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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> this affected me so much. on many levels</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I never go and see films more than once at the cinema</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I went and saw this 3 times</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do you worry about your health</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And do you watch it slowly change</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And when you listen to yourself</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Does it feel like somebody else</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And did you notice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When you began to disappear</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Oh, was it slowly at first</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Until there's nobody really there</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">so I saw on NME.com that Spector had a new single out, so I clicked </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">on </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">video, and was listening to it as it played in the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">background.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">... it's very very different to what I last heard from Spector. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I liked it instantly. very sombre, very early 80's OMD noir .... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">very Editors/White Lies (by way of Joy Division) ... so pretty perfect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">then something got my attention.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> made me sit up and listen </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(and actually got me RIGHT THERE, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you know in your chest, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">when you <i>know </i>a song has affected you, and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you could quite easily </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">tear up)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it was just the simple </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">repetition of the '</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">all the sad young men' </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sung 5 times </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">at 3.00 ... so simple yet so affecting. it had me sitting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">there, blinking </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">at the screen at it's sheer perfection and power.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">eyes now wide open </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">now, fully engrossed. everything about the song</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">suddenly </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">seemed more intense (and it was, more about that later)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and then I went straight back to the start and listened to the song</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">again, and paid even more attention now I know how that part</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and the end of the song had affected me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">after a solemn beat, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the song just starts instantly. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">hypnotic, inviting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the first words that are sang meld beautifully with the omni-present </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">beat. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the lyrics are delivered very, very precise (almost guarded) in a</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">way that </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">demand you listen and pay attention. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">power and strength </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">coming from the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">sheer subtlety of it all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the best thing is you've spent so long marvelling at the music, when</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">you start actually paying attention to what is being sang, everything</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">suddenly moves up to a whole different level.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>... boys break like promises but only behind closed doors</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the thing that I really love is how the song gets more fuller sounding </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">as </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">it </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">progresses, layers being added ... until you reach the repeated </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">lines </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">mentioned above, and the intensity is multiplied as the song </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">almost fans </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">out in a sweeping flourish. like this </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">widescreen epic </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">playing out ... </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">engulfing you. and then it suddenly </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">reverts back to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">mood it began with, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ending on sombre notes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the type of song you want to hold against your chest and cherish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">this reminds you why you put your faith and trust in music in the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">first place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"all the sad young men" is available now on itunes.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578421219211654490.post-395332310889440182015-01-11T08:58:00.003-08:002017-04-02T05:04:54.928-07:00Morrissey - O2, London - 29 November 2014<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> So this is where it ends. my last Morrissey gig and also in the bigger </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> picture, th</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">e end of my 3 months of gigs that started with Kate Bush </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> at </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the end of august, and had me basically seeing </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a gig at least every </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> few weeks, taking in Lady GaGa, Kylie, Jesus and mary chain, Kate </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Bush </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2 more times, and 3 Moz gigs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> it was an exciting time. it was nice to have it all happening in autumn </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> time. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to have so many Morrissey gigs in front of you. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">until one day </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> you wake </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">up, it's winter, you are no longer wearing shorts ... and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> there is only one </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">more gig left, and it's at the O2 ... amid 20,000 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> people. kind of a big deal. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and you'll also be meeting a load of other </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Moz fans for the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">first time. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so I was a bag of nerves for many reasons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> me mid afternoon sun ... nerves not visible. just about to go </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> to a </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">chip shop and buy some chips (they were real nice too)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The Queen Is Dead </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Suedehead </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Staircase At The University </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> World Peace Is None Of Your Business </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Kiss Me A Lot </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Istanbul</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Smiler With Knife </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The Bullfighter Dies </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Trouble Loves Me </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Earth Is The Loneliest Planet </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Neal Cassady Drops Dead </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Meat Is Murder </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Scandinavia </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Kick The Bride Down The Aisle </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I'm Not A Man </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Speedway </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Everyday Is Like Sunday</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I meet Stu before the gig starts. I am ridiculously anxious and </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">nervous. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and it no doubt shows ... but he buys me a drink, we get </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">talking and I feel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> a lot more relaxed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Oh yeah, amid all the anxious-ness. Moz is playing a gig. in London. his </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> first </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for 3 years. at the biggest venue in London. this is not like the usual</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> times I have seen him in London at Brixton etc, for sure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I had wondered if the gig started with THE QUEEN IS DEAD, how would </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the crowd near me react ... how would I react? would I have the urge and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> just be </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">compelled to dart </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">forward into the throng?! the thing is you can't </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> plan what </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is going to happen, things have to catch you off-guard, when </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> you just react </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">spontaneously, like when I heard The Queen is Dead start</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> up in </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pescara. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> as it is. the first song was The Queen Is Dead. and no I wasn't compelled to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> dart </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">forward. it was not the mass eruption (crowd wise) that I had expected </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (and </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that this song deserves) sure there is movement in the crowd near the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> front </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but near me, people enjoy it but there are no mass extreme reactions. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> it's all </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">very british. but in a way it's good, I can watch the gig from where I </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> am. I have</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> done the whole going crazy/losing it to the music bit at the last </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 2 gigs I saw.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Suedehead was a surprise as the 2nd song. it gets a really great reaction.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Staircase At The University follows on. haha. this is where my shyness </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> creeps in.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> because Stu is to my right I cannot just react like I normally </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> would. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">if it was a random gig person who I would never see again, I </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> would </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">not care less. but like I said, I go all shy and not enough alcohol </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> has </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">been drank, so my flamenco infused feet-taps and claps remain</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> under wraps ... but inside I am happy as hell. AND this may very well</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> be evident by the 'cool-dude nodding' reaction I give to this song.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> forward to 13.30 below to get Staircase in all it's flamenco glory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> in my proudest Moz moment (ever) I proudly inform Stu the next song</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> is Istanbul. and he tells me it's not (it's actually World Peace Is None Of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Your B</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">usiness) damn those sublime starts of songs ... getting me all</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> confused ... *not hard to do, to be fair ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris is sublime, beautiful and still</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> makes me melt ... oh and Stu casually informs me that he doesn't</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> really like this song ... what?! (and I am still rocked by this revelation!!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and then he does Istanbul and I'm like "oh yeah, that be the song" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> with that </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">actual correct intro. me still with egg on my face (but still kinda </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> proud) </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">just to make sure the moment is NOT forgotten, I have to point </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> out to </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Stu that this REALLY IS Istanbul. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I admit I like Smiler With Knife now. since seeing it live my opinion</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of it has changed drastically. it's still no Mountjoy or Art-Hounds </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> to me. but I do find it very beautiful. so Viva Live Gigs for changing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> your opinions of songs. and Viva Moz too. obviously.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I film something for the first time during The Bullfighter Dies. I just </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> did </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">not want to spend a lot of the gig filming songs. but I wanted to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> have a </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">few reminders of the gig and my view of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I manage to redeem myself slightly by correctly recognising Trouble Loves </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Me when it starts and telling Stu. and even though I knew it was this song</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> as sure as ... </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(insert whatever you know for a fact is truth) I was still a bit </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> embarrassed </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from what had happened earlier, which even made me have</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> doubts in that moment (?!) so boy </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was glad when the long winding intro </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> turned into the actual start of </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the song. redeemed. and by THIS SONG.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> oh yeah. this song. well there's no way in hell I could react how I have</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> in the past to this song tonight. for a start, I am not close to the stage</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> or even on the second row. and like I said Stu is near me, and it's not</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> like I think he would laugh or even think bad of me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> it's just like I said earlier, it's easier when you are at gigs with people </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> you will never see again. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you don't care what they think ... I mean in </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Pescara I was </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">basically hoarse from </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">screaming the words out. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> so here, it's very english. very reserved. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> gently singing along.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> in the corner of my eye I see Stu is singing along.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I didn't want him to see me noticing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> but it was nice to see. a cute moment.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> you see in that moment what Moz meant to him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> what Moz means to me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I like that it was all very subdued.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> no extreme reactions or displays.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> but all the feelings were there inside.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> bursting out and filling you with euphoria.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> it was </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">actually all pretty perfect. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Neal Cassady Drops Dead is a huge favourite of mine live. