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Blog First
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Celebrate!
Ok, so my computer is finally back in full swing, but sadly, I'm missing a couple weeks of updates, which will be slightly complicated, racking my brain to remember, but here I go!
So after Japan, we flew to Singapore, this time complete with all our luggage and gear! We were greeted at the airport by the LOVELY Singfest staff, who all became great friends. They took us to our hotel, which was insane. The Mandarin Orient, wow, definitely spoiled us, just a tad. But when you're a band that toured the whole Warped tour in a van, you feel like moments like these are well deserved
Had a great nites sleep, and woke up the next day to go soundcheck for the festival. WOW. We thought Japan was hot, but this was a whole new level in humidity. Not the easiest task, standing on a black stage for a couple hours trying not to pass out during soundcheck, but maybe it was worth it, considering the embarrassing farmers tan I got.
Later that nite, we went to dinner with Simple Plan and our label, super nice guys by the way. Then we all went the pre show party, at some crazy nite club, which seemed straight out of the scene in Pinochio where they go to that bad boy island or whatever. Also, Singapore seriously reminded me of Adventure Land at Disney land. So surreal. But so so beautiful, and all the people couldnt have been nicer. I think we all fell in love with Singapore. Anyways, at the club, we made friends with New found glory, which was awesome, since theyre a band we've admired for several years, and they turned out to be pretty rad. So rad, that we all left the club and geeked out over videos on funnyordie.com the whole rest of the nite. Good times.
The next day was the show... so much fun, must admit, we were a bit nervous going on after NFG and all their insane amounts of energy. But the show ended up being great, complete with an improvised version I came up with of Singapores new national anthem. After the show Me and Mike were pretty exhausted, so we went back to the hotel to pass out, and the rest of the guys stayed to catch Travis' set.
We had pretty much the full next day off in Singapore, just running around and doing random stuff. Me, Ryan and Mike, decided to indulge in a Yoga class at the hotel, which kicked our asses. I swear i thought the lady was going to snap my spine in half.
Anyways, we flew back to london that nite, and enjoyed a day off, feeling back to the closest thing at home. We all just chilled and got rested, and the next morning we did our tv debut on "This Morning" in the UK. Pretty exciting to finally do a tv appearance. It went really well, and then we flew to Scotland that nite. We had the day off when we got there, Mike and Ryan went to go do radio interviews and me, Chris and Tony went to do a bit of sightseeing in Edingburgh. The castle there was breathtaking, and we even found the best Marks and Spencers in all of the UK! haha. Tony also bought tons of whiskey, which he said was for his family, but I think it just was a cover up. We played our show at a cool little club, and the crowd was fantastic, full of energy.