Deary me. I know once again it’s been ages.
I’ve spent the last week at the circus 
And it’s been one of the best weeks ever, it’s been so crazy cool getting to meet all these mad, massive characters, and getting to know sort of friends even better and making brand shiny new friends and learning brand shiny new skills, it’s been so great
I performed a show with them on Saturday night, called Parklife. We wrote the storyline of the show two days before it was performed to about 2000 people. It was so cool. All I did was run around, which was good cause it made me want to get more fit and it’s also made me want to train more towards my previous contortion goal, which I’ve been working on. Taking it slow though, just doing some yoga to start with and doing light backbends…
The circus is called NoFitState circus, and they’re based in Cardiff, they have a training space there where they do workshops and classes, and one of the aerialists said that she’d help me learn rope, and I should also do trapeze and another aerialist said that when I get to Cardiff she’ll teach me some aerial hoop, which would be incredible. Can’t wait
Also, some guy from Sonic Boom Six (this band that I really like) said he wants to record Miacca so he’s going to do that. We’ve not arranged a date yet, but it’ll be September.
Also, in September, I’ve got my move in date for Uni which is the weekend of the 20th. Fresher’s week starts on the 20th. Can’t waaaaaaiiiiiiiiiit!!! Tab was being all supportive and helping me understand one of the letters I got through the post. Nawh!
One of the trampolinists I met in the circus goes to the same uni as Tab and I mentioned that I do archery and he goes “there’s only one archer in the whole of UWIC, I don’t know his name or anything but he must be so landed cause the UWIC logo is an archer” and I was like “THAT’S MY BROTHER!!!! “. Tab’s famous haha. Also, I met the guy who’s designing the opening ceremony to the commonwealth games which Tab’s competing at. I gave the guy a lift from the train station to the circus cause he’s helping design the new big show. He was really nice, we had plenty to talk about and then when he left he sent me a text saying that he’d enjoyed our chats and thanks for giving him lifts and stuff. Which was nice
Ian came and visited me on two nights while I was away and he brought some friends to see the performance which was cool It was good to have him in the tent cause I was sooooooo cold by myself!! I needed 3 sleeping bags to survive, but I couldn’t sleep with 3 cause I got claustrophobic. The amount of times I woke up thinking I was drowning, only to realize the hood on my sleeping bag had covered my face. Silly >.<
Ian then waited for me at my house till I got home from cleaning up the big tent and taking the stage down (It was soooo cool, I got to drive a lorry, and climb a massive tower. Fun fun fun!!) and then we hung out a bit yesterday and then I stayed at his. It’s been nice. It’s going well
I’ve been a bit mean to him the past two days or so though. I’ve been so tired, after sleeping on a hard floor for the past week I was really excited to just crash out on my bed, but Ian’s been around so I’ve had to stay awake and his sleeping pattern is so awkward. The past two nights, I’ve fallen asleep for an hour or so then I’ve woken up to him asking if I want tea and then having to go downstairs and drink tea, so I’ve not been the nicest to him. I’ve just been easily irritated cause I’ve needed to crash out and I’ve had to stay awake instead. It felt a bit like an Ian overload after being in a completely different world for a week. Cause that amount of Ian was fine before, but I was so sad to leave the circus and he didn’t understand and I just needed some breathing space to get used to the real world again and I just didn’t get that, so I was a bit of a moody pants 
Sorry, love!!
Off to Catthorpe tomorrow so it’ll be another few days before I can write again!! Maybe I’ll be able to write from my phone though…we’ll see.
I’ll leave you with some footage of the type of thing I got up to at the circus!
Tia-Rhian xxx
It’s not politics, it’s childsplay. You should grow up and out of these games.
Lyrics by Dirty Revolution.
So tonight is the British General Election. When the people of Britain decide which lunatic is going to ruin the country next.
