Last Social Event you attended and your rating

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PostLast Social Event you attended and your rating
by Clarkman » Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:44 am

Share your opinions and rating of any event you've been to recently. This covers Gigs, Comedy Clubs, Art Galleries and Exhibits, Opera, Ballet, Theatre, Circus and much more in between!

Today I went to a matinee of Giuseppe Verdi's Aida in the Seattle Opera house. It's a glorious tragedy set in Ancient Egypt about love conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia, who are at war because of Aida, a slave girl/princess. The sets and costumes gave the performance a pomp and grandeur which lived up to the fantastic score. I'm sure most of you would recognize the Victory March in Aida as the graduation song for Universities and Colleges. It was my first experience with this Opera and this troupe, and they are both certainly well recommended.

9/10

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by Green Gecko » Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:03 am

Tiny outdoor music festival/party called Ousefest near Lewes near Brighton last night. Played a gig with my band. Was the most mental gig we've ever played, organised in the most ridiculous manner (no rehearsal for a month, with a different drummer, cornet guy got back from France a few hours before the gig and synth guy had jet lag after arriving from NY on Friday. We didn't even confirm the gig until 11am the same day). So it was all a bit mad, but the ethos was good and we seemed to entertain enough people, although unfortunately we had to get a taxi almost straight after we played so I didn't get to talk to many people about it. Really pissed off the PA guys because of faffing around setting our stage up (we were 6 members compared to usual 4 and we had two synths on a tiny stage) and because we overloaded the PA a few times deliberately with noisy chaos jams (Sonic Youth style.. or more recently Muse on some occasions). We had to improvise a lot so it was quite interesting. The guy on the mixer (usually the more experienced one) said we were good though. I really can't complain considering the circumstances, we could have been utter gooseberry fool but the spirit of the band, especially my two mates getting into the country so close to the gig, was really nice so we just had a blast, tried our best and had some fun. None of us are crap at our instruments (I've been playing for 12 years, live for 7) so besides barely holding the structure of the songs together (this was remedied in no small part by an excellent stand-in drummer) musically I thought it wasn't bad. Think Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Velvet Underground, The Doors kind of live show. A bit avant garde and ad lib. The energy was good. We won't be playing for a while so at least we went out with blast, even if, I bet, loads of people thought we were a load of noisy out of time chaos.

It was a hell of a lot of fun even though my fingers looked like this (as they often do) afterwards:

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People must know you're putting everything into your music when your hands are flicking blood over your guitar. :lol: (C'mon, no-one would do that deliberately to show off. My hands strawberry floating cane, I simply don't realise until half way through the song I'm playing. And it's because I fingerpick electric instead of using a plectrum, which is quite rare). My mate smashed another bunch of keys out of his synth again.. he's not even a main member of our band but he still gets so into it that he gets really worked up and starts mashing his keys.

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Can't beat playing live music so I give it 8/10 because the crowd wasn't much bigger than a pub really (I don't think there was any advertising for it and we didn't pimp it because I didn't know for sure if we were playing until the same day. This really matters.)

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PostRe: Last Social Event you attended and your rating
by Neo Cortex » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:31 am

As I stated in the Gig thread-

Alexisonfire + Dead Swans + Ghost of a Thousand


Really enjoyed the gig, theres nothing quite like Alexisonfire in a small room filled to bursting point. It would have been nice to have a beer that wasnt Carlsberg, but hey at least its not Carling sponsored, that would have been hell.

Wasnt a great start where a bunch of idiots started doing windmill punches in a pit to the first band, hence why we stayed at the bar just letting them get on with it. As soon as the bands swapped over we went forwards and ended up about 4 rows from the front (hence the improved distance on the pics lol) Finally at about 9pm Alexisonfire arrived on stage and the entire room went mental, every single person surging forward, and luckily towards the end I got about two rows from the front. Cue an insane amount of people crowd surfing, including the Alexis lead singer himself. I cant believe i slipped on the barrier while jumping back off the stage. :lol:

Apologies for the sheer blurriness on the pics (especially the Alexis ones) but it just wasnt possible to hold the camera still.

