You see colours: red and white!
The past couple of days have been rather good for me; on Monday night I found a message from someone on the Delays messageboard who was giving away two tickets for the gig on Tuesday at Shepherd's Bush Empire as they couldn't make it. So I e-mailed her and got a reply and picked the tickets up from Islington on Tuesday afternoon, result! It was very generous of the lady to give the tickets away, I was just lucky enough to see the message first. Free tickets! w00t!!!1!!