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It’s 10am on a dry and quiet Monday morning and I’m a little hungover and lying beside Wonder drummer Kieran who I am glad to say doesn’t snore or dream fondle. Our tour manager Joe is on the single bed across from me. Incredibly (and for the 1st time) he’s not snoring like an ogre. My sore head is a result of us all letting loose a little in Nottingham after both bands played to a near packed out Rescue Rooms at the Dot To Dot Festival. Amazing venue equipped with balcony, huge screen and an adoring audience up for introducing a new band into their lives. We’ve played Notts 3 times previously in smaller venues (thank you Marty Toner) but my God yesturday blew our brains out. Everyone doing the ‘fisting dance'(dont google it you’ll find something else) was an obvious highlight.
We took advantage of the early start to drink and check out a couple of bands like Pure Love and Dog Is Dead (saw them 2 months ago with Elspeth in front of 25 ppl in Belfast and yest 1500. Yeowza) while catching a glimpse of a rainy city full of smiling faces. Nottingham is much more beautiful than I had previously given it credit for but in my defence we usually just stay for 5mins so it was the 1st time I got a good look. Lovely I say.
Joe our TM realised our journey to the next travel lodge was actually 2 hrs instead of 30mins which we previously thought so an early FIFA competition in the tour bus ensued and won by Kieran Coyle (you dark horse).
Eimear, Ryan and Cheyleen were pretty quiet on the way home so we thought maybe an early night but boy were we wrong. As soon as we landed the craic began and we made friends with the best EVER Tavel lodge receptionist who’s name we have forgotten. After the 10th noise complaint we called it a night and last thing I remember was shying away from the 2 bottles of Stella I had strategically placed in my room but looking at the full bottles now I think I made the right choice.
We’re off now to Manchester to play Sound Control at 6pm with special guests Ann and Cyril my uncle and auntie who are old enough to be my grand parents but young enough to teach us all how to enjoy life. My cousins Des and Derm will be there too so it will hopefully be a special gig.
We’re really happy with our performances so far and can’t wait to play the Kerrang Awards show in London tomorrow cause it’s such an amazing privilege. Who’d have tunk it?
Gerry x
We are delighted to announce that the music video from our forthcoming album Camera.Shutter.Life. Will debut tomorrow morning on http://www.artrocker.tv
Thanks to the guys at Art Rocker for featuring the video and of course Samuel Steel at [Missing] Piece film for the awesome work done on the video. We hope you enjoy it.
APR xx
Now that the dust has well and truly settled from our shows with the mighty Snow Patrol things have returned to normal…
We thought we would share bits and pieces of our journey to London with you guys and the new friends that we made whilst over in England.
The night before The 02 Arena show in London we were off to Chelmsford to play at the amazing Club Fusion. The man in charge of Club Fusion, Shakey was very kind to us and gave us one of our first London shows back a few years ago, so it was an absolute pleasure to come back and do another gig with him. The other bands and the folk from Chelmsford were all lovely and we’ll definitely be back soon!
Knackered after a full days travel from Sunny Belfast to Sub Zero London we headed back to our London HQ for much needed sleep.
On Saturday morning we decided to split up for a few hours and breathe as much of London in as possible while we were there. The Whacky Races around the tube staitons of London began. Here’s some of the spots we got to…
The starting line
Posing as Olympians at the Olympic coundown Trafalgar Sq.
That Fella’ Sherlock Holmes’ Gaff
That other fella’ Big Ben donging away at midday
After getting as much London as possible into us we pulled up at this bad boy…….
The O2 Arena inside the dome can hold more people than the population some of our hometowns….. No worries.
There was enough room in our dressing room to swing a clowder of cats, nevermind one!
After a rocking set we left it to the big boys to get the crowd going. This is the crowd about 15 minutes after Snow Patrol began. The atmosphere was un-fricking-believable. It only began to hit us at this moment the scale of the venue that we’d just knocked our wee songs out into.
Gerry’s dad got a special T-shirt made just for the occasion. Legend! Massive thanks to the Normans for making it the whole way to London to support us. We could hear you above everyone else in the crowd whilst we were on and that made us feel like we were still at home!
Finally we would like to give a massive thanks to the Snow Patrol lads for including us on their epic tour. It was an amazing opportunity for us and we will remember it for the rest of our lives. Also thank you to everyone that gave us a chance on foreign soil and we hope to be beckoning the doorstep of a venue in the UK near you soon!
Dave and the rest of the ladies at APR xx
Hey Guys,
So as you can imagine we’re still over the moon from being asked to join the mighty Snow Patrol on Their UK & Irish tour. We’re preparing for an 8 month long campaign that will at long last see us releasing our debut album and we couldn’t be more excited about it. Right now we’re locking ourselves in the practice room, preparing ourselves for the coming months but in the meantime here are a few pictures from last weeks performance at the Odyssey Arena Belfast.
Next step the 02 Arena in London on Feb 11th, we hope to see some of the APRmy there cheering us on.
Many thanks to Bradley Quinn for taking the photos you can check out more of Bradley’s work here… http://www.bradleyquinn.com
APR xx
First of all massive thanks to everyone that came to see us at the Next Stage on Tuesday at this year’s Tennents Vital, the APRmy was out in force! Thanks also to BBC ATL and Third Bar Music for making the stage available for a lot of local bands, everyone rocked it to the max!
If any of you guys missed it you can check out a bit of the performance by following this link to the BBC ATL website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00k1wsw
Enjoy!
Dave
To the APRmy,
We’ve been fairly busy writing a brand spanking new set of world beaters and as a result our poor blog has felt like a bit of a tumbleweed blowing in the wind… However that is all about to change! Today we are launching our new and improved APR official website! Check it out at: www.aplasticrose.co.uk
We will be regularly updating our APRspaces so that you can keep track of our progress for the big one… The debut album.
So if you would like to check out how we are doing you can see the latest videos, pictures and blurb though this blog and facebook or alternatively follow @aplasticrose on twitter and we’ll follow you back!
From this week onward Troy and myself will be posting our Xbox Live Gamertags on facebook and twitter once a week and playing Halo. If any of you guys think that you are up for the challenge keep your eyes peeled. If you beat us we’ll even send you a copy of our latest single Oceans through the post!
Thanks for reading and remember to check back for updates but for now here’s a few pictures from our latest demoing session and videos from an old recording session dug straight up from the DiDiMau archive.
Dave Xx
Troy has a Eureka! moment.
Laying down some beats to the click.
Recording at Mojo Mansion summer 2010
What is Guitar?
Some oscar winning performances in a search around the UK for our single launch….
It’s getting closer to the big day! We hope you are all getting as excited about this as we are. What’s the bet that Gerry can crowd surf and play the guitar at the same time?
The Stiff Kitten Presents:
A PLASTIC ROSE
“Kids Don’t Behave Like This” Single Launch Party!!!!
AXIS OF
BEFORE MACHINE
& TEARSMILE (DJ Set)
BEFORE MACHINE
& TEARSMILE (DJ Set)
THE STIFF KITTEN
FRIDAY MARCH 26TH
FRIDAY MARCH 26TH
Doors 8PM / Admission £5
Advance Tickets are available NOW from Ticketmaster Outlets, The Kitten Bar, and http://www.thestiffkitten.com
A Plastic Rose 