Pearl Jam are playing in New Zealand THIS week!!

doompony · January 2014

People always forget about us! Yes they are actually going to a whole 'nother country with its own government, currency, culture, language, etc before going to Australia!

Hurray!

Anyway. Kiwis? What are your hopes and dreams? What do you think the setlist will be like? It's probably going to be a little more.. hitty? I guess? Given that it's a big music festival and the other headliners are nothing like PJ so the crowd could be harder to win over than they usually are.

Personally I hope they throw us a bone to acknowledge that within the crowd will be many fans who desperately want to hear songs we see being rocked and rolled over in America or in Europe.

I'd love to hear Little Wing. And Crown of Thorns. The latter especially - we know Mother Love Bone too!

And as for the band's own songs - I'm really hoping this time around I'll get to hear my first favourite PJ song - Rearview Mirror. And Sad. And Smile.

IT IS NEXT WEEK!!!

!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

morello · January 2014

Hurray from me too!!

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I'd say we'll get a mostly festival type set with one, maybe 2 rarer songs thrown in for the 'real fans'. I too would LOVE CoT!! I'd say we'll most definitely get Mind Your Manners & Lightning Bolt, probably Sirens, probably Porch. I'd say kind of a good chance for RVM & yeah, Sad &/or Smile'd be great too! If Liam's in town & at the show, good chance of Habit.

doompony · January 2014

Hmmmm... where is Liam these days? I saw Neil retweet their family Xmas photo but I got the impression they weren't in NZ at the time.

morello · January 2014

Hmmm, dunno at all. I know they did that Finn get together gig thing at maybe the Powerstation last week or sometime. That's all I know.

doompony · January 2014

oh yeah true.. i heard about that.

oh well.

PEARL JAAAAAAAAAM!

hey, next thursday i'll be driving up to auck, not sure what time we'll get there or if my friend is gonna wanna come to father teds (5 month's pregnant). is there easy parking nearby? she cant' drive so if she doesn't wanna come she won't be able to drop me off and pick me up.

morello · January 2014

there's heaps of paid parking around Father Ted's, not cheap though. Cheapest option'd be to park car in Ponsonby(or near where you're staying) & catch a bus into you town.

doompony · January 2014

cheaper than a taxi though which wins. i paid $24 last week to park in town and go see a movie. That made me sigh angrily. I guess it won't be much more than that in Auckland?

morello · January 2014

it's about that. that was my mistake once a few years ago, I went to a movie, parked in a parking building, flicked over to the next half hour of parking & it cost me $25 & I thought no way! never again! nah, park in ponsonby or mt Eden & bus in. pm me where you're staying & I'll write you a customised public transport plan,

or yeah, a cab from somewhere like that isn't expensive.

doompony · January 2014

surrey! i'm useless at public transportation in general. in auckland i'm fairly certain i'd end up on the north shore.

i dont mind paying for parking though. in the greater scheme of things, one night of expensive parking isn't too bad.

doompony · January 2014

Oh my GOD all this flurry of posting and updates has me almost humming with excitement. like a fluorescent light.

morello · January 2014

Haha.

When you say "Surrey" you mean surrey crescent or is it come kind of surrey hotel? If it's surrey crescent that'll be a $30ish cab I expect so yeah for one or 2 nights, oh & that's $30 from town, from Western Springs it'll be cheap as! Good on you.

doompony · January 2014

nah it's that hotel.. which is on.. great north road, grey lynn.

now i know that can't be too far away from anywhere.. surely.. i vaguely recall going to a party at someone's house in grey lynn once and it being fairly straight forward.

then again i also remember ending up in grey lynn while actually TRYING to get to the north shore. so what the hell would i know?

did i tell you about the time we took a taxi from our hotel on newton rd to the powerstation? ha. yeah. fucking crooks.

cwar077 · January 2014

I can't wait, so excited for this. I reckon we will get a decent balance of hits and album cuts. Hoping to hear present tense, rvm, getaway and anything from binaural. Anyone gonna be waiting on the rail?

