Fightstar

Despite the slow internet I have here in this house in Penang, I still download albums. Ain't the same standard as unifi of course. Takes about half an hour or more to download one album here. But just lately, last night in fact, I remembered this band I heard a long long time ago(the myspace ages) and decided to download their discography. Yeah totally unlike me to download the entire damn discography instead of trying out one album, not sure why I did that...but I don't regret it at all.

A very good friend of mine told me about this band a long time ago. I didn't get into them then(at all) not until yesterday! I'm not sure what made me remember them, I'm just glad I even did. I remember years ago on MSN, Aisyah was chatting and telling me "Syad! Go check out this band on myspace, they're called Fightstar. Remember the guitarist from Busted? He made his own band.", and then I listened to Paint Your Target and I was like wow, this band's damn good.

Of course, those were the years of naivety and ignorance--I didn't download any of their songs. Lol honestly I'd kick my past self in the ass if I could. Anyway, the albums are superb! Especially Grand Unification. So for those who don't know, it's Charlie Simpson's band. He's that deep-voiced guitarist in the old punk band, Busted, which I fairly liked. Apparently his creativity was 'pent up' and 'unable to be vented', thus leading to the creation of this band. Amazing post-hardcore stuff.

Charlie Simpson, everybody.