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have all </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> but </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">given up of ever hearing Art-Hounds live again!! ;) ... </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so the 3 songs </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">want off the new album are:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Mountjoy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Neal C</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I'm Not A Man</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I love the swagger, beats and </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">whole </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">nonchalant</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> unforgiving attitude </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Neal </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cassady has </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">live. but I think that </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">also applies </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm Not A Man, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for me </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that song </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">pushes those </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">feelings even further.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> unbelievably there is NO youtube footage of this song. a shame</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> as it would be great to relive the savage beauty of it echoing around</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the vast O2.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I enjoyed it a lot. as it was quite near the end of the set. a few sneaky</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> moves might have slipped out. but I am sure they were undetected </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> by </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the naked eye. or casual gig-goer. no word if Stu actually noticed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> anything. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Meat Is Murder affected me hugely ... because I was a bit far back </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I could actually see the footage in good detail, and I am sure new</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> footage has been inserted since 2011-2012? or perhaps I have just</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> forgotten some of the specific scenes. it is still thought provoking. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and it baffles me when I read about people who have walked out </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> after seeing it and say it has left them traumatised. I think there </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> is a difference to being traumatised because it makes you have to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> THINK where the meat you eat actually comes from. where as it </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> leaves </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">me traumatised by the people shown in the footage openly </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> treating </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the animals in such a disgusting way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Speedway.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Speedway.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Speedway.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> just like The Queen Is Dead. I had no idea how I would react when this</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> started up. Pescara was basically the most intense I have *ever* reacted</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> to this song </span><a href="http://youtu.be/7Y8YoEVa9sk?t=3m12s" target="_blank"><span style="color: lime; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(and yes THIS is me you can hear "reacting" as it starts up)</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> but just like The Queen Is Dead from earlier. when it starts up nothing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> really happens around me. no crowd surging forward, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so I stay where I </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> am. and that's okay. it could never be how it had been </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ever again. I am </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> happy to enjoy it from a different perspective.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> but it will always be Speedway.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and it will always be special.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> by now I have all but given up hope of hearing Mountjoy. once the gig</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> had got underway ... EVERY song that had started up, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I hoped </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it would </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> be </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that song. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> now I know it's very unlikely to happen.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> it being sang 2 days earlier</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> had got me all hopeful. for me it should have been played at every</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> gig. it is that important a song. I love Scandinavia but I would</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> have happily traded a song that is not even on the main album </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> for one that IS and one that touches you on so many levels.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> so the last two </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">songs are Asleep and Everyday Is Like Sunday.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> what I liked is that things actually went really crazy in the audience</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> for this song, bodies were crowd surfing to the front. the audience</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> reaction was nice to see and especially cause it was to this song. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> so </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">second time only that night. I filmed a bit of the gig.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> it's a </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">great way to end the gig, it feels triumphant and encompassing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> you could really </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">feel that this was one song that everyone was so happy </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> to </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">be hearing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and that it's all over. no more Moz gigs on the horizon. your lil mini</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 3 month </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">adventure is over. Moz seemed happy and touched by the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> reaction he received tonight. I hope he does not leave it that long to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> play London, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and feel that love again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I'm such a wuss, just watching the above makes me emotional.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 'you should be a morrisey fan'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> oh wait I already am ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I want to say hello to all the people who I met at the after </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">show. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> it was lovely to meet you all. I liked you all a lot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">where my relatives are in Italy. what are the odds?!! </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the whole idea was go </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to Italy see relatives, see moz. and my Mum gets to see the man who has</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">impacted me so much. I found that the cutest thing ever. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">me in my favorite Morrissey t shirt before setting off for the gig.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">excuse the doofy expression. I was rather stressed out/excited</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in anticipation of the gig ... not to mention the whole trying </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to get a good photo thing ... which I gave up on ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">only in Italy would be the BOOTLEG MERCH be set up like this!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">... no, dumped all over the pavements like in the UK!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I bought the Meat is Murder/Hatful of Hollow ones below.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">why the hell did I not buy the Sheila one above??!! NO IDEA!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the official merch. I bought the t shirt on the right above.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I rather like the WORLD PEACE one below </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Queen Is Dead</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Speedway</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Certain People I Know</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">World Peace Is None Of Your Business </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kiss Me A Lot</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Neal Cassady Drops Dead</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Istanbul</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Trouble Loves Me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Bullfighter Dies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kick the Bride Down The Aisle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Earth Is The Loneliest Planet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meat Is Murder</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How Soon Is Now?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You Have Killed Me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm Not A Man </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Asleep </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Everyday Is Like Sunday </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the realisation that THE QUEEN IS DEAD has just started up shocks me </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so much that for a minute I am so startled, I don't know how to react. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">then I do, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I stop recording on the flip immediately. put it into my pocket</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and without </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">even thinking, start REACTING to this song.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">this is very good, with this first </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">song a precedent has been set, and I </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">mean </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for me in the audience. I have reacted, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">people near me know </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">have reacted. that awkward, just reacting a little bit, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all polite and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">conservative thing you do at the start of gigs never even happened ... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it has </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">been bypassed. and </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">within 30 seconds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">nice one moz. please start all gigs like this. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am jumping up and down punching the air, singing along, all whilst </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">still </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">adjusting to the realisation that THIS is happening. I am finally </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hearing </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">this song live, and it could not be any more perfect. live it's </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">brutal and </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">powerful and all encompassing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>the flip was still recording whilst in my pocket!!! this is priceless to me. </i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">takes me right back ... </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hear me during QUEEN at 0:39/1:11 </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">SPEEDWAY as the second song and FOLLOWING on from what has </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">already happened </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">catches me so off guard, and is SO PERFECT that I </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">let out the loudest roar/scream </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">within <u><i>2 seconds</i></u> of it starting. listening </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">back to it now (at 3:20 above) it gives me goose pimples and</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> made me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">well up with tears. that night it was the most perfect moz gig moment</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have EVER been a part of.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">listen for me singing along at 3:46 ;)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">listen for me singing along at 4:53 ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">this is the most perfect 2 song gig opener I have ever witnessed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I love how the the tempo of the song lends itself so well to jumping </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">up and </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">down ... and also how the song meanders and almost drifts </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">off </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dreamily and then </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">picks up, meaning that the intensity </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of your </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">reactions is </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">always changing. right up until </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you get to the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">'written lies' </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bit when you </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">are just screaming your lungs out,</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">like you have waited </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2 years for this </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">moment ... oh hang on, YOU HAVE ... and you just </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hear your own </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">voice over everything else. and the realisation hits you, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the importance </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of all this, this moment, to you (6:42/7:04 above)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">CERTAIN PEOPLE I KNOW is a good 3rd song. you can just enjoy it, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in a '</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">having a rock-a-billy style dance' way. it's not as intense as the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">previous 2 </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">songs, but I wouldn't really want a 3rd song to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it's a joyous 3 minutes </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">revelling in it and marvelling at what has already </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">happened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">everyone claps along to the start of WORLD PEACE IS NONE OF YOUR</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">BUSINESS. and it's a really cute and nice moment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'M THROWING MY ARMS AROUND PARIS is joyous and celebrationary </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and is just plain lovely. I am so happy now, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that I am just enjoying it all </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and am totally relaxed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Morrissey says PES-CARA (in 2 parts) after and its the cutest thing ever!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">KISS ME A LOT. not a big fave off the album. neverthless it's a cute lil </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">thing </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that you can just sway along to and just immerse yourself in and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">enjoy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Moz reads out a banner "Pescara is happiest Coastal town of all" and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">adds "that's what they say la la la la" and it is darn cute. yes people have </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">made </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">banners. it's cute and shows what this concert, means to them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">take note </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">UK ... make banners. show moz you love him/are grateful to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">see him ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">NEAL CASSADY DROPS DEAD follows on from the mood of before,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">except it gets more intense reactions from me, cause I love this song </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so much. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the best thing is with the start of the gig having been like </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">THAT, I am </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">already in the frame of mind where I JUST DON'T CARE </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">... some gigs </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(not necessarily Moz) you get through the whole gig and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">never reach </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that stage</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and INSTANBUL carries on that frame of mind just lovely ... ISTANBUL</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">astounds me with it's power and beauty live, which I had noticed instantly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when it was played in Milan. I mean I loved it already, but it is even more</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">beautiful <i>and touching</i> live. if that is possible. obviously because it is all</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">happening in front of you and not on a cd, it is going to have a huge impact</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on you. and this sure does. