Roses are red,
violets are blue,
I'm
sorry I haven't blogged for a while,
I was in Peru.
Ok, thats not
entirely accurate. The Peru part might have been a bit of a fib. All
the rest is true though. Let me just say that superbly well crafted
blog entry (into which much thought and much contemplative bacon
sandwich has gone) is on the way. I pinky pwomise! Today calls for a
quicky though, given the sheer epic awesomeness of yesterday. Here's
what happened, in more or less chronological order. The day started
at it usually does, with the sun coming up. The simple beauty, the
ancient elegance and that momentary fulfillment that goes along with
this incredible celestial changing of the guard was a little lost
upon me, given that I was asleep. Soon after that, the birds began
their singing in earnest (who wasn't happy about that one little bit)
and in general diurnal beasts of fur and feather stretch, yawn, and
greet the day. Except for Rob, who was still asleep, probably
dreaming about ninjas. The postman arrives. Rob is still asleep. I
think we can fast forward a little bit here. At some stage, waking
up, coffee and breakfast happened. I pottered around a little bit and
then on the bus I gallantly shuffled.
Had a great day of guitar lessons with
my lovely little future rock stars. Everyone's coming along nicely
and one of them expressed a sincere interest to learn some slide!
Happy days. While this was going on, ye olde laptope was in the
corner downloading the final cut of Fast.Like.Fun's new video for
'Good Girls With Bad Dreams', sent to me by Poppa V for approval. It
looks fantastic! V shtuck it up on youtube and the hits started
climbing straight away. Half an hour later, I got word that TODAY FM,
which is one of the most popular radio stations in the country had
read out our press release, given our details and the show in
question was played out by (some of) Like Lovin' You! National
airplay, baby! The DJ had been talking about how difficult it is for
new bands to get their stuff out there, so V emailed the show
detailing the Fast.Like.Fun way of doing things, which is essentially
do everything ourselves and give it away for free. The DJ dug it and
people text in saying they think we're cool. Yay! Here's the new video
The video is a compilation of clips from some shows we've played supporting indie heavyweights Senakah, dark & moody rockers That Falling Feeling and, most conspicuously, the (Game of Thrones-themed) 21st birthday party of our friend Francesca.
So a few great lessons done, new video
up, national radio play and a big shout-out delivered and a big smile
on my face, I set up to play with One Horse Pony for our weekly
session. Which went epically! We all played well, sang well and were
joined by some cool cats to help us bring it home. Couldn't ask for
more, really...
As I've been typing this, word has
reached me that Fast.Like.Fun have been mentioned on a different show on the same
station today. Im feeling beaucoup d'elation, as the French would
say...
They probably wouldn't say that.
So thats the news guys. I'm totally
buzzing on how well the Fast.Like.Fun stuff is doing. For a band that
have been together for a matter of months, I think we're doing
fantastically. Needless to say, I'll be keeping you posted :-)
In other news, One Horse Pony had a
great week recently doing a mini-tour in the most picturesque part of
the country. Windswept islands and tiny little seaside villages,
romance, drama, intrigue, more booze than you can unsteadily shake a
stick at, old friends, new friends, and of course a whole pile of
great music were the order of the day. It was one of those weeks that
reminds you of how sweet life can be. No doubt about it, I'm a lucky
dude.
Thanks for reading, guys. As always,
there's more to come :-)
R
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