And the End is near

Well it's nearly New Years Eve and I thought that I'd fill you in on a couple of blog updates that should fill us with cheer in 2006!

Firstly, you'll see that I have added a search panel and a link to Seetickets so we can get our tickets quicker and use the blog a bit more. I was going to add Ticketmaster, but I'm still in dispute with them over their inability to run a ticketing service effectively, so I decided to bin the bastards!

I've signed up to Adsense. It's all a trial right now, but if I reckon it should earn us enough for a free concert in around June 2019 which gives us plenty of time to save for the 'we're still here for the fans' tenth reformation reprise Embrace bash.

I've also found this superb service called 'Calendar Hub'. It can be found at www.calendarhub.com and should allow us to maintain a diary of events. Well actually, if I cut the BS, it's for me - I keep missing so many top quality gigs that I really do need to know when they are and who we're seeing! Anyway, I've added a link to it on the right hand side, so check it out and let me know what you think about it.

Finally, I thought that I'd wish you all a super new year. As all of the reviews say, we've had a pretty good year on the gig front and I'm hoping that 2006 will be better!

Actually, that's not quite finally, I've got one more question - can we start a competition on who does the best headlines? Just in case we get to see these bands, I've put my ideas in already!

They're as cold as ice and bold as brass
I just can't get enough
Mcshit
Every single day I love them more
They've got soul and I am a soldier

I've realised that I hit a peak with the bravery! I'm now off for a secondment at the Sun....

Have a cool New Year

Our final Embrace

And so it was, the last time we're ever going to see those Embrace boys and they went out with their biggest gig ever at Alley Pally. It's our choice we're not going to see them (they've not split up) we've just seen them tons and we wanted to call it quits.

Bit of a shame that the gig was a wee bit average then. Compare to recent trips to North London to see Franz and Weller, where the noise was loud and the production values were sky high, this was a bit of an 'on the cheap' show. I mean, people holding and waving spot lights....I know you're trying to be cool and trendy boys but it was just cr@p.

For me, there was too many v.old tracks coupled with the 3 new ones of the as yet unreleased new album. Yes, all the big numbers were there but it wasn't as special as normal. Last year (when they play for me at my birthday party) at The Bush the f***ing rocked. There on the verge of going to hippy crappy. Just blast out the tunes boys!!!

A sad 6.5/10 for me

2005 Review - Yep..... Its that time of year again

Here goes......... What do you guys reckon???????

1. Best New Comer Gig - Hard Fi at Cambridge - we need to see go the Junction again a whopping 9.75/10
1b. 2nd Best New Comer Gig - Kasabian
1c. The cover band in Verbier
2. Best Venue - Again Somerset House - Doves and Athlete - magic nights
3. Most Hammered gig - For me Franz - at Ally Pally got up at 3 the following afternoon - ouccccccccchhhhh!!!!!
4. Best Oldie gig - Blondie - she still does it for me
5. Best festival - Isle of Wight - well I only went to one so not hard - is any up for 2006?????!!!!!
6. Best Chuff at Gigs - Blonde students at Cambridge - Yummy
7. Best "Supergroup Gig - for me between - Manics/REM/U2 and Oasis - U2 at Twickenham for me!!!
8. Best perfomance in 2005 - For me Faithless at IOW - a 10 - only once ever achieved before!!!
9. Most disappointing gig - none really - lowest scores 7/10 for Kaisers for me so not bad
10. Biggest twat at a gig - the knob who introduced Razorlight!!!!!!!
11. So to 2006 - who should we see - well for me - Killers, Razorlight, Snow Patrol, a foreign gig?

Thats it cheers - we might be old fuckers but we can still rock

Pete
x

That Entertainment ...... you bet it fackin was!!!!

Right we're gonna fuckin have it 2nite was Weller's welcome last night and for 1 and 3/4 hours we certianly did!!!!!
Paul knew it was the final time that I am going to see him so he pulled the big firey crackers out of his rse!!!!
Highlights? Steve White banging those drums for a big han solo, Wildwood, In the Crowd, Long Hot summer and Broken Stones.

But the very best was That's Entertainment .. bought a large lump to my throat

Cheers God and See Ya Laters!!!!

F...F...Franzing Brilliant!

Franz Ferdinand rocked Alexandra Palace last night, 01/12, as my second gig of the week completely out stripped The Bravery on Monday in every department.

A well up for it crowd saw a top draw performance from the Franz boys with all the top tunes in there. Take Me Out was slammed right in the middle of the set which saw the roof come off Ally Pally as expected but there were plenty of other favorites especially Dark of the Matinee, This Fire and the massively jump up and down Do You Want To was probably the tune of the night for me.

I was really impressed by Franz. The stage set and lighting were great, the sound was very loud and crystal clear for the big room at Ally Pally. They really were loads better than I thought that would be. I'd love to see them in a smaller venue but reckon those days have gone now. Shame. A Franztastic 8/10 from me.

Back to The Palace on Monday for Mr.Weller than they one we're all looking forward to, Embrace on 15th. Let's hope they saw Franz and took some notes!

No medals for Bravery

We were all hoping that Pete would rue the day that he missed out on tickets for The Bravery on the 28th, but sadly, he won't! For this event, we had a new attendee as Vikki decided to come along and help Mark celebrate the milestone of reaching 34 years of age.

Despite the extra time it gave us at the bar beforehand, coming on stage at 10pm already put them at a disadvantage and despite a fantastic rendition of An Honest Mistake, a very late encore of Fearless and a cracking effort at Neils favourite, the rest were all too humdrum. The crowd didn't really get going and even the energy of the lead man (who looked astonishingly like Joey from Friends from our place on the left!) couldn't get everyone out of sleepiness.

The combination of it being on Monday, cold, and having a late start made it a solid 6 for me.

In fact, this would have been lower had Vikki not provided immense entertainment with suggestions that the floor in the venue could have been a little cleaner!

Anyway, it's Weller on Monday, so we'll see if Mondays are better for him .....