luck | harrison osterfield au

15. may

If I could put my life in the past month into one word it would be studying. I cannot recall a time in my life when I pushed my brain so hard into learning. Study sessions with friends and classmates, late night studying, early morning studying but I guess that is what you got for putting everything off for the last moment. The amount of work I had put into it was met with the amount of work I had put into training and rehearsals for The Legendary series resolving in having zero social life (I did not have very glimmering one before yet it was better than this) and no time for songwriting. I only scribbled some ideas into my notebook when the muse striked me or when the procrastination got the best of me. The day of the SAT's was actually just a day wrapped up in stress. I would compare it to the feeling I experienced at our first ever live concert. I knew I was preparing for this moment for a long time and I was sure I would be able to master it, yet a little voice at the back of my mind was doubting every step I took. I could not put into words how big of a relief I felt the moment I sat down at my bed the night after the SATs and had the best sleep in a month.

The only thing apart from studying that happened in the last month was rather thrilling, in a good way. We, as a band, were finally able to move to the house our label helped to pick up. The house was charming both from the outside as it was from the inside. It had a nice backyard which was a big plus as well as its location in the suburbs. You would probably assume that a normal American family was living there by its quiet outside, however, you could not be more wrong as to be welcomed by five not so normal nor quiet young women. We have been only living here for few day and I am surprised no one had filled a noise complaint for we had been having a After-SATs party, then a House-warming party and Harriet, under the spell of a magic drink called alcohol, thought it would be a good idea to have a drum session in the middle of the night. I reckon our neighbours are either deaf or used to this kind of stuff. As for living together with four of my closest friends I learned how great and how hard it is to be with them all the time. I loved their company in the house, we were having a splendid time together sharing all our thoughts on music or anything that's bothering us, which was like free therapy, although we had to find our boundaries and time only for ourselves. When we were on tour, in the small bus most of the time, we tended to get ourselves into heated arguments with each other from the lack of privacy and getting on each other's nerves with our pet peeves. Learning from our past mistakes, we did not want to repeat, we renewed our set of rules we came up with after one incident two years ago that almost broke our band up. We made a few changes according to the current state of our accommodation. It did not mean we were not fighting from time to time, it only meant we would not kill each other in the proces.

If you are wondering who our first house guests were, I can give you a simple answer. Our parents. Each of our parents came to visit us to see how we are making it without them and I was proud to say we have been doing amazing. At least for now. Harriet and Vee took the roles of an incredible parenting duo, as I expected, for their three kids. I'm not pushing any kind of gender norms on anyone, however, Harriet being the dad and Vee being the mom was the way I felt it from the very beginning. Another person who made an appearance was Luke who with a group of Livi's friends from the baseball team turned our backyard into a sports field for a few days. I showed the whole house with as many details as a facetime can allow to Liz. I was hoping to see her during summertime for she would be done with her A-Level exams. More importantly, I would be celebrating my birthday at the end of June, which would not be as big of an event as Olivia's although I would die of happiness to have my best-friend attending it. She also mentioned NYU as one of her university options and seeing it might make her choose it. Getting this house and the fact the school was almost over, we started to be more active as a band and musicians and we may or may not be needing a tour photographer.

I do not think we were ever as productive as a band as we were now. We all agreed to get a rest from school for a year and see where our passion for music might lead us without anything in our way. Do not get me wrong, each of us applied for a university, we were just not planning on going this year. We were all worn out from the past years without an actual vacation or free time and we figured this would be the best time to make some and with the new experiences the new inspiration for our work may arise at the same time. We called it 'The Rebirth'. Fans gladly picked up with our pace on social media platforms and started forming rumour of a new album coming, they even went as far as to get the #THEREBIRTH trending on Twitter and we gladly supported any hypothesis they threw at us. The more confusing something was, the more fun it was to watch the fandom burn. We all agreed that before releasing any new music, we wanted to give closure to all the pains of our first years and let the world hear a song we had in drafts for a while now called 'These are my Friends'.