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">''By now you expect my Italian to be fluent ... it isn't!!" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(cute bit at the start of above)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the crowd all cheer when the meandering music intro goes into the start</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of TROUBLE LOVES ME ... this song abruptly ends the casual relaxed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">atmosphere I have been enjoying in previous songs. obviously, it's THIS</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">SONG ... the emotions slowly building up in me. my voice </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">getting </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">louder </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">until all I can hear is my voice over everything around </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">me ... and by the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">time it gets to the 'charlatanize me' and the "so english </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">frowning" bit </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am screaming the words out like I have never been </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">touched by any </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">other words so deeply. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hear off-key brit singing (me, not moz) at 4.18/4.28/4.50/5.03 /5.23/5.28</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and err 5.43 hahaha</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the start of HOW SOON IS NOW vibrates through. it is so loud and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">apocalyptic </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I instantly start jumping up and down and never let up. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">NO-ONE ELSE REACTS.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it makes no difference. I carry on doing the same, I think of Daz, who </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I know </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">would be </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">doing </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the same if he was here ... this is even better </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">than when I heard it </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in Manchester 2012. I am not going to waste how </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have already felt earlier in this gig, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to suddenly NOT react now, even </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">if I am all alone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so I go for it ... like I never </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">have gone for it ever before. all alone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">above at 1:44. right hand corner. the 2 arms punching the air. that </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is me. keep an eye on that corner (and me) as the song progresses ;)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">haha me at 2:23. pretty funny to see myself. I guess I #kinda went for</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it!!! ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at the end, some guy appears from nowhere and starts jumping up </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and down with me!! ... it was a nice moment to realise one other </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">then something funny happened. I decided to move. move from the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">right </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hand side where I had been all gig, into the crowd. just decided </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to do it. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wanted to be more near the front. so I did. the italians were </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">not too </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">impressed with someone squeezing by them. but oh well. I had </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">made </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">up my mind ... that makes me sound a very confident person!!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which I am </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">not, I just wanted to be closer to Moz, and wasn't gonna let </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">their faces </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of disapprovement stop me. so I get to just a few rows from </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the front as </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ASLEEP starts up and film it on my Flip (above) how perfect </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and beautiful </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is it?? it meant a lot to the crowd, people were all singing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">along all around </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">EVERYDAY IS LIKE SUNDAY starts up, it all goes a bit mental. I am </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2nd row. it's chaotic and beautiful. intense and life affirming. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it affects me in a way that it hasn't for years. when you like a song so</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">much and it has affected you so strongly so much in the past, it can be </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hard for it to affect you on the same level every time. but tonight it was</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">back to how it had used to affect me. hitting me all at once, the power</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and beauty (and desperation) of it</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and this is where things go weird. very weird. good weird.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">see 0:14 above</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">morrissey tickles my fingers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">MORRISSEY TICKLES MY FINGERS!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">this affected me <i>so much</i>, and left me in such a state I had <u>no idea</u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">he had even done a shirt toss at the end of the song.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">see a different view (from just behind me) below at 2:41 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">excuse me while I go cry for 500 years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I AM NOT EVEN LYING.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">these videos make me want to cry right here. right now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from happiness. I am a wuss. I am G.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">also, how fkng amazing and JOYOUS does it sound??!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was DYING OF HAPPINESS before he even tickled my fingers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">best live version I have ever been a part of.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">needless to say. I was in a daze as the gig ended. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am so happy that I had decided to move into the crowd.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I never could have expected that to happen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and before that it had been a <i>perfect</i> gig.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had no words for my happiness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u>update on post moz gig experiences.</u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my mum really liked it (Sunday was fave)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my uncle who previously said he did not really like the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cd versions of the songs<i> that much </i>really enjoyed it all live</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(update: he loves the cds now)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so impressed was he, he could not work out how he had never</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">saw the Smiths in the 80s when he was seeing Simple Minds,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">U2 etc </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">his girlfriend loved it. she is even more obsessed with his songs now</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">LET ME KISS YOU is her fave (she loves the hollywood live version)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but she loved that song before the gig, I had told her I doubt it would</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">be played. she loves it even more now. she can't stop listening to the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cds. we are gonna go see moz the next time he plays Italy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u>final thoughts on gig.</u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">best 2 song start to a moz gig ever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Trouble killed me and How Soon is now </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">finished me off. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">no words for Sunday.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I love you Morrissey.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">thanks for the tickle. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578421219211654490.post-60169391712973980452014-11-23T11:24:00.000-08:002015-07-14T04:39:38.691-07:00.<img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7463/15673247109_02e485f2fa_z.jpg" /><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> this picture of me sitting on that bench is pretty significant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I took this photo around July time of this year. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the previous year </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> around </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">August time I often used to sit in that same place and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> just cry. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have no </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">idea what the people in the building opposite </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> used to </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">think.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> but this day/month/</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">period </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">above was important because I used </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> to </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">walk by that building </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and had the realisation how much things </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> had </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">changed and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">improved since the last year, and I did not just </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> cry out </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of the blue </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">anymore.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> for months I couldn't even tell people my dad had died. I could</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> not say the words ... that word, it had such a ring of finality to it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I mean I totally understood he was gone, but it was like saying</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> that word meant accepting it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I avoided Costa Coffee for 3 months. because I could not handle </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> if </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a girl I knew in there asked how I was. she already knew about </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> my </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">dad previously being ill. so I just didn't go in. I was fine so </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> long as </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">people didn't ask how </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <u>you never realise how things have actually changed until it hits </u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <u>you </u></span><u style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">all at once.</u><br />
<u style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></u>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> when things happen slowly, you hardly notice them happening. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> a person can gradually get more ill, but because it happens so</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> slowly and over a </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a long period of time, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you kind of get used to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it. until something hits you o</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ut of the blue. when my dad ended </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> up in hospital</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> in January 2013, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the severity basically came out </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> of nowhere and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was faced with the prospect </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that he might not </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> make it through </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the night ... and I was not talking to him </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">at the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> he did make it through that night. and I did go and see him in </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> hospital. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it's hard to see someone who always was such a strong </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> figure hooked up </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to breathing apparatus, asking "is there any </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> hope for me?" ... that is still very hard for me to think about.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and at the time it took everything for me not to cry right there </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and then. I looked at the ground a lot. I focused on random</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> things in the ward. anything to focus my mind on something</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> else ... </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">like I said, something like that </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">comes out of the blue </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and hits </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">all at once.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> in that period it used to kill me that I would be in the gym (trying </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> to </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">focus my mind, and failing) </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and he </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">was </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in the hospital, alone, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> less than </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">half a mile up the road. I used to pray that I would </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">get </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> another chance. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and if I did, I would give him a hug.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I got another chance. and I didn't give him a hug.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I didn't correct </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> all of the things </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I had </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">wanted. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">he was ill. everything was pretty </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> much</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> a </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">s</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">truggle for him. I felt awkward ... </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">also </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you slip </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">back into </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> thinking </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">everything is </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">going to be okay </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you will have plenty </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> of time ... but I didn't. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">all I got was 6 months. until </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the same thing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> happened </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">again</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> ... and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">this </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">time </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">there was not </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">another </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">chance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <u>I managed the tiniest of things though.</u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><u><br /></u></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> he knows I loved him and I know he loved me. these moments </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> are </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">what </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I hold onto. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> that January was a dreadful time, but as crazy as it sounds I am </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> so </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">grateful </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for it. