616_abortions

plans for 2007

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:48:36 GMT

Well - I'm finally off to Thailand for surgery to make me a bit prettier hopefully hehe. Should help me pass better as a female now I'm going ahead with my gender change. This is going to be in late feb, but before that I've got one more solo show planned.

I'm supporting a couple of local glam/punk/sleaze bands in Preston at THE VENUE on Feb 2nd. I'll be on early (about 8.30pm), but then I'll be there all night getting squiffy as it's a rock/indie club after that.

I'm planning to debut a cover of NIN's 'Burn' that I've been working on and sounds pretty groovy, and heopfully one or two other surprises.

Should be a bit of fun, and something for me to look forward to before I go and start to get my life all sorted.

While I'm recovering, I'm gonna be online for the last couple of weeks, and will start looking into booking some 616 Abortions shows for later in the year.

I've loved doing the solo thing, and will continue to perfom solo for the forseable, but I've also REALLY missed playing in the band - and am so gagging to get onstage with everyone again and create some carnage!!!

Hope everyone had a wonderful 2006 - and all the best to us all for 2007

Devastate Degenerate

Miss616
+X+

miss 616 things

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:35:47 GMT

VERY glad to say the middle of this year has been fabulous!!!

Done several solo shows in Preston, Carlisle, York, Liverpool and Dumfries, and got Bath, Blackpool and a Preston Halloween show still to come.

Not been on here for ages (mostly as lost my fkkin password and wouldn't email it to me!?) - but tbh my http://www.myspace.com/miss616 is probably the best place at the mo to keep up to date about all that's happening (I know I'm so lame and never ever have enough time to do anything except fkk things up)

In other news - my personal life is heaven :D

2006 has been such a year of extremes for me - but now thankfully I'm extremely happy !!!!!

dark-cide Pirate Party tonight

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:47:54 GMT

Saturday, August 19, 2006

Just an update about tonight's Pirate Party Night at Dark-Cide

There's a drink's promotion on Rum - arrrgh!!

and the costume prizes include

Big Bottle of Barcardi
Pirates of the Caribbean collectors coin
Pirates of the Caribbean Curse of the Black Pearl 2 disc collectors edition DVD
2 Free passes into all the Dark-Cide's for the rest of 2006

Hope some of you may be able to make it

Dark-Cide PIRATE PARTY - Sat 19th Aug

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:43:58 GMT

Calling all Pirate Gals n Salty Sea Dogs

Hopefully some of you can set sail to the mythical 'city' of Preston to drink, make merry and swash yer buckles

Prizes include a bottle of Bacardi Rum

With Resident Captains of the Salty Decks Miss 616 & Kristen
http://www.dark-cide.com

....an idea for a party night proudly plundered & looted from those luvly bucaneers of the good(bad)ship MIDIAN xXx

My616space

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:33:28 GMT

Hi - just some info about Miss 616

Got a myspace page finally yesterday for MISS 616- but sadly cos the access to myspace is down today I can't tart it up a bit, so it's VERY plain (and I have ZERO friends hehe)

But there's the new track ANYTHING to listen to

http://www.myspace.com/miss616

This Saturday I'm playing live in Liverpool at the Midian Extra shindig
http://www.midian.org.uk

which I'm really looking forward to, and then on Sunday I'm playing up in Carlisle at the big Brickyard venue

http://www.brick-yard.com/index.htm

Woohoo for me !!!

Gigs at Dark-Cide and Nexus 6 both seem to have gone ok, and people seem to like my choice of covers.

Listen out for tracks by
Bauhaus
Soft Cell
Muse
David Bowie
Squid
616 Abortions
and the solo tart

Hopefully see some of you there

Miss616
xXx

Miss 616 solo shows

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:40:41 GMT

Well, it's gonna come as no suprise I've not updated for ages. Same old mega busy/technoprobs reasons, I my gawd I have been mega busy.
So busy, I never even had time to post ANY info ANYWHERE about my first ever solo Miss 616 show last Saturday at Nexus 6 in Dumfries.

Glad to say it went well, and now really looking forward to do it all again at DARK-CIDE on the 22nd July, and then the big Midian Extra event in Liverpool on the 29th.

I'm gonna put up the track listings for all the shows, but not 'just' yet as I kinda want the tracks I'm playing (especially all the covers) to be a bit of a nice surprise.

As it's been soooooooo long I've been on hear, just gonna give a very view brief rundown of recent life highlights

- New Girlfriend (***yey!!!***)
- Been to see Dannii Minogue (again yey!)
- new pa gear (for the solo shows)
- big new Vox guitar pedal board to make noises with
- Enjoyed new Pirates movie
- enjoyed the DR WHO series
- cd player for my car (been too many years never had one)
- mucho mucho drunken fun at Edinburgh's fabulous Dark-City festy. Finally saw Combichrist AND enjoyed Panzer AG muchly. Amazing weekend!!!
- dark-cide's been going well, looking forward to more
- katscan at Misery of Sound (again, very drunk), and met Martin again when went to London recently. Watched all of BIG TRAIN on dvd (totally forgot about that series - classic!!)
- transition still going very slowly, but making progress (again yey)

Thanks to everyone who came to see me at Nexus 6, and look out for dowloads of solo stuff v.soon

don't stray from the path

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 19:55:03 GMT

came home after a long day at work, parked my car outside the flat and I could hear howling ???

