Hopefully all will be well until then.
Showing posts with label Wembley Stadium. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wembley Stadium. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
One Sleepy Ass
I might be one sleepy, poorer-than-before ass having been up at 4:00 a.m. to secure tickets but this looks really great right now:
Hopefully all will be well until then.
Hopefully all will be well until then.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
How Are You Doing, Wembley? It Looks Like You're Having Fun, We Are!" - Dom
Y & M & M @ WS:
We came to London with a purpose and that was to be a part of history.
My boys, after a very long career of ups and down, four studio albums and acquiring the title of being one of the best live acts around, have made it.
They finally made it to a venue that could actually house and do justice to their sound and energy.
Wembley Stadium
photo source: www.NME.com
+
photo source: www.NME.com
MUSE
=
Fucking Beautiful.
photo source: www.muse.mu
From their stage entrance (and everything in between including huge, searching-the-night-and-the-crowd satellites; thousands of lights; brilliant stage set up; giant crowd-surfing balloons filled with confetti we've come to know and love; and acrobats) to their farewell, everything MUSE did was phenomenal. Sure it seemed a little cheesey sometimes and always over the top but MUSE are incapable of doing anything on a small scale.
All other concerts of theirs before this (that I've been to) have paled in comparison simply because like I said, nothing could contain their greatness and it'd finally take a newly built Wembley Stadium to even begin doing it proper. And even then, Wembley needed two nights to pack it all in. I'm fairly certain those boys could sell out many more nights @ 75,000 + people per show had they added them.
As Matt said, they were finally ready for this.
The eerie anticipation was dispelled by confetti raining down on WS as MUSE came up from the center of it, masked by a confusion of white for just a moment until those red, green and grey clothes became visible to us.
The cat walk was a little lengthy but at the end of it, the boys took their instruments and began belting out KofC.
They kept the excitement going strong with the real greatness for us starting up with the "R&B" track Dom liked to call it.
"R&B?", H1 questioned.
"It's Supermassive!", I screamed and sure enough, they did not disappoint. The dancing robots filled the screens and my favourite stripper song started blasting from Dom's kit, Chris' bass and Matt's guitar.
Yeah, I know. R&B. Forgive Dom. He's a joker.
The song that sold them for H1 (you know, she dislikes MUSE for the most part but I think she's now been converted some, to the point she's considering going to see them at MSG in August) was their performance of "Map of the Problematique".
It was indeed well worth standing there for the 5 hours before MUSE took the stage. That already killer track (possibly one of MUSE's greatest) took on a whole new life. TD5, it was at this point that I started cursing you under my breath every 2 seconds as opposed to the 50 minutes intervals I was doing before.
Matt, being a lover of the Rage Against the Machine, metted out some good ol' Tom Morello riffs. They were so well done and they were songs that aren't as well-known RATM pieces that H1 has now taken to calling my boy an elitist. It's true. I really hope that what Matt has said is true and that a Rage/Muse show will go down. It better be in NY though but something tells me it's going to be Cali. and I'm going to be really pissed off.
I could rant about all the other tracks during the first part but here are the highlights and lowlamps -
H1 got "City of Delusion" and I got "Butterflies and Hurricanes". Stop laughing H1. Stop laughing. I like B&H.
The megaphone got tossed again! Ahaha. That slays me everytime.
Sunburn! Do you hear me?! Sunburn! "From our very first album, our very first song." Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. The boys do love me...
...but not so much when they dedicated "Starlight" to the fans as they hoped that they could see them in the back. Okay, I'll admit it. I was clapping and singing right along. It's kind of hard not to.
Once again, they tried to get me to tear and have a meltdown. "Citizen Erased" was played but then those bitches went straight into Hoodoo. Two of my personal tear jerker songs in a row?! They were trying to kill me!
And oo, we got that new MUSE track that came out while I was in England. It's one of the funkiest things I've heard in a while... You know, in the 3 weeks I stopped listening to Arctic Monkeys. It was well played in concert though. Well. Played.
Encore 1 began as an acoustic set with the thousands of fans willingly holding up their lit mobiles in unity at Dom's request.
I finally got to hear "Blackout" and it was then the floating acrobats drifted among the thousands of people in the pit. Again, Matt was trying to make me cry but succeeded in not doing so because H1 and I were confused by the acrobats.
It was a good thing that happened too because "Unintended" had me really cheesed out.
