What the hell is it with clubs like Hull. You had a great first season in the Premier League, where with the best will in the world, you over acheived. I have no axe to grind with HUll by the way, good luck to em. I'm a Forest fan so would love to be in their position.
But get a reality check. You're a small club doing well just to be in the Premier League. Why the hell would you sack Phil Brown. He got you up, kept you up and made you 80 odd million quid. Its the clubs fault if they spent it all too quick. He's now having a bad spell so in the usual over optimistic and knee jerk way, the club want to get rid of him. I was going to ask about loyalty but why bother.
Just enjoy the ride, back the manager and you might stay up. If not, you've had a great ride and will have a good chance of getting back up.
Just another example of how the sporting world is going mad. I won't mention my teenage idol Andre Agassi. Whats all that about?
Thursday 29 October 2009
Wednesday 28 October 2009
A real hello
That last post was terrible! I play acoustic music and really enjoy it??!! WTF
It was in fact a copy and paste of the last blog entry from my bands myspace page. www.myspace.com/3ringcircus
Whilst I meant every word, its a slightly delicate situation as I don't really want my band mates reading it. Well Russell really as I don't think he'd like my cander. He doesn't like to upset other bands/musicians as he thinks it'll come back to haunt us.
Me, I've got no such worries. Mainly because I prefer to be honest and partly because I sometimes don't engage my brain before I speak. Hence I once slagged off a soundman from the stage, which I was right to do, but ended up looking like a prat for a bit. Although on the other hand, it was quite funny, mocking him in a slightly patronising way.
So I've set up my own blog so I can type what I want without fear of anyone reading it who shouldn't. Cos lets be honest, you would have to search the net pretty hard to find this and even know about 3 ring circus. So here I can write what I want and as much as I want. Twitter is good but thats too public. Plus you can't write enough.
I love playing music, but it causes alot of stress. I stress about shows, about getting people to gigs, about sharing kit, about getting songs to sound right. Bloody hell I even worry about whether I should change strings! I don't worry about knowing we are a good, no great band. I still dream of making it and getting somewhere with it. I still have a naive belief that one day, our song writing ability and skill, will get us recognition. It probably won't as we don't lick arses and don't try and sound like whats trendy. We play from the heart, which is not cool.
I hate my job, even though I am self employed and aledgedly own my business. But its mind numbing and I want to get out of it to be a musician, but that still feels like its as far away from being reality as it was when 3 rc started 8 years ago. In some ways it definitly feels further away than it was at the start. I hold our old drummer responsible for some of that as his attitude sucked the enjoyment out of the band for me for the last few years. Thats another story. I also blame the idiot who ran the first label we were signed to who was a complete lier and did nothing to promote our first album. That, again, is another story that I may go into in the furture.
So hello!! If you have stumbled accross these rantings by the slimest of chances, don't take alot of it seriously. I'll tell you when its important.
I'll sign off for now by leaving you with these words:
"sing it out, better loud than too late"
S
It was in fact a copy and paste of the last blog entry from my bands myspace page. www.myspace.com/3ringcircus
Whilst I meant every word, its a slightly delicate situation as I don't really want my band mates reading it. Well Russell really as I don't think he'd like my cander. He doesn't like to upset other bands/musicians as he thinks it'll come back to haunt us.
Me, I've got no such worries. Mainly because I prefer to be honest and partly because I sometimes don't engage my brain before I speak. Hence I once slagged off a soundman from the stage, which I was right to do, but ended up looking like a prat for a bit. Although on the other hand, it was quite funny, mocking him in a slightly patronising way.
So I've set up my own blog so I can type what I want without fear of anyone reading it who shouldn't. Cos lets be honest, you would have to search the net pretty hard to find this and even know about 3 ring circus. So here I can write what I want and as much as I want. Twitter is good but thats too public. Plus you can't write enough.
