I’ll post the same review as I wrote on Pompey Music forum as I’m lazy and can’t be bothered to type another review. My review of Hellfest is going to be pretty in-depth, so I shall work on that tonight.
Frosthold - Not a bad set by all accounts (apart from one of the bouncers who thought we were appalling…), think we generally played a lot better than usual aside from some minor mess-ups including me totally losing my place in The Aethelings due to Phil’s guitar suddenly being drowned out of my monitors…otherwise good.
Akakios - I was recovering from sweat for most of it, but I heard good metally sounds coming from over there.
Mayz - I had a disagreement with the door staff at this point, so missed most of Mayz calming down from wanting to rip their faces off. Sounded nice and proggy, but I’d have to listen to it properly to get it I expect. The only other thing I remember of Mayz was them turning up very late, I don’t know the full story, there could be a really valid reason, but turning up so late is just not cool…
Enochian Theory - Just excellent as always. Every time I see them, they get so much better, tighter, and more touching. Aside from the orchestra being a bunch of lazy bastards and seemingly not playing what the conductor was telling them to play, it was absolutely flawless. I’ll definitely be picking up a copy of the new CD when it’s done as I really loved the songs. Very tight, very pro, very WIN, very MANLY. In the bedroom.
If you’ve been following my Twitters/blog for a few days you should notice I’m getting hyped for Hellfest. Well this is my last regular blog post until at least next Monday. I’ll try and keep this up to date with Twitter updates, and I’ll try and post a blog if I’m not too passed out. Anyway, the ferry is at 11:30pm tonight, we’ve gotta be there at 9:30pm (silly, I know!) so I’d better get a move on!
Farewell to thee all, fair readers, temporarily anyway.
Oh, and get some tickets for Frosthold!
So after a few years of piggy-backing my personal stuff on my various websites (Total Carnage, Frosthold etc.) I’ve finally taken the plunge and ordered myself my own personal domain name. It’ll probably take a little while for me to sort stuff out and start getting all my stuff redirected to the new site once it’s up and running, and I’m thinking of creating my own theme (at last!) to really customise the site.
I’ll also add other bits and bobs, and give you more of an insight to the wonderful and highly exciting (hah!) world of me… watch this space (or maybe another space if you start getting a 301 error…)
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Last night I finished off my latest bit of PHP and created the first version of ‘Private Passwords’. Essentially it is an open source version of Secret Server. As per my last post I’ve been making use of AES encryption with the intention of making it as secure as possible. I’d be quite interested to see how secure it really is, perhaps get another developer to look over the code… In the mean time I am using myself and Frosthold’s drummer Tom to trial the software and see how it fares. If it does well I may put it on the web for the general public to use or download… we shall see!
I’ve just got back from recording some more vocals with Phil. We got some singing bits done, so we’ve finished A Dynasty Forgot and done the clean vocals on Vengeance of the Gods, which is sounding mighty (well the outro anyway!). Might be doing some more on Thursday, so hopefully I’ll get the clean bits for When Brothers Fought In Arms or maybe some growly songs done then. Then it’s growling all the way and the rest of it should go pretty smoothly. We may do group singing for WBFIA, but we’ll see and have to arrange to get everyone in the same room (shock horror!).
