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17/5/03 - Hey, just a note to say that Garfield have split up (about a month ago in fact) and that there will be obviously no recording/gigging with them this summer. Thanks to David, Ryan and Kris for being cool tho, and giving me a shitload of hope back in the dark months of winter.

I've been in bands constantly since late 2001 (I think I've been in 7 different bands) and when no one else could be bothered speaking to me, I had my own acoustic project, called Thrashspey. But you know about that. The rise of the middle-class rejected despair of emo (as opposed to the tired, manic despair of depression), and some laughably pretentious lyrics have ensured that I won't start Thrashspey again.

So what now? I suppose I'll exist as a structure of atoms and nothing else. I would love to be in a band, but then again...fuck it.

I unfortunately have no link to the internet anymore as my STUPID dad is saving money to pay for his STUPID divorce to my INTELLIGENT mum (she's watching me type this!), so this site will be updated once in a blue moon. Apologies to all regular visitors and stuff. I'm at Elgin Library right now and it smells of old books and I don't like it.

Anyway. Said regular visitors may have noticed that the whole Emocrap section has disappeared. Ah, los desperacidios. I got Kenny (who has constant access to the web) to delete this, as one of my friends revealed the URL of this site to just about the worst people he could have. Take a bow, it's the crappest thing you've done. All my emotions - all the sleepless nights, worry-filled days and the past 17 months - went into this website (yes, Emocrap only had 4 or 5 pages but around 30 were typed up but never 'released') and the very people who destroyed all comfort I could muster in my life could see what I thought and I just said 'fuck it' and deleted Emocrap.

Some may argue that: if you dont want people seeing what you said, you shouldnt put it on the internet but they can piss off. The whole last half of last year was spent typing in codes and data to this website, the links to this site were restricted to punk webrings and google. The dicks wouldnt have seen my site if it wasnt for my esteemed friend. "So I've been cheated again, by someone who calls them my friend" - Flite. The Gutwrench.)

Emotion-wise, I'm feeling a lot more better. I've made a huge effort to become and stay positive and it's worked. I now have about 5 or 6 best friends (to varying degrees) but despite this, I've found myself thinking I can't discuss my problems with any of them in all honesty.

I'm becoming more political, more creative as a writer of fiction, less I'll-stay-in-my-room-and-hope-someone-calls-for-me and more active, and more into skateboarding! Eh? I'm broadening my mind - yesterday I listened to Jimmyeatworld, then Assert, then the Freeze! I'm growing older by the day but still remaining childish and, in a way, anarchist.

This website is now Dead In The Water - look at my old band profiles and stuff by all means, but don't expect a huge personal homepage anymore.

I'm looking forward to the summer, to getting the Standard Grade exams over with, to travelling south (and east and west) and finally escaping my mental prison and becoming happy, positive and proactive.

Thank you. I am still at bryleech@aol.com and still open to advice on depression, advice on older bands for all you emo kids, discussions, facelift coupons and marriage proposals. And just a 'hey there' back. Go for it - life is not a dress rehearsal - carpe diem. Apocalypse dudes! Bry Leech.

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I'm Bry Leech and: I try to sell F.O.D. zine! Issue 2 is nearly finished, featuring interviews with Useless ID, Garfield and Parade of Enemies (more to come), and issue 1 had an interview with Small Brown Bike amongst other crazy things. Doing a zine rules. And you can start one too!
I'm Bry Leech and: I lose demos and hike up prices (ha) of CDR releases from Decline Records! Decline is my small record label, ran from my bedroom and my mum's CDR burner. The Decline Of Punk Rock is a compilation CDR and should be out sometime in early 2003. Decline doesn't make profits as far as possible, so there's some old-fashioned punk ideals for ya middle class punk infiltrators!
I'm Bry Leech and: I look like that bus station loony you try to avoid in my band: Thrashspey! I'm a punk, right ... so I did the punk thing and made my own band up after realising Ian Mackaye or Henry Rollins or, hell, anyone wasn't suddenly going to relocate to Fochabers just to join Thrashspey! I want TS to sound like politicalDIYmelodicthrashpunkrock, but instead TS sounds like a dick singing about his fantasies of the world being a better place to live in.
I'm Bry Leech and: I'm the singer and bassist in Inverness punkers Garfield! They had trouble with their singer/bassist - funny, it's always guitarists and drummers that fuck things up for me - and now I am free to sing about hating TV and maybe some of my own lyrics in this ace Ataris / Millencolin / Jimmy Eat World influenced band!
I'm Bry Leech and: I'm the 21st century's first Scottish anarchist philosophical punk. Erm......well, I'm made to feel a lot stupider than that title would suggest, by teachers and classmates, but I think I'm smart (I have a IQ of 150)! I write essays and stories and they're all on this page.

Email: BRYLEECH@AOL.COM