Site Design Update and Belated Blog Update
I’ve just finished a minor site layout change, hopefully you approve 
In other news, apologies for not updating this for another three months - things have changed quite a bit. I’m now back in Essex after finishing my first year at Aberystwyth. It feels strange being back - although I am actually broke. So if anybody out there is looking for a freelance web designer, take a look at www.sonicadesign.com and get in touch!
I’m currently doing a bit of recording for a friend’s various metal projects as well as being a general unemployed student. Probably unsurprisingly, I’ve already crammed one We Will Rock You show into the month I’ve been back and I’ve got a couple more booked for the coming months.
One of two highlights of the last month though is seeing Iron Maiden live at Brixton Academy on 24th June with a good friend - courtesy of some quick bidding on eBay. We managed to get a pair of tickets for £60 - which is £20 below the combined face value :D. The setlist was the same as they played at the Download Festival, with a mix of tracks from A Matter of Life and Death and The Number of The Beast complete with Eddie and tank during the encore. Some photos will find their way onto the Gallery pages quite soon.
Needless to say the gig was a complete stormer, and standing back next to the sound desk gave us a brilliant view of the whole stage. The support acts deserve a mention too, Indian metal outfit Parikrama were surprisingly good - their Indian influences were pretty well integrated into traditional metal, the violin was a brilliant addition in my opinion. Lauren Harris was also very good - I recognised a couple of the songs from seeing them at Earl’s Court last year.
The other highlight of the last month is about my new laptop that I covered in the last update in April. I have now configured it to quad-boot. Yes, you read right. Four operating systems - Windows Vista, Windows XP Media Center 2005, Apple OS X and Fedora Core 7 Linux all on a 120Gb hard drive with some room left for my music and documents. I’m not going to bore you listing all the details, but needless to say that I am thouroughly pleased with my efforts :D. It was a bitch to get Grub (the Linux bootloader) to work properly, but nothing ever goes smoothly with technology.
I’m hoping to expand the site with a few computer tutorials and how-to’s in the near future, so watch this space
Up the ‘kin Irons!
Craig
