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GIAN 2007 London Day 1

Posted by Rob (#1) on April 27, 2007 23:59 CEST

What a morning! Forgot to set the alarm (damn drunken Thursdays!) so I was very fortunate to wake up at 5:10am which gave me just enough time to shower, pack and head to Rotterdam airport where a VLM flight was waiting to take me to London City airport. Dropped my luggage at the hotel around 9am and went to Camden where I decided a new tattoo would be a nice way to remember the GIAN weekend.

Around half 3 I walked up to Earl's Court after checking in at the hotel (can't do that in the morning). To be honest, Friday was by far the best day for music at Give It A Name in London. Countless of great bands played, with special kudos to Mindless Self Indulgence, Alexisonfire and the once-again very drunk Ville Valo of HIM. Their performance actually sucked but I met a nice bloke from London named Zach with whom I quickly managed a nice deal, he'd let me smoke his pot if I used my Dutch rolling skills. Needless to say, at the end of Friday I was quite stoned and couldn't care less that HiM was funny at best.

(Post-dated entry, written later than it appears to avoid an endless row of pictures inside the journal.)

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Tags: London, HIM, tattoo, Give It A Name, Alexisonfire, Mindless Self Indulgence, Ville Valo, Zach
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Ready for GIAN

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Posted by Rob (#1) on April 23, 2007 14:37 CEST

Happy St. George's Day! I'm ready for Give It A Name!

On Saturday Powerfest gave me a nice preview featuring the likes of MxPx, Mewithoutyou, Sparta, Mindless Self Indulgence (yay!), Motion City Soundtrack and Jimmy Eat World. Added bonus: Voodoo Glow Skulls.. awesome!

This morning I booked a nice hotel in the Bayswater area which. It costed me more than I'd like to admit, but maybe now I'll finally learn to find a hotel early on. For some reason it's hard to find a good deal just four days prior to arrival.. oops.

Two more days of work after this one and then I'm off to Kinki for a new haircut on Thursday, followed by a pre-flight gig at Waterfront (Tiger Army). Then it's off to London City Airport, check-in to the hotel, party like a madman (HIM, Alexisonfire, Mindless Self Indulgence), sleep. Saturday: meet up with Laura, Jamie and Natasha, maybe hit Camden, party some more (Enter Shikari, Juliette and the Licks, Senses Fail, New Found Glory), sleep some more and/or party late at Camden. Sunday: meet up with Laura again, party some more (AFI, MxPx, Hellogoodbye), sleep.

On Monday all of Holland will be celebrating our monarchy (meh) so instead I'll do some shopping in London and late at night I'll fly back to Rotterdam with VLM airlines. I'm off on Tuesday as well so that means I can sleep in which in turns means that whenever I said sleep before I really meant party, snog and shag because why waste time in London asleep?

Yup, I'm ready for GIAN!

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Tags: London, haircut, Camden, HIM, MxPx, Give It A Name, Alexisonfire, Hellogoodbye, Jimmy Eat World, Laura, Mindless Self Indulgence, Enter Shikari, Tiger Army
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Give It A Name

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Posted by Rob (#1) on January 30, 2007 18:56 CET

Just booked my three-day pass and I can't say the band list is disappointing, a lot of good acts have been added since I last checked.

Mostly looking forward to: Alexisonfire, Jimmy Eat World, MxPx, Hellogoodbye, AFI. Good to see again: Kill Hannah, HiM, New Found Glory, Motion City Soundtrack, Soasin.

Hello from the mountains by the way, still skiing, but back Sunday night.

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Tags: HIM, MxPx, Give It A Name, Alexisonfire, Hellogoodbye, Jimmy Eat World
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Tickets for HIM and GIAN

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Posted by Rob (#1) on February 18, 2006 22:57 CET

Anyone looking for tickets for HIM (Brixton Academy, April 26) and/or Give It A Name (Earl's Court, April 29-30) per chance? I think I'd rather be seeing Pinboys in Copenhagen late April. Contact me if you're interested, I'm only looking for face value plus shipping, not profit!

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Tags: HIM, PinBoys, Give It A Name, concert tickets
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England trip (June 14-20)

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Posted by Rob (#1) on July 2, 2005 15:42 CEST

That's right, I found some time to write about my England trip. This will probably be a disjointed entry because I'm just pasting (or rather summarising) notes from my notebook in which I proudly wrote with cinnamon and bubble gum scented pens. (Yeah.)

Present/past tense might flip back and forth, my apologies. Also, gets a tad personal at the end.

Tuesday June 14, 7:20am: read about a car-sharing project in the in-flight magazine and came across a nice quote of Aristotle that seemed to match my free-spirited mood:

You find wealth in use, not possession.

