Right, it is near the end of Feb, it has been dark and cold for far too many months now. It has been snowing all week, which grant you is better than rain, but I am so happy that at this time in 1 week we will be on a plane heading to the warmth of Africa! It can’t happen soon enough.
Wednesday saw Finland’s oldest and finest pay us a visit. Signs were ominous for a low turnout when the gig was switched to a much smaller venue but on the night a good 200 punters turned up to watch a throwback to the 80’s. I went with Neil and a dude who works with Donna. Neil is possibly Hanoi Rocks biggest fan, I have never actually heard a song and the other guy was in it for the entertainment factor.
The night opened with the support Adam Bomb, and while musically they were a very strong 3 piece with a huge sound and some great tunes the singer was some jaded old New York muso who hasn’t quite come terms with the fact he has a good bit of talent but he has never become successful. He moaned and whinged about this and that all through the set, begged us to buy their album so they could eat and dropped every name he could to try and impress us, all in all he was a WANKER. The bass player seemed embarrassed by the whole thing and both Neil and I said to him at the end of the night we liked his performance and we thought the singer was a dick, to which he rousingly agreed!
After a short turnover and a couple of sneaky beers on our part, Hanoi Rocks burst onto the stage. Ok there are only 2 original members left, but they are the important ones. Michael Munroe belting out the tunes and Andy McCoy strumming the guitar. Despite not knowing a song I found myself taken on a wicked musical journey for an hour or so. They were great, I must buy an album, the songs are catchy metal tunes, groovy guitars and a pounding rhythm section. Michael looks great for an old guy, he has the biggest eyes of any person I’ve ever seen! While Andy looks a bit lived in, he has after all consumed ridiculous amounts of illegal substances over the years, he still looks in better condition than Mick Mars and they must be about the same age!
All in all a solid performance that has convinced me to buy an album and saw Neil buy a T-Shirt. Not bad for a Wednesday night, but the next morning teaching at 8.45 was a bit of a struggle.
Ok I have stagnated at 85kg. Basically my lifestyle at the moment hasn’t permitted me to be so strict with my diet, too may things on the weekend and crazy hours at work have seen coffee and Kebabs re-enter my life thereby hampering weight loss. So for now I’m going to settle for 85kg. This means I don’t attain my goal of 10kg lost but I am pretty happy with the 8kg. So my poll is coming down. Thanks for those who voted and while Fat bastards rule was the winner I do feel and look better and others have commented on that so I can only conclude that THEY DON’T!
Well my exhausting week caught up with me on Friday night and I never made it to the Teddy Awards unfortunately. It was a very late start, a friend of Ela’s knew a guy who was working at the awards who put us on the VIP Guest List for the party afterwards. But the party started at 12.30am. I was pretty much dead on my feet by 10 so made the decision to give it a miss and sleep instead. Ela went off and met her friends all dolled up for the party, I think I made the wrong decision! Ela wasn’t home again till 8.30am, she said the party was amazing, they were in the VIP area with free food and drinks and plenty of German celebrities, oh well, there’s always next year.
I ended up having a pretty boring weekend after that. Ela grabbed a bit of sleep after she got home but then Simone rang and we spoke for about a half an hour about their trip to Europe in July, they are coming to visit for a week at the beginning of July which will be excellent. Anyway, my booming voice woke Ela back up so we headed out to organise some shopping stuff we needed to do. It’s my mums 60th Birthday in April so we are looking for something special and after plenty of hunting around we came up with the goods.
We also wanted to buy paint, as that is our XMAS present from Mum and Dad so we can do our lounge and bedroom, we have been very slack, not buying still! We wanted to buy it from a place we had been before but unfortunately they don’t sell paint! We only found that out after trekking to the other side of town, we were sure they had it but NO! To save the day though we had free vouchers for some coffee and cake they had sent to us so the trip wasn’t a total waste, plus we had a 15 euro voucher for housewares to spend – Do we lead an exciting life or what, here I am raving on about housewares and free cake, time for a new topic!