The lowlamp - "Plug In Baby". The opening riff is always great but um, yeah. I still dislike that song for the most part. I know. I'm a MUSE fan that slightly dislikes "Plug In Baby". Stop judging me, you assholes.
They like to tease me, my boys. Well, not really. I knew they'd be back but oh my god I didn't expect what came next...
...Encore 2 began with one of my favourite damned songs ever. It's probably the song I really fell in love with Matthew for and while most ::cough:: H1 ::cough:: may find his falsetto sometimes grating, "Micro Cuts" just wins it for me. There's something about destroying the puppet strings to my soul that does it for me. I love my Banshee.
Before we knew it, the night was almost done. Well, that's not entirely true. I actually couldn't believe after that extra long performance of "Stockholm Syndrome" that they were actually doing to do another song but once "Take A Bow" came on, we knew for sure that was it.
I saw my man bow and 3 minutes later it was over. Just like that, we were filing out of the stadium with his words ringing harsh in my heart "see you tomorrow!". No Matt. I wasn't going to but you had to rub it in, yeah?
::sigh::
It's alright. I'll be all over you, Dom and Chris on August 6th for probably the last time at a concert until you grace us with your next new collection of songs.
The Brilliant 06/16/2007 MUSE, the first artists to sell out (the new) WEMBLEY "FUCKING" STADIUM Set List:
1. Knights of Cydonia
2. Hysteria
3. Supermassive Blackhole
4. Map of the Problematique ~ Maggie's Farm riff (RATM)
5. City of Delusion
6. Butterflies and Hurricanes
7. Citizen Erased
8. Hoodoo
9. Feeling Good
10. piano interlude + Sunburn
11. Invincible
12. Starlight
13. Time is Running Out
14. Man of Mystery
15. New Born + Microphone Fiend riff (RATM) + Ashamed outro
Encore 1:
16. Soldier's Poem (acoustic guitar)
17. Unintended
18. Blackout
19. Plug In Baby
Encore 2:
20. Micro Cuts
21. riff + Stockholm Syndrome + riff
22. Take A Bow
Finally, (and whoever actually had the patience to read through this which I'm sure is not a lot of you, indulge me one last swoon) I must say that one of the most memorable moments of the night for me was seeing the smiles on their faces. Those little smiles beamed of relief, pure excitement and the feelings of being on top of the world.
And seeing those smiles made me genuinely, and happily content and had me beaming back in adoration.
This is what I consider my most expensive concert considering transportation costs but oh was it worth it.
I've no regrets.
*This is the blog in photos, since I'm sure none of you got through any of this though I didn't expect you to. But you know, who am I kidding? I'm posting these pics for myself! Har Har!:
Confetti filled fun-time entrance!
photo source: www.NME.com
Walking the Catwalk. They're too cute and it's just hilarious to me:
photo source: www.NME.com
"Look! Look! He's strutting!" - H1
"Yeah. Because he can." - Or 2
photo source: www.NME.com
One of my own pics. My lot's not very good because even though I think we had fairly decent seats, it was still far back as all heck but notice... A little obscene there, yeah Matt baby?
The traditional HOchie blog post would include the following -
The WTF Moments of the Night
1. Alright. Again, no fookin' "Muscle Museum". But AT LEAST, I finally got some justice and would consider our set list better than Sunday's. Thank goodness. I mean, I would have liked to hear "Apocalypse Please" but it's okay that those bastards at Sunday's show got it.
2. I finally get to hear "Blackout" and right when the most beautifully sung portion of the song comes on, Matt's fookin' mic. gives out for the 6 seconds I need it most! WTF!!!!!
3. I've seen Matt wear better outfits. By the way Frass, he did a costume change. But anyway, back to the better outfits. It is thus far, their biggest gig and he comes out in this red suit? Granted I still found it very hot especially the silk lining and the red shoes but come now, the 'cape' at the arena was better lookin'. And then out came the white pants... ah, who am I kidding. I loved it but only on Matt! This is not an invitation for the rest of you to start going about in my line of vision all white pant-ed!
Currently listening to: "Space Dementia" by MUSE. A song I'm still waiting to hear in concert. Here's hoping for it at Y&M&M@MSG!!!!
We came to London with a purpose and that was to be a part of history.
My boys, after a very long career of ups and down, four studio albums and acquiring the title of being one of the best live acts around, have made it.
