I Heart London

Hung out in London today with Ryan and Nina. My friend Susie from Brisbane plays in a band called I Heart Hiroshima, and they are on tour at the moment around UK and Europe. They have a few days off in London, so they came and hung out with us and we showed them around a bit of the city.

We went to a delicious cafe called Lantana. Awesome food. Going there again tomorrow. We then went record shopping. Everyone spent way too much money. I bought some records... Songs: Ohia, Genghis Tron and Rocket From The Crypt.

Then we went to the British Museum, awesome Egyptian shit everywhere. Then we went to Green Park and St. James Park... Hung out, got some beers, Gareth came after he finished work, we saw some chavs getting arrested for being shit humans. Saw a CCTV camera attached to a tree. Gareth lost his mind. London is Orwellian mental...

Also - went and saw Polar Bear Club play last night in Camden. They were rad again. Defeater played as well and they were really good. Ruiner played but I didn't enjoy them as much as when I saw them in Brisbane. The Lock And Keys played as well, they were awesome. So glad I got to see them play over here. Maybe a Japanese new year with Liena and Niall.... We'll see!

Brighton...

Had a day off tour so went to Brighton for the day with Ryan and Nina. Got shit on by a seagull as soon as we walked out of the train station, so I knew the day was going to be good.
Sunny day, lots of good food, saw heaps of rad shit, bought some Hold Steady records, bumped into Tim from Ghost Of A Thousand, went down to the pier and saw a girl giving a guy a public hand job. Photos below. Got back to London and went out for dinner to Mildreds with Brendan Casey and his girlfriend Amber who are visiting from NYC.

Good times. About to drive to Ireland. Drive to somewhere and get a ferry to Ireland. Good shit!

What is art?

Just playing a violin and standing on a tight rope.

Morrissey pose.

Classy lady. Tramp stamp in henna.

Nice photo of me on the Brighton Pier? Not quite...

Public hand job. Nice Ugg boots, chick.

Brendan and Amber!

London is the reason

Just had a day off in London. Last night was our last on the bus. Played Portsmouth. Got in another fight with some shitbags who were heckling Eva from Rolo Tomassi. Keith from ETID stole a cut out of Beth Ditto the other night in Nottingham, so we had some fun with that last night. Day off today so I hung with Ryan and did all my washing at Gareth and Nina's. Went out for dinner to Papa Gonnes. We always used to go there when Gareth and Lucy and Jimmy lived around the corner and I lived on their couch... Awesome restaurant... Hannah from Neighbours used to work there. Good for her.

London Forum tomorrow, then two days off, then drive to Ireland for two shows, then a week off, then mainland Europe.

Cross my Ts and dot my...lower case Js

Tour for sure.

We're in Portsmouth right now. My head is stinging from last night. I went for a walk along the pier with Bagel, Keith and Doug this morning. Doug flew in the other day from the US to film the new Everytime I Die DVD. I did something silly that is going to end up in it. Doug got me to film some things last night for him...I filmed some titties. Girls Gone Wild style. The girl's boyfriend was standing not too far away, yet she was happy to pop them out for the camera.

Last night we were in Bristol and Throats supported. They're brilliant. Really good live. Check them out if you like Deathwish style bands. Like I said, tonight we're in Portsmouth, we get dropped in London tomorrow to hang for a day. TV's Ryan Sim is in London at the moment so we're going to hang. I need to do my washing, and maybe sleep a bit. Here's some photos of the past few days.

Rolo Tomassi in Birmingham. So stoked I get to see them play almost every night of this tour.

Yesterday in Bristol was Eva from Rolo Tomassi's birthday. She turned 19.

Black Metal yawn.

The Night Marcher himself.

Russ Miller. The C Word.

Everytime I Die in Bristol.

Gallows in Bristol. Killed it. So good. New album is brilliant. Stage dived with my video camera, looks great but the file won't transfer to my laptop. Bummer.

The silly thing I did last night may have involved this statue...

Stage dives ruin lives

Norwich show the other night. Lots of kids. Stage dived. Knocked a kid out and ripped my jeans. I don't really have much money, so two of the most expensive things I owned are now ruined/lost. Ipod and Nudies. Bummer. We're in Oxford now and had a day off yesterday. I watched a lot of Antiques Roadshow in the Travel Lodge, then we went out for dinner to a place called QUOD. I think you have to be an Oxford graduate to eat there...

My most expensive stage dive ever.

Keith saw my Kill The Music tshirt and got a bit excited. Next time he's in Brisbane he is going to pay Paul and Dan a visit. I hope you like the picture Paul/Dan, sorry I ruined it with my fat face.

This is what I sell every night. If you want something...

I just found out today that Gallows have another dude doing Warped Tour for the, so the merch company they go through have hooked me up some more work with a band called TESLA. Interesting.

Listen to them here: http://www.myspace.com/teslatheband
Read all about them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_(band)

Nottingham Knock City

Gallows, Everytime I Die and Hexes played last night in Nottingham. Frank kicked a monitor off the stage and the monitor guy pushed him off the stage head first. That didn't end well for the monitor guy... Lags then knocked himself out with his own guitar.

After the show I was walking to the after party on my own from the bus when I got jumped by a group of three scumbags... One of the dudes walked straight up to me and took a swing which I blocked with my arm. He then walked behind me and the other two dudes squared off at me... I had noticed that they had four mates further up the road, which meant there were seven of them... I can't fight so I legged it past the two dudes into the club and grabbed half of Everytime I Die, most of Gallows and all their crew and went back outside... The seven dudes were three blocks away by now, and Nottingham is the knife and gun crime capital of the UK apparently, so Keith our TM decided to leave it at that and not start something silly in the middle of the street...

We'll see how my wrist feels by the end of the night, might get some X-rays...

After party was a rager though...

Lags DJing. Keith dancing to Fleetwood Mac.

James from Rolo Tomassi w/ friend.

Josh from Everytime I Die w/ friend.

Stu from Gallows w/ lady friend.

Keith from Everytime I Die w/ doppelganger/Seth Rogan.

Party guy