I love playing music, but it causes alot of stress. I stress about shows, about getting people to gigs, about sharing kit, about getting songs to sound right. Bloody hell I even worry about whether I should change strings! I don't worry about knowing we are a good, no great band. I still dream of making it and getting somewhere with it. I still have a naive belief that one day, our song writing ability and skill, will get us recognition. It probably won't as we don't lick arses and don't try and sound like whats trendy. We play from the heart, which is not cool.
I hate my job, even though I am self employed and aledgedly own my business. But its mind numbing and I want to get out of it to be a musician, but that still feels like its as far away from being reality as it was when 3 rc started 8 years ago. In some ways it definitly feels further away than it was at the start. I hold our old drummer responsible for some of that as his attitude sucked the enjoyment out of the band for me for the last few years. Thats another story. I also blame the idiot who ran the first label we were signed to who was a complete lier and did nothing to promote our first album. That, again, is another story that I may go into in the furture.
So hello!! If you have stumbled accross these rantings by the slimest of chances, don't take alot of it seriously. I'll tell you when its important.
I'll sign off for now by leaving you with these words:
"sing it out, better loud than too late"
S
Hello!
Is there anyone out there?
My band (3 ring circus) play acoustic type stuff and really enjoy it.
Well, Clean Getaway, our third album, is still going great guns and we have some great shows lined up prior to Christmas. You can catch us in the following places:
30th Ocotber - The Fishpond Matlock Derbyshire (Full band)
20th November - PJs Ripley Derbyshire (Full band and the last one for a while)
26th November - Crocus Cafe Lenton Nottingham (acoustic)
28th November - The Royal Derby supporting the mighty Foy Vance (acoustic band)
1st December - Malt Cross Nottingham (Acoustic)
10th December - The Vic Derby (Acoustic band)
Obviously the album will be available at all these shows.
We hopefully have another Nottingham show in November and a gig at the Vic in Derby in December. There may also be a visit to Sheffield in November which is waiting to be confirmed.
We're also starting to write some new tunes, which is always my favourite time, full of optimism and positivity. This is always the case until they are released and largely ignored but hey ho......
I'm in a new realm of positivity at the moment which I'm hoping lasts for a little while longer than the last one, which was round about the time of the release of the current record. It quickly vanished. Russell is always telling me to be positive like him, so I'm going to try hard. In fact yeah, fuck it all. Who cares if hardly anyone comes to watch us anymore, or that we've been playing for 8 years and not really got anywhere, and that we constantly play with bands who are pretty shit and yet get far better gis than us. And thats a fact, I can't think of one band we've played with from the local scene who are anywhere as good as us. And if that makes me sound like a cock, then good.
We've never been arse lickers and we ain't going to start now. I love music and I'm a complete dreamer, believing that our song writing prowess and musicianship will, shock horror, get us noticed. The day we try and become trendy with some angular guitar played out of tune and with absoulutely no melody, will be the day I smash all my lovingly built guitars on the back yard. Although there have been lots of times I've wanted to smash them on the heads of "musicians" we've played with.
Can't sing - check
can't play properly - check
Look like a twat - absolutely check
namecheck all the cool bands plus some 80s shit as influences - check
WELL DOME, HERES A SUPPORT WITH THE LATEST LAME SUPERSTARS AND A RECORD DEAL IN ORDER TO INFLICT YOUR "MUSIC" ON THE PUBLIC.
YEP, CAN'T YOU SEE I'M BEING POSITIVE
Some twat on a forum once called us pub rock, knob head. He was thinking of his mates band, or Robbie Williams pub singer and professional twat. (sue me fat boy) THey also said why don't we pack up as we'd not got anywhere in 6 years. I pointed out we released a record nationally which not many other bands get to do, played in front of 30,000 people and done two acoustic tours of america. I finished it by saying if he agreed to stop breathinh, we'd stop playing. Quite funny for me I thought.
