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Written by Samantha
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010 23:29 |
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First off the Blyth power folk/punk festival was amazing. It tipped it down the first night and me and paul left our tent wide open so when we got back to the tent after watching music it was filled up with water. DOH, NOT a good start, but with spare clothes on hand we managed to mop up the majority of the tent so huzzah for extra stuff. Then the well that fed the campsite dried up so noone could drink any water hehehe but joseph got a van and filled it with empty plastic bottles and filled them up down the road for everyone so that was okay, but the thing was the well also fed the loos so the loos wouldnt flush, so they had to get portaloos in to the campsite as a replacement. Twas all a bit of a disaster but at the same time community spirit rallied around and it was just awesome. Friday music was amazing I love love LOVE wob. Specially souvenier it's like if my life had a soundtrack that would be one of the songs. I love that song so much! Pog and Cracktown and mourning for autumn, were also great to see again. The whole of the Blyth power ashes is almost like a massive family. I'm not sure where I fit into that family, some deranged illicit second cousin but seeing all these bands perform always make me feel really happy that I can be counted among them
Also my set was supposed to be on friday night but the venue had messed up the music liscensing so they had to stop the music at 11 rather than the original 12 so my friday evening slot got moved to sunday afternoon. It didnt fuss me whatsoever, if anything I was kinda relieved cause the journey to the venue had been hellish, so I could relax on friday instead of being stressed. I over did it though and drank faaaar to much it was unavoidable as they had adnams on tap, a girl can't resist things like that.
Saturday was drier and the music was ace, it doesnt get much better that eastfield, anal beard and Blyth power, then sunday was my set. But not before we witnessed the sunday choir regaling Jessi with a song that simply wont get out of my head about how big his nose is.
1pm was approaching pretty quick! OMG how scared was I, I even screwed up a few obvious songs which annoyed me and only compounded my fear, then I finished my set. John Beast was really nice to me though. After my set he came up to me and said that he really enjoyed my set. Then he asked if he could book me for a gig in nottinghamshire, so result there!! The lying scotsman was amazing even as a one woman show, and im glad we got to stay to the bitter end because The charlies and more blyth power was excuse enough to feel sleep deprived in the morning
I took 12 cds with me to sell feeling optimistic that I would manage to sell a couple and the whole lot went pretty quiclkly after my set(thank you Kerry and Paul for being on the merch stand at that point). I had other people asking for autographs (which was a new experience for me) and more cds but i didnt have any more with me and the best bit of the whole thing was when this 6 year old girl (zoey, very adorable) came up to me and gave me a picture that she had drawn of me up on stage singing my pet rock charlie song. That really topped my weekend off beautifully, far more than anything else of the weekend, better than the cd sales, better than my set, shes a really good artist and I drew her a picture as thank you.. im going to laminate her picture and stick it on my guitar!
Having Ed Kerry, their kids and dog (poppy) come see me play was really amazingly cool too and it was ace to spend time with them just chilling out and being chased by wasps together. Me and my Paul even spent a couple of hours sitting on the merchandise stall selling other peoples stuff for them, which I found quite fun and felt glad that Jessi and Paul stapleton had at least a few hours away from the merchandise shackles.
Thank you really goes to Annie and Joseph for letting me play there again after last year, and I really truly hope I get the opportunity again one day because i'm still buzzing two days later |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 18 August 2010 00:00 |
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Written by Samantha
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Tuesday, 01 September 2009 18:50 |
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What an awesome weekend. It started off with a trip to Kettering and the Sawyers venue to get a quick spot of Anal Beard, Wob and Eastfield in before the main punk/folk weekend. We haven't had an anal beard fix since June so it was good to have that, and an impulse buying of a set of murderer pin badges seemed like a good idea at the time. Then friday it was off jaunting up the country to derbyishire. Hell on the roads and was tipping down when we arrived but with one of those new fangled pop up tent we lobbed it out of the car window and sat in the car until the rain stopped. The weekend was filled with much mayhem. Its probably just a good idea to show you loads of pictures and let you figure the rest out for yourself.. All the full sized versions of these pictures and many many more can be found at the following link
http://pics.sweetp.net/cgi-bin/showthumbs.pl?DIRECTORY=/PersonalPhotos/Friends/20090828_Ripley
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Easily one of the best things i've ever done with my life. I was nervous for the whole weekend, worried that maybe my music (thats what we're calling it for the sake of it) wouldn't be accepted or liked and I really needn't have worried. People stayed people listened people laughed and clapped and even though I stumbled through my set like a lobotomised bunny it seemed to go really well. I still can't believe I played at Blyth Powers 25 anniversary lumb farm gig. Russel from rachel pantechnicion liked my stuff as well as Paul stapleton from anal beard/pog also really liked my stuff which really boosted my confidence tenfold, annie and Joseph too seemed to enjoy what I did and it made all the stressing super worth while, because I mean I've been going to these muscians gigs for quite a few years now so for them to suddenly be telling me they like my stuff is actually quite surreal, and not sure I deserved it.
