They aren't exactly secret shows, you're right, they are now tickets advertised on the sale at Ticketmaster and anyone whose signed with the Fueled By Ramen mailing list would've received the e mail about it.

I'll be having a family lunch for the first time in ages tomorrow, so -

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY! Sunday June 15th.

Many people have asked what cameras we use to take the all the photos on here, so here's the info.

My cameras: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TM3 and Sony Cybershot

I've had the Panasonic for the last two years and because is has a 10x optical zoom, it makes it so much easier to get really good close-up shots of bands performing live and the it's not considered as a really big professional camera, so at concerts I've been to I have never had trouble with security wanting to confiscate it from me. It cost me £160 when I bought it and now it's around the same price.

The little Sony Cybershot is really good for general use and I used this to take the videos of our cats that are on here and other normal close-up photos.

Sophie's camera: Sony DSLR-A700 with 75-300mm lense

This is used for all the professional live concert photos. Apparently it costs about £1,000 new and the lense is separate and I don't know how much it cost, but I guess it was expensive like all camera equipment is!

That's all I have to say for now, darlings. Take care and have a great weekend!

Read and have your say:

The article in Kerrang! in full. Recognize any of your friends pictured here...? They should all be rewarded!

Enough is enough, these days everyone has to have someone or something else to blame for bad things that happen and blaming people's personal taste in music and fashions is not the way to help anyone!

I heard on the UK news this evening that 13 year-old schoolboy Sam Leeson of Gloucestershire, England, hung himself last week over being so upset by so much bullying from others on the internet on networking website Bebo, over his choice to be "emo" and he was taunted because of the clothes he chose to wear and the bands he was into. When are people going to just get a life and leave others alone to enjoy what they're into and cut this crap?!

I feel so bad for this poor boy's family. His 12 year-old sister found him hanging and screamed and their mother knew straight away what had happened. How awful.

Stories like this should teach everyone a lesson that not everyone can ignore negative comments and online disagreements so easily and some of us are a lot more sensitive than you may think. Let Sam's death be a warning to all kids to lay off and be a lot more wary when having opinions on other people's looks or tastes in music.

I do not take the professional photos on here, there are actually three of us who run this page and everyone contributes, but I am repsonsible for uploading the photos and write most of the journals. I know it seems silly and confusing writing as one user, but there just isn't time to do everything separate with everyone having full time jobs and all so much going on. This page is mainly for band photos, but I want to write about things that I feel strongly about, too and pretty much anything and everything of any interest.

The Rock Im Park photos are actually for another website and we can't upload any on here yet, until they are first featured on the website my sister actually works for. Obviously the very best shots are for that site and anything else not featured I can upload on here into a separate gallery. I've been told that these festival photos are all really good and professional, so I can't wait to see them all! Here is one picture I got e mailed last night:

There are also lots of videos of some of the bands who were at this festival, so I will upload some of the videos as soon as I get them all, but it probably won't be for a few days.

This new ban was made to try and stop the continuing problem of anti-social behaviour in and around London and if it does try and resolve a lot of the problems, then the ban on drinking on all public transport outside London areas and across the whole of the UK could follow.

I actually think that the ban is a good idea. I am so sick and tired of going out in central London and there being drunks and these groups of total pricks making fools of themselves and causing trouble because of boozing until late and continuing to drink after all the pubs and bars are closed. It's just pointless.

I almost walked straight into a fight at Waterloo Station last month when I was coming home from a weekend in London and the people involved had beer cans in their hands and were obviously intoxicated. The police were called and it delayed our train, because the louts boarded the same train, but were all thrown off.

Anyone caught with any alcohol on board any underground (subway) trains, buses, mainline trains and anywhere public in a station will be forced to leave the train or bus and will not be allowed to board any transport while carrying any alcholic beverage. Fines are going to be forced on anyone who refuses to co-operate.

I just wish that England could be like Japan is, with polite people and strict laws on hygene and general good custom, where I never saw a single drunken idiot anytime I went out drinking with friends and here it's a rare sight not to spot anyone puking in some doorway somewhere and making fools of themselves. Sad, but true. The UK now has a reputation of being a nation of teenage binge drinkers and irresponsible boozers and banning drinking on public transport isn't going to stop this that soon.

It's been quite an adventure and we've seen so much in such a short time. Tokyo was great for a day, but expensive, just like London is and I'm glad we made the decision to stay overnight in Osaka the whole ten days and travel around by train. The hotel here is so cheap and has everything that is needed, even toothbrush, toothpaste, razors and hairbrushes are complimentary in the rooms and for just 6, 500 yen a night (that's about £30 or under $55 for Americans) that is much cheaper than anything we get in the UK. You wouldn't even get a budget B&B for that price in England!

My feet are covered in what looks like mosquito bites and they itch like crazy! Not a good thing to happen on the last day and before a long flight to London tomorrow morning.

Rock Rock bar, with one of the walls covered with photos of the bands who have partied there.

Today was warmer, so it's getting hotter here. The Shinsaibashi Suji indoor shopping arcade goes on and on for ages and I still have yet to finish looking around there.

I was told that it gets unbareable in July and August and that May is a good time to visit Japan, because June is the rain season and not a good time to come here and explore. The Summer is humid and apparently you sweat all the time and I would hate that.

Off to have some drinks now.

Is the secret in the sushi? and how come the oldest known living people in the world have been from Asia?

Of course there are Subway, McDonald's and Starbucks here like everywhere else on the planet and they are very popular, but I walked past a McDonald's yesterday and this group of guys were stuffing their faces with Big Macs and Green Tea McFlurrys and they were all skinny. Kind of makes you sick, doesn't it?

I never usually eat at McDonald's unless it's a salad or the veggie burgers, but I will miss the Green Tea McFlurry, that is rather tasty and I've never seen them before anywhere else, so it must be Japanese McDonald's only.

One major thing that is a total difference to England is that there doesn't seem to be any yobs or binge drinking idiots here, either. The Japanese seem so level headed and respectful. Going out at night in Osaka and we haven't spotted any drunks around at all and go out in London it's all around you! Everyone knows we have a huge problem with a binge drinking culture in the UK and so many things have been done to try to prevent it, but with little success. In continental Europe, especially France, they take alcohol drinking like a pinch of salt compared to in England, but it's taken more seriously and with caution and it seems that way here in Japan. It's so nice to be able to stroll back to your hotel after a night out drinking without seeing someone puking in a doorway. Sadly, I think it will be a while before those scenes are a thing of the past anywhere in the UK.

Time we went to bed, big day out tomorrow and maybe a visit to Osaka Castle. Writing about Green Tea McFlurrys are making me hungry!