America…
America…
America, FUCK YEAH!
Coming again, to save the mother fucking day yeah,
America, FUCK YEAH!
Freedom is the only way yeah,
Terrorist your game is through cause now you have to answer too,
America, FUCK YEAH!
So lick my butt, and suck on my balls,
America, FUCK YEAH!
What you going to do when we come for you now,
it’s the dream that we all share; it’s the hope for tomorrow

FUCK YEAH!

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Jack of Speed on BalconyTV!

Here’s a fantastic short of some breakdancing ninjas directed by the one and only Aiden Gibson. Breakdancers are P Kean and Horse Henderson! The song is Europa by the James Taylor Quartet.

Saturday was one of those days that any radiohead fan would have had trouble sleeping the night before. I can’t include myself in that list, primarily due to a healthy concoction of pints baby guiness’ (guini?) and silver bullets (Thanks Paddy!) the night before, and so it was with a heavy lids and even heavier head that i was roused by a scorching sun blasting though my so-called curtains.

So as we all know now, it was the perfect day for an outdoor gig! In our case, a fairly complex plan of action was called for to ensure that all guilty parties were assembled in or around the right time and place for some pre-gig fun. There was a theoretical group of 8 of us who were to head up to a mate Roisin’s not-so humble abode in Malahide for a BBQ and drinks. Kudos goes out to Roisin at this point, who very graciously permitted myself and Dan to show up with 6 of our smelly friends without so much as asking what area code they resided in or whether they would be bringing anything to the table other than their hungry, thirsty selves.

Eventually a troupe consisting of myself, Dan, Wigs, Clem and Amel was assembled and we piled onto a dart at about 1pm. Along the way we picked up Fi and Ignazio-a friend of mine from work. Mike, the supposed 8th member of the group was, as usual, not to be heard from. I still amaze myself that I find this surprising even after 6 or 7 years…

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If you know us, you know that we love Guitar Hero and just over a week ago a new game called Rockband was released and was delivered straight in the loving arms of Gaffbhala. The game is exactly the same as the GH series only that RB comes with a mini drumkit and microphone enabling 4 people to play at the same time on drums, bass, guitar and vocals! A perfect game for me and my fellow housemates!

I’ve been playing it quite heavily over the past week or so and the other day I managed to complete the solo tour on the drums on hard mode. I sat my self down for a few hours every evening after work and ploughed my way through it.

My next step is to step it up a notch and try and complete it on expert difficulty Which should be fine for half of the songs but there are some pretty tough ones once you get into the tour! What I’m looking to though is that after I complete the drum solo tour I have the whole guitar tour to look forward to!

I’ve made a couple more songs the past few months in my boredom. So if you liked my post a couple of months back you might as well have a listen Check them out below or download if you fancy!

Belts

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Twelfth

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Woohoo, Im off to Joe Satriani tonight!

For those of you who don’t know him, he is an electric guitar user, abuser and maestro. There are few people in the world who can actually extract juices from an instrument, but he is one of them and he’s playing in Vicar Street tonight at 7:30pm.I’m heading in with a few lads from work to view this guitar orgy first hand.

Suffice to say, ill probably come home and break my guitar into pieces because Ill never be that good.

Check out his myspace here for tracks etc.

If you know me then I guess you know I love to make music. Its pretty hard not to notice the amount if instruments and gear around gaffbhala. I like to keep my own stuff nice and simple, melodic and fun. Some tunes took a few hours and some a few days. Here’s some tunes I made when I was unemplyed for that magical month and a half :p

After That

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Heavy

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Walk in the Park

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Here’s some stuff from when I was meant to be studying for my finals in college

I Should be Working

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This is Getting Serious

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Let me know what ya think and I can’t wait to make some more

We recorded another sonic cover the other night, emerald hill zone, which turned out better than we expected. All thats left to do is a bit of editing and footage! Watch this space!

Listen to the original here

Grum, Ali and myself recorded us jamming the other nite. We hooked up the kit, the keyboard and guitar staight into the mixer and recorded away for a few hours. Grum also was playing some random samples on his laptop; namely ricky gervais and terry tibbs. Forgive the names :p thats all we could come up with! Let us know what you think!

Here’s a couple of mp3’s of what we did:

Bender Swapsies

Terry Tibbs

G Dance

Portisheadbhala

Drunk Mosquito