this tour keeps getting better and better..  alas we’re finally back in the UK and so far Wolverhampton and Nottingham have been insane! like among the best shows we’ve ever gotten to play.  and as always along with good shows, so goes good partying. I blame PRoach dudes.  So far matthew threw dots onto his white pants, Jeezy got hit by a bike and I fell on my head and barfed.  This crew may need some help if we’re gonna make it home in one piece.  first and foremost we make sure we’re fit to play and we feel really good about our shows these days. we’re finally comfortable enough to add more of ATTICS to the set and we’re loving it!  The video for Welcome to Oblivion came out awesome and we’re looking to have a UK release soon and a US release early next year.  we’re planning a bad ass tour in the states and we want to do the radio and video push all around that.  Usually we do all this US promo, singles, videos etc when we’re out of the country for 6 months lol.  OOH and we confirmed 2 massive things - JAPAN DECEMBER 15th, 17th Tokyo/Osaka and CHICAGO (METRO) November 22nd!!  ok lovelies i have to get more coffee, have a wonderful day and we’ll see you Glasgow kids tonight!! xoxo

ahh we’re having a lovely time in Europe.  Last night jeezy had too many martinis and got hit by a bike hah.  and you know how we always talk about/have problems with piss?  i realize it’s getting a little ridiculous but this morning i brushed my teeth with Troxs piss.  He’s our new guitar tech and his piss is relatively clear so when I woke up I grabbed the closest “water” bottle, dumped some on my toothbrush and proceeded to brush.  It had a salty, slightly metallic flavor to it.  I suppose its about time Karma catches up with me.  So far Matthew and Mateo have both sampled my urine and now i’ve sampled troxs.  yuck.  see we rented this DIY punk bus for Europe/UK to save some money.  We thought it had a bathroom but it doesn’t.  It doesn’t even have mattresses or curtains lol.  pretty effing awesome.   ish.  anyhow, you all have to come to these UK shows .. they are amazzing fun and we’re gonna party with all of you - how could you say no to that?

i really should be more consistant in my blogging but hey this whole internet thing is new to me…  ish.  anyhow we had a lovely 2 week break after Reading/Leeds getting to know Chicago all over again.  My scooter started which made it complete.  The jeers of “faggot” never felt so good, after all it is powder blue and Chicago is definitely home to a lot of fratty sports fans so I can’t blame them.  Reading and Leeds were one of those life changing events for us.  We played to well over 100K kids over those 2 days and it was surreal.  We got to hang out with Deftones, Alexisonfire, FOB, the Fightstar and Youme@6 dudes - and of course we got retarded.  And just like that we’re back over seas in Germany at the moment with Papa Roach.  Some kids have emailed asking why we’re touring with Papa Roach and i’ll tell you right now - we could jump on a “cool, trendy” tour and creep through Europe playing to 300 kids a night and look good in the press. OR we could go out with a legitemate rock band whove managed to dodge trends and remain relevant for over 10 years…   and play to 3,00 kids a night.  It’s obvious.  And we made the right decision.  the shows are insane and the P-roach dudes are so effin cool that we’re having the time of our lives.  We get to run this tour all the way through England which is fantastic.  You all know England is our favorite place and now we get to play to a new audience - albeit one that may be yet again too “metal” for us but you know we love a challenge.  We just finished the Oblivion video and it’s easily the best one we’ve made, we’re super stoked on it.  The single should be impacting UK soon and as soon as we get back the the states with Silverstein it’ll be out there too.  Can’t wait..  our label has been so smart and consistant with us.  They’ve given us about 6 months to tour on Attics before we go full tilt and these days you need that kind of commitment and patience, we’re lucky.  Having said that, Attics is still a new record to us and as much as we continue to write new material, we’re gonna work it for a long time.  I heard a rumor that we all hate each other and are breaking up.  Nope, when we hate each other we just make fun of each other, maybe piss in one another’s cheerios and then it’s all over.  Madina will be making records for years and years to come.  Thanks for you’re support - love you all!!

boy did i get lazy with this here blog..  but hey i’m back in action now.  Yes today, LA is the last show of the Warped tour.  As brutal as it can get at times i’m absolutely depressed that it’s over.  We’ve made so many close friends and we’ll miss them tons.  but the beauty of it is continuing to tour and play festivals, radio shows, club tours etc because we run into everybody randomly along the way.  A Skylit Drive dudes are awesome - Chiodos Underoath NOFX Attack Attack Aiden Innerpartysystem and Escape the Fate are a handful of the bands we just partied balls with and i love em all.  last night matt from chiodos was absolutey fabulous.  matthew put a bottle of whiskey between his teeth and he drank it as he tipped slowly to the left and eventually was completely out of business.  but the way he ended up was so cool.  like a girrafe sitting on a couch with his long neck laying sideways on an acoustic guitar case.  pics coming soon.  then me and jamie had to carry him back to his bus and mid trip his pants just dropped to his ankles.  i then proceeded to piss my pants from the laughter.  what a night.  ohhh and you know how we’re immature and will never grow up?  yeah well we’re doing this design-a-skateboard for charity through Warped tour.  Basically they give us a blank deck and tell us to go nuts on it and then they auction em off.  so i decided we just have everyone draw penises..  SuperBad style. there are some lovely penises on it from everyone from youme@6 to underoath chidos, even the millionares contributed a penis.  I’ll post the auction info as soon as we get it..  trust me this is a must have.  ok we’re off to the UK for Reading and Leeds and I’m so excited i might have a heart attack.  can’t wait to see you all !