Except there’s a slight difference this time. There’s this thing called Clegg Mania going on right now. Nick Clegg is the leader of the Liberal Democrats (Lib Dems) party. He’s very young people friendly and I like him because he’s very honest and straight and he’s the only leader of the 3 main party leaders that doesn’t seem to have a fully polished act. Though he can’t actually be the Prime Minister as the Lib Dems don’t have enough seats…so that sucks. But this Clegg Mania hopefully means that there are so many people voting for the Lib Dems that they’ll have enough seats for the next election.
The next leader is David Cameron…and we don’t like him. His act is so polished, it’s quite obviously an act and he’s got some crazy idea to kill everyone or something I duno. He’s the leader of the Conservative (Tory) Party and there is going to be a massive riot in London if he gets voted Prime Minister tonight…Me and Ash are going to be in London for a Slackers gig with Dirty Revolution and The Skints…We are all very Anti-Tory so we’re going to be in the middle of this riot. Me and Ash are anyway, the rest probably won’t get there till later. I’m looking forward though.
And then there’s Gordon Brown, who’s prime minister right now. He’s ok I guess. I mean, he’s doing alright considering the mess the last Labor leader left him in but he’s not perfect. I don’t suppose anyone is…But a lot of people are voting Labor as a tactical vote so Tory don’t win.
I hope Tory don’t get in…but I kind of hope they do…this could be huge…like HUGE. If Tory gets in and this massive protest happens…it could change everything. Who knows what the outcome would be…There’s protests in London, Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester…all the big English cities…It’s going to be insane.
It’s exciting.
I’m also excited because me and Ash are getting to London at midday-ish on Saturday so we get to do some shopping in Camden. Awwwwh yeah. (Where you saw Nina Simone, Linda paha 
I remember…)
Loooove to you guys!
Tia-Rhian xxx
What…is…THIS?!
Hoke…me and Ash have been thinking as we do.
And we got the idea into our heads about Miacca coming to the Southern States on a mini tour from Charlotte to Miami in 2011…It started with her saying how much she wanted to visit the states and I said she’ll have to come too and maybe me and her can do a gig. Then THAT idea came to us…if I can sort it out…it’d be amazing. Then Ash had an even bigger and better idea of proposing Dirty Revolution to come with us if we could actually propose it to them as if it’s not the craziest idea in the world.
The thing is, with 10 of us (including Dirty Rev) it’s going to coast about £5000 in flights and about £2000 living and travel expenses…which is how many dollars?? We figured though…if we play enough gigs…we may be able to cover at least our flight costs…I’m going to have to contact some venues, see how much money we’d be able to get for each gig. S’gonna be a lot of gigs…and probably quite a few months.
But I also thought we could get people to sponsor us, some music stores or something, and friends and family. AND I thought we could do it in honor of Mr John Barrett who always told me to go for things like this no matter what!
If anyone has any ideas, they’d be awesome!
Tia-Rhian xx
I don’t know what it takes to be a Gangster, seems to include acting like a wanker.
Lyrics by Dirty Revolution 
Ah I had such a great night last night!
I texted Joe on my way home from the beach the other night saying I wasn’t going to go back to the beach and see them because the Jon stuff killed me a little bit and I just wanted to go home, he told me to keep smiling. And him and Steff are always looking out for me like that and I love them both very much for it So I wrote on my Facebook yesterday that I need something to do and Steff wrote “BRISTOL!”. He came on MSN and told me that he was picking me up because Dirty Revolution and Mustard Plug are playing in Bristol (about a 2 hour drive away, across the Wales/England boarder) and our other friends are going too (Ash, Joe and Klaus), and they all know how attractive I find Dirty Revolution’s guitarist. Nom nom nom.
So we went! I’m sure you saw about almost crashing my car in a pile up. I won’t bore you with it, but basically, 3 cars, one roundabout, one pile up, hopefully no casualties, 2 ambulances from what I overheard on the phone when Joe called me.
