Meat is....manslaughter?

Good afternoon Blogface

It's been a while, and lot's has happened since I last spoke to you. The cats have played a few gigs and we're now branching out Sheffield. I'm still the worst eco-warrier ever... I'm good at work, but terrible at home. It has to stop, need to go full on with this I reckon - no lights on, no stand bys, no binning recyclable goods.

I'm also slowly evolving into a wannabe-vegetarian. I think it's a combination of:

1. It's good for the environment to go veggie

2. A lot of programmes recently have evolved around the bad conditions of some animals and, although I knew it was all happening, it's from a fairly neutral stance unlike PETA etc. I get completely put off by PETA and such organisations as it's hard to know what to believe when it's so biased and think they go a bit overboard too.

3. Not knowing where my meat comes from is a bit of a worry. I never buy really really cheap meat from Supermarkets but when I think about eating in pubs and work canteen, it concerns me that I could be eating - well, who knows what..!

4. The idea of lining my stomach with pounds of meat can't be good for my weight or my long term health.

5. I reckon I could easily give up burgers/meat balls etc for quorn..

So there you go, plenty of reasons to be fair. I think I'll edge my way in - try and eat quorn where possible and take it from there. I just hope I don't start being a preacher-type if it all goes well...

Guitars 2...

..I Totally went and bought one didn't I!  Well, a Squier....bargainous at £179 tho!

Guitars..

A quick note firstly to say that I no longer blog Catsforperu gigs here, they are on our Facebook page.

Anyway, on with guitars..  

Basically, I want and need a new guitar.  As much as I love my Ibanez, it's a bit buzzy, the pickups always fall out and it's a bit 80's metal for my tastes.  Saying that, it surprisingly has an amazing clean tone to it but there's not enough beef behind it for me.

So I'm after something new.  Unfortunately, I know nothing about guitars and all that humbucker shit.  So I need something that sounds and looks nice.  The guitar that meets both those requirements for me is the oh-so-obscure Telecaster.  I want a black one.

I also like the one with a black plate too..



So there you have it, I guess I thought it was vital that you knew I needed a new guitar.  You never know, someone might just give me theirs.  Hmmm...

Ramble Ramble Ramble

Well it has been a while since I have written, apologies for ignoring you Sir Blogface..

Just got a lot of feelings built up (in the ol' cliche way) and I need to vent it somewhere and I guess this is the best place for it to be fair. My work have just emailed round for Bernados asking for us to donate CDs, DVDs or Walkman/discman. Alternatively, we could all band together and buy something to donate. I was going to suggest this but then thought to myself that there are hundreds of charities I would give to ahead of that. The idea is that we put in our unwanted gifts to give to underprivileged kids. An underprivileged kid with a walkman isn't going to change much (don't get me wrong, it's still a good charity). So I put it upon myself to donate to 2 or 3 charities monthly - UNICEF is definitely one I feel strongly about. I also thought about donating to Friends of the Earth - a charity to help fight global warming. But then there's Amnesty International....Oxfam....NSPCC....Breast Cancer....RSPCA....etc etc etc. It's just so saddening to think that it is vital all these charities exist - 99% of which are easily preventable if human beings just acted appropriately. Ok there are many exceptions - most cancers can't be helped, earthquakes and natural disasters can't be helped. But child abuse.....fucking child abuse!!! How on earth can anyone abuse a child? It just doesn't make sense to me! Then there are countries like Zimbabwe and North Korea - run my absolute monsters and there is nothing that "the people" can do to stop all this happening and they are stuck in a horrible nightmare that can see no end.

So then when I finally settle on a charity or two, I decide how much to donate a month. £5 each way I think. £5..!!!! I get £900 a month and I'm donating just over 1% of my wage when the rest will go on a big house I don't need, heating that I don't need, electricity I don't need, luxuries I don't need. It almost seems too patronising to give such a small amount. I know that "every little helps" but we can all do so much more but we don't - me included of course. But why don't we? - because we're all selfish... Is it wrong though? Shouldn't everyone be living at the same standard around the world? But then, what about the "bad people" - shouldn't they be living at a lower standard? Of course this theory is Impossible to police. It's impossible to be selfless and it bothers some people more than others. It bothers me greatly right now but I haven't got it in me to do anything about it - does it make me a bad person? I guess it does but that makes the whole world selfish.

Anyway, I'm glad I've got all that out of my system, I do feel a little better for it admittedly...reading back I don't half mumble but I can't be arsed to go back and edit it, it all kind of "flowed out" and I want to keep it that way.
Just save the kids everyone :(

Cats:for:peru gig #006

We played the Grapes last night.  It was a Norwich Union gig but thankfully there was no corporate bollocks in site.  Cant speak for the others but I got a little drunk and had a ball.

Setlist:
1.  Love in a lift
2.  Bring in the experts
3.  Last man in Europe
4.  The nobodies
5.  Cutting the bridges in half
6.  I:am:the:orgasm

I think we went down really well, there were quite a few randoms in that I spoke to after that were full of praise.  Venkman Heist were on after us and I missed most their set due to packing up and talking and all that.  Screaming Mimi were ace as per...

Cats:for:peru gig #005

What up.  So we played Runaway Girl the other night.  We arrived 7pm sharp as advised and paid £2.50 each to park.  After sitting around drinking expensive drinks, seeing Kinny lose to Bolly at pool and Sky Sports missing Derby's goal against Newcastle, we finally soundchecked at 8.45pm.  Soundcheck wasn't too smart either but when we finally got round to playing, I think we had a good time and the place was quite full.

Setlist
1.  Last man in europe
2.  A34
3.  Cutting the bridges in half
4.  The Nobodies
5.  I:am:the:orgasm
6.  Love in a lift

We were due to play Manifesto instead of The Nobodies but Ukulele technical problems prevented this.  All in all this was a good gig and was good to play the new song live before we recorded it.  

Cats:for:peru gig #004

Apologies Blogface, I appear to have forgotten to write about this gig!  We played Grapes again after being invited but all round good chap Chris Murphy.  After Electric Picnic, I lost my voice and it began to get worse and the preceeding week went on.  I tried various remedies and come the gig, I was still not 100% fit.  We carried on regardless though and all wasn't as bad as it could have been...

Setlist
1.  The nobodies
2.  Last man in europe
3.  Tripwires and flashing lights
4.  Bring in the experts
5.  I:am:the:orgasm

We dropped crowd pleaser Cutting the Bridges in Half as I just felt I wouldn't be up to it.  Despite everything, we went down really well again and we were all quite happy with the gig.  Headliners Chris Murphy and Boxer Genius were excellent - his band are extremely tight and talented and complemented Chris' traditional song writing well and giving it a modern touch.