yo! it’s been forever since I’ve blogged and so much has happened I don’t even know where to begin .. well after the chicago show we went up to Minnesota and the craziest thing that has ever happened to me in my whole life happened.  we went on at 7:40pm which is super late for warped.  i haven’t been sleeping very well so i just kind of waited around all day until warm up time.  then around 6pm i started stretching etc.  but something wasn’t right. I couldn’t balance and I was feeling super strange.  like disconnected from reality entirely, goosebumps, dimentia etc.  we eventually went on and it was terrifying lol.  I literally had a psychological meltdown on stage.  couldn’t talk, couldn’t remember words, stumbled around dumbfounded for 30 minutes.  now first things first - Minnesota kids are among the most bad ass in the country.  they rocked it and were so supportive and awesome.  I absolutely can’t wait to get back there and do them a proper show.  so thank you guys times a million for that.  second - what the hell happened to me?  I passed out after the show although all night i kept thinking i was going to fall out of my bunk ha.. woke up and started calling some doctors.  turns out I had vertigo.  if you’re curious google it because typing out what it felt like will give me a panic attack lol.  good news is I feel wonderful now and we managed to have 2 killer shows in STL and KC.  at the moment were on our way to SLC to hang on our day off and loving life!  love you all  … OH and you lovely UK folks - go buy the new “LETS GET OUT OF HERE” single !!!!  would mean the world to us :)

so yesterday was our homecoming show in Chicago and it was probably the most fun we’ve ever had in our whole lives.  makes us so proud to be from there.  We got to see a million family and friends which is always good for morale.  Sometimes you can lose your mind on tour.  Without any sense of normalcy, regiment and family/friends ever it’s easy to slip into a tour coma.  As you all know Warped has been the best time ever for ML but even as good as things go show-wise, it can be grueling on personal lives.  We needed that in Chicago yesterday and we’re very grateful for everything we’ve got.  Can’t wait to see the rest of you all - xoxo

my feet smell like brownies.  they went from lovely to musty to onions and vinnegar to straight up brownies.  i need a bath.  Anywho we’re in Milwaukee! so close to home I can taste my kitties.. that sound weird?  it’s raining AGAIN for the thousanth day in a row but whatevs it doesn’t matter!  Cincinnatti was incredible yesterday, rain and all.  millions of kids, i ate shiet 3 times cuz the stage was so slippery but it was so fun!!  thanks to y’all.  Warped is relentless in it’s awesomeness..  we’ve added Escape the Fate, Valencia and a handful of others to the list of dudes we generally hang with.  Last night some river creepers brought us a bunch of beers in a cooler and kicked it with us outside the bus all night and that was lovely.  Scary Kids tied me up and shoved a bottle of whiskey down my throat and it was Ba Ba Boey’s birthday so … there ya go.  the male stripper we got him canceled. sorry Boey. so what else can I tell ya ..  millionaires moved staged cuz they were getting shit from other bands’ fans..  that blows.  since Jstar is off the tour now there’s a lot les drama woohoo.  although yesterday I heard all time low talking mad smack on less than jake.  i can never tell if people are joking anymore but this one sounded serious.  now- were friends with less than jake, having played with them in japan and australia a bunch, awesome dudes.  however - after “bro-ing down” we heard they tried some ML smack talk on stage about playing to tracks or something back in australia.  they mistook us for another band.  fortunately for us we DONT play to tracks and unfortunately for them - sounds like they’re getting some good ole fashion kharmic finger bangin.. pardon my french.  but alas, can’t we all just smoke a bong? i mean get along?  eh i dont even smoke pot - bad for the throat but yeah - no excuse for being a grouch on this tour.  there’s too many cooler happier people to kick it with and way too many good times to be had.  grouchy got no game up in heya - know what I mean?  hope your days are wonderful and we cant wait to see you..  especially CHICAGO!!!

well Hollywood got the boot today.  I honestly feel bad.  not because he doesn’t deserve it but it’s always a bummer when people can’t get out of their own way.  I’m a firm believer in kharma.  If you put bad or negative energy out into the world it will eventually come back and even the score.  Which is why I feel it’s so important to always try to be a good person, work hard, help people whenever possible and take care of our planet.  In Hollywood’s case, he just came in way too hot and heavy, treating people really shitty and being a tremendous negative strain on all 15 of us on the bus.   now he’s made his bed and shall lay in it.

