My holiday photos

[ZeUs!!]

I'm posting this as I know a few people are interested in a couple of threads I've started in the last few months and this rounds them off. I'm also doing this because if you're interested in this you can participate, and if not then you don't have to without telling me to shut the fuck up, even though most people who use the internet seem to spend 90% of their time doing just that.

Friday

1. Having forced myself to listen to Modest Mouse after just about everyone in TW has just cut short on flopping them out in appreciation of this band, I actually liked their cd. So the bastards only played half a set, heads will roll
2. The Taking Back Sunday drummer managed to injure himself mid set which was really fucking gruesome as he was wearing a brilliant white t-shirt, and every time he pounded the drum the little pool of blood that had collected on it bounced back up over him, the lead singer called it "something out of A Clockwork Orange"
3. The lead singer of Taking Back Sunday also has a fucking massive nose
   
   
   
4. Brody Dalle was an absolute mess. She rocked the stage like a bastard but was prone to just stopping inbetween songs and staring out into middle distance before realising where she was and coming to again. She also had a glass of white wine where her water should be, and if that isn't rock and roll I don't know what is
5. A new rival for quote of the year emerged when my mate Miles popped this classic: "If she's 12 years old then I'm seriously considering hanging around schools"
6. The Hives' english has actually got worse since I last saw them "You like we know playing music yes? We are Hives we Gods rock yes?" The lead guitarist also managed to threaten to fuck us up if we didn't scream like mentalists when they played Main Offender, but everyone was screaming anyway so its all good
   
   
   
7. Anyone who gives themselves the name "Fire Axe" in this game needs to seriously consider the connotations as Tim Wheeler from Ash surely went down in rock history
8. Charlotte Hatherly from Ash was feeling the chill as she had nipples like bullets, unfortunately I don't have any pictures of that
9. And in possibly the worst PR stunt since Michael Jackson took to baby-dangling, Har Mar Superstar came onto the main stage while Ash were playing Kung Fu and got down to his pants. As if he doesn't usually do that. Pretty much no one wants to see that, so I took some photos and I'll put them on the internet when they're developed.
10. I don't care how many Pretty Flys, Original Pranksters and Hit Thats they write, the Offspring still rock in my books and thats fine by me. Although I doubt they did their reputation of being a kiddies band any good by throwing a bag of popcorn into the crowd. Live and learn.
11. The Darkness had a mini-bust up on stage, which was a shame because I wanted them to have a major bust up which ended with Justin Hawkins getting shot in the head by a crossbow and the bassist and drummer being given quadruple life sentences. Not the guitarist though, he's cool. They had fireworks and ticker tape and really bad songs.
12. Consumed half a litre of whiskey in the evening and spent a few hours stopping Natalie stand on the barbeque AGAIN

[ZeUs!!]

Saturday

1. The Libertines played but without Pete, as there was rumours they'd have an onstage reunion because he popped up and played a secret gig in the town
   
   
   
2. Carl Barat didn't say a word except for dedicating one song to their drummer. The set was fucking magnificant, as if the Rock God's from Mount Olympus had decided the song order whilst in the middle of an all night vodka-fuelled rock-armada
3. Placebo were OKish, I glared at everyone around me who sang along to a song that wasn't from Without You I'm Nothing
4. The White Stripes played the gig of their lives, by far the best of the weekend. Jack White was going fucking spastic complete ear bleeding guitar solos like only he knows how. It was pitch black at night and Meg was decked out totally in black and Jack had this blood red and black combo, there was red spotlighting and it was tremendous. They finished with a cover of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's song Maps and I nearly had a nervous breakdown
   
   
5. I can't get over how big Jack White is. Perhaps its that I always look at him and think Michael Jackson but the guy's fucking huge, he's got arms bigger than most logs and a 6-pac worthy of 2-pac
6. Meg White can't drum for shit
7. I drank 3/4 of a litre of whiskey that night and along with my friends (including Tigerex) stopped everyone who walked along the path next to our tents getting everyone to renounce their old names and call themselves Ed, and took pictures of everyone who did. That was the night of the Ed and we were the Ed-Hunters. We also ran around the campsite shouting "WHERES NEMO?" "I CANT FIND NEMO, HAVE YOU SEEN HIM?"

