The Waves Above Us, SWH/AFCFI

Okay. I havn’t been on this for a while but I know I can post something on here that I can’t on facebook because these the feeling’s I have are from the bottom of my heart (Y) so here goes. Okay, I’m sitting here writting this at 5 past 4 in the morning and to be honest i’m not 100% sure why, but when I was at school and all the way from year 7 to 11 I had this dream, and this dream was to become a frontman in a fucking huge band, selling out arena’s, playing shows up to 50,000 strong. To go out and make people’s hairs stand up on the back of there necks and see people just loose there mind over the fact that your just there. I had massive inspirations the likes of Green Day, Good Charlotte and My chemical romance the bands that people now frown upon and look down on because there not cool, but them three bands gripped me all the way through school and still do, we all have bands that you grew up with, and in school I never really gave a fuck about getting good grades or doing well because I knew it wouldnt matter because I knew that i would make in a band, I put my whole life on the line cz i believed in that so much. 

So years down the line we formed a band called A far cry from innocence with my best friends and we just blew up, We came on to the scene at jacksdale thingy club and people was going insane even crowed surfing witch is unknown in the local scene, I think looking back people had never seen anything like us before and that crowed must of only been 13-17, we was the oldest there. I couldnt believe the reception we got, and it went on. Playing shows and people would go mad, Marhaye (or however the fuck you spell it) was the biggest and best show i’ve ever played in my life, the build up to that show was crazy people was talking about 3 weeks before it happend, but something amazing happened that night, we walked out on stage to actaul screams and I stepped to the front and people was grabbing my shirt, going apeshit cz we was playing, it literally felt like we only played for 5 seconds like we would open the first song, I’d turn around and wede be playing the last notes of the last song. I stepped offstage and tbh I did feel like a fucking rockstar (as cheesy as it may sound) It was one (if the best) night of my life, I felt everything was falling in to place and we was probably the biggest band in the local scene at that point. Line up changes, fall outs, name changes and alot more shows later we ended up playing rock city.

This was the point we all felt a tour and press clippings wasnt to far away, but after that show things started to go down hill, people wasnt turning up to shows, there was no pits anymore, people just stood around, no fucker had the balls to get up and say i’m gonna fucking move, so we made the second show at city our last.

Another 7 months down the line we began a new band under the name of The waves above us and we had Gil and Dawson come in on guitar and bass, because they was and still are our closest and best friends but we never got the crowed back like we did before, and it tore us apart because we knew we had something so unique and amazing before, people say the local scene is dead and I think it is now, people just don’t give a shit anymore witch in the end we’ll loose great bands the likes of fall of giants calling it a day this week one of the most talented local bands i’ve ever heard, I don’t know why people stopped caring? because they all got older?, it’s not as cool anymore? We can’t put or finger on it, but i’m writting this besically to say I don’t know how much longer my band can carry on, everything has stopped and tbh I don’t see us getting back in a room writting new stuff atm. And now I don’t know whats gonna happen because we are all getting jobs now, and the fact that we are 20, we are not getting any younger, but the fact of the mater is I still watch huge bands on massive stages and feel like shit becasue I dedicated my whole life in to getting there and to realise that 19 years of you trying is bullshit and it fucking kills me. I still believe on the right day I could go play a show with the crowed in the palm of my fucking hand I know that sounds so big headed and there plenty of other great local frontmen, but believing you can do this for 19 years and believing I could put a fucking amazing show does that to you. Even if we did come back I don’t know how long it would last because of the fact people don’t care, we need people’s help, I just don’t think it will ever happen again, How are we supposed to go somewere and become people when other people just dont care? I’m tired and pretty drunk so I’m sorry for any mistakes, If you said i’d be writting this at… fuck it’s 4 45 now.  but yeah in the morning, to the 15 year old Jack Cooper he would of said lol yeah right, I’ll be touring the world by the time i’m 20 mate. Still not sure why i wrote that but if you read all that then wow you have to much time on your hands ;D 
but cheers if you did.

Jack Cooper .TWAU.