Then Steff’s tyre exploded on the motorway. That was scary, but luckily he had slowed right down as soon as we’d heard the weird noise that the wheel was making. And luckily, we had handy man Joe to help change the tyre, he did it quickly and earned himself lots of man points
We got to the gig a bit late but just as Dirty Revolution were halfway through their first song, just in time! We had an awesome little dance and I drooled at their guitarist a little bit…Heh. (His name is Stu by the way!)
Then after they played we went for some air and they came out for a cigarette and we stood and chatted with them for a bit. Reb and Ash are pretty good friends Reb is the singer and she is not only totally beautiful but absolutely lovely! It was so inspirational! Stu came up and gave me a hug. I suspected it was because I’m Ash’s friend and she knows them quite well. I hadn’t met Morgan, their bassist yet, he was there with his girlfriend and they are so lovely! Morgan is hilarious. He was talking about his nan and we’re quite tempted to get her in Miacca as the new drummer paha.
The while mustard plug were playing Ash and me were standing next to Stu, can’t really say that we were stood with him hah. Then Reb and Briony came over to us and started dancing with us (Briony is…I’m not sure what the connection is, I think she’s their best friend and pretty much honorary band member). And us four girls were dancing and having a laugh, it was awesome. I felt a little bit like an outsider at the start but me and Reb were laughing at each other a bit and then I felt part of the group hah. Jim had joined Stu by this point and they were nodding their heads.
Ash and Jim both left though, and it was just Bri, Reb me and Stu. I thought I should ask Stu to join in and dance with us but I got a bit too shy…but he was sort of stood there on his own…and LINDA! TELL LYNN I DID IT! I decided not to let my shyness get to me AGAIN, so I nudged him, grinned, gestured at the empty space next to me and invited him to dance with us. He would have done it whoever asked him but the point is I acted despite my fear paha. And it was hilarious dancing with him. Then we spoke a lot and stuff about the tattoo on his arm.
We’re going to see them again on the 7th and 8th of July. But I’ve had an awesome idea…we’ve got a gig in Cardiff on the 22nd of…April :O I’m going to see if they can come too…but I think they may still be on tour
We’ll see, I’ll ask him anyway!
Time to start planning my outfits 
Tia-Rhian xx
There’s a ghost in my lungs and it sighs in my sleep.
Lyrics by Florence and the Machine
So The Thieving Beggars went to London
What an epic trip it was! We didn’t argue once!
The whole trip up was just laughing and jamming and it was so much fun! And then hanging out at the venue was really great, we just had more jams and some chillin’ out. Then me and Pieter went to find some food and that was nice Then we handed out fliers.
And everyone else went to find some food and I hung out backstage and watched over our equipment with one of the other bands. They were really cool. Their keyboard player kept looking at me and smiling, he’s got a very pretty smile, then when we were backstage he kept talking to me and doing his smiling thing that he does, and playfully mocking me, then when we left I shook the guitarists hand and told him it was great to meet him and play a gig with them, then i shook the keyboardists hand and he smiled (I drooled) then he held on to my hand a bit longer than people usually do and then he slipped his hand away. It was magical. Hahaha. I think he’ll be one of those memories. You know, the memories where you see someone and you imagine your life story with them and you wonder about them from time to time and they turn into this person, I could write out our entire life together and give him a personality…then he’ll turn out to be nothing like the person I’d imagined him to be, so I hope we never see each other againa haha. Maybe we will one day, at another gig. I think his name was Toby, but I can never be sure. Maybe one day he’ll see this and…our life story will continue from that point on. Paha.