Got out to see what I can only guess was a wolf in the back of someone's van, just starring back at me dispationatley, with really fiery orange eyes and a gordeous black/white/grey coat.

I went up to my flat, and watched him from my window - and he was doing more of the howling things (just like the American Werewolf sound at the begining of the film when theyre walking round - really that film should've been called An American Werefolf in London via Yorkshire)
. Was really quite an impressive animal.

Came back a bit later and the vans gone.

That was the only vaguely exciting thing that's happened today - kinda feels wierd after the high drama of the past couple of days/weeks

Spiffing

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:05:50 GMT

Oh wow, what an *accomplished* day/night the 22nd turned out to be.

I've never had such a near as 'perfect' day tbh of promoting, so forgive me for recording it here in depth for my own personal reasons to look back on for the inevetable days in the future when they go tits-up.

It's a long one, but don't really want to lj cut it, so sorry for the mega trawl-scroll you'll all have to do.

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Having spent most of Easter trying my best to get everything re-arranged at the change of venues for the Aftershow Party, I'm just so pleased about how it turned out, and even pleased with myself for just being so 'practical', 'efficient', and ummm, getting things done.

Yesterday went something like this:-

- morning: got float together, webt into work to do some work (and yet more online stuff between the work things)

- then back to the flat to load in lights/cds together, more online things, clothes and make-up

- off to Preston. 1st call was the Bitter Suite, introduced myself (they'd see quite a lot of me in the next few hours) and they were really great :) The off to Staples to do colour posters. Then back to Bitter suite to drop some off. Then across the road to 53 Degrees to meet the Numan promoter and then some key people that I had to be introduced.

And I was dead on time!! [note, this is kinda rare]

**MASSIVE THANKS** to Pod the promoter - he really helped us so much with everything the past few months - quite humbled really cos he really didnt know me at all yet gave us so many freebies and ways to help the goth night. 53 Degrees incidentally is just fantastic. Ultramodern music venue.

Anyway, back to the brief run-down - Got loads of 'playing tonight' flyers to hand out.

- Back to Bs ('BITTER suite' as it's typo'd) to pick up car. Then off all the way to Lorraines to pick up the 5000 colour flyers that got delivered that day. Sad an all-too brief hi to Eddie, then off to mum and dads for veg-soup (and a much needed cash bung!), then off back to Preston to flyer. Started back at Bs again (they really liked them), then started wandering round town haning out flyers, putting up posters etc

- couple of hours later and with achy feet (wearing boots a size too small probably didnt help), got back to the car and got a subway and a sit-down

- then loaded everything upstairs, set up lights and eq'd the pa how I liked it (and it was great - loads of clarity and more than enough boom in the bass) - so that made me **very** happy - no need to be lugging pa gear around now after so many many years!!

Had a rest and phoned Sister Carrion for a laugh/natter/checky promoty type things. Wish I coulda seen Dr Who but, then again I don't have a telly.

ummmmmm,

- then off at 7 (again I was totally on time) to find Hughie (who was also dead on time) who I'd not seen for ages but met at Inferno the night before at Bs, who very kindly offered to flyer inside 53 degrees for us to all the Numan fans. We went back to the venue (going in backstage was actually a real buzz - but I tried hard not to show it and kinda seem not too hyper-giddy), met Pod again who took us into the main room, and the T-shirt guy very kindly gave us a couple of shirts to give away at our free raffle. I also mentioned to him that the band/crew were all invited and we actually had about 10 or so of them come over later.

- back out again, dropped off the goodies. Then back into town to do more flyering. Numan fans were starting to appear now so I got to start mentioning the aftershow party and putting the word out. Did a lot of sellotaping flyers to lamposts/telephone boxes. Only occured to me after doing this for half an hour that I'd be on every CCTV camera for that part of the city!! - whoops.

A very pleasant but totally unexpected encounter - handed a flyer to a guy who turned out to be a a really talented music guy from college years back. He said he's been trying to get in touch with me for ages as he's a music producer now, and needs a guitarist for a new dance project he's working on (this will be great for my Miss 616 side-activities), so we exchanged mobile numbers and we're gonna chat very soon about it all. VERY VERY EXCITED about that possibility hehe :D

- back to Bs upstairs to put out flyers/posters, and then the same outside.

