Still on my diet, but I pretty much eat the same thing every day – cereal, subway, salad, yoghurt, tea and diet coke. I think Scott might be beating me so far, but we’ll see.

Anyway, whilst on my way to the gym on Thursday I stopped into HMV for a quick look. They had Rock Band and peripherals for £150. I had a £50 voucher from my last work to spend bringing it to a reasonable £100 so I bought it and skipped the gym

It’s pretty good. Drums are fun, although if Neil wasn’t a drummer I doubt we’d be playing on expert. Vocals aren’t too difficult and I hope to improve my (already awesome) singing. Guitar is easy compared with GHIII.

Only problem is the guitar itself is shit. I do a lot of down strokes compared with an up/down strum and the Guitar Hero  guitar is very well equipped to spring back in time for the second stroke. Not so with the Rock Band guitar, it has a much spongier feel to the strum bar and is harder to play.

Also, I don’t know if it’s my imagination but Neil kind of gets it too in that the timing is a bit off. Considering that it may be the lag in the calibration but I’m not convinced that it’s just not plain wrong. Sometimes I keep, what I think is at least, the same rhythm and it tells me I’m wrong about half way through.

I would play with the GHII controller but my xbox has stopped recognising it. It did work briefly through the Rock Band hub but not any more, so that just leaves me with the GHIII guitar which is very temporamental. Le sigh.

Also I bought all the download content which came to another £150! Yowsers. Plus there’s new content every week so I’m looking at another £5 -£10 weekly on the game.

Anyway, still lots of fun.