Reading Line-up Updates

http://www.readingfestival.co.uk/lineup/index.aspx
The latest line-up is good, I'm looking forward to seeing Mystery Jets again, and ADAM GREEN is going to be there: what a legend. It's a shame Gallows are headlining the Lock Up stage on the Saturday though because I wanted to see them again, but its all about The Killers really.
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You can't fool me, Dennis

Mystery Jets –Railway Inn, Winchester

First thing I loved about this gig was the venue; it’s literally a pub with a beer garden, and a small 200-person music hall next door. The two support acts were both really good, cant really remember the first ones name, but the Golden Silvers were good, a bit like Vampire Weekend on acid – their bassist came running up to us and thrusted their EP into our hands ‘TAKE ONE TAKE ONE’.
The big disappointment of the night were the delays, the Jets were supposed to come on at 10 and finish at 11, but because of sound problems or something they didn’t come on til 11, and because our lift home was at 11.30 we missed a chunk of their set. I’m determined not to blame it on the band, I met Blaine before the gig at the bar and he was really nice and I met William out the back of the venue were he was just strumming away on an acoustic with some of the members of the first support band.
It was a really intimate set, because they came on so late, the small original crowd was even smaller, leaving about 80 people to admire the Eel Pie Island legends; song of the night – ‘Flakes’, just so nice and mellow. Could have done with them playing a few older songs but it was still a good evening.

Mystery Jets played:
'Hideaway'
'Young Love'
'Half In Love With Elizabeth'
'Diamonds In The Dark'
'Flakes'
'Hand Me Down'

but we missed:
'Veiled in Grey'
'The Boy Who Ran Away'
'MJ'
'Two Doors Down'
'Behind the Bunhouse'
'You Can't Fool Me, Dennis'
'Zootime'

Walk, Idiot Walk

Me and Ed went to London on Friday which was a right laugh, waltzed through Leicester/Trafalgar Square, got hounded by a slightly attractive Red Cross volunteer until we told her we were underage, so she had no chance of signing us up, but we had no chance with her neither haha. Caught the tube down to Camden, had a wonder round the market, stumbled across a Banksy piece*, looked in various record stalls, etc. A well known experience in Camden is being asked if you want some ‘skunk’, however none of the locals offered it to me – we then decided that with my current image I look like a dealer myself (charming), this was then proved when the bouncer at the Brixton Academy double frisked me and asked if I had any weed on me. Not Cool. We left Camden after a while because it was busy (Camden Crawl this weekend), and we both got tired of pointing at the most pretentious people we could find.

The Hives were quality live, they don’t have strong songs like other bands, but they are such great performers it made up for it.


*For future reference if you come out of the Camden tube station, walk alllllll the way down Camden High Street and then take a right up a hill, its on the corner.

the karma of piracy

My Dad downloaded me a shed-load of movies the other day – Lock Stock, Snatch, Control, etc. and they all ‘corrupt’ half-way through my viewing, bit of a let down really but that’s what you get when you don’t actually buy them, so I/my parents have delved into my/their pockets. However, when I download music its alright, but after a while my conscience seems to get to me, and I end up attacking HMV with my debit card to wash away the guilt of ‘stealing’ artist's music; of course, because The Kooks are so short of cash I felt terrible having their new album a month before it actually came out.

Anyway, REVISION REVISION REVISION!

p.s. my thumb is red-raw from playing slap bass.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

or whoever commisioned his stupid television show on BBC One needs to be shot. Its just one big ego-boom for him and I find it ridiculous that the BBC are pretty much advertising this intolerable knob-heads stage shows.
On a lighter note, I have a new bass guitar and its really nice - and I'm also wearing reading glasses, which isn't so nice, but I pay it no mind.

List of people that have annoyed me today:

1. People who don't know the rules of 'Shotgun' and apply it to areas other than cars.
2. The Pigeon Detectives
3. The cast of Eastenders
4. Performing Arts students
5. BmXeRs
6. The Sun

congratulations

p.s.

+ Rekindling my love for The Strokes over the past month
xxxxx

Well pointed out

Meg White is also a terrible drummer. It just dawned on me how good the Reading line-up is.
PROS AND CONS:
+ The Exchange gig
- Work
+ Choosing bass guitar
+ Winchester Uni trip
+ JOSH'S 18th!!!
-/+ Picked up glasses
+ THE HIVES IN A FORNIGHT
+ Easter Holidays
- Work overtime
- 5 hours of revision a day
++++++++++ Reading Festival line up!
The Main Stage on the Saturday is epic, and Tenacious D are there!!!!!!!!

life is good man, life is good xx