maanantai 11. lokakuuta 2010

You've got the looks, but I've got the stars

Okey, suddenly I have a life and no time what so ever to do anything normal like cook, study, write this blog or have me-time. And even now I'm multitasking as I'm writing, eating (chocolate loop cereals :D) and getting ready for a karaoke night at Bar One. So the blog might be slightly lagging but hey, I try my best here!

Last Wednesday was definitely one of the most anticipated days for me. I give you three words: Manic Street Preachers. In Sheffield's O2 Academy. I was able to walk to the gig. How amazing is this city and the country? Can it get any better? (Yes it can, wait till I get to Saturday and to the Mumford and Sons' gig.)


The Manics' gig was perfect: the set list was just purely genious, the band performed amazingly and people were really into the music. Everybody was singing to almost every song and all that jazz. This was very different from the very stiff-feeled MGMT gig.



The gig was my third experience with the Mancis and somehow the best one. Partly it must be cause this was my first club gig (the two previous ones have been on festivals) and hence they played a longer but also more intimate set. And they were also able to play stuff more widely from their whole repertoire instead of playing just the hit songs. They were really close to me and I was really able to see their performance straight away, not via huge screen. And I googled few previous set lists and they had changed it quite a bit for this Sheffield gig, which was really good call.


I don't know what draws me to this band and their music. But the lyrics come to my skins and speak about things I think about or worry about. It just hits a spot in me. And I love their way to combine the lyrics and the melodies. My favourite songs of the evening were the classic If you tolerate this then your children will be next, Motorcycle emptiness, Ocean spray, (It's not war) Just the end of love and Postcards from a young man. (And omg, the new album. It's sooooo good, they somehow returned to their old and amazing style!)


The one thing that really surprised me was the audience. Most of them where middle aged men. Very typical (I would like to say mostly working class, but I can't be sure) British men. With all the stereotypes with out pointing ears, bad teeth and all. Of course there was also other people (like few women). The thing that amuses me the most that this typical-british-guys started a kind of pit. I never ever thought that Manics' music was something to pit on. But I guess they loved the music so much.

And I do too.

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