Dave’s Blog

It’s been quite a while from I have updated this place, I’ve had a busy few months and there certainly aren’t any signs of it slowing down in the weeks and months to come!

If you have been watching my Twitter feed you will have seen that I was planning a skydive and eventually got to jump last Sunday and received my video and photos this morning.

I was doing this to raise money for Craigavon Urological Research and Education (CURE), a charity which aims to raise funds to support research and education into urological conditions and cancers.

Thanks to all those who very kindly donated and helped raise a total of £1285!

It was a fantastic experience and one I certainly plan on repeating. Read on for more photos and a video.

Read the rest of this entry »

I booked my flights last night for my travelling trip in the summer. I will be heading to America and Canada for 6 weeks. We will be starting in New York, somewhere I have wanted to see for quite a while so I can’t wait to get there. This trip will certainly be an experience!

Merry Christmas everybody, have a good day and happy and successful new year!

The New Xbox Experience (NXE) was released last week as I’m sure most of you will know and one of the main features was the new avatar system. It’s interesting seeing what combinations you can come up with. Here is mine:

GamesRadar came up with some very good celebrity and game character avatars which can be found here. One of the best (and scariest) being the Sarah Palin one:

As I’m sure you can tell, I’ve been trying to get to as many gigs as I can recently. I figure I might as well take advantage of the Dublin music scene while I can! The most recent gig was Feeder.

This was very much a last minute booking, I didn’t realise how close it was until I checked out Ticketmaster on Friday night only to discover it was the next Thursday, so I was straight in to book them on the Saturday.

I was looking forward to this gig after hearing a lot of people telling me how good they are live, and they really were.

The Chemists were supporting, but nobody I spoke to had heard of them so I just had to hope that they would be good and they too were brilliant. Unfortunately they haven’t got an album out yet, it looks like it’s going to be released at some point in 2009 so I can’t wait for that after seeing them live. They had a real stage presence and I really liked all the tracks they performed. Keep an eye out for these guys! It was great to get to chat to the lead singer and one of the guitarists afterwards (even if they struggled to understand my accent).

Feeder themselves were fantastic and put on such a show. It had a good mix of older tracks and tracks from the new album. Of course all the classics such as ‘Buck Rodgers‘ had the crowd going wild and ending with ‘Just A Day‘ was the best way they could’ve ever ended, especially since the crowd were literally shouting out for them to sing it when they came back for the encore!

The atmosphere was amazing, the crowd seemed to be loving it and the band looked to be having a good time as well, but how could they not with the crowd chanting ‘FEEDER FEEDER FEEDER FEEDER’ in between pretty much every song!

This gig really was one of the best gigs I’ve ever been to. It left we really wanting to go to Belfast and see them the next night, but I doubt it could’ve ever lived up to Dublin. To top it all off I managed to catch one of the drumsticks that was thrown out at the end

Here are some photos from the gig (including the drumstick I got):