"shaken' the money maker" episode 4 of MHTV, stay tuned tonight for episode 5.
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Nikoli! Nikoli! NIKOLI GOD DAMN IT! Have you managed to get a hold of Boris!? No? Well keep trying damn it, the Doomsday plan must not deviate from schedule…….not again in any case……..

Oh, well greetings……I’m so glad I managed to catch you all with your pants around your ankles! Yes, indeed I know of this ankle pants predicament you are currently engaged in and if this is not the case I for see some form of disrobement in your immediate future, after all, Doomsday is almost upon us! Indeed it is that time again when the masses seek some form of comfort from an ethereal being whom in most cases really couldn’t care less about the ant hill of humanity and when the incoherent screeches of preachers shall be head in the streets……….That’s right Doomsday!

I apologise unreservedly that my pre-Doomsday address has been withheld until such a late stage in the cycle of Armageddon but as the saying goes, a sparrow can most assuredly not tickle a centipede without contracting syphilis……..or something such as that…….is that even a saying?………..

Ah you finally have him on the line Nikoli! Good! About time you incompetent biped! Boris! Boris can you hear me!? What are you calling me off, a damn Motorolla Razor!? Good god man, our plan is in it’s most intricate phase and you deemed it necessary to use a Motorolla! Oh……..Yes, I see……Well of course I don’t expect you to find anything better in Siberia, I’m surprised that it’s managed to withstand the miserable weather…..Yes I see, good, you have the documents…….HUZZAH! Success at last! Good, yes, now you must place the Staff of Ramses horizontally across the………..WHAT!? No not horizontally across the Sacred Capstone of Time, across the Doomsday Device! Good help is so hard to find……..

Oh what? You lot are still here……..I would assumed you would all be busily cramming some last minute partying in prior to what must be your imminent destruction……….Well in that case, be sure to keep an eye on this space for even more Doomsday Watch news, all through tomorrow we shall be updating you as to the progress of the "Judgement Day" / "End of the World" / "Apocalypse" / "Armageddon" as it sweeps the globe……….

SEE YOU ALL IN HELL!

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sound check @ factory theatre

I can't remember the exact story of these two, so i'll just leave it to the imagination.

As Matt would put it "Good afternoon people of the blog" in his creepy creepy voice. Anyways, just a quick update for the week. We've been a bit "over-busy" this week and so we haven't been around much. The twitter started to get a little cold and the blog even colder. Though we're back, and have plenty of news and such. For instance MHTV launched last week, and below you can find the first three episodes. We're going to be adding three new episodes mid-week-each-week-til-matt-runs-out-of-stupid-things-to-say which is never! So check out the old, and the next three should be up later tonight/tomorrow.

Well hello and welcome ladies, gentlemen and aardvarks alike! My, my, my, what a weekend that was and we have such an exciting and busy week to come. I feel that to kick off this week I should probably enlighten you all as to the events that shall come to pass very shortly.

First of all, we are back into the studio not once but twice this week! That’s right, we’re braving the graveyard recording shifts once more to soldier ahead in the studio to add some bits and pieces to our two recordings prior to any mixing and the tracks themselves should be eventually available in the next month or so.

Secondly, we are still well and truly entrenched in the confines of the rehearsal studio and shall continue to be for the foreseeable future, we’ve churned out a couple of promising new tunes and hopefully there should be plenty more in the next few weeks so we hope you’re all eagerly awaiting our next gig when we shall surely showcase a few of them for you all along with all your old favourites.

Thirdly, as you may aware of from our Facebook posts we have launched our very own Formspring account! That’s right! You can ask us any question that you desire! ANY! In fact the more wild the question’s the more wild the answers so continue to throw us all your most insane inquiries and we shall of course endeavour to answer them in a timely fashion. We're also now constantly on Twitter! A lot of "behind the scenes" footage, so keep an eye out or three.

And now onto our final subject of this blog post. As any of you who were lurking on Facebook over the course of the weekend may be aware, all of us here at Midnight Horizon took a break from our own music and decided to head on into the Metro Theatre for a gig. This gig being the Against Me show that was previously cancelled and then rescheduled.

For those of you who were not able to make the show you should all be sorely disappointed as this was one of the best, if not THE best, show’s that we’ve all seen in a long, long time (our own awesome gigs not included). What an amazing night it was.

Prior to the head liner’s kicking their set off we were delighted to discover that the two supports for the night, Sydney based Grand Fatal and Off With Their Head’s, were incredible all by themselves. Grand Fatal made such an impression on both Matt and Dan that they now have matching T-shirts as well as Matt having accosted their guitarist Graeme within the halls of the Metro. In fact, Matt even asked the poor man if he could have his beard……..it was a very impressive beard……..

Off With Their head’s were also superb with their performance and Conor was delighted to get to see one of his favourite bands and both Matt and Dan, having minimal exposure to this band thus far, were also quite impressed with their performance, both agreeing that they should further investigate the talented trio.

Oh, did we mention that our photographer Julia Trotti also tagged along to the performance? Well I apologise that I neglected to mention this. Juls herself undoubtedly had a smashing time as she was well within her element behind the camera for all three bands and I must say, some of the shots from the night were brilliant, as per usual with Julia, her work is always great!

