Love Bayone. Such a great band with biggest sound despite only consisting of two members. We really like them in Nottingham. Between myself & Some Dudes, 49s vs Dolphins and Shankland and his crew, we take turns at putting them on.
Check out the cool sofa session they did with WAITT Unsigned.
Something Corporate’s Leaving Through The Window was released ten years ago today via Drive-Thru Records.
One of my all-time favourite albums. Such an incredible pop piano rock record. I remember listening to ‘Hurricane’ on the sampler that came with a Rock Sound magazine and falling in love with it. Leaving Through the Window will always remind me of plane journeys to Brazil to visit my family.
As of today, I am on a roller derby hiatus until my shin splits/knees sort themselves out. Who knew exercise could become bad for you? I’ve been skating 4 hours a week for the past year and there was a week where I managed 9 hours in one week. So to not skate at all is going to make me quite restless. I’m pretty sad that I won’t be skating but I have a very exciting trip to look forward to…
In a couple of weeks’ time I will be going to Vancouver in Canada to visit my friends who moved there a year ago. Sarah and Hudson are some of my favourite people and Nottingham hasn’t been the same since they moved away.
Whilst I’m there we will be going down to Portland! I have been very much intrigued by Portland for a while now and I have a feeling I am going to fall in love with the place. We’re also going to spend a day in Seattle before going back to Vancouver. I’m clearly not going to want to come back.
Desaparecidos (ft. Conor Oberst) will be reuniting for a show at the Maha Music Festival in Omaha, NE on August 11th. Check out a tweet from the band below by clicking “Read More.”
SORRY, WHAT?
If only I could get there.
This weekend I watched the Hellfire Harlots bout against Crime City Rollers and it was a brilliant game. Although it would have been nice to see less knee starts. It was so close; you really couldn’t tell who was going to win by the time the final jam came around. And man was that jam exciting! The jammer for Crime City Rollers fouled and was sent to the penalty box meaning it was a power jam for the Harlots. But THEN HH’s jammer Bunnie Suicide cut the track and was sent to the box which released CCR’s jammer to score points. Bunnie took her time to get to penalty box but it wasn’t enough because the final score was 161 - 162 to Crime City Rollers. Ouch. So many excellent players in that bout. I hope to become as good one day.
I’m feeling really positive about the roller derby community in Nottingham and I hope we will make the most of it.
I can’t get enough of this song.
