Jiminy Cricket

Hi and bye. I'm off to watch a film. Called... wait for it... The Escapist. :escaping:

What the fuck is this I don't know how to do it ...oh wait, I just did. :P

He's gonna stick it in his sig!!! RUN!!! :uhoh:

March 9th squee. SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Yes, <3 Folie á Deux. I was always a bit meh about Fall Out Boy until I heard that album. And yes, <3 A Hundred Million Suns too. Especially The Lightning Strike!!! :D @ Carla: Hello there. :)

I did indeed. AND THEY'RE COMING BACK HERE IN NOVEMBER!!! :dance: :dance: :dance: And yes, I took pics, but they turned out shit. @ Bryce: Detox, just to retox! That song is quality. How are we all? Arg, supermassive amounts of rain forecast for tomorrow.

It was epic. :D I was on work experience for the last week and a half too. Didn't get the chance to do much, but hey, I got paid! :D

Heheh. I'm quite good. Things have been great recently.

So this thread is still going, eh. :P

I fucking love this album!!! :D One thing though: FEZ-Being Born. I like to see it as two tracks in one, FEZ being the ambient intro and a worthless piece of filler (it doesn't even run into Being Born FFS! It's just... there), and Being Born as one of the best things they have done in years, and my favourite from the album, just ahead of Breathe, the lyrics of which are brilliant. I mean: 16th of June, 9:05, door bell rings, man at the door says if I want to stay alive a bit longer, there's three things I need you to know... three! Coming from a long line of traveling sales people on my mother's side, I wasn't gonna buy just anyone's cockatoo, so why would I invite a complete stranger into my home? Would you? That is awesomesauce. Seriously. EDIT: AND THE DRUMS!!!! Fantastic work there Mr Mullen. :D

It does indeed, and will do so for the whole tour. I hope some surprises are thrown in there, as in some stuff from the first two albums. Photos has only been played once so far, which I don't get, as it can't be all that hard to pull off live. Disaster Button should really become a fixture in the setlist for this tour, it's the perfect live song, to be honest.

They actually arrived the Tuesday before the gig. And now for a review. Despereaux has quite a tale to tell. see what I did there? I arrived at about 6:40pm with a couple of friends and a HMV bag in tow. Queued for about fifteen minutes, and soon after we were inside. Delighted that the setup was mostly standing, we made for the merch stall first, as you do. I'm right fucked off with the O2 staff by now, who are telling me they don't have a cloakroom where I can put my bag. Iain Archer comes on at around 7.40pm. Good set, although I wasn't impressed enough to want to buy the new album. As his set finishes (the last song the band played was epic), I decide that desperate times call for desperate measures, and leave by bag in the concierge area. Check back a few minutes later, and it's gone. I ask what happened, explaining my situation, and I'm told the cleaners probably have it, which is a relief for me, as I was worried it had been stolen. I tell the staff member to keep an eye out for it, as nothing's been handed in yet. Sprint back to where I was standing just in time to see White Lies come on. They open with their new single, Farewell To The Fairground. I had been looking forward to hearing that live, and it didn't disappoint. The extended ending to Fifty On Our Foreheads was awesome, and Death was just plain epic, pogoing action all around. They blew me away, and should announce a headline gig here soon, I'd love to see them again. About five minutes before Snow Patrol come on. my friend asks me, "Would they hurry up and get on already?" It's his first proper gig. I tell him that it always happens when you least expect it. Sure enough, it did. The lights went down, and the place fucking erupted. I yelled for Disaster Button a few times during the night, but to no avail... and then they only went and played it at night 2!! Hands Open was amazing, I had been looking forward to hearing it live for so long, and it finally happened last night. The Golden Floor is one of my favourite new songs, and it worked really well live. Good ending too. Run was just out of this world, the acoustic arrangement adding to the song's poignancy, and the singalong was like nothing else I'd heard. Great crowd participation. And speaking of which, the whole call-and-response thing going on during Shut Your Eyes was brilliant. That song was made to be played live. Chasing Cars was lovely. I can't think of a word that describes it better. It's brilliant live. Take Back The City and Crack The Shutters, well, both singles, one faring much better than the other in the charts. I fail to see how CTS did so badly, it got such a good reaction! And City was awesome, as expected. Open Your Eyes closed the main set in the best way possible. There were a few drummers on stage, that was nice. I turn to my other friend. "I think I know what's coming next." A screen unravels itself, and a film begins to play. "Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you... The Lightning Strike." Oh my fucking God. That was seriously the best thing I have ever seen. Sixteen minutes of absolute bliss. When it drew to a close, I stood there, mouth open in astonishment. You would have had to have been there. You're All I Have brought the curtain down on what was a rollercoaster ride of a night. An instrumental Daybreak began to play over the PA as we began to shuffle out. I checked the lost & found, and my bag was there. Everything worked out fine in the end. Exhausted (I almost collapsed during The Lightning Strike) and ecstatic. That was me at the end of the night. I'd do it all again in a flash. SP's live show has improved so much since the Eyes Open tour. So much better than the 06 Dublin gigs, in my opinion. Iain Archer, White Lies, and most of all Snow Patrol, thanks for a wonderful evening. Setlist

LEEEEEEEEEEEEAK U2 DOWNLOADS THREAD GO GO GO

also some squee for postcards. SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

snow patrol squee. SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I'M NOT FUCKED AFTER ALL :dance:

I ordered them through Trinity Street Direct. UNFORTUNATELY... I have just resigned myself to the fact that the tickets and the €100-odd I spent on them have gone. Calling in favours like crazy. I so do not want to miss this. Panic central here.

Where the fuck are my tickets? :(

Bloctober eh. Lack of Irish gig = EPIC FAIL. :(

1 MIN!!!! I just read about this!!!! EDIT: And Here. We. Go. EDIT #2: US TOUR.

That is by far the best video they've done to date.

I've found a link for a stream rip, so I'll have a listen later. Don't get me wrong, I'm excited about this, but more of the same?

^^Oh no, that doesn't sound good. Would you recommend I download the leak before I buy it? As I'm planning to tomorrow.

It's all about The Lightning Strike. Such an epic song.

They'll be over there later in the year, as I said. Ilione, of course, I'd be happy to. Expecting a few surprises myself - On A Day Like Today would be awesome.

Waiting on a response re age limits for the Dublin gig.