Down But Not Out

LA LIVING 5

2011-04-21T07:02:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone,

Before i start covering the usual bases of LA Living from my perspective, i want to quickly divulge on to quite a serious subject for me.

If you haven't heard by now then i' ll let you know, the Blink 182 summer UK tour that was taking place this July has been moved to July 2012. Now, in another life time we'd also be able to commit to a tour 14 months down the line, but unfortunately we cannot. We already have our own UK headline tours in place and potential huge festival slots for us, which prevent us from doing it. On a personal note, the word gutted doesn't seem to truly cover the way i feel about not being able to tour with Blink, especially after we were so close to doing so, but one thing it has made me realise is this, our band over the past 5 years has seen and done so much. The fact we're half way around the world recording our third album with a complete legend of a producer is a testament not only to us, but how far our fans have taken us and allowed us to grow. I say it a lot, and i don't want it to end up sounding redundant, but time after time i am made to realise that without our fans, our sixers, our FRIENDS, thats right, YOU GUYS, we are sweet FA. Even just through twitter you guys have been so supportive over this Blink situation when you could have easily been pissed at us and the situation, instead it seems you're main concern is how disappointed we must be not being able to live out this life long dream of ours. So in my own little way this is me saying thank you. All i hope is that our band continues to grow and is here in years to come and you're all still there with us.

With that out of that way......

IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW, THE NEW SHIRTS ARE ON SALE NOW GET EM' WHILE THEY'RE HOT!!

I've lost track of the days, i can only recall poignant things that stand out, so let's begin.

On Friday the 15th of April we finished tracking the bulk of the music on our album.

We lol'd

It's not just a matter of all the extra guitar lines, beefing up the sound a little bit, hand claps, snaps, gang vocals, miscellaneous guitars and all of Dans additional percussion's.

On Thursday the 14th we went to Warner brothers studios and did a tour. Some of us have girlfriends out at the moment, so it was definitely a fun day out!! We decided to give Dan the nick name 'the 7th wheel', any ladies out there wanna change his fate?

We had the funniest little tour guide who showed us a bunch of pretty eye opening shit! Do you guys wanna hear an interesting story? That, of course was a rhetorical question...

When they were filming the first ever episode of Friends, one of the producers called out and said 'Does anyone know how to work this expresso machine?' Only one man in that room did, turned out to be Gunther who raised his hand, and because of that he ended up having a part in a 10 series US hit TV show and probably made an absolute mint!!!

MONDAY 18TH of APRIL

I went on a little trip into Hollywood with my girlfriend, we walked a long the chinese theatre ( see pictures below ) and then went to ' The Wax House' which was so much fun and then crossed the street to 'The Guiness World Museum' which was a real insight to the madness that is our world.

TUESDAY 19TH of APRIL

A bunch of people came down from our label UK & USA to hear some of our new songs, and then in the evening a few of us went to the El Rey theatre to see Plan B. It was a pretty mind blowing show, the guy's got a serious talent. For his encore he did a few mo-town covers with his beat boxing pal dropping some dubstep beats over the top, take my word for it, AMAZING.

Until next time....stay classy.

NEW RANGE ON SALE NOW

2011-04-14T06:36:00.000-07:00

Hey guys!

Hope you're all doing good!

Head over to http://store.downbutnotoutproductions.com to check out some new tee's we've got on sale for you now, there's a few new reduced items in the sales section too.

I had an awesome time chatting to you guys on ustream the other night, definitely gonna try to do that again as soon as possible; I wanna hear what you think of the new DBNO stuff.

Oh and here's some shit I found funny this week...

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: Jimmy Kimmel from Between Two Ferns

Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis: Natalie Portman from Between Two Ferns

LA LIVING 4

2011-04-12T02:51:00.000-07:00

First of all, this shits funny...

Green Team from Will Ferrell

This week was really eventful.

A bunch of friends passed through town.

On monday night we went and saw Steel Panther at their residency at the House Of Blues, they are by far the most entertaining and funny band on this planet...see for yourself....

On Wednesday our boys in BMTH and ADTR were in town, we checked out the show at the Palladium and it was a good vibbbeeee. Below is a video of Oli from BMTH coming into the studio and lending us his vocal help.

Check out this video below of me performing with Bmth during their set @ the Palladium

And other than this we've been locked up in the studio.

Oh wait, i am lying i went and saw this...

YOUR HIGNESS staring Natalie Portmans behind..

What a vibe.

Until next time, stay classy

LA LIVING 3

2011-04-04T12:24:00.000-07:00

Matt finished his bass parts, we LOL'd

Time for vegas.

Our hotel

We made a friend

I made even more friends than the boys

Went and saw David Copperfield (some illusionist dude) was a bit of a mind fuck, i asked him to wear a condom, so i should be good.

We then went and saw a live Medieval themed night at Excalibur hotel, where there was a thing called 'Tournament of Kings'. People jousted, a town crier cried, people danced and us 5 mostly got rowdy and started chants that included a bunch of profanities!

NEW RANGE DROPS THIS WEEKEND!!! COME BACK HERE TOMORROW TO SEE PICS OF ME WEARING NEW STUFF

HOLY SMOKES

2011-03-30T10:51:00.000-07:00

What a night! So I'm still totally out of my mind stuffed from eating too many

smores last night, big thanks to Jim Sylvia for cooking up a storm. Also check out

DBNO brother Steve Foy walking over super hot firey coals bare foot for charity!!!

