Post by moby on Jun 19, 2006 19:23:01 GMT
16th- 18th June 2006
“If you are looking for some relief in your miserable life”
16th June – 4:45pm, the journey to Motorhead and Hyde Park begins at a bus stop by the sea, 28 degree temperature with a nice cool sea breeze. By 6pm I am on a London bound train. Great Western had thoughtfully provided me with a ‘nutter’ in a nearby seat to keep me entertained, the guy was wearing a full 3 piece velvet suit with shirt and tie and had a small dog with. The dogs lead was attached to his belt, and he wore no shoes …..
Found the buffet car and stocked up on burgers and Stella, spent the journey in peace playing mini-discs and reading Classic Rock magazine. Rolled into Paddington some time after 9pm, tube across London to Fenchurch Street and then the slow train out into deepest darkest Essex, finally arriving at Bill’s house some time after 11pm. Hear the drinking continued, along with a very long discussion entitled “What is the best ever AC/DC album?”, finally finishing around 4am on Saturday morning – sat in his back garden and finally realising that it was actually starting to get light. There followed a few hours kip (i.e. about 4) before being woken by his kids!
17th June - After a long breakfast we boarded the train for central London, arriving Hyde Park around midday, doors weren’t opening until 2pm, and there was a long line of people gently frying in the midday sun, so we retreated to a nice cool and dark London pub a few streets away for some more lager and vodka. Headed back to Hyde Park around 2pm, cheered on by some guy in a Motorhead t-shirt sat outside another pub just down the road. Queued briefly to get in, along with a brief bag search, and then we were there! Found a nice shady tree to hide under until the bands started – the nice shady tree was also very near the stall selling frozen margaritas so that was ideal – that stall had many visits that afternoon!
First band up was Juliette and the Licks – first problem the PA was way way way too quiet – second problem they weren’t actually much good.
Second band – Angels and Airways – sat this one out under the shady tree drinking more margaritas, still far too quiet, sounded very vaguely like U2, but hey what do I know?
Third band – QOTSA – now we are talking – but it was still too quiet by a mile, at one point the noisy annoying f***ing Aussies next to us were actually drowning out the band with their never ending yabber. Still it was a good set, and they did an amazing version of No One Knows, with a funky extra bit in the middle, and old Josh wore and AC/DC patch on his jeans – can’t ask for more than that.
So, then there was Motorhead – and guess what it was still TOO F****ING QUIET!!!!!!! It was hard to hear the banter between songs! They kicked off with Dr Rock and did a truncated version of their ‘current’ (ahem) set list. Top moment though was Killed By Death, when they were joined on stage by Juliette (from Juliette and the Licks) and very large breasted young lady in a skimpy t-shirt that said something like “Lemmy is a rock god” – these two young ladies provided excellent backing vocals to a very much extended version of Killed By Death – a 12 out of 10 moment if there ever was one!!!!!! They also did a cracking version of Metropolis and as ever Overkill was totally killer!
And so to the Foo Fighters, from he second they hit the stage it was apparent that the support bands had only been given about 25% of the PA, because the sound for the Foo’s was totally awesome, clear as a bell and nice and loud. They then proceeded to rip roar through a greatest hits selection – but for me the defining moment of the weekend happened about 4 or 5 songs in when Dave G said something like:
“I want to welcome back on stage one of my special guests to do a song from my Probot album”
……. And then he was there – Lemmy in all his glory – and they ripped through a magnificent version of Shake Your Blood – amazing worth every penny of the ticket price, train fare and beer tokens just to see that one song. However the moment was clearly lost on 99.99% of the crowd who clearly had no idea what was going on – still I appreciated it – probably one of those once in a life time moments – if Dave G or Lem ever read this (fat chance I know) I would like to sat a BIG BIG BIG THANK YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Foo’s encore was the Queen song “Tie Your Mother Down” sung by the Foo’s drummer whilst Roger Taylor played drums and Brian May played guitar alongside Dave G – how cool was that!
Then it was all over – thanks to the Met Police of shutting Park Lane in both directions, it made it very easy for us to all escape without getting run down by mad London bus drivers!
Me and Bill found a ‘normal’ looking pub nearby for a last pint, and discovered once in side that there was a death metal night taking place in the crypt under the pub – excellent way to round off the day! Finally made it back on to the late train bound for all places in Essex, getting back to Bills at some time early Sunday
18th June – recovering from a margarita hangover I made my way slowly home to integrate myself back into ‘normal’ life again
Just to end up – cheers Bill for a top weekend!
And to Dave G and Lem – guys thanks for Shake Your Blood – that made my year!!!
