, not necessarily in tht order but it should be great. Steven's always great fun, and Alex will be coming too.
Will be staying the night as well, meaning that on Monday i will have to do my homework in a very tired state.
I dunno what's up with me, i've had all holiday to do it and we go back to school on Tuesday!
I always procrastinate, just the way i do things but there ya go.


Anyway i'm off to do something else that ends with -ate.
I'll leave that open to your own interpretation haha

See Ya,
Rowan

Epic Week 3

Ok, so finally we're here and this one will be about the Kasabian concert. :D

Okay, i finished at 4pm at the Recording Studio as usual and ran back home, dunno why really, suppose i was quite excited.

Same setup as going to Muse just about - change, grab ticket, head on out.
Same setup picking people up as well - Head in, get Alex and El and go to MacDonalds.

Tbh, twice is the probably the most i've had MacDonalds in a week lol, im not the biggest fan but it happened to be near the venue. So we dropped off there again but didn't meet Steven coz we had tickets in different areas. This was coz of a mix-up buying them back in June - Steven bought 4, Alex bought 3, so me and El went with Alex and Steven sold his other two.

So, we ate our "meals" and headed off again for the cue. Wasn't as much waiting round as Muse coz of course, you have reserved your seats. To pass the time before the support act we just browsed some merch which we weren't buying anyway coz it far too pricey. I didn't find out who the support act was beforehand but got a nice surprise when Reverend and the Makers came on stage. They aren't a favourite of mine but i know a couple of songs and they probably are the best support i have seen.

Again, an hour or so wait for Kasabian. Just sat around watching people trying to jump the barrier and getting caught, which had an effect on us all. We questioned trying it but since there was 3 of us we thought better of it, maybe if it was just the 2 of us.....so we didn't try that way, we tried the "honest" way. Went up to the standing guards and asked the kindest looking one if she would let us in, to which she politely refused.

At least we gave it a go :P

We returned to our seats where wondered if the two people next to us were going to show up...they did, right before it started, pissed out their tree lol.
Just kinda ignored them at first but then they started to make noise and i was a little weary coz i was right next to them. However it turned out to be completely fine, they were "happy drunks" and we had a good laugh with them. As i mentioned way back they "started" "mini mosh-pits" but they were absolutely out of it.

So Kasabian, i have to say, are better live than on the CD. The set was good, the crowd were up for it and so were the band themselves. They played all the big hits like "Empire" and "Club Foot" but also done some of the more strange tracks lke "West Ryder/Silver Bullet".
A good mix tho, including some songs i didn't know the words to.

I won't link the songs this time coz i haven't previously found any of the live songs and i don't have enough time right now. But i'll give the setlist so you can feel free to check out what u want. ;)

Julie & The Mothman
Underdog
Where Did All The Love Go?
Swarfiga
Shoot The Runner
Cutt Off
Pinch Roller
West Ryder/Silver Bullet
Thick As Thieves
Take Aim
Empire
I.D.
Ladies And Gentlemen (Roll The Dice)
Processed Beats
Fire
The Doberman
Fast Fuse
Club Foot

Encore :

Vlad The Impaler
Stuntman
L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever)

I would recommend Where Did All The Love Go?, West Ryder/Silver Bullet, Club Foot, Vlad the Impaler and L.S.F
But they're all pretty awesome songs so fire away.

After the concert finished we said cheerio to the drunk guys and the hall emptied to the sounds of the crowd still singing L.S.F. 10,000 or so people singing along to that was just such an experience, nothing like it at Muse i have to say :O
But yeh, we walked the few streets to get to the car again, discussing and comparing the two concerts. Almost fell asleep in the car again =P and eventually did when i got back home.

Anyhoo, there's my Epic Week. Not to sound cheesy or anything but it was everything i expected plus more. The relaxation of work experience, the madness of the two concerts and the experience (in general) of the whole week was absolutely superb. I enjoyed it immensely.

Well, from now on, i will return to blogging about my "Daily Doings" but things are heating up in terms of schoolwork now. It's the hokidays and for the past couple of days i have been working and i will probably continue to do so. I apologise in advance for my inconsistant blogging, lack of appearances on MSN and the likes but i'll try to post as often as possible.

Oh i forgot to mention that i'll be going back to Steven's house along with Alex on Sunday for a little birthday celebration including Crazy Golf, Cinema and maybe more MacDonalds. But no fireworks lol. :(

Also, thanks to my most recent follower, who i think is Billy...? Sorry if it isn't (let me know)
I haven't received a follower in ages so i can take to the time to mention each person as they come lol.
Nah, i'm not too bothered about the amount of followers really just so long as i'm not typing away to nobody haha.

Cheers followers,
Rowan

"Epic Week" 2

Sorry this has taken a while, i sorta forgot but here we are.

I could just make this into one big post but i'd much rather concentrate on each separate concert.

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So i came out of work experience at 4pm, freezing, teeth chattering and making my way back home as quick as possible. Steven picked up on how cold i was just through a phone call =P.

Got home, got changed, grabbed ticket and then my dad drove me into town to pick up Alex and El (we were meeting Steven at Maccie D's lol)
Traffic was a nightmare, rush hour traffic is not fun.
The whole way there i was just a mess. "What if we don't make it in time aaaaaaah!" etc.
But that's just me, i'm a natural born worrier.
Everything was fine tho, got Alex from his guitar shop and El from his Hopsital and Dad dropped us at MacDonalds with Steven.
I didn't eat anything - was too worried and nervous....still.

