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Good afternoon/morning/evening to when you are reading this. Its afternoon for me if your wondering why I started with that. This might be a short of a long update, I really dont know. I have an idea of what I want to say, but when its not ranting its not normally as long, oh well.

This week saw the release of the Gorillaz album (obviously good news) and it is a fantastic album, one that is definitly worth a listen. Anyway, from this they released tickets to 5 intimate shows in the UK which I got tickets for! It did however cost me (my mother) £25 to join the "G Club" so you could actually get hold of buying tickets (which were £15). It is a little bit of a con in some ways, to make you join a club so you can get tickets. But who cares? Ive wanted to see Gorillaz for ages! They might actually be the first band I ever really liked, I think Blur came after that. The only thing that is possibly worrying is that it is 'rehearsal' shows for the festival in America they will be playing soon. What is meant by this? A statement claims that:

A further message from Gorillaz' management about the dates. They are live rehearsals - the core band will be going through the set for coachella - basic and raw - no frills - allowing the band to tighten up on front of an audience. However, they assure us the band are sounding

fantastic!

I hope that means its all good. Im assuming though by the "basic and raw" factor that it will just be the core band and no supporting artists (like De la soul) as on almost every track Gorillaz have someone featuring. Should be brilliant, in such a small venue too! Maybe when they play again in the UK (most likely in a bigger venue) i'l go to that and have a different experience? I dont know.

In other ?interesting? news I went to visit the University of Hertfordshire yesterday with meine mutter. I only went really to have a look at another possible university, just so I wouldnt feel like shit if I only went to visit two uni's. However, I was amazed by the university. It really is somewhere I could imagine being and living and learning, it must be the first Uni ive been to that I actually felt this way. I was pleased with how much investment went into student life (thats got to be a main factor for going). There was a area (costing £32million) dedicated to bars, a venue, a theatre and cafe's. It really was impressive, and not only that but people there were friendly and helpful. The lecturer for History who I met seemed very enthusiastic, which has to be important in History or any subject. The lecturer clearly had a large passion for History which can only be benificial. The historians who 'specialised' were also in very interesting topics like Film & Propaganda and Public History. I cant help but feel that I wouldnt be able to choose what things to learn in the years, there is too much choice. I dont know whether this is good yet, but they also make it compulsory to study 1 unit in another humanities subject. This could be good, but it could be bad. I have a choice of basically, English, Journalism, Philosophy (no) or some form of film making. I think I will do Journalism, after all it most likely would have been my second choice. Just a shame they dont do politics. But then again History is basically politics.

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