Me, Pieter and Steff went to stay at Tech’s house that night to give the people staying on the bus more room and that was cool I get a bit nervous when there’s lots of people, because drunk men tend to think that they can just grab me and a lot of bad memories of men grabbing me tend to result in nervous breakdowns when men so much as look at me in that way. I get restless and nervous and I feel very unclean. As I cross the road in Brick Lane a drunken man stumbled into me and thought it’d be acceptable to grab by bum while he was in my personal space anyway, I told him not to dare touch me and he was all “alright, da’lin, just a bit o’ harmless fun”…then we went into a shop and some guy greeted us and was all friendly to us then he looked at me and shook my hand and said “blimey, you’re beautiful!”, Piet gave him a “stay away from her” look and took me to the back of the shop away from him, then outside some man caught my eye and gave me one of those looks…I don’t know why it stuck with me but it felt like he was staring into my soul, and I could tell exactly what he was thinking. I can see the look now, I can’t remember what he looks like, but I know exactly how his eyes were. And that freaked me out so much, I clung to Pieter (one tends to stick to what they know in times of distress, I guess) and he looked after me, told me that every thing was ok and he wasn’t going to let anyone get near me and he checked to make sure I was ok religiously, every five minutes for the next 3 hours or so.
The gig itself was so good, though. Really, really, really awesome. We had this new confidence that we’d never had before. And me and Lewis jump off the stage at the start and end of the set, and this stage was epic for that. Normally we just jump from our little brass area, but we had to climb onto a speaker and then get off that way and that was coooooool. And we all performed our best and we played really well. I’m so so so so proud of us!
Anyway, if I can remember how to upload them, here are some pictures.
The first is our first ever band picture (yaaaay!), the second is Dom, our bassist, asleep on the bus! The third is the brass section, the fourth is dad and Jilly after coming back from their meal having walked back in the pouring rain!! The fifth is a picture Steff took of me pracing about in excitement, and the sixth is a picture of Mr-whats-his-name-who-has-much-smiles…
An all round epic trip!
Tia-Rhian xx
Stand up for the anthem, Salute the flag, Respect the monarch, or push it back…
Lyrics by Random Hand
My days!! I need a Diary guys! Been so, so, so busy!!
Where did I leave you? Ah yes! The GIGS! With Random Hand, The Skints, Chris Murray and Mouthwash last Thursday.
Well, Mouthwash didn’t play because they’re singer has tonsilitis so they’ve had to drop out of the tour until he’s better. But the other guys were increadible. And I got to meet The Skints and Random Hand, which ruuuuuled
On the first night, Steff, Joe and I ended up having a chat with the drummer from Random Hand (also called Joe but we’ll call him Dimmers because there are too many Joe’s in my life…). Because Steff and Joe had met him before at a gig, he remembered them and they had a lovely catch up. The they left the conversation and I ended up having a lengthy chat with Dimmers about getting signed and finding booking agents and good clubs to play in around Bradford and Leeds which was really cool and very helpful
And then we tried teaching Robbie (the lead singer in Random hand) and Josh (guitarist, The Skints) Welsh. We taught them Dangos Dy Wiwar (“show me your squirrel”), something very rude and Shwmae (“Alright?”). And then Marcia (Singer, Flute, Sax, Keyboards from The Skints) joined the conversation and I mentioned the brief chat we had on FaceBook and she was like “omg! Hello! It’s so nice to meet you!” and her enthusiasm was awesome xD.
THEN we hung out with everyone behind the venue as they were waiting for their vans and we all exchanged hugs and “see you tomorrow’s” and that was cool.
Then on Friday night, it was very much the same. Ash was very annoying because she had a backstage pass…we all kinda thought she’d stop rubbing it in once she met them and realized that they were human. But no. Well whatever. She hung out backstage through the entiiiiiire gig. She didn’t see Chris Murray, Regime or Random hand. She came out for a little bit to see The Skints, but then she complained that it was too hot and went backstage and watched them from there. *Rolls Eyes*. She came out between acts to see us and to get a drink, each time she’d be like “Josh sooooo just got changed in front of me” and another time she came out wearing Josh hat. We just rolled our eyes, shrugged and went back to the stage to watch the next band and hang out with our non-Skints-obsessed friends…
We hung out a lot with Dimmers again that night and that was awesome, cause he’d come out and watch the other bands whereas everyone else just stayed backstage. I guess they didn’t want to wear themselves out before they had to play.