They finally made it to a venue that could actually house and do justice to their sound and energy.
Wembley Stadium
photo source: www.NME.com
+
photo source: www.NME.com
MUSE
=
Fucking Beautiful.
photo source: www.muse.mu
From their stage entrance (and everything in between including huge, searching-the-night-and-the-crowd satellites; thousands of lights; brilliant stage set up; giant crowd-surfing balloons filled with confetti we've come to know and love; and acrobats) to their farewell, everything MUSE did was phenomenal. Sure it seemed a little cheesey sometimes and always over the top but MUSE are incapable of doing anything on a small scale.
All other concerts of theirs before this (that I've been to) have paled in comparison simply because like I said, nothing could contain their greatness and it'd finally take a newly built Wembley Stadium to even begin doing it proper. And even then, Wembley needed two nights to pack it all in. I'm fairly certain those boys could sell out many more nights @ 75,000 + people per show had they added them.
As Matt said, they were finally ready for this.
The eerie anticipation was dispelled by confetti raining down on WS as MUSE came up from the center of it, masked by a confusion of white for just a moment until those red, green and grey clothes became visible to us.
The cat walk was a little lengthy but at the end of it, the boys took their instruments and began belting out KofC.
They kept the excitement going strong with the real greatness for us starting up with the "R&B" track Dom liked to call it.
"R&B?", H1 questioned.
"It's Supermassive!", I screamed and sure enough, they did not disappoint. The dancing robots filled the screens and my favourite stripper song started blasting from Dom's kit, Chris' bass and Matt's guitar.
Yeah, I know. R&B. Forgive Dom. He's a joker.
The song that sold them for H1 (you know, she dislikes MUSE for the most part but I think she's now been converted some, to the point she's considering going to see them at MSG in August) was their performance of "Map of the Problematique".
It was indeed well worth standing there for the 5 hours before MUSE took the stage. That already killer track (possibly one of MUSE's greatest) took on a whole new life. TD5, it was at this point that I started cursing you under my breath every 2 seconds as opposed to the 50 minutes intervals I was doing before.
Matt, being a lover of the Rage Against the Machine, metted out some good ol' Tom Morello riffs. They were so well done and they were songs that aren't as well-known RATM pieces that H1 has now taken to calling my boy an elitist. It's true. I really hope that what Matt has said is true and that a Rage/Muse show will go down. It better be in NY though but something tells me it's going to be Cali. and I'm going to be really pissed off.
I could rant about all the other tracks during the first part but here are the highlights and lowlamps -
H1 got "City of Delusion" and I got "Butterflies and Hurricanes". Stop laughing H1. Stop laughing. I like B&H.
The megaphone got tossed again! Ahaha. That slays me everytime.
Sunburn! Do you hear me?! Sunburn! "From our very first album, our very first song." Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. The boys do love me...
...but not so much when they dedicated "Starlight" to the fans as they hoped that they could see them in the back. Okay, I'll admit it. I was clapping and singing right along. It's kind of hard not to.
Once again, they tried to get me to tear and have a meltdown. "Citizen Erased" was played but then those bitches went straight into Hoodoo. Two of my personal tear jerker songs in a row?! They were trying to kill me!
And oo, we got that new MUSE track that came out while I was in England. It's one of the funkiest things I've heard in a while... You know, in the 3 weeks I stopped listening to Arctic Monkeys. It was well played in concert though. Well. Played.
Encore 1 began as an acoustic set with the thousands of fans willingly holding up their lit mobiles in unity at Dom's request.
I finally got to hear "Blackout" and it was then the floating acrobats drifted among the thousands of people in the pit. Again, Matt was trying to make me cry but succeeded in not doing so because H1 and I were confused by the acrobats.
It was a good thing that happened too because "Unintended" had me really cheesed out.
The lowlamp - "Plug In Baby". The opening riff is always great but um, yeah. I still dislike that song for the most part. I know. I'm a MUSE fan that slightly dislikes "Plug In Baby". Stop judging me, you assholes.
They like to tease me, my boys. Well, not really. I knew they'd be back but oh my god I didn't expect what came next...
...Encore 2 began with one of my favourite damned songs ever. It's probably the song I really fell in love with Matthew for and while most ::cough:: H1 ::cough:: may find his falsetto sometimes grating, "Micro Cuts" just wins it for me. There's something about destroying the puppet strings to my soul that does it for me. I love my Banshee.