- met a guy while I was outside who was really upset and he asked me if I was with the Numan camp. I said no, but it transpired that he'd come all the way down from Edinburgh with his two young kids and they were heartbroken as they werent allowed in the venue (since the new licensing laws had come in , theres VERY severe penalties to door staff/venue/bar staff about underage people in venues with a bar in the same room as the concert. ) I phoned Pod to run it by him, and the best he could possibly do was offer to get him into Manchester the next week, but sadly the dad only had them for that weekend. So that was pretty sad, but the dad didn't think the 18 thing applied to the venue,but what he imagined would be something called the ROAR bar (right of admission reserved)

- Then Kristen and Frazier came, and finally Lorraine with more lights/money tin etc

9.00 - all set to go

- started off fairly quiet as we expected, but still got some good tunes in - and Grimly Fiendish had a good boogie early on (one of the signs of a dj I suppose - I'm the same, you just want to dance to the things that wont work later on but are still wanting to dance to, so not fazed that your all out there on your lonesome). Things going good. Met Gemma who loved the piccy of her on the flyer too.

- Got busier, and then as I came off at 10-30, then got in my car and went over to the 12 Bar (now the venue) to drop off flyers as they were re-directing people back to Bs for us. Then drove back, and then sat on the door for a while, just as the Numan crowd started to come over.

- At about midnight, we decided it'd be best to close the door as it was looking/feeling very full but not over-capacity rammed. Tbh the people had almost dried up coming in so this wasn't a bad thing. People seemed to be enjoying the atmosphere, Kristen was doing well doing her stuff - things were going great (minor niggle, one cd player would jump and skip if the PA was too loud)

- Then back on, to do the raffle and then dj more. This was the hardest part of the night - as loads of people were all now coming up wanting tracks (and an awful lot of Numan fans were maybe a bit over eager for the next Numan track - I think we did about 6-8 in all!! - but that was all good as it was the oficial party after all)

- Got through it and did ok - the lights worked great, the sound was great, people danced and seemed great :)

- Chatted more to the Bs staff and the Inferno guys on my next time off djing. They were all pleased too how it was all going, so again, more up-beat feelings there.

- Then at the end, played Combichrists HAPPY FCUKING BIRTHDAY, and when announced we finally had to end, got a big massive cheer which just made me grin and feel so 'weyh-hey' kinda upbeat. Gave another one of my erratic/random closing thankyou speaches, and I was running out of phrases to say gushing thankyous with, and ended up using the word 'spiffing' which caused a bit of a laugh at my expense - but which for me kinda summed up the whole night.

- Said goodbyes to everyone, packed down, and was in my car on my way home for 3.15.

Woke up at 9.30, still feeling energised and very happy.

Perfect day really, very hard work and a bit stressful around midnight, but

well, "Spiffing" :D

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED MAKE IT ALL HAPPEN !!!!!

Now, I'm gonna have a chilled out morning, sit on a sand dune, then get Emma's website finshed before I do *anything* else.

http://www.heresyclothing.com

(hope they had a successful trading time at Whitby )

Promo gubbins - Gary Numan and Dark-Cide shindigs

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:40:20 GMT

(sorry if you've seen this elsewhere - been doing another late night of promo whoring)

Gary Numan's playing Preston's fabulous and very swanky 1200 capacity new venue 53 DEGREES on Saturday 22nd April.

This will be an amazing night, and if you fancied partying after it finishes at 11pm, Dark-Cide are very proud to announce we're holding an official aftershow party just across the road at our all new venue BITTER SUITE, going on until 2.30am

Hope some of you can come along !!

Miss 616
xXx
http://www.53degrees.net
http://www.dark-cide.com

Narnia is full of perverts

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:39:31 GMT

watched it last night at Dom and Emma's and a room full of luvly people as it was Elizabeth Jane's birthday (happy Birthday again btw;) )

Drank a bit and laughed a lot, either Narnia is full of perverts or we were just a room of (mostly) drunken and easily amused pervets who saw the unintentional seedy side to it. Ah well, had a good giggle anyhoo ;)

In other news - looks like I'm having to be 'realistic' and move back in with my parents for a while - I've been living in my flat for 5 months now (and times just flown by), and not made any inroads into clearing mydebts, just seem to have added more. So, time for a not very exciting reality check and back to my parents for the rest of the year probably.

On the plus side, I'll be nearer Lorraine/Leon + Eddie, plus cos I work so long and often away at weekends I'm rarely at this flat

On the negative side, I'll have the epic treck on the M6/M55 to Lytham every day and night for work to deal with again, and the costs of diesel for that aren't going to be too far off what I pay for rent every month.

But I've got to at least try it as I can always move out again if it's not working. I've saved absolutley nothing, which is not exactly fantastic considering the procedures I'm hoping to pay for (the possibility of whcih just keeps moving further and further away down the line)

as of this time next month - I live with my mum and dad - how rock n roll is that haha!!

ok so Im drunk again

Sat, 08 Apr 2006 01:47:46 GMT

just finished the second half of the wiskey

The wiskey I was bought by a guitar student I'd been teaching for 2 or 3 years and who I'll greatly miss :(

It's wierd, I've taught guitar for most of my adult life and it's fantastic really. I meet people who love music, are often fantasticly eager to become musicians - practice hard and spend a lot of money just in the pursuit of becoming something they'd love to become - a musician - or a rock star - or hopefully both!