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">if people think I am in a mess now, I dread to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> think </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">what they </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">would have made of me, if I would not have had </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> a </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">second </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">chance to have </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">corrected just a few things. I would have</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> been devastated if he would have died that night and things would</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> have been left how they were. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> my last memories of my dad are horrible. that I can't write about. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> basically </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">what happened in January happened again 6 months </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> later. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have good </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">memories too. when I was about 9, at school, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> something </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">had upset me </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">towards the end of the day. I knew if I </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> remained upset </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">my dad would </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">come in and shout and get mad at </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> people and find out </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">why I was so upset. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and he did. I was pretty </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> cheeky back then. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> he often used to take me and my sister to school in his BMW. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> it was</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> nice. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">kids were envious. like I said I have good memories. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I could </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">have </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> had years more though</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. I am such a fool.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <u>Now.</u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><u><br /></u></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I am a lot better now than I was a year ago ... but in some </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ways </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> worst. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in many ways it was easier then. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">finality and acceptance </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> of</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> things is </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">something totally different altogether. last year my </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> emotions </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">came in </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">waves, out of the blue the horror of what had </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> happened would </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">hit me. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">now it's totally different, quite often if </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> something else upsets me, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">then </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">thinking about my dad enters </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> the picture and affects everything. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> like last year, everything </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> seemed a hell of a lot easier when the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sun </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">was </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">shining. but like </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I said at the start of this, I have made progress. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it may not seem </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> like it sometimes, but I most definitely have.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I like this photo. look how happy he looks.</span><br />
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<img height="400" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7522/15834753216_f46c2740b3.jpg" width="387" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> the BMW. he was not happy that day. Car problems. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> he was fetching </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">us all back from Bournemouth. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> how awkward does it look. I still like the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">picture </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <u>What I learnt.</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I spent so long thinking everything was A/B and C ... and that </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> we </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">were </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">very </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">different people. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">only to realise I am pretty </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">much </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> him. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I wish I could</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> have worked it all out sooner. I wish I had </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> not been </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">so stubborn. Fathers </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and Sons. The irony is he basically </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> had the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">same relationship </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">with his father. He </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">was not talking to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> his dad when </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">he died. and he was in a </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">very bad way in the period</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> afterwards.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Now I know how he felt. and I can't hug him. or talk to him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Don't waste time. Tell people how you feel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Learn from my mistakes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Thank you to the people who have helped me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> You know who you are.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578421219211654490.post-14604216114279042262014-11-21T15:17:00.000-08:002017-04-02T05:06:34.471-07:00Morrissey - Teatro Linear, Milan - 16 October 2014<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Bullfighter Dies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kiss Me A Lot</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You Have Killed Me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Certain People I Know</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Neal Cassady Drops Dead</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Everyday Is Like Sunday</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How Soon Is Now?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">World Peace Is None Of Your Business</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Speedway</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Istanbul</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Trouble Loves Me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Earth Is The Loneliest Planet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kick the Bride Down The Aisle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm Not A Man</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meat Is Murder</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One Day Goodbye Will Be Farewell</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as I had hoped as soon as the lights go down everyone in seats rushed </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">forward. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and I do too. okay let me re-phrase that, only people from </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the first 8 rows move </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">forward (I am row 7) ... but more on that later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so after 2 years waiting. I am finally seeing Morrissey again. it is pretty</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">overwhelming, and I am curious what the first song will be. something </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">epic </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and big and dramatic?? ... err it's </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Bullfighter Dies!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">not my ideal set opener, especially after such a long wait. I sure as </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hell </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">would have liked something a lot more dramatic (2 days Georgie </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">#patience </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my boy) but having said that, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it's a nice start, really joyful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the crowd is not manic, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">just really chilled. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it's not what I am used to at </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a moz gig, but having said that it's nice. I mean I am not getting crushed </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">interesting though seeing moz gigs outside the uk. Milan is definitely </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">very </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">similar to the New York gigs I saw, in how they react.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> things stay pretty much the same for Kiss me a lot. I like the song</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> but it's definitely not one of my big favourites off the album.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Certain People I know is a big surprise, never heard it live. it's a jolly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lil thing. and I like it a lot. 1991 era moz. yes please.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Neal Cassady Drops Dead is one I really really w</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">anted to hear off the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">new album. it is </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">jarring, confrontational, and in your face live. and yes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">those jerking beats suit my dancing style (just shoulder moving really)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">down to the ground. it's a marvel to see you know (it isn't really)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How Soon Is Now? is a shock. a good shock. 3 years since I heard it in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Manchester, it is one I was hoping to hear. it is loud and brutal and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">combined with </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">being so close to the stage, the impact and sound is </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">encompassing. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the crowd hardly react. it's a weird one. it's all good</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and well to go into the gig with the idea that you are going to go all</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">crazy, but when you are down the front and hardly anyone is moving</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that plan kinda goes out the window. it would be pretty awkward if</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">you were the only one reacting in that way. so you kinda adapt to the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">situation you find yourself in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> now lets talk about that. I had always expected italian fans to be really </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> wild (cause I know how devoted they are) ... so imagine my shock at</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> a/ how the audience near the front "react" ... and b/ the fact that after </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the few rows of people that had moved down to the front, the rest of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the audience stay IN THEIR SEATS (basically) arms folded, with a look</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of ENTERTAIN ME on their faces ... this is a weird ass gig for sure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">**me above (cap) at 0.24/0.56 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so Speedway is not the epic live thing I had expected. well it IS in how it </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">is </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">played. I mean the audience reaction. I mean look at the above. exactly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I did actually react after the break bit in the song, but that wasn't recorded</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the above. so there you go ... just picture me punching the air.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3.37 me cap/white t shirt punching air. yeah I love this song. and that</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bit always really gets me. I always get a bit emotional at this part of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">4.03 - 4.33 me, clapping ... punching the air (mixing it up yo) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">4.41 really going for it ... all alone haha. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so I'm not a man. aside from Art-hounds and Mountjoy, this was the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">main other new song I wanted to hear live. and I love it even more </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">now I have witnessed it live. see the bits above. yeah I like it a lot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">this perfectly sums up the problem with this gig, things (audience wise)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">are not as manic as what I am used to in the uk. there is never a moment</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when it all just goes off (and you with it) the irony is just as it was getting </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to that </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">stage with I'm Not a Man and One Day goodbye will be farewell, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the gig ended.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Morrissey rejects my hand at 0.43!!!!! ... oh moz moz moz. I will get</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">your hand. I really will you know ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2.02 see my take the letter from the fan TO GIVE TO MOZ (cause he could </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">not reach) haha I could have shook Moz's hand I bet, but I wanted to help </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">t</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hat </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dude out. haha how nice am I??!! (I am pretty nice actually)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">overall verdict.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it was great to see Morrissey</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the crowd behind me was crap</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the crowd near me was okay</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">just as I was getting really into it, it ended.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so not the manic gig I had hoped for</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but still definitely worth all the effort to see it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">little did I know but boy, how things would be very different in 2 days time </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in Pescara ... boy oh boy what was to come. I had no idea</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">... to be continued</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578421219211654490.post-91220691463545425822014-08-17T10:36:00.001-07:002014-08-18T01:54:53.511-07:00Top 10 singles of 2013<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> here are my Top 10 singles of 2013.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> and yes I know it's took me 8 months to do it. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">but I lost </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> a lot </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">of motivation to do blog stuff </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">lately. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">having said that, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> doing </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">this has reminded me how </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">much </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I enjoy </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the whole</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> process. so thanks to </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Stu + </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dandy </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">motivation/kick </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> up the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">backside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> some choices might surprise a few people. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but if you </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">know </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> me </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">just a <i>little</i> bit, you will already</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> know my </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">music taste </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> is </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">pretty varied ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> oh yeah, and don't expect my album choices to be </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">anything </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> like</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> this(!) pop may rule the single choices </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but indie always</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> rules</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> the albums. weird? probably</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> ... but that is just the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> kinda guy </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> let me know if you </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">like </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">any </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">of </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">these songs ... