London (and elsewhere, hopefully) Calling
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Haha, it seems I talk about salmiak every time I see someone from Scandinavia. And I still have some from when I went to Sweden a few months ago. I’m glad you get to see him there! I am sure he’ll get a huge, enthusiastic and unexpected welcome, like he got in Amsterdam last year. For that matter I actually threw some disgustingly-strong salmiak candy at Paul in Amsterdam; it was meant for Storm, but Paul was closer.
In other news, my newish camera which I would have filmed the concerts in full-HD with stopped working yesterday, and none of my friends were able to fix it. I might have to film with my old camera, assuming I can find the spare batteries for it. :/ Or maybe I can somehow very quickly buy a new one, then get the old one repaired under warranty and sell it. I’m sure Kerrin will be filming the whole concerts too, so you’ll still be able to vicariously experience these concerts anyway.@jessica Phew! Glad to hear it. I was starting to worry they wouldn’t let me in if I had to carry an audience’s worth of meatballs. (inb4 “An Audience’s Meatballs” is my Meatloaf cover band)
Seeeeriously looking forward to tomorrow night. First time ever hearing the Coultron live, it is going to be the very definition of an excellent experience.I’m going to be at manchester! I’m up for meet ups. Have been out in the real world a spell due to some business I had there. Just catching up now, I am also thinking of a trip to the comic book shops but I don’t really know manchester so well. Pretty much the northern quarter is it for me!
Quick been-awake-for-23-hours-and-just-want-my-video-copying-to-finish summary: Storm caught a black licquorice penis in his mouth and ate it while singing, and Want You Gone on acoustic guitar without the band had a more poignant quality than the original recording, to everyone’s delight (JC’s words. I think he’d forgotten that he’d done that one over here before.)
I bought a waterproof camera last night, figuring that way I’d have two different cameras for different purposes when the other one was fixed, so it wouldn’t be too redundant. I made mistakes filming a few songs but what I got seems to have come out okay. Phew.Just wanted to say big thanks to my queue buddies for a great time yesterday – seems that Cards Against Humanity was the perfect game to bring along! BTW, I’m @dkplewis on Twitter (and everywhere, to be honest).
@etyek (or any one else in Birmingham)
I’m about to leave Cambridge for the Birmingham concert with @Angelastic We would be happy to meet up before the concert.I don’t know Birmingham very well. I’ve only been there for the previous JoCo gig. Can you suggest somewhere near the venue?I’ll check the forums later, or you can email me Kerrin.Hardy@gmail.comI live 20 miles outside of Birmingham myself so can’t be of much use as a tourist guide, I’m afraid! However, I can meet up either at Birmingham New Street station or outside the venue any time after 4pm if you like…
I’m about to leave for the concert now, hoping to be there fore anywhere between 4 and 5, happy to wait and chat at the venue with any others, I’m the one in the Prof Brian Cox t-shirt and checkered red overshirt.
We just got to our hotel. I need to drop some suit cases off at the venue at 5:30. Then we’ll probably want to grab some food near by before heading back to the venue. I’ll come outside between dropping the cases off and getting food to see who is around. Probably at 5:45. I believe seats are assigned tonight.
Well it took me half an hour to connect to the Orange WiFi hotspot at the hotel, so now that I am here I may as well say something. There is now a hand symbol for the obligatory ‘whoop’ every time Robert C. Baker (whoop!) is mentioned. JoCo played Drinking With You and I Crush Everything, which he hadn’t done in London, so that was nice. On the other hand, in London he opened with Not About You, which surprised me, and he didn’t do that here. He hasn’t done Redshirt at all this tour, perhaps because he needs the band for it. He’s been doing Sticking It To Myself, maybe the only times without the band, I don’t know. Also Want You Gone (he did that last time he was in the UK, but he didn’t do it on the cruise so I thought maybe he’d stopped. Actually it seemed like Paul and Storm had stopped doing Nugget Man for a while, but it’s back this tour.)
I thought I’d accidentally deleted the first 20 minutes of footage, but it turned out I didn’t, so I am happy about that. It was from straight on, which is rare since there isn’t usually a good place to put the camera where they can both be seen properly. I made a few other minor filming mistakes and have yet to get all of this tour. But I think the new D20 camera is working okay. Critical Hit!
I met all the people I had planned to meet, I think, and a guy who had a CERN T-shirt that he didn’t get from me. Yay!
Good to meet you Angela, and hope you enjoy the Bristol and Manchester shows too! I’m very tempted to attend the Marian Call CERN show next month, but need to save every penny if I’m going to have any chance of becoming a SeaMonkey next year 🙂
Also, I’ll take responsibility for the initial whoop when P&S first mentioned Robert C. Baker (whoop!), as I too thought they’d stopped playing Nugget Man and was about as overjoyed as a stereotypically reserved British person can be at the news of its return!Edit: Whilst I know there are better quality recordings of the entire show to come, I couldn’t help but upload my one and only recording of the aforementioned Nugget Man performance, complete with the hand gesture to be used in place of whooping in future…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C1EuLmd-0k
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