I've never really mentioned this part of my life before, as, well, it's wierd,
It alwaYS amazes me just how passionate people are about music, andreminds me so much of myself too. Its a VERY demanding range of skills to learn

theres the technique (nasty)
theres the theory (dull and confusing)
there's the mind numbing tedium of doing excerises after tedious/painful excersises
then theres the creativity which can't really be taught, just kind of guided and nurtured....
(the kind of 'jedi' factor)

and then theres me. I'm a good guitarist and I know I'm a good teacher. I put myself in for grade 8 classical guitar and passed in 1993(least i think it was then), and tbh that's no small achievement. But I also know it wasnt a convinving pass. If I'd had the funds (why do I say funds and not money??) to be able to afford lessons I know I could have done better and got there with more 'authority'. But no, I kinda stumbled my way there just because I had the stupid drive to be what I'm sure I 'had' to be. I missed out on so much just because I made myself focus and do nothing but push myself to do what was needed to be able to get that exam. All except go and learn from the someone who could help me get there.

I guess, what Im saying is, how many other times in my life have I done this? Been so self-centered that I push things I should have done out the way just to be able to do something I am compelled to do? TBHonest - too many times.

I've lost a relationship to the MOST wonderful girl I've ever met because of this - and a *beautiful* baby boy

(side note to myself - this was supposed to be a journal entry about a couple of great movies I've just watched, but, um, a few drunken tangents later and hey presto a few lj confessions there, and I'm touching publicly raw topics I never even debated with myself let alone friends/family)

its wierd - this lj thing is compelling - theres elements of public confession to it
elements of blatant self proclamation and self importance
elements of much needed publicity whoring
and elements of public humiliation (did he/she REALLY need to say that????)

but when you've got so few friends as my lj on here I guess theres not too much to worry about haha

um, where am I?

drunk? - yep
making sense ? - kind of
happy? - absolutely
about to come to some sort of conclusion/revelation? - maybe if I hadnt run out of wiskey

I miss Lorraine and Eddie and Leon terribly. No, more than that
I guess, I've been so caught up in the euphoria that its turned out that I've got THE MOST WONDERFUL PARENTS IN THE WORLD and that they've been *so* supportive and not disowned me like the wretched piece of crap that I am that I've kind of lost sight of the fact that, the reality is, I've lost so many close to me who REALLY mattered

Don't get me wrong, Lorraine is easily my BEST friend ever, & I get to see Leon and Eddie (the demanding dalmation doggy if you didn't know) here and there and I love it when I see them, but, ............

...........life, it's just too fukkkkking short

just to illustrate.....

I loved living in this little flat a few years ago we had together by the docks in Preston about 6 years ago. It wasnt perfect, in fact it was tiny and badly decorated, and cost a fortune in 'maintainence charges' and council tax. But I could have lived ther for 100 years as I wasn't unhappy there. Same goes for the house I lived at with my mum and dad, I was there in a totally faceless no name hamlet of a 'village' for 23 years and again, was sad to leave just cos it wasn't horrible living there.

But life's not going to sit by and wait for you, it's flying by at a rate you can never measure (who know when you'll die, so take those days you've no idea how much of you've got, divide them by how much happyness you think you'll have, subtract almost all of growing up, and the sad days if you're lucky of growing old, and there's not a huge amount left to play with)

I had no choice but to go with the choice I've been dealt - I cant help but question it every day if I've made the right choice, but what keeps coming back to me is, right or wrong, I had no choice.

I think I'll only know,10 or 30 yeas from now whether I've been a complete fool or a managed to be rational and make the right choices.

But, that's just it, with these horrible kind of life choices, we *never* know if its the right thing to do, that's why they're so fkkkin agonizing.....

and then, theres the whole reality of true regret to deal with

fkkkk, i know we'd all be a whole lot happpier if we lived for 2000 years and not the poxy amount we do have

no wonder the notions of re-incarnation and religions that promise eternal life are so popular

sadly, I'm one of those practical idiots who think were here for the blink of a moment and then gone forever, and it's how we coose to spend those precious fkking moments that are what really matters. I also know Im so fkking guilty for wasting so many of them.

damn - I know I'm also guilty on this post of saying too much and also not enough

and this is where im leaving it for now. Unconcluded & open ended. No need to say any more as theres no answers for the questions I'm asking. Guess tomorrows another good or bad day just waiting to inspire/stress/bore you to death

good night and the movies I watched btw, tonight and last night, (Doom and so far 2/3rds of Crash, were both pretty good for two very different reasons haha)

the affects of alcohol eh? is it a blessing or a curse??

miss 616
xXx

its 4:42, on a thursday night, and Im drunk

Fri, 07 Apr 2006 04:15:23 GMT

Hi - just thought -now's as good/bad a time to update as any

It's nearly 5am - Im drunk, awake, and got a full days work ahead of me in a few hours :(
This week I have mostly been

