Blur at Wembley last night. An awful place to see a band, but an excellent show nonetheless. Our seats were at the very back, behind the goal which meant it was impossible to make out the people on the stage and that you had to rely on the big screens. My daughters managed to blag their way to the front of the seated area but they would still have been 100 yards from the stage. The band were great though and the crowd loved it.
The new stuff any good live? Not checked out the setlist, any biggies missing? Not a fan of stadium gigs - Hampden is awful. At least you have decent transport links from Wembley. Was it worth the £100 ticket price?
They played all my faves - To the End, This is a Low, Tender, The Universal, plus pretty much all the ones you'd expect. Not all that much new stuff really, but it all sounded good. Set list here... Blur deliver a triumphant and transcendent set at Wembley Stadium - Radio X I'm only a few stops from Wembley on the tube, but it can still be **** getting home from there. We walked 40 minutes to Sudbury Town rather than wait forever in the queue for Wembley Park. My ticket was a Christmas present, so I can't really comment on vfm. I really enjoyed it, though.
I saw them at the IOW festival in 2015 and can’t say I was that impressed. Might just have been that I was still buzzing from seeing The Prodigy the night before who were ****ing amazing
Saw them back in the 90s, first in a ****ty little club in Aldershot when There's No Other Way ep came out, then headlining Glastonbury a few years later. Must've been 2015 when they headlined T in the Park up here, and they were good then too. Seen Gorillaz and The Good, The Bad and The Queen too, Albarns side projects, who were both brilliant
As I've said before, it's unfair to compare The Prodigy with anyone else live. They are still in my top 3 ever list of live performers , ever since that debut at Camelford back in the day !
Sadly, not great reviews so I’ve heard. But when you’ve seen the original line up it would be unfair to compare. So glad I saw them all
That's disappointing to hear. Every time I saw them, they were amazing. Even managed to get jnr in to see them once, with Public Enemy as support, and he was buzzing for days afterwards
That was the tour that I saw them at Brixton and had an AAA pass. Partied late into the morning upstairs with the band and others while a Duo called South Central played the tunes. Lovely blokes they were…..Con was the nicest of blokes you’d ever meet…was a tragic loss
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...eeks-frontman-Keith-Flint-hanged-himself.html The Mail even used one of my tweets in their story after he died. Was touching (even though it was the Mail)
Eagerly awaited I’m certain…the latest SB Shakespeare at the RSC review! Got £10 on the day locals tickets to see As You Like It this evening. It’s a standard Shakespeare comedy, evil duke banishes most of the cast to a wood (this time the Forest of Arden). Bit of cross dressing by the heroine (Rosalind), all cleared up in a manic final scene with 4 marriages and the evil duke getting religion so all can live happily ever after. Most famous speech is the ‘all the worlds a stage/7 ages of man’ one. The conceit of this production was that it was set as a ‘rehearsal’ of the play by a group of actors who had last played it in 1978. Most of the cast are over 70 (4 younger ones acting as -fake- prompters and taking some of the smaller roles). Geraldine James, playing Rosalind, probably the most famous. So in modern casual dress, the set was a rehearsal room. James Hayes, as the fool Touchstone, got to dress up more and steal every scene he was in. Lots of liberties taken with the script (some big cuts, but it still made as much sense as Shakespeare usually does) and ad libbing, and asides to the audience. Great moment when a rock band descended from the roof. Not sure why but it was properly loud. Once again great fun, the audience and cast clearly really enjoyed themselves. It’s had generally very good reviews and rightfully so. I liked the gleeful highlighting of the fakeness of the whole theatrical experience through the inappropriate ages of the the cast and rough and ready staging. Plus the performances were excellent.
A sad day today as it was the funeral of my father in law, Dennis, at Breakspear Crematorium. Very nice service from his church and everything organised brilliant and smoothly by the local funeral directors, Lodge Brothers. A big shout out to The Woodman Pub on Breakspear Road that at short notice hosted the wake. It’s really difficult to know numbers for that kind of thing, and didnt expect many to come to the pub for a drink in Dennis’s name, however in the end almost 30 people were there. The pub staff were great, sorting out a seated area for everyone to go, organising a tab quickly and putting on some sandwiches and light refreshments at very short notice. I know they will probably never see this but hope that anyone who’s in the area gives the pub their custom. They made a sad day, somewhat less so and gave us all some happy memories to share.
Our summer drinking haunt is another Woodman, the one on Joel Street. I believe it's owned by the same people as the one on Breakspear Road. Being so close to the crematorium, the Breakspear one gets a lot of funeral business, so they are well experienced at dealing with it. Good to hear that they made a sad day a little more bearable.
I'm trying to figure out if you deliberately go to these poncey nights out just so you can write your reviews to wind up us heathens or if you actually enjoy them