LA LIVING 2

2011-03-29T03:26:00.000-07:00

LA LIVING

Monday 21st March

Can't remember much from the studio but i remember we went to an Irish pub across the street from us to continue Matty B's bday celebration vibes.

Tuesday 22nd

After the studio we went out to Angels and Kings, a bar that Pete Wentz owns.

AND THEN....i came home to a party going on next door, Kept me up for hours, NO GOOD!

Wednesday 23rd

Hit the gym for some workout vibes and then went for a mass food shop over at Trader Joe's.

Then watched a load of funny youtube videos like these:

'I've got to go out, this is ridiculous'

Told ya! Penguins are cool too

'Who's the penguin? I'm the nuts mate.'

Thursday 24th March

I spent all of Thursday looking mostly like a crying baby thanks to the new Katy Perry perfume ad...

Katy I think I love you

Watching Spain play football later cheered me up a lot though, they are literally A-mazing.

After that I went to the movies to see Limitless with Matt, Dan, Jim and Sally! I need to get myself some of these pills.

Friday 25th March

My day was pretty uneventful until i went to the cinema with some friends to see Sucker punch.

We couldn't keep our shit together during this movie because it was so mental.

Suckerpunch was a mixture of the following movies...Annie, Moulin Rouge, I-robot, Lord of the rings, Saving private Ryan, Some chinese temple stuff.

I'm gonna straight up say that i think the blonde chick, who has the whole Moon child thing going on, is super super super hot.

Saturday 26th March

Dan finished his drums which made us all...

Sunday 27th March

Day off so we all hit Melrose and did some shopping.

We stopped in and made friends at Johnny Cupcakes! Thanks for having us and for the discount! You guys rule!
Johnny just opened up his first store in the UK in London, go check that out if you haven't already!

We then went to a Taco party!! What a vibe!!

That's all, till next time, stay classy

LA LIVING

2011-03-21T16:52:00.000-07:00

LA LIVING

We flew into LAX on the 17th of March from Heathrow to start recording the follow up to Hold Me Down. Come back regularly for updates. This update number 1!!

THURSDAY 17TH MARCH

Firstly, the leg room on Virgin atlantic transatlantic flights suck, period.

What doesn't suck are the movies that i watched on the plane.

The Other Guys

Jackass 3D

Harry Potter and The Death Hallows

Once landed we headed over to our apartments to get settled in. I am rooming with Max and our apartment is sooooo legit. We have an amazing view from our balcony of the infamous HOLLYWOOD sign and of downtown LA somewhere in the distance.

First things first, we went and got ourselves a Chipotle!!! YUPPPPP

FRIDAY 18TH MARCH

We've got a pretty sweet gym where we're living for the next two months, and i am planning on making the most of it. Starting as i mean to go on, i hit the gym in the morning but then back tracked later when i got one of these bad boys....

Max and I couldn't help ourselves, so we went and picked up an XBOX 360 for our apartment..along with everyones best friend...FIFA SOCCER 11!!

SATURDAY 19TH MARCH

Chris and i went and did a bit of this in the morning...

We went out for meal for Matt's bday weekend celebrations and then hit the bars.

Everyone looked a little like this, except for me as i stuck to the h20!

It was a good night (not us in picture, just funny as hell)

Came back to the apartments and just watched funny youtube vids like this...

SUNDAY 20TH MARCH (MATT'S BDAY)

Jake from Mayday Parade came over and we all went to see LA GALAXY!!

It was horrible weather but despite that it was such a good laugh. We kept starting England chants because we're ignorant and young, and i repeatedly sang Arsenal songs at the Galaxy fans for the same reasons!! Here are some pics!!

Till next time...stay classy

Arsenal Vs. Chelsea

2010-12-28T09:21:00.000-08:00

So last night I went up to the home of football, the Emirates! And if it wasn't good enough that we smashed Chelsea 3-1, I got the chance to meet some of my footballing heroes.This was an unbelievable experience and I'd like to thank Cesc and Carlota for making it possible. Muchas gracias!

I'll try and update you guys soon; at the moment I'm just chilling with family and friends for xmas and new year but I can't wait to see you all at the re-scheduled shows in January.

One love. x

Festival memories

2010-09-15T11:43:00.000-07:00

WARPED TOUR BLOG SEVEN

2010-08-07T04:44:00.001-07:00

I haven't posted a blog in a long long time. Sorry. Warped has been pretty wild...not. The drives have got super long so our bus calls have been early so all i've been doing is watching movies and hanging.

I've gotta give a massive shout out to Detroit and Chicago, the best two shows we've played in America, i love it.

I know this isn't Warped related, but, i really want to go over something pretty important.

THANK YOU to everyone who voted for our band in this years Kerrang Awards. Still stunned we won something, it's ridiculous. We genuinely weren't expecting to be nominated for anything, let alone win anything. I feel really cut off from our fans in the UK, as i feel like i've been on this tour forever, and although i'll miss it, i cannot wait to come home and play READING AND LEEDS! Stooookkkeeedddd.

Anyway, here's some snaps, they are nothing special but kinda cool. Considering we only have a week left this may be the last blog.....

Love to you all, hope everyone who reads these little things is having a great time, and we'll see you soon!!!

Josh

WARPED TOUR BLOG SIX

2010-07-25T04:53:00.001-07:00

Hey guys,

So i've been trying to piece this blog together, but it's been quite hard. For about 5 or so days, we had 3 am bus calls...which meant partying everyone of those five nights. I remember the shows being absolutely insane for us and doing lots of long signings. I went to chipotle, bowling once, there was a massive Water Park which the park opened especially for warped tour one evening, i think PA, and on our day off I went to see Inception which blew my mind.