Before we knew it, the night was almost done. Well, that's not entirely true. I actually couldn't believe after that extra long performance of "Stockholm Syndrome" that they were actually doing to do another song but once "Take A Bow" came on, we knew for sure that was it.
I saw my man bow and 3 minutes later it was over. Just like that, we were filing out of the stadium with his words ringing harsh in my heart "see you tomorrow!". No Matt. I wasn't going to but you had to rub it in, yeah?
::sigh::
It's alright. I'll be all over you, Dom and Chris on August 6th for probably the last time at a concert until you grace us with your next new collection of songs.
The Brilliant 06/16/2007 MUSE, the first artists to sell out (the new) WEMBLEY "FUCKING" STADIUM Set List:
1. Knights of Cydonia
2. Hysteria
3. Supermassive Blackhole
4. Map of the Problematique ~ Maggie's Farm riff (RATM)
5. City of Delusion
6. Butterflies and Hurricanes
7. Citizen Erased
8. Hoodoo
9. Feeling Good
10. piano interlude + Sunburn
11. Invincible
12. Starlight
13. Time is Running Out
14. Man of Mystery
15. New Born + Microphone Fiend riff (RATM) + Ashamed outro
Encore 1:
16. Soldier's Poem (acoustic guitar)
17. Unintended
18. Blackout
19. Plug In Baby
Encore 2:
20. Micro Cuts
21. riff + Stockholm Syndrome + riff
22. Take A Bow
Finally, (and whoever actually had the patience to read through this which I'm sure is not a lot of you, indulge me one last swoon) I must say that one of the most memorable moments of the night for me was seeing the smiles on their faces. Those little smiles beamed of relief, pure excitement and the feelings of being on top of the world.
And seeing those smiles made me genuinely, and happily content and had me beaming back in adoration.
This is what I consider my most expensive concert considering transportation costs but oh was it worth it.
I've no regrets.
*This is the blog in photos, since I'm sure none of you got through any of this though I didn't expect you to. But you know, who am I kidding? I'm posting these pics for myself! Har Har!:
Confetti filled fun-time entrance!
photo source: www.NME.com
Walking the Catwalk. They're too cute and it's just hilarious to me:
photo source: www.NME.com
"Look! Look! He's strutting!" - H1
"Yeah. Because he can." - Or 2
photo source: www.NME.com
One of my own pics. My lot's not very good because even though I think we had fairly decent seats, it was still far back as all heck but notice... A little obscene there, yeah Matt baby?
The traditional HOchie blog post would include the following -
The WTF Moments of the Night
1. Alright. Again, no fookin' "Muscle Museum". But AT LEAST, I finally got some justice and would consider our set list better than Sunday's. Thank goodness. I mean, I would have liked to hear "Apocalypse Please" but it's okay that those bastards at Sunday's show got it.
2. I finally get to hear "Blackout" and right when the most beautifully sung portion of the song comes on, Matt's fookin' mic. gives out for the 6 seconds I need it most! WTF!!!!!
3. I've seen Matt wear better outfits. By the way Frass, he did a costume change. But anyway, back to the better outfits. It is thus far, their biggest gig and he comes out in this red suit? Granted I still found it very hot especially the silk lining and the red shoes but come now, the 'cape' at the arena was better lookin'. And then out came the white pants... ah, who am I kidding. I loved it but only on Matt! This is not an invitation for the rest of you to start going about in my line of vision all white pant-ed!
Currently listening to: "Space Dementia" by MUSE. A song I'm still waiting to hear in concert. Here's hoping for it at Y&M&M@MSG!!!!
Saturday, June 23, 2007
The HOchies Muck About in England!
That's right, we're not adults but louts. At least I am but I think H1 would disagree on that assessment of her character.
She's more like Terry.
Law-abiding and all.
All legal.
4.5 days after the Tokyo-Ho trip, H1 and I jetted off to London for basically 2 days.
I was very much destroyed at that point but what did I care?! I was off to London with a purpose!
And that was to have H1 enjoy the best In-Flight Entertainment ever!
Perhaps that's not the only reason why but goddamn does that airline keep proving to be the most fabulous ever. More on Virgin-A later. Before I forget, I'm sorry Pandy but we did not ask the flight attendants if "all of allyuh is virgin?".
