Hey, I'm Will, I'm 18 and I live in Warrington in Northwest England. I'm well aware that the town is infested with morons, but that brings to mind the questions i) What defines a moron? and ii) Isn't the whole country?
There's been a time when I've been pretty down and all that shit, but things are on the up - social life's improving, band's kickin' arse, realised arseholes are just arseholes, I've got a few good mates and fuck the rest. Uni next year, so I can finally see the back of college - can't complain about that!
My main (probably only) hobby is music - I can by my own admission play the living shite out of the bass guitar, can play guitar and mandolin fairly well, as well as a bit of piano, harmonica and drums, although I'm out of practice and rusty as hell on piano and harmonica, and (according to Moz) suffer from a terrible case of "guitarist's twitch" when playing the drums. You might in-fact know me from my band(s) - I play bass and attempt to sing in the up-and-coming Warrington band S.F.R . We've been writing songs, recording and gigging for nearly 2 years now, kicking arse and getting a name in and around a slowly but surely widening region of the Northwest. We've done close to 50 gigs to date, in and around the Warrington/Merseyside/Cheshire areas. We were in Warrington's WIRED magazine in March 2007, recorded our first studio EP, "No Resolution" in May, were in an online blog showing the pick of local bands called "The No9" in August, and appear on a compilation CD put together by Manchester label/promotion company SLit Records, so we're definitely starting to make our mark, however slight it may be!
I also play drums in Human Resources with my high-school mates Mike Christie and Mike Callan. After I quit my last side-band Collateral Damage in April 2007 I pretty much swore to myself I'd never be in 2 bands at once again, but I've found I've got time for both now, so I said I'd drum for them, although S.F.R will always come first.
I'm currently in the middle of A levels at Carmel College in St Helens, it has its moments but on the whole it's kind of shite, miles better than high school was though. I'm doing Further Maths, Physics, Critical Thinking and Music Tech, although the last 2 are pretty much useless (and largely a pain in the arse) for what will hopefully be my future career as a mechanical engineer.