- let known on Monday that the club we thought we'd have for the rest of 2006 at has suddenly been consolidayed with it's 'other' club, meaning there's no room for Dark-Cide, and consequenlty I've spent the every spare momenent of the the past few days days trying to find a new venue

- the £200+ I'd spent on flyers and posters, and the precious weekends off I'd spent going round everywhere distrinutong them are now totally fkkked as they're now obsolete as we're now no longer at that venue

This is par for the course tbh - so I'm not going to piss and moan too much about this. It's just, when you've got as few hours in the day as I have, it's really fkkkking heartbreaking to have gone through all I've gone through, only to be then told it's all bollox and you've to start again from scratch.

So, just so everyone knows

DARK-CIDE is now going to be held at BITTER SUITE(which is the place formely known as Strettles, which is where we originaly held Dark-Cide years ago)

The difference is, it's under new management (i.e. not run by an irrating fat twat who couldnt be relied upon for anything!) + got a new sound system (double yey - as I don't have to hump our gear up there now anymore)

The Gary Numan Official aftershow party is all going ahead on april 22nd - and it's really convinient as Bitter Suite is just acroo]ss the road from it at the very fabulous 53 Degrees venue!!!

I'm also trying to arrange a few nights across the road at the MIGHTY FINE 53 Degrees veneue (were Gary is playing) later this year - trust me it's an awesome venue and if we put a band on there they are gonna sound and look MASSIVE!!!!

I've now got to re-do the website, AND do Heresy Emma's now as her website has been needing an update from me for SOOOOOOOOOO long now, and everything just seems to get in the way of me doing it (sorry Emma!!!)~

Also, like so many times before, people have been courteous enough to post comments on here which I've STILL not replied to - again I feel like a crap piece of crap, as this isn't the kind of person I want to be, but time and circumstance always seem to conspire to make me out to be a bigger asshole than I really am.

So - as some many times before - sorry about that - Im ALWAYS glad of feedback even if I'm too pathetic to get round to replying!!

umm, so it's nearly EASTER

so I've got two weeks of evenings off (teaching) work in which Im hoping to

a) - do MUCHO NEEDED MISS 616 SOLO PROJECT WORK
b) - do some much needed graphic design study work (seeing as that's my main payed proffesion these days lol!)
c) - try and find some gorgeous females to flirt with and have fun with
d) - try and get to the beauty parlour to de-crapppy-male me to have some vague hope of accoplishing the c) goal
e) - relax
f) - tidy my nauseatingly untidy flat - it 'should' be a gorgeous batchelorette palace, but it's more a disturbing psycho/dump that Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt might might stumble into ala the film se7en
e) - do much needed website work, and catch up on the big backlog of emails

but anyhoo - got to try and remember all the good stuff - Im a *girl* now - I've rearanged a whole years worth of club dates in nearly a week, and I've worked two jobs and got paid for both - I've just GOT to remember Im not THAT much of a walking disaster - I do get SOME things done (just not enough!) - and I've got some smart music that *NEEDS* to be finished

........................(sure you've heard that one many times b4:( )

ah well, luv to you all - whatever you are all up to!!!

Alix Jane (Miss 616)
xXx

update

Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:30:54 GMT

hi - just an update on where I'm at now

- finally got broadband at my new flat last week, so Im slowly catching up with everything

- my brother and my mum told my dad about my situation. This was so terrifying for me as we were all so certaing he'd take it very badly. The joyous upshot was once he'd got past the very big shock, and the sad news that Lorraine and I had split, he was so unbelievably supportive!!!!

I can't believe just how everything has turned out - I've not lost my family which I was really certain I would, they've all been unbelievabley great about it all.

I cannot ask for anything more in life tbh - everything else from here on is just a bonus

- working 12 hour days to try and dig myseld out of debt and save for all the 'prcedures' to come

- living full-time(ish) as a female now. It's wonderful, though still battling against the remainder of my crappy facial hair. A few more expensive epilight sessions should hopefully fry the last of it though

- looking forward to getting out on my mountain bike 'sometime'. Its been chained up outside the back of the flat for about a month now

- still moving things out of Lorraine's house - one day someday I may get organised here - this flat is just a horrid mess at the moment. Was kinda nicethough, as I was moving all our boxes of photos up into her loft, and spent about an hour or so just wading through them. I honestly thought most of my 20's were such a depressing waste, but looking back on those it's reminded me of some really beautiful times - made me rethink a whole decade tbh, and Im much the happier for it. Still, things are so much better now

- REALLY looking forward to Dark-Cide and all the things I've got planned for this year. Hope next weeks goes as well as last months! If you're interested in coming have a look at what's all sorted for 2006 http://www.dark-cide

- just found out I wont be going to see placebo now Im finally online, as they've sold out everywhere :(

- even though Im drained & shattered, Im so fkkin optimistic about the future

just want to get out and meet some new girls now

Miss 616
xXx

ps - there's some miss 616 solo shows in the pipeline - I'll let you know more soon

6/1/6

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 13:31:12 GMT

Happy New Year btw everyone

Sadly this has to be a very brief message as I'm having to chuck it on here during at work as where I'm living now I don't have any net connection. Another good reason for it being brief is that I don't want to go into too much detail (even at this stage), but suffice to say I've split up (amicably) last year from my very-long term partner Lorraine who I've lived with for ummm, longer than I can remember properly (I think it was about 11 years or so?!).