We fled the office at 2 PM on Thursday, June 14th only to get a car driver who was suspect at best. This man was so mother-fookin' racist. There was no conversation he could have with you that didn't involve the phrase, "the whites like to attack you, man. They attack your culture if you're not pure bred."
Normally if someone asks you about a band they don't know of, what do you think their first question would be? You'd think it be along the lines of what type of music that is, right?
Is it just me to think this? This guy didn't care about that. All he wanted to know was whether or not the band was white or black. I almost didn't want to answer for fear he'd kill us.
The airport was fairly uneventful. We did eat some great cheese fries with bacon and the flight was delayed.
The flight going to London was greatness. It was not without some sadness though. For one, the very politically incorrect safety flight video that I really wanted H1 to see was not working thanks to interference.
Secondly, we got stuck sitting between this family of annoying daughters. Those little bastards were so rude.
And finally, my gay British boys were not working that flight. We had mostly female attendants which was fine because they were so cute with their constant laughing. No fear though, I got all of my boys on the flight back.
We got to Heathrow on Friday London time at 8 AM or so. And as per usual, Heathrow was a mess. We were in the line at customs for a little over 1 hour, hoping that our friends Marvs and T. checked the flight to see it was going to be late.
We finally made it out of there and was greeted by our sleepy friends who had been there since 6.30 AM.
That day we did some sightseeing!
H1 and Or 2's Adventures in the Famous...Slough?
We saw Windsor Castle. Never you mind it was in the distance! We still 'saw' it!
We also saw where The Office UK was filmed. The series centered around an office in Slough and here it is -
Impressive, yeah?
We then headed to Tesco Extra, which is the most fantastic place ever. We came back to NY with 10.5 pounds (in weight) worth of candy (40 pounds in money) thanks to that place. We were told that Tesco's out to take over the world and start branching out overseas including the U.S., so here's hoping that happens very soon and that they stock all the great Euro. candies. Although, that won't help make us sugary...
The rest of the day was spent hanging out with friends we had not seen in years. It was fun, relaxing times.
WTF Moments of the Trip:
1. I didn't get my chip butty this time but next time for sure!
2. Euro Fried Chicken?
3. It's Three Tuns, H1. Not Nuns. Tuns.
4. Joy Dining, Joy Living, Joy Sleep at Joy Fur iture
5. The cameras both dying at the most inopportune moment.
6. That fookin' vending machine at Heathrow robbed me of 30p!
7. The idiot American children who did not know the meaning of complimentary and continue to give other people in the world good reason to hate Americans. Oh those kids deserve to be kicked hard in the head for their disgusting behaviour on the plane.
8. Those racist croatians and their racist bags of peanuts!
The Great Moments of the Trip:
1. Peepshow and That Mitchell and Webb Look. Those two are killer. Oh if only I could find video of the banana dance...
2. Virgin Atlantic's In-flight Entertainment
3. Tony, a flight attendant with Virgin Atlantic. He's the bitchiest Brit. I've ever seen. That man was eye-rollin' everybody, grabbed my cup hatefully out of my hand with an exasperated 'thank you' and what's more, he looked as H1 described him, "like Matt's uglier brother". I loved-ed him and he loved-ed him some Indian baby, which made him even more endearing to me because he actually has a bit of a heart.
I hope that one day, on a 7 hour flight (or a 45 minute drive...in my imagination you're waiting lying on your side), I'll run into his cranky ass again.
On Saturday, we ran off to Paddington Station (the second time we were actually in London) to catch our show at Wembley Stadium.
The highlights and yes, some lowlamps of the day:
Lamb and mint pie - yum
Somewhat of a lowlamp was the rain that poured down on us before the show started but cleared up nicely for the show.
The Drunken "headless" lout at WS was definitely a highlight. H1 rather enjoyed his hijinks, as did many others. It was very sad when they took him away and all we have left is the memory of an abandoned beer...
A Lowlamp for sure were the majority of slags at WS.
Another Lowlamp was the lack of Klaxons. Those idiots! I think it would have been awesome hearing their sound in that space. It certainly sounded fantastic during Zane Lowe's DJ set.
Rodrigo y Gabriela = good times. TD5, if you haven't already, you may want to check them out.
Dirty Pretty Things = crap band live & possibly in studio as well which is sad because they've potential. The HOchies have a suggestion though and that is to get rid of the singer!
While we love the Streets dearly, we do not think they were the best opening act. Still, it was good seeing Mike Skinner even though my one major complaint was his lack of a good selection of songs for the set list.
