December 2011
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themaccabees:
Happy New Year!!!
Anonymous asked: Do you have any new years resolutions? what are they?
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Anonymous asked: Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
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A few years ago in the first stages of my Mystery Jets love, my friend and I vowed to move to Eel Pie Island and set up a record shop/cake shop where people could come and enjoy music and baked goods and we could enjoy the birthplace of Mystery Jets.
She’s studying vetinary medicine at uni now. But I like to think that because I am not at uni and not doing much with my life that this is...
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I told my Mum I love Tim Minchin more than her. She laughed and left. Then came back a couple of minutes later and said… ‘Are you being serious? Because I wouldn’t actually put it past you’.
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Tom Hobden should start some sort of uprising to make his violin a more prominent instrument in Noah and the Whale again.
coffingrover:
The Maccabees // Feel To Follow
This has MADE my Christmas. Oh lord.
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goldenground asked: Your blog is wonderful
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Last night I introduced my Dad to Chapel Club, rambled on about Joy Division and Spike Island and then went outside with him and started looking at the stars listening to Kate Bush. Obviously there was a fair bit of wine involved here as well. But it was nice. And weird. But nice.
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If you often smile, but often don’t smile… Which do you do more often? Smile? Or not?
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New Pelican video from The Maccabees.
This is just unfair because we still have a month to wait.
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GUYS, GUYS, GUYS.
One month until Given To The Wild.
ONE MONTH.
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Ways to avoid embarrassment at gigs.
Inspired by this NME article and with a wealth of bad experience under my belt, I decided to write a guide on how not to act at gigs and in front of band members afterwards. Or a guide on how to embarrass yourself if you want to try out any of the things I’ve done for yourself. Which I wouldn’t advise unless you’re a particular fan of self inflicted mortification.
1. Don’t...
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It’s that time of the week again where I’m too full of energy when I get in from work, so decide to wrap up and go for a stroll in the dark listening to folk music and admiring the Christmas decorations.
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