Then once again, we hung out with them after everyone had gone. Josh taught me the chords and the lyrics to N55 on Matt’s guitar…but he didn’t ask Matt so Matt was annoyed. He didn’t show it. But he was, so I put it back. Oops. Josh gave it to me anyway, I thought it was Josh’s. Anyway, Ash was still farting around backstage and we were supposed to be giving her a lift back so we sat around chatting to Dimmers while he put his stuff away. Then stood around as the vans were being loaded. Steff and Joe figured out how they’re getting to Dimmer’s last gig with Random Hand in Bristol. But I wasn’t sure I could go…Cause I’ve got my Uni audition on Wednesday and then I’m going to Bradford on Friday…and the Bristol gig in on Thursday. But Dimmers kept asking me to go, he said whatever to my plans and everyone was saying that I had to go cause it’s his last gig and it’s going to be the best one on the tour. I said I was skint (don’t have any money) and I couldn’t afford to go to Bristol AND get a ticket to go in…so he said he’d guestlist us all and get us backstage passes. So that’s me sold. Looks like I’m going to Bristol. Dimmer’s lives in Keifley and he’s going back there on Friday, and I need to be in Ilkley on Friday which is just next door. Literally on the other side of a hill they call Ilkley Moor. I was going to see if I could get a lift with him but I think I’ll go home first cause then I’d have to take a suitcase and stuff and I just can’t be bothered.
So it is Monday today…tomorrow I am meeting up with Brett for a little bit, then in the evening I will practice my butt off for my Uni audition which is on Wednesday, and straight after that I am heading down to dads house to meet my new cousins cause Jill’s sister and her family are staying there, then Thursday I’m getting my hair lightened by Jill’s sister who’s a hairdresser, then at 4ish on Thursday I’m going to Carmarthen to get picked up by Steff to go to Bristol, then after Bristol I’ll go back to mum’s house in Llanelli and get there at 3ish…then at 9ish the following morning I’ll go back to dad’s house and if Jet and family are still there, say goodbye to them. Then hopefully hang out with Lel and then go to Ilkley. And celebrate Estonian Independance Day on Saturday night in Bradford and then home on Sunday…College on Monday…Oh my days.
I’m very very nervous about my University audition though. I’ll be playing the piano and singing, the song is Gravity by Sara Bareilles. And I’ll bring in a portfolio and recordings of me doing everything else that I do.
If I don’t write tomorrow night…my next post will tell you whether or not I’ve got a place in Glamorgan Univeristy…
If I don’t have a place, you guys in the States might be stuck with me for the next year.
This is a big audition…
My brother, Tapani, is headed to Vegas today He left at 8 this morning and he shall be flying over before long If he wins, the prize money in his division alone is $30, 00. I don’t know if they’ll change it to £30,000 or if they’ll exchange it for whatever $30,000 is in pounds…
Here is the plan for the tournament: http://www.nfaa-archery.org/tournaments/vegas/schedule.cfm
I cannot find a website for you to be able to follow him on. But I’ll keep looking. And I will keep you updated on his progress when I get a free minute! If you have him on Facebook, he’ll be updating regularly.
Go Bambi
Tia-Rhian xx
I know that you are just like me, over-sensitive, cut us and we bleed.