Anyway, below are some pictures my friends and my girlfriend took whilst they stayed out with us during the 14th-19th.

Darien Center, New York

Scranton, Pennsylvania

Camden, New Jersey

Uniondale, New York

Oceanport, New Jersey

day off, New York city

WARPED TOUR BLOG SIX (part 1)

2010-07-25T04:50:00.001-07:00

WARPED TOUR BLOG SIX (part 2)

2010-07-25T04:41:00.000-07:00

WARPED TOUR BLOG FIVE

2010-07-20T14:44:00.000-07:00

Warped football tournament

6th July, Indianapolis

Not much i can say about this except for, well done, well done Parkway Drive for absolutely ruining us. You smashed us apart into smithereens, and we're all still pretty shaken by it. Even if we did then beat you a few hours later, you won the game that mattered.

I watched BMTH beat the Bouncing souls as well and then all the games were done. I met our first ever fans from Brazil, which I assure you was very surreal. I never imagined our music would ever reach places that far away from home. I was really looking forward to hitting up Cleveland as I love that place, and with good reason too...

8th July Cleveland

So i woke up, and the subject of where and to which team Lebron James was going to play for was all the rage across ESPN and all that shit. Lebron James is basically the new Michael Jordan in terms of basketball; the Cleveland Cavaliers franchise was pretty much built around his name so in turn he was adored by the fans of the Cavaliers because he was so much more than just a prolific player for them, he was an icon for the city which is what made his choice such a big deal.

The great thing about the location for the Cleveland show, was that we could walk into the city center from where we were so after we played, a handful of us headed into the town to do a bit of shopping. Dan bought a Cleveland Bball jersey...more on that to come, and then we all for some food and bowling. For no reason whatsoever, we all bowled so badly, it was pretty pathetic to be honest, except for Matt Barnes, who actually scored over 50 for the first time ever...if only he'd done that in the tournament. Headed back for press, did that, watched Parkway Drive smash shit up, sung with BMTH and then made my way back into town for a burrito.

Little did we know, Lebron James had already announced he was leaving Cleveland to play for the Miami Heat. Dan just so happened to be sporting his newly purchased Cleveland jersey, which had James's name on the back. Bad move. It was safe to say people wanted LJ's blood, I mean, they were really pissed off, and seeing a dude wearing a top with LJ's name on the back only pissed them off even more. Dan had people heckling out of their car windows and people swearing as we walked past them in the street. It was getting a little too biblical for our liking, so we peaced out.

9th and 10th of July Toronto and Montreal, Canada.

I do love Canada, but hate passing through the Canadian border, it's just a straight up ball ache.

I was really excited to play Toronto, because the last time we played it on the AP tour, it was one of the best shows of the tour. Toronto didn't disappoint, not one little bit. Our queue for our signing was stupidly long, we were signing at our merch for an hour and a half, it was a lot of fun because AAR were our soundtrack, and that Tyson fella is hilarious with his on stage banter.

Oh Montreal, you French speaking Canadians you! With your over sized site which meant it was a 2 mile walk to and from our stage, thanks for that. The show was cool, but that walk was mental! I watched SYG smash it and then during our set, un-announced, but yet welcomed, Jordan ran on stage and sang the ending to the Consequence. I love that guy.

Later me and some of my friends such as Chris V ( WTK MERCH), Travis and Dannt ( WTK) Max and our buddy Henri went to the biggest casino i've ever seen...in Canada. Everyone was gambling and celebrating/cursing in French, weird experience. I had a good night, but didn't leave any richer...

11th July,

Hartford, CT

East Coast, east coast, east coast! I love playing shows on the EC of America! We seem to get pretty decent crowds, and people are really stoked on the band. This was the case for Harford! Our friend John from Glamour Kills came out to the show and brought us some swag and then took some of the guys to get some drinks! Thanks John. I 'm pretty sure the World Cup final took place on this day, am I right? Well I managed to catch the game when it went to extra time and I wasn't sure who I wanted to win. I am, however, glad that Spain won, congratulations to you Spaniards! This night was also the night that some of my best friends celebrated their birthdays! Tom Sykes and Oliver Mcpherson! Check the picture above to see some of the madness. Way too much alcohol was involved. Late bus calls are a bad idea.

12th July

Day off - Six Flags

Here's a break down for ya

- Free rides

- Water Theme park

- Dominos pizza

- Twilight ( funniest movie i've ever seen)

13th July Boston

Home town of Four Year Strong. Needless to say their set was crazy. According to our sound engineer, Booley, it was so insane that the crowd moved the barrier with sheer force! Our Boston show was probably the best show we've ever played in America, period. I can't really say much else about it, thank you, thank you and thank you.

WARPED TOUR BLOG FOUR

2010-07-09T09:36:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my Warped tour blog number 4.

1st July, San Antonio, Texas

I'm sorry, i really can't remember what happened on this day. I think i was in bed for most of it. I think there was an after show party, but again, i can't remember!

2nd July, Houston, Texas

RAIIIIIINNNNNNNNNN

A SHIT TON OF RAIN!