Dead Swans-
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Ghost of a Thousand-
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Alexisonfire-

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PostRe: Last Social Event you attended and your rating
by Skippy » Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:21 am

Thursday went to a club with old friends I haven't seen in a LONG time. 10/10

Friday went around town with friend, he's a douche but I saw a couple of other friends too. 6/10

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PostRe: Last Social Event you attended and your rating
by Commander Jameson » Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:50 am

Fairways Members Bar (A10/Walthamstow)

Got dragged there on Saturday to watch the Boro / Spurs match. Despite being the only Boro fan among 2,000 Spurs fans, and being very vocal about our goals, I got out of there with out a kicking.

8/10

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PostRe: Last Social Event you attended and your rating
by Joer » Mon Aug 18, 2008 9:31 am

Well it would have been a Circle Line Pub Crawl, which i'd have gave a 10/10. But I was at a Skindred gig last night, which was amazing. So also 10/10! It was the first gig i've been too where people actually danced. :shock:

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PostRe: Last Social Event you attended and your rating
by FatDaz » Mon Aug 18, 2008 9:36 am

Birmingham Glee club comedy and food thursday night special.Quality night, cant remember any of the gags but the group i was with were a great laugh, especially when one of the drunker people decided to start heckling (very badly) always amusing to see someone put down quickly!

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PostRe: Last Social Event you attended and your rating
by Red Devil » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:01 am

I went to a barbeque...

...at my house.

Excellent food. Plenty of drink. Football on the TV. 10/10

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by Corazon de Leon » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:04 am

Five day holiday to Ireland. Would have been 10/10 anyway, but we got to see Muse as well, so 11/10. Seriously, immense. :mrgreen:

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PostRe: Last Social Event you attended and your rating
by NGE » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:26 am

I'm quite social actually, see a lot of friends on a regular basis so social events are quite regular.

I've a wedding next Sunday, taking someone I've known for years - it's the first +1 invite since I've been single so I didn't really know who to take...not sure if anything will 'happen', maybe not...hmm.

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PostRe: Last Social Event you attended and your rating
by Green Gecko » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:30 am

it's the first +1 invite since I've been single[/quote]
Single eh? Are your kids okay?

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PostRe: Last Social Event you attended and your rating
by Rax » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:31 am

Havent been to a social gathering in a few weeks, last one was a work BBQ

2/10. Everyone ate the free food then strawberry floated off home. Waste of time really.

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PostRe: Last Social Event you attended and your rating
by Cropolite » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:32 am

A Booze Cruise yesterday. 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000/10.

Really.

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PostRe: Last Social Event you attended and your rating
by NGE » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:35 am

Green Gecko wrote:Single eh? Are your kids okay?


Ah yeah, we handled the break up so that my daughter would find it normal. She's as happy as anything. It helps that the ex and I get on very well, although I found out from here that she swapped numbers with this fella at the weekend which made me think 'hmm' a bit, but I've swapped numbers with a few people so I don't think I can talk. :lol:

Also, the girl I'm taking to the wedding used to be best mates with my ex...ah, life's complicated. :lol:

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by Green Gecko » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:38 am

Well, the reason I mention it is because my parents split up when I was 5, my dad left abruptly for another woman. Good to know you split up properly, and has never been on good terms with my mum since. They didn't even get divorced for about 10 years!! Speaking a few years in the future of something like that, it has had some really bad psychological and situational consequences for the rest of the family. I hope you see your daughter as much as possible. It's easy for me to forget I have a dad for as long as 4-6 weeks. I'm 19 by the way.

I also have a bizarre memory for random facts such as this so pardon me if you're surprised I remember. :lol:

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PostRe: Last Social Event you attended and your rating
by NGE » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:44 am

Green Gecko wrote:Well, the reason I mention it is because my parents split up when I was 5, my dad left abruptly. Good to know you split up properly, but speaking a few years in the future of something like that, it has had some really bad psychological and situational consequences for the rest of the family. I hope you see your Daughter as much as possible. It's easy for me to forget I have a dad for as long as 4-6 weeks. I'm 19 by the way.