Lyrics by Lenka I’m not sure if I can spell sensitive though…sensative??…sensetive…ooh definately not…
Well it’s all happening, lots of good and cool things to look forward to this week We are putting on a performance tomorrow and Thursday. Pieter and Lewis have kitted our a room with all their DJ and VJ (video jockey) stuff, and they’ve created some footage and a track and made the room seem like a rave environment. Which is cool. And I’m singing on it, and playing the flute, and dancing
A girl called Summer is dancing with me too, and we worked together today on a dance, and she is the SWEETEST girl in the world. She’s truly adorable. She says the first thing that comes into her head and is totally honest and lovely and she just doesn’t care what people think of her. She’s really really teeny-tiny and she’s got gorgeous clothes and beautiful hair and she’s cute as a button, but her movements are really big and she’s a very big person personality-wise. She’s just so interesting :O Anyway, I get to work with her and that’s really nice
And then Friiiiiday, I think I’ll just have a bit of a chill, maybe Pieter will come and stay because we’ve got an early start. He’s going to see a University he’s thinking of going to and he invited me along, said I might as well have a look because our head of department said I’d do well on their Multimedia course. I’ve got to go shopping aswell before I see The Skints on Thursday and Friday next week. I’ll need two outfits…or at least something new. So I asked if there were going to be shops near there and he said he’s sure there will be some on the way. I said I’ll see if I can find some while he’s looking around the University, but he said that it’s ok, we could go for a bite to eat in town and then have a look in some shops, he didn’t mind coming with me. Which was nice of him. I’d like a nice day out He drove over to my house last night at 11pm to hang out, we watched a horror movie with my brother…more on that later. I can update you guys on my brother then
Then we’re going to band practice, and then I’m going to see Avatar with Steff and then Sunday will be chiiiilled I hope I’ll hopefully work on my music video!
But yeah, my brother, Tapani, was home last night. And he invited me and Pieter to watch a horror film with him and he left the room to check on the pizza he’d put in the oven. He snuck up to the door and burst into the room screaming, trying to scare us, he succeeded. He’s so mean! He’s got a few proffesional shoots coming up, he’s off to Vegas in a couple of weeks. The 1st place prize money is £30,000. He doesn’t think he’ll win, but I think he’s trying to get into the winning frame of mind by saying stuff like “when I win Vegas, the first thing I’ll buy is a new laptop for Tia”. Which is a lovely thought, I hope he does well. He deserves it. He might not win, but I hope he gets close. It’ll give him so much confidence for next time. And I’m not sure what the deal is with the Commonwealth Games, but last I heard was that he was going…but don’t hold me to that because one second he is, and then he’s not, and then he is. You’ll have to ask him!
He’s still with his wonderful girlfriend Amy, but I haven’t seen her in a short while, I suppose she’s had exams throughout January and Tab hasn’t really been home much either. Maybe they’ll come down at somepoint.
AAAAAAAND during half term, Jill’s sister is coming to visit them and she is a hair dresser so Jill told me to think of something to do with my hair and I think I’ll go blonde. I might as well, and then before University I will cut it short and let it grow long and healthy. I’m excited! And I’m going to get my navel pierced when I can be bothered, I could do it on Saturday I suppose. And I’m still considering my tattoo which I will eventually get round to. Just some writing on my foot, Miss Linda, no panic!
Nicola said in the car “I’m going to change the radio channel and the first line from the song you hear, is what you have to tattoo on you”. Stupidly, I agreed. But the first lyric that came up was “Music is my remedy”. So that’s ok! But it doesn’t really mean anything to me, I wanted a nice mother-daughter quote. Miss Linda, we had some positive quotes from over the summer didn’t we? And they helped me a lot, there’s one or two on the cork board by the computer…I can’t think of what they are though! Something about the future and changing…you can’t change tomorrow unless you do something different today?? No, that wasn’t it…ARGH!! I can’t remember haha. Please let me know if you see this!!
And The Thieving Beggars are taking over my life and I simply cannot take a break this summer to visit my beloved states OOMAIIDAYYYYSSS the Lollipop Dell advert just came on my radio player! Wheyyy!! Aaaah nostalgia. But I’m thinking Uni Christmas holidays are a bit longer than the college ones. I think we get 3-4 weeks. If you’ll have me, Miss Linda, I would love to pay you a visit *big eyes*.
The Beggars have gigs galore lined up for the summer already, including Small Nations Festival, Beach Break Live, hopefully Blue Rock Festival and Pontardawe Festival. I’m going to try and find as many festivals to play in as possible. And we’re planning a mini tour of the city streets. We will busk in Swansea and the money we make there will be used to get us to the next city (probably Cardiff) and the busking money from there will get us to the next city, we’ll busk there and onto the next, until we simply run out of money I guess. We’ll see where we end up. Which will be nice
And me and Steff are plotting a getaway in a log cabin in Pembrokeshire for a week with Joe and Ash in July. Hoepfully it’ll be awesome.
