Tom & Brad's Blog

Hello Tom and Brad here this week!

As James is away in Malia this week, we will be giving you your weekly dose of WinterKids blog fun. He did however, very kindly send us some pictures of his antics so far to share with ya'll.





So what have the other WinterKids been up to this week? Well, we decided to use the time wisely by going out and getting jobs… No seriously!

Firstly Brad
I've been teaching music! A good friend of mine is a proper teacher, and by total coincidence he needed a co-teacher for the week… I know I couldn’t believe it either!

So, here’s a picture of me teaching my little heart out



As for myself (Tom), not only have I been teaching people how to bass, I have also been doing some manual labour, involving shifting furniture. Please see below for pictures of both:




And finally, we (Tom and Brad) have been thinking for a while that we’d like to bring something really special to the WK blog; something fresh, cool, exciting, something we can all enjoy together and really appreciate and something that's in no way uncool.

After much thought we narrowed the decision down to two. Either...

TOM AND BRAD’S CHORD OF THE WEEK!!
or

BRAD AND TOMS EXTREMELY IN DEPTH AND SLIGHTLY IRRELEVANT CHORD (AND MUSIC IN GENERAL) ANALYSING (AND APPRECIATING) SOCIETY!

Lets just stick with the first one, so here it is

Tom & Brad's chord of the week is:

F 6sus4

The chord consists of:
F Bb C D

On guitar, the chord would look like this.



To play it on piano the left hand would play the F as a bass note and the right hand would play the remaning Bb, C, and D notes.

Examples of where this chords can be heard on are: On the intro to Led Zeppelin's 'The Song Remains The Same' as well as the bridge to Jose Gonzalez's hit 'Hearbeats'.

So, it is upon that note (pun intended) that we wrap up this weeks WK blog. We do hope you've enjoyed it, have a nice week!



Kids
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May Video Diary

This week we bring you Mays Video Diary.

I'm off to Greece for the week so Tom and Bradley will bring you next weeks blog.

Feel free to email in any questions you have about Brads vintage car collection and I'm sure he'll be happy to respond........

Enjoy the football - my moneys on Spain...although I would like to see Croatia win it!

James
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Chris Mannequin Hands

Gutentag,

Bradley and James here.

We write to you from a dingy internet cafe situated in the centre of Frankfurt (allegedly the birthplace of 'frankfurters').

For the purpose of this blog, anything written by myself (James) will be in red and anything written by myself (Bradley) will be in blue. Black is both of us.

In case you're wondering...and you're probably not wondering, but we'll tell you anyway...James chooses red as its the colour of his beloved Arsenal and Bradley chooses blue because...well, he just quite likes blue.

The tour is drawing to its close, however, we still have a few more shows to play. I'm sure I've mentioned this in a previous blog, however, my continuing guilt of not knowing much German has grown ever stronger as these last few weeks have gone on. We English tend to be lazy. Citizens of foreign turf seem to all master our language, yet we can barely say a word of anything other than our native tongue.

When I say I don't know 'much' German, there is one word that has stuck with me from the days of 'learning' German in secondary school and that's 'winkelmesser'. It has a nice ring to it I think. And yes, it is a useful word...it means 'Protractor'.

This is the fourth time we've toured Germany. It's good fun, although the van journeys are pretty long winded. We do manage to kill time in the van pretty well though...like today, we discussed the names of our first ever bands...which is a bit of a faux pas - it's like talking to your current girlfriend about your ex....but either way, it was amusing to hear some of the names being thrown about -

Names our of first bands *snigger* -

James's: 'Ecostar', 'Labelled', 'Silent Day' and '10,000 Ways'

Chris's: 'Insomnia'

Tom's: 'Electric Cattle Prod'

Hannah's: 'WinterKids' (her first and only band)

Mine: 'Signed'...Terrible, I know. It just meant I could go around telling people 'we are signed'!

Here are a few photos from the tour -

This is me with some random metal structure we found backstage in Heidelberg -

Me -Me -
...and all of us in Leipzig -

Us with a big frog talking pond politics -

And finally here's 'Chris Mannequin Hands' in American Apparel.

Chris stole the hands from one of the mannequins...it was pretty amusing -

Right, that's all...I'm off to get a falafel wrap.

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April Video Diary

Hello all!

Still frantically trying to catch up with the editing of our video diaries...we are hoping to eventually release one every first Friday of the month. For now, here is Aprils edition -



Your probably thinking 'is that really the sort of thing you do in your spare time?'.

Well, the answer is yes.


Kids

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P.S - Listen out for a sneak peak of a new track called 'Another Break' at the start and end of Aprils Diary - hope you like :)