Last Night...

Last night I went to the Haunted Stereo curates the Hamptons, my first proper Sotones event, and was pretty impressed! I wondered how a place that, lets be fair, is as small as the Hamptons could hold such events, but I was wrong to doubt it! It wasn’t cramped, but there were plenty of people there.

My favorite band of the evening (no offense to the others) had to be the Little Philistines. Having not had time to see Moneytree (which is actually such a shame) Little Philistines were a good substitute! Their whole set full of surprises, including one of the guitarists pulling out a trumpet mid song. And, I was lucky enough to get the last of their free CDs, which i will enjoy soon enough!

Saying that, the other bands were good! So Say So and Not Made In China certainly got the crowd tapping their feet! Good choices from Haunted Stereo, really. Of course headliners Moneytree, I’m sure were brilliant, but this isn’t first hand information, so don’t quote me on that. But how could they not have been??

Anyway, I really hope none of you are reading this the day that I have written it, because really, you should all be at the Hamptons for the second night of the Haunted Stereo Curates weekend. With headliner Peter Lyons and an array of other acts. And Its Free! So you actually have no excuse not to be there.

I on the other hand was a little too ill to get there tonight for the second night. But will most definately be at the Lonely Joe Parker Curates evening this friday! Can’t wait…I wonder if they let me into this one for free again…

Until next time, Sam the Intern!

Here we are again...

decided today would be a good time to come into the office. Its been so long I thought I would offer my services once again, which today included uploading 134 photos and name each one of the separately. It was quite mind numbing really…

Ive only been here like, two hours today, but already Joe has dismantled a computer, which was interesting to watch. Especially when he came back from a battery run for the keyboard to find he had the wrong size. But Im sure there’s a purpose to it all.

I’ve also only had one cup of coffee today, which is a depressing number, but it was good. Hampton’s sure do the finest instant coffee around. No lie.

This is only going to be a short one today, because Im running out of things to talk about. I swear this is like talking to a brick wall, god, you people!

Anyway, Im sure I will post another one sometime this week, but until then, how about reading this one again on www.sotones.podbean.com?

Anyway, til next time! Sam!

My Contribution for the week...

Hi! I haven’t been to the office for over a week now, so I thought I would input some kind of contribution so they don’t think I’ve forgotten them. This being it…

So christmas is over, which sucks. New year festivities is also over, which also sucks. What a depressing way to start a new decade. But ah well, I hope everyone had a very merry festive season.

2010 is looking to be a good year for not only myself, but for the whole of Sotones. They start with a whole load of pretty sick things happening. First off, they are brought into the new year with awesome reviews of Haunted Stereo’s new EP ‘Cross the Sea’, which, from personal experience, I can tell you is worth all the Hoo-har. I may need to beg/steal/borrow myself a new copy due to it being over played in my stereo. But enough about me…

Its also looking good for Moneytree who have the launch of their third EP ‘The Great Indoors part 3′, and from previews and even the strength of the single ‘Wake Up and Pay your Overheads’ alone, I can tell you it is well worth the wait, and I may even pay for this one…

But the first thing to scribble onto your newly obtained 2010 calendar should be the Haunted Stereo curating a whole weekend at the Hamptons with acts such as Peter Lyons and Moneytree etc. I’m gonna make sure I’m down there anyhow!

So overall, this year sets to look good for everyone. Even myself as I am forced to choose universities already. I swear I only left for big school two weeks ago! ah well, onwards and upwards. Now…do I take Art, Music or Physics..? But, I’m sure you all skipped this paragrah, so I’ll see you all on the 16th and 17th at the Hamptons!

Until then, your favorite intern, Sam!