Life At This Speed

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I can’t believe i didn’t make a single entry in August. But in my defense i was fairly busy.

Tour was awesome. We were in the UK with Everyday Hell and Dungeons and i had the most amazing time. I formed some solid friendships with the dudes in those bands and i can’t wait to see them again. You would think that sleeping in the back of a van for 2 weeks would suck but it actually turned out to be pretty comfortable. The dudes from Everyday Hell loved to get naked so it made for extremely funny times. The tour overall went so much better than i expected. Most of the shows were packed and we shifted a lot of Demos.

I went to Ieperfest with the lads after tour. It ruled! Ruiner, Betrayed, Have Heart, Verse, Shipwreck and Counting The Days were all amazing!! It was class to catch up with all the people i aint seen in a while.

We left for tour yesterday. Exciting stuff.

I spent the previous night sitting around watching the dudes play guitar hero. Cruise ruled!!

After we loaded the van we headed to Wexford to meet cory and collect a guitar head. Cory hooked us up with an amazing dinner and then we headed to the quarry, which was amazing!!

After that we went to get the ferry.

I seriously spent like 2 hours hanging over the side of the ferry getting sick, it was so horrible! The dudes laughed at me a lot, haha.

When we got off the ferry we met up with Glenn and im currently sitting in his room typing this. Cheers for hooking us up with a place to stay bro. We are leaving for Colchester in like half an hour! Stoked on life and not feeling sick anymore!

Bye Bye

Ask lee about Demi-Baguette

Today i had such a lazy day. I slept till 3 and when i got up i just sat around doing nothing. Tomorrow is my last day off work before we go on tour so i’m glad i get to hang out with Wally and see The Dark Knight.

We leave for tour on Wednesday. I’m really stoked on getting out of here, having a good time and meeting new people.

UK friends should come hang out.

31 Jul 2008 - The Cambridge Arms - Colchester
1 Aug 2008 - The Bull W/Ritual - Colchester
2 Aug 2008 - Pot Black @ Not Another Lie Fest - Bury St Edmunds
3 Aug 2008 - Trinity Bar - Harrow
4 Aug 2008 - The Chapel - Huddersfield
5 Aug 2008 - The Cooperage - Newcastle
6 Aug 2008 - Eagle & Tun - Birmingham
7 Aug 2008 - The Ringside - Hull
8 Aug 2008 - 1 In 12 Club - Deal With It LP Release show - Bradford
9 Aug 2008 - Essex Fest -Southend
11 Aug 2008 - Dorans - Dublin
12 Aug 2008 - Greystones Skate Park - ALL AGES

All Or Nothing and Chaos Days left this morning which sucked. They are such nice dudes and i had the best time hanging out. Myself and Tim are an unbeatable Scene It combination, haha. Come back soon dudes!!

Forging Friendships recorded a new Demo last week.
You can hear one of the songs at www.myspace.com/forgingfriendships

It has been ages since i have updated this. Apologies.

I have been so busy lately, it’s crazy.

No Turning Back played here last weekend and i had a great time at both shows i was at. Great dudes, Great band!

Demented fest was this weekend and i had a blast!! All Ages > over 18’s for sure.
Another Day In Hell played their last show yesterday and the place got torn apart! It was sad to see them go but we gave them a good send off!

Forging Friendships recorded a new demo over the weekend and its sounding huge! hopefully there will be a song up on the myspace in the next couple of days!
We are going to the UK in 10 days and i couldn’t be more excited!

All Or Nothing and Chaos Days are over to play a couple of show!!
They are the best dudes so you should check them out.

I have not updated this in forever, mostly just because i have been really busy.
To say that work is killing me would be an understatement. I actually just avoid talking to people if i can, its the only way i can keep my sanity. Now i know how Nelly felt when he wrote those ADIH songs, haha.

The Forging Friendships album is written. I reckon we will end up recording it in September or something. Lets hope people dig the new shit. We are heading off on tour at the end of the month and i couldnt be more excited.

I’m sure you have heard that the First Death CD actually came out!!!
lookbackrecords.bigcartel.com buy it up!!