Anyway, on with the story! So after having gotten to throw money at the merch monkeys and thoroughly enjoying both support acts we were finally eagerly awaiting the headliner. Already breaking from the norm and declining to use the poncy, typical curtain to hide behind during the intermissions Dan and Matt got to have a good sticky beak at the stage set up. Something that intrigued both of them was the unusual amount of space between the cymbals on the kit. The conclusions ranged from the absurd observation “Well Dan, maybe the drummer’s a giant, maybe that’s why he has them so far apart” right through to “I suppose he might just enjoy standing up while he performs”. It was interesting to note how close to the mark this latter observation would turn out to be.

Eventually Tom Gabel and company emerged to kick off what has to be one of the most amazing and energetic performances both on and off stage that we have all ever experienced. The pace for the night was set right from the first song and didn’t drop off at all at any point during the night. The mosh never ceased to be still and tune after tune kept right on coming from the initial outset.

Some of the highlight’s of the night for myself personally included the tracks Rice and Bread, Miami, American’s Abroad as well as the disco reminiscent Stop. Having not previously head more than a couple of albums worth of music, mainly courtesy of the numerous and lengthy road trips that Dan and myself and occasionally Conor, I was at a loss at times as to what the hell the words were but the enthusiasm that overwhelmed me when I did know the lyrics to a track more than made up for it.

This gig has to have been one of my favourites which came as quite a shock because it has been quite a while since I really enjoyed myself at a gig and was able to focus solely on the music and the act on stage. A fair comparison would be Dead Letter Circus whom I saw maybe a month ago, again at the Metro Theatre. Whilst the music was technically brilliant and the stage presence commendable I just couldn’t let myself get sucked into just the music, the poor sound quality of the night always on the edge of my mind, making it hard to enjoy myself completely.

In closing, it’s a two days after the gig itself and I’m covered in bruises, am fairly certain that I have some torn muscles, pretty sure that I’m coming down with a cold and have lumps all over but I am so ecstatic that I got to see such amazing bands all with the space of an evening that I frankly think it was well and truly worth it.

Anyway my fluffy little bunnies, Matt is off to work for the evening so I hope you all enjoy yourselves and found this quite an enlightening read.

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P.S, Boris sends his regards, he’s off in Europe somewhere for a much deserved holiday so I hope you all wish him safe travels but never fear, I have found a temporary replacement for him in the mean time. Nikoli has quite firm hands………….

Well good evening people of the blog, I hope these musings find you all in good health and all looking forward to another exciting week. Prior to entertaining any illogical and insane notions I would first like to direct your attention to some exciting news, Midnight Hoirzon are now on formspring.me! That’s right, you can now all ask your most creative and vulgar questions via this medium and be assured to receive some equally vulgar questions. Thus far we have been enjoying the experience this provides so don’t be shy, drop by and throw us some curve balls and we’ll promptly throw some back.

Also as you may all be aware from prior announcements we shall have some more video footage posted up in the coming weeks so keep an eye out on both this blog and our Youtube channel ( MHTV ) and be sure to check out all our other footage there while you’re at it.

We shall also be heading back into the recording studio in the coming weeks to lay down some more tracks on the two songs that we’ve been working on and hopefully these should be shortly available for you all to participate in some aural delight.

Thus far that is all that is currently coming to mind on the news front, forgive me if my mind has wandered and I have unintentionally declined to divulge any further news, it’s been a huge week thus far and as such I am only now getting the chance to recover from it so please bear with me.

On a tangent totally (though completely) unrelated to Midnight Horizon I have recently begun to grow fairly bored with my current music play lists and as such deemed it time to source some more obscure music to sate my curiosity. As such I was gleefully delighted when I accidentally stumbled upon a sub genre that I had either previously noticed and forgotten about or completely happened upon by chance. This of course, as I’m sure Conor is sick of hearing about, is Steampunk. I am utterly and totally fascinated by this genre and my attention has largely been focused on Abney Park, generally acknowledged, from what I could hunt down, as the poster band for the genre. This amazing band along with the intriguing and genius Doctor Steel who I find I am completely drawn to based largely on his insane persona. I highly recommend that anyone who is looking for something out of the norm check out either of these artists as they are both as equally amazing as one another.

Anyway that is today’s little rant finished with for now so as always watch this space!

Fin.

Good day my beautiful, beautiful little gremlins and welcome to the pages which bear witness to the gradual diminishment of what little shreds of sanity I still reluctantly cling to. I hope this blog finds you all as eagerly awaiting the end of Easter as I for the simple fact that we may all breathe a little easier knowing that the slightest road infringement could incur the loss of our precious vechicular qualifications. Then again, I have quite enjoyed significantly fewer near brushes with death thanks to the almost comical care with which motorists have been driving, it’s quite fascinating watching people who would not usually think twice about cutting a motorcyclist off now actually peer around in something akin to fear. It’s been such a deliciously delightful experience.

But on with the show!

As some of you may have noticed we experienced a few ah, technical issues…….when Boris decided he would take it upon himself to shall we say, “enlighten” you all. Much apologises all around and hopefully you all took it as the joke it was, Boris is such a big pussy cat, he’d never actually toss you into a river……at least I don’t think he would…….

In any case I would like to thank you for bearing with the recent lack of updates and all of us here at Midnight Horizon shall be each spending some time reintergrating ourselves with the interwebs community. Be sure to keep an eye on this space as more pretty little pictures and even some videos shall shortly be making an appearance.

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Is Boris again……you all is thinking such as I would make idle threats…….beware fluffy and frightened little rabbits……..Boris keeps Boris’ word……..sleep tight……..