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"> what were your </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">favourite singles of last year?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"> let me know in the comments section below</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"> ps/ and I know Stu is rolling his eyes <i>already</i> just at #10 </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"> ... let alone 9 !!! ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>#10 - Applause - </strong></span><strong style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lady Gaga</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> this was a weird one. unlike previous lead-off singles </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bad </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Romance/Born This Way that hadn't impressed </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">me much </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> on first listen, but then had a<i> complete </i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">turn-around. this </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> never really reached those </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">heights. though I did actually</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> start to really like it: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it's almost un-pop </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">song </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">like structure </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> with the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">clipped vocal delivery and sparse </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">beats, and the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> whole idea of a non-</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">anthem used as an </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">anthem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>#9 - Work Bitch - </strong></span><strong style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Britney Spears</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> in which Britney sounds like she's stumbled into an underground</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> german club and barked some commands over the most repetitive </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> (and goddamn </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">perfect beat) </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ever</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. it's gets interesting at 2.45 when </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> it goes all trance-y, and touches on the one thing that always made</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> trance so special, the feeling of euphoria and emotion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> and the part at 3.12 is the sound of Britney destroying everything </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Beyonce </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">has achieved in the past 10 years ... </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in 15 seconds flat.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>#8 - Flatline - </strong></span></span><strong style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MKS</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> ' I know what I face. The silence is deafening. I know crying through</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> pain w</i></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">on't make it right '</i><br />
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> one reunion off my list. and one I never EVER expected to see.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">this warms my heart. for real.</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> that the original Sugababes got</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> back together, as friends, and a band, after everything that had</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> happened ... made this song, looked happy and looked like they </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> were </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">thoroughly<i> enjoying</i> every second of it,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> makes </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you realise </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> that </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">perhaps </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">there is a place for optimism in the world.</span><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> the song should have been a #1. it sold about 5 copies. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <i> I wonder </i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>if that crap woman from Harvest did the promotion?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>#7 - The Apple - VV Brown</strong></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> ' Hold my soul now, Inside your box, Make me loose, Psychological locks '</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> now this was a surprise. I already liked VV Brown and had bought</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> her first album (on the back of </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPQlxHWsemI" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia;">Shark in the water</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia;">) </span>... <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">but I was not</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> expecting this hypnotic, beat-heavy Grace Jones-like track when</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I watched the above on Jools Holland last October ... it took me </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> approximtately 10 seconds to know I would be </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">buying the album.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and I did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>#6 - Glitterbombed - </strong></span></span><strong style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Charlotte Church</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> 'When I talk, And your words fall out, They’ve got silver on the edge, </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> Hang shining in the air'</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> yes this is Charlotte Church. her of 12 year old </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kwuzt8z-4o" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia;">Voice of an angel</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> fame. yes, it is amazing and sounds like Bjork and every other </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> female artist I love.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> and yes I was blown *utterly* away when I watched the above.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I wish every artist had this self belief to just do<i> what</i> they like and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> not care about convention. just follow their heart. no scrub that, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">wish that *everyone* just went and did that, myself included.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> all you need is <i>total</i> self-belief ... this 3 minutes shows you that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>#5 - Little Me - </strong></span></span><strong style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Little Mix</strong></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> ' You can be beautiful, wonderful, anything you want to be '</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> if there is one thing I <i>love</i> in music. it is when a song has a real</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> message. I love that 12 year olds are hearing stuff like this in </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> amongst all</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> the s*** out there ... what music </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">should be about. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> sounding like </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">classic En Vogue and following in the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">footsteps of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> R&B empowerment ballads such as Sugababes’ "Ugly" </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Destiny’s </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Child’s "Survivor" and Christina Aguilera’s "Beautiful" it doesn't</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> really get any better than this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <i>' Wish I could somehow go back in time and maybe listen to </i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> my own </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">advice' </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>#4 - When I was your girl - </strong></span></span><strong style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alison Moyet</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <i> ' I'd put on every coat. To wear the weather down. But even in the sun. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> You said you tasted rain. I watched you unfurl. You held on to me '</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> *this* is how to make a comeback. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I knew Alison had a new record </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> c</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">oming out. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but I kind of expected it to be more soulful bluesy stuff.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> then I saw the above performance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> mouth. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> dropped. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> open.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I swear in May 2013. I listened to this about 500,000 times in 2 days.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <i>no lie.</i> I do this with <i>every</i> song I like. does anyone else? ... just me?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I was (and still am) slightly obsessed with the whole torch song/kd</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> lang </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> feel it has to it ... </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">the verses, with that urging driving beat REALLY GET</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> TO ME ... my favourite parts of the whole song. and the words ... the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> ones </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">above alone ... </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">geez</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><i> ' Into corners sweep our rage ... I would never leave you crying '</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>#3 - Hearts Like Ours - </strong></span></span><strong style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Naked and Famous </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <i> ' There's a fear that won't subside ... Of all the things I'll never do '</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <u>July 2013</u>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> it's funny ... just when you need a band the most. they come back.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> this appeared <u>exactly</u> at the time I needed to hear a song <i>like this.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i> it soundtracked my days. I listened to it on a loop.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> the best thing was when I first heard it, I didn't really know who</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> it was until the end. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the image change completely threw me ... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> but the sound was so </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">familiar </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">... just couldn't <i>quite</i> place it. so </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> glad I couldn't, because </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>that moment</i> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">when the name popped </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> up at the very end as I </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">watched MTV was an amazing, amazing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> regarding the video. I.have.no.words.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I am in love with <i>every other</i> frame, and just want to pause it and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> look for 30 seconds, and just take in the beauty.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> ' could we try to reinvent. feed the head with common sense ' </i><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> ' leave this place behind, in silence. and the weight we find inside us '</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>#2 - Snow - </strong></span></span><strong style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Frida Sundermo</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> ' I've never been this far away from you my friend, I need you here '</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> this always used to be on at the gym, at first I thought it was Robyn.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> and for ages I had no idea who it was, as no name/song title ever </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> came up. then I found out who it was, watched it properly on yotube </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> and properly<i> fell in love with it.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> this is </span><u style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">exactly</u><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> my kind of song .... desolate, with delicate beats</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> quietly euphoric ... and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">utterly </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">beautiful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i> 'I'm alone ... surrounded by the snow'</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>#1 - Another Love - </strong></span></span><strong style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tom Odell</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> ' <i>I wanna sing a song, That'd be just ours, And I wanna cry,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> I wanna fall in love '</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I know it's probably not cool/cred. and is not even remotely </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> indie. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><u>I don't care.</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> this is my favourite song of last year. I have only listened to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> it </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>once </i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">since </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">buying it. <i>why?</i> because I have to have <i>one </i></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">song</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> that I don't </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">know</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> inside out ... </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">every nuance</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and inflection, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> every chord change. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I want to try and hold onto that feeling </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> that you get when you hear</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> a song for the first time ... that </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> rush you get, of thinking this song </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">will change your life and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> wondering how you could have <u>ever</u> got </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">by </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">without</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> knowing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> it ... having it in your life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I knew this was going to be important to me when I heard </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> snippets </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of it around the time it was released. but I resisted </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> listening to it in full</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> because I wanted to save it for when I </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <i>really</i> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">needed it the most. I bought it in December time last </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> year and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">listened to it on the way to the Gym. what struck </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> me was the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">anger and overwrought</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> emotion that came in at </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> the end. just blew me away. this song I already liked, was </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> now </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">affecting me on a whole other level.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I just listened to it for the 2nd time. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I lasted 8 seconds before </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> tearing up ... and at 1.20 a tear </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">fell down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I can't explain. when I hear this, it's like I need it more than </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <i>any</i> other </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">song ever released. I guess it's why music means so </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> much to me </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and why </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I place so much importance in the power </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> of music.