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The Turin Brakes thread was in the 2nd page... I can't believe it!!! :angry: :P To everyone who is interested... (I guess only Charlie will be...) -------------------- On Saturday 8 November, the Turin Brakes played a very special live set in Shirley Short's living room in Bath. The excusive gig was the prize in a competition that ran in the first issue of The Observer Music Monthly courtesy of FOPP It was the ultimate impossible-to-blag gig of the year. You couldn't get a ticket for love nor eBay. Last week, when the band played a gig in Shirley's living room in Bath, the only people on the guest-list were Shirley herself, seven of her friends, and her upstairs neighbours. When The Observer Music Monthly launched in September, they ran a competition with Fopp record stores, offering one reader the chance to hear a set from the band, performed in their very own home. Our winner,a 25 year old copywriter and huge fan, saw them play most recently in front of thousands of fans at V2003. Now, three months later, it's tea time and Olly, Gale & Phil (keyboards) - are sitting in her kitchen, enjoying a rider of Waitrose sausage rolls and crisps. Her friends who've travelled down from all over the country, are almost as excited as she is. Russell, Shirley's boyfriend, is making the teas,acting as roadie. Her friend Yvonne from work is playing door bitch, in case of any unwanted gatecrashers. The only thing missing is a dodgy looking bloke outside the front door, selling posters and t-shirts? he'd have made a killing. 'Good evening Bath? we're Turin Brakes. I've just been saying to Shirley how it's always been our dream to play here', jokes Olly, at the start of their set. 'We're going to do a song called The Stone?.cos Shirley wanted us to do The Stone.' Over the next hour the band plays a heartachingly great set that includes some of their best known hits, including Painkiller and Emergency 72, as well as Shirley's personal requests. Olly and Gale's beautiful soaring harmonies, and the poignancy of their lyrics can fill the likes of Hammersmith Apollo, but also make perfect sense in such a private space. Olly comments later that the first album was 'meant to be like someone whispering in your ear' and the intimacy of this nano-venue fulfils that description perfectly. Olly's verdict: 'at first we were really nervous, more so than before a big gig. We wondered what we'd got ourselves in to. But then we started talking to Shirley, and playing the music, and everything turned around. We remembered why we love doing this, and it was all about the music. I felt really happy? it was loads of fun.' While Gale pops to the loo, Shirley gives us her thoughts ? 'It was the gig of a lifetime, absolutely amazing. And I'm really glad I cleaned my toilet before they turned up.'

La cuestión es... que foto vas a poner? Espero que sea interesante... :wink3:

Manic Street Preachers - A design for life (in the radio!!) *is excited*

Heeey, I have to go now, I have to work tomorrow morning... :dozey: Bye bye, my lovely mates!! I had fun a lot tonite here. Take care!!! *big hug to R and J* PS - Josceline, I sent you that thing last week, I hope you received soon, tell me when you get it, ok?

I also enjoy here with you, hun!!! Don't work too much... :P

I agree with you, Josie.... WE WANT THE SKIRT BAAAAAAAACK!!! :lol: :lol:

Yeeeeeeah, I WANT SKIRTS, I WANT SKIIIIIIIIIIRTS!!!!!

Reeeen, don't hide!!! Don't be scared of us!! :P

I have to go in 5 minutes... so you can conquer the thread again!!! Reeeeeeen for president!!!! :P

Ren with a scottish skirt? :sneaky: :sneaky: :sneaky: Hey, honey, how YOU doing? :wink3:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

HAILS TO BLOODY MARY!!!!!! :D :D

I'm also here to stop your evil plans... :lol: :lol:

Yeeeeeeah!! It would be so funny... it's sad that we live so far away eh? :(

*hailing the nicest bagpipes guy and the lovely space girl*

I'm thinking that it would be soooooo cool to meet people from here and go to a concert together...

Thanks Josie and Ren... you're so nice!! :kiss: :kiss: Yeeah, it's not a review, just a T-experience and I wanted to share it with you.

*hugs back to lovely Josceline* :kiss: I think Ren has died bored of the story... :lol: :lol: :lol:

Los Piratas - Tan fácil

I miss one of my fave bands here: Turin Brakes. Gooooo, lads!!! At the moment my top 3 is: Coldplay, Travis and Turin Brakes...

