Later on in the day, I will be going to this year’s Give It A Name festival.

Last year’s event, was a quite a two-day extravagance of quite epic proportions. Got to see Finch and Glassjaw and discovered a load of new amazing bands such as Billy Talent, All Time Low, Cobra Starship and Envy On The Coast.

This year though, the two day festival has been scaled down tremendously with a smaller venue and fewer bands. Friday’s line up didn’t even budge me at all and I completely ignored it.

However, the best part about this festival is one band. One band who performed in Manila which I missed out on and made me envy friends back home who even met and hung out with the band.

The band is of course Thursday, one of my favourite bands of all time. Due to this, I don’t really care whether or not GIAN was scaled back. The important thing is that I am finally seeing them live. I’d gladly pay to see Thursday even though all the other bands are awful.

This is not the case though as Sunday’s line-up is beyond crazy. In addition to Thursday, we have Underoath and Taking Back Sunday plus two new bands I am digging at the moment, Innerpartysystem and Escape The Fate. I saw Taking Back Sunday last year at Astoria and it was a brilliant show.

Here’s looking forward to one hell of an evening.