Sorry For The Mess..

(by that i mean the mess of words i'm about to try to get out)

It's been a while since i've done a proper update, i feel like i said that last time too..
A lot has been happening lately that i just couldn't sum up into words so i didn't even attempt to.

The First 8 days of this month were pretty crazy.

I got a call from my friend Alex saying that the drummer of his band (Take Courage) had quit and it was for good this time.

(If anyone remembers me talking about it, i had a similar phonecall from Alex in January saying it looked like Scott was going to leave the band and they had asked me to step in so they would still be able to play their tour dates, but he changed his mind a couple of days later before i had even really started to learn the songs so i let them get on with it.)

I said i was 100% up for it and was stoked to be the first person they thought to ask for the 2nd time.
I spent the weekend learning the old EP and the new tracks Alex sent me, then we practiced on the Tuesday and it was rad. Didn't take very long for everything to come together at all.

Here's a video from our second practice last night, a new song and an old song:



On the 6th of this month i saw The Dangerous Summer & The Swellers in London, then on the 7th & 8th i saw The Swellers again in Tunbridge Wells and Kingston.

The Swellers have had such a big impact on me it really is hard to find the words to sum it up. I've got a lot of respect for that band to have been doing what they've been doing for the past 8 years, sticking to their morals and not becoming another sellout pop-punk band.. and just now being able to tour the UK, i'm glad i was at least some small part of it by going to as many shows as i could have and they really showed true gratitude towards us.

The Dangerous Summer are another band that showed so much gratitude towards the crowd. "You have no idea how awesome it is for us to have come all this way to play some shows and seeing kids singing all the words back to us"

Their drummer was just as amazing live as on record, everybody needs to check out Reach For The Sun if you haven't already..

Since first hearing that album i've been trying to improve my playing.
Thinking outside the box is the only fun way to play drums.