parachute 2011....

<----Parachute!!!!

The biggest Christian music festival in the Southern Hemisphere. 30,000 fans swarm in every year.

Next year Parachute features include: Skillet, Rapture Ruckus, Chris Tomlin, Seabird, Flyleaf, and many more.

Oh..... and MAYDAY!!!!

yess we are in Parachute 2011!!

We were privelaged to play there this year, and are very excited to be featuring at Parachute next year!!! The above picture is mainstage, Parachute's biggest stage..we're on the smallest but still managed to have a crowd of 150+ this year! So if you are coming come along and party with us!! Bring all your mates cause we want it to be the biggest EVER Debut show!

Looking so forward to it.. and its only 106 days, 16 hours, 11 minutes, and 28 seconds away!!

Thanks everyone for your great support! You don't know how much we all appreciate it!! Your amazing!

Nate

Mayday

WE'RE IN!!!!!!!!!!!

PARACHUTE HERE WE COME!!!!!!!!!!!

Les Mis family!

when we started this musical, i really did not want to be in it. the constant hours practicing dumb songs, in a room full of people i didn't really know, except a few, going over and over and OVER the tenor, bass, alto and soprano lines....

who would have thought that by the end of it all i was jumping off barricades, playing ninja onstage before the curtain came up and getting the signatures of some of the most AMAZING people i've met in my lifetime!
it was so great to see how at the end we all gelled together. we were like one big family...all supporting each other. sure things got a little tense every now and then (lack of microphones, fire alarms, everyone yelling at each other) but thats what families do aye. need a little tension to stick us together. was so cool how we could laugh at it all on the last night.
and man did we put on one impressive show! got so much great feedback! we really rivalled all the big theatre companies who've peformed Les Miserables.
the leads were amazing! at first i was like "whoah!" because they were all such talented singers/performers, but when i got to know them i found out they were genuinely awesome people! they were all really funny, and nice, and supportive of the full company. great people in a great show. made so many awesome friends and was so proud of us all! totally glad i kept going through the hard stuff to join the unforgetable experience of being in such an amazing musical!
oh and thanks for helping me to sing (roughly!) in tune! never knew i could harmonize until that show. totally lifechanging.
not that any of you read my blog but if you do i want you to know that i love you all!




"Do you hear the people sing!"


Jordan

hi guys!

well howdy do!
yeh haha i fail at being a hillbilly!!!
anyway hows it going peoples? i've just had an amazing holidays which i'm vury keen to blog about but as usual it's realllllly late so i'll just pop in a quick note to say that yes i will hopefully be back to blogging real soon. but yeah...it's awesome...i've been away from the internet for five days! epic stuff right there!!! haha :D
anyway drop in a note to say hi cos we love hearing from y'all.
there i go trying to be hillbilly again...
:)

Jordan

Ps Craig from Creative Sounds Inc (the peoples we recorded our ep with) sent us an email saying he's getting firmly into the mixing (trying to get rid of Daniel's "Par-teee" probably haha) so hopefully we can get some stuff up soon.

The haps.

Today we fitted drums, vocals, and effects into our new new song What I've Done For Myself !! It sounds great. Also finished polishing up Echoes, so theres two more wicked songs in the box!!
Keen for some gigs, hopefully have one coming up at the High School Talent Quest. :D good stuff :) Oh and the holidays are coming up which means more time to write new stuff, aaand more time too sleep :D
Nate

Rumours revealed...

ok so quite a few of our fans have been itching to hear our songs...unfortunately we don't have any cd yet (STILL!) :( and we have no way of recording ourselves and posting it online (except vids except they take AGES and our internets on a go-slow!)....but anyway what we can do is post lyrics and i'm happy to announce we actually have not just one but THREE new songs!!!!!!
So here goes in chronological order:
(the second one has no title...if you can think of a great name for it we'll keep it!!!)
(anyway here goes...)

1#.

ECHOES
by Jordan

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired/ Of things not working for me/ I'm no high flyer but at least I'm trying/ And I really wish that you could see/ How much you mean to me

It echoes/ I've been here before, I know this town/ Crowded by shadows/ Can you save me before I hit the ground?/ Because I'm going down

I'm sick and tired of not being on fire/ Living life stuck in repeat/ I'm no town crier but I'm still trying to find the purpose for me/ Open my eyes so I can see

That it echoes/ I've been here before, I know this town/ Crowded by shadows/ Can you save me before I hit the ground?/ Because I'm going down

Maybe the answers found in you/ Maybe the answers found in you/ At the end of it all I know it's true/ The answers found in you
(c) copyright Mayday 2010
2#.

