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Hey YouTube its Joe Dexter coming at ya And welcome to my Draw My Life
Starring me Joe Dexter WOO! I suppose it all began deep in the womb
A shy, introverted fetus I was Playing Gameboy till the wee hours of the
morning How it got in there, I don’t want to think
about it Like many people, I was born
Simba! My dad was away a lot in the early years to
tour and work with his band Sade We all lived a quiet life in London
Just me, dad, mum and my dog Sophie Until fifteen months later a stalk flew right
above the house and Dropped a baby right on its head
This would explain a few things later on This baby was to be my sister Rose
When I was six we all moved from jolly old London to Los Angeles California
Hollywood here we come! It was there I attended the Hollywood Little
Red School House I spent some of the happiest years of my life
there And can honestly say I cant remember a single
bad day My friends and I would often hide in the bathrooms
at lunch time Writing short films and trading Pokemon
When I was 12 my family decided to move back to England
But this time from Hollywood to Hastings I was always a posh boy at heart so I thought
the English lifestyle would suit me well And I also liked the fact that my school Battle
Abbey would look exactly like Hogwarts But the uniform lifestyle didn’t quite work
out for us so a year later we decided to move back to LA
It was then I decided to change my life I was shy, overweight and had no self confidence
So I went from this to this I had discovered Punk Rock and my life started
to suddenly make a bit more sense to me So together with my best friends at the time,
Jack and Mike We decided to start a band
We went through various names such as Raven 54
Hey the number band thing was cool then Nameless, which is still a pretty cool name
And even West Sieed Eventually we settled on Orange
This was to be a temporary name but it stuck Because not too long after that I received
an email from Tim Armstrong from the band Rancid
Saying he had heard Orange’s demo and wanted to sign us to his record label Hellcat Records
We were only sixteen and started making records and over the years have toured with some amazing
bands Like The Misfits, The Adicts and even the
UK Subs Those were more in our Punk Rock days
We started touring with bigger more Pop Punk bands
Such as Zebrahead, Bowling For Soup and Reel Big Fish
I grew up with posters of Bowling For Soup on my wall
And dreamed of touring with them since I was a kid
Just goes to show you, some dreams do come true
Speaking of tour we actually have a few tour dates coming up this June in the UK
If you like your rock shows sprinkled with fairy lights, theatrics and shenanigans
Then you’ll love us Just pause the video to check out the tour
dates now Ill also put a link in the description below
and as an annotation to where you can buy tickets
So where am I now? Well almost two years ago I actually moved
back again to the UK and within the last six months I’ve been living in Brighton studying
at BIMM Which is a pretty cool music college here
I went there with the sole intention of learning As I believe it’s never too late to broaden
your horizons especially when it comes to art
I’ve made some terrific friends who I will probably love for the rest of my life
Maybe we can collaborate on a few YouTube videos before it all ends in two months time
So what happens next? Well there’s talks about us moving yet again
back to LA for the third time after our June tour
But who know The future is unwritten and it’s unwritten
for a reason, spoilers Till next time YouTube this is Joe Dexter
signing off