Ah, no I have her at mine 2 maybe 3 nights a week, I drop her to school and pick her up, we spend a lot of time together doing stuff. Me and the ex obviously spoke to her teachers about it all but she's always been top of her class (and still is) so there's no worries there. She hasn't changed behaviourally at all and is still the girl she was...she's 6 by the way. We've always treated her more grown up than she is which I think helps.

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PostRe: Last Social Event you attended and your rating
by A J Styles » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:48 am

Aston Villa vs Manchester City. Nice stadium but i having to sit with Villa fans was terrible , the only good things were Elano's penalty and Corluka's goal.

7/10

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by Turok » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:53 am

Green Gecko wrote:
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That's amazing :lol:

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by Green Gecko » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:56 am

NGE wrote:Ah, no I have her at mine 2 maybe 3 nights a week, I drop her to school and pick her up, we spend a lot of time together doing stuff. Me and the ex obviously spoke to her teachers about it all but she's always been top of her class (and still is) so there's no worries there. She hasn't changed behaviourally at all and is still the girl she was...she's 6 by the way. We've always treated her more grown up than she is which I think helps.

Yeah that does help a lot. I appreciate what you're doing, even it has nothing to do with me. I was diagnosed with autism when I was 4 so all I could do was bottle it up since I was all but incomprehensible a lot of the time. I saw my dad for one night a weekend at first, then every two weeks from about 10 until I was about 16 when I got bored of my dad not actually doing anything with me or my younger brother (my elder brother never bothered). Funnily enough I went from 6As and 4Bs to GCSE to BBDD at A-level and suffer from clinical depression and anxiety/paranoia issues. Took us to the park, on a walk or to some kids play place or the cinema once if we asked at a stretch. He earns 76k a year but puts about £10,000 towards us per year (three kids, disabled mother) and that's just since 2004. Doesn't add up if you ask me. So, pretty crap deal eh? :lol: Maybe I sound ungrateful - hell maybe I have been conditioned to think that, what do you think? My dad would say "Well some fathers just leave and are never seen again." and think that makes him a saint in comparison.

Nowadays he barely has constructive conversation with me and just thinks he's some funny bloke. Very rarely contacts me. Left for France last Friday for three weeks and didn't mention inviting me (although my brother managed to tag along with me nonethewiser), when I've not been on holiday for 18 months. Actually I can't even remember my last holiday, which was with my mum. I've tried to convince him to teach me electronics but that never happened. Since I'm an artist and musician - stuff developed almost completely by my mum - he hasn't got much to relate to me since he's not artistic. I seem to get some brains from him but nothing he's nurtured (all my own work at school). He's Dean of Life Sciences at UCL, so that prestige seems more important to him (funnilly enough, he technically never left university.. so I'm not surprised he is how he is).

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And Turok, yup. My synth guy got told by the PA guy, "Yeah nice one mate, try not to break anything on your way out." :lol: What a knob! It's all good honest fun. And the keyboard was already mullered from the same thing before at a studio in Brighton (where that picture is taken from). For some reason half way through a song - I think I was murdering my guitar with the tremolo bar and running around in circles - my mate just snapped, picked up the metal bin he was standing the keyboard on, and started lobbing it repetatively at his keyboard until the keys started flying out. He kept going for about 20 seconds until he sat down and shouted at himself in dismay at what he had done. This was after he spent about a minute jumping on the keys to mash massive dissonant chords.

Apparently he dreamt of keys flying like angles around a dead dog that night. Never again, you'd think, but Saturday night, he did it again, except this time it was live so at least it was entertaining. :lol: Apparently the sound men where shaking their heads.

Somebody tell me a great musician that has never damaged a single piece of equipment in a raw act of passion?

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PostRe: Last Social Event you attended and your rating
by Spindash » Mon Aug 18, 2008 1:00 pm

City vs. FC Midtjylland.

Utter rubbish. Points for the fact that it was my first (competitive) game at COMS since April, and it's football.

4/10

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