Has Left The Building

Quite excited to be writing this. After a five year exile from the music industry, I have finally gone and got myself back involved with instruments!! I have been missing being creative for a long time now, and the opportunity to start writing again with some very close friends was too good to miss. Joining me on this venture is my wingman from MDA Nik, and two other dudes I hold in pretty high regard. Geoff and Dan. After the demise of My Deaf audio I vowed that if I ever start a new project i would call it “Has Left The Building” Its a name that means a great deal to me and been on the back burner for a good 6 or 7 years. The guys have been kind enough to agree to this as our band name on the basis I stay out of naming songs in the future. Agreed! I said. Not sure they share my vison just yet :-) The first track we have written is to be called “My Robot, Your Batteries”  I can’t wait for everyone to hear it. Right now we gotta write a bunch of stuff and get tight but we hope to be playing a show or two before the end of the year if we are lucky. After only one song it would be naive to say we sound like a cross between this and that so all I will say is this. We are gonna make something beautiful sound profoundly ugly, and something ugly sound unbearably beautiful. In other words somewhere between Explosions in the Sky and Russian Circles ;-) haha,  Ohh and did I mention I am now on drums! :-s Lofty Sticks!  HLTB coming soon!

Decks

Been purchasing as many of my old skateboards as possible, a long with some new additions. Here is a selection of decks that are soon to be hung in my living room. (The Mrs is gonna let me i'm told)

Biff Boff, Nikes & Cocktails & Dreams

Been a while since I updated my blog so here goes! Was lucky enough to get some tickets to take the Mrs for a day out at Wimbledon which was smashing! (pardon the pun) Got to see the likes of Sharapova, Venus William’s and Nadal. Maria is one noisy young lady! a pleasure to watch though if you know what i mean! Took this great fish eye pic in court one and had a play around in Photoshop. Striking image, I’m sure you will agree.

The next week I turned a year older and received these amazing Nike ID’s designed by my lovely girlfriend. Check the Lofty Fiasco on the heals! Only one pair in the world! I love saying that! Had a superb birthday and was once again reminded how lucky i am to be surrounded by so many amazing people. Spolied to the max! My friends put together a photobook of my life, such a touching gift with some incredible memories! thanks ya'll!

The day after my name day we shot down to Greece for a week in the sun with the Keywoods. These are some of my fave images from the trip. i took close to a thousand images but edited that down 100 odd. these are just a handful obviously but head over to my flickr page if you wanna see more of our girls in bikinis, numerous cocktails being consumed and two guys trying desperately to join the cast of mad men. Enjoi!

Press....

Eager Teeth guys getting some press in this months Rocksound. First of my promos to be published. Very exciting!

Website

New front page for my website. Just sharing is all.

Its Business Time!!!

Its business time!!! Lofty Fiasco Photography business cards and A3 posters have arrived!!! If you work in any establishment that could pin these up for me I would be in your debt. Just let me know, hook a brother up yo!!! Cheers! LF

Die! Die! Die!

Ventured into Brighton on Bank Holiday Monday to catch some bands. Here are some of my favorites from New Zealand's Die! Die! Die! and Brighton's very own Eager Teeth, Soft Arrows and Negative Pegasus.

New Eager Teeth video for Lights Out here... http://vimeo.com/23278836 

All Pics from the show here.... http://www.flickr.com/photos/lofski/sets/72157626854704554/

Hey Sholay shoot.

My homies from the north came down to play the Great Escape Festival last night. Ex thisGirl frontman Liam has taken a new direction with Hey Sholay. Think Phoenix meets Arcade FIre, these guys will quickly become your new favorite band i assure you. 

Couldn't let them leave without getting some seaside snaps. Peacex

Feeling slightly “Blue”

Felt obliged to write something today as it has been at least a week since I put some thoughts down or photos up.  Feeling slightly “blue” pardon the pun) Unfortunately Carlo’s troops did not pull off the fairy tale result all of SW6 would have liked.

