My Chemical Romance
I was just walking through the Dome, taking my parents to the Tutankhamun exhibition (review tomorrow) when I met a mate who works there. He said "You've got to see this..."
We went round the back - beyond the ice disco (eleven quid for an hour, btw) to find dozens of face-painted MCR fans, wrapped in blankets and sleeping bags.
"They've been there since Tuesday," said my pal.
"But don't they have tickets?"
"Yeah..."
I almost wish I was going myself. If a band is so good people are happy to queue for two days when they already have a ticket, it's got to be worth seeing...
Labels: Weird Greenwich
posted by The Greenwich Phantom at
17:11
4 Comments:
MCR are an appalling band, they just know their target market inside out. Like Westlife but with more makeup.
Hands up I'm quite keen on MCR and have actually seen them live, they're really rather good to be honest. However they do have a hefty teenage girl fanbase.
So maybe they're like Westlife, with more talent, the ability to write their own albums, and play on them too...
Besides, being a bit of a prog rocker at heart I was chuffed to see them produce what is basically a concept album :)
Going back to the fanbase though when I saw them they tried a "scream for me Wembley" type of thing.
Normally at a rock gig you get a roar like several jumbo jets taking off at once.
The sound that filled the arena was more like a thousand cats all being castrated at once, slowly, with blunt knives.
Well done for letting them stay inside out of the rain! By all accounts the kids were waiting to get to the front of the standing area on the floor of the arena....and first in the line got them closest to the front!
Bit bemused by fred's comment - hardly insightful or novel to observe that the whole point of queuing for "doors" is about getting as near the the stage as possible. Surely everyone knows this?
Kids have been doing this for bands for decades of course. In a climate when too many moan about the "problem with youth today", I actually find it rather refreshing that these guys can get as enthused enough about music to queue in this fashion. Yes, many kids today are disaffected but many others, tarnished with the same brush, are simply affected by things of which the Daily Mail brigade do not approve.
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