I woke up, and like something out of 'Day after tomorrow' the heavens opened. There were floods and all kinds of chaos. Anyway, this is a rock n roll tour god dammit, and the show MUST go on. We opened our stage on this day, and we helped to hold the roof of the stage up. Our stage has an inflatable roof you see, therefore, when it rained it got absolute obliterated by the rain! It was torrential rain during our set and we were all absolutely soaked, but it must be said, the crowd were unbelievable. It was probably the best show of the tour thus far. We just rolled with it and embraced mother nature having her way with us. God bless ya mumma, god bless ya.

3rd of July, Dallas, Texas

The hurricane aftermath continued to follow us around Texas. Hot rain, bouncing a metre of the ground. We continued to use the rain to shower. Dallas was a pretty cool show. I feel like everyones attention was on the day to follow.....

4th of July

Independence day. AMERICA, FREEDOM, blah blah. I'm not American, so i don't get it, but i do appreciate them dedicating a day to solely drinking beer, eating bbq food and hanging out with good people. That's exactly what we did. We were at a hotel with the boys from Parkway Drive and BMTH, so throughout the day we played some footy, ate some burgers and drank a ton of beer!

At about 2am we let off some fireworks, which was an amazing idea, and i'm glad we went ahead with it, despite the risk of being kicked out of the hotel and it's car park. I vaguely remember us playing a bunch of beer pong, that being said, if i can't remember, we most probably did!!

5th of July St Louis, Missouri

The site for WT2010 was based a round a massive hill and all the merch tents surrounded it. It was a cool site, and the show itself was pretty awesome. Loads of people were singing along and stuff. I watched Enter Shikari, who put simply, are one of the most exciting and best live bands around, fact. Ohhh and catering was amazing in St Louis, STEAK! I LOVE STEAK! Thank you TADA catering, more of the same please.

IN MY NEXT BLOG I'LL RUN YOU THROUGH US PLAYING IN THE WARPED FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT, AND OUR EXPERIENCE IN CANADA!

WARPED TOUR BLOG THREE

2010-07-05T14:46:00.000-07:00

26th June

Mountain View California, not much to report from this show was once again above and beyond what we were expecting, so we can't ask for much more than that.

MV played host to the first of many Warped Parties. Some band called Breathe Carolina hosted a party with loads of dub step music, so we just lost our shit. I'm almost certain everyone on the tour woke up the next day with a raging hang over!

27th June

England vs Germany. I got up especially at 7am, i'd had about 4 hours sleep but i still awoke with a whole bunch of optimism. Don't know why i bothered. I'm not going to waste too much of my time typing about how badly we played, or how pissed i am that ze Germans destroyed us but i will say this, if Fat Franks goal had stood, which btw it should've, then it would've been a completely different game.

So i thought, 'ahh England have lost, fingers crossed for a good set time'.

We opened our stage at 11:20 or something. Needless to say i wasn't in the right place for it, but we still had a blast and the people that did get into to see us seemed to have fun! Good times were had. I watched Four Year Strong for the first time on this tour, forgot how good that band are.

Night two of the infamous WT parties/bbq's. As i type this i am trying to piece together the nights events. I remember Flint town and I taming some yanks at Beer Pong, mostly the SYG dudes, and i remember drinking margaritas with Max and few of the boys in Shikari, who by the way, are fucking dudes, nice to have some other Brits along side us and BMTH on this tour. I vaguely remember Matt Nicholls doing something he shouldn't have with a fork lift, but i also remember encouraging it, so nuff' said really!

28th June

Day off in Phoenix.

I seriously sat in our hotel room all day online. I used the gym for like an hour, and then went back to doing nothing. Oh wait, i got In n Out.

We then went to a charity bowling event in the evening. There were about 20 or so bands from the tour doing it, so a bunch of our friends were there. The idea behind the event was for the bands to be auctioned off on ebay and for the fans to be bid to bowl with them. Our guy was a dude called Darwin ( i called him D-money) and he paid $340 to charity to bowl with us, what a legend! Needless to say we were confident that we were going to do well, but we didn't. Dan, Chris and myself bowled immaculately and a few others didn't do so well....ahaha. We got knocked out in the first round but continued to carry on bowling just for shits and giggles anyway.

On the way back to the bus i got IN n OUT. Good decision.

29th June

Show day in Phoenix, Arizona.

When i first saw the routing for WT, i didn't see that we were playing the sun. The heat in Phoenix was so oppressive, it literally sucked the life out of you, it was horrible. We played last on our stage at like 7:50, and i want to say a massive thank you to everyone that stuck around and watched us play, i know it was a long hot day, and we really do appreciate you guys sticking around for us.

All to report was that i played a ton of fifa and watched a whole load of Tru Tv!

30th June

Las Cruces, New Mexico

It was kinda hot in New Mexico, but not as bad as Phoenix. I liked the layout of the site way more as well because everything was a lot closer. Met the guys from Parkway Drive for the first time, nice dudes, if you haven't seen their dvd yet, you should, makes a lot of touring bands these dudes look like the biggest bunch of babies ever, us included. Those guys have flown over from Australia and turned up in countries all over the world, not knowing if they even had shows to play or places to stay. I guess if the Warped Tour is all about punk rock ethics, then Parkway Drive embody that sentiment all year round, not just on this tour.

After our set Joe SYG, Jake Mayday and i went for a run. I only managed like 1.6 miles, but then i noticed there was a massive football match going on, so i ran over and joined in. Our boys were playing, some of the BMTH boys and just a bunch of friends. It was a good time, we literally played until it was too dark to do so! Best day on the tour thus far in regards to hanging out.