I did the longest set i've had so far and my 3rd string on my guitar was threatening to break any second, I just prayed it got me through the set, which it did...so *pats guitar* Thankyou.
- Aberdeen
- Kitkat
- Beer vs Cider
- Scot the punk snail
- Ebay
- Work
- Spider
- Weirdo-e-o
- Suicide
I cant begin really to say what the highlights for me were, soo many bands I truely adore, from Verbal Warning, Pog, Wob, Eastfield, Cracktown, Paul Carter, Steven Cooper and the Charlies, the Re-entrants, Rachel Pantechnicion, Anal Beard, Blyth Power (obviously) and some new ones I hadn't come across before. Mingling with people and having a laugh. Otters abound. Got a full set of Paul Stapletons pictures and the graphic novels we were missing, which was a real treat, A wob album, blyths new album and t-shirt, pogs new album, paul carters album and a project adorno cd (cheers Russel I promise when mines all done you can have a copy) So our car on leaving the venue was considerably heavier than on arrival.
I still feel a bit jetlagged though, The whole atmosphere was excellent and I can't wait for next year. I'll be much better I promise.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 03 September 2009 09:40 |
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Written by Samantha
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Sunday, 02 August 2009 00:06 |
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I've never had a gig like the one I had tonight, and yeah okay I understand that i'm new to gigging but the response from my songs was beyond awesome. More than I ever expected or imagined. My first set went
kitkat
eBay
Weirdo
Suicide
And then I was asked up for a second shot later on so I did
Aberdeen
Spider
Crazy. and loads of people cornered me asked me if I had an album out or had recorded anything I gave out little moo cards with my details on them and felt really overwhlemed. Seriously People were really happy and seemed to love what I sang and it made me feel giddy. Although part of that was my ticker ticking too fast. I shouldnt have gone out tonight shouldnt be putting my heart under additional stress until the docs can figure out whats wrong with it. But boy was it worth it tonight. I didn't even know I was going to be gigging until about 1pm this afternoon. I'm really glad I went.
Got invited to a new open mic night, a guy came up to me and gave me a bit of paper telling me to check the place out and that they'd like a girl like me to play. So yeah. I'm feeling pretty swish. Although I wasn't the best musician in the pub tonight, not by a long shot. I've got a long way to go before I can say i'm good at guitar playing, but on a weird note I bought a harmonica on ebay and the guy selling it lives not very far away from me and he also does guitar tuition so maybe i'll get a few lessons out of him which would rock, maybe i'll be a good guitarist yet
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009 12:01 |
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The gig at Watford was awesome last night. Hit a few bad notes singing wise...okay notes that were particular off key and not on purpose. Also hit quite a few bad notes on the guitar but considering I can't really play I think people just took it as gospel that what I was doing was what I was supposed to be doing. Which suited me fine.
But the reception was fantastic. All my songs were really greatly received and it made me feel special...not speshul which is how I usually feel. I'm pretty pleased with myself, cause those that know me will know i'm not the most confident of people and a few years back I probably would have passed out at the simple notion of getting up and playing some songs infront of people. I just feel like this is what I was always supposed to be doing.
It doesn't matter if it doesn't make me money. Thats not what its about. Its about inflicting my singing on people, maybe someone will listen to the words and laugh, but mainly its just about having a good time |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 30 July 2009 09:43 |
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009 07:01 |
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Okay so ive totally been on a bit of a sweet tooth bender recently, theres just some things I dont know where to get anymore. Those sherbert filled rice paper things known as flying saucers for example. I loved those as a kid even though in the penny mix choice they actually cost 2 pence rather than 1 pence. Strawberry laces another good favourite of mine they're quite easy to get in Walmarts/Asda, and MARSHMELLOWS (the pink ones taste waaaay better than the white ones (although dont read the ingredients of marshmellows it came close to putting me off of them)
So the picture above, how many can you name? I can see the fizzy dummies on the right hand side and the fried eggs (which to eat properly you must chew the centre bit off first and then you can eat the rest of it) theres gummi bears in there but wheres the cola cubes and the fudge? or those little white mice with red jam in them. Or those flat white cholcate buttons that had small little balls on them. I hate licorish so i dont mind not seeing any of those in the pic . Dolly mixture I wasnt particularly fond of but I liked wethers original butterscotch stuff and I liked foxs glacier mints. Refreshers too were tasty and love hearts were okay. Although secretly they're just chalk right? But the real reason im posting a second post is because I need to know if I was the only kid to do this.
Did anyone tak a sweetie like smarties or trebor extra strong mints or polos or somthing where you could eat a single one of a pack, and pretend they were oxygen pills or medicine, like if you didnt eat one every 10 minutes you'd run out of air or die or something. Me and my sisters used to play that game all the time with smarties (the blue ones tasted the best but now blue smarties dont exist anymore so the orange ones are the next best, and I dont care what anyone says you CAN taste the difference) I also for some reason used to eat opal fruits (or starburst as theyre known now) and chewits with the wrappers still on. it seems too much effort to unwrap them. I was such an odd kid. So whats your favourite sweetie? Can you still get hold of them now |
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