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Stereophonics have been touring worldwide relentlessly for over ten years. The road is a place where all the clichés are true. It’s beautiful. It’s ruthless. It’s excessive. It’s mind bending. It’s funny. It’s scary. It’s tiring. It’s lonely. It’s intriguing. It’s fascinating. It’s hysterical. It’s uncomfortable. It’s luxurious. It’s creative. It’s expressive. It’s numb. It’s madness. It’s calm.
It’s where I have been for most of my adult life, and mostly I have loved every minute, but as the biggest cliché goes, what happens on the road - stays on the road.
People in bands and crews have strange life cycles and body clocks which lead the head to places that you wouldn’t normally go to, which in it’s true beauty and madness can lead to creativity and amazing songs. It brings on longing, euphoria, claustrophobia, understanding and learning, and that is what life is about. That is what growth is about and the songs you hear tonight that have been written through my teens, twenties, and thirties have all those elements and that’s why they have moved me and moved you.
Three things I was once taught. Make um laugh, make um cry and make um wait.
"Kelly Jones - Decade In The Sun tour book, 2008.
"Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are."
John Green, Paper Towns (via vaniwin)
stereophonics ° dakota (mahogany session)
album: language. sex. violence. other?, director: n/a, label: V2, web: http://www.stereophonics.com/
“You’re so lucky!”
This is what people keep telling me, but I’m a serial denier; not about the fact that I have done some pretty cool stuff over the years (since this is usually when I get branded as lucky). However, I do deny the possibility that fate, karma or whatever belief system (if any) it is you follow conspired in my favour every single time something fantastic happens to me.
I keep telling people who claim I am lucky that I am no more or less special than they are and that there is plenty more they can do to nudge life in their favour, if only they realise they can!
“Oh but it’s not easy!” I hear them retort.
I never said it was easy. I just said it was not impossible and if I can steer my life to do some pretty amazing things, they could be doing them too!
Of course, out of context some of the things I’ve experienced sound pretty amazing; ‘in my wildest dreams’ stuff for many even. After all, not everyone can say they got a thank you off Kelly Jones one week when something he saw triggered his memory to want to personally thank me… then to see him again a week later and have a hug off him too.
What I do to improve my chances in life is to break down what I know I want into more manageable chunks and work on more smaller and realistic tasks… each of them building on others to ultimately achieve the bigger goal.
So many people get so blinded by the bigger picture or the unlikeliness of the final outcome that they seem to think they’ll never get there… so they don’t even try!
If they don’t even try, then they are most definitely leaving it down to just luck and of course that dream they have is likely to stay just that; a dream!
One of Kelly’s favourite messages when signing to anyone is a short “be lucky” and I’m pretty sure he’s not blessing you with luck and good fortune either - but rather aiming to inspire you go out and make things happen for yourself.
In my experience, the more you work at something you want, the luckier you are in getting it.
If only more people believed it enough to try it for themselves when I tell them that they could become just as lucky as they perceive me to be…
It’s not often I’m in front of my own camera after a show, but I gave my friends husband my camera to hold and he got a little click happy, capturing those natural interactions as you do. This is the only photo he took of me with Kelly but I’m glad he did.
Without it I would have had no idea Kelly was smiling away as I was frantically trying to find the page in my self published Javier Weyler diary I wanted him to sign.
Now I’m not sure if he was laughing at whatever my friend (stood opposite) was saying or if he was amused because he had just discovered that there was probably a different (and perhaps predictable or surprising) theme to my version of the diary compared to hers (which was my self published version featuring him).
Either way it makes me smile…
Behind the Lens
“You take too many photos!
You can’t enjoy the show!”
I enjoy it very much indeed
more than you’d ever know…
For I look on towards the back,
catch their silent signals and chat.
With your eyes locked on the singer
you probably missed all that!
It doesn’t matter where I am
all the band are well aware
whenever they are in my frame
they know fine well I’m there!
If I linger they will pose
and catch my camera’s eye,
occasionally smile or snicker
with a satisfactory sigh.
All the while the eyes have it
they see me line up the frame
and smirk knowing I’m waiting
but they still play the game.
We know all the routines,
and will talk without words.
I just watch with amusement
as band taunts go unheard.
So, I take lots of photos
yet miss little in the show.
My camera makes me part of it…
but I guess you wouldn’t know.
Me: Don’t you be running away on me now Richard! [on spotting him just about to get into a car]
Richard: I’m not running away from you Rosie… I’m hiding!
self-prisoner replied:
ahahah))) when was it?
This was when they came out after the Graffiti on the Train launch gig (Mar 4th 2013).
- Me: Don't you be running away on me now Richard! [on spotting him just about to get into a car]
- Richard: I'm not running away from you Rosie... I'm hiding!
"You know, people always ask us if our songs are factual or not…And, don’t kill me, but… Jenny really wasn’t a friend of mine. But…Andy was"
Brandon Flowers (via brandonflowersquotes)
Sometimes, people treat you shitty for a lot of reasons. They may very well love you.
It might not be what you want or even what you need, but that doesn’t change the fact that they do love you in their way.
You have to let people love you how they love you.
You don’t have to be with them, you don’t have to be friends with them even, but you don’t get to dictate what defines love for someone else, and they don’t get to define it for you.
(Source: iheart-photos)
Argh, screenshots from a video I’ve yet to see. This is gonna hurt me to watch, I know it! My heart is aching just at the sight of these.
I seriously should be over this by now… but this, this for me is the true personality of the new album(s), and one I don’t expect I’ll ever get the opportunity to experience as I’d like to, the real spirit of the album ‘in the flesh’ as it were.
This is why I’m still [stubbornly if somewhat forgetfully] sulky… any unspoken of disagreements long forgotten or considered moot in my eyes. What’s done is done, and in that regard I do think I’ve moved on. I don’t have a need to dare to ask for answers any more.
There are none.
I just hope there is video footage of Javier playing one or two of the new songs in amongst the extras of the deluxe CD (digital? heck no!)… I hope… as much as it will pain me to watch it…
Thinking about it, it would be nice to see the Summer in the City DVD they had in the pipeline… or just any new [to me] video footage featuring Jav enjoying himself with the band I love. Sure it’s gonna tear me to pieces to sit and watch it, but I am willing to endure that emotional pain…
He is happier now than ever after all… and more into the social media side of things now too.
Every cloud and all that…
(Source: asp3rula)
Stereophonics new album ‘Graffiti on the Train’ released on Monday (4th March 2013) - drums by Javier Weyler!
Oh Jav, this is bitter sweet for me…
Distracted...
Anonymous asked: Is Kelly married now?
Judging by the ring he’s been sporting in video footage and on stage since around late September, I’m inclined to say yes. About time too if you ask me, he deserves to be happy.
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