Still, super proud of the Blues for at least making a fight of it up till yesterday. We Ohh so nearly reduced that 15 point deficit which would have seen us sit top of the league, with just two games to play.  Alas, we didn’t turn up and United ran out comfortable, and deserved winners. I doth my cap to the reds, and look forward to next season.  I just hope that Ancelotti gets to stay on and  finish what he started here. A truly world class manager and top bloke to boot, his persona and attitude have helped put Chelsea back in the public eye for all the right reasons. Straight up classy guy, hope Roman has some patience. Few additions and get rid of some the ageing deadwood and we will be back! J

Besides the football, I got to celebrate a very dear friends 32^nd and annoy many people in a beer garden with one of the those polystyrene model spitfires from the 80’s! you know the ones. We got some folk married on Saturday, and spent most of yesterday chilling at home watching episodes of green wing. Also heard some great news that two of our friends have agreed to tie the knot. We are dropping like flies these days!!! Congrats to Faye and Hamden all the same :-p

In other unrelated news, Watched the first three episodes of the new HBO series Game Of Thrones. It’s like a totally more awesome Lord Of The Rings with more tits, more blood, and less gay hobbits. Got tickets to Snopp Dogg play Brighton next weekend! Ohh and If you have a spare half hour watch this new Beastie Boys video. You won’t be sorry I assure you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evA-R9OS-Vo

in the words of Kip, Peace out

Didn't her dress look lovely!!!!

It did actually, i am not trying to be a smartalec. Her sister was a proper sort too!!.

Either way we made the most of the extra day off, so cheers Wills and Kat! Huge thanks goes out to Chris and Louise for keeping us fed and watered all day, Superb hosts!!

Regal Amelie

Bike Club

Took this on our bike ride round the beautiful city of Amsterdam.

Seventy miles an hour and the windows up tight....And I am home.

1000 miles round road trip taking in four countries and some of the best bands, and sites northern europe has to offer. What better way to spend a weekend with your homeboys!!! For anyone that has not yet had the chance to go to Groezrock, What are you waiting for! This was our third year straight, and arguably the best to date!

Two cars and ten guys set off from the seaside at 2am friday morning headed for Dover. Some hours and some 20 cigarettes later we touched down in Dunkirk. Sun is shining and the "radio's playing queen, we're rocking out"! France went past in a blur and before we know it we had arrived in Meerhout Belgium. Tents up, music cranked, beers opened, Lets get weird!!! Thursday played Full Collapse in Full, Millencolin rolled back the years and Chris Carraba has rejoined Further Seems Forever just in time to blow my mind!!. Friday is done! i am fucking tired and gonna try catch forty winks, Alas i think i only got about twelve :-/

Saturday... for some reason i cannot be arsed to move today. If i make it into the festival to see Dashboard at 5ish i will be a happy man. Other than that i am more than happy basking in the glow of the 30 degree sunshine, and our matching orange tents. Thursday played us some of their new stuff which sounded pretty dope, Dashboard we're incredible, a perfect set and we nearly lost our emo voices. The mrs just text me to tell me Torres has finally scored too! Super!!!. Just enough time to get back to the tents for what would become the beginning of a very very strange evening. I won't go into too much detail but remember that movie "The Hangover" good, thats pretty much what happened to the ten of us. All i know is that we missed The Descendants which was criminal! just about caught the Dropkicks which was awesome and somehow managed to drag ourselves to see Saves The Day blow our tiny brains. Everything else is a blur. Pretty sure i caught some of NOFX too, who can say?

Thanks Belgium You have been a blast but we are out!!! So with our fried brains and zero sleep where shall we go? Home?? Hell no!! Amsterdam!!! Common sense should prevail in these kinds of situations but not for us! 

I love this city!!!! smoke on, eat on, drink on!! Lets get weird again!!! fast forward 36 confusing hours and we are now at a bike rental place. Hiring bikes in this place is the coolest thing to do! My personal mission was to find a windmill. I succeeded!

Its now Tuesday morning and we are ready to head back to old blighty. Happy to report all ten made it back safe. Happy days!! Until next time! Ciao!

Pix from the rest of the trip can be found here.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lofski/sets/72157626466344491/