Ohh also cheers to everyone that turned up to the comeback kid show. I think 200+ people turned up in the end!!

to think that so many peoople turned up to that show is crazy.
I remember some time last year some dudes were giving out about only putting on hardcore bands at shows. They said that the scene could never grow if we continued to do so and that there could never be a full on hardcore scene in Dublin. But they were wrong. It has got to the stage where there are a couple of bands coming through Dublin a month and people turn up every time to see them.
There are so many good bands coming through here in the next few months, No Turning Back, All Or Nothing, Chaos Days, Wraith, Ironclad, Dungeons, Broken Teeth, Outbreak, Pulling Teeth, Deal With It, Blacklisted, Rttm and im sure like 100 more before the year is out.
So basically Dublin Hardcore is thriving and i can only see it going from strength to strength

Today is a pretty important day for me. Today is the day that we finish writing the Forging Friendships album. We basically wrote the whole thing in 3 months which seems crazy to me, but it’s def the best stuff we have written by far. For those of you who don’t know it will have 10 new songs and 2 old ones. Hopefully we will get it recorded in July, fingers crossed anyway.

The Hulk comes out today and we are going to see it before practice! It has potential to rule.

I was talking to a friend last night about how i didn’t even post in that “what the fuck” thread yet im still the only one that gets shouted at in public about it. It’s kinda funny that im seen as the “face” of some crew of hardcore kids that go beating up dudes and shit. She was telling me about all these dudes that hate me, most of which i have never even met which is way beyond funny. It is starting to annoy me at this stage to be honest. I feel like Mike Judge or something, If they want this tough guy straight edge dude maybe i will give it to them. Someone start a band with me that just covers Judge and beats people up, haha. I really don’t want any trouble with anyone. I guess people can’t handle the fact that i speak my mind or something. Whats the point in saying anything if you are not going to be honest though?? Shit just doesn’t make sense.

For those of you who don’t know im putting on Comeback Kid with the lads on Monday night. I would appreciate if you could take a minute to check them out, they rule and i’m sure alot of you would be into them.

If you have not done so already Pre Order the Reality 7″ From this link http://shutoutrecords.bigcartel.com/product/altered-states-ep-pre-order

and you need to pick up a copy of the Deal With It LP from http://www.deadandgonerecords.com/store

It’s 9:40am on Sunday the 8th of June. I have to leave for practice in just over an hour and i couldn’t be more stoked about it. It will be a welcome release after the weekend i have had. We might even finish writing the album today! I’m so excited to start recording it. I’m not sure exactly when that will be but i hope it’s soon.

I have to go back to work tomorrow and the thought of it is killing me. I just can’t take it anymore. I’m sick of fucking idiots.

July 28th can not come soon enough!

these tears wont hide themselves for long
buried in the moments of weakness before the sun
i watched constantine tonight
knowing that there is no god and no hope
and little for a man like me at the end of days
in the darkness of this empty room
where this bright light is the only sign of life
and this shiver running down my spine
is the closest i have come to feeling alive
since hope died
every road leads back here
and every chain of thought leads back to the same thing
you are not here and i have to be ok with that
because i can change it
every feeling i ever felt
lead me to believe that this was actually going somewhere
that you could be something more than a disappointment
i guess i was wrong.

I have been living a lie. Every time i think that i’m getting close to someone they do or say something that makes me realize that there is just no point at all. I think that maybe its human nature to lie?? I’m as guilty as the next person, but that doesn’t make it suck any less when you learn something about someone that you care about. I took the day off work today. I was sick as fuck all night, so i decided to sleep all day. I don’t want to go to work tomorrow. If i’m honest i’m fairly sure that i never really want to step foot in that place again. But i need the money, Such is life. I spent all day sitting at home watching movies and listening to music. I watched men of honour! Fuck me, what a good movie! I spent hours listening to the new Wonder Years 7″ today and every time i heard the line “heads above water this year boys” it made me feel a little bit better knowing i’m not th only one struggling to do so. It also made me realize how hard it is to cope in this city sometimes and how people choose not to see when people need help. I’m sure i have been guilty of this and if you have ever reached out to me and i have been to caught up in my own shit to notice i am truly sorry. Everybody needs an outlet and i dunno what i would do if i didn’t have this band to sing in. I never claimed to be good at what i do but its something i need to do for my own sanity. I love when i’m walking home late at night and i hear a line from a song and i think “fuck i know exactly how that feel” its good to know i’m not the only person in the world going through this shit. I remember like 2 years ago i was going through some shit and i posted some lyrics about it and i got a message from kate, a girl i barely knew at the time(Elf Buddies now!) i cant even remember exactly what we talked about but it helped. I remember thinking how amazing it was that someone i barely knew would take the time just to ask if i was ok. People like kate are the reason i still have faith in the human race!

Conclusions:
Men Of Honor rules!!
The Wonder Years Rule!!
Kate Rules!!

I’m still keeping my head above water, This year, Next year and every year until the day that i die. It might not seem like it to people that don’t really know me, But i am stoked on life!