Dead Kings

i've been posting this everywhere else
why not here too?

I uploaded 2 new unmastered songs to the Dead Kings myspace off what will be their debut album
the reaction to them so far is awesome, so suss them out
it's heavy, it's pretty, it's massive

http://www.myspace.com/deadkingsaus

last week i spent 5 days in sydney with DK recording and then 3 days in perth with Slowburn
i've never had so much fun, been so broke and been so tired
would do it all again in an instant
going back to work today was the hugest downer

bring on june
x

update.

in the studio with Dead Kings at Electric Sun in Sydney
this place has wireless net with unlimited downloads
life's good

Mitch and Shane are downstairs micing shit and we're watching Oz

i'm here til friday morning then I meet Slowburn at the airport and we fly to Perth til next monday morning

Morgan's off to the shops to buy mountain bread

end of the week and i have -$11.06 in the bank
i have both everything in the world and nothing at the same time

we applied for a new house
lushest of the lush, 5 bedroom modern home, big pimpin
they saying they're sussing our references and asked when we can sign the lease and pay bond
so it's looking good
if all goes to plan we'll be moving in next weekend
if it was possible, i think we're actually moving closer to au lac than we already are now

life's moving in a good direction
i just need some kinks to get the fuck out the road

a list as to why life rules

2 people
6 taco shells
6 vegedogs
1 1/4 full pack of tvp
1 can of mixed beans
2 packs taco seasoning
1 head of lettuce
2 tomatos
1 jar taco sauce

end result; taco dogs or chupacabra

ignore the whole goat sucking thing to do with legit (~legit~) chupacabras, we're just going by that it's a mexican dog
livin

meanwhile, i'm broke
x

inner north, holla

moved in with 5 vegans, 2 cats, a dog and a rat

i'm living in a lounge room
but the lounge room has a PS3 and an X360 hooked up to a 40" plasma

money's tight but my situation is getting better and better and i'm stokin

most of my travel plans have been scrapped in favour of paying rent/living but i'm alright with that because every night i spend here is better than the last

tonight we had a cupcake party to raise money for animal rescue
made some sweet skrilla and then we made burgers after
i can't figure out how to set up the router so 3 computers can go on the net at once but that's a battle best saved for another night

i'm living with the best people in this city
x

shit's been rough lately
legit rough, not shitty girl problem rough

havent been home much and i'm moving out soon

it's pretty much been problem after problem, issue after issue
but hopefully an upside is on it's way

x

AGENDA

Friday January 30th - Sydney
Saturday January 31st - Sydney

Friday February 13th - Adelaide
Saturday February 14th - Melbourne
Sunday February 15th - Melbourne

Tuesday February 24th - Sydney
Wednesday February 25th - Melbourne
Thursday Febraury 26th - Melbourne

Friday March 13th - Melbourne
Saturday March 14th - Melbourne

Friday March 20th - Adelaide
Saturday March 21st - Bayswater and Melbourne
Sunday March 22nd - Sydney
Monday March 23rd - Sydney
Tuesday March 24th - Sydney
Wednesday March 25th - Campbelltown
Thursday March 26th - Sydney
Friday March 27th - Perth
Saturday March 28th - Perth
Sunday March 29th - Perth

march 20th, 21st and 25th might not happen
but whatever

see y'all soon

so it's like a week late but i figure i'll post a summary of last weekend
we drove to melbourne and adelaide for a few shows with shinto and dead kings
it was a ruling weekend

thursday -
stay at morgans wednesday night so we could bail early and get into melbourne with time to fuck around
i wake up to rosie barking at nothing and then mitch shows up
roh and paul show up after and paul is wearing the most obnoxious fluro green tracksuit pants... what the fuck
we start driving, mitch listens to non stop trance in the back, paul and roh smoke weed in the middle, morgan chews on shit somewhere else and me and aaron listen to T.I. in the front
the drive's pretty smooth, i prepare myself for holbrook supermarket which i'm told doesn't sell hommus but discover, much to my joy, they do
so things are off to a good start.
we get into melbourne at like 4, head straight to pick up the merch, pick up goth cunt (damo) from the airport and then head to bang
our runsheet tells us next is on at the same place as bang.. which i thought sounded funny
but us not being from the bigsmoke, we cruised to bang (we actually drove to the DAL office first because i'm an incredibly good looking and smart individual who read the wrong address) and discovered that next ain't there.
we get to the correct place, i discover the jerv actually runs next, i talk shit with him, get his new demo (suss http://www.myspace.com/portrayalofvengeance) i eat some shitty indian and the show is actually dope
i catch pepper, dez, sam+samn and a few others briefly, we sell fuck all merch and then bail for adelaide

highlights:
roh and paul's singing
learning mitch has a mild case of tourettes ("wet penis", "cuntcuntcunt", "tit cancer" etc.)
rohan's music choices

