2009 March –Blunt Magazine

Four Year Strong tour diary part 5

March 30th, 2009 by Blunt | No Comments | Filed in Tour Diaries

Everyone’s favourite gingers are still ruining lives on the Taste Of Chaos. You can follow Four Year Strong on Twitter and everyone knows Twitter is the best way to procrastinate so get clicking!

Wednesday, March 25^th

Today is the second day of epic driving travels through blizzarding mountains. It’s pretty intense. All we’ve accomplished is watching Dungeons and dragons and Superbad, and we just started crocodile Dundee 2. Party time. Not really, we’ve been out of beer for two days and my ass has fallen asleep twice already today.

Last night we all went to Olive Garden and I ate about 6 pounds of portabella mushrooms. It was nice because I woke up to vicious stomach cramps at 9am this morning and scared that I was going to shit my bunk. (Speaking of shitting bunks, Joe vomited in his like 4 times which I think pretty much rules.) I tried to shit in a bag by candlelight in our trailer, but our TM Evan was not having it. Oh well the whole tour showed up at a very backwoods truckstop and everyone had a shitting party,

Looks like I have a whole day of watching porn and playin skate 2 to look forward to!

Can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings…

Tags: FOUR YEAR STRONG, TOUR DIARY

NEW FOUND GLORY TOUR DIARY!!!!

March 30th, 2009 by Blunt | No Comments | Filed in Tour Diaries

Recent tourists New Found Glory are currently laying waste to the vast spoils of America on their Not Without A Fight album tour. Axe man and all round Mister Nice Guy, Steve Klein, has been gracious enough to document the experience for us so bookmark this shit and return every few days to see what’s been happening. Mosh!

Hey all this is Steve from the NFG!

This is the first of my many “Tour Diarys” im gonna do for you guys throughout the NWAF Tour.

The awesome thing about this tour are the other bands it so let me give you the run down… there is Bayside…

Then Set Your Goals

and Shai Hulud

(sarahdeborre)

and lastly there is us.

The first show (#1 of 43 ) was yesterday in Tempe Arizona

1) The show was amazing.. especially for a first show of a tour , and no i didnt puke (which is usually a first show ritual for me) ..yes!

2) this is called the NOT without a fight tour , that doesnt mean that there has to be fights at our shows! if i remember correctly there were 5 last night … people seriously.. how can you fight during ” My Friends Over You”?

3) we lit off firecrackers to celebrate the first show and the cops came and it was a Black Honda Civic and they went that way —->…i swear.

Tags: BAYSIDE, NEW FOUND GLORY, SET YOUR GOALS, SHAI HULUD, TOUR DIARY

MOSH IS LIFE

March 26th, 2009 by Blunt | No Comments | Filed in Photos

Here is a picture of Blunt’s Art Director Glen Downey crowd surfing at a Bronx show.

Yes, we were as shocked as you.

Tags: MOSH

1OVAKYND – Suss As Fuck 2009

March 25th, 2009 by Blunt | No Comments | Filed in Photos, Uncategorized

You guys know Dan right? You should, i always blog about him because my own life is so boring. Here he is trying to root his pet dog, Sheena.

Anyway, he is sketchy as all fuck. Oh, you want proof? How about epic porn star Belladonna sending him shit in the mail? Yep, dodgy as.

Tags: 1OVAKYND, SKETCHY

Four Year Strong tour diary part 4

March 24th, 2009 by Blunt | No Comments | Filed in Tour Diaries

“Where did part 3 go?” I hear you wondering. Well, young Josh is a special guy and typed that entry up after a St Patrick’s Day party. Suffice to say the internet ate it.

Anyway, over to Josh…

Tues. March 24^th

This tour has been like a wild rollercoaster from hell so far, only less wild and more fucking insane. We rode a ferris wheel, that crashed backwards and almost killed everyone. No one died. Jake (Our drummer) our bass player Joe, Vick from Pierce the Veil, and myself were in downtown Houston at an aquarium. Ironically, the best feature of said aquarium was the white tiger, which is in fact not an aquatic creature. There was also a shark ride, which ruled, you’d ride this jalopy into a tunnel with sharks and watch these little sharks chomp each other. One shark, the saw face shark, took a shit and the youngster in front of me cracked up. What he didn’t realize was that Jake was peeing off of the back of the train. The whole night ruled. Not the almost dying part, it actually broke loose from the gearing at ¾ height on the ferris wheel.

I’m not sure if I sent my st. patricks day late night update, if I did, wow that shit made no sense at all. All I know, is I puked almost on top of these burlesque dancers and peed under the bar. Say what you will, but hey it was st. patricks day, I wasn’t about to act like a coward.