(THIS IS THE UNAMED ONE.)
by Jordan & Daniel

Your love has saved me whoa-ah-oh-oh/ Here I stand saved whoa-oh-oh/ Thankyou God

The lights go down/ All hope is fading away/ The silence speaks volumes/ I'm not here to listen, I'm not here to stay/ Will you take me away

Your love has saved me whoa-ah-oh-oh/ Here I stand saved whoa-oh-oh/ Thankyou God

Once again I've fallen/ I can't save me from myself/ Forever wishing to escape/ I'm searching for something, I'm looking for more/ Can you rescue me?

And my sins are erased/ How amazing is this grace/ I'll fall down before your face/ I'll lift my hands and sing to you

La la la la la, whoa-ah-oh-oh/ La la la la, whoa-ah-oh-oh
(c) copyright Mayday 2010
and finally the one we wrote today in 3 hours! it's SO AWESOME!!!
3#.

WHAT I'VE DONE FOR MYSELF
by Jordan & Nathan

These thoughts are invading my mind/ They scream: "you won't make it out alive"/ And I'm listening to their lie

Is the pain to much to bear?/ Can I take it anymore?/ I ask the question to myself/ Is life still worth living for?

Then I look at You/ I see right through/ Everything I thought I knew/ With You I'll make it/ Even when it's not going well/ No matter what I've done for myself

Right now hope eludes me tonight/ And my dreams are waving goodbye/ This final chance to fall or fly

This is a cry of desperation/ A call out to you/ Does this need an explanation/ Will I make it through?

Then I look at You/ I see right through/ Everything I thought I knew/ With You I'll make it/ Even when it's not going well/ No matter what I've done for myself

This is taking me down/ But will it take me out?
(c) copyright Mayday 2010

i'm so stoked! God is amazing! three songs after such a long period of uncreativeness (yup i just made that word up! :] haha). it was so awesome today to just sit down and just jam out and write. was such a blessing!

hope you enjoy the lyrics! and start thinking of names haha :)

Jordan

time is the one thing i have in short supply.

alright this is going to be typed up SUPER-QUICK because i really should be getting onto learning that song on the guitar because my music teacher is really putting the pressure on me to get something recorded this term so this will be finished by 9.00 which means i have a grand total of 7 minutes to type myself silly. :)
ummmm.
life has been a wee bit hectic lately. what with les mis and school there has been absolutely no time to do pretty much anything but breath (and even thats hard sometimes!) so as a result we haven't done any practice for ages and this song we've kinda mish-mashed together STILL isn't finished even though we've been trying to write it for 3 weeks.
far out i wish i had more time. feels like i'm rushing from one thing to the next. man i'm even rushing to get this blog done :O meaning i'm only going to write down half of what i'm thinking.
today i found myself just wishing life could be simple again. back when i had time to jam without being pressured. back when i could just write songs when i felt like it, not just churn one out because we've only wrote 4 this year (shocking!). back when this just felt like it was working, not like we were clutching at straws trying to hold it all together. trying to pull it back into something resembling mayday.
and i can't say all we need is a gig.
that would be nice.
but not nesscarily the answer.
all we need is a little bit more life.
and maybe a few more seconds of the minutes of the hours of the day.

....

well it's now 9'o clock and this post doesn't make a scrap of sense.
oh well...God is bigger than all our problems and if this is His plan, then he will pull it together. no matter what they say, He is in control. and i'm only sorry i'm not brave enough to shout his name louder.
9.02

goodnight world

Jordan

happenings...

This weekend has been really good!!! Busy but relaxing at the same time..
This afternoon me and Daniel got the chance to go to Fielding for a 5-hour concert in Fielding. It featured Evermore (whom I'm sure you all know of) and it was totally free!!!
So Evermore came on at around about 4 and they were amazing!!! They delivered a real sweet show in front of maybe 3000 people??? Yea it was real inspiring and they went hard as. Stoked as to see a band of that level up close. Might have some pictures up shortly ...!
Nate

i love

writing guitar solos!
wanna do it all day long!
stoked it worked!!!!!!
this new song is going to sound wicked!

Jordan

hello!!

Haven't been on here in a while...!
Mayday has two new songs in the box!!! And another in the making. :)
Our ep is being mixed and made as we speak... we still need the design and all though...!
Nate