So, I went to Stockholm on Thursday, Mannheim on Friday, back home on Saturday then the Reading Festival on Sunday. BOH! Mighthy.
Sweden was ace, good, fun gig and nice people - hotel room was PIMP - I had a plasma screen and media centre PC thingie, coudl watch tv and internet on the big screen all the time. And they had kindermanns Dry reisling in the minibar. Result...
Rather a mighty trek to mannheim though, flew Ryanair Stockholm to Frankfurt. Supposidely. LOW COST AIRLINES SUCK ASS. What a joke. The airports were 1.5 hrs (v fast) driving out of the cities they are supposed to be in... Go figure... Its like how they say that Stanstead is in London. IT IS NOT! Fact. And everyone that goes on Ryanair (apart from me) is a nutjob. The second they announce the gate on the tannoy system everyone lines up there, even though there's no staff at the door. I swear in Stockholm eveyone lined up 30 minutes before anyone came. Retarded. If you have a godddam boarding pass, then you have a seat on the plane. End of. And you have a 2/3 chance of a window or an aisle. jeez. OH. OH. OH. And because its cheap - every fool on there is a trekker student or random 1st time traveller and has a million bags and stupid massive rucksacks and tries to fit them in the cabinets and stuff. LAmeLameLame. Thank god for eyeshades and being tired.
Went on a pilgrimage to the 1st evvvar IKEA in Sweden, its birthplace, adn had lunch, before the airport. Nice. Tried out a new chair I want.
Mannheim was fabulous, rammmmmmmed to capacity full of crazy Germans. Lots of my T-Shirts being worn too. And some pretty mad outfits - gold capes, men in makeup - the lot. Excelllent! I got some great video too. Will upload this week, i promise....
Went to Reading festival with Nicky, on the spur of the moment on Sunday, you can buy day tickets and its really near my town, so was pretty easy... Saw Iggy Pop (ok - a bit waillly and blah) - marilyn manson (the best, amazing stage presence, slick band whooohayr) Bloc Party (sounded like the CD - good), maximo Park (v good) Some randoms in the dance tent didnt really impress, but were good, just not to my taste - oh and mylo - mega overrated wank - i got a big pint cup and wrote "Mylo you suck you are shit fuck off" on it and threw it at him on stage. Think I missed. Shame. Ate 2 burgers for 6 pounds each. Rip. Drunk v nice wine, out of paper cups, with ice. Nice. Bumped into drunken Russsel and many Maidenhead random ppl I knew, v gud. Saw lots of ppl in Iron Maiden shirts. And people with portable chairs. And many many hot girls. Many. Marilyn Manson was the show of the night though, the music and band was phenomenol, totally sooo well rehearsed, sound balance and everyting totally spot on and huge energy and stage presence and performance. He did the thing at teh end standing on a speech podium thing and flailing about. Rock on.
Here's photos from the last few days anyway, the ones from my gigs are all pinched from local websites - the Reading ones are just camphone lameness...
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