PolarMonkey

as i've said on Twitter to Aurelie & Virginie, can you imagine Gary's "inner dance monkey" moves on a VLV-style iTunes ad? :wink3: if any of you are wondering, this thought was inspired by the amount of Apple products in that main image...i spotted 2 Macbook Pros, 2 iPhones, 1 iPad in there + i'm fairly sure that computer behind Jacknife Lee is running a Mac OSX :P & while we're at it, can i have that pair of AKG headphones you're holding, Gary? i promise i'll take gooooooood care of it! :D btw, any of you got an email from SP (or Universal Music, rather) to do a survey about your online habits?

^^ THIS!!! especially the one where she pretty much hogged all the appointments for herself & made a point of emphasising how they're all hers cos she set them up...blahblahblah wotta team player! :rolleyes: i don't think she'll win tho...she'd be a threat/liability to Lord Sugar as a business partner going by her self-centred behaviour so far. & he seems to have noticed how she goes about doing her "market research".

they're streaming almost all the acts for the iTunes Festival live, with the exception of Bruno Mars, Chase & Status. but it's only viewable on iTunes (PC/Mac) or the iTunes Festival app on iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch....it's the iTunes Festival, after all. :P watched the live stream for Linkin Park last night via iTunes on my Macbook...was impressed with the audio & video quality. occasional lags, freezing but otherwise it was simply awesome! :D

& not just any strings! the same guys who worked with The National for High Violet! :D

my videos...from last night... :D [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0MU1v3vDYc]Biffy Clyro - Little Soldiers (acoustic) -- London, 30 June 2011 [/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCPE5bkLfiA]Biffy Clyro - Hope For An Angel (acoustic)[/ame] there's another one that's 19mins long, but it alternates between blackness/darkness & the lads...need to figure out how to either edit it or extract just the audio from it. :thinking:

my tinset FINALLY arrived the night before the London event! & luckily for me, the UPS guy had left it with my neighbour...who was in when i came home! *phew* 1st thought upon unboxing: bloody hell! that's A LOT of confetti! 2nd thought (after rustling around the confetti in the tin & getting confetti all over my floor): ARGH!!! i have a piece of Simon's Strat!!! *spazz* [ NOTE: this is solely based on 2 small chunks of wood, the bigger having a red front surface...the smaller is a black chunk. i.e. i *may* be wrong. :P ] now...the London event! sorting thru the photos. have 2 videos...in an attempt to try & at least record the audio with some glimpses of the guys in between. + Hope For An Angel...played ACOUSTICALLY!!! *major spazz attack* ...totally unplanned for by the lads & all thanks to that legend of a guy who asked during the Q&A if they could possibly play it for his bro who was with him & has been a fan of theirs for 11 odd years & first saw them playing to crowds of 50 (i think...he could've been saying 15 tho) or so only. what an incredibly rare treat! :D the setlist: Little soldiers Questions Loneliness Breather A Whole Child Ago { Q&A Session } Hope For An Angel :wacky: :wacky: :wacky: & them ginger twins! i swear it's death by twinnage! XD was at 3rd row on James' side (once again! & unintentionally once again!) at some point during the Q&A Ben somehow noticed me pointing my camera towards them snapping away. he seemed to point right at me & my camera & smiled. :wacky: James turned his head & also looked right at me & gave a big smile :wacky: .........................& i totally fudged up both attempts to photograph them! :facepalm: oh! & Ben has a lovely voice. he sang a wee bit of Lionel Richie's 'Hello' on his own when they were asked what song would they have liked to be their entrance/intro song, if given a choice. that got everyone laughing. especially following right after Simon's answer, which was some hardcore rock/metal sounding song, that i didn't quite catch the name of. *lol* :laugh3:

i have a feeling it's gonna be High Violet-y / The National-y...which'll be interesting to see how SP pull it off. as long as the whole album doesn't sound *too* similar...but then, they've got songs with gospel choirs in them. that's different already. :) soon...excited for the album's release! *rubs hands in evilish glee*

if that was the intentional U2 tribute in return, then it's not the most immediately obvious one... :dozey:

eh! mine's still not here......... :(

yeah. mine was like a mix of ppl whinging away about how overrated U2 are or how shite Bono is in between banter about how great the songs are & excitement when a song's played. tho having seen their post gig interview (& i admittedly have hardly ever really seen any of U2's interviews over the year...i just focus on their songs & videos of their gigs), i guess i can see why ppl'd, particularly the "youngsters" going by my twitter feed, hate them & Bono especially with his ego + preachiness. & even Larry was a bit preachy, talking about "pointers" & the saying "the audience being too far away" (this coming from the drummer!). :dozey: ^^ this! i was thinking that if that's what they want to protest about, then why didn't/haven't they said anything about ppl like them too rather than just squarely targetting U2? i vaguely recall reading interviews with British F1 drivers who say they choose to live in Switzerland because of the taxes. as a side note, i realised they didn't play that new song that's called Glastonbury last night...

ugh! that's just plain confusing then! so she was just joking to go along with the crowd/team sentiment on the show? :confused:

neither is Jo Whiley, from what i recall. she's mentioned on Never Mind The Buzzcocks that she can't stand Coldplay. but i guess she had to compensate for Zane's lack of enthusiasm. heh :P

yes! totally unexpected, for me... i was like :stunned: ...followed by a "SQUEEE!!!" :lol:

OMG!!! YELLOW!!! XD

With or Without You kicks off the encore!

BAD!!!!!!!!!!! SQUUUEEEEEEEEE!!! :wacky: :wacky: :wacky:

good gawd, all this swapping around channels is doing my head in...& that seriously made it feel kinda anticlimactic to suddenly cut off like that after a song. :dozey:

darn...off by 2 tracks, TwistedPolitik!

probably the mud...i noticed the crowd didn't really jump around for the earlier acts either.

*lol* Adam's really busting out his moves in his corner for Get On Your Boots :D

Elevation...my 1st single. still have it! :)

doing the old ISS live message/greeting for Beautiful Day lead in... :D

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!! I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For!!!! :wacky: :wacky: :wacky:

*lol* good one! :D

so............where's this "very obvious" protest those Whatever Uncut ppl were planning?