Amp Number 2!!!!

Ok everybody this has got to be one of the most exciting bits of news for our band (apart from Nate's drumkit arriving of course.)
We scored ourselves that amp today! Dan and Dad stayed up last night fixing it and this morning I couldn't wait to get up and try it. Thanks Dad, you're the best!!
The problem was though the fact that it was a bass amp. So Dad said that it should be for my guitar.
I didn't really much like that idea though cos it's quite a bit smaller than my amp. But I gave it a shot anyway and was quite surprised. It makes my guitar sound WAY better. So now it's the guitar amp. And Dan's using my one for his microphone.
There's only one small problem. Seeing as Dan's on the keyboard he can't really play and hold the mike so he has to keep putting it down and picking it up and it's pretty annoying cos he misses out on some parts like that. We really need a microphone stand.
But otherwise it's all sweet. We are seriously up and running now.
Only a concert left t0 go!

Jordan

Well here I am on a friday night....

Well here I am on a Friday night on the computer writing. Rosie's really annoying and won't go to sleep. She keeps saying "Where Mummy?" (its 9:36) Mum and Jord and Beka are at Youth Group. Dad and Dan are making an amp in the workshop, and Josh and Kezi are asleep (unlike Rosie!)
And today I was raking leaves when the raked slipped and hit me in the side of the foot. So now my foot really hurts. So I have nothing else to do but write the blog. And I'm really tired... but its been a good day. Gtg rescue Rosie
nate

Around is finished (finally)

Hey everyone!
We've had a pretty good day today. In the morning after the usual schoolwork we sat down and stuck in to fixing up another one of our songs.
And it worked! Got it all sorted now and it sounds pretty mint. A slow song- not got very many of them.
The rest of the day we went around talking in Yoda voices. It was quite fun. As I said, "Crazy,we are!"
The songwriting process is coming along-very slowly I must admit but at least it's coming along. I've got pieces of at least five songs written down on notepaper by my bed-still got one from August (back when we went skiing!) in there.
It's the finishing off which is the hard bit. The last song I wrote just straight off was ummmmm can't remember. I think it might have been Kiwi on my Wall (which, coincidently was the third song I ever wrote. We've canned the first two.).
Anyway that's about it for today. Oh and someone told me today that our music is very Ameican Punk-ish (which I'd never heard of, but apparently the sound is kinda like Greenday and Stellar Kart.).
So I was pretty stoked about that.

Jordan

everday sunday rule!!!

wow everyday sunday are the meanest band ever! beka heard one of their songs on Life FM so we randomely looked them up. Then they turned out to be really cool. They use PRS (Paul Reed Smith) guitars and their song Find me tonight is sooooo cool. But you can probably read all that about them when you go to their myspace page. (There's a link to it on the right-hand-side of our blog). They're like.... up there near the top of the chart.
nate

I have an official haircutter!

Today we had a rockin' band practice. We did everything right - including Make up your Mind - which went surprisingly well. Beka gave me another rockstar haircut (she's pretty much the official now).
And the new Soul Purpose magazine came out so we've been gluing our eyes to that as well.
nate

Amazing stuff

I couldn't believe it!
Today we played Make up your Mind and it actually worked! It even sounded good!
It was truly amazing.
And I was thinking of canning that too.
Good thing I didn't.

Jordan

I love lists.

I do. It's kind of weird.

So here's one of my lists: The top 5 guitars I'd most like to have.

1. Vox Guitar organ.

Needs no introduction.PRS 513

Because it has five pickups and 13 sounds!3.Gibson Flying V

It's beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!4.Any wooden guitar

It's so smooth and again it's a PRS guitar and Stellar Kart, Everyday Sunday, Kutless, Family Force 5, Linkin Park, Switchfoot and Casting Crowns use PRS guitars.5. A V-wing accustic

I have a thing for these. Ever since I saw one in the Rockshop.

There's a few more actually but I have to go now so that'll do.

Jordan

Everyday Sunday

We found out this real cool band last night called Everyday Sunday. Beka had randomly heard one of their songs on Life Fm, and so I decided to look them up.
I was pretty much blown away. On their Myspace page they had a few of their songs, and they were just awesome. Kind of a bit like Stellar Kart without the keyboard. And with a bit of Kingston thrown in the mix.
It's like a fresh breath of insparation. What I hate in a band is when they sound like some other band. Not their own thing.
But these guys are original.
I wish they were coming to Parachute.

Jordan

Happy days

I've finally managed to get Dad around to fixing that amp! Okay, he hasn't started it yet, but he's said he'll get it finished by the end of the week.
Didn't get much time to practice today as I was pretty busy. Well kinda anyway.
We went on a photoshoot tonight but it was pretty much the same as usual; nothing special. We went into this place where your supposed to walk your dogs. So we pretended Dan was a dog (the things we do to our lead singer!) and went in. Then we saw an actual guy with a dog and it wasn't on a lead. We thought our story wouldn't hold much water so we hid up a tree while Beka took some pictures. Then we went back into Beka's car,turned the radio up and roared down High Street.
(Don't worry-we didn't really! I think Beka was under the speed limit and her car can't roar anyway.)
Happy days mate.

Jordan

Born for this

This is what we were born to do. This is who we are.
And we're not changing to something else.
We are ourselves.
Let's rock the world!

Jordan