WARPED TOUR BLOG TWO

2010-06-28T13:55:00.000-07:00

June 21st

Fresno. Fresno fresno fresno. When will you learn? Crystal meth is not a joke, or cool. Haha, on a serious note, why was there no food places around the venue? There were a bunch of gang members outside out bus all night too. It was cool seeing and playing with BMTH and Your Demise, but thats about it. Got it, got out. Badda bing badda boom.

June 22nd

We arrived in Bakersfield super early so i thought i'd check out the town. That took about 20 minutes. We played the basement of Jerry's a pizza restaurant.

We hadn't played a basement show in years, so i was stoked. The show itself was actually ok, I started a circle pit myself, pitted, by myself, and left with a injury, by, myself!

I finally met Vigil from The Ghost Inside, been a massive fan of that band ever since our friend Nate showed us them on the AP tour we did. We left early as we wanted to go to Vegas. Jerry's, your pizza is awesome, but it messed with my bowels.

June 23rd

I woke up in Vegas with a smile on my face. We watched the England game on our bus, it's cool that we won, but i didn't feel to optimistic at the prospect of facing ZE GERMANS! Eventually stumbled across some food, it wasn't great.

We played a skate park for the first ever time!! It was a pretty cool idea to be quite honest! The whole idea behind the show was to celebrate Alternative Press's 25th anniversary bash, a British Invasion kinda thing. Bmth, Shikari, us and Demise.

The show its self was pretty sweet, Vigil ( The ghost inside) came on stage and sang THE CONSEQUENCE with us, it was tight.

After we played the main issue was ID. For those of you un-aware, in America, you have to be 21 years of age to buy/sell/drink/have fun.

I wanted to go to the after show at the ' HARDROCK ' so naturally, we figured something out. I used our TM's ID, he's 24 and his glasses....silly Americans. AP very graciously hooked up all the bands with a shit ton of alcohol, and us brits were more than happy to oblige. OHHHHHHH i forgot to mention, they paid for us all to travel from the venue in Limos. Read and see what happened in Kerrang magazine in a few weeks. Anyway, back to Vegas. I don't remember much, there was a lot of 'Dad dancing' going on. I think i must've told the Your Demise boys that they were the shit a billion times. It was a total vibe fest. The party then finished, and Norm (from AP) and i hit some tables. Again, the ID worked...silly Americans.

Didn't win, didn't lose, didn't really care. Vegas, i love you, see you soon!

June 24th

Pre prodcution day for Warped tour. A day for which a person like me, does nothing, and i mean nothing!!! Everyone else was running around like headless chickens and i just played Fifa.

For those of you don't know me that well, i'm all about the fifa!!

Chewbear and Max devised our very own wall of shame, called..dun dun dun.. THE MURK BOARD. Very simple, if you beat someone at Fifa by 5-0 or more, then go on the MB. However, saying i was to be beating Max 8-0, but he scored to make it 8-1, he would then not go on the MB. You can only be present on the MB if you have been well and truly thrashed and not responded with one measly little goal.

I am here to say, for the record, i am NOT on the MB, i have however, put Max, Henri, Joe SYG, Chris v (wtk merch) and Booley on the MB. I beat Joe so badly, he left the bus. 11-0. NO BIG DEAL.

I went for a run in the evening with my boy Jake (mayday parade) and his girlfriend. Ate some fish Tacos and then caught up with all our friends from the tour.

I have the distinct feeling this summer may be one of the best summers of my life. We're surrounded by some of our best friends, good music, good weather and good times. Gonna be a good one!!!

June 25th

Warped tour officially starts in Carson, California.

I can't remember exactly, but i think we played at 2:50 pm. Our stage is awesome, and although people working it are working their arses off and seem like cool dudes. Our set was insane, we must've played in front of about 1500 people, which we were never expecting to do in our wildest dreams, so thank you Carson, it was amazing. I then sang on stage with BMTH on the main stage later on, which was quite an experience, so thank you boys!

First day on warped over. Again, Jake and i went for a run, which was a bad idea for my shins, but fuck it.

ANNNYYYYWWAAYAYYYYYYYY

In the next blog i'll delve more into the Warped tour itself. I'll try and give you a real idea of what this tour is about. I'll also blog about the first infamous warped tour bbq party in Mountain View California, us taking part in a Bowling competition, and my thoughts on England and ze Germans.

hope you're all well!!!

Josh

WARPED TOUR BLOG ONE

2010-06-25T11:05:00.000-07:00

June 17th

We flew out to America on this day, landed at LAX and the first thing we did was hit IN n OUT Burger, shit, that stuff is good!

Early night because we were all exhausted.

June 18th

Kinda gutted i wasn't at home for this day, as it was my Dad's birthday, but on the flipside, we shooted a video with a man called Frank Borin, who did the REAL SLIM SHADY VIDEO!! NOBIGDEAL!

I think it's going to look epic. We also watched the England/Algeria game, no comment, but we were all thinking the same thing, right?

June 19th

We had a day off in LA, and i loooovveeeee LA! Our friend Lauren drove Max and i around for little while and we hit up Melrose and got some cool swag for warped, but all of this means nothing, because on this fine night, we saw.....dun dun dun....IRON FUCKING MAIDEN!!!

Our manager was like, "ahh lets just get a van", which we were all down with, but then someone brilliantly suggested getting a limo with a free bar. Which option do you think we chose? IT WAS IRON FUCKING MAIDEN, we had to hit it with style!!!

So off we went.

I really can't remember much..there was a free bar remember, but what do i recall is the journey home. I vaguely remember people applauding when we left IN AND OUT BURGER because of all the noise we were making whilst waiting for our food.