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> ** oh yeah, I have now listened to it<i> a lot</i> more than 2 times.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578421219211654490.post-426063673159065482014-06-02T12:59:00.001-07:002017-04-02T05:06:59.498-07:00why the pairing of Morrissey and Pamela Anderson is just perfect.<img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5120/14329410284_cc19c3abf8.jpg" /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> this morning the latest in a line of spoken-word videos was </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> released by M</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">orrissey to promote his latest single EARTH IS</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> THE LONELIEST PLANET.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and what a moment it was when I realised it was PAMELA </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> ANDERSON </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the video with him!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I have long admired Pamela and have often wondered if they</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> knew each other. I remember reading that Morrissey had gone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> to a thanksgiving dinner Pamela had had, where the guest of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> honour </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">was the turkey!! ... but had no idea if it was actually </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> true.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> hence my joy when I realised <i>it was her</i> in the video with him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and this pairing of Morrissey and Pamela is just perfect ... but</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> not<i> just</i> for the reason you might think.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> you see Pamela is </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a strange mix in this modern day and age. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> sure there have been hyper-sexual stars before and after her </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> ... but none <i>quite like her.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> you see, she exudes qualities </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the golden age of Hollywood, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> when women </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">were sexual, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and strong (</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but not arrogant, mean </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and big-headed </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">because they knew they HAD IT) ... polite and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> courteous. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> if she had been born in the UK, in the north, probably 30 years </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> earlier, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have no doubt </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">she would have</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </i><a href="http://37.media.tumblr.com/0816e6e592a7cf21ff5e89e609b5fdd9/tumblr_ms5j6qPDxj1sgzmh8o1_r1_1280.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank" title="Mouseover Description"><span style="color: cyan;">graced the cover</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of a</span><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 'Smiths record.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> that's why it is so perfect that Morrissey likes her ... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and of course the other reason why it's perfect, is because she </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> has </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the same beautiful spirit as Morrissey in using her voice </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> for the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">voice-less animals. it makes my heart swell knowing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> that these 2 people </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">are in the world MAKING A DIFFERENCE </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> ... and <i>now</i> knowing </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that they are friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> It's pretty funny. <i>and very british-like.</i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> like waiting for a bus. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> you're waiting, waiting ... </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and then 2 come along all at once!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> that's how it is, as we are greeted by </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>another</i> new Morrissey </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> song, only a few weeks after</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><a href="http://edgeindustrialphotography.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/10-reasons-why-mozs-comeback-single-is.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank" title="Mouseover Description"><span style="color: cyan;">the last one!!</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">... of </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">course I'm not </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> complaining - but it's just funny how one minute you have</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> nothing</i> and then just as you are getting used to the fact of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> having </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a new Morrissey song - </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">another one is out and taking </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> over your </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">world!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I'm still sticking to my rule of not listening to any of the new </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> songs via </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">youtube footage. If I'm at a gig it's one thing, but I </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> hate hearing things </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on tinny youtube videos for the first time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and it's paying off. because the full impact after I've bought </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> these singles </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and heard them in their full glory is worth all </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">previous sacrificing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> so I've finally heard my 2nd track off the new album.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> there is so much I love about it, it's hard to know where</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> to begin. listening to this song, I just feel consumed by it,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> but in a VERY GOOD WAY - i.e. it's so long since a song</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> has made me feel this way, you almost forget how music</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> can (and should) </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">affect you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> so here in 10 points (yes I am still liking this 10 point thing)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> is why this new moz song is a wondrous affair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 1. <i>the start</i>, it is some kind of a war-speech or some spoken</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> word jazziness??? no time to ponder, the song is off ... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 2. <i>very different</i> to WORLD PEACE. this takes it up to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the next level. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I love the brutish swagger it has and how </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> that seemlessly </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">melds </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with an eastern blissed out vibe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 3. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it is both </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sinister and uplifting AT THE SAME </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">TIME. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> all cinematic and </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wide-screen ... <i>thrilling and desperate.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> desolate and euphoric. all these things HIT YOU ALL</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> AT ONCE ... oh mozzer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 4. this means that the affect it has on you, is the following:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> a/ </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wanting to <i>just get lost</i> in the</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> ethereal-ness of it all.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> b/ wanting to punch the air out of sheer jubilation and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> shout those </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">words out.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> it's going to </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">be quite </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a quandry </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I am </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in when I hear it live. </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">what to do ...</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 5. Mozzer's words, his voice, his tone ... when they suddenly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> come into the song, amidst all that music (and how it has</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> left you feeling) means it just </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gets you RIGHT THERE!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> oh mozzer indeed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 6. the bit at 1.39-1.45 makes my heart melt. every time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 7. in this rather lovely new moz tradition, we get another </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: cyan;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7fOJZ68gc0" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank" title="Mouseover Description"><span style="color: cyan;">spoken word video</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">... is it just me who thinks Morrissey</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> would make a rather fine </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">actor!!?? ... actually scrub that,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we don't want to </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lose him to the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">acting world </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and all </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">those </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> luvvies!!! <i>(oh Steven, oh Steven!!)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 8. the ending makes me think of Suede + DOG MAN STAR </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (all </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Asphalt World/</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We Are The Pigs ending) which floors </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> me </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">*nearly* as much as everything I've </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">previously heard. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 9. two songs in, I have no idea how I'm going to feel by the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> time I have actually </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">heard </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the album.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 10. In a Parallel world, I would have loved somebody like </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Oasis </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Stone </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Roses to have released this and to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> have </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">witnessed </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all the praise </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and adulation heaped upon </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> it ... </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and then switch back </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to the ACTUAL </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">WORLD </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">where </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> it was basically ignored ... whilst just</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> thinking to myself </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> EXACTLY </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">EXACTLY. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Istanbul and previous single World Peace Is None Of Your </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Business are available to buy </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">now on itunes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the album </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">World Peace Is None Of Your Business is released</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> on 14 July</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578421219211654490.post-53400840248714332522014-05-26T12:09:00.002-07:002014-05-26T12:28:27.588-07:00Nine Inch Nails/Cold Cave - Nottingham FM Arena - 24 May 2014<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3761/14087979128_270d92eeb5.jpg" /><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> if truth be told, I was just as excited to see Cold Cave as I was</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Nine Inch Nails (who I *have* seen before) ... so I made sure </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">got </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">there early enough to see them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> perfect before a note had even been played.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> 'can we lower the lights a bit' </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> (<i>lower</i> the lights!! ... someone </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">next to me says)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> 'we're from California, but don't judge us'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> 'where are we?' (it's a joke!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> so after only ever <i>listening</i> to them, I was finally<i> seeing</i> them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> and whereas it's one thing to listen to them on cd, seeing it live </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> in front </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of you was another thing altogether. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">their </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">juddering </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> beats </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">washing over an almost </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">frozen </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(statue-like) </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">audience </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">was </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> just </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a vision of pure </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">perfection, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that I was fortunate </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">enough to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> be </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">caught up in, in a trance-like </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">state.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> you need this band in your life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <i> seriously - </i>how.damn.perfect. is this band ... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> above - audience shot from just before the start of NIN</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Nine Inch Nails started (first video below) as they meant to go </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> on ... a juggernaut of </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">brutal power and sound. I got all of the songs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I wanted. the only </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">one they didn't do was</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9BfvPjsXXw" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank" title="Mouseover Description"><span style="color: cyan;">We're In This Together</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I didn't film any of my favourite songs (if I did, just a few seconds) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> because </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I wanted </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to enjoy the song ... hence just 50 seconds </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> THE HAND </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">THAT FEEDS </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and only </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">15 seconds(!)</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> of HEAD LIKE A </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> HOLE </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">... </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">nothing</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> of Terrible lie </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(though</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2-taN5Uio" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank" title="Mouseover Description"><span style="color: cyan;">here's</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> someone else's vid)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I was really pleased to hear</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Q3Cd6L1Mo" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank" title="Mouseover Description"><span style="color: cyan;">The Day The World Went Away</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> as</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> it's the perfect song to hear live ... and get lost in. crowd-wise </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> people were really into it, though there wasn't any real mass</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> movement, when I last saw them at Brixton Academy in London</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> it was brutal, I nearly died in the crush near the front! but you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> never get the same thing at arena shows. I have no doubt if the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> gig would have been at a smaller venue, it would have been exactly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> the same.