So lots to look forward. Just got to stay positive now. We can do this
Night guys!
Tia-Rhian xx
Are you gonna change your ways Darlin’, are you gonna change your ways?
Lyric by the Mad Caddies
I’m having a ska-filled morning! I do love a bit of ska! Save Ferris, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Mad Caddies are helping me heal I do love it!
And I believe I have fixed my blog…I think it’s working now. Hah! You guys probably didn’t even notice anything was wrong lol.
Tis my last night in Estonia tonight, I’m actually surprisingly dissapointed. Normally I’m counting down the days to leave because Estonia, to me, has always been one massive panic attack. Every time I ate something I’d have a panic attack because I thought it’d make me ill. But I just realized that it wasn’t the food that made me ill every other time I’ve been here, it was me. I’d panic and convince myself that I was ill. Silly girl! So I learnt to trust myself and it was fine! Fancy that! And I really enjoyed myself! I can’t wait to get home to my guitar and piano though, deary me!
I finished an assignment for Marc Snell yesterday that had been weighing me down for a while, I’m quite glad that’s out of the way. I need to finish 3 written assignments for Ajijo. And then I can knuckle down and get finishing my practical assignments. I need to finish my foley work for Pasha, my demo album thing for my Creating and Marketting a Music Product, my video installation for Marc Snell which will tie in with my Music Technology in Performance project…And I hope to God that’s the last of the big projects…wait, there’s one more of Pash’s that he hasn’t introduced us to yet. Not sure what it is. There’s so much work…and just like everyone else did, I left my first year work until now. So I’m going to set myself a deadline, I’m going to finish all of my first year work before February half term. And that will give me the rest of the time until Summer to round up all of my second year work.
Aled doesn’t show up to his lectures most of the time, and if he does, he doesn’t teach us anything. He just complains about stuff. Sometimes he’s helpful though, he’ll tell us his experience in the Music Industry. He was the drummer in one of the biggest selling Welsh bands in Britain. He’s told us all about the best producers he’s worked with, what life in the studio is like, playing in big venues, getting along with your bandmates when you’re on the road with them all the time, the “difficult third album” which is difficult because you’re on tour with the second album and you don’t have time to write, so you write most of it in the studio and then it’s not so good because it’s rushed. So he has his uses
But because nothing really happens in his lectures I can probably get away with doing all my first year work in that time. And we have fridays off, I have singing in the morning and then the rest of the day is free. So I could do my practical first year work then. Which is recording acoustic guitar, recording acoustic drums, and recording a multitrack. My multitrack is pretty much done, I just need to record some other things onto it, currently it’s got two flute parts (as well as piano and bass guitar) so I might record vocals onto it and do some different flute bits. And then I need to write about them…
I need to make a list…
I’m so glad them boys are out of my life… :/
I think I need an American boy I reckon I need a visa, whaddya think?
Tia-Rhian xx
If You’re Happy And You Know It…
“If you’re happy and you know it, drink some more.
If you’re happy and you know it, drink som more.
If you’re happy and you know it and you really want to show it,
Keep on drinking till you end up on the floor.”
And so a new year is edging ever closer, t’will soon be time to bid a forever farewell to the grand ole year that was 2009 and greet 2010 with a bang…or at least an open mind.
I hope y’all have started thinking about your resolutions! The usual, “loose some weight”, “stop eating so much chocolate”, “get healthier” and all that won’t do for me this year. I’m thinking imma think big. 2010 will be my happy year, no more feeling sorry for myself, no more bitching about people, no more being unhappy with myself. If it includes coming across extremely vain for a while, then coming across extremely vain will just have to occur.
