Foo Fighters Hyde Park - June 17th

Went to the Foo Fighters in Hyde Park yesterday and what a great day.

4 of us, Faye, her bro and his girlfriend went. We went in about 4 going past the HUGE crowds trying to get in at entrance X8 and walked round as we had the "golden ticket" for entrance X3. Strolling in through the gate as there was hardly anyone in the queue we went in and got a wristband.



Strolled round for a bit and grabbed some food and had a sit down watching Juliette Lewis and her band. I can not work out if she is attractive or not. One minute I think is is then I'm not sure. They were quite good but I start thinking that we are miles from the stage and that not everyone around us has a wristband on. After a couple more minutes of quietly thinking this over in my head I have a thought that we must have to go through another entrance and we are just on the outer ring. Well we was !!!!

We walked through to the inner circle past all the people trying their hardest to get in "honest my mate has my ticket", "The dog has eaten it" etc etc.

Result we are in the inner circle and about to listen to a band I have wanted to see for ages; Queens of The Stone Age. They did not disappoint and were brilliant. Looking forward to seeing them in a smaller venue sometime soon ! I never realised just how good a voice and playing guitar Joshua Homme had. The bass player also went on guitar and was awesome as well. Awesome, I never use that word BUT it describes them.



Have to mention that Angels and Airways was on before QOTSA but nothing to write about !

Motorhead came on and Lemmy was good, never been a Motorhead fan in the past apart from the Ace of Spades but they put a really good show although I used the time to do a toilet and beer run (quite well organised for such a big show, thats the toilet and beer not Lemmy)



Then the main event and the Foos rocked as they always do ! Great show and Dave really played to the crowd and after waiting 5 hours from the time we got there to 9pm when they came on it was worth it. He never got on the drums but a rather older chap called Roger Taylor did and his mate Brian May helped out on guitar while Taylor sang Tie your mother down. Very good and a fitting end to the show.



I prefer the smaller events but rocking with 85,000 was good. I did feel a bit sorry for the people on the outer circle as I am sure that it was not that they didnt want to pay more for inner tickets but that they could not get them.

Look at the people crammed in behind Faye.



Here is tip: Always sign up to mailing lists if you like bands, I do and thats why I get to hear about advance pre-sales.

Homeless

No internet other then at work and I have just got really busy at work SO wont be too many updates.

Well.......we left London with nearly all the stuff going to storage last week (7/6/06), some of the bits had to come with us as there was no room in the van that they came in and I was not hanging around for them to come back for a few bits, so we piled the cars up and headed off to Rickmansworth.

We are staying at a girls at works place as she has it on the market and is not living there. It has been on the market since before Xmas so should be OK, OR SO WE THOUGHT !!, She sold it on the day we moved in and the people buying are 1st time buyers and want to be in by end of June so we are now pushing like crazy trying to get our exchange and completion done.

Our house completed last Friday and even that was a pain because my solicitor did not get the money until 4.20 so we never got ours until Monday morning. Would of been really bad if we was in a chain !

As it is now though we are thinking of moving out next week. I have spoke to a mate and can store some bits at his house (Including me !) Faye is going to her parents next Thursday and I will go to my mates then I'm off anyway on a stag doo in Newcastle. Will then stay at my Mums and travel to work OR if possible go to Fayes parents and work from home. They live in Oswestry. I have just started a new project at work though and it is for engineers based in Preston so I might go up there for a few days as well.

Can not wait to be settled again. should not be too long.

Got caught smoking yesterday and felt like a child. Smoked at half time during the footy and was outside when Faye came down with my mobile as it was ringing :-0.
Hangs head down
she was very VERY disappointed with me.

I have been a bit stressed and I'm still not a proper smoker i.e. I only have them when stressed or out on the beers and never during the day, thats from 20 a day.

England Flag Day

THIS DEPT OF TRANSPORT INITIATIVE HAS BEEN RE-LAUNCHED, MAY & JUNE 2006.

Press Release
Due to the nature of the quality of driving in England the Department of Transport has now devised a new scheme in order to identify poor drivers and give good drivers the opportunity to recognise them whilst driving.

For this reason as from the middle of May 2006 those drivers who are found to be driving badly, which includes overtaking in dangerous places, hovering within one inch of the car in front, stopping sharply, speeding in residential areas, generally being a fool pulling out without indication, performing U turns in appropriately busy high streets, undertaking on motorways and taking up more than one lane in multi lane roads.

These drivers will be issued with flags, white with a red cross signifying their inability to drive properly.

These flags must be clipped to a door of the car and be visible to all other drivers and pedestrians. Those drivers who have shown particularly poor driving skills will have to display a flag on each side of the car to indicate their greater lack of skill and general lower intelligence mindset to the general public. Please circulate this to as many other motorists as you can so that drivers and pedestrians will be aware of the meaning of these flags.

Department of Transport

Here is an example I have found and you should look aout for: