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Post by Kez on Aug 30, 2008 12:26:47 GMT -1
Managed to get a ticket off a friend so am off to see them in about an hour. Madness.
Have loved them for about 15 years and was raging I missed their Olympia show in Dublin last year. Can't believe I'm actually getting to see them and it's a glorious day outside!
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Post by Kez on Aug 30, 2008 22:20:54 GMT -1
Oh it was fabulous. They played Exhuming McCarthy! Off Document! and Disturbance At The Heron House! Big ass conquer the world bands don't do things like that!! Oh man.
I'm slightly pickled but in a good way. I had a good chulckle at people way more pickled than me being pickled and stuff
God dammit this is the second time today I've overdone it on the pickles. It's just that I ate pickles today for the first time in ages and that's why they keep cropping up. I'm also reading The Pilot's Wife but that doesn't come up. I need pie.
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Post by michael on Aug 31, 2008 20:25:52 GMT -1
Ah, nice one, Kez. Glad to hear ye had fun. Hope they come back round our way again given that they've only done Oxegen so far.
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Post by Sara on Sept 1, 2008 8:29:05 GMT -1
I bet they do put on a great show. Nice that you got to go last minute!
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Post by Kez on Sept 1, 2008 9:17:15 GMT -1
OK now I've sobered up a bit. Ahem....
They were far better than I expected. And Michael Stipe did some robot dancing as well which made me laugh. The sound was so so good. Their encore of Losing My Religion was just phenomenal as well.
The Guillemots were insufferably bad though, although Editors were very impressive.
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Post by kwacky on Sept 1, 2008 15:21:16 GMT -1
oooh nice show. i've seen them a few times also, not recently though. was that an outdoor venue?
last time i saw them was at madison square garden - must be almost 10 years ago? and i got a backstage pass, from an irish guy who did the lighting. met some of them but not stipe. it was weird to see screaming teenage girls trying to meet the band because the band is my age.
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Post by Kez on Sept 1, 2008 16:16:57 GMT -1
Yeah it was in a rugby stadium but weirdly intimate for an outdoor venue.
The stage was quite small and it wasn't too packed near the front so it was easy enough to get quite near the barrier. Saying that there are always the barrier fascist REM superfans who watch you like a hawk and are ready to squeal at you the moment you dare to edge anywhere near it even though there is tons of room "Myfriendsstandingthereshe'sjustgonetothe toilet!!!!". "yeah alright alright I'm not that bothered!"
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Post by michael on Sept 1, 2008 17:40:38 GMT -1
Haha...I well remember being very protective of a barrier spot at U2's Popmart gig in Dublin about 10 years ago when two American guys tried over the course of about an hour to slowly but surely manouevre themselves in beside me and my cousin.
I think a bit of GAA shoulder action sorted them out in the end...haha!
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Post by Kez on Sept 1, 2008 17:59:28 GMT -1
lol! Fight for that spot!! *sticks elbows out in threatening manner*
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Post by Sara on Sept 2, 2008 20:52:27 GMT -1
I had to do that seeing Pete Yorn, but that gig wasn't very good to begin with, unfortunately.
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