No, no... they're more calm and quiet than Muse

As you can see, I'm not really good summing up eh? :P :P It's not a real review, just my experience. Sorry to explain it so long... :dozey:

CHAPTER 4 - AFTER THE GIG We went off the venue and I convinced Monica to stay with me waiting for them. After all the people were gone there were only about 10-15 persons waiting. Two girls were from France and they had driven for more than 3 hours to see the show. Another guys were from Valencia (more than 3 hours in train far away), a guy from USA but living here who told me that he had seen U2 18 times!!. We waited for 45 min and I asked to one of the roadies who was working around about the guys and he told me that they have gone to a party in the hotel. But I didn’t wanna believe it. Sometimes the crew said that because they don’t wanna be disturbed... Another guy from the venue told us the same. But I didn’t believe it because the tour buses were there and a lot of bands do these European tours travelling by road at night,and they don’t reserve rooms in a hotel. I was close to one of the bus tour and a mid-age man was there drinking a Fanta. I asked him if he knew where the guys were. - ‘In the hotel, I think...’. - (smiling): ‘Huuuum, are you sure? I thought they were in an after-show party, upstairs’ - ‘Mmmh, who knows? Maybe... - Aaaah, please, you don’t wanna tell me... Evil man! :wink3: - (laughing) Naaaah, they’re in the hotel. Definitely. They’ve gone before you all were off... - Damn it!! And do you know in what hotel they are? (smiling with craftiness) - No, sorry, don’t know - C’moooon, you’re lying now!!! - (laughing) Noooooooo, sure, I’m telling you the truth. Believe me and go home, it’s cold and you’re not gonna miss anything here. They guys aren’t here. - Ok, then... I believe you know!! He really seemed honest. We started to talk about his job, he told me that he was with Muse here two weeks ago and that. I asked: ‘Aaaah, they’re great. And do you meet the bands? Wooow, it’s very cool!!’. He answered me: ‘Someone has to do it. It’s just a normal job, like yours’. ‘No, DEFINITELY it’s not like mine!!’. :lol: :lol: We chated for a bit, he looked nice and cool. Then my friend and me decided to go and the guy told me ‘Oh, hope see you another time’... I hope so too. And next time, I’ll flirt with him to get taking me with him touring with some cool band... Be careful, Travis guys!! :lol: :lol:

