Rockquest!!!!

What a night!!!!

Lastnight was Smokefree Wanganui Rockquest, as you probably know. The venue was the Wanganui Opera House:

Our first song didn't go so well, but it was enough to get us into the Top 8. In the 8pm show, we went hundy as!!! Ripped up in our songs, it was an energetic as show! The crowd were loving it, and joined in the sways and singing. We went hard as, and had so much fun onstage!!!!! Unfortuntly we didn't end up winning, but we did win an award for the best lyrics! It was a great night, here's some moooooore pictures:Jamming in the van beforehand:

Watming up, (Nate headbanging in the carpark) :D

Haha, at the start of our 2nd song, Love Is More Than This, Nate's drumstick snapped in half due to him playing hard as :D He carried on playing with the end he was still holding onto, then casually bent down whilst playing one-handed, dropped the smaller half of the stick and picked up the slightly longer half that had landed on the floor beside him, and kept playing the whole time! Barely anyone even noticed it! He managed to keep up the big rolls and intense drumming, despite only using one and a half drumsticks. It was an epic move, here's the drumstick he was playing with:

Hahah legend. Here's one of the other bands:

A bit of the crowd: (notice the "Mayday" banner? Thanks Tania and Rachel!!)Thanks for your support guys, we had an awesome night!!!!

Mayday

Rockquest 2011!!

Sup guys!!!
We had a massive mess-up with Rockquest this year. A musical that two of our band members are in - Jordan and Daniel - clashed with Palmeston North Rockquest. Unfortuntly because of this we had to change it. Soooo, now we'll be playing in Wanganui RQ this Saturday!! A bit gutted, cause our school and some of our mates are going to Palmy, but yeahh. Also we have to practice hard as. This will unfortuntly be our last rockquest due to our age, so we're gonna go all out!!! We'll be performing our brand new song, "Love Is More Than This" (see lyrics in previous post) - which is awesome!! So, its pretty much all sorted, just gotta send of our final application tomorow morning and practice hardout.
Thanks for all the support - you guys are awesome!!
Nate

The song of my life:

If I have anything to say, it's all in this song. I had a sudden revelation late one night after talking to a friend. When I finally "got it". And by it I mean love. This song was the result. Hope you like it as much as I do! Please comment if you want to say anything about it!

LOVE IS MORE THAN THIS

If I asked the world what love is/ I'd get a lot of answers for such a simple question/ Would they all be wrong?

Cause a girl says this/ And a guy says that/ We've got different opinions/ So we'll leave it at that/ It's not some stirring song, it's not a radient glow/ Do you want to find out, or do you really know/ Do you wanna know?/ What love is

Hey girl do you really know what love is/ When you're only just sixteen/ Yet you think you know, you've got all the clothes/ And the makeup, it's another breakup/ Do you really know?/ Or are you just ready to go?

La la la la/ Love is more than this

Love is not quite what you think/ Not a poem scrawled in red ink/ If I asked the world in passing/ I'd get a lot of answers to the question I am asking/ If it was said and done would I get the right one?

Hey guy do you really know what love is/ When you're only just seventeen/ Yet you think you know, and you say it so/ Will you wake up, cause it's another break up/ Do you really know, or are you just ready to go?

There is no greater love than this/ To lay down your life for someone who needs it/ Even if you don't know who they are/ And it means so much more/ Than fairytale love, that isn't good enough/ To satisfy everything we are

Hey world do we really know what love is?/ When we're only just human/ Yet we think we know, and we say it so/ When will we wake up, or will we just break up?/ Do we really know, or are we just dying to know?

La la la la, Love is more than this
(c) copyright Mayday 2011

Best song I've ever written.

Jordan

Blogs we like to visit...

I don't know about you but I like to read. And on rare occasions where I'm on the blogging world instead of the Facebook world (instead of the real world haha!), these are the places I like to hang out:
http://imbekahope.blogspot.com/
Beka is probably the coolest girl in the world! She is an amazing designer and photographer and an all round awesome person. Plus she writes great blogs! Ok she is my sister so I may be a little bit biast but yes. You should definitely go read her blog!
http://rockofescape.blogspot.com/
Hannah is another pretty awesome girl. Plus she's from America! I love following blogs from different places of the world! I'd follow one from Italy but I don't think I'm fluent enough in the language... :( Anyway this is a pretty awesome blog to read.
http://filmjunkie25.blogspot.com/p/100-favourite-films.html
If you like movies you should definitely check out this blog! Even though I'm not as much of a movie freak as I am a Jesus freak or a music freak, I still love watching the occasional flick. Anyway, this is a good blog to read if you're wondering what to get out of the video store! The advice is almost always exactly what I like. Plus Stevee is a really good writer.

That's the ones I'm mostly on, but occasionally I like to go other places. Cody, when he's blogging at http://codypellerin.blogspot.com/ always has something insightful to say. Another great blogger is Tanner at http://tannerpemelton.blogspot.com/. His blogs are really well written and also very meaningful to me. Also go check out my mums blog:
http://www.hartathome.blogspot.com/ (it's pretty awesomely deep!) and also my friend Korina's (http://purplesoapsuds.blogspot.com/) is looking to be awesome too!
What blogs do you like to visit?

Jordan