Another day, another struggle. Thug life.

June 20th

This day is boring, we pick up our bus, got walmart, buy an xbox, play a shit ton of fifa. The end.

p.s A crackhead in Fresno called Dan a son of a bitch. That was cool.

CHECK OUT MY NEXT BLOG TO READ ALL ABOUT OUR SHOWS WITH HORIZON, VEGAS AND THE FIRST DAY OF WARPED TOUR 2010!! WOOOHOOOO

NEW DBNO RANGE!!

2010-06-18T04:07:00.000-07:00

Hey guys!! Hope you're all well!!

As you can see on the site, our new designs are now for sale. I'm so stoked on this new range and I hope you really like it too. I'm in LA right now, getting ready for the start of Warped Tour which I literally can't wait for; it's gonna be biblical! I'll be doing a blog on here with pics to keep you updated with whats going on on Warped so keep checking back for all the...gossip?!?

Just wanted to say a massive thanks to everyone that has supported the DBNO brand so far, it means the world to me and everyone involved that you guys show us so much love so thank youuuuuuuuuuuu.

Peace!! Josh xx

"It's gonna be biblical"

2010-05-10T12:15:00.000-07:00

who saw us in rocksound???

2010-05-10T12:12:00.001-07:00

tour blog numero uno!

2010-03-13T06:52:00.000-08:00

So we've been on tour for 5 days so far and to say that this tour has been the most mental experience of my life would be an understatement! I've really been buzzing from playing the new songs live. I'll start with Birmingham, the first day, our manager is from Brum, so we always feel like we need to pull out the stops here! The first show of any tour is always a tad shakey, but it went well, kinda painlessly for us! We had some friends out with us so we contemplated going to a bar, but alas, we didn't. As a side note, i also watched a bit of the Arsenal game, come on you gunners!

I told myself i wouldn't drink on this tour because of all my health problems at the moment.....hmmm.

Newport was quite eventful as well. Show ruled and then we were making our way to a club when my friend's car broke down, needless to say we pushed it for like 500 yards before we admitted defeat, at least we tried, right?

Sheffield, the big one! Dan, Max and i went to the drop dead warehouse during the afternoon to hang out. Played some fifa, lost at some fifa, i know, un-heard of right? Dan stepped his shit up! Shef was a big one because we had a massive guest list and had to go to dj at some club after. This is where my plan to not drink went to poop. Oh well, i had an amazing time, i grinded, i crowd surfed and boogied, all on my friends, they weren't best pleased.

Manchester, the Apollo, biggest headline show of our bands career. 3,400 people. I can't really put this night into words. It was a strange day for us and i can't begin to express my gratitude towards all of you who come to our shows, it seriously means the world. Thank you.

More soon guys, and more interesting.

'Spoken Word Pack'

2010-03-09T11:43:00.000-08:00

Hey guys!

Hope you're all good!

Just wanted to say a big thankyou for all your orders during our Haiti appeal, we raised something like £500 (i'll get back to you with an exact figure, ha) ; we really couldn't have done it without you so thanks so much!

As i'm sure you've noticed by now we launched our new 'Spoken Word pack' yesterday, the response so far has been really positive so good vibes! The idea behind these shirts was to really get a message across and to feel like you're wearing a tee that really makes a statement.

Anyways I look forward to seeing you all on tour over the next week or so! In the mean time keep your fingers crossed for Arsenal against Porto tonight!

One love

Josh x

We Are The World

2010-02-02T12:47:00.000-08:00

Hey guys

Hope you're all doing good

Just wanted to take some time out to thank you all so much for your continued support in our help Haiti campaign we've been running for just over a week now. We'll be keeping this going for a few more weeks so don't let your efforts drop; we're helping make a real difference. Lionel Richie and pals are doing their bit by remixing the 'We Are The World' aid song that was made about 25 years ago now with some fresh faces like Akon, Snoop Dogg and Vince Vaughn!! If you haven't seen this yet check out a preview...

Haiti Earthquake Aid Appeal

2010-01-20T08:50:00.000-08:00

Hey guys!

So we’re about 3 weeks into January now and we at DBNO really wanted to make a New Year’s resolution by giving back to causes we feel deserve our attention. So for the next 4 weeks we’ll be giving 20% of the money taken from your orders of specific items to the Aid Appeal in Haiti following the disastrous earthquake. So when you buy any DBNO logo (Grey,Black, White, Pink,)or Santa logo tee (white or Blue)20% of the money will be going to this important cause. We encourage you to check out exactly what’s going on and why we want to help by visiting the site below.

http://www.dec.org.uk/donate_now/

Thanks a lot guys, lets all try and get together on this one to help those who really need us.

NEW YEARS

2009-12-30T12:28:00.000-08:00

I wanted to draw a line under 2009 and with a blog.

Hope you guys like it!

I wanted to post what 2009 brought my way and what i learnt, and in turn, i am interested to see what you guys all experienced and what you learnt from those experiences.

In the past year i've toured all over the place, France, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, America, Canada and of course the UK & Ireland.

We played some of the biggest festivals of our lives, Rock am Ring, Rock im Park, T in the Park, Oxygen Festival, Download Festival and of course Reading & Leeds fest!

We did multiple headline tours of the UK and Europe. Took part in a childhood dream when we embarked on the Vans Warped Tour in the summer, we then carried ourselves around America and Canada for two months on the Alternative Press tour, had a week off, and then travelled round mainland Europe and the UK hitting up arenas where ever we went with Paramore.