That's why 2005 was so, well, ...................................

Basically the reasons are many, but have a large amount to do with me now being diagnosed finaly as being 'gender dyshoric' (transexual), which means my lifes pretty much been on hold for the past few years while I was seing various shrinks who then refered me onto more shrinks etc. So that's why I've dropped the j616 from the stupid name as I'm no longer called Jason.

Anyway, I could write a zillion pages about the whole thing, but I don't haveany time so.......

And since August things have been just FRANTIC as I've been finding a new place to live, then finding a new job (Im now doing two and working 12 hours a day to pay for flat/pay off debts/save money so as to be able to borrow even more money to pay for operations/procdures etc), and then finding a flat, and then getting settled, then getting ill, and then ummmm, here I am. So once again HUGE APOLOGIES for just being so fukkking absent the past year or so.....

OK - the main reason for today's post, as well as to put some of you in the picture about things, is to announce that as well as 616 Abortions (my main band), I'm also launching a solo career.

At the momoment the website I've done for it is a bit piss poor (it WILL be fabulous, just not had the time / been ill / xmas things)
but it's here at the mo - http://www.616abortions.net/miss616/index.html

and the domain http://www.miss616.co.uk will be used as of next week (would have been today but forgot the password)

There's lots of luvly things I've got in mind, for that and the 616 Abortions band.

Just hope you can be a bit more patient with me a little longer, but I will be back with a vengeance this year in all shapes and forms

Love to you all

Miss 616
xXx

ps - sorry if I don't reply back to any posts over the next few weeks, but I'll try my best to reply and also update with other good stuff

Merry Xmas

Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:20:34 GMT

Hi - just a quick message to wish everyone a Very Merry Xmas

Some of you may know about what's happened to me this year and why I've been well-off the radar, other won't (don't worry - things are mostly fine, and with a soft cold blue light at the end of a very dark tunnel)

Sorry about that - couldn't be helped

Also wanted to say to look at the 616 Website on 06/01/06 for a special message (& sadly no, it's not the album release *sniff*)

lots of luv and drunken nonsense to you all

Miss 616
xXx

ELECTRO-CIDE SPAM

Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:09:50 GMT

Hi - really hope some of you can come to this on Friday 25th Novembet. It's our last one of the year, and tbh it may sadly be our last one ever if numbers are still quiet - even though the last few have been quiet they've been monstrously good fun so hope you can come along if it sound like your ba[n]g

http://www.electro-cide.co.uk

Miss 616

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DARK-CIDE HALLOWEEN BALL THIS SATURDAY

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:03:42 GMT

(Hi - sorry it's a quick one, been hellishly busy and so not been able to update - hopefully give a full LJ update this weekend)

but til then, here's some spam ;)

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Dark-Cide @ The Courtyard Bar, Blowing Wild, Grimshaw Street, Preston
GOTH*INDUSTRIAL*CYBER*80's
Sat 29th October

Hi - just a reminder that this Saturday is our DARK-CIDE HALLOWEEN BALL!!!
Yep - we've got an extra special one for you this month and with prizes for best costumes (first prize is a bottle of Absinthe!!!!)

As always when we have a theme night, costumes aren't mandatory, but effort is very appreciated

we're open from 9pm-2am, and entry is still only £3-00
With DJ's Kristen and Miss 616

Hope some of you can come along ;)

for more info please check out our website http://www.dark-cide.com

last day as a blonde

Thu, 06 Oct 2005 11:05:28 GMT

looks like I'm going to be dying my hair today - fairwell to bleach blonde - it's been a haircolour I've really loved, but it's time to try something different - sure I'll regret it though....

And yesterday I had the joy of falling down the stairs - really hurt my arse and got a horrible carpet burn on my left arm . Walking isn't that great (though not impossible) - I'd do a sicky but Im self employed

glad it's not dark-cide this week

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films I've enjoyed recently

Azumi and Skyhigh - both quite enjoyable, especially Azumi

League of Gentlemen was ok but sadly wasn't the classic I'd hoped for - think the Xmas Special was better

want to see Star Wars III again soon and looking forward to seeing Batman Begins for the first time

The Hex night

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:48:18 GMT

ok - it was days ago, but things have been busy as usual since then and not had time to post an update

Just wanted to say ***A HUGE THANKS*** to Gaynor and Jason for putting on the charity night, and thanks for putting us on with such luvly bands :) Glad to say I think we went down really well - and had the delightful novelty of having Ester from the well smart Deadfilmstar come up onstage and sing Endgame with Gemma :D

(I got to do BASTARD/HERETIC with KM later - a lot of fun that was too!!)

