Slayer
Our taxi driver was a wild looking huge Polish man, who didn't speak - not even when I asked him a question. It was a wordless, slightly agitated transaction ... but no mind, he got us there in plenty of time for Megadeth (and they have been spelling that so wrong, for so long now).
I wasn't familiar with any of their songs (for shame!) except Symphony of Destruction, which was great, and I was rather impressed with them overall, though would have liked it better without the singing.
More interesting than anything though was the crowd - mostly older guys, in a staid fug of Lynx and Old Spice overpowered by the most disgusting feet-smell...and then that was joined by warm beer breath, BO and cigarettes. There were only a handful of girls and mostly they were more frightening than the blokes.
And then Slayer started. The volume made my hair dance and my eyeballs throb. Balint actually suggested we move back in the crowd. The stadium was packed, a sea of black figures headbanging as if their lives depended on it.
There was no comparison with the previous Slayer concert a couple of years ago (poor Remy!) - this was amazing. A lumbering mountain of a man came and stood squarely in front of me, but when we moved I actually got to see the stage and Kerry King and Tom Araya - bloody hell, pushing 50 and still...
The trip home was more adventurous... there were no taxis waiting at the venue when the show finished, they only started arriving later and I didn't fancy a ride on a bus to Claremont station...so we started walking away from the stadium, hoping to catch one somewhere in a side street. A couple of times we called the taxi company just said go back to challenge stadium and wait, but then we tangled ourselves into the Floreat streets (not even knowing it was Floreat) and called a taxi to a specific address in front of a flash house. By this time I was a barefoot hobo, as the shoe purchases I made at lunchtime weren't the wisest...
Finally the taxi came, only for us to realise we were about half an hour's walk from home...
Today: Joe's birthday - coffee syrup cake with Tia Maria and chocolate icing, then lunchinthesun and then the dentist.
...
I wasn't familiar with any of their songs (for shame!) except Symphony of Destruction, which was great, and I was rather impressed with them overall, though would have liked it better without the singing.
More interesting than anything though was the crowd - mostly older guys, in a staid fug of Lynx and Old Spice overpowered by the most disgusting feet-smell...and then that was joined by warm beer breath, BO and cigarettes. There were only a handful of girls and mostly they were more frightening than the blokes.
And then Slayer started. The volume made my hair dance and my eyeballs throb. Balint actually suggested we move back in the crowd. The stadium was packed, a sea of black figures headbanging as if their lives depended on it.
There was no comparison with the previous Slayer concert a couple of years ago (poor Remy!) - this was amazing. A lumbering mountain of a man came and stood squarely in front of me, but when we moved I actually got to see the stage and Kerry King and Tom Araya - bloody hell, pushing 50 and still...
The trip home was more adventurous... there were no taxis waiting at the venue when the show finished, they only started arriving later and I didn't fancy a ride on a bus to Claremont station...so we started walking away from the stadium, hoping to catch one somewhere in a side street. A couple of times we called the taxi company just said go back to challenge stadium and wait, but then we tangled ourselves into the Floreat streets (not even knowing it was Floreat) and called a taxi to a specific address in front of a flash house. By this time I was a barefoot hobo, as the shoe purchases I made at lunchtime weren't the wisest...
Finally the taxi came, only for us to realise we were about half an hour's walk from home...
Today: Joe's birthday - coffee syrup cake with Tia Maria and chocolate icing, then lunchinthesun and then the dentist.
...
posted by BanAnna at 10/13/2009 05:49:00 pm
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