friday -
i've never done the melbourne/adelaide drive before but i've heard horrible stories
and it's just as bad as hype suggests. when the GPS pipes up and says "continue straight for 500kms" my heart sank
we left melbourne at like 12:30am and got into adelaide at like 7:30. so we did pretty good time. only problem was we had no agenda between 7:30am and 6pm when load in was apart from roh and paul wanting to go catch a friend in the afternoon. which left us a whole lot of time with nothing to do and nowhere to stay.
so first up we try some park. a few of us opt to try and sleep in the parked van. aaron, morgan and goth cunt go for the park. prognosis; too many ants.
next we think it's a sick idea to sleep at a beach. we type in 'beach' into the GPS and it tells us to drive in the very centre of a fucking lake... good one
so we head to this lake anyway. try and sleep here, no go, we try an actual beach, no go so we go shopping. it's like midday and we're starving, we hit the markets, get some killer soy cheese and crackers, lush in little poppa boxes and i buy a killer rebel8 tee from 101.
after this we do some other shit and then go find the venue

the place is weeiirrd. it's like some historic looking hotel or some shit and the inside looks like bar 32 but twice the size. we get all our shit together, go to zenhouse and find out it's closed (adelaide gets shitter yet again), eat some gay spring rolls and then go back for the show
this is where adelaide gets funny

syke is by far the skankiest place i've ever been
for every dude ready to punch on, there's 10 really slutty girls.
more people out front smoking than there are inside and sooo many fights.
between the last band finishing and us packing the van we saw 3 fights.

- when we're packing up the merch, some dude thinks he's really funny and throws a drink in the air, the drink goes all over our merch and the cup hits some dude. so that dude takes his glass and hurls it, misses the first guy and straight hits some girl in the head hahaha
- standing behind the trailer, i hear "oi cunt!" and suddenly the whole trailer shakes and some dudes face is bleeding so hard hahaha
-aaron's packing our van, some dude piggybacking a girl comes running up the road, trips over and the girl eats shit hard. another dude, rather than helping the girl up, picks up the dude and starts smashing him hahaha

it was seriously like a saloon in there.

i don't even remember that much about the show. i remember dead kings sounding fucking horrible up the back of the room but killer up the front. i remember dave telling people to punch their mates during shinto and i remember hearing capulet and thinking it was just a cd being played over the stereo.
however a few days before the show i spoke to my friend emma from adelaide who i've known from yeeeaars. like seriously so long. i told her to come out and i caught up with her briefly. i was siked to see her, she's always been rad and she got me into shit like american nightmare and hope con and day of contempt way back in highschool. for someone i've only hung with a handful of times, she's had a huge impact on my life.

our next show is at midday the next day so once again we can't crash anywhere and just have to head straight back to melbourne

highlights:
soy cheese and lush
101
burp burrito
shouting "goth cunt" in the middle of jb on rundle mall
seeing emma at syke

saturday -
this drive is worse than the one to adelaide
i crash out for an hour or so in the back, doze a bit and then it's my turn to drive.
all i remember is "oh sick 2 lanes... back to 1 lane... oh sick 2 lanes... back to 1 lane..."
by about 6am i'm halfway between drowsy and hyperalert, i look in the rearview mirror and the sun is rising and i go "oh weird, there's some blue in the sunrise" then i glance back and for a split second think "oh hey theres some red in it now" then i realise it's a cop
pulled over for doing 105 in a 70 zone. sucks but the cop was actually sweet so whatever
we swap drivers, i doze a bit more and come 9am we're back in melbourne.
we roll straight to jareds place to crash out and shower.
some of us head to sydney road to eat and i discover how good cold vegeroast with hommus is
we find the venue by accident and go load in

this venue is actually sweet. killer stage and floorspace, air con, activities and shit in the back room and a basketball hoop out front.
shit starts to kick off. ire are fucking incredible, dead kings dont play the greatest set but people are still really siked. tim does the claw to the pfc intro and i'm siked hahaha. hopeless' new shit is dope and shinto are just heavy. obw cover.

the end of the show is a fucking headache. desmonds running shows and trying not to pay bands. the promoters story about how much shit cost kept changing and we ended up leaving with less cash than i think should've come our way considering the amount of payers. but in the end, he's a fuckwit and didn't tally payers at all, didn't keep track of exactly how much money there was and did shit all wrong so i can't prove shit. whatever, we're not letting him tarnish what was actually a killer show in a tidy new venue.

after this, shit gets real. i'm pissed cos of that retard and cos it's so hot. so we hit up what feels like the best meal i'd ever had in my life (parmas at east brunswick with peanut butter cheesecake for dessert), head back to jareds for a nap and a shower and then we hit bang
bang is usually fucking shit but killer with good people
i figured it might be suss cos heaps of people are in sydney for IA but we get there and find Mick, Magmar, Roy and Shinto dudes. party is immense. lots of dancing.
head home kinda early and sleep for 1348534 years

highlight:
parmas
parmas
ire
parmas
dancing
parmas

sunday -
pretty straight up day
wake up, head to the city, smash 2 of the new big mark lord of the fries burgers, steal some of tom's nuggets, steal some of morgans chips. we suss some nerd shop that goth cunt wants to check out and head back to pack the van
ride back to canberra is smooth
ate at hungry jacks, shit is gross, got called a poof and rolled home by like 10pm

over the course of the weekend i slept about 6 hours
ate like 3 meals total
recieved $250 in speeding and parking fines
lost 3 demerit points
and laughed more than i have in forever

shit was tidy
only thing i regret about the weekend is not bringing a camera
can't wait to go back to melbourne

since then i've just been working all week, trying not to melt and tomorrow i've got bleeding through
i am that siked for this weekend

also for the past 2 weeks i've been living vegan and i'm siked with the decision and sticking with it. just figured i'd throw that in here at the end

peace