The Streets @ Wembley Stadium 06/16/07 Set List
Prangin' Out
Radio Ga Ga
Don't Mug Yourself
Time Is Running Out (MUSE)
Let's Push Things Forward
Smile (Lily Allen)
Has It Come To This?
It's Too Late
When You Wasn't Famous
Never Went To Church
Turn The Page
Blinded By The Lights
Weak Become Heroes
Dry Your Eyes
Fit But You Know It
Mike Skinner -
Oh by the way, Mike, what was up with your constant Radio Ga Ga-ing?!
Of course, the highlight of the entire trip for me, and the reason why I came to London for two days - MUSE. I've an entire blog forth coming and yes, I don't expect any of you to read it (except you, TD5) but I can assure you, they were totally worth the trip.
And Frass, your comment to me the other day about Madison Square Garden being too big for MUSE was perhaps one of the most frasslike things I've ever heard come out of your mouth.
My boys sold out TWO nights at Wembley Stadium @ 75,000 people per night (and did it in half an hour per show) and with good reason.
If anything, MSG's not big enough, despite what ticket sales for this may be. They may not have sold out this show yet and that's really unfortunate because people have no clue what they'll be missing.
Quotes of that weekend:
"I do like foie gras but I don't like Alzheimer's." - H1
"When God was giving out asses that girl said, 'two please!'" - H1
"When God was giving out hair that girl said, 'two buschel please. Calves? No thanks!" - H1
We found on a card featuring two nuns and one says to the other, "Jesus loves you but I think you're a bitch." Ahahaha, that's good stuff that.
Currently listening to: "Battle for Britain (The Letter)" by David Bowie
She's more like Terry.
Law-abiding and all.
All legal.
4.5 days after the Tokyo-Ho trip, H1 and I jetted off to London for basically 2 days.
I was very much destroyed at that point but what did I care?! I was off to London with a purpose!
And that was to have H1 enjoy the best In-Flight Entertainment ever!
Perhaps that's not the only reason why but goddamn does that airline keep proving to be the most fabulous ever. More on Virgin-A later. Before I forget, I'm sorry Pandy but we did not ask the flight attendants if "all of allyuh is virgin?".
We fled the office at 2 PM on Thursday, June 14th only to get a car driver who was suspect at best. This man was so mother-fookin' racist. There was no conversation he could have with you that didn't involve the phrase, "the whites like to attack you, man. They attack your culture if you're not pure bred."
Normally if someone asks you about a band they don't know of, what do you think their first question would be? You'd think it be along the lines of what type of music that is, right?
Is it just me to think this? This guy didn't care about that. All he wanted to know was whether or not the band was white or black. I almost didn't want to answer for fear he'd kill us.
The airport was fairly uneventful. We did eat some great cheese fries with bacon and the flight was delayed.
The flight going to London was greatness. It was not without some sadness though. For one, the very politically incorrect safety flight video that I really wanted H1 to see was not working thanks to interference.
Secondly, we got stuck sitting between this family of annoying daughters. Those little bastards were so rude.
And finally, my gay British boys were not working that flight. We had mostly female attendants which was fine because they were so cute with their constant laughing. No fear though, I got all of my boys on the flight back.
We got to Heathrow on Friday London time at 8 AM or so. And as per usual, Heathrow was a mess. We were in the line at customs for a little over 1 hour, hoping that our friends Marvs and T. checked the flight to see it was going to be late.
We finally made it out of there and was greeted by our sleepy friends who had been there since 6.30 AM.
That day we did some sightseeing!
H1 and Or 2's Adventures in the Famous...Slough?
We saw Windsor Castle. Never you mind it was in the distance! We still 'saw' it!
We also saw where The Office UK was filmed. The series centered around an office in Slough and here it is -
Impressive, yeah?
We then headed to Tesco Extra, which is the most fantastic place ever. We came back to NY with 10.5 pounds (in weight) worth of candy (40 pounds in money) thanks to that place. We were told that Tesco's out to take over the world and start branching out overseas including the U.S., so here's hoping that happens very soon and that they stock all the great Euro. candies. Although, that won't help make us sugary...
The rest of the day was spent hanging out with friends we had not seen in years. It was fun, relaxing times.
