Work avoiding again

Never a good question. Answered it by starting with working out that what was I was looking at was my ceiling, albeit from a strange angle, the reason my head hurt was the cupboard door, the reason I could not move my legs was that there was a chair on top of them and that the last thing I remember thinking was "I feel REALLY sick, I'll just save my work then...."
Second time I have ever fainted. Have decided fainting and wearing glasses does not mix.

Picture the scene....Wednesday night. Bored of doing PhD. Hoping the time before the 3 Colours of Ministry course at church would go faster (it did when I fell asleep). Check email for the millionth time. New one from the Hundred Hours mailing list, says there are new gigs. So I check the website. There is a new gig...on the 16th in Derby. Thats tomorrow!!! I exclaim. Instant decision that I WILL be going. Text first choice fellow Tre fan. Busy. Email/text everyone I know at church. Await replies. Go to course at church early following confusing phone call about balloons. First 'icebreaker' task and balloons make sense. E numbers from Smarties cause lack of wisdom and cheeky remark to Vicar about not using a ruler for his OHP diagram. Whistle Great Escape theme while washing up with Jenny. Anyway, sidetracked....
Thurs, home from school. Check email. Two negatives and nowt from the rest. Frantic texting. Eventually accept the fact that I have no friends. Thanks to fabulous instructions and maps from the Derby Uni CU President I get there OK. Get pint of coke and a stool and talk to self until get weird looks. Have strange...Hey, that's Chris Hodder...oh yeah, I'm at Derby Uni, he's Chaplian here Dur...moment. Chat to Chris and Louise. Secondman, the support act do their bit. They were great. The singer leads worship at CU Chris tells me. Hodders wander off.

One Hundred Hours take to the stage. And are fantastic. Eventually I get the guts to move from my skulking on the edges position to right in front of them. Much better. Although I was the only person not standing still (or sitting chatting at tables) looking midly interested at best. Restrained myself from full on moshing (shame John W not there), did dance about and mild headbang a bit. Hehe. Fortunate Aspie side effect, tend not to care what people think of me. Was singing along too. Seemed to be only person that knew words. Useless this Derby lot. They should come to Lufbra.

King of Every Heart was absolutely brilliant. Well, all of them were brilliant, but that was particularly good. They did quite a few new ones, including one 'More than this' (or similar) and a nice acoustic Tre solo one. Hopefully new album on its way??? Tre was fantastic as usual, had a good night for rambling Eddie style. Said 'Baby' a lot. He did some jumping too.


Tori was also great. Unlike last gig at Nottingham you could really hear her. And boy can that babe wail!! And bless her, she went and got all the boys to sign my t-shirt after the gig too. Cheers Tori. Meanwhile I was trying not to say anything stupid to Tre, who loves my name and said "How Rock and Roll are you?!?!" I wanted him to sign Lazarus the Lego Sheep, but I thought might require too much explanation, so chickened out. Loud singing in the icy rain all the way home. Boys in bed when got home, so couldn't play CD. And to all those people who didn't come.....Hah!!!!! you missed an ace gig!


The Hours website can be found here...
You can also listen to a couple of their tracks online here
It would be v cool if you also checked out the site engagehivaids.com
who the Hours have raised awareness and over 20 grand for. My red band is around the gearstick in Mini Moby!

Sat 11th March. Delirious gig in Derby, somewhere near Pride Park. Won't mention the pheasant incident but will cut straight to saying how great the gig was. They were v v v good. The gig was part of the Paint the Town Tour, and included songs from the new Mission Bell album. I think the best songs they did were Rain Down and Majesty, and also the new ones Now is the Time, Paint the Town Red and Solid Rock. The atmosphere was fantastic, everybody with arms in the air and loads of jumping! The support act Nicki Rogers was great too, kind of Alanis Morrisette meets Tori Amos. Must remember to get her CD. So yeah, Martin and the boys were great. I wanted to steal the sparkly drums and James was lusting after the huuuuge sound desk. The Lego Sheep is now called Lazarus the Prodigal Sheep. I was trying to take a pic with my phone before the start, and like an idiot I dropped the sheep. Spent the next 10mins trying to find him (including asking some poor girl the most random question I hope she will ever hear). Gave up until the end....and found him! His legs had already broken off (that was how I dropped him) but other than that he was in one piece. So, much relieved I went off to buy the t-shirt (anyone who knows me NOT suprised to hear that). Won't mention where we went for food, but James did have his 3rd and 4th Big Mac of the day!

Delirious, in case you don't know, are a fantastic Christian band. I first got to know them at Soul Survivor 05. They were fantastic at leading worship in the evenings, and I was in the queue for the skate park behind Martin Smith. He was trying to get his (v cute) little lads into the girls only session. I managed to not say anything stupid to him (by not saying anything) then spen the next hour trying not to fall off my skateboard or run over his kids, just in case he was watching.

D:'s best songs are probably the ones I listed above. World Service and Mission Bell are two very cool albums. Don't have the earlier stuff yet. Their website is here and you can get some of their stuff on itunes.

Just had to tell myself (as no-one else reads this) about cool drums in church again. Couple of songs I really got into and really felt like I was prasing God. Its great to look around and see people getting into the worship, its easier on a real go-for-it song. I wasn't terribly good tonight, still can't psychically tell when El is going to finsh. But, first song that went well was Blessing and Honour. Really got into it (with Grahams er, encouragement). The best was at the end. We did Lord Reign in Me, and it was fun the first time, but I wimped out of a decent ending. Then almost straight away we did it again, as the after service song. This time, all the 'Animal' that I had saved up all night came out. Best ending ever, just walloped the crash cymbal and woke up the entire church!!! Cracked up immediately (well, after also shouting 'Come On!!!') as no-one was expecting it, threw the vicar a bit! Poor Keith may never hear again, he got the full blast in his right ear, and Martin the other bass player was just wetting himself laughing! Anyway. Fantastic moment. Even if that is the last time I ever drum in church!

Only other thing to say is that I was very naughty today and instead of doing lots of work after church......I WATCHED STAR WARS!!!!!!!!