Friday, October 31, 2008

moody bitch

Nova, Jamie, me, Lily & Moolay @ Bush Hall last nigtht.
Check out my leggings! Nova made them for me!!!
I wasn't expecting the surprise present! I'm so pleased!
She was up till 6 in the morning to finish making them.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

WTF!?!?!

Fucking hell!!! It's so not fair.... Milo rang me up saying he wants me to meet his friends coming round my house in 2 mins, I said ok, but my hair was bedhead with no make up, same clothes from last night, I looked like shit. My room was in a mess.... he knocked my door and I opened. Then there was a fucking TV crew outside filming me!
WTF. I was like "what the fuck are you doing????"
It was a interview for Milo's label Merok and band The Big Pink.....
They wanted me to introduce my bands, PRE & Comanechi, also The Big Pink, how me and Milo met etc. That was Milo's idea to just film like that not telling me. It's so not fair, I couldn't believe it....
Thanks Milo.... I was soooooooooo not ready....

Greatest Hits Invite

Comanechi are playing a gig on Thursday 13th Nov. Swear shoes is throwing the Greatest Hits party!
We are allocated to x5 fan guest list spots.
the location is still secret, so we can't tell you, don't know why... but it's in Soho, London, really cool place.
If anyone want to come, email me to secret@comanechi.com
names needed by the 6th Nov. I'll reply to whoever gets it! x

Brighton

Pack lunch from last night's special dinner!

The big pink tour started, day one in Brigton.

We still don't have our own bass amp and drum kit,
so we are using my other bands Comanechi drum kit & PRE's bass amp,
I didn't want my other band's name on the bass drum skin, it's so gay way to promote my other band too.
So I used my old skin and made a new sign! It looks good, doesn't it?

Super special meal deal

I'm still feeling jet lugged but maybe it's just me reeeely tired from not sleeping for last 3 days,
Milo cooked 3 course meal for us last night. It was the yummiest surprise dinner ever!
We were so hungry after 6 hours rehearsal but we didn't know what to cook, only we knew was we didn't want fatty food. We went to PFS, Milo said he'll cook, so he picked all the ingredients. I helped chopping vegeiees.

Milo made up this amazing recipe that I couldn't possibly have come up with. The combination of all the spices and seasoning are so random to me that I couldn't imagine what the taste would going to be until I eat.
I want to tell everyone the recipe but I'm keeping it secret, cuz I don't want Jamie Oliver or Gordon Ramsey to knick his idea!
(I didn't have my camera with me, so we took pictures from Milo's MacBook photo booth. So you can't really see them properly but they looked really really good too!)

cous cous salad

chicken breast on the left (super special secret marinade recipe!)

Beetroot salad with special dressing
oh, maybe I should tell you what the secret recipe was, cuz I feel mean if I don't...
So here!

Main course
Chicken Breast

2 chicken breast
marinade in
4 cloves of garlic finely chopped
dried thyme
lots of capers finely chopped
soft brown sugar (1 tea spoon)
pink wine
in tin foil and wrap individually

put them in oven and cook


Starter 1
Beetroot salad with pomegranate dressing
beetroot diced
feta cheese (break it with your fingers, it make it look nicer!)
fresh coriander finely chopped
for the dressing.....
pomegranate extract (you can get it in a bottle from Turkish super markets)
extra virgin olive oil
season with salt and pepper

Starter 2
Cous Cous salad
soak cous cous in boiling water like how you normally cook
fresh mint finely chopped
red onion finely chopped
pine nuts
cherry tomatos chop
feta cheese (again break it with your fingers!!!)
mix them together

season with salt and pepper

Now Try! It's very healthy too!

But don't tell Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson, Gary Rhodes, Ainsley Harriott, Gordon Ramsey or Gillian McKeith from You Are What You Eat.
You can tell Delia Smith though, cuz she wouldn't bother copying the idea, she would think it's too adventurous for her... Safe x


Tuesday, October 28, 2008

I'm back home

I wanna take you, I wanna take you,
I wanna I wanna I wanna I wanna,
I'm gonna rescue you, I'm gonna rescue you,
I'm gonna I'm gonna let's go let's go.

I'm outside not telling you.
You are suppose to be my best friend.

I wanna be your best best friend,
I wanna be your best friend ever,
But you are not gonna be back home,
you are not gonna be back ever.

- "Teenage Lakes" by PRE
(one of our very new songs we recorded with Albini and one of those 3 songs I was working on till the last minute.
but now this is my favorite song out of the 16 tracks we recorded...)

Monday, October 27, 2008

Sparks!

We are the Blaxons
It's 5 in the morning. I've been out partying for last 2 days (well... I'm not just partying). I had 3 shows in one day last night and had a music video shoot all day today too, but I spent the rest of my time partying way too hard, we have to go to airport in a hr going back to LDN. so what's the point going to bed for a hour?

I hanged out with Lauren, April and Kendra for last 2 days. We drank so much sparks, it's an alcohol drink with lots of caffeine in to keep you buzz all night. I love that shits and I'm still buzzing.....

This is bunny, my new friend
Anti CMJ show at Market Hotel (but we also played the official CMJ show before this one, and that one totally sucked.)
getting some more Sparks
PRE music video shootApril and Lauren
Happy Birthday Lauren! Chill hard x Peace out

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Ate your brain..... you wanna?

We've just finished all the recording and mixing. I can't believe it. We fucking finished all the 16 tracks in 3 days!!!!!
I'm so happy with the result. I wanted to spend more time with Steve talking about stuff, but he's very professional, also he's like my god, I can't talk shit, I was behaving well trying not to piss him off.
So we haven't finished yet, we have to leave the studio 6 in the morning, we have to be at the Chicago airport to go to NY. We are playing 3 shows tomorrow, then we have a music video shoot all day the day after. Then we are back in LDN on Tuesday morning.
then I have a rehearsal with The Big Pink in the evening, We are touring in the UK from Wednesday......

"Why why my eyes are glueing? Die die my head is exploding"- hope freaks

the end of the session, I need more burritos.

Friday, October 24, 2008

Love Crunch

Breakfast I had this morning
I'm so fucking tired, feels like I'm gonna die. My ears are burning and I don't wanna hear my voice anymore.... Yesterday we recorded 15 tracks instrumental (in one day!). Then today we started recording vocals.
I want to go to bed now but I can't, 'cuz I've got a home work to do. 3 more songs I need to work on my vocals. It's hard....
dick......

We went to a burger restaurant just round the corner from the studio,
check out the names on the menu! Rick had Mastodon
I ordered Melvins.... OF COURSE!John had Ian MaidenMatt ordered YobKev ordered Ian Maiden veggieeeee!

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Electrical Audio

PRE at Empty Bottle last night (me and Aya)
And here we are now! I was waiting for this like forever.
Recording with Steve Albini ! ! ! ! ! ! ! F U C K Y E S .
Steve and his recording studio
Here are some of my hand written lyrics...


Sunday, October 19, 2008

I wanna go fast

We are in East Moline, Iowa. 3hrs drive from Chicago, Illinois. We played at the Record Store Mixtape, and stayed at JT who runs the shop also in a band called Eyes.
This is Xiola, JT's daughter, she made me this on the counter at her dad's record shop.
Halloween decoration are everywhere.


GG! omg! his name is also called GG! He's also very good looking!