I am SO excited. This morning I managed to bag myself (and my sister and mother) tickets to see Bruce Springsteen at Hampden on July 14!
OK, the tickets were about 60 odd quid, but I paid the same to see Coldplay this summer. I am not a fervent fan by any means, and I am more a fan of his Atlantic City - type songs than the bombastic stadium rockers he seems to be more widely known for - but, as a songwriter he is up there with the best of them.
Anyway, Springsteen has been on my list of ‘musicians I want to see live before I, or they, die’ for a few years now. I am also lucky enough to have tickets to see AC-DC this summer, so they can get crossed off, too! With so many older generation bands touring over the last few years, this list is getting shorter all the time
So, I guess you wonder what this list looks like - well, it is by no means complete, but it runs something like below
Paul McCartney (if I can’t have The Beatles, then one will do, but not Ringo)
Led Zeppelin (but Plant has to be there)
Michael Jackson (say what you like, but the guy’s albums up to Bad are legendary)
Pearl Jam (still not had the pleasure, been dying to see them since I was 16)
Aerosmith
Pink Floyd (though Mason would be missed)
Eric Clapton (shut up - Cream fucking ROCKED!)
The Stone Roses (you never know…)
The Smiths (see The Stone Roses)
Slash, in whatever capacity…I am such a guitar geek
There are probably many, many more that I just can’t think of yet - but what are yours?
Yes, yes - I know…it’s been far too long blah blah blah. Though, to be honest, it has been a busy few (six) months. In fact, here’s a list of what I’ve been up to - with quick descriptions of five words or less
Went to T in The Park (at front for Verve. Awesome!)
Bought a flat in Leith (credit crunch, what credit crunch?)
Moved into said flat (hard work, pretty sorted now)
Attended stag weekends in Newcastle, Brighton and London (fucking messy, but great fun)
Visited friends in Leeds (met a dominatrix - no, really)
Attended 2 Irish weddings (they do it proper there)
Watched Manchester City become the richest team in the world (still can’t win away, though)
Got a new bass player for The Alibis once Claudio moved to Glenrothes (we are coming along well)
Played to biggest devoted Alibis crowd (80 people, just for us!)
OK, maybe that’s not quite enough to justify not updating this blog - but maybe enough to keep you informed about what I have been doing - and the fact that I have neen doing something. Hopefully I can get back into the habit of documenting my thoughts to the outer world and seeing if anyone gives a shit.
A MASSIVE thanks to those of you that came to the Bannerman’s gig last Friday. Without a doubt, it was my favourite gig we’ve done. A big crowd, all up for it made for a good performance (it’s a two-way thing).
Anyway, excitingly, somebody took a video of our final song and its now on YouTube. See it below or here.
By the way, photos from the gig at The Ark are also available here
So, this week I sat the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator on a course with work. Turns out I am the ‘ESTP’ type. take a look at what that means here.
I am personally pretty chuffed with the list of famous ESTP’s. Doing a bit more research t’Internet, I also found out that Mr T is also considered to be an ESTP. Awesome!
Also this week, I bought the new REM album: Accelerate. Listened to it once and its a cracker. It starts fast and loud and overall the album is pretty rocking. So, looking forward to seeing them at T this summer. I’m still waiting on my copy of The Courteeners album, though - get your act together CDWOW!
In other news - The Alibis are playing another gig at Bannerman’s this Friday (25th April). Get yourself down there!