[ZeUs!!]

Sunday

1. New best quote competitor, this time from Tigerex: "Yeah I slept with my best friend's girlfriend, BUT SHE DESERVED IT!!!"
2. The Rasmus got bottled off the main stage; karma restored.
3. 50 Cent also got bottled off, expect reports of revenge drive-bys in the Reading area of England in the next few days
4. Lostprophets were fucking painful. I was all of three people away from the front barrier out of 65,000 people and my God did it hurt. For Shinobi Vs Dragon Ninja the lead singer got the crowd to part down the middle, on the left was Shinobi and on the right was Dragon Ninja, and when the song started the two factions had to run at each other and dish out rough justice. Who was standing in the middle?
5. I missed The Von Bondies but I caught Auf Der Maur over a shared Chicken Curry
   
   
   
6. Green Day were slightly disappointing. Yeah tey have the best live show in the world ever ever ever and they rocked like bastards, but they haven't changed their act in about five years, certainly at least since the last time I saw them which was two years ago. They still form a band on stage, still have a pink rabbit chugging a guiness to whip the crowd up and still dress up in probably the same cloak for King For A Day. However as the Rasmus and 50 Cent had their sets cut short Green Day had two hours to play with and they did 5 covers and only one of their new songs even though they have an album out in under a month, go figure? They covered The Ramones - Blitzkreig Bog, Lulu - Shout, Queen - We Are The Champions, The Buzzcocks - Falling In Love and The Clash - I Fought The Law.
7. Made the cardinal sin of having 3/4 litre whiskey on top of the previous litre still in my blood supply and a spliff. Chundered everywhere and passed out.

On a side note, The Darkness' light show consisted of four blocks of lights during which each song changed to spell out a word. During "Get Hands Off Of My Woman Mother Fucker" it spelt out CUNT, so I now have a picture in my possession of Justin Hawkins with a huge sign above his head saying CUNT. He's going to live to regret that

[Jerome Scuggs]

sigh where was i? stuck in plano, texas debating. in the middle of the 2NR i was looking bummed and cameron the jew asked me what was wrong and i was like "i bet fucking mike is listening to some great music or having sex with some hot indie chick who will easily submit to any man wearing a beret"

[ZeUs!!]

Unfortunately I don't have a beret and I didn't see Thursday because I was busy sitting in my tent stabbing myself in the face with tent pegs that afternoon, sorry

[Jerome Scuggs]

i hear Geoff Rickly's gotten throat polyps or something shitty happening with his voice, so they can't play as hard on-stage anymore. i even heard rumour of a thursday breakup

[Mobey]

that sounds fucking awesome zeus, i wish i had weekends like that, where was that by the way?
what festival?

[Ewan]

duhhhhhhhhhh, do you think it could be Reading?

[Jeansi]

The Ramones - Blitzkreig Bog

Bop

and that song fucking owns.

I like the lead singer in the rasmus, he has a cool "I-smoke-too-much-cigarettes"-coughy voice. very nice.

Zeus I'm strongly of the opinion that you should start a blog. It might just compete with the now almost legendary Andy-blog (which is awesome).

[ZeUs!!]

I don't do anything all day, but I might try and blag a space on mechanized.us

[Exotic]

i hear Geoff Rickly's gotten throat polyps or something shitty happening with his voice, so they can't play as hard on-stage anymore. i even heard rumour of a thursday breakup

Yea i heard Thursday is going to take a break off touring and their new cd, because one of the guys just got married and the other guy just had a baby, or something like that

[Richard Creager]

I had a hard time deciding on the white stripes but elephant blew.
Same deal with moz.

Zeus, the self titled debut is so much better than Without You I'm Nothing.

[Fit of Rage]

You scratched off The Offspring?

















Weak.

[ConcreteSchlyrd]

As much as I respect Zeus, The Offspring suck. That whiny fucker they have as a singer can't do just that--sing. Oh, that and their songwriting on a whole just never has done anything for me.

Whenever I hear "Gotta Get Away", all I hear is "NYAH NYAH NYAH NYAH NYAH NYAH NYAH NYAH NYAHHHH"--that's how annoying that Dexter guy's voice is to me.

[Jerome Scuggs]

my friend's got a girlfriend and he hates that bitch.

he tells me every day.