Hey to the people that read!

Fresh off the Bulldog Bash last week, i think i should let everyone know the score!

First off, massive respect to Stormy, Jock, all the organisers of the Bulldog, plus all the E:Volve crew who helped get me and many other acts in, on and out of the Bulldog Bash. The organisation was seriously on it. Within seconds of a band finishing, the crew were on doing the swap over for the next band. So efficient. It impressed myself and the Jilted lads too, as im sure it did the rest of the acts who played there.

After watching the Jilted tear it on the mainstage as only they can, i had about an hour or two to spare. We had gotten to the festival around 5ish, the mainstage started around 6 and jilted were on from 8-9. The dance tent opened at 11pm and it opened with me! Little did i know that i was providing the ONLY musical entertainment on site at 11pm as thats what time the mainstage closed. Thankfully, i was able to setup my gear well ahead of stage time, which really eased my mind. I had literally spent the last 5-6 months building to this point, not just sonically, but visually and mentally. I knew exactly what i wanted to look and sound like, and i was very happy to be given literally hours to setup and make sure everything was spot on. I had a few problems the week before in Grimsby, mainly due to time constraints when setting up, so to have all this time here was excellent. The only issue was my strobe light not working for whatever reason. But i wasnt too fussed, the tent was packed with lights, lazers, leds, strobes, UV's and massive screens. I got my blinders working though and they really helped amplify my setlist when things in the tracks dropped!

Having that extra time to setup allowed me to wonder around the site and take things in. The mainstage was massive, the lighting and sound was seriously good. The dance tent was literally right next to the mainstage, and the tent itself could probably have held around 800-1000 people, it was very long and narrow. But the stage was big enough for all my gear and myself and MC Remedy who once again provided his energy to my set. Its like night and day difference when im doing a gig without him. The crowd are much more in tune to whats going on when someone is telling them when to show appreciation etc... Basically im knackered without him!

With the Bulldog Bash being a rock oriented festival, i wasnt expecting a large turnout in the tent, but much to my suprise it pretty much filled up straight away, and stayed that way until the end of my set (from what i could see onstage anyway!). Fair play to everyone who came in, they rocked the place. The soundsystem was banging and the bass levels were just about right, the more people the better too as the sound can really penetrate the people and let them feel the music. I played a 60 minute set with something of an encore track at the end! (im glad i had one or two tracks spare) So my longest ever set, biggest ever gig, largest ever crowd and most amount of money ive ever spent on gear (lots of money on lights, dmx crap, leather jackets and SSA banners!) all equals one hell of a gig, easily my best yet and the one im most proud of.

Two years ago i had not long since played my first gig, if someone had told me when i walked into the Soundhouse in Bolton to meet the Jilted lads that in two years, i would have travelled to Aberdeen, Liverpool, Milton Keynes, Wolverhampton, Nuneaton, Grimsby, Southam, Cornwall and then been playing the opening night of the dance tent of the largest biker festival in Europe to around 600-700 people, id have told them to turn it in!!!

It might have been my finest musical moment last Thursday night. Just over two years ago my head was in a weird place and i went for a long drive out one sunny, warm Friday night after i had finished work. Strange as it may sound it helped me get myself together. I looked at everything I wanted to achieve and realised it was there for the taking. Ive always wanted to do a gig, always wanted to get to play a large festival, i wanted to write what eventually became the Sunset EP, take my music to the people and most of all, give people something to dance to.

I feel ive accomplished that. Ive not broke into the mainstream, had a top 40 album, headlined the dance tent of Glastonbury or appeared in national press. But ive done all the aforementioned stuff, just not on the scale that some would call successful.

I would and I do.

For now, its back to square one for me. I might have to go for another drive to figure out where to go next. And that might take a while.