Bla, bla, bla, Now its today and we’re in Texas, where everythings bigger, except for our draw. Although, the shows have been fun, we played outdoors in San Antonio yesterday and went to the bar for Matt from bring me the horizon’s birthday. He had a pink boa on, and the locals weren’t very into his new, sexy look. We were though, new game too, who would you do in your band? I’d do Jake. Gingers for life.

Tags: FOUR YEAR STRONG, HIGH

This morning…

March 24th, 2009 by Blunt | No Comments | Filed in Uncategorized

We interviewed All Time Low, which was a pleasant start to the day. Who remembers last time they were in Blunt? We got so many letters from kids who were scared by the tingly feelings Jack deep throating a banana evoked in their loins that our pigeon hole was over flowing.

That might be the most innuendo laden sentence I have ever written. Gross.

The other good thing this morning was photographic, shoe selling wunderkid Dan 1ovakynd getting his hook up on. Stay tuned to see if it pays dividends.

P.S. Who has heard the new Fireworks record? It rules!

Tags: MOSH, TAKE ACTION

Four Year Strong tour diary part 2

March 16th, 2009 by Blunt | No Comments | Filed in Tour Diaries

Fri. March 13^th

I’ve been settling my sleep schedule down a bit, woke up a litte early, got coffee, typing this. I’m practically a professional. Dan made a basketball killer mask, which is basically a mask he carved out of a basketball with a butcher knife. It looks fucking awesome. We’re in Minnesota, instead of kangaroos I’m pretty sure they have caribou. Another freezing day, some snow on the ground. I wish I had a sled or a team of sled dogs. Going to get nutrients to keep my hair from not being ginger.

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Four Year Strong tour diary part 1

March 16th, 2009 by Blunt | No Comments | Filed in Tour Diaries

Worcester, Massachutses hardcore pop hairballs Four Year Strong are currently trekking across North America on the Rockstar Taste Of Chaos with Thursday, Bring Me The Horizon, Pierce The Veil and the Cancer Bats.

Four Year Strong’s synth operator, wolf fanatic and all round mister nice guy, Josh Lyford, has been busy keeping notes of his experiences on the tour so you can see just what goes on when 8 men are locked in a bus for 3 months. Here is his first installment:

Wed. March 11^th

This morning came at me like a bullet train straight from hell. When I’m home I usually wake up around 8 or 9 am, but the second I’m back on tour I turn into a weird 14 year old again and sleep all day and stay up until 5 in the morning. I wish I could say that I was accomplishing something but its usually playing skate or attempting to burn down the back of the bus. This tour’s been fun so far, we’ve been out with everyone before except for Thursday and they’re pretty notorious for being awesome dudes, which they came through on. Last night consisted of drinking beers and staring at a wall from the hours of 10pm to 5am. Not bad, paid some homeless lunatic 5 dollars to walk me to a liquor store, he was a real stand up guy. Kept saying he didn’t drink, and then sprung a bottle of vodka on me at the last minute. I didn’t mind though because he was basically escorting me through the hood of Detroit.

The show itself was pretty awesome, Detroit was getting pretty gnarly, watched some faygo swilling juggalos get annihilated which was a treat. No decent stagedives, but I couldn’t hold that against anyone as there was a barrier and about a 6 foot gap to the crowd. I stepped on someones fingers, I felt bad but you can’t stop the rock sometimes.

Today we’re in St. Louis, Missourri which I know nothing about, except that last year I saw their landmark, the Arch 11 times. That’s pretty insane. We must tour a lot. It’s 3pm now and we don’t play till 7:30. I have no clue what to do until then, I’d venture outside but theirs snow leopards and its minus 10 degrees.

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Titles for the Bring Me The Horizon story that didn’t quite make it

March 11th, 2009 by Blunt | No Comments | Filed in Uncategorized

Bring Me The Horizon are on the cover of Blunt #79 and i’ll tell you, cocaine is a hell of a drug. I mean, titling the story was hard work.

Here are some clunkers that didn’t make the cut:

From Here To Infirmary
There’s An Aussie In Oli Sykes
Sykes Ward
Party ‘Til You Pass Out: An Audience With Oli Sykes
Event Horizon
Vertical Smile

Journalism is hard work man.

Tags: BMTH, MOSH

Top 5 sets of Soundwave 2009 and some rad pics

March 11th, 2009 by Blunt | No Comments | Filed in Photos

5. Bayside in Brisbane – closing their strange, concrete stage; wedged between cow sheds, while hundreds of kids packed in, hung off the balconies and sang along.

4. Say Anything in Adelaide – excellent band go crazy in front of 200 kids on a tiny truck. Awesome. They better be back soon!

3. Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster in Adelaide – the Alabama boys held a relaxing rock n roll picnic in the shade of the gum trees by all walking through the crowd. You had to be there. Wowee zowee.