Hey there! So I went to a gig last night. I've been to many pop punk gigs in my day,
but there's always a couple of those songs where I know all the words to the chorus,
and as soon as the verse comes along I'm like:
I don't really know these words.
I have this very good technique throughout my many years in the pop punk industry and
that is called scrumbling. Which is scream mumbling. Okay, so I know I'm gonna scream
like "Often! *mumbles*"
It doesn't matter. Everyone's just enjoying themselves. Ya know, screaming. Nobody's noticing
that I don't really know the words. As long as the lead singer doesn't look at me and
go: What the frick are you singing?
I'm safe in most regards.
However I was looking through the indirects the other day.
Ya know on twitter I got so far back I got to summer in the city indirects and I found
one that said I got to stand next to Evan during the As It Is concert, it was really
cute because he was screaming really loudly to the songs, and sometimes he'd just forget
the words and start scream mumbling.
Alright, so I've been caught (*where did that British accent come from*)
Basically, now I feel really self-conscious about it so I went to this gig last night
and I'm just sitting there and I know most of the words, but I don't know all of them
and I don't want to scream mumble so I'm just sitting there like
Aggressively smiling at the band like *loud breath through nose*
I like this!
I can't do anything else for it. And I would just look at other people as they were like
screaming and I would be like "I wanna join in but I can't because scream mumbling."
So my career in scream mumbling has taken a turn for the worst, but my career in impersonation
is on the rise.
Now when I first got a quiff, it was a running joke, oh man, you look slightly like Jack
Howard.
Alright, 2 white dudes with a quiff and glasses. We all look the same; I get it.
It's not that funny anymore. However, at this gig last night Patty introduces me to this
lovely man and his wife and we start talking and he introduces himself and goes "Oh yeah
you! Jack!"
So thinking he was in on the joke I was just like "Yeah. I'm Jack" Like that was the voice
I used. I was like I'm Jack.
Now also, preemptive, you should know I was feeling 1, extra American okay, yesterday,
I had 4 slices of pizza, I just talked about freedoms, I was feelin in the mood for pancakes,
also I'm going to Playlist Live in Florida in 4 days okay so I am already in the American
mode. I am preparing.
I am full on howdy y'all.
Also, I have a As It Is fringe. That's what I call it, my As It Is fringe. My Lazy fringe
as it is (right now).
So I don't look a THING like Jack Howard. However, this man comes up to me and he says
oh my God Jack! So I've gone with it at this point. And then ya know I thought eventually
he would ask my real name, but he was like "So how are you and uh Dean doin' with the
radio show?"
And I was like "Oh we're doin' great!" Doin the stuff with Dan and Phil! Doin' Chartbite.
He was like "You got anything else planned?" And I was like "just bein funny"
That was it.
Then we were talking about other concerts and I was like yeah I went to this other concert
the other day just to support my friend Dodie and he was like ....... huh?
So I was like and ya know... BETHAN! Dean's girlfriend, yeah. I mean yeah. And we just
kept talkin' and talkin' about other concert things and I had to just
be like yeah!
And he was like so uhm, did you do that show yet in the bloomsbury theatre and I was like
No! I couldn't back out at this point I was in way too far. And then at one point I was
complaining about how I really hate ticketmaster because you try and buy a ticket for 8 pounds
and it ends up being 20,000 pounds because of all the fees, and he was like "but don't
you guys USE live nation and ticketmaster?
so I was like... No?!
So he was like "so you use something else"
And I was like yeah. Yeah. And it was just I DON'T LOOK LIKE HIM! I HAVE A FRINGE TODAY
MAN!
But it ends up we end our conversation and he was like "you're going to playlist live,
right?"
And I was like YEAH I AM! And he was like Good I will see you there.
So I really hope. I really hope that it's me Jack Howard hanging out and this guy, and
he has to kinda talk to us and I'm just gonna pretend like that never happened. And I'm
gonna see, because I'm hoping he goes like WHAT!
That'd be the goal of the trip. I don't know why I decided to do that, but sometimes you
make a mistake and you can't really go back. Anyway, thank you for watching. I hope you've
enjoyed the show. I hope that, the show?! This is a show! I'm not even a human. I'm
gonna be going to Playlist so if you're in Florida we can hang out. Other than that,
I will see you guys next week, thank you so much for all of the support on the last video.
I really appreciate it. It'll be in the outro if you haven't seen it yet. I speak very quickly.
See you next week. Good bye.
*cue catchy whistling tune*