WTF Moments of the Trip:
1. I didn't get my chip butty this time but next time for sure!
2. Euro Fried Chicken?
3. It's Three Tuns, H1. Not Nuns. Tuns.
4. Joy Dining, Joy Living, Joy Sleep at Joy Fur iture
5. The cameras both dying at the most inopportune moment.
6. That fookin' vending machine at Heathrow robbed me of 30p!
7. The idiot American children who did not know the meaning of complimentary and continue to give other people in the world good reason to hate Americans. Oh those kids deserve to be kicked hard in the head for their disgusting behaviour on the plane.
8. Those racist croatians and their racist bags of peanuts!
The Great Moments of the Trip:
1. Peepshow and That Mitchell and Webb Look. Those two are killer. Oh if only I could find video of the banana dance...
2. Virgin Atlantic's In-flight Entertainment
3. Tony, a flight attendant with Virgin Atlantic. He's the bitchiest Brit. I've ever seen. That man was eye-rollin' everybody, grabbed my cup hatefully out of my hand with an exasperated 'thank you' and what's more, he looked as H1 described him, "like Matt's uglier brother". I loved-ed him and he loved-ed him some Indian baby, which made him even more endearing to me because he actually has a bit of a heart.
I hope that one day, on a 7 hour flight (or a 45 minute drive...in my imagination you're waiting lying on your side), I'll run into his cranky ass again.
On Saturday, we ran off to Paddington Station (the second time we were actually in London) to catch our show at Wembley Stadium.
The highlights and yes, some lowlamps of the day:
Lamb and mint pie - yum
Somewhat of a lowlamp was the rain that poured down on us before the show started but cleared up nicely for the show.
The Drunken "headless" lout at WS was definitely a highlight. H1 rather enjoyed his hijinks, as did many others. It was very sad when they took him away and all we have left is the memory of an abandoned beer...
A Lowlamp for sure were the majority of slags at WS.
Another Lowlamp was the lack of Klaxons. Those idiots! I think it would have been awesome hearing their sound in that space. It certainly sounded fantastic during Zane Lowe's DJ set.
Rodrigo y Gabriela = good times. TD5, if you haven't already, you may want to check them out.
Dirty Pretty Things = crap band live & possibly in studio as well which is sad because they've potential. The HOchies have a suggestion though and that is to get rid of the singer!
While we love the Streets dearly, we do not think they were the best opening act. Still, it was good seeing Mike Skinner even though my one major complaint was his lack of a good selection of songs for the set list.
The Streets @ Wembley Stadium 06/16/07 Set List
Prangin' Out
Radio Ga Ga
Don't Mug Yourself
Time Is Running Out (MUSE)
Let's Push Things Forward
Smile (Lily Allen)
Has It Come To This?
It's Too Late
When You Wasn't Famous
Never Went To Church
Turn The Page
Blinded By The Lights
Weak Become Heroes
Dry Your Eyes
Fit But You Know It
Mike Skinner -
Oh by the way, Mike, what was up with your constant Radio Ga Ga-ing?!
Of course, the highlight of the entire trip for me, and the reason why I came to London for two days - MUSE. I've an entire blog forth coming and yes, I don't expect any of you to read it (except you, TD5) but I can assure you, they were totally worth the trip.
And Frass, your comment to me the other day about Madison Square Garden being too big for MUSE was perhaps one of the most frasslike things I've ever heard come out of your mouth.
My boys sold out TWO nights at Wembley Stadium @ 75,000 people per night (and did it in half an hour per show) and with good reason.
If anything, MSG's not big enough, despite what ticket sales for this may be. They may not have sold out this show yet and that's really unfortunate because people have no clue what they'll be missing.
Quotes of that weekend:
"I do like foie gras but I don't like Alzheimer's." - H1
"When God was giving out asses that girl said, 'two please!'" - H1
"When God was giving out hair that girl said, 'two buschel please. Calves? No thanks!" - H1
We found on a card featuring two nuns and one says to the other, "Jesus loves you but I think you're a bitch." Ahahaha, that's good stuff that.
Currently listening to: "Battle for Britain (The Letter)" by David Bowie
Monday, May 21, 2007
Ugh.
MUSE has annoyed me some today.
WTF is up with their having mcr support them at Wembley Stadium?! mcr?!
...
They're so un-deserving of that gig. I cannot even begin to express my disgust.
Anyway, those suckers at the Sunday show can suffer through that bullshit.
H1 and I will be seeing The Streets.