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tES7sCKBCYU" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank" title="Mouseover Description"><span style="color: cyan;">Hurt</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> ended the gig and fittingly was the total opposite</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> to how the gig had started. as ever with gigs, once it's over I wish </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I had it </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">all to look forward to and do again. but that's the beauty</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> of gigs, how they always leave you with that feeling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <u>Cold Cave</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Underworld USA </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Youth and Lust </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> A Little Death to Laugh </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Love Comes Close </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Confetti </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Heaven Was Full </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> People are Poison </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Icons of Summer </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <u>Nine Inch Nails</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Somewhat Damaged </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The Beginning of the End </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Terrible Lie </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> March of the Pigs </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Piggy </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Reptile </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Survivalism </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Gave Up </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Sanctified </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Disappointed </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> All Time Low </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The Warning </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Closer </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The Great Destroyer </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Wish </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Burn </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The Hand That Feeds </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Head Like a Hole </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Encore:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The Day the World Went Away </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Hurt </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578421219211654490.post-37279241091603084442014-05-16T11:05:00.000-07:002014-05-18T04:06:58.453-07:00where I was last night.<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in Nottingham for a gig ... (unbelievably) the first time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">seeing one of their gigs ... but I <i>now</i> have.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have so much to say ... <i>so much</i> <i>...</i> but I will </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">save<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it for the review ... check back in a </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">few days. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for t</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">he time being, here's a little </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">bit from the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">start </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the gig. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Morrissey is back today with a new single </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">... and yes it is </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <i> very </i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">exciting to be able to say that. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">M did not </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">disappoint. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> here </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">are the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">10 reasons why Moz's </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">comeback </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">single is rather </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> magnificent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> 1. it starts off all menacing and <i>tribal-like</i>, who does that? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> no-one. except Moz.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> 2. then on a flick of his heel/flick of his wrist (you choose) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> goes into the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sweetest refrain you've EVER heard. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">clever </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> one Moz.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> 3. it sounds like a distant blissed out cousin of Ouija Board </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> (this </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is a very.good.thing.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> 4. talking of that ... is it only me who gets a (albeit very faint)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> surf/hawaiian feel </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">from the music?? I love it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> 5. I really like how that music feels like it's doing it's own </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> thing in the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">background ... it feels like you never know </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> which direction it's going to </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">go in.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> 6. the lyrics. is it too much to ask for intelligent meaningful </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> lyrics these days? </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">seemingly. Moz returns and in 1 song </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> alone, shows the banality of everyone</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> else's lyrics.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> 7. at 3.51 because of *that* (err wow) music break that's just </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> occurred</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> ... it comes </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">back sounding more victorious and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> euphoric</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> than ever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> 8. we can all feel a bit smug. as in </span><u style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">THIS</u><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> IS WHY WE LOVE HIM.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> 9. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WltvzfNMiF0" target="_blank" title="Mouseover Description"><span style="color: cyan;">the video</span></a> (yes a point dedicated <i>just</i> to it)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> 10. with M just <i>reciting</i> the lyrics, Nancy SINATRA wandering</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> in all Debbie-Harry like(!!) and the whole thing having the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> air of a Twin Peaks <i>(it's true!!)</i> Fire Walk-With Me never</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> before seen moment - it's pretty damn perfect.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> WELCOME BACK MOZ!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> World Peace Is None Of Your Business is available to buy </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> now on itunes.</span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578421219211654490.post-71954704516933116562014-04-30T10:17:00.000-07:002014-04-30T11:01:40.969-07:00Jaws - The Cookie, Leicester - 28/4/14<img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5573/14095339653_9a6204c327_c.jpg" /><br />
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<img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7367/14070986321_38b2bedd84_c.jpg" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578421219211654490.post-9326414435984679942014-04-29T12:40:00.000-07:002014-04-30T10:06:52.534-07:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I went to a gig yesterday. my first since about this</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">time last year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">it was also the first time I've taken any photos since the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">iliketrains gig the week I got<i> back from new york.</i> It's</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">definitely the longest I've gone taking gig photos </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">since </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I started doing it - and last year had </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the least amount </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of gigs I've ever seen in a year </span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">since I started going to </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">gigs. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">at one point I didn't think I had seen any gigs last year</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and was almost obsessed to remember that there must</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">have been <i>one </i>... I just couldn't have had it that I had </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">not seen <i>one gig</i> during the whole of the year ... but then </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I remembered I'd seen S</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">imple M</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">inds in Leicester - and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">even though it's </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">silly, I was kind of relieved ... that there</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">had been <i>one.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">so I saw JAWS were playing Leicester and wanted to see</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">them after reading a small gig review in nme.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">it's the first time I've been to the cookie. its a very small</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">venue (150 capacity) I got there as the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">first band was on, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it was completely full!! I was right </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">at the back, I thought </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that was it, I'll never get </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">near the front. my hope was </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">people would move </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">as the support act finished, and they </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">did! I soon </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">made my way forward, getting a nice spot on </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2nd band </span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://hausband.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: cyan;">Haus</span></a> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">are pretty upbeat, jaunty with foals-</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">like </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">beats ... </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/surfffff" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: cyan;">Surf</span></a><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">had had a tiny bit of that, but they </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">had other </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">songs </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I liked even more, when it all </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">went a bit more </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">widescreen </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sonically </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and touched upon a shoegaze vibe. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but I enjoyed </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">both bands. good stuff. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I purposely didn't check out anything by JAWS </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">before </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the gig, I like the feeling you get when </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a band impacts </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you when you see them live </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for the first time. <i>and they </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>were even better </i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>than I could have imagined</i>. I was </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">expecting </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">them to be more scrappy and pop-punk(y)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">but they were a mix of all my favourite bands, like if</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'd put together my perfect band ... </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">disintegration-era </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">cure, my bloody valentine, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ride, slowdive, the smashing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">pumpkins, pixies ... </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">yet sounding like their </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">very own </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">band, and not any kind of revivalist retro band ... </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">hugely </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">impressed. the lead singer had said </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">something </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that he </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">hadn't had a very </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">good day that </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">day, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and this </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gig was </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">making </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it a whole lot better for </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">him. well I hope </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">he </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">realises the impact his music is </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">having on people. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'm kind of intrigued though, if I feel this way after</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">just having heard the songs </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>once</i> live. how will I feel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">when I </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">know </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">them inside out.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">here are some videos. I'm really impressed how the flip</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">handles being right in front of the speaker, and doesn't </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">sound </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">all distorted ... when I last filmed something (on </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">my </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">blackberry) </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">it sounded like </span><a href="http://edgeindustrialphotography.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/for-future-reference-you-might-want-to.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: cyan;">*this*</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> above - first song</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> above: listen to the crowd singing along!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> the crowd got a bit lively!! ... I was glad I was tucked away</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> near the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">speaker and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the wall ... <i>keepin the camera outta </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i> harms way!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I really enjoyed the whole night and realised how much I've missed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> talking photos. it's such a huge part of me and I have actually really</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> missed the feeling that I get from it. ... I enjoyed the night so much </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I've just got my ticket for this:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7333/14061240762_2ffceee3da.jpg" /><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> SHONEN KNIFE!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> SHONEN KNIFE!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> SHONEN KNIFE!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> that will be packed for sure. I never saw them the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">last time they </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> came to Leicester, so am looking </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">forward to seeing one of Kurt's </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> favourite bands. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I don't even mind if I don't get any </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">photos.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> not too keen on having to venture into the town centre on a </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> friday/saturday/sunday (a bank holiday weekend too!) </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> encounter hoardes of drunk/loud/annoying people(!) but it </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> will </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">be worth it. lots of bands playing all over. should be </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">real </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> good.