27 posts tagged “rock”
Today, my flatmate B moves out. We'll keep in touch, but not Uni is officially over and people are moving out. I may never see some of them again. Sad thought; but at least me and B were both at the Boss concert last night. It was an awesome set, and the Millennium Stadium is a great stadium. big, perfect coverage all round, no pillars or supports anywhere to block the view. If only the stairways were wide enough to have ice-cream hot-dogs and beer vendors walking up and down like in American stadiums, but the shops for food beer and merchandising were close enough, and i got some beer and a Springsteen barge before the concert started. My sister got a poster. Me and my family were in what in a theater would be the gods, about as far from the Boss as it was posible to be, but right in front of the stage; the distance was bad but the angle was great; near enough back-row-center. I don't know were B and his dad were. I was next to my Boss crazed sister, and i think that by about the third song i had hurt my hand clapping. After a hello Cardiff the Boss launched into about twenty or thirty minutes of non-stop songs before taking a break, during which he told a story about how he had to play a gig in New Jersey to pay bail in Virginia only to get the police breaking up his gig and arresting band members in NJ because he played for too long, just like Virgina. He also grabbed some placards from the front row with requests on, and went straight on playing. We got to here "the River" played for the first time in Wales thanks to a request. After the requests it was straight into some more of his classics, with a bunch more saved for the encore. He didn't play "Born in the USA" or "Dancing in the dark" but he did pleasantly surprised everyone by pausing for a bit after "born to run" which we all thought must have been the last song, before carrying on for another twenty minutes at the least, Including
a version of "the American land" which nearly finished of my hand and hand enough soot stamping in time with the beat to do in my foot as well. All in all, Brilliant!
Well, today lorry drives, truckers and hauliers protested in London and Cardiff to try and ensure a tax rebate to keep diesel costs down. I am sympathetic towards them, but i don't feel that threatening to blockade refineries will help anyone. I'm also sympathetic to the government for trying to make Britain more environmentally friendly but frankly their policy of taxing existing polluting cars rather than only new ones wont encourage anyone to by environmentally sound motorcars nor help the transportation industry; even Greenpeace says their tax policy is helping no-one. I just hope Britain can avoid the sorts of protests we had in 2000. The government has put up the pressure on oil producing countries in opec and on Russia to up oil production. No doubt as I type this more oil and gas is flowing towards Europe via the Ukraine, and will continue to do so as long as Russia wins Eurovision. It annoys me that the former soviet republics are all still so dependent on Russia for gas and electricity and so largely friendly towards Russia despite Putin's medaling in the Ukrainian elections that if Russia put three ugly people on stage for two minutes of fart noises they would still win Eurovision. At least when Britain looses we lose fair and square because our music is awful. Latvia, on the other hand, was brilliant, as were Finland and Azerbaijan. The world needs more Pirates, hard-rockers and weird Gothic singing angel people, its only too bad Dustin the turkey didn't make it to the finals...
On the subject of the UK in international competition I would like to congratulate Ricky Hatton on his come back after his first ever professional loss. Juan Lazcano was as hard as nails and it was good to see Hatton bet him decisively. Also on the professional fighting theme I would like to congratulate BJ Penn and Wanderlei Silva for their wins in UFC 84.
And to finish on a lighter note, my DJ friend had got his hard-rock and metal night back after having it canceled. Well done mate, glad to see they are giving you free rein over the music again!
Black crusade gig in Cardiff-International-arena. I missed the first act, Shadows Fall, but i got to see Arch Enemy, my favorite Swedish Death-metal Supergroup, followed by Dragonforce, an old Metal favorite, Trivium, which was ok but which i spent most of their act drinking through, and Machine Head, who as the main act just Rocked. Seriously, they were great.
TTFN!
You're the DJ: what are the next five songs coming up after the break?
You Can Call me Al, Paul Simon.
Behind Blue Eyes, the Who.
Family of Me, Ben Folds.
Anthem, Rush.
Rockin' in the Free World, Pearl Jam and Neil Young.
Show us the last album you listened to.
I'll do one better than that....
Also i would like to thank everyonbe at Bisley rifle ranges for the wonderful open day on september the 8th. One of these days I'll be better than dad with .22 target rifles!
Do you own all the albums of any particular musical artist or group? Who?
Submitted by dutterman.
humm, i dont per say own all the albums of amy group, but am in the prosses of loothing my dads vinal colection and he's got a good set led zep, yes, pink floyd, all the good stuff. I am working on getting all the rush, metalica, black sabath, iron maiden, clutch, opeth and suns of thunder albums
What are your top 10 most-played songs currently?
In no particular order..
The Eagles- Take It Easy, Santana-Leave Your Lights On, Led Zeppelin- No Quarter,
Trampled Underfoot, Cutch- Burning Beard, 10001110101,Rush- Anthem, 2112, Pink
Floyd- Sheep, Shine On you Crazy Diamond.
.. and by current i meen, this week
Audio: Share a song you can't help but sing along to.