I can type what I want here really as no fucker will read it, much like no one will listen to our music. But you know what, I really don't care anymore. You see I actually enjoy playing with Russ, dave and rob. and when me and russell have a writing session and he sings something magical over one of my pieces of music, it gives me goosebumps and that optimism all comes flooding back. So its worth carrying on, just to keep getting that rush for a relatively short period of time. And I can also say here that russell is one of the best singers and lyricists I've ever heard and Dave is by the best bass player anywhere. The man could walk into any band and make them better. Well apart from Pearl Jam, but definitly U2 ;-)
Oh.......hopefully see some of you at a show!
Is there anyone out there?
My band (3 ring circus) play acoustic type stuff and really enjoy it.
Well, Clean Getaway, our third album, is still going great guns and we have some great shows lined up prior to Christmas. You can catch us in the following places:
30th Ocotber - The Fishpond Matlock Derbyshire (Full band)
20th November - PJs Ripley Derbyshire (Full band and the last one for a while)
26th November - Crocus Cafe Lenton Nottingham (acoustic)
28th November - The Royal Derby supporting the mighty Foy Vance (acoustic band)
1st December - Malt Cross Nottingham (Acoustic)
10th December - The Vic Derby (Acoustic band)
Obviously the album will be available at all these shows.
We hopefully have another Nottingham show in November and a gig at the Vic in Derby in December. There may also be a visit to Sheffield in November which is waiting to be confirmed.
We're also starting to write some new tunes, which is always my favourite time, full of optimism and positivity. This is always the case until they are released and largely ignored but hey ho......
I'm in a new realm of positivity at the moment which I'm hoping lasts for a little while longer than the last one, which was round about the time of the release of the current record. It quickly vanished. Russell is always telling me to be positive like him, so I'm going to try hard. In fact yeah, fuck it all. Who cares if hardly anyone comes to watch us anymore, or that we've been playing for 8 years and not really got anywhere, and that we constantly play with bands who are pretty shit and yet get far better gis than us. And thats a fact, I can't think of one band we've played with from the local scene who are anywhere as good as us. And if that makes me sound like a cock, then good.
We've never been arse lickers and we ain't going to start now. I love music and I'm a complete dreamer, believing that our song writing prowess and musicianship will, shock horror, get us noticed. The day we try and become trendy with some angular guitar played out of tune and with absoulutely no melody, will be the day I smash all my lovingly built guitars on the back yard. Although there have been lots of times I've wanted to smash them on the heads of "musicians" we've played with.
Can't sing - check
can't play properly - check
Look like a twat - absolutely check
namecheck all the cool bands plus some 80s shit as influences - check
WELL DOME, HERES A SUPPORT WITH THE LATEST LAME SUPERSTARS AND A RECORD DEAL IN ORDER TO INFLICT YOUR "MUSIC" ON THE PUBLIC.
YEP, CAN'T YOU SEE I'M BEING POSITIVE
Some twat on a forum once called us pub rock, knob head. He was thinking of his mates band, or Robbie Williams pub singer and professional twat. (sue me fat boy) THey also said why don't we pack up as we'd not got anywhere in 6 years. I pointed out we released a record nationally which not many other bands get to do, played in front of 30,000 people and done two acoustic tours of america. I finished it by saying if he agreed to stop breathinh, we'd stop playing. Quite funny for me I thought.
I can type what I want here really as no fucker will read it, much like no one will listen to our music. But you know what, I really don't care anymore. You see I actually enjoy playing with Russ, dave and rob. and when me and russell have a writing session and he sings something magical over one of my pieces of music, it gives me goosebumps and that optimism all comes flooding back. So its worth carrying on, just to keep getting that rush for a relatively short period of time. And I can also say here that russell is one of the best singers and lyricists I've ever heard and Dave is by the best bass player anywhere. The man could walk into any band and make them better. Well apart from Pearl Jam, but definitly U2 ;-)
Oh.......hopefully see some of you at a show!
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