Great Solo's

Now everyone im going to start a section where on a friday i will post a video of a great guitar solo picked by myself or if anyone wishes to send me and email i will look into getting a good quality video up and we can al see the art of guitar.

Now for the first week, im going to set the bar probably far too high to be matched again in my opinion but then this section is called great solo's not good solos.

This solo is the solo that makes people insane and many say this version was the best version of the solo ever played as the context of the concert.
This is of course the Comfortably Numb solo in the concert Pulse



Enjoy!!!

Ps: They dont have to be guitar solos as any instrument is able to be shown

English Class

Now over this year, Mrs Garbutt has mentioned the rainbow warrior and how New Zealand rejected having nuclear waste dumped on the land and even went to the point of refusing entry of nuclear ships (warships, submarines from the USA) to enter our waters and harbours.

This angered the US quite a lot and escalated to quite a point where the US thought that NZ were sleeping with the enemy (communists and terrorists) and nearly went to war over it.

David Lange the PM at the time had a huge view on this saying no your not allowed to bring your nuclear waste here and he made numerous famous speeches about this topic.

And tiki tanne a NZ artist has used some of these extracts of his speeches to show his gratitude in his "Dub" music. I Think its a good way to know what happened, so next time Mrs Garbutt talks about it we can say yes we know too.

Plus it talks about (totalatarism)sp which could also be helpful with the handmaids tale :D

Koonyum Sun

Xavier Rudd's new album "KoonyumSun" was released on the 23rd of this month and over the past 2 days or so i have been listening to it.

Like all of Xavier Rudd's albums the lyrics are full of aboriginal rights, protecting the environment, fair rights to everyone and basically nice stuff being a nice guy he is.

Unlike all of his other albums he has joined up with the group Izintaba a South African group i believe consisting of a bass player and percussionist. This brings a whole new level and direction with the digideroo mixing with the African drums and backing vocals. The bass player really drives the band through most of the songs which also makes it sound awesome.

Overall another one of his amazing albums like they all are, with a great message and i would recommend a listen by everyone, if it is just at least once, to see the amazing talent that is brought up in our backyard and how only a few men can stand up for whats right and get a huge following.

Cant Wait for the tour to get back to Perth after the US!!!!!!

Famous Milliners

Yeah Annie i meet Phil Tracy in Isabella Blow's mother in law's hotel

Jealous???

http://www.philiptreacy.co.uk/

A highlight in one of the weirdest places i have ever been in my life

Didn't get any free hats though :(

Yusuf Islam To Tour Australia

Returning to Australia in the first time in 36 years Yusuf Islam will tour Australia in an intimate shows around the capital cities.

Although 36 years ago he was touring under a completely different name before his shock retirement (mid show, just stopped halfway through a song and left the stage not to play for over a decade) from live music and conversion to Islam and over the last 3 decades it seems unlikely he would ever return to the worlds stage.

After a few intimate shows over the past few years at the royal albert hall, nobel prize ceremony, UN conferences he has decided to come back and tour the world spreading the word of his peace and love throughout the world once again.

Personally i dont think it would be something to miss as this man returns from his long time away from the country that is Australia

Perth- Challenge Stadium 10th June

Tickets go on sale 6th May

Photos Of The Holiday

Here a few of the best photos that I took while on holiday

Enjoy :-)

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Above: Hanging out of the window on the train going to the dutch forted city of Galle

Above: Taken from the train window. I think what makes this a good photo rather than one of just the beach in the background is the reflection in the little inlet at the bottom.

We rented some surfboards for a morning or two so I was down on the beach taken a few shots of the "surfer dudes" and the surrounding landscape because i got bored of taking pictures of them lying on their bellies.

Above: Looking towards the west to the point of the coast covered by huge palm trees, (Owned by the Dilmah tea company if anyone was wondering) although I think the contrast between the dark green leaves in focus and the glarey out of focus background works well in this situation.

Above: PD. James in action capturing the target coming in on a wave. Probably not the greatest quality but i think i got the "look" i was going for, with the subject being in the centre and in focus while the surrounding objects where somehow less significant.

Above: Although a very simple shot of the waves lapping at the beach, i find that these types of photographs are always very profound in their beauty although i would have preferred to have a breaking wave on the beach but unfortunately the waves broke quite a way out in the ocean.

Above: Sorry, I had to put the cliche photo in here of the hard day surfing on the beach. Gnarly though :P

Now these two remaining photos are my best that i probably have ever taken with a camera and i was extremely surprised of how they came out, as i had a general idea what i wanted to do but i didn't think they would come out the way they did.

Above: I think the contrast of the white water with the brown sand and stone wall really captures the viewers eye as well as the fact that the water is slightly more in focus than the wall on the left

Above: My favourite photo of the trip, same location as the one above just zoomed out which i believe encapsulates the landscape more and in turn creates a nicer photo. The way the rock on the right and the wall on the left, frame the photo draw the eye to the breaking waves which contrast to the lush green on the flax plant on top of the wall.

Well there good ones i took during the holiday, im sure i will put up more general ones a bit later.

I would love to hear what you guys think about the photos and my talking crap about what i think it does with contrast, framing etc because i have no idea :)

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Well guess what everyone, James is going on holiday for the whole two weeks and wont be able to see or speak to anyone for that whole period of time.

Whats more James' birthday is happening as usual on the holidays and he will be celebrating it away from everyone in the sub continent.

So you would expect a couple of conversations this afternoon to go a little like this

"See you later james, have a great time on your holiday, hope you see some awesome stuff and have a fun birthday"

Which i would have replied

"thanks a lot, im sure i will and have a great holiday period yourself"

or even i would have been happy with a plain simple

"goodbye"

But since that didn't happen today i will have to keep those conversations in my head with the rest of my thoughts and imaginary friends

Happy Holidays People