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7330/14041267166_a55642cd57_z.jpg" /><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I'll be doing some updates the following day from </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the night </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> before, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">with little videos etc. so check back </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">saturday morning </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> for the first.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> p.s. I've heavily got back into listening to the cocteau twins</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> lately (I do this a lot with bands) ... and for the majority of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> the time, it has just basically been me going back and forth </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> between </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">these </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2 songs </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(</span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmH6Tfi0kdA" target="_blank"><span style="color: cyan;">1</span></a> </span>+<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3H25aWC3L0" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: cyan;">2</span></a>)<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> anyone else like the cocteaus??</span>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578421219211654490.post-14729755024018553892014-04-21T08:50:00.000-07:002017-04-02T05:13:36.646-07:00currently a bit obsessed with this band.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uzw0WqPna7c?rel=0&showinfo=0" width="560"></iframe>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> heathers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> miserabalist guitar pop from los angeles.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> need this shirt.</span>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578421219211654490.post-54606724620545755872014-04-02T11:50:00.000-07:002015-02-11T06:26:32.129-08:00what music means to me.<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> here's a new feature I've been thinking about doing for a while.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I've always loved the whole music questions aspect from talking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> to people in the past ...</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but I wanted to know more than just the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> last</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> song they </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">listened to </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">or last album they bought ... so I could </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> get </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the bigger</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> picture of </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i> </i>just<i> what</i> music means to </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> so I've got some questions that will find out just that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> 1. What is your favourite song?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> 2. What is your favourite album?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> 3. Favourite artist/band</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> 4. Has there ever been a song that has made you cry?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> 5. What is your favourite song lyric?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> 6. If you could recommend 1 song (or album/band) for me to check out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> 7. If you could go back in time and see any one concert?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> 8. What does music mean to you?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I saw </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Matt near </span><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?safe=off&espv=210&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=bleecker+street+new+york&oq=bleecker+street+new+york&gs_l=img.12...0.0.0.4002.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c..39.img..0.0.0.qWq1AQ9XxFg" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Georgia;">Bleecker street</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">when I was in New York ... and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> knew </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">this cool dude would be </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">perfect to ask. <i>thanks for doing </i></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">this </i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Matt!</i><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Matt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5538/13580589943_90517be26e_c.jpg" /><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> 1. What is your favourite song?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> my favourite song - of all time? ... that's tough because there's so </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> much </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">good </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">music. I'm really liking Kings Of Leon right now, I think </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> that's probably </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">my favourite band at the moment ... but my favourite </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> song of all time ... </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I couldn't give you just one</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> (okay give me a few </i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> then 'cause I know it's </i><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">hard to narrow it down ... a top 5)</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> ... I like </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> a lot of Pink Floyd, I guess </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">they're from your neck of the woods ... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> anything from </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Floyd, </span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Georgia;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YZb8s7Kxa4" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: cyan;">Stairway to Heaven</span></a> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Led Zeppelin, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that's a great </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> song ... </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpzxf_flm8M" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Georgia;">Comfortably Numb</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">by Pink Floyd</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> (I know it's hard to be put </i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> on the spot, and you'll be </i><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">remembering after I've gone ... you'll think, </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> this song and this song, why</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> didn'</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">t </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>I' say that)</i> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">yeah right ... Arizona </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> by Kings of Leon, that's like my </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">favourite</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> song right now anyways ... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> what is it, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4EUQReXNdY" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Georgia;">Mr Bigmouth</span></a><span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">by the Smiths, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that's a </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">great song. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I don't </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> know, I've got lots of them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> 2. What is your favourite album? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> man ... again I listen to such a wide variety of </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">music, so I can't really</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> say I have one favourite album ... what do I always</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> go to though? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I don't know, Pink Floyd's </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi7LvyJA36w" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Georgia;">The Wall</span></a><span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is a good one ... favourite? </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I don't </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> know</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> though ... I couldn't really tell you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> 3. Favourite artist/band</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> my favourite artist ... </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbxtYqA6ypM" target="_blank"><span style="color: cyan;">Miles Davis</span></a><span style="color: lime;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is great, I love Miles Davis. favourite</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> band, probably Kings of Leon. Mumford and Sons is great </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">too, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a really </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> good band.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> 4. Has there ever been a song that has made you cry?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> ooh ... I can't remember, I can't remember ... definitely makes me </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> emotional </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> 5. What is your favourite song lyric?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> one of my favourite bands is Thrice </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(yeah yeah) ... </i>you ever heard of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Thrice? <i>(yeah)</i> Dustin Kensrue </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">has a song and it's talking about like, he</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> sees his friends down below... <i>(sings)</i> 'I see my friends' ... </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">no, wait, hows </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> it go? (laughs) ... oh man I'm like just drawing a blank<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(can you remember </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <i>the title of the song?)</i> yeah yeah, it's ... </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">oh man how's it go?!? </span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'll google </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> it, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'll find it don't worry!) ... </span></i><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(starts singing to himself again)</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> 'the rocks </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> are leaping for the sky'</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> ... oh man I'm so bad right now, cause I'm never </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> put on the spot like </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">this, so it's hard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> *** I found it from that! it's called 'See You In The Shallows - and it has</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> great lyrics indeed (+ song) ... see it below!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> 6. If you could recommend 1 song (or album/band) for me to check out</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Kings of Leon and Arizona, specifically that song ... it's just a </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">beautiful </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> song, a 5 minute song ... real good, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">kind of ambient ... </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">guitar riffs ... the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> guy's a real good singer ... I don't </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">know ... </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I think you'd probably like </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> that song.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> (a band to check out?)</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Thrice </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(I always meant to ... never got around </i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> to) </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thrice is a really good band ... Vheissu ... </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">they actually just stopped </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> touring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Mumford and Sons, that's a great band </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you should check out </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(yeah I've </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i> got the first album)</i> I haven't heard Babel yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> 7. If you could go back in time and see any one concert?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> ooh ... I'd like to see The Doors I think, I think to see Jim Morrison</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> play ... would be pretty killer ... or Jimi Hendrix ... </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">or even like Pink </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Floyd</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> when it was the original group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> 8. What does music mean to you?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> It means a lot you know. I don't necessarily think it means </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">everything </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> but I think it definitely means a lot to me </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you know ... I listen to music </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> every day,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> but there's also times when I just kind of like to be ... I need </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> silence. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I don't know ... I think there's a mentality in the west, at least</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> in america, where you see people have been tricked into thinking </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> music is everything, but I wouldn't really hold that view </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">because there's </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> got to be more than just THAT, as in just itself, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">like music. I guess more </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> like from a philosophical standpoint ... </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but ... I love music, I listen to it </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> every day you know, it just evokes emotion .</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.. and just, it means a lot </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> do you like this new feature?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> ... what would your answers be?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> let me know below!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i> </i>look out for a lot more </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of these in the future.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578421219211654490.post-69032359741169146942014-03-14T12:33:00.000-07:002014-03-14T13:44:29.711-07:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">it's funny how the time of year combined with </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">your </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">frame of mind </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">always gets you reaching </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">certain </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">cds. I've been </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">digging out my cranberries </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">cd's lately. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">have I ever </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">told you </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">just </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">how much I </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">love this band ...</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578421219211654490.post-687514631250576122014-02-12T08:28:00.000-08:002014-02-12T08:28:08.282-08:00you need this band in your life.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="365" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/nysW3Orn2Ic?rel=0" width="520"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578421219211654490.post-82417609594016213752014-02-08T04:29:00.000-08:002014-02-09T13:14:28.432-08:00smiths saturday.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="365" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Wz5IFl7uCis" width="520"></iframe>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The Queen Is Dead. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> directed by David Jarman.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> DAVID. JARMAN.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> there is nothing more to say</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578421219211654490.post-3242259979320138252014-02-01T09:06:00.000-08:002014-02-01T09:08:51.435-08:00smiths saturday.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="365" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/4nUlA4_xz8Y?rel=0" width="520"></iframe><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> a new feature.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> something 'smiths on a saturday.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> there is a lot to cover.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> first off ... WILLIAM, IT WAS REALLY NOTHING</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> on top of the pops.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> yes. yes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> perfection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> 1.10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> exactly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> no words.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0