We were nominated for multiple awards including Best British Band at the Kerrang Awards. We signed to a new label, got new management, surrounded ourselves with a whole new team all in aid of making the most of the upcoming year.

It's safe to say i've had an amazing time.

I've learnt a lot, that despite all the wannabe 'rock stars', hanger on's and general arseholes i've met in the last 12 months, thanks to what i do, i've met some seriously amazing people who still do what we do for one reason and one reason only, for the love of music.

Definitely restored my love for music, so thank you to 'the good ones', you know who you are!

What can i expect in 2010? I am lucky enough to be part of a band who are going to tour Australia, Japan, all over Europe ( again ), do the whole of the Warped tour and hopefully hit up some more festival appearances all over.

So when i look at the new year, and when i look back at the year i've had, i thank god, whoever and whatever it may be, there must be something out there giving me and my friends a hand, right?

Sure i could list all the band shit thats happened this year too...but what's the point? Whatever bad things have happened, have happened. They are done, i can't alter the fact they have happened, just have to accept they have, and hope I can make things better and prevent similar stuff happening again!

New years resolutions? Sure i've got some...

- Listen more. Countless arguments i ve been involved could have been prevented with a bit of patience and a whole lot less of me speaking. I am not always right, so i should bare that in mind, from now on.

- Fuck the haters. I spend more time reading and responding to negative people online, or in person, rather than show time and love towards you guys, the people support our band, or even my own family, and friends. So that ends now, you don't like our band, that's cool. I am only interested people that do, and that do care.

- For our band to better 2009....always gotta aim high or you'll hit low.

- and Finally...to read more...yeah right!

Below are some pictures of my year, twitter at me your new years resolutions on New Years Day! - Josh

HAPPY XMAS FROM DBNO!!

2009-12-26T12:36:00.000-08:00

Hey guys,

Hope everyone had a great christmas and unwrapped some DBNO tee's and hoodies!!

Happy xmas from everyone at DBNO!!

DBNO XMAS WEEK!

2009-12-18T02:38:00.001-08:00

Hey guys!

So there's only 1 day left of DBNO xmas week; it's been so much fun hooking you guys up with presents; we've given away free tee's and i've been lucky enough to speak to some of you over the phone which was rad! All you have to do is order a logo t-shirt or a santa logo t-shirt and you're in with a chance of winning. 24 hours left guys lets do itttt!!

See you guys that are coming to Wembley tonight! Super excited!!

Josh x

EUROPE TO UK

2009-12-14T10:17:00.001-08:00

Hey,

Firstly, let me begin by saying that i apologise for the lack of blogs.

To wrap up Europe, Paris and Tilburg were great shows for our band.

A highlight in particular was the whole tour visiting the Eiffel Tower, which in all honesty i tried to photograph but it came out shockingly bad!!

Moving onto the UK dates!!

Glasgow, first of all it's absolutely amazing to be back in the UK!! We obviously love touring this country and have missed it so much!

I woke up around 10:30 ish and had my haircut, which was way overdue!!

Had some food, and then Chris, Max & I went and did an acoustic session over at Rock Radio!

We did Kiss & Tell and Finders Keepers which was a lot of fun!!

Headed back to the venue and did some press.

Played the show, which BLEW MY MIND!!!

Hung over with my friend Calum from Flood Of Red!! (www.myspace.com/floodofred)

Then all of the boys and some of the other guys on the door hit this club!!

Was amazing!!!

Bye

DBNO XMAS SPECIAL

2009-12-14T06:45:00.000-08:00

Hey All!!

Hope you're having a good xmas so far!! I'm getting pretty excited about it myself!!

So I thought everyone deserved a present from DBNO this xmas; so every 10th customer that picks up a logo character or santa t-shirt this week is gonna receive a v.special present from me; it could be anything...a free t-shirt...a phone call from me...who knows what santa has in store!!

We're only gonna do this for this week so get on ittttt!!

one love

Josh x

Day 6, 7 & 8

2009-12-06T11:52:00.000-08:00

Hamburg show day. Very little to report to be honest until the show itself. We got confirmed for some Soundwave side shows which we are STOKED about and then the rest of the day was focused on the show. We've never really done that well in Germany so we're excited to be here on a big tour; perhaps things can change....keep dreaming JOSH!!

First song in and the P.A. blows up. We're on in-ears so we didn't know so we keep playing like mugs, i eventually figure it out and we have to leave the stage...15 minutes later and we're back on and the crowd were so amazing about it all; we just had a laugh about it!

I then went back to the bus and watched THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, oh Elisha Cuthbert, my love for you is undying!!

Not much to report from the show in Berlin besides ANOTHER power cut which equals ANOTHER upset Yoshy!! I wasn't a happy bunny, but it couldn't be helped. We managed to fix the problem super quick this time though! sweet!

Jeremy then gave me the back catalogue of Eminem; i was pretty chuffed with that! I got a massage from DR. DOT, she was amazing, although she informed me that i have a lot of problems with my back...thanks love....oh and that my pelvis is unaligned....i look forward to a phone call from my Mum when she reads this!!

I then watched WHITE CHICKS on the bus.....ah man, that film blows my mind.

We had a day off in Cologne today....woke up late....went to a German xmas market and saw a lama which pranged out when i tried to make love to it!! I then went to see my friends in Set Your Goals, Fireworks and Broadway Calls. Enough said!

