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Last Updated: 11/23/2009

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Status: Swinger
City: Bristol
State: Southwest
Country: UK
Signup Date: 8/5/2004

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Wednesday, December 09, 2009 
The guy who sits next to me at work just showed me this. I completely pissed my knickers!

Ni.
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Friday, October 16, 2009 

Category: Pets and Animals

Thursday, July 16, 2009 

Current mood:  mischievous
Hey all!

We did a little interview for the BBC the other day when we played Cheltenham. Here's the link...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/content/articles/2009/07/15/ella_interview_feature.shtml

Have a read, let us know what you think.

We're in the studio at the moment recording guitars and everythings sounding lovely! Will be putting some new video's up soon, so keep your eyes peeled for those.

Much love
ELLA
Currently listening:
Three Dollar Bill Y'all
By Limp Bizkit
Release date: 2004-03-22
Saturday, June 27, 2009 
This might be old news to some people, but I saw this for the first time yesterday when a friend posted it on facebook. It's fair to say Ben and I pissed ourselves watching it, particularly around 1:10.

Ni.


Wednesday, June 24, 2009 
I'm excited about this!
Ni.


Thursday, June 18, 2009 

Monday, June 08, 2009 
The ELLA/Iced Earth connection.

It seems we’ve found something in common with the unlikeliest of bands…

“Fashion trends may come and go, but Florida's Iced Earth has remained steadfastly committed to championing the cause of heavy metal through thick and thin. After years of laboring in obscurity and undergoing countless lineup changes, they have slowly emerged as one of the greatest hopes for classic metal in America.

Originally formed as Purgatory by guitarist Jon Schaffer in 1984, the band spent five years in a constant state of flux while paying their dues on the Florida live circuit. They slowly honed their sound by combining '80s thrash influences with the classic metal approach of Iron Maiden. Their 1988 Enter the Realm demo was an underground favorite, and after changing their name to Iced Earth, the band recorded their eponymous 1990 album with a lineup consisting of guitarists Schaffer and Randall Sawver, singer Gene Adams, bassist Dave Abell, and drummer Mike McGill”.

I no longer feel quite so bad that our debut album has taken 6 years!

Ni.

Currently listening:
The Crucible of Man: Something Wicked, Pt. 2
By Iced Earth
Release date: 2008-09-08
Thursday, May 21, 2009 

Current mood:  inspired

Hello guys and girls!

The lovely people in Rock Sound have printed a few words about our recording sessions for the forthcoming album.
We're in issue no.123, the Green Day cover, in the studio round up section. So what are you waiting for... GO AND BUY IT!!

Loves. Elston.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 

"Mountains are not Stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion...I go to them as humans go to worship. From their lofty summits I view my past, dream of the future and, with an unusual acuity, am allowed to experience the present moment...my vision cleared, my strength renewed. In the mountains I celebrate creation. On each journey I am reborn."


Anatoli Boukreev

Sunday, May 17, 2009 
Aimless musings and wandering rambling rather than any update. 

Updates are few and far between in this band - we find it hard enough to update each other with what's happening in our own lives.  Considering 3/5ths live together this is more suprising than it should be...

I can't remember the last time that we recieved something that wasn't spam or selfpromotion - it's boring and honestly rather insulting. 

I'm a believer in putting yourself out there, after all if you are creating something this should be par for the course.  Everything has to have purpose but only for yourself, it should further your understanding of where you have come from, where you are and where you are going.  Not to get X more plays, X comments and X picture comments from peroxide hot bitches...

We once posted a rant about the state of the scene - just as a bulletin, just because one of us had something to say.  It stirred up a shit storm, the size of it was something to behold.  We had no agenda or plan; it was a reaction.  It certainly may have not been the best thing to do if we were in to getting X more plays and ANY peroxide hot bitches but it was the RIGHT thing to do. 

Beneath the "you're shit anyway" and the semantics there was a debate, a healthy one at that, it wasn't that different to the one that we were having between ourselves.  I'm glad we put it out there - I'm certainly not saying we are the moral purveyors or anything as lofty as that.  But it does follow, if it created such a debate and a passionate one at that why wasn't anyone else saying it?

This is our myspace, it's where we put our music, our thoughts and ourselves in plain sight.  This isn't a place to please anyone else just to garner some sort of acceptance or to say "we've made it because of all the X's we have recieved.  If people, rightly so, put so much weight into the purity, integrety and sanctity of making music surely they should apply this rigour to the people who are making it.  If the same rule can't be applied to each then they break every rule for each.

Pleasing everyone is just not possible. 

This isn't an excuse to be rude, ignorant, inconsiderate or to throw your weight around because you have decided people deserve to know your thoughts.  It's a reason to understand, educate and inform yourself and to say to the world - these are my thoughts, what are yours?

So rather than spamming, find people who put themselves out there and talk to them with reverence and egality don't expect something from them which you aren't willing to give. 

After all I'm normally dribbling over stuff like this - so make me care more about you.