Last night was another triumphant gig in Birmingham, another stormer. Everything is going really well at the moment, I am really enjoyin playin the new album and being back out on the road. I have been trying to keep up with my fitness regime out on the road but its really hard as I am jugglin the tour with buyin our house and im in the middle of recordin the foreign versions of my single so I am totally knackered! And now im beginning to feel a bit fat....its so annoyin cos we get to these venues and there's loads of chocolate and crisps, and then my uber lanky band mates get stuck in while I look on in envy!
Its weird cos everyone i've seen recently who hasn't seen me in a while say's I look like i've lost loads of weight from my trainin and my trainer say's I've lost 12 percent body fat but I still don't seem happy....its really gettin me down. Its really hard sometimes not to get caught up in becomin obsessed with your weight, I've done it in the past and its driven me round the bend! So I hope I don't do it again, after all its not about all that stuff its about good music!!
Well i've gotta get off and soundcheck. Take care y'all and peace x x
Hey y'all, It is the second night of the tour and it is going amazingly well! Last night and tonight were both sellout's PLUS there were even loads of people on standby just incase anyone didn't come! Its amazing. So, it has been a great start and hopefully it will continue like this! Tomorrow's gig is in Norwich and it is pretty much sold out too, probably will be by tomorrow night. Anyway schmoo's I am so chuffed cos this tour is going so well!!! Thank you to everybody for all the support, I am havin a ball playin the new album!
I'm just gearing up for my new tour! Woop woop, can't wait!
The last couple of days have been pretty mental for me, i've just finished recordin my ep of covers which includes my very own version of bleedin love! But apart from that i've also been workin really hard on recording the foreign versions of my new single. Last night i finished the French version! It sounds really cool! But it was hard to get all the pronounciation right! And this weekend i'm also startin on the japanese version which is gonna be a little more difficult! But it's all cool, i think people will really appreciate the effort!
Well i'd best be off, got a heap of interviews to do now.
Hay ho schmoo's had a very interesting evening lastnight in the house of commons speaking at the "Make your mark in music" campaign.!!
It was cool, I was a little nervous but i don't think it showed..I was totally expecting a few questions about the webcasts but instead of a barage of accusations I got some really nice intelligent questions!! So it was nice to be able to just talk about it in a positive way and not feel like I was in the hot seat!!
Its such ashame when I look back on it all that it recieved such bad press cos' I think it made alot of people think I was a fraud...but as I said in a couple of interviews this morning.....its made me stronger in the end.
So I guess you've all heard by now that the album and single have a release date, the digital release for the single is May 5th...(my dad's birthday!!), the physical release for the single is May 12th and the Album release date both digital and physical is May 19th.
I actually realised that it will pretty much be 2 years to the day since the release of "Smile..It confuses people"....its been a hell of an exciting 2 years!!
Im practicing all day today for the tour, only got like 4 more rehearsals til' were out on the road!! Aargh!
The boys and I have decided to stick to all good intentions while were touring and try to be healthy, go to bed early and not get too pissed!! But i'm not holding my breath on that one!!!
Besides i've been training for 4 months now so I deserve a break!! The good thing about what we do thought is that we don't let it affect our performance..we don't drink before the shows and if we have a line of consecutive dates we dont get too mashed up, but when we've got a day off after a gig we royally go to town cos we know we can!!
Thats the best way to be rock'n'roll!!!
Anyway's.... I am gonna reveal to you that all this and more will be shot as a fly on the wall documentary!! My tour manager's gonna help out holding the camera but i'll actually be shooting quite a bit of it myself ...but its gonna be cool, i'm not sure whether i'll give it away with the album as a double disc or whether i'll post it up on the site bit by bit...not entirely sure yet, i just know that i've bought my cam corder and my tripod and i'm ready to make my documentary!!
So i'll make sure we get up to some shinnanigans so it makes for prime time viewing!!Ha ha!! But as well as the rock'n'roll antics its a chance to see what its like out there on the road especially on a tour like this cos' were not travelling in the tour bus as there wouldn't be much point with just the three of us...!!! so its quite different to what we've grown used too!!
This tour is gonna be a challenge in many ways, were playing 5 gigs in a row on some days which we've never done(normally we have a rule that we play 3 gigs then take a day off), were trading in our tour bus for a people carrier(cos it just sems silly taking a 13berth bus for 3 people) and plus I haven't played my song's on stage on my own for ages!
I really wanted to do this tour though cos' I feel like I never got to experience this last year, we went from playing support slots on big stages to playing some pretty big crowds ourselves so i guess you could say i never got to do an intimate tour to smaller audiences across the UK so i'm making up for lost time now..I know that if I dont do this tour now I probably won't get another chance too for a long time!! Obviously depending on how well "The Pink and The Lily" does!!!
But I think its gonna be great, so lets hoping you think so too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Its only ever been about the music at the end of the day.....
My brother sat his european instrument rating for his helicopters licence today!!!!
and he PASSED!!!!
I cant tell you how bloody happy I am for him and he deserves it so much...
My bro spent 2 years in the US doing his American intsrument rating which he got and now he's just passed his European instrument rating which means he's now a global commercial pilot...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Its like the holy grail of the pilots world.
Im so proud of him and just wanted to share it with you all!!!
And he flew in the worst weather conditions we've seen in a long time so good on him!
Well ma peeps im sitting off in Heathrow airport bored senseless so I thought I'd talk to y'all for a wee while...My flight's been cancelled due to the winds.....boo hoo....i got up at 5am this morning to get here only to sit for 4 hours more and wait!! Aargh......
So so what shall we talk about??....
Well I can tell you something very top secret....I did a photoshoot the other day.....probably one of the most daring things i've done in a long time....!!
I was naked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ha ha...but you don't see anything, its artistic shall we say and very respectful, I'm very strategically covered up!!
I can't say too much about it but I can say that it was in the name of a very good cause which I hope to promote through my exploits!!
When I was asked to do this I thought long and hard about it but I decided to go ahead with it because the point in the nudity was to express a positive outlook on the body, something which I am all for!!
So I guess you'll be seeing it in the not too distant future, the picture will be appearing in a women's magazine shortly...!!
I went to yet another Burns night last night at Harvey Nick's, this time hosted by Scots designer Christopher Kane!! A far cry from the wee back room I celebrated Burns night in last week, all be it a little early but any excuse for a party!! HA HA........
Yes… Instead of the tradition's of piping in the haggis and addressing the haggis then the toasts to the laddie's and lasses and old drunk men reciting Rabbie!! there were Haggis Canapés, champagne, lots of incredibly well dressed people and a DJ set by Edith Bowman hersel'!!
I did have a great time though… it just shows you how a night like that can be so versatile!!!
Ah, the Scots know how to throw a party no matter if you are in a little pub in the back of beyond or in a plush London Club!!
Well Peeps, I am off to the studio........don't have to travel far though.......just down the stairs!!
Hay one and all, hope your all cool, I just wanted to say how desperately saddened I was yesterday by the death of Heath Ledger, he was such a phenomonal actor and so young as well....I pray for his family and hope that people remember him in years to come. The next Batman movie is coming out soon and he star's in it so when you no doubt go to watch the film I think that everyone should try to pay tribute to him by giving him a standing ovation. I can't believe that he's dead, he was only 28...nobody should have to die that young. My first album was dedicated to a school friend of mine, Stephanie Reynolds, she was one of my best friend's in school and she died at just 21. Anyway's when you've got a moment today light a candle or spare a thought for him
