Saturday 16 April 2016

HIGH SCHOOL NEVER ENDS

L I T T L E B E A R W O L F

T W E N T Y  S I X T E E N

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Aloha - Ahoy
 You know those times you look back on life & just think 'well damn, those were some good times' that's what discovering live music felt like for me.
The energy & emotions ran high as did the conversations of school, of what we'd do at the weekend & what we'd do when we grew up; while walking to The Void on a Saturday evening.
An event that became the start of the higlight of my week when I was a teen.
As we got closer you could hear the skaters in the park; the smell of cigarettes & sweat hit you as you entered the building.
Up the stairs and into the darkened room.
What felt like a thousand bodies surrounded you, the lingering smoke a few inches above my head swirling through my hair as we made our way to the bar.
We'd seek out our friends, perhaps look for strangers; it didn't matter the night was young & we owned the world.

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The band would start, the tunes would play and we would mosh, skank, dance & laugh the evening away.
Taking breathing breaks imbetween bands outside as the stars covered the night sky; the chatter of teen angst, lust & excitement was rife outside.

Gigs at The Void revealed a passion in me for live music that I had never expected. The atmosphere of being in a room when the bands got the place jumping is an experience like none other.

Live music is incredibly important, going to punkrock nights & local gigs was a right of passage in our city as kids. We didn't have wifi, Instagram & blogs.
We had music, playing outside, making our own fun & causing a whole lotta trouble.
We didn't wear luxury cosmetics, vans just made awesome skate shoes & taking a selfie involved buying a disposable camera holding it at arms length & trying to squeeze all your mates in the shot, while hoping for the best. That or a photo booth.
It was a pretty great time to be a teen.

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I can't show you cool snaps & wicked YT vids because it simply wasn't a thing to do but here's a pretty good way at showing you what it was like -


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Before I get all 'back in my day' being a millenial is a wicked awesome time to be alive.
I can literally make a living from doing what I love which was pretty much just a pipe dream at 14.
But hell being a teen at the turn of the millenium was just epic.

This year is 10 years since I left college, what I've learnt since stepping out into the world at 18 feels like a couple a lifetimes worth of content & this stories only just got started.
While I'm all stoked for what's going down this Spring/Summer, I can't help but look back at my time in high school & college with a smile on my face.

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Those nights at The Void started a love of live music that i've carried with me right through school into college, university & life beyond.

Here's the ultimate awesome tunes that we popped on while gathering before heading to The Void, the tunes we danced our legs off too at Route on a Monday, that we rocked out to before The Joiners & that ten years (and the rest) on are still wicked awesome.

& alright we were 14 -18 year old girls we're allowed some questionable tunes!

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T H E  V O I D
L B W 
 U L T I M A T E  A W E S O M E  P L A Y L I S T 

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S . O . A . D 
C H O P  S U E Y


N O F X
L I N O L E U M

L E S S  T H A N  J A K E
A L L  M Y  B E S T  F R I E N D S  A R E  M E T A L  H E A D S
The next song is such a sweet cover - reminds me of the night of five encores.
That was a sweaty night.
R E E L  B I G  F I S H 
T A K E  O N  M E 
G R E E N  D A Y
 B A S K E T C A S E
J I M M Y  E A T  W O R L D
T H E  M I D D L E

S U M  4 1
F A T  L I P
B L I N K  1 8 2
A L L  T H E  S M A L L  T H I N G S
 
S A V E  F E R R I S
T H E  W O R L D  I S  N E W 
L E T T E R S  T O  C L E O
I  W A N T  Y O U  T O  W A N T  M E 
 H O L E
C E L E B R I T Y  S K I N
N I R V A N A
H E A R T  S H A P E D  B O X
F O O  F I G H T E R S
A L L  M Y  L I F E
 
Q . O . T . S . A
N O  O N E  K N O W S
S L I P K N O T
W A I  T  A N D  B L E E D
A F I 
G I R L S  N O T  G R E Y 
T H E  O F F S P R I N G
S E L F  E S T E E M
S U M 4 1
S T I L L  W A I  T I N G

I  DON'T BELIEVE ANY OF YOU THAT TELL ME YOU WEREN'T A LITTLE BIT EMO.

You knew it was coming.

And you thought the chick rock was painful didn't you?!

F A L L  O U T  B O Y
D A N C E  D A N C E
M C R 
H E L E N A 
Better shove in a couple a TUNES while we scruff away our emo fringes & hide those skinny skinny jeans away from the world...
Just for good measure because I saw them live this year and they were a right good laugh & top dudes...
B O W L I N G  F O R  S O U P
 H I G H  S C H O O L  N E V E R  E N D S
& on to the reall good stuff...
S L I P K N O T
T H E  D E V I L  I N  I
 I R O N  M A I D E N
T H E  T R O O P E R
M E G A D E T H
S Y M P H O N Y  O F  D E S T R U C T I O N 

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That was a lot of fun.
A little trip down memory lane for a Saturday night.
If you like pirate viking metal - check out my battle of the bands between Nightwish & Alestorm on the blog here.
 Tune in and rock out again soon!

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Love & Peace
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