It's been a while since I posted on here so I feel like I need to post updates from the last month. Well, I went to Alton Towers for the 10th time on the 7th with Bekkie. It was a toss up between the Monday or the Tuesday before Bekkie headed back to Finland and we definitely made the right choice. The weather was perfect all day and we managed to get on everything twice before 3:30pm and collected lots of photos with the digi-pass as proof.
I brought myself a Nemesis t-shit, which I'm rather fond of because myself and the ride share the same year of birth, although that is worrying slightly. Admittedly, I was a little disappointed with Galactica (Air re branded). The team outfits were all a bit "Startreck-y", I'm surprised they haven't been sued and also it was my first time experiencing VR. My head set didn't configure properly and so the visuals were slightly to the side when they should have been aligned with the track which made it extra effort to see stuff. The audio playback was pants too. Not very loud nor good quailty. I will give them kudos for the the level of creativity in the content of the 360° animated journey, although I feel like the VR takes away the thrill of rollercoaster experience. We did go on it again (as Air, if you like) and it was much better (other than worrying that the head set might flight out and hit us in the face) more bad news is that they've removed the camera from the ride.
In other news, my new band had our first gig at the Tap 'n' Tumbler in Nottingham and it's fair to say were well received. Grand Ultra headlined. This was the same week on Thursday, August 10th and my, we didn't half prepare for it. Tuesday and Wednesday saw three hour rehearsals and I brought myself a new gig worthy bass amp. The following Thursday after the gig we finally had the talk about changing names. It was a struggle, but we finally decided on "Kill The Moon". I won't say why, I'll save that for the interviews. So much better than Robots, which makes me so much happier. I will post a link to an album on Flickr from Thursday's gig below.
Other than all of the above (baring in mind it is now the 29th), I haven't really done much other than more band rehearsals. I'm starting to fall behind with my research project and struggle to find motivation, although I have around 4000 words now which impresses me. Our next gig is at The Maze on 5th September, so we are preparing for that one at the moment but also trying to write some more originals.
Our shiny new website (Still under construction)
https://killthemoonband.wixsite.com/killthemoon
Photo Album (Kill The Moon performing as Robots)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/yakstrangler/sets/72157684944440423