ML world is on fire.  We’re about to announce our first UK and European tour which will follow Warped relatively soon.  After Reading/Leeds of course.  We’re simultaneously booking another headlining run in the UK for early next year.  To have 2 UK commitments almost on the books feels fantastic, we miss you guys!  and that doesn’t leave out the USA at all, plenty of those dates coming soon!  To those of you have taken to Attics to Eden, we couldn’t be more proud.  It’s finally spreading like FTTUTY did.  We knew it would take a minute to adjust but being a solid artist means pushing the boundaries and never playing it safe.  It’s scary and risky but we’re finally coming out of the tunnel thanks to you guys!

BTW anyone ever see the Lost Boys?  How about Bill and Ted’s excellent Adventure?  well the blond dude (not Keanu Reeves) is apparently an ML fan and he will be coming to our Miami Warped date as our guest!!!  Not sure you understand how awesome that is for us but it is hahah..  love you guys!

oh boy last night ws fun/interesting.  remember that love triangle i was talking about earlier?  well that exploded last night in a meteor shower of joy and pleasure in the form of fighting, tears, big scenes etc.  it’s hard to explain without sounding incompassionate but basically this dude on our bus we call hollywood ( he’s the “rockstar” guy i was talking about).  this is the type of guy that has to tell everybody exactly how much he drank, about what kind of “moves” he made on stage that day, about how many chicks wanna “bang” him,  etc.  a real piece of work. i think he’s been coddled his whole life because he expects everyone to do things for him (like - dude, get me a beer- even if he’s closer to the beer).  He tried to demand that schprokit go get him catering because he just rocked too hard and needs to rest.  schprokit doesn’t work for him nor would anyone from ML ever expect anything like that …  that’s diva shit - you know we all hate that.  anyway, he made out with a girl a few nights ago and last night went all hotmail cuz his girlfriend Alana was flirting with a scary kid ..  so you see i dont feel so bad..  but it was awesome.

then there were these 2 pschyo band sluts.  i’m not being mean, these are the girls that come to the shows not to watch bands but instead to creep around the buses like little child molesters solely in an effort to get on a bus, any bus.  these girls are trouble and need to be avoided like the plague.  you’ll know them because they’re always rattling off names of band dudes that theyre BFFs with.  they’re also the ones that make outrageous claims like ..  this band dude molested me, i slept with this band dude,  i got roofied on so and so’s bus blah blah.  well Ba Ba Boey told them to leave and I witnessed them making up a story about him hitting her.  it was wild really - i’ve never been ringside to the creation of such bullshit in my life and it was pretty eye-opening to say the least.  So I yelled at them and made them leave and the 30 normal people around cheered.  they proceeded to the Chiodos bus to tell them that MLs manager beat them lol.  on a side note - they previously told me that Chiodos and 3OH3 physically threw them off their buses.  I’m tellin ya be careful with these live wires!

but alas i finally got to meet Kevin Lyman last night and he is AMAZINGly cool.  got some fantastic Kerrang pics with Fat Mike, JStar, Underoath kids which should be out soon.  and finally the shows kick more ass every day.  seriously were floored by the amount of kids that come to see us and its been so fun i can’t even explain.  all the love in the world

sorry it’s been a while! we got our new crew dude, Buddy Wardrobe.  Yesterday he got himself a little retarded and crashed into a parking meter in Boston and I thought to myself - this guy’s gone work out just fine! we sure have been partying a lot.  I suppose when you work really hard with few days off, you have to play a little harder.  These Warped BBQs are killing us too.  It’s impossible to sit in your bunk and “rest” when all you hear is a million people having a blast right outside your window.  The shows have been so amazing and fun that celebrations seem to be constantly in order.

We’re working out some killer tours for after Warped btw.  I’ll tell you very soon about them but we’ll be hitting the UK, Europe, Japan, Australia and the USA all pretty much within the next 6 months.  here’s today’s gossip..  somebody slapped somebody with a slipper and got reprimanded at production.  theres a love triangle developing on our bus between 3 people who are all “involved” with each other.  See we share with the Alana Grace band and they’re pretty awesome except one dude named “hollywood” who wears leather pants and actually says shit like “i have so many fans it’s annoying. but i’m a rockstar so I guess i’ll have to deal with it” ….   and he’s serious.  there’s another dude in their camp that constantly tries to bring 16 year old girls on the bus.  he’s about to kicked off the tour if he keeps that up.  aside from those pedophilistic leanings, he’s cool but never in a million years would ML put up some bullshit like that. you’ve been warned sonnnn. The sponsors that we’ve met have been awesome..  Alternative Prss tent had us for a signing a few days ago - the KIA dudes are awesome - the Keep-A-Breast people will always be my favorite - and Greenpeace kids rule.

Jersey show was crazy - Mateo destroyed himself into jeezys drums.  matthew is playing with a massive stress fracture in his foot and me? well….. i like big butts and i can not lie, you other brothers can’t deny