Was delightful to be back onstage with Dom, who got through the whole set without once breaking the guitar haha (which Im very glad about as he was using mine), and loads of thanks to everyone who came to the event and said 'hi' as it made us feel very appreciated (which we always appreciate!). And lots of luv to Kev too for the interview and big long chat - hope I wasn't too dribbly drunk

Loved the last two shows - hope the ones we have next year are as great [no more 616 shows now until the album's done]

setlist for the night: (40 minute support set)

NATURAL UNNATURAL
ENDGAME
...AND ALL THE ANGELS HATE YOU
ENOLA GAY
ANOTHER DAY I WANT TO DIE
I'D RATHER BE BEATEN BY YOU THAN BE ANYTHING LIKE YOU
CRAVING DRAGONS
FIST
DARK:BLEAK:EXQUISITE

tommorow - hoping to get my hair done - seriously thinking of dying it purply plum, or even brown !?erm!?

Miss 616
xXx

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:09:29 GMT

sorry if you've seen this on the dark-cide LJ, but it's got news of 616 and other luvly related stuff

feel free to slap me if you see me next ;)

Miss 616
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Lots of news

DARK-CIDE THIS SATURDAY !!

Hope some of you can come along

HERESY CLOTHING, that's run by the very talented Emma who's been doing fabulous stalls at the club over the past few years has now opened a shop in Blackpool !!
(for more info please check her site at www.heresyclothing.com later in the week when the site is relaunched)

EXTRA NEWS

Check it out !!!!
THE MILL are putting on THE MISSION on Wed 21st September
Tickets are £15 adv and the doors are from 7pm

And on Sunday 25th September, Miss 616's band 616 ABORTIONS will be supporting
KILLING MIRANDA at an all-dayer goth festy at the very smashing HEX venue in Birkenhead

It's organised by the very wonderful MIDIAN crew and is only £7.50 to get in

This is a very special event as it's all in aid of the

Jenny Brereton Intensive Care Appeal (Jenny BICA)
and all profits will go to this charity to provide equipment for Intensive & Special Care Units.

Full line up of the bands :-

Killing Miranda
616 Abortions
Way of all Flesh
Rome Burns
Voices of Masada
Deadfilmstar
Flight
Gnosis

PLEASE COME ALONG AND SUPPORT THIS EVENT IF YOU CAN
It'll be an excellent day with lots of great bands, dj's, stalls etc

And finally - Miss 616 is thrilled to be asked to guest DJ at the
VNV NATION
and
[:SITD:]

show also at HEXon their UK tour on the 23rd November.
If you're interested in going along there 'may' be a possibility of getting a minibus/coach together from Preston, BUT this must be organised much sooner rather than later. So PLEASE let Miss 616 know either at the club or by email j616@616abortions.net asap so we have time to organise and work out how much it'll cost etc.

BLISS - the Dumfries follow-up

Sun, 04 Sep 2005 23:02:25 GMT

Hiya - just an update about the recent 616 show at the launch of DARKLIGHT in Dumfries

I had *such* a marvelous time (as did the band!) and really enjoyed the whole thing !!

Smart venue and sound people, nice mix of bands, great audience, and we got a really smart response from the crowd too :)

Big thanks to all the guys from Carlisle too who'd travelled up to the event and to ALL the very luvly people we talked to that night - made us feel very welcome :)

But the HUGEST of thanks to the very wonderful DJ Miss Twisted who organised and promoted the whole thing, and DJ'd some smart tunes to-boot as well - I definately found a kindred spirit in her I think :D

It was an odd one though, seeing as we were missing our beloved DEATHSTAR...... and it must've looked pretty empty to people who'd seen us before not having our resident 'pscyhotix with a distressed guitar', but I think I did ok with the guitar and singy parts, in fact I really enjoyed being the one who got to bash and thrash it for once hehe. But cant now wait for the Birkenhead show with Killing Miranda and lots of other groovy bands to have him back and creating more carnage - :D

But it was also a smart one-off too, as I couldn't play WELCOME BACK TO HELL and sing it at the same time (it was pretty much the only one I struggled with), so it was a so cool to have Joe (Gemma's very ace boyfriend) come onstage in his Iron Maiden t-shirt and blast that one out for us at the encore :D !!!!

But the fun didn't end there - no sir-eeee. Another very rare treat was that I wasn't driving (Joe drove us up, and I stayed over with a drunken Jared and even drunker Anna at Miss T's luvly home and got a lift back with Miss Twisted the next day) - so then I got to do the very rare thing of actually drink lots after the show !!!!!

