uhm yeah

January 10, 2009 1 Comment

Time for some points!
threadless
edit: oops, already subbed a few of these
also I need a haircut
edit 2: hey you can’t tell if I’m wearing pants

Dying to say this to you

January 9, 2009 0 Comments

Confession: I am totally enjoying The Sounds’ dance post-punk electropop New Wave whatever you want to label it 2006 album.

It’s (horrifyingly) not that far removed from the flower metal shite I have to play in 6 hours. Halp

Stars

January 8, 2009 2 Comments

were absolutely brilliant. I was hoping for Personal and I guess everyone wanted Heart and Mak wanted Tonight (?!) but it was all good. They played a couple tracks off the newish EP too — I was all “is this the one where they shout ‘fuck the war’” and Mak was like “what” I think more because he couldn’t hear me than because he didn’t know the song and then Torq said fuck the war and it was a bit anti-climatic

Me and C were stopped by this usher halfway down the steps and she (the usher) kept lurking in the shadows so we had to wait a bit and then make a dash for the front. I guess I feel a bit guilty but hey if you’re going to pay a hundred plus and content yourself with sitting down halfway back in the hall then it’s your loss (I couldn’t figure out how to use the word “languid” in this sentence).

If you are that girl who nicked the setlist from Evan Cranley’s feet or you just remember better then click below and edit the list

Stars Setlist Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore, Singapore 2009

edit: other posts by other people: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 + setlist

Aaron you are screwing up my last.fm profile

January 7, 2009 0 Comments

So the big A just asked me to play a gig with his band. The same that did a magnificent rendering of Tenacious D’s Tribute? It’s been too long since I got to rock out (on real instruments, thank you Guitar Hero) and I’m totally pumped.

Got 3 days to learn some power metal and classic rock songs:
Dream Theater – Scene Two: Part I. Overture 1928
Black Sabbath – Heaven and Hell
Mr. Big – To Be With You
Sonata Arctica – The Wind Beneath My Wings

I’ve always felt my relationship with metal to be something of an uncomfortable truce. I love the batshit crazy riffs — the strings on the Sonata Arctica cover are surprisingly catchy — but the whole sound tends to be formulaic and overdone.

Overture is going to be wizard though.

edit: the set was changed and cut down considerably — in the end we only played Overture 1928, Porcupine Tree’s Blackest Eyes (had a lot of fun with the ambient synth pads for my solo), and (don’t ask me why) Nickelback’s Hero.

one two mosh

January 1, 2009 0 Comments

Best countdown ever, watching ATC with C.

Obligatory introspective later — Russ is supposed to pick me up for GUITARRRRRR HERO

HULLO 2009 HERE’S TO NOT JACKING ME BIG TIME

edit: listening to the album and 4207 gets worse with every new recording :< the earliest one I stole off myspace is pure wizard (was it on their self-titled?), then there’s one which I labelled as album but it sounds more than just a different mix — and it has the now quintessential one-two breakdown which I dare say was the tipping point where I fell in love with their sound, and in that tiny, tiny space where the guitars suddenly disappear and everyone cries out I can’t remember who I am or what we’re shouting for but it feels like everything is going to be alright –

and now this one just sounds like they were trying too hard to get the song “right” and forgot to kick ass.

where is russy poo