
Friday, June 26, 2009
Michael Jackson...Enough said

Sunday, June 21, 2009
Two musical experiences!
June 11th 2009, what to do? Birthdays only come once a year I think so when deciding what to do to "celebrate" was a tough choice. Three options...All extremely good. Option one : Tommy Tiernan, Ardal O'Hanlon and Dylan Moran all on the same line up! Handy! Option Two : Fleetwood Mac in Madison Square Garden. I had heard a few days before they would be playing The O2 but the difference was the ticket prices. I think the cheapest was 50 Dollars and the cheapest in Dublin is 80Euro (
I could be wrong about the Euro price) so Fleetwood Mac was looking like the good option! But then along come Band of Horses with their sold out gig in Carnegie Hall as option three. Acoustic, something they have not done before, sold out and of course Carnegie Hall where its not every day you get there. Feck it! We took our chances. Touts are not my favourite people but some interaction was needed. Tickets were 35 dollars each. So I wasnt going to pay anymore than that. ( I would have went to 40!) So as I told one tout I wanted four we were swarmed by all touts looking to get rid of the prized tickets asap! Eager - he offers me four up the front seats for 50 dollars a piece. Get the boat. 50 each! No way. Eventually he got pissed off, apparently he had tickets to get rid of up at Madison Square Garden so after a nice chat (not) we got them for 35 each ( a bargain considering he would have had to pay the booking fee - but fuck him! Thats what he gets!) One thing he wasnt was a liar. The seats were 5 rows from the front right smack bang in the middle! Couldnt have worked out better and option three turned out to be the best choice! As we took our seats, not something I am used to at gigs, the lights went down as they arrived on stage. This was going to be a good one. And once again I wasnt disappointed. A good two hour set was met with applause with some great tunes being presented. So one for the go see again book! As photos inside are not allowed we dodgeed the security guard to get photos after the show of the stage, as the security guard spotted us we ran through a door, not realising it was backstage, some security guard he was! Thats how we ended up meeting some of the band at the stage door...bang bang!
A huge thanks to all at The Music Slut for sorting us out with tickets to The Whip, Ida Maria, Tim Fite and many more! Without whom we would have never seen all the venues that New York has to offer.
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