And while those other assholes sort out what they're doing over there in London, I'm going to sort out H1 and try to fanagle a trip to Malahide Castle to see our boys, Arctic Monkeys in Ireland.
WTF is up with their having mcr support them at Wembley Stadium?! mcr?!
...
They're so un-deserving of that gig. I cannot even begin to express my disgust.
Anyway, those suckers at the Sunday show can suffer through that bullshit.
H1 and I will be seeing The Streets.
And while those other assholes sort out what they're doing over there in London, I'm going to sort out H1 and try to fanagle a trip to Malahide Castle to see our boys, Arctic Monkeys in Ireland.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
The Idiots Who Turned Down a Gig @ Wembley Stadium
Dominic Howard and Matthew Bellamy of the band Muse are fans of Klaxons, according to an interview in the NME, and have been to a number of their gigs. They also recently asked Jamie of Klaxons if they would support them for their two Wembley stadium concerts to which he reportedly replied "nah, we don't support anyone" (as reported by the band on a recent Drowned In Sound podcast). The band, who afterwards expressed regret stating alcohol to be a factor in their refusal of the support slot, have since been re-approached and confirmed that they in fact do wish to play with Muse.
Matthew Bellamy has re-opened his offer to Klaxons to support them at the upcoming Wembley gig, when he became aware of the confusion he told NME: "Is that what they've said? Well OK, if they're still up for it, we'll bring them on!" [4] They have still not been confirmed as one of the three bands to support them on both dates. - source, wikipedia on the Klaxons.
I found this article to be hilarious. Now I'm obsessed with listening to these guys. It kind of scares me that they're often classified as "nu rave" because I'm not sure we should be ravin' anymore but I'll bring them on too! I need to sort them out myself...
Currently listening to: "Naive" by The Kooks.
Matthew Bellamy has re-opened his offer to Klaxons to support them at the upcoming Wembley gig, when he became aware of the confusion he told NME: "Is that what they've said? Well OK, if they're still up for it, we'll bring them on!" [4] They have still not been confirmed as one of the three bands to support them on both dates. - source, wikipedia on the Klaxons.
I found this article to be hilarious. Now I'm obsessed with listening to these guys. It kind of scares me that they're often classified as "nu rave" because I'm not sure we should be ravin' anymore but I'll bring them on too! I need to sort them out myself...
Currently listening to: "Naive" by The Kooks.
Saturday, December 09, 2006
June 17th, 2007
I cannot believe MUSE sold out their June 16th show at Wembley Stadium and within the 4 hours (probably less because that's a rough estimate on my part) of it being sold out, because of the high demand they added a 2nd night - also on its way to being sold out. My boys are killing me here. I'm just going to go cry now...
Monday, December 04, 2006
June 16th, 2007
MUSE held a press conference today and announced a show at Wembley Stadium for 06/16/07. It's going to be huge! So here's the plan (because you all so love hearing my MUSE related banter and plans):
The concert's a Saturday. So we fly to London on Friday night, go for Dim Sum when we get in Saturday morning, visit the Aquarium near Big Ben for 2 hours, fancy up ourselves for the concert, then head to Wembley STADIUM via the Bakerloo Line, see the greatest band in the world at WS (but not really see anything other than what we can make out on the screens because we're talking massive space), and then fly to Japan for 2 weeks!
I will now edit and add to my "Christmas wishlist" to include:
3. Tickets to the Wembley Stadium Show. They go on sale at 9 AM London time this Saturday (12/09/06), so that's 4 AM for NY.
And now I wait for the (and to use an SF term - hopefully I'm using it correctly) lambasting to begin but honestly, before tearing me a new one, my friends...think about it. Think about it...
The concert's a Saturday. So we fly to London on Friday night, go for Dim Sum when we get in Saturday morning, visit the Aquarium near Big Ben for 2 hours, fancy up ourselves for the concert, then head to Wembley STADIUM via the Bakerloo Line, see the greatest band in the world at WS (but not really see anything other than what we can make out on the screens because we're talking massive space), and then fly to Japan for 2 weeks!
I will now edit and add to my "Christmas wishlist" to include:
3. Tickets to the Wembley Stadium Show. They go on sale at 9 AM London time this Saturday (12/09/06), so that's 4 AM for NY.
And now I wait for the (and to use an SF term - hopefully I'm using it correctly) lambasting to begin but honestly, before tearing me a new one, my friends...think about it. Think about it...
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