Oh and i just watched TAKEN; what an amazing movie!!

Josh xx

Day 5

2009-12-04T10:51:00.001-08:00

Hamburg- Day off! I genuinely can't remember what time i woke up, but i remember waking up and freaking out because there was no-one on the bus, so i just went back to bed!! hahaha. So lazy!! Eventually i bumped into some of the dudes and we hit up KFC, it was a reminder of why i hate fast food, ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING!! I only ate half of it and threw the rest away. Spent most of the day on the bus sitting around moaning because of how bored i was, so then a few of us headed over to the venue our boys in Set Your Goals were playing. I have a lot of love for those guys, so it was really sweet to see them. Matt, Dan and I then sat in a bar next to the venue for a few hours talking about life; very intense! hahaha! Met up with some friends of ours and then went into the show. First up we watched a band i've liked for a while called FIREWORKS, my mate Vibe showed me these guys and i really like them! Made me feel like a 15 year old watching them again; they're what pop punk is all about. Amazing!

Broadway Calls were next up; they're good friends of Max's and were awesome; really liked them as guys and as a band! Then our boys in Set Your Goals came on and a few of us got a little excited...Max was crowd surfing; Dan and i were pitting! it was nuts! I did 'Our Ethos A Legacy To Pass On' with them on stage and Hayley did 'The Few That Remain'; it was awesome. Was one of the fun-nest shows i had been to as a punter for absolutely years, such a hangout vibe.

A few of the guys from Paramore, Now Now Every Children and obviously YMA6 then hit up a Burger King....don't ask! Then the antics began...we were literally having a quiet sing song at like 12 with a few acoustics and our bus driver turned off all the power on the bus, complaining that we'd woken him up. He then continued to threaten to drive the bus back to England and leave us stranded in Hamburg as a punishment....Bobby put him straight. We literally hung out a bit longer and then all ended up passing out. Awesome. Big props to Olly for hooking up some pics for the blog today; check his deal out at www.ollymac.tumblr.com

Much love

Josh x

Day 3 and 4

2009-12-03T11:38:00.000-08:00

We made our way over to the airport to fly to Stockholm where we'd be picking up our bus and more importantly our suitcases!!! Yay!! See Day 2's post for a picture of us and the bus!!

Just like with Finland, this was our first ever time playing a show in Sweden, and the crowd completely blew my mind, it was awesome! I am really finding that this tour is full of great people and such great bands!! Having a blast.

Woke up the next day in yet another country, freezing my little face off!!! Really not feeling great at the moment, which sucks!! But i am trying my best just to get on with it. I slept like a champ, got up at 4pm, felt really guilty but amazing at the same time.

Other than the show itself, the most exciting thing that happened today was that i swapped hats with Hayley. Thats how rockstar our bands are!! Hang on...i'm lying....we had a huge rap session; we listened to Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg and stuff and then all of the bands starting rapping...appallingly; but rapping all the same!!

Above are pictures of the catering area and me on stage during soundcheck!!

Until next time, love to you all.

P.S. Harry Brown is an awesome movie!

Day 2

2009-12-03T11:33:00.001-08:00

We played the first show today. I didn't get up and out of my hotel room till about 3pm. by then it was already dark; no goos. Then i sat around the ice hockey arena in which we were playing for a few hours doing nothing.

Met up with the Paramore dudes, i was so psyched to see them all so it was pretty nuts! Ate catering, soundchecked...blah blah. Very boring stuff. I then watched Now Now Every Children and Paper Route, both awesome bands and then i continued warm ups for our show.

The first show was amazing for us although i lost my voice which was a complete bummer, but i am working on getting it back though. We then headed back to the hotel and attempted to sleep...FAIL!!!

Josh x

Day One - Paramore Tour

2009-12-01T10:43:00.000-08:00

My Dad dropped me off at Max's house where i met up with all the lads and off we went to the Heathrow. Checked in, did all the boring protocol stuff, but then things did get interesting. Half of our guys hadn't got through security yet and we had 5 mins till i flight closed, and of course our gate was gate 34, a 5 minute walk away. Myself, Dan, Matt and Max all ran and managed to get our gate just as they were closing it. The lady behind the desk tried to have a go at me, i told her to leave it, politely, as there were more pressing matters. The flight was now closing and we still had half of our group on the way. Anyway, breathless and sweaty the arrived just in time and we managed to get onto the flight.

We arrived in Helsinki at 3pm but it was pretty much pitch black, strange, really strange. We were suprised to be greeted at the airport by some people who were going to see us the next day at the show. They drew this amazing sketch of us from years ago, it was kinda of creepy, the style of drawing anyway. Hard to describe, i need to take a picture to be honest!! That was pretty amazing. P.s those chocolates were nuts as well!!

Got to our hotel and then we just chilled for a few hours. My roomy always seems to be Max, which is fine, as he's awesome.We all then went out and had a mexican restaurant at a place called COLARADO, it was mentalllllllll! Walked back and then some of us went out to play a few games of pool and the rest passed out on their respective beds. xxx

The Beginning!

2009-11-30T11:00:00.000-08:00

Hey guys!

Looks like you've stumbled on the official Down But Not Out Blog. This is the place to find all the latest updates on what's going on with me (Josh) and also everything at DBNO headquarters. We're just putting the finishing touches on everything at the moment so bear with us. In the mean time keep checking back here for my exclusive updates from the Paramore and YMA6 tour and make sure you follow us on twitter over at twitter.com/joshdbno.

one love

Josh.x.