{This post is dedicated to Peter 1944 – 2006 RIP)
“If you are looking for some relief in your miserable life”
16th June – 4:45pm, the journey to Motorhead and Hyde Park begins at a bus stop by the sea, 28 degree temperature with a nice cool sea breeze. By 6pm I am on a London bound train. Great Western had thoughtfully provided me with a ‘nutter’ in a nearby seat to keep me entertained, the guy was wearing a full 3 piece velvet suit with shirt and tie and had a small dog with. The dogs lead was attached to his belt, and he wore no shoes …..
Found the buffet car and stocked up on burgers and Stella, spent the journey in peace playing mini-discs and reading Classic Rock magazine. Rolled into Paddington some time after 9pm, tube across London to Fenchurch Street and then the slow train out into deepest darkest Essex, finally arriving at Bill’s house some time after 11pm. Hear the drinking continued, along with a very long discussion entitled “What is the best ever AC/DC album?”, finally finishing around 4am on Saturday morning – sat in his back garden and finally realising that it was actually starting to get light. There followed a few hours kip (i.e. about 4) before being woken by his kids!
17th June - After a long breakfast we boarded the train for central London, arriving Hyde Park around midday, doors weren’t opening until 2pm, and there was a long line of people gently frying in the midday sun, so we retreated to a nice cool and dark London pub a few streets away for some more lager and vodka. Headed back to Hyde Park around 2pm, cheered on by some guy in a Motorhead t-shirt sat outside another pub just down the road. Queued briefly to get in, along with a brief bag search, and then we were there! Found a nice shady tree to hide under until the bands started – the nice shady tree was also very near the stall selling frozen margaritas so that was ideal – that stall had many visits that afternoon!
First band up was Juliette and the Licks – first problem the PA was way way way too quiet – second problem they weren’t actually much good.
Second band – Angels and Airways – sat this one out under the shady tree drinking more margaritas, still far too quiet, sounded very vaguely like U2, but hey what do I know?
Third band – QOTSA – now we are talking – but it was still too quiet by a mile, at one point the noisy annoying f***ing Aussies next to us were actually drowning out the band with their never ending yabber. Still it was a good set, and they did an amazing version of No One Knows, with a funky extra bit in the middle, and old Josh wore and AC/DC patch on his jeans – can’t ask for more than that.
So, then there was Motorhead – and guess what it was still TOO F****ING QUIET!!!!!!! It was hard to hear the banter between songs! They kicked off with Dr Rock and did a truncated version of their ‘current’ (ahem) set list. Top moment though was Killed By Death, when they were joined on stage by Juliette (from Juliette and the Licks) and very large breasted young lady in a skimpy t-shirt that said something like “Lemmy is a rock god” – these two young ladies provided excellent backing vocals to a very much extended version of Killed By Death – a 12 out of 10 moment if there ever was one!!!!!! They also did a cracking version of Metropolis and as ever Overkill was totally killer!
And so to the Foo Fighters, from he second they hit the stage it was apparent that the support bands had only been given about 25% of the PA, because the sound for the Foo’s was totally awesome, clear as a bell and nice and loud. They then proceeded to rip roar through a greatest hits selection – but for me the defining moment of the weekend happened about 4 or 5 songs in when Dave G said something like:
“I want to welcome back on stage one of my special guests to do a song from my Probot album”
……. And then he was there – Lemmy in all his glory – and they ripped through a magnificent version of Shake Your Blood – amazing worth every penny of the ticket price, train fare and beer tokens just to see that one song. However the moment was clearly lost on 99.99% of the crowd who clearly had no idea what was going on – still I appreciated it – probably one of those once in a life time moments – if Dave G or Lem ever read this (fat chance I know) I would like to sat a BIG BIG BIG THANK YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Foo’s encore was the Queen song “Tie Your Mother Down” sung by the Foo’s drummer whilst Roger Taylor played drums and Brian May played guitar alongside Dave G – how cool was that!
Then it was all over – thanks to the Met Police of shutting Park Lane in both directions, it made it very easy for us to all escape without getting run down by mad London bus drivers!
Me and Bill found a ‘normal’ looking pub nearby for a last pint, and discovered once in side that there was a death metal night taking place in the crypt under the pub – excellent way to round off the day! Finally made it back on to the late train bound for all places in Essex, getting back to Bills at some time early Sunday
18th June – recovering from a margarita hangover I made my way slowly home to integrate myself back into ‘normal’ life again
Just to end up – cheers Bill for a top weekend!
And to Dave G and Lem – guys thanks for Shake Your Blood – that made my year!!!
{This post is dedicated to Peter 1944 – 2006 RIP)
