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GIAN 2007 London Day 3

Posted by Rob (#1) on April 29, 2007 23:59 CEST

The day started same old, same old: queued, got drunk, met up with Laura, Tash and Andy. Fortunately a few more good, fun bands played today, really enjoyed the soothing beats of Hellogoodbye and MxPx again (especially 500 Miles which brought a flashback of Storm), while you can never go wrong with Jimmy Eat World either.

Definitely a rough day as well, left the pit with plenty of bruises and headaches (nothing serious) while I had to miss most of AFI's show because some concussed person ended up in my arms. Oh well, I see too many gigs to care about missing a show or two when there are far more important things to attend to. What I do care about is being so stupid to forget to bring Laws' present so I'll have to give it to her next time.

Sadly all good things come to an end, as did Give It A Name again.

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

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Tags: MxPx, Give It A Name, Hellogoodbye, Jimmy Eat World, Laura, AFI, Tash, Andy
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Ready for GIAN

Gigs

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

Gigs

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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Gig here, gig there, gig everywhere

Gigs

Posted by Rob (#1) on February 20, 2006 17:11 CET

It's only February but this year's gig list is already massive:

7/1: The Riplets (Waterfront, Rotterdam)
22/1: Music Against Cancer (Melkweg, Amsterdam)
31/1: MxPx/The Matches (Nighttown, Rotterdam)
1/2: MxPx/The Matches (Melkweg, Amsterdam)
2/2: MxPx/The Matches (Effenaar, Eindhoven)
3/2: Cheap Thrills (Nighttown, Rotterdam)
9/2: Cheap Thrills (Waterfront, Rotterdam)

But I wouldn't be able to make my 50-a-year target without any future plans:

23/2: Hard-Fi (Melkweg, Amsterdam)
26/2: Cheap Thrills (Patronaat, Haarlem)
3/3: Hard-Fi (Nighttown, Rotterdam)
8/3: The Riplets (Paradiso, Amsterdam)
9/3: Bullet For My Valentine (Melkweg, Amsterdam)
10/3: Cheap Thrills (Eurodusnie, Leiden)
12/3: Cheap Thrills (Patronaat, Haarlem)
20/3: PinBoys (The Frontline, Gent)
14/4: Less Than Jake (Melkweg, Amsterdam)
25/4: HIM (Brixton Academy, London)
29-30/4: Give It A Name (Earl's Court, London)
21/5: PinBoys (Loppen, Copenhagen)

Rock on!

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Last.FM

Personal

Posted by Rob (#1) on November 30, 2004 12:38 CET

My Last.FM radio profile is expanding rapidly. Playing a lot of Bif Naked, The Offspring, Heideroosjes, Nekromantix, HorrorPops (doh!), Young Heart Attack, MxPx, Blink-182.. not all of it is available for streaming but at least my profile radio should be more accurate now, and my personal radio is prepared for additional albums to be licensed.

Have yet to copy some albums from my workstation to the laptop though, so I can play more Weezer, Gob, The Rasmus, Fenix TX, Green Day, No Doubt, Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards..

And I'll have to get in touch with Charles on kde-devel for more Sirenia songs so I can get into the right mood for the gig in January.. we still need to make the actual appointment for the tongue piercings as well.