I wanted a good place in line and we got it!
We were in the "2nd" queue (The 1st queue was people who has been there all day....crazy bunch)
But what i was most worried about was meeting up with Alex's cousin and her boyfriend coz we didn't know if we would all get into standing without them....we did and everything was good.

Then security hearded us up telling us the rules etc. No mosh pits, crowd-surfing you know.....don't enjoy yourself =P
I wasn't planning to anyway, pits aren't really my thing.
So we got in and the hall was empty apart from the stage and the stuctures at one end.
The 1st queue-people were sorta occupying the front left so we immediately ran for the front right and we were literally at the barrier (not leaning against it, but not far from it - 2/3 people from it)
Stood around and waited for support act The Big Pink to come on. They were ok i suppose but there show pretty much consisted of Dry icce, strobe lighting and similar sounding songs. But i kindly applauded them anyway. The only major talking point was their final song - Dominoes which was decent.

Knees are already starting to get sore at this point.

Was at least another hour and a half until Muse came on. So we just talked with people round about us and listened to the music on the PA.
After an hour the crowd was growing and getting restless, chants of "MUSE" started and then after one song it went quiet, everyone cheered.....then the next song came on lol. Everyone booed.

Eventually they did come on, the lights dimmed and they started their weird electronic intro - We Are the Universe. I like it, it's quite eerie and goes well with set opener - Uprising aka the "Doctor Who song" The place went mental, it was great! The clapping, the "singing" and the stage structure was WOW!
Then we had Resistance. Then the awesome New Born. (with lasers) by which time the three sturcture's had descended and now the band were properly alive.
Then we had Map of the Problematique - awesome!
Then Supermassive Black Hole
Guiding Light
Interlude + Hysteria (some bass line!)
Then there was some sort of jam while the piano was brought out and the Queenesque United States of Eurasia was played
Feeling Good
Piano then went away :( I thought we might have got Cave but we didn't get one song off the first album - double :(
But this was made up for by a special rendition of another jam.
Then we had the strange but lovely Undisclosed Desires (with more lasers)
Starlight (with more clapping)

By this time everyone at the front was getting thristy and the stewards gave up cups of water. One of the advantages about being down the front :D

Plug in Baby was next. Was simply amazing! Balloons were released and i touched one, twice!
Time is Running Out followed and matt, the lead singer, did the whole song on the podium right in front of us. A highlight of the night for me! (Tried to find one from a position we were in but couldn't get one)

And the set ended with Unnatural Selection

5-10 minute wait then the encore started with Exogenesis part 1 The visulas for this were stunning, just watch the vid! I might have a photo as well somewhere.

The heavy Stockholm Syndrome followed. It was mad! So much jumping and getting thrown around.
The set ended with Knights of Cydnonia which was equally mad jumping around at the end.

So when it finished we all staggered out, sweating like pigs and sat down coz my knees were killing me!
Wasn't finished yet tho, had to walk 10 mins to get to Alex's dad who was picking us up.
Almost fell asleep in the back of that car!
But we said our goodbyes and was to be pretty much the same plan for Kasabian.


Whoa, that took a while. If you didn't read it all, i don't blame ya.
If you have the time then check out some of the vids i linked!
And let me know if i should do that again when i talk about Kasabian.

Cheers,
Rowan

Exogenesis

Matt Bellamy (lead singer, guitar)

Chris Wolstenholme (backing vocals, bass)

Dom Howard (Drums) I quite like him ;)

Muse

Lolz, see ya!

9th November - 15th November 2009

I will talk about said week later in the post but just thought i would mention what happened today :)

Wolfmother tickets went on pre-sale this morning and Alex's mum managed to get 3 that we were wanting so we will get to see them in January. It will be so awesome:D

As soon as we could at first interval we ran off into the nearby woods to make the call to his mum, who confirmed that she got them. Standing places as well!

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Anyway, onto talk about this week in November. 9th - 15th.

IT WILL BE AMAZING

Firstly, it's my work experience that week. I will be working in a music recording studio, only a few streets away, the people there are really great and of course, love music. So i have no doubt it will be pretty enjoyable. Oh, and the hours?

12pm - 4pm

So i'm only in for four hours a day!

Now i know Mirrorboy has been doing work experience recently but from what i can gather, it is set out differently to mine.

It seems his lasts over a period of a few weeks and he goes in once a week.

Mine will last over 1 week and i go in everyday.

I prefer it that way.....no school. Simple as.

So, work experience in a music recording studio, Mon - Fri, 12pm - 4pm. No school.

Not a bad deal.

But that isn't all that's happening that week......noooo

I will be attending two concerts that week!

Muse and Kasabian, two of my favourite bands.

So yes, it will be a fairly busy week and potentially one of the best of my life. I'm just looking ahead to that with great impatience. It won't come soon enough! Hurry Up! lol

Just gotta get these next few weeks out of the way and then i can enjoy myself.

And i really do have to enjoy that week coz there won't be many more like it afterwards.

November is where the real hard work starts in preparation for exams, which take place in April - June next year....

Prelims are before that tho, most take place in January and February, so they may clash with Wolfmother......gotta hope they don't.

Some prelims, as you might now, take place now and December : Music and French

Music is half-done (2nd part being next Thursday) and French Oral (lol) will be in December. Merry Christmas! HAHA Thanks for that French teachers....

That's looking quite far ahead tho, so for now i will just look forward to that magical week in November that won't come quickly enough!

Cheers,

Rowan