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.



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