Once I’ve thought of my definate ones, I’ll let you all know! Thing is…how many are you supposed to make? As many as you can keep? 2 or 3 important ones? 1 main one? 10? Like the 10 commandments? Now, is there a rule to this sort of thing or is it just…have a go?
Who knows…
I had crazy bad panic attack last night, there were tears and screaming and sobbing and long distance phone calling and sitting in a freezing living room…it was the worst one yet. Which sucks a tad. But I think it made me stronger in the end, not had one tonight. That’s been good. I convinced myself last night that I would be able to hold off on eating until I got home. I’ve gone without eating for 3 days, and this will be 4 days…it’s doable. But then we went for lunch and I wanted some fries cause I was feeling dizzy…so I figured it wasn’t worth it. Not eating will make me more ill that eating the food out here will. So I’ve literally eaten fries…all day.
I have, once again, lost weight. After my attempts at putting it on whilst in America. Alas, it has gone again. I am down to 114 pounds I think. Stepped on a set f scales for the first time in a long time…didn’t think that was very healthy. So I checked out my BMI (body mass index) and it was 17.9, (anything below 18.5 is considered underweight and unhealthy). So blast it!
RIGHT! That shall be my first resolution…In the year 2010, Tia Kalmaru will find and stick to a weight that she feels comfortable with. None of this, uuurrrrggggh too heavy or uuuuuurrrrrgh too skinny, rubbish. It’s got to be done!
Don’t know if I’ll talk to Pieter tonight. If I can be bothered to sort out my computer, I might. If not, I’ll speak to him tomorrow maybe. We’ll see! I’d quite like to talk to him. But the thing is, he’s inspired right now, he’s writing music and creating his own thang. And when he’s inspired he tends to be very focused on whatever he’s doing. Be it building a computer, making a new track, building a moutainbike or whatever. He doesn’t let anything stand in the way of his inspiration in case he looses it, he doesn’t want to waste time. He’ll still be around if I need him, and he’ll still talk to me even if it’s not important. But he’s not concentrating on talking to people, so he’s not very fun. So I’m just going to leave him to it for a few days. It’ll run out eventually. He’s shown me clips of the track and it sounds pretty good, so I’m looking forward to hearing it. Plus, we’re both trying to figure out what we want and it’s probably in the back of his mind while he’s working just as it is mine. So absence can only be a good thing right now.
I’m looking forward to seeing him when I get home though.
I’m gonna head to the living room and watch some tv with dad and Jill
Ooooh, by the way, we had an awesome day in Rakvere today. It snowed so much, we had snowball fights and took pictures and we went into a music shop and I got to play the guitars and pianos and that made me feel a lot better!!
Catch you guys soon. Remeber! Resolutions!
Tia-Rhian xx
At Dad’s House :)
Hi guys!
I have arrived! At my dad’s! Yay!
Well, we got here last night. But I was having too much fun to write last night, sorry guys
We got home, had some speghetti and then went to the pub. Jon beat me TWICE at pool!! Not that we’re competative at all…but it’s so annoying!! I will beat him at something!
Right now, I’m sat here, researching the band we’re playing with tonight (The Thieving Beggars have a gig in Cardigan) because it helps to know about them…no one else bothers researching the bands.
Jon is playing some geeky card game with Karl (Jilly’s son) on the floor next to me. Karl is really enthusiastic about the game and he’s really into it, so he offered Jon a game. And Jon’s just nice so he accepted…I think he might be regretting it. He’s mouthed ‘help’ at me. But he sends a smile my way when he gets a chance, so Iguess he’s doing ok!
W’re going to take the dogs out after this, Keyno is a Belgian Shepard, and Scamp is a Westie. We’re going to dress warm and take them up the road. I love them! They’re cool!
Then we might pop into Emlyn, because I need to go and see Olly’s mum, and then we’ll head to the gig!!
It’s been a really good weekend so far. I’m so happy!
I’m gonna go hang out with Keyno and Scamp now! Catch you guys later!
Tia-Rhian x
