A few days late, but on Tuesday night I headed to Iron Maiden with my brother, Mudos and Dan from work. I was pretty excited because well, it was Iron Maiden We rocked up at about 7.30 and shuffled into the merch line for some shirts. Eventually a band started, so Dan left to go watch Laura Harris. I really wanted to see her as she's pretty hot, the daughter of Steve Harris (Iron Maiden's bassist) and I was just generally more interested in her then the other support (Behind Crimson Eyes). I decided I'd stay in line though, grab myself and my brother a shirt. By the time we got our merch, dropped it in the car and headed back inside, Laura had finished!

I was a bit annoyed, but realised their was no point to leaving the mosh now... oh, that's right, I had managed to score the best tickets in the house for the gig, Gold GA! The show pretty much sold out within the day so I was pretty stoked to get those tickets! Behind Crimson Eyes were terrible, they slaughtered Motorhead with their cover of Ace of Spades and their music was just generally terrible. I give them some props for managing to ignore the mass of people continually booing and giving them the finger though, no matter how funny and deserving it was

The lights finally went down and Maiden's set started with a blast with Aces High. It was seriously the best concert I've ever been too. There was fireworks, flames, flares, smoke machines, a mechanical Eddie and just an awesome stage presence. Bruce, no matter the age, is incredibly fit and showed it by jumping and dancing around the stage. His voice was amazing, although towards the end of the set it seems the mix got a little unbalanced with a bit too much rhythm guitar and not enough vocals. The entire time I was no more then 5 from the front of Steve Harris and Janick Gers. They were amazing musicians firstly and then entertainers. Swinging their guitars around, dancing, acting and just playing along with the crowd!

Top notch show, really. I have plenty of photos and posted them all to here. Here's one of my favourite ones

That's about it for now. I'll post again soon

OaO

That's how long it's been since I wrote this article where I wrote about redesigning this website. I finally did it today, somewhat to cure boredom, moreso because I finally grew sick of that design to the point where it had to go. This is the first design that uses all my own images, taken with my phone, instead of scouring stock image sites

The main image is a photo of Fingal Beach from my recent coast adventure which has been ran through a Photoshop filter. The music page uses an image I took during the Black Crusade tour of Machine Head. It's a fantastic photo, my favourite from the night, but due to the phone quality, I filtered it in Photoshop again to make it more bearable. Finally, viewing individual articles results in a picture of our shack during it's construction, unedited.

Regardless, enjoy the new design

...almost. I finished my last exam for the year yesterday, which brings me to completing almost two-thirds of my course. One more year to go and then I'll be free from study forever, well, formal studies

That's all really, I'm nursing a sore head after a mindblowing Shimmer performance and a few pints last night so until next time, OaO.

You may have noticed that for the past few days visiting this site just shows up as a suspended account. Not anymore! It so happens that while experimenting with a uni assignment I managed to bring down my webhost's server (and all the clients that were on it as well). Kneejerk reaction, suspend my account and ensure the rest of the system is stable. I knew the offending file anyway, so it's now been deleted and it's fair to say I'm not sure that that particular assignment will have a certain functionality anymore

Last Saturday I headed over to Nani's 19th with Yeatsie, Benji and our DD Kyle! It was a pretty tops night even though we were only there for a few hours. The party was themed as emergency, so fire, police, ambulance was the main theme for costumes. Benji and I put a different spin on it, he wore his Maccas uniform (people need food) and I wore my 1st Choice outfit (everyone loves booze). It was fantastic. I instigated a ball game that is normally played in drama classes where you through the ball among a circle and say your name. It went well for a bit, then Monique threw the ball at me while I was chatting and I fell ass over tit. Hilarious, but ego bruising all the same.

We wandered round and meet Mick and Rossie who remembered us from Nani's 17th. I remember chatting to Mick with his kids as we decided how to punish them for egging someone's house. I think we arrived at they clean it in the morning with clown noses on or something. Haha. I eventually got talking with Greer and Kim. Greer was sober, I think she was a DD, but nevertheless, she was up for a great chat about anything really. Kim and Monique were dressed as policewomen, but for some reason they wore fire helmets which me and Benji kept trying to steal all night. Kim and I got along well, talking about Led Zeppelin and the like. Eventually we headed home, not before stealing the fire helmets off the girls

I should have photo's up soon

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