Well that's it, the gig marathon is over! Three in two weeks and they were all very very good! Infact, every one I went to was better than the last!

Before I start going on about how amazing The Killers were last night, i'll just apologise and say i'm not trying to rub it in Mike...but, they were sooooo good :-P


I didn't think anything would top that Muse gig last week, but this certainly did. I suppose it helps that I know the Killers songs best of anyone i've seen and they work so well live. When they played Mr Brightside I thought the balcony was going to be brought down by the amount of people jumping!

They did pretty much all the best ones off both albums - although saying that they're all as good as each other on Hot Fuss, so missing any songs from that was a shame, but they couldn't do everything!

I completely forgot they hadn't done All These Things That I've Done, until they went off for the (first) time and the entire crowd started chanting "I've got soul, but i'm not a soldier" :-)

Came back, did a couple of others and that, then went off and came back for a second encore and ended it with the Exitlude off Sam's Town

Anyway, could go on about it all day, but lets just say it was good! Photo's on gallery...

No more gigs now for a while unfortunately, although possibly going to see Faithless at the arena in march if we can get tickets!

So for now, back to the boredom :( Guess I'd better stop spending all my money on seeing bands and start some Christmas shopping now.... 4 Weeks to go!

Labels: Gigs, Nights out / Nights in

Went to see Casino Royale last night, as expected it was stupidly busy though so couldn't get in the showing we wanted and ended up going for a pint - I know terrible sacrifice, but what else could we do! :)

I'm still don't think i've really decided if I liked it or not. It was a good film, but i don't think it really felt like James Bond.. I liked the way it explained a lot of the things about how he turns out and all the little character traits etc. That was quite cool, but I think it was just a bit too serious for bond. It was very dark and personally I missed the tongue-in-cheek one liners and stuff that make bond films, there was some, but very little of that. And of course the gadgets! - Ok maybe Die Another Day over did that a lot, but this went to the other extreme.

And as Mike said.... It's just a crime against humanity to destroy that Aston DBS without even barely using it!

Wow, that was actually a really good weekend, wasn't bored for once! Although don't think I could afford to do all that every week unfortunately!

Labels: Films

All I will say is The Killers will need to be pretty impressive to beat that! Muse put on a well good show, really really cool. I actually forgot how many good songs they have had as well! They are known for being good live and I'd definitely agree and recommend other people seeing them!

I wasn't a fan of the support act, but i wasn't going to see them, so not really bothered. They were some band called the Noisettes, very very heavy with a female vocalist (who was slightly mental!), but apart from maybe a couple of songs they all sounded the same to me, with her screaming into the microphone.





I actually have some pictures from this one, courtesy of Jim who was there as well and he was standing with his camera - a lot closer than we were. See them on gallery! And hopefully you're seeing the video above (Looks like it only works in Internet Explorer i'm afraid...), that came out amazingly well, the sound is even quite good!

Labels: Gigs, Music, Nights out / Nights in

Last night was The Feeling at Rock City, was going to just post after I'd finished this "gig marathon" over the next two weeks, but what the hell, i'll post after each one!

I'm off work today anyway, no particular reason but just trying to use up holiday and since i'm doing two gigs in two nights thought I might as well to recover.

Anyway, The Feeling. Was a really really good gig, infact they were even better than I expected - and I was expecting it to be good, ask anyone how many times i've listened to the album ;-)
They did all the album stuff (well most of it) and a song off the new album as well, which sounded good. Also did a cover of Video Killed The Radio Star, which was quite cool!

Ended on Love It When You Call, my favourite song off the album, so it was all good :)

Oh yeah, the support band were good too! Called Captain, I'd actually heard of them :-O I think they've been on Jo Whiley's show on Radio 1 and I definitely knew a couple of their singles.

Me and Surovy last night, tonight it's me, Claire and Mike seeing Muse... report tomorrow no doubt!



(P.S - No photo's again, I did attempt to use my phone camera, but it wouldn't even take one as it reckons it has no memory left - god knows what its actually being used up on! Not that it would have been more than a bright blur if I had got one... I'll take my proper camera to the Killers, not much point at Muse we'll be too far away!)

Labels: Gigs, Music, Nights out / Nights in

Ok, for yet another year I have absolutley no idea what i'm doing for new year! My parents are off to New York on the 27th December for like a week... not fair! Jealous, but we'll be off there next year anyway... definitely.... ok, hopefully!

But that still leaves the problem of new year. As usual it will probably be a let down! For like the last three years I think, we've just played poker and thats about it, usually lacking in numbers too! Shocking really. But it's just thinking of something to do! I'd love to go back to Scotland because it's always good up there, or even abroad possibly, but as usual we've left it to late really for any of that. It's just stupidly expensive to try and arrange anything like that now.

So, it's looking like it could well end up being a party here or something with probably four or five of us at the most at this rate :(

Pleeeease let me know if anyone has any suggestions for things to do - or offers/invites! :-)

Labels: Nights out / Nights in

Haven't posted for a while so thought i'd write a quick one... well it'll probably turn into quite a long one actually!

Had quite a busy weekend this weekend for a change! Friday night was some drinks in Fat Cat's - which played some really good music btw, i'd like to know who the DJ was... And of course after that ended up at good old Loveshack :) Didn't drink too much though, I think I made up for that last week when I somehow managed to get through half a bottle of Southern Comfort last sat night! That was while playing drunken Jenga and Cheat, random I know, but fun!

And to make the night even more surreal, me and Claire ended up listening to Phil Collins Greatest Hits at four in the morning and deciding we actually quite liked it lol. The scary thing is, I think we've started some sort of bizarre tradition... guess what got put on when we got back from Loveshack this Friday! No comment about me actually having the CD in the first place.... There's some classics on there you know!!!

No Phil Collins on saturday night, but we did play more Jenga! Wasn't quite as tense this time though... probably because we hadn't drunk obscene amounts of alcohol... Good job really, because I was also setting off "fireworks" on saturday night. I say "fireworks" in quotes because it would probably have been more exciting to light a box of matches, it's just not the same after last year's party at my parents, they were proper fireworks! And we may just be having more of those bonfire parties in Southwell if my parents get the land they want, but that's a story for another post I think!

I did attempt to light several of the fireworks at once to try and make it the least bit interesting, but ended up attempting to use a candle to do it because the taper wouldn't light them quickly enough and pouring candle wax all over my hand! Ouch. It's all good fun though! lol. I still can't believe they trusted me with explosives in the first place... granted they could barely be classified as explosives, but still! :)

Anyway, Sunday wasn't quite as interesting, but did go out for a nice meal for my dad's birthday in Newark. Drove Jamie and Sarah back up to Sheffield in the evening too, got a good view of all the fireworks going off in Sheffield from the M1!

That little trip, plus everything else totted up to over 150 miles driving this weekend too, mental! Didn't even seem that much, but it certainly adds up!

Right, ok, that wasn't a short post was it. Like I said. Could do with some pictures to break it up, sadly didn't get any again though, really need to take more! Must remember!

Um... what else... christmas soon!

Labels: Nights out / Nights in