Its so quiet...

I was just thinking to myself that I can't keep sitting on this computer.. drinking Gaymers Cider and playing World Of Warcraft all day long (I'm a Level 25 Rogue Human with blacksmith and first aid skills by the way) so I'd thought I would vent...!

Now that I think about it.. there is nothing to vent about... but thats the problem..

Believe it or not I hate sitting in my underpants eating pizza.. normally at this time I'd be getting ready for a gig.. May have been in some doss-hole in Lewisham or the back room of a pub in Bethnal Green but still.. it was a gig.. something to go and get pissed at and have a laugh. No ones fault I know (only Gary could break his foot making a basic 5 yard pass with no opposition around!) 2009 seems such a long way off but hopefully now our manager, Matt The Hat Hatred as he is so affectionally known, will give the 4 of us the kick up the arse we have been needing for the past year or so. I cannot stay at that wretched Super Market for another year and keep telling everyone 'oh yes.. I'm in a band really.. We're just waiting for the record deal.. ha ha' my co-workers laugh, the manager laughs, the retarded bloke who gets the trollies laugh and I die a little inside...

End on a positive - found out today that Santa Hamina Fire Dept have been on myspace since Feb! Been searching for them for a while now (its the offspring of Tom and Gary - would reccomend them)

Well thats done - I'm off to slay Gnolls at Deepwater Mine...

Leedsy

Fuck Me.....

.....This is good



Break yourself,
Tom X

I had a thought today

Russell Brand hosted the MTV awards for some bollocks earlier in the year. In the ads he was trying to chat up Britney Spears. A couple of months later she releases a song called "Womaniser". That was my thought....Take that Thomas Edison.

Management

We now have management! For all things Retro contact
Matthew de Graft-Hayford @ matthewhayford@googlemail.com

New retro crook direction?

no, but its still a tune. worthy of posting in my opinion.



Nice,
Tom

The blog where Chandler gets married

Morning peeps, I've only had 4 hours sleep..........Blog Time!

I might as well tell you about whats been happening regarding Gary's broken foot. We can't gig or do anything band related till the new year. Gigs, recording, nothing. to be honest though i think this will be good for us. we've been experimenting with different songs styles lately and i wanna explore and move more in that direction, but still continue with a more traditional Crook Sound. I wont tell you what it is but I'll tell you it involves one of these.

That's a sampler.

I've decided to swear less in these blogs, I swore seven times last blog.

Fuck off now,
Tom

Blog time

I want to apologise. I've been getting lazy at blogging. I thought this will be easy. i was gonna write some crap earlier in the week but i didn't, its been a frustrating week. Only for me though....only for me.

so what should i talk about, not much has been going on in my life. in fact fuck all has happened in my mundane excuse for an existence. Last Thursday was All Teeth's Halloween night......i'm going to sneeze.......yep.............finished....me, Gary and our good friend Karri went down to party like its was 1999 (should really stop listening to prince), it was a strange night. the bands where shall i say eclectic lol, Hotpoints being Plastic Passion and ze GB boys. when all bands finished a string of old skool classics belted out the speakers, 1999 turned quickly to 1939! these was elderly skool. "do you love me", "the twist", "tutti fruity", "rock around the clock", some serious tunage! it was a brilliant way to end a completely surreal night. we had to get a cab home with face paint on, we don't fuck about.

Gary looks like a twat in picture lol. no one smiles with face paint on, its rule 1. Gary News: the knob head has some how broke his foot yesterday playing football. I'm not sure how this works now. For those who don't know Gary is Retro Crooks' drummer, ideally he needs all limbs in working order.....drummers are funny like that. i cant tell you if we're gigging or recording yet cos i just don't know.

Other news, just checked the NME cool list and found out that number 1 is the girl from Crystal Castles. Who the fuck is she and why should i care? she is not cool, her music isn't cool. is it cool not to be cool now? if so she deserves it.....in fact fuck that I deserve it (see above pic).

I have nothing more to say except that I've given up on the metallica album. Its too fucking long and after a while songs sound the same. it's still good though. I cant stop watching Fonejacker.......

If I wake up and find Obama is not president i shall be annoyed......

Til next time tossers,
Tom xXx