The day before tomorrow
Woo hoo, phew, thank the lord above and/or below: rehearsals start tomorrow and don't stop until I fall off the stage at Goldsmith's College, London on the 22nd. It's been a while, at least it's been a few weeks since I earned any money jumping around with a guitar... but perhaps I should introduce myself first.
I'm Toby, I play guitar and sing in my own project, REUNION SQUARE (see www.f-shine.com). I also play the bass with my friend Graham Coxon who used to be in a group called blur. Sometimes I play guitar with my other friend Charlotte Hatherley who's normally in a band called Ash. A couple of years ago I did a tour playing guitar and keys with JJ72 and before that I was signed to polydor with an ill-fated group called Thirteen:13. Sometimes I use the internet pseudonym Theydon Bois because it sounds like an upper-middle class twit but is actually a tube station in east london somewhere (I think Peter Sellers used it in early skits with the Goons) and I think this is funny. Really.
When I'm not writing and performing my own stuff infront of small audiences for no money, I'm jumping around like an idiot playing other people's songs, with them, infront of usually quite big audiences for a quite reasonable ammount of money. This is gooood.
I'm not sure why I'm doing this blog thing. My sister's really into it and says it's empowering and quite the thing to do online these days. I think I'm doing it for the same reason I write songs`: I'm fairly convinced I'm intersting and that other people will think so too and am constantly seeking recognition and validation. I'm 29 years old and am still sure I have time to be a fully fledged rock star in my own right, heh heh.
I've travelled around the world showing off infront of people who occasionally shout my name out, ask me to write it on something for them or pose for a photo with them. This is also gooood.
Anyone in a band that says they don't, at some level, enjoy these aspects is a fucking LIAR. I know very few people in this industry who picked up a geetar because they had some dark, artistic need to spleen vent through the medium of rock and if they didn't they would die, and don't care what anyone thinks because it's art, man. Bollocks. They picked up a guitar because it looks cool. And chicks dig guitarists. And chicks are cool. Apart from my friend Charlotte, who is a cool chick, but probably picked up a guitar because boys think girls who play guitars are cool. If you really didn't want attention you would work in a library.
I don't know how to put photos on here yet, but I'm told it's easy, so pop in here for hilarious on-the-road tales and pics soon!...
Not that soon, mind. As I said initially I'm just rehearsing for the most part this week, and nothing THAT funny ever happens in rehearsal studios. Unless, of course, you find paying £4.50 for a cheese and coleslaw sarnie funny. In which case you'd piss yourself laughing every lunchtime where we rehearse.
Anyway, this is where I'll be unloading thoughts and experiences on the road to rock stardom. For my own pleasure. What anyone thinks is irrelevant, this is art, maaan... please validate me...
Chow for now, T x
I'm Toby, I play guitar and sing in my own project, REUNION SQUARE (see www.f-shine.com). I also play the bass with my friend Graham Coxon who used to be in a group called blur. Sometimes I play guitar with my other friend Charlotte Hatherley who's normally in a band called Ash. A couple of years ago I did a tour playing guitar and keys with JJ72 and before that I was signed to polydor with an ill-fated group called Thirteen:13. Sometimes I use the internet pseudonym Theydon Bois because it sounds like an upper-middle class twit but is actually a tube station in east london somewhere (I think Peter Sellers used it in early skits with the Goons) and I think this is funny. Really.
When I'm not writing and performing my own stuff infront of small audiences for no money, I'm jumping around like an idiot playing other people's songs, with them, infront of usually quite big audiences for a quite reasonable ammount of money. This is gooood.
I'm not sure why I'm doing this blog thing. My sister's really into it and says it's empowering and quite the thing to do online these days. I think I'm doing it for the same reason I write songs`: I'm fairly convinced I'm intersting and that other people will think so too and am constantly seeking recognition and validation. I'm 29 years old and am still sure I have time to be a fully fledged rock star in my own right, heh heh.
I've travelled around the world showing off infront of people who occasionally shout my name out, ask me to write it on something for them or pose for a photo with them. This is also gooood.
Anyone in a band that says they don't, at some level, enjoy these aspects is a fucking LIAR. I know very few people in this industry who picked up a geetar because they had some dark, artistic need to spleen vent through the medium of rock and if they didn't they would die, and don't care what anyone thinks because it's art, man. Bollocks. They picked up a guitar because it looks cool. And chicks dig guitarists. And chicks are cool. Apart from my friend Charlotte, who is a cool chick, but probably picked up a guitar because boys think girls who play guitars are cool. If you really didn't want attention you would work in a library.
I don't know how to put photos on here yet, but I'm told it's easy, so pop in here for hilarious on-the-road tales and pics soon!...
Not that soon, mind. As I said initially I'm just rehearsing for the most part this week, and nothing THAT funny ever happens in rehearsal studios. Unless, of course, you find paying £4.50 for a cheese and coleslaw sarnie funny. In which case you'd piss yourself laughing every lunchtime where we rehearse.
Anyway, this is where I'll be unloading thoughts and experiences on the road to rock stardom. For my own pleasure. What anyone thinks is irrelevant, this is art, maaan... please validate me...
Chow for now, T x
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