Going to a hog roast because I come from a gypsy and a boarding school graduate.

I went to one of my dads engagements with his old school today. He went to a boarding school called Ratcliffe College, between the years *mumbles* and *mumbles*. Anyway my dad said to the family if we would like to come and we all said yes because he said there was going to be a hog roast... and to support him when he did his speech thing I suppose (I'm being vaguely sarcastic...and by 'vagely' I mean we would have gone anyway to support him... but the mention of the hog roast sweetened the deal.)
The last time that I was at his old college I was about ten or twelve or something so I only had a small recollection of what it looked like.
When we got to the place I remembered immediately Ratcliffe College. My first reaction was how posh it was. It literally is a copy of Hogwarts, it even had a water fountain (just to say that my dad has glasses...I think you know what I'm talking about.)
We got there and ate some of that sweet hog...and stuffing...and salad. We had brought a picnic with us but we just brought that back home in the end. I intend to eat some of it after I finish this blog typing.

And now I'm back.

And that's about it.

Ooooh yeah. We sat down at the end of the day (back at home), for a bit as it was getting dark and watched a bit of Glastonbury on TV. We watched the Scissor Sisters and about twenty seconds of Editors. It was, during one point in one of ther funky songs, that I came to a very significant revelation in my life.........Patrick Stewart and Ian Mckellen sound exactly the same. One of their songs they had a voice that sounded exactly like Patrick Stewart. (It was the song in which the lady was doing a dance with that golden fabric and the main singer was singing in a ''mysterious'' tone.) But anyway I pointed out that the voice that they used for one part of that song was the legend that is Patrick Stewart. It came to pass that while I was in my room, looking at comics and inventing fictional people in my head, the thought came to me in a wave........oh my giddy parrot......that wasn't Patrick Stewart, it was Ian Mckellen. Those two amazing actors sound exactly the same.

Also word on the grape vine is that we lost to the Germans in football......meh, you can't win them all.

Abrupt ending to blog.
Over and Out.
ED.

P.S My mum is a little bit of a gypsy. There may be some gypsy blood in my mums family...hence I am a little bit of a gypsy...hence I must now travel the lands of Britain and be a bard or something.

My Review of Download festival.

I've finished reading my book today whereupon my unconscious self started to talk to me saying,
"Hey Ed, yeah you. Well um basically, you know you went to that Download festival just a day ago. Well I'm not pushing you or willingly being forceful but I reckon you should write a blog about what you thought about the performances and stuff."
"Thanks Thoughts" I proclaimed, getting up from my comfortable position on the lounge seat with sturdy jump. I back- flipped upstairs in one jump and went to my computer and began to write this post. (And yes I did back flip in one jump up the stairs and nobody can prove otherwise. )
So anyway I shall start on the exact moment that I arrived at the car park with my chaffeur and friend Dave. We got out of the car and took our supplies, hopeful that we shall soon experience the whirring of some funky performers. We waited with all our bags in line for a few hours and had our tents up and ready by about 11am. We sat down, did whatever and with contentedness readied ourselves for the coming promise of the many theatrical explosions that were awaiting us.
Altogether I watched about seven bands, all equally amazing. Them Crooked Vultures were the first bands that I was shaking in my boots to see. How could anyone who likes rock music not want to see a band that involved three wonderful musicians? There was Josh Homme (from Queens of the Stone Age) Dave Grohl (from Foo Fighters and Nirvana) and John Paul Jones (from the legend that is Led Zeppelin...I melted). This brotherhood that I saw on stage that day were the very definition of a super group for me. I got that feeling in which you realize that three people who you have thought were awesome for so long and read about in magazines and newspapers were ACTUALLY there right in front of you. All of the songs were amazing. I especially liked it when Homme said;

"I think that anything that brings people together can only be a good thing."

You could tell that each of them genuinely loved their job and were completely good, nice guys as well.

The most visually aesthetic performance was from AC/DC. They had a massive train on stage that continally puffed smoke, a bell that came down and the fun strutting about and fireworks that splattered the sky at the end of the set. The main reason that I went to AC/DC was to see the great strutting walk of Brian Johnson just because his enthusiastic stage presence made me smile.

I won't write for much longer because people might lose interest but I will say that Billy Idol and Slash were also pretty mindblowing.

All in all, it was a proper music festival. It was tiring but brilliant nonetheless.

Have good day, whoever is reading this at the moment. (I now write cheesy last lines to my blogs instead of attempting to say a joke...you just read the evidence to this statement in the last line.

Toodles bye bye bye bye bye bye
ED