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The Who startingat $130
I think that's for seated? GA is $98 or something.
(Mark, I wonder if I saw your lovely wife? There was a gorgeous pregnant person wandering around the main stage area at some point...)
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And once I got corrected asking for a panino. "It's actually panini, sir."
<wince>
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As a rule, it would be practically impossible for any band called Bullet for My Valentine to actually be good: it’s just such a complete loser name. And so it proved.
I was hugely entertained by their shittiness because they were so humourless and 80s-Iron-Maiden-y. They actually headbanged in unison, for goodness' sake! I spent most of their set in hysterics. Bless.
Jackie, I encourage you to go sometime! I am totally Oldy McOldster and my husband is perilously close to 40. I was not wearing anything like the Official Female Uniform of the BDO (bikini top, short-shorts and a headband), and I'm sure we both looked very silly dancing around to Simian Mobile Disco, but at some point you've just got to say 'fuckit' and go forth and rock! Or something.
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Don't listen to Danielle: Pendulum was an event.
Yeah, it was an 'event', but not all events in life are, you know, actually enjoyable. :)
(I also really really hate bands who yell variants on 'you having a good time? Let me hear you!', etcetera, between every song, and they did that. Which didn't help. If I'm having a good time, I'll let you know without prodding, thanks. I am crotchety and old. Ha.)
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So it's wrong of me to think they were kind of awesome?
Heh. My husband, quoted verbatim: 'You know, this is so horrible that in parts it's actually kind of awesome!'
I'll say this: they were *committed* to that keytar. Which is something, I suppose.
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I don't know what you were eating, Steve, but Fatima's and Mexicali Fresh did my crew just fine. In fact, I may have enjoyed my chicken burrito more than one or two of the bands I saw. Heh.
Sleeper hit: My Morning Jacket. Those Kentuckians can fuckin' rock! The drummer was laying waste to anything he could hit. Also, bonus points for cape-wearing.
Annoying thing: throughout the day, it seemed that the better a band was, the quieter the sound from the main stage. Thus Pendulum, who made me want to beat them to death with their own keytar or whatever the hell they were playing, were mighty-mega-loud, while TV on the Radio and the Arctic Monkeys were way too quiet.
Had a bit of a bop round to Simian Mobile Disco in the tent, and also saw most of Lupe Fiasco's set. I feel mean, because dude was really working hard, but he suffered from slick-hip-hoppin'-band-itis (see also: Justin Timberlake). Too much bludgeoning of the songs and not enough space in them.
When Neil Young came on stage I had a 'whoa, that is NEIL YOUNG!' starstruck moment which lasted for... the whole set. He was so, so great. Also, I have no idea how he managed to make the orchestral bits of 'A Day in the Life' sound so full with just a guitar and organ or whatever. Legendary. My favourite song apart from that was probably 'Cinnamon Girl' because, well, just because. It has handclaps and a 'woo' and is glorious. That is all.
(In the ongoing 'who does that person look like?'-fest that is my main topic of conversation with my husband, we agreed that one member of Neil's band looked like Nick Lowe and one of his backup singers looked like Christine McVie.)
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Forget the BDO
Sacrilege! I'm leaving for the hallowed ground in half an hour.
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My mum and I went halves on a kilo of hugely expensive Otago cherries just before Christmas. Worth every penny.
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I have four words for you: John Key. Barack Obama.
Which reminds me: what's the best NZ channel for me to watch the inauguration on and weep buckets?
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But you sat through the season of dreary German films on the profound theme of the general suck-i-tude of being a woman?
Heh. I was less than impressed by that lot myself. Although I must disagree on Antonioni - I've seen three of his films now and loved them all. That meditative quality with all those long shots is really appealing to me. Plus: ridiculous hippies shagging uncomfortably in the desert and big explosions in Zabriskie Point! What's not to like?
It now occurs to me that I have spent a lot of time over the last year sitting in a dark room with Craig, all unawares. Weird.