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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    redrock wrote:
    I get that too but because I'm so engrossed in the moment, I don't seem to be able to multi-task - enjoy the moment and get my brain to store it somewhere!!!

    When I got home, had to look at the setlist just to double check :o. That's why these boots that were available a couple of days after the gig were so great... You listen to them and go 'ah yeah! Forgot that!'

    LOL

    Yeah, let's hope we get to have one of those moments with this one! :D
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • Yield72
    Yield72 Posts: 193
    gaz wrote:
    Us too!! With those FUCKING FLAGS!! Eventually (after about an hour of shifting from side to side to avoid this fuckers flag),I asked him politley to put it down.To which he acted fuckin thick and tried to say there was plenty of room on either side of him to get a decent view.There was'nt,just more fuckin portugese!!!!And they seemed more interested in posing for photos than watching the band! Idiots.

    I really don't undserstand all this situation about portuguese flags...
    We run all over the world with our flags...Never was any problem....

    "...just more fuckin portugese..." and to yhis I just want to say: GET A LIVE!!!
    I'm myself like you somehow.....
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    gaz wrote:
    ,just more fuckin portugese!!!!.
    Yep... even some behind me and next to me **waves hello to Rita!**, also a lovely girl from Israel and her mates, aussies, french, american and canadian.. and that was just the people around me! Oh! I forgot! There were some brits too! Loved it! :D

    And a confession here... I did wipe my brow with a bit of a portuguese flag (which was actually wrapped around the guy's arm) :o
  • Yield72
    Yield72 Posts: 193
    Alive 79 wrote:
    Great show, last night I have to admit I was a bit dissapointed in the setlist but looking back it was actually nice to hear some different songs, especially Inside Job. Sound was pretty good for Wembley but the merchandise stalls..................what a fucking joke. I queued for 45 mins to be told they didn't have any womens t-shirts left but luckily managed to sweet talk the guy into letting me have the ones off the wall after the show!

    Only downside for me was the idiots waving their Portugal flags infront of me so that was the only view I got for a lot of the show. If any of you are reading this.............it was me who stole 2 of your flags and 20 people shook my hand for it. Next time leave them at home!

    About this 2 stole flags: We have many more....
    I'm myself like you somehow.....
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    redrock wrote:
    Oops... senior moment..... I guess he mentions good ol' Pete at all UK and 'thereabouts' gigs..... :D
    nope, he wasn't mentioned in dublin at all, just the Astoria.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    its weird cos everyone is saying it was really loud and the wall of noise meant the songs were indecipherable... i thought it was loud but perhaps i'm going deaf as i didnt think it was too bad.

    my ears were a bit funny afterwards, but within 10minutes they went back to normal
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    nope, he wasn't mentioned in dublin at all, just the Astoria.

    Yep and he gave Pete a chant at the Astoria :)

    EDIT: and Dunk I wear attenuating earplugs at gigs so it sounded great to me :D
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    My conclusion on the show is that although I enjoyed the hell out of it, the sound was just so overwhelming I'm struggling to actually remember what I heard.

    If I don't hear a boot, I'm worried that my memories of the gig will fade, purely because of crap Wembley acoustics. The loud tracks were mostly just a wall-of-noise. I NEED that boot if I'm going to make any sense of it.

    Highlights were Present Tense, Immortality and Faithful, Crazy Mary and Light Years because for these songs I found the sound crystal clear.
    I doubt the sound was crystal clear for light years... cos they didn't play it :p
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Innes wrote:

    I took a friend with me who didnt know the band well and he was blown away! "Church without the religion" he said...No kidding
    'We all believe' sums it up! Faithful was actually seriously special... it seemed to hold so much meaning for Ed and definitely for me too... summed up the moment. I was surprised cos it's never really been one of my favourites but to hear it live made it leap frog close to the top.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • nuffingman
    nuffingman Posts: 3,014
    Yield72 wrote:
    About this 2 stole flags: We have many more....
    So ruining others view doesn't bother you? The fact you're OK is all that matters! So you wave your little flags to say "Look at us we are Portuguese"

    WE DON'T CARE!!:mad:
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    redrock wrote:
    Yep... even some behind me and next to me **waves hello to Rita!**, also a lovely girl from Israel and her mates, aussies, french, american and canadian.. and that was just the people around me! Oh! I forgot! There were some brits too! Loved it! :D

    And a confession here... I did wipe my brow with a bit of a portuguese flag (which was actually wrapped around the guy's arm) :o
    well you didn't q for 9 hours before the gig only to have them all come from nowhere and jump in front of us... it makes a big difference :o
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    nope, he wasn't mentioned in dublin at all, just the Astoria.
    Told ya... senior moment....
  • nuffingman
    nuffingman Posts: 3,014
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    I doubt the sound was crystal clear for light years... cos they didn't play it :p
    See! the loud music has addled his brain.
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    dunkman wrote:
    its weird cos everyone is saying it was really loud and the wall of noise meant the songs were indecipherable... i thought it was loud but perhaps i'm going deaf as i didnt think it was too bad.

    my ears were a bit funny afterwards, but within 10minutes they went back to normal
    I agree... well at first I could actually feel the beat go through me and my ears started to hurt after a few songs but only briefly and it sounded brilliant then. My hearing was completely back to normal yesterday.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    I doubt the sound was crystal clear for light years... cos they didn't play it :p

    Crap did I say Light Years? I meant Low Light! Bloody songs beginning with bloody 'L'.

    Bloody L.

    :D
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    nuffingman wrote:
    See! the loud music has addled his brain.

    LOL

    I just had a possible epiphany.

    Does anyone ever wonder whether the reason why we're all complaining about the loud sound is because, erm.....

    WE'RE


    GETTING


    OLD?? :eek:
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    well you didn't q for 9 hours before the gig only to have them all come from nowhere and jump in front of us... it makes a big difference :o

    Hey... I'm talking about inside... But really.. writing "just more fucking portuguese" is wrong and insensitive. OK.. you had this bunch of people coming in the queue in front of you... let's just say 'people' or 'shitheads' or 'wankers' avoiding nationalities... much nicer. :D
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Chime wrote:
    Yep and he gave Pete a chant at the Astoria :)

    EDIT: and Dunk I wear attenuating earplugs at gigs so it sounded great to me :D


    i'm getting a pair of them... my friend has them for when he does the sound for other bands and says they are brilliant!!!

    how much were they Pips?
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • sisyphe
    sisyphe Posts: 40
    dunkman wrote:
    its weird cos everyone is saying it was really loud and the wall of noise meant the songs were indecipherable... i thought it was loud but perhaps i'm going deaf as i didnt think it was too bad.

    The sound was quite crap at a distance from the stage. I left the pit to get some water during World Wide Suicide and came back as RITFW was playing. The sound was horrible, metallic, making it quite hard to hear the quitars. And it only got worse when Indifference rolled around - you could only hear Ed and the drums, everything else was just muffled.
    I'm questioning my education
    Rewind and what does it show?
    Could be, the truth it becomes you
    I'm a seed, wondering why it grows

    Stockholm '00
    Paris '06
    London '07
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    nuffingman wrote:
    So ruining others view doesn't bother you? The fact you're OK is all that matters! So you wave your little flags to say "Look at us we are Portuguese"

    WE DON'T CARE!!:mad:
    Yep, I don't want to turn this thread into a bitching session... please lets not do that :o BUT I did say before that a little respect for those around you is necessary... but it's hard to understand apparently.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you

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