Hey Aidan, watchu up to?

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Well, i'm glad you asked

Not much. Edinburgh is pretty cool, well to cue the joke about the weather, literally cool! Hahahahaeeeemhmmm yeah so anyway. It snows at night mainly and i've had a couple of nights where i could play in it. I hate it the next day though when it's all ice. Makes for a ridiculously slippy walk on the way to work. It sucks.

I went to a party teh otehr night, it was a rubics cube party so everyone has to wear items of clothes of the six colours of the rubix cube then later in the night you swap so you're all the same colour.

From Rubics Cube Party

From Rubics Cube Party

From Rubics Cube Party

It was a huge success, but that's not the best part.

I left the party about three am saying i better leave before it snows. I went outside and everything was white. Big snow flakes were falling from the sky, lit by the street lamps on the way down. It was my first time in falling snow and i absolutely loved it. I couldn't stop smiling. I went for a walk through the park and it was just magical. :) awesome eh? It's all gone by the morning though.

Didn't get any pictures though. Well, i was just wearing a tshirt and jeans so to be honest i was keen to get back to the backpackers before i caught something.

BUT, when i was in Largs last weekend it snowed again and i did get a couple of pics of that. :D

From Largs

From Largs

So i found a flat living with 3 others in a really nice area. My room is big and the people are cool. I don't move in until the middle of Dec though so am just staying at the backpackers. It's nice enough and for the last week i've had a room to myself so it's all good. Made a few friends there so that's nice.

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Work people are really nice and i've been to a few parties. My pig costume for Halloween went down well. It was actually really scary. I went out the night before just for a walk down the street to pubs nad people were pretty scared.

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Been missing Nz a bit, especially when seeing the weather reports and hearing from my Dave how nice it is. Also missing the food. It's good here, much better than Glasgow, but i know where all the good places in Auckland are and it's a shame to start again on those nights when you're really hungry and prone to bad food choices.

So it's coming up Xmas and to Edinburgh's credit you can really tell. The whole place is lit up with lights, and there is a big xmas market with nice food and roasted nuts nad stuff. Ice skating too, but i don't know how. Will prob just fall over so can't be bothered with it.

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Oh yeah, i'm prob going to Ireland again after Xmas. Will spend Xmas here with friends or at my aunts house. Then off to Ireland then back here for new years. Apparently it's really awesome here and everyone parties on the streets... providing its not raining or minus 4.

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Most people in Edinburgh are pretty cool, there are some real punk ass kids though. Like the skinhead types that walk around like they are the hottest thing on the planet whereas in reality their face looks like they were subjected to the vacuum of space and the unfiltered rays of the sun.

Oh man, you know how girls wear those little skirts and horrible Ug boots? Well, they do here too, except it's like minus 2 and they are FREEZING their tits off waiting for the bus. Made me laugh as i walked past. Jesus woman, put on some clothes you look like a tart anyway.

Dreamy Days and D.A.I.S.Y Chains

So i've been to two concerts since arriving in Scotland.

A while back I went into Glasgow to see Roots Manuva. It was in this crazy as location too. Old railway tunnels that were converted into a bar and stage. The acoustics were great and as my friend Gary says it looks like the sort of place they stored alien bodies or something.

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The actual concert was good. It's funny hearing the opening act trying to hype up the Glaswegian crowd when they were having none of it. I can't remember what his name was but he wasn't too bad. You gotta feel for them because more often than not everyone there wants nothing more for the opening act to just bog off and let the REAL artist turn up.
Roots was really really good. Again I can't remember his name but his supporting singer was really good. There were times where Roots just chilled out in the corner for a while and let the guy go at it and no-one really cared because he was really good.

From Roots Manuva

He played the usual stuff, finishing up with Dreamy Days.. where he taught the audience how to sing it properly.. NO NO NO!!! it's not NAH NAH NAH at the end it's NAH NAHHHHHHHHH. Took us like 3 tries to get it right. Haha.

From Roots Manuva

My only complaint would be that he wasn't on for that long, but then he was probably off his face so fair game to him.
Fun fact about the crowds in Scotland, they don't chant the artists name at the end of the concert they chant.. ONE MORE TOOON . Funny thing was Roots came on and then did only play ONE MORE TOON. Weird, most of the other encores i've seen are usually at least 2 or 3 songs.
Here are a few pics.



So the other gig I went to (after missing out on Tv on the Radio) was De La Soul in Edinburgh. I was a bit gutted when I got there because the opening act was still on and he was soooo shit. I mean the mc was okay but his dj was soo soo so shit. I'm not going to claim to be this hip hop guru or anything but would all the british up and coming hip hop artists quit trying to be Dizzee Rascal and carve out your own sound. Please.

But then De La came on and killed it. They had the whole crowd (who were dead with the opening act) jumping. The kings of working the crowd, they had the center, left and right all fighting for who was more in love with Hip hop. According to Dave, our side was Married to HipHop. To which the other members of De La hassled the shit out of him for.. they even stopped a song halfway to say... “married to hip hop??? really?!!??”. It seems like even though it's been like twenty years we dont need to worry about De La breaking up soon, they still get along really well.

From De La Soul

Rock Co Kane Flow live was my highlight, as was Saturday.. oh and The magic number.. oh man all of it was awesome. They announced a new album next year called “You're Welcome” and an accompanying tour to celebrate 20 years since the release of 3 feet high and rising.

From De La Soul

Not sure how these pics came out but I tried my best in the dark.. my phone's flash is still broken and I can't be bothered getting it fixed.