ComEnts

So, it's been a busy weekend for me. My band Joey Ultra played at the best venue in the world on Friday, the Rising Sun Arts Centre in Reading. It's a tiny little venue run as a charity by hippies and is absolutely brilliant. We played well again, I think we're getting better every time we play. We don't really know what's going on with the band at the moment. Bass player Sam is having a baby in 6 months or so and won't really have any time for band stuff for a while. So we need to work out what is going to happen. Hopefully we'll carry on in some capacity probably after a bit of a break. Also need to work out recording

Saturday night we went to Twickenham to watch Iron Maiden. It was a brilliant gig. Twickenham is a really good stadium venue, really good transport links, well organised, easy to get drinks etc. I was very impressed. Maiden were brilliant, as always. I think everyone in a band should watch them at least once, even if they hate the music just to see how entertaining they make their shows. It's fairly incredible that after 25 years the band is bigger than ever.

I surprisingly saw my brother on Sunday. He'd been meant to be playing Zoo8 but it seems to have been a complete and utter disaster. Quite a lot of bands cancelled in the end and it seems the organization was utterly shambolic. Comments from people who went are almost universally scathing.

Labels: Iron Maiden, Joey Ultra, Zoo8