A week of live music

I didn't really plan it in fact the week before I only thought I was going to see the Ting Tings with some mates in Leeds. But I managed a whole week of live music.

It all started the Friday before when my friend John MSM'd me to remind me that I had said yes to going and seeing the Killers at the 02 on Monday. This was a surprise as I guess I had agreed to it a couple of weeks ago in a pub somewhere while quite drunk!

So Monday is away off to the O2, London, what used to be the Millennium Dome. We had tickets in the god and 'F**k me we're a long way up!' about said it all when we got there as it was very much like watching the Killers from Orbit. we must have been 80 foot off the ground in a really steep sitting section with the stage about 100 metres away. These sizes are all pretty amazing if as well you know its all indoors. The gig was quite good although the distance was so much that there was a difference in the time the light and the sound took to get to you.

The rest of the week was quite quiet until Friday. The normal plan is for me to go up to Leeds on the Friday night train, fighting my way across the rush hour madness. However this time for some reason I booked the tickets for Saturday morning. The Ting Tings gig was on Sunday night so there was no rush. Anyway this was handy because we had a major musical event just around the corner from the office on the Friday evening which I happened to walk into.

U2 decide to play a gig on the roof of the BBC building a couple of streets away. I was a little late a work when an email went around (OK I was playing Quakelive.com with Angel) saying that U2 would be playing at 6pm. I finished playing around quarter past and noticed the email and so went to have a look to see what I could see. There was a huge crowd doing nothing outside the building, so I hung around too to see what would happen. at about half past the Police stopped the traffic (this is Regent Street in London, during rush hour and so it was busy) and the crowd rush forwards. Then when things settle down U2 came out on to the roof of the build to the roar of the crowd. They played for about 20 minutes and did four tracks ending with a great version of 'Beautiful Day'. By the time they did the last song you could hear the horns from the car of the now irate drivers stuck in the jam, but the crowd left happy.

I rounded the week off in Leeds at the Academy with a storming set by the Ting Tings singing along at the top of my voice and bouncing around like a nutter. My voice wasn't to great the next day but I loved it.

So the full line up for the week was

Louis XIV (a bit rubbish)
The Killers (OK a bit far away not sure it was worth the 40 quid)
U2 (great crazy stuff, tick them off my list of bands to see)
VV Brown (good didn't know anything about her but we could swing along to it)
LadyHawke (got a bit confused that this might be the Ting Tings doing some new stuff but it was very good)
The Ting Tings (YEAH! That's not my name!!!! la la la la!)