October 2010
4 posts
The Pogues- “Streams of Whiskey”...
The end
Well I’ll be off to Bristol tomorrow and the gap year has at last come to an end. I can safely say it’s been the best year of my life, filled with horses, Jews, wasters and Irish music. While a lot of people travelled to far off continents, I’d like to think this last year has been a expedition into my own mind and I’m glad I kept this blog to map out this journey inwards....
September 2010
85 posts
28th- D'oh
I went round to Jared’s to scan the logo I painted onto the computer so we could tweak around with it. However when we left his house, I accidentally left it on the roof of his car in the rush of carrying around all the music instruments and glutinous rice balls… so the band logo has been lost to the streets of Reading… CURSES!!!!!!!!!!! No worries, I’ll just paint another...
Our wandering ways
We’re stitching notes into the fabric of time we’re the junk yard choir that brings the tempo to life we follow the shadows on the road that unfolds but our aching bones still have a long way to go with accordions and ukes and the metallic tin flutes we branch out to the world but stay true to our roots we’re swimming up stream against the force of the tide and in my head all...
Best idea that popped into my head in the last...
Culture works with similar principles to that of evolution and natural selection, that behaviours, ideas and lifestyles compete with each other for acceptance in the minds of the mass’s… and every now and again creativity allows a mutation in individuality that can snowball into massive changes years down the line… So I say send out positive vibes to the threads that attach all...
Art makes life more interesting than the art...
Best Movies: Good Will Hunting Royal Tenenbaums The Graduate Waking Life The Motor Cycle Diaries Best Poems: Lewis Carroll- Life is but a dream Arthur Rimbaud- Drunken Boat, Asleep in the Valley Edgar Alla Poe- Annabel lee Charles Bukowski- Blue Bird Ivan Donn Corswell- Dreams of better days Best Songs: Gaslight Anthem- Here’s looking at you, kid Against Me- Teenage Anarchist Frank Turner-...
Moments of 2010
Feb 5- First headlining gig of Will Tun and the Wasters at Reading Uni acoustic open mic Feb 18- Singing in Glee Acapella group with Joe and Jared Mar 2- CCTV “eye of sauron” chase by riverside Mar 13- Jared unveils new ukulele Mar 17- Saint Paddys day with Panda girl and MC Chain Apl 9- Global cafe gig, I meet Smokey Bastard and Muck Fe Jun 12/13- Happy times in Henley with Johnny,...
Moments of 2009
August 20- the gap year chronicles begin Oct 8- Joining debate society Oct 11- Watching “Up” the movie with family Oct 12- Visiting Jack in Winchester Oct 20- First jam with Declan, he liked the first song I wrote Oct 28- Meeting Joe Dobraszyzk, “I will resist you” moment with Zans Nov 4- Horse incident & letter of acceptance to study cellular and molecular medicine...
Flobots- Rise Together we rise! Together we rise!
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The King Blues- Save the world, get the girl
24th Sep- RECORDING THE “WILL TUN AND THE WASTERS”...
Well it’s finally finished, 5 days of hard work, play station games, anxiety, darts, pot noddles, stress and unwavering determination… and the fruits of our labour: A 3 track EP… I believe that compressed in the digital codes on this disk… will be the mosaic of soundwaves and time signatures that will act as a catalyst to fuel priceless memories in the future. I hope this...
23rd SEP- RECORDING THE “WILL TUN AND THE WASTERS”...
For this last day of recording, the morning weatber started out with dull grey clouds hanging low from the skies spitting a little depressing drizzle in Reading but at the end, after I came out the studio it started to thunder and torrential rain which settled into a golden sunset and double rainbow, which I’m going to take as a good sign! ~ I recorded vocals for the songs “Skank...
Smashing Pumpkins- Tonight, tonight “The...
22nd SEP- RECORDING THE “WILL TUN AND THE WASTERS”...
Recorded all of Joe’s and Jared’s parts today. Jared was crammed into that tiny acoustic room again whilst to record Joe’s accordion, the big room had to be used, padded with unfurled carpets and a titan mic had to be hung from the top. Stu and his friend came to take some video’s and photographs for the FMC vlog. I finished the day my recording vocals to Wandering ways...
Synopsis of Will Tun and the Wasters
Reading, summer 2010- a grim place for a bunch of wasters and Will Tun, both keen to kick some life and energy into an increasingly moribund and regimented music scene. A legion of tame uncontroversial pop bands had colonised the charts, and the increasingly conservative mood of the times is encapsulated by David Cameron’s victory in the recent elections. But across the town busking in...
21st Sep- Recording the “Will Tun and the Wasters”...
I was shoved into a tiny claustrophobic room, padded with purple zig-zagging foam with my acoustic guitar and two microphones to record over Johnny’s drum beats which we finished last time. There was one dim light at the top and though I was as squashed as anything, the acoustic echo level of the room was perfect. I manage to finish recording all 3 songs but it was such a meticulous...
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
– Plutarch (via newleft)
“Who we are is but a stepping stone to what we can become”
Commanders of the faithful by William Makepeace...
By serendipity, me and Joe found an old leather pocket book containing stories and poems and by chance I opened the book to find this poem fitting of the London trip. —————— The Pope is a happy man, His palace is the Vatican, And there he sits and drains his can: The Pope he is a happy man. I often say when I’m at home, I’d like to be the Pope of...
“People are doing “Wiltons crazy arms” to Crazy Arm! Good work”
– Text from MacLennan, Smokey Bastard played above Crazy arms in the line up of their gig
