Just under three years ago, I had a really tough decision to make. Do I go to university, or do I concentrate all my time with the band and try and make it? I literally waited and waited right up until the very last moment possible to return my ‘RSVP’ to say that I would definitely be turning up for the first lecture in September 2006.

Of course, with music being my main passion, my heart was with concentrating on the band. However, my head was telling me to go to university. I fought and fought with myself, and eventually my head won.
In hindsight, this turned out to be a great decision, as when I listen back to our early demos, I realised we would never have made it back then, and we really weren’t ready as a band. So, university it was, but we still kept the band going on the side. I thought it would be easy to juggle both, but as it turns out over the years, it has actually been really difficult.

As a band, we were getting better and better, and we were getting more and more serious about our work. Some of our highlights as a band have been supporting The Kooks, Reverend and the Makers, and playing with The Wombats at their album launch party on a Mersey Ferry in fancy dress!

As our profile raised, the gigs came thick and fast, and I found it hard to balance the constant gigging with my uni work. And it wasn’t just that that was the problem. During summer holidays when we all had time off, we would have the best time touring up and down the country playing shows, and this really made me want to throw it all in, in terms of university. As much as I enjoyed uni life, it just didn’t compare to this for me, and I rarely wanted to go back after the summer was over.

However, as we were still getting nowhere in terms of a deal, it was the most sensible option to keep plugging away with my course, no matter how much I didn’t really want to be there anymore.

2008 was the hardest year for me. We toured, we released a single, made a video and even appeared on Channel 4 in the Road to V finals, which was one of the best experiences of my life. I really found it hard to concentrate on my work, and lost all motivation as all I could think about was the band. In October that year, we played in Milan, another huge distraction, as you can imagine.

So what will the future hold for me? Well, I still don’t really know. Being totally honest, I’ve sort of made my mind up that although I have learnt a lot and really enjoyed life at John Moores, that I don’t really want to be a journalist anymore, but I don’t regret my choice three years ago in the slightest. Good things are happening for us at the moment and hopefully I will have a career in music. But whatever the future holds for me, I’m ready for it!

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