Vans Off The Wall Tour - October 17, 2012

I went to the Vans Off The Wall Tour last night at the O2 Academy in Sheperd's Bush Empire in London. The line up was Marmazots, Your Demise, We Are The In Crowd, and Young Guns. IF you haven't heard of any of these bands then stop reading right now and check them out. I took my small Canon digital camera and took some photos. Here are some of the better ones.

Gustav Wood and Ben Jolliffe of Young Guns at the Vans store signing

Simon Mitchell and Fraser Taylor of Young Guns

Group of friends I made before the gig

Katie and Naveena

We Are The In Crowd

Taylor Jardine and Jordan Eckles of We Are The In Crowd

Simon Mitchell of Young Guns

Young Guns

Young Guns

Young Guns

Gustav Wood of Young Guns

Simon Mitchell and Fraser Taylor of Young Guns

Gustav Wood of Young Guns
(Favourite photo of the night)

Gustav Wood of Young Guns

Second favourite photo of the night

The venue

Rob Chianelli of We Are The In Crowd and myself

Taylor Jardine and Rob Chianelli of We Are The In Crowd

End of era

There comes a point in life where you've got to say goodbye and move onto the next step. Tonight was the first night that this happened for me. It was the upper sixth boarders leavers' dinner. We had a pre-drinks session, a lovely 3 course meal, gifts and of course speeches. It was the speeches that did it for me. When you start to reminisce about a place where you've spent the last four years of your life, it does take its toll on you. When the speech givers said 'I'm going to miss you all', I love you' and that I felt my eyes well up and my throat start to tighten; I was literally choking back tears. This is the first night of these times, the evening of our Prom will be one of the saddest yet happiest times I think.

Here is some photos from this evening:

FutureProof

Back in December last year, I was proud to have organised the entertainment for my Sixth Form Christmas party. I was able to get FutureProof, a pop band, from Herts. The members are Jonni Wedge the lead man as vocals, Kiran Marshall the guitarist and Charlie Leftwich the percussionist.

 It started with a tweet to Charlie over the summer. I spoke to my head of year and Charlie, back and forth until it was all organised. I met Charlie, Kiran and Jonni the day before the gig as they wanted to set up the PA system beforehand and do a set run through. And we were all set for the gig; 9AM not exactly a rock star hour.

On the day, I borrowed a camera and decided to go shutter happy. Here are some of the photos I took:

Jonni during rehersal

Charlie

Kiran

Jonni

FutureProof fans

The boys with some students after the show

I'm so glad that the morning was a success after much unwanted comments from people at school.

They guys have just recently announced their first ever headline tour so if you live in the UK don't miss your chance to see them!

Here's a few links:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/futureproofmusicuk
Twitter: http://twitter.com/FutureProofBand
Charlie Twitter: http://twitter.com/CharlesLeftwich
Jonni Twitter: http://twitter.com/jonniwedge
Kiran Twitter: http://twitter.com/kiranmarshall

They've got two music videos of original songs up on YouTube which you can find here:
One More Chance - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVRyICi2oRo
Maniac - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO6ggznSISY

Binham Priory, Norfolk

These are some photos I took at the Binham Priory in Norfolk; one of the places on my dad's random adventure list. This place was absolutely gorgeous; a lot of it was broken walls and towers which are the ruins of the original Priory. However, there is the main part of the church that is still intact and used which you are able to go in. 

Occupy London Protest: Part 4

This is probably my favourite photo from that day so I decided to give it its own post. How kind some of use humans can be, eh?

Occupy London Protest: Part 3

Occupy London Protest: Part 2

Gone so young

Last summer my dad took us to the Binham Priory which is partly church ruins. I went out to the graveyard on my own and there was an area of overgrown grass of which I found this grave stone. Broke my heart.

'In the Memory of
Emma Elizabeth
The beloved child of Robert and Susan Smith
Who fell asleep in Jesus
October 3rd 1874
Aged 5 years
and 9 months'

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