morello · January 2014

"took a taxi from our hotel on newton rd to the powerstation" BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

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Anyway, Surrey Hotel on Great North Rd in Grey Lynn will be a $10, maybe $15 if traffic's shite, taxi from Western Springs n & maybe $20-25 from town. There are however many, many, many buses that will take you from town to Great North Rd for $3ish!!! Up to you!

doompony · January 2014

i'll go with the flow of what other people around are doing. don't really think it'll necessarily be a case of being up front all day. that's a big ask.

never been to western springs before. hope the stage set up is better than it was at mt smart.

i've never heard anything from riot act. i hope we get save you.

also, first metservice forecast is..

Friday
17 Jan
Partly cloudy
22°C High
15°C Overnight

Partly cloudy with southwesterlies

Metservice routinely get things totally wrong in Wellington, even on the day.. so i won't put too much stock in that, but still.

STILL!

doompony · January 2014

morello said:
"took a taxi from our hotel on newton rd to the powerstation" BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Anyway, Surrey Hotel on Great North Rd in Grey Lynn will be a $10, maybe $15 if traffic's shite, taxi from Western Springs n & maybe $25-25 from town. There are however many, many, many buses that will take you from town to Great North Rd for $3ish!!! Up to you!

I know. I was so pissed because the taxi driver actually took us about 3 blocks the wrong way first to create the illusion than we were going somewhere. it wasn't until we got out and paid that i nudged my flatmate and said "look.. there's the street our hotel is on!"

i made a complaint but they never responsed. oh well. at least we learned. the next time i went to a powerstation gig and stayed at the same place i was all wise about it.

morello · January 2014

doom_pony said:

morello said:
"took a taxi from our hotel on newton rd to the powerstation" BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Anyway, Surrey Hotel on Great North Rd in Grey Lynn will be a $10, maybe $15 if traffic's shite, taxi from Western Springs n & maybe $25-25 from town. There are however many, many, many buses that will take you from town to Great North Rd for $3ish!!! Up to you!

I know. I was so pissed because the taxi driver actually took us about 3 blocks the wrong way first to create the illusion than we were going somewhere. it wasn't until we got out and paid that i nudged my flatmate and said "look.. there's the street our hotel is on!"

i made a complaint but they never responsed. oh well. at least we learned. the next time i went to a powerstation gig and stayed at the same place i was all wise about it.

doompony · January 2014

i'll probably just bite the bullet and take a taxi to father ted's. less stressful.

morello · January 2014

Honestly, it's a very easy bus ride. Catch any bus on Great North Rd with 'Downtown' on the front, tell the driver to let you know to get off behind Aotea Centre & sit kinda up the front of the bus sorta near him, get off bus, walk straight ahead to traffic lights, cross road, head down hill to Queen St & Ted's will be on the other side of the rd before you get to Queen St!

That sounds confusing but it's not I promise!

Fuck it, get on any bus going along Grt Nrth Rd with 'Downtown' on the front, tell the driver to let you know to get off behind Aotea Centre, get off bus, text me & I'll come & meet you!

lostrocker815 · January 2014

I wanna hear Rearviewmirror, Crown of Thorns. .... ANYTHING ACTUALLY. Yes but something of Riot Act would be nice tooooo. GOD DAMN I'M SO EXCITED

lostrocker815 · January 2014

morello said:
Honestly, it's a very easy bus ride. Catch any bus on Great North Rd with 'Downtown' on the front, tell the driver to let you know to get off behind Aotea Centre & sit kinda up the front of the bus sorta near him, get off bus, walk straight ahead to traffic lights, cross road, head down hill to Queen St & Ted's will be on the other side of the rd before you get to Queen St!

That sounds confusing but it's not I promise!

Fuck it, get on any bus going along Grt Nrth Rd with 'Downtown' on the front, tell the driver to let you know to get off behind Aotea Centre, get off bus, text me & I'll come & meet you!

LISA you could text me when you're on the bus and I'll stand on the side of the road with my PJ Banner i just made and then you wont miss us hahaha

Pearl Jam are playing in New Zealand THIS week!!

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