CHAPTER 3 - THE GIG The lights were down and it sounded the beginning of ‘Happy to hang around’. The lads came on stage and people started to shout, applaude and getting crazy... and my heart beated quicker. Can’t remember the setlist, I’m horrible at that, but I know they played 20 songs because I saw the setlist after the show. The sound was perfect. No mistakes, no distorsions, good level. PERFECT. And also the lightings, amazing and cool. They had some huge colums of white lights and when they are on the stage looked great!! After the 2nd song Frannie says ‘hi everyone, thanks a lot for coming, hope you enjoy it, and I want you welcome Neil, our drummer, because he’s back, yeeeeeah!!’. People were amazing... I thought I was horrible at lyrics but... what happens in the last gigs i’ve been? No one know the lyrics!! I sang and sang like crazy, my throat was irritated and I only heard myself. I asked one of my friends and she said: ‘Yeeah, everybody around is listening to you’. Gluuuups... :stunned: but when they played the hits then people started to get crazy, specially in Side, Re-offender, etc,. The guys on stage are great. They looked so happy, so comfortable there. They were smiling, laughing, waving people in the firsts rows, looking everywhere and smiling everyone. They have a great connection with the crowd and that feeling is so great... I’ve realized that Frannie loves to talk. Really. :P He talks a lot before the songs, explaining the meaning. He said some words in spanish at the beginning but he admitted that he’s very bad but that he was gonna followed in english... Before ‘Turn’ he spoke about the dreams, about fighting to make them true and that... and he said ‘when you’re shy... how you say it in spanish?’. People shouted ‘tímido’ a few times... and he said ‘what? Temi... timi... t... well, you know, shy, ok?’ And he laughed, aaaaw, so sweet... :smug: Dougie... aaaaw, Dougie is a sexy bitch on stage. He smiles, blinkes and waves everyone. And he does these strange dances... :lol: :lol: , so funny, he enjoyed himself. And his funny faces... Aaaaw, he’s great!! It was funny when he played the xylophone... and also when he stood in Fran in a part of a song (can’t remember what) and people started to applaude and shouted... He looked so happy!! And Andy?? Woooowwwww, I was so surprised!! I always thought he is very calm and quiet. Just the opposite!! He’s totally crazy, a maniac!! He moves a lot, shakes his head, jumps like crazy... including the slow songs!! But his hightligth was when they were playing ‘All I wanna do is rock’ (if I’m not wrong). Suddenly, he climbed the loudspeakers (with the guitar!!), the tech went to help him, but he arrived at the second floor (the venue is not an arena, the 2nd floor is like a long corridor and the people sat down in the 1st row to see the gig), gave the guitar to the tech, waved the people, hugged some fan there, walked the corridor to the backstage and appeared in the stage again, made a bow and followed playing... People turned crazy, applauding him!!. The guys looked at him so astonished and enjoying, and Dougie laughing so crazy... It was fantastic!! Before ‘Peace the fuck out’ Frannie explained how they asked a lot of people who were in a football match to sing loud the line ‘peace the fuck out’ for the recording, and how the people was very surprised. He said ‘Imagine 40.000 hooligans thinking ‘what the fuck is this, that’s not our song’, but they did it. It was great’. He also said a long speech about freedom, peace and that, and in a certain moment he said ‘because you know all your SHIT leaders...’ and I shouted ‘yeeeeeah!’ raising my arm, expecting everyone was gonna do the same, but no, I was the only one, and I think Fran heard something because he pointed out the area I was in and said ‘yeah’ and he followed... I looked at my friends with this face > :stunned: One of the highlights (and one of my fave songs) was ‘Turn’. It was so damn brilliant!! The lighting was amazing, people turned crazy singing so incredible loud. Frannie showed his great voice there, he looked very devoted, it was very touched for me seeing him performing that song. But one of the best moments was when, in the encore, Fran came to the stage alone and said ‘Well, now I’m gonna sing a song but you have to be very quiet, please’. All the people looked at each other surprised... he went to the beginning to the stage, without microphone and the guitar switched off and started to sing Flowers in the window... i don’t know if he did the same in other tours, but it was so special, so beautiful and sweet that I started to cry... oh my god, i’m crying now just remembering!! :cry: I felt so touched, so sensitive... It was a magical moment, I can’t describe it with words. Monica, my friend by my side looked at me and said ‘Eeeeh, what’s up? Crying? Aaaaw, it’s normal, that moment is amazing... and she hugged me... but I coudn’t stop crying until the next song. Something to remember. After that, the couple of my friends turned to me and told me ‘Baby, thanks God we haven’t re-sell the tickets, that moment worths it!!. And I wasn’t the only one who cried... After ‘As you are’ I turned to my friend Alicia and she was crying... She said ‘Ooooh, it’s my fave song, and it’s so sweet...’. I was so happy been there with them. The last song was ‘Why does it always rain on me’, they were jumping on the stage, the crowded looked crazy, really really great. But, it was the end. They thanked us a lot of times to coming, they waved and gone. The lights were on and I could hear people sayin the same ‘It has been amazing, these guys are great!!’. And I felt like empty. I was expecting that gig so happy and making the countdown that when it finished I felt like ‘ok, it’s over, and now?’. It was a strange feeling.

CHAPTER 2 - IN THE VENUE We came inside and saw that there were not many people. We stood in a very good place, in the 5th row, between Frannie and Andy. I was soooo excited!! :D And the view was excellent, thanks God the guys around were short... :P :P My friends called me to tell me that they had decided not to sell the tickets and they were inside. We tried to see each other through the crowd and finally we could see our arms, but they stood a bit far away of the crowd. Around 9 pm Athlete came to the stage. No one there seemed to know them, except a group of english fans in the 1st row who came from there just to see them. And also me :P . The lead singer spoke with them and thanked them to come. In my opinion the gig was really good. I liked them and the people around told the same. One of the best moments was when the singer said that they’ve sold just 250 copies of their album in Spain. He told: ‘C’moon, you can come to Fnac or somewhere and buy it, it’s really good!!’. And another brilliant moment was when the guy on the keyboards (nice jacket!!) stood up and started to do a strange thing with a kind of radio antenna. He moved his hands really quick around the antenna and it sounded like techno distorsions, like when you try to tune in a radiostation. It was really cool and when he finished the crowd applauded really hard. They guy smiled and waved, he looked happy!! They played for 30 minuts, more or less. Then my friends called me again to try to join with us. We could see us (a miracle in that place crowded!!) and they could join us. Aaaaaah, I was really happy then!! I turned to them Saying ‘Eeeeh, cameras not allowed? Look at me, I’m a bloody journalist!!’ They said I’m totally crazy, but I don’t know why... :dozey: :P