Woke up in a blissed out state of mind in a lodge on the edge of a gorgeous Scotish estate on a gorgeous sunny Sat morning after a very late night of boozies and sillyness. (and hearing a piper in the distance playing at a wedding at church just across the park)

Had a really wonderful time and this was >>>Exactly<<< the kind of thing I really needed in my life at this moment

Huge thanks to everyone - it was a weekend I'll fondly remember :D
And roll on the 25th Sep, when we get to do it all again

Miss 616
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.... check out the 616 site for piccies I've uploaded of the night

Free tickets for the Dumfries 616 show

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:50:54 GMT

Hiya - just a quickie

I've been very kindly given some free complimentary tickets to give away for the 616 show next Friday in Dumfries. If anyone would like to go please email me on j616@616abortions.net -

This show is gonna be a very unique one - DOM IS AWAY THAT WEEK !!!!
So all the guitars are gonna be played by me haha :D

Don't worry, I've been practicing hard and can do both so it'll still sound smart, but there'll just be less carnage onstage than usual :)

but this'll be a one off, Dom will be back in good time for the Birkenhead all-dayer

Miss j616
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LIVE 616 SHOWS IN SEPTEMBER

Tue, 02 Aug 2005 00:00:44 GMT

Hi - just a mention about a couple of live 616 shows in September

On Friday the 2nd Sep, 616 headline a brand new club night in Dumfries, Scotland - at THE VENUE club
It's called DARKLIGHT and for more info please visit the wonderful http://www.miss-twisted.co.uk/

Support is from goth-rock band Rhombus, and local metal band Turbyne

And then later on in the month, on Sunday 25th, 616 are the main support on an all-dayer Charity goth festy aT the excellent Afterdark @ Hex club in Birkenhead (near Liverpool), organsised by the very luvly Sister Carrion.
Headliners are Killing Miranda, and there's also a whole lot of other bands about to be confirmed. (more details on that very soon)

Hope some of you can come to those !!!!

As for me, I'm sure you've all noticed I've been AWOL yet again :(

Mainly it was due to crappy tech problems, but the luvly Trad Chad fixed that a while back - more recently I've just been totally snowed under and had a zillion and one things on my plate - its a shame as theres just been so MUCH stuff been going on, I just never get the time to update here much.

Apologies as well as Im gonna be away from the net for the next few weeks, but this is actually a *Good* thing, as there's just too much that distracts me from getting everything done :(

But I'll probably post something major here for you all in the next few weeks so please keep a look out - and apologies again for being a rude ignorant fukkkker and not replying to messages on here etc. But when you read the next post hopefully you'll forgive me and understand why....

till then - addios amigos

Miss ignorant fkkking 616
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June the 7th

Wed, 08 Jun 2005 00:00:56 GMT

Been to see the Star Wars Movie today - really loved it, and so very glad I stuck my fingers in my eyes, shut my ears and sang lalalala every time a trailer came or something like it came on in the past few months :D

Dont think I'll ever forget today

Miss j616
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ELECTRO-CIDE JOY

Sat, 28 May 2005 14:40:25 GMT

Well, I just got back from work this morning and been in a great mood, and wanted to pop a post about last nights Electro-Cide

Sadly it was our quietest night so far and what with our guest dj's travelling quite far to get here I was worried they'd be dissapointed and it'd be a terrible night.

But wierdly, just like the ones before, we had an absolute blast :D

The guests, Gav (94v) and Paul (Techno-Muppet) were just amazing - played some fantastic things, and I danced as much as I physically could :) MANY Thanks to them and Gav's brother Dan for coming along!

I'd never really worked with more 'dance' orientated dj's before, and was very cool watching them working the mixer doing phasey drop outs, bass sweeps, panning things and pulsing things with the faders and beat matching :) It was smart as that's not something I'd ever tried before (I just used the eq/faders to even out tracks rather than interact with them) - they used it like another instrument (or rather more like a weapon on some of the things they played hehe!!)

Well impressive - and the best bit I liked was when they were doing a double team thing, taking it in turns to cue up a track and then the other working the mixer. Tag team djing definately has it's advantages :)

So, tbh we thought early on that maybe we should call it day on the event after this one as the numbers have never really been great, but we've had **SUCH** a great time at all the nights, especially this one and when we had the very wonderful DJ Asha along back in March, that well be doing the last two and just use them as excuse to have a party - all be it a VERY loud party with bar staff (which pretty much last night was)

Gav (94v) is playing a guest spot at the Underworld in Manchester on Friday (at Jilly's Rockworld) - hopefully I'll be able to get down but if anyones in the area that night he's well worth checking out (as are the other guys there - some smart dj's)

And as for Techno-Muppet, I'd known him online for years and always liked his very passionate take on music, so I was very glad to hear him play some of the great stuff he's been talking about for so many years. Seeing as it was his dj debut he was very impressive :D

I'm off to the club later on to pack down so I'll hopefully get all the selists typed up and online soon

*HUGE THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAME ALONG* and *HUGE THANKS* to the Blowing Wild Club - we'll be back in September with more underground electroshocks :)

Miss j616
xXx

ps - got some wonderful news about 616 to tell you all very soon hehe