Most further notes for Tuesday involve queuing for Weezer. They're a bit emo I'm afraid, but I did discover Kettle Chips crips. Excellent.. hand-cooked, thick, quality flavour. Weezer kicked ass, as I knew they would.

11:30pm: Met some nice students from Utah at the gig: Laura, Shannon, Britney, Emily and Jessica. We're back towards Bayswater now, in bus N159.

Wednesday June 15, 7:39am: Woke up early because I still had my alarm set to meet up with Rach, even though that plan was out of the picture already.

Nothing special going on in the queue except for seeing Earsy again. Also think I spotted Leanne galloping around in Die Ärtze gear. Even though that never worked out (no happy ending, not even a happy beginning), it was somewhat reassuring to know that when I like a girl once, I'll like her for ever as she still looked beautiful and very alive. Weezer played better the second night. Or maybe I just enjoyed it more because I had a Norwegian girl to hold, Silja. No Kari, not "our" Silja.

Thursday June 16, 11:15am: Shopping spree! Saw wicked shoes but didn't want to spend £140. Bought a book for sale, The annals of London. Some "touchable" bubbles for the Green Day dates.

12:30pm: Went to Camden. Thought of whatsername every time I saw nice clothing or accessoiries. Hiyer, my name is Whipped.

12:12am: must have been an uneventful day, or a very eventful one. No thrilling notes except that I have to write about the China riots, which hopefully I still will as I hate oppression.

Friday June 17, ~2pm: Sunbathing at Hyde Park. Bought a pink shirt and trousers at Surprise, surprise in the morning and a necklace of The Offspring at Camden. Bought excellent purple Converse shoes for sale at Footlocker. Resisted buying a HIM bracelet as a present for whatsername, then bought her something else anyway. Hiyer, my name is Whipped. Seriously.

12:16am: Didn't want to do the binge drinking routine again so I saw a movie, Mr. and Mrs. Smith. It was quite okay (more humour than I expected) and I always enjoy life when I'm having Pepsi and popcorn anyway.

Saturday June 18, 9am: Bought sunlotion. Sunburn still inevitable in this 35+ weather, though. I've been to places in London where the sun "don't" shine, but few existed this trip!

10:23am: off to Milton Keynes. Wow, I'm actually seeing places now.

~5pm: notes from Ashley, Hannah, Lisa and Taz. Not just in my journal though, I believe at some point I had eyeliner all over my body. Can't say that I did mind, nor did I really mind snogging three girls. Damn, I really like Taz.

No more notes but if I recall correctly I had a great time seeing Taz, erm, Green Day. Both rocked.

Sunday June 19, 1:25pm: Slept in. Off to MK again.

7:15pm: still not a big fan of Hard-Fi, but Taking Back Sunday were awesome. Bit of moderate moshing and dancing on my part. Rachel called about an hour ago but I missed the call, just as I missed it yesterday in Hyde Park.

8:23pm: ran into Rob whom I met at the Jimmy Eat World (on soon) gig in Amsterdam. It's a small world after all. Kettle Chips with crushed peppercorns are definitely the most excellent snack ever, by the way.

10:05pm: Rach rang again but Green Day was on (ever better than Saturday) so couldn't answer. Should've gotten a pre-paid card earlier so I could ring back (no-go on company phone) but I figured she'd get in touch sooner, didn't want to disturb her during exam month.

Monday June 20, 1:24pm: On a train again, back from Milton Keynes for the third day in a row. Something to do with going there this morning because I really like Taz.

3:30pm: Missed my bloody flight. I risked staying with Taz for an hour longer and then the train stood still in Tring for half an hour. Was booked to a later flight so I had time to make some calls with the pre-paid card after all. Yay!

The trip journal ends with around six pages of rambling about whether I'm a player. In the end, I don't think so. If Taz wants to take me off the market, it could, would and should mean not being with Rachel for HIM. But I should not yet be worrying about that, I'm still single. I might not be in a while, but that time hasn't come yet.

Crappy trip update, I know. I think I should have stuck with my previous summary:

Loads of shopping, gigs, sunshine and snogs.

Oh well, at least I had an amazing week regardless of whether I can create a decent write-up or not.

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Tags: Rachel, Green Day, London, HIM, Hyde Park, England, Hard-Fi, Taking Back Sunday, Weezer, crisps, Leanne, Ashley, Hannah, Lisa, Taz, Jimmy Eat World
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Halloween Summary

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Posted by Rob (#1) on November 2, 2004 04:01 CET

I'll keep this short and void of too much details: I met Rachel's vampire side during the wicked HiM gig on Sunday. Ask if you care to learn about fetishes and stuff.

Had a great weekend in London, of course I also saw HiM on Saturday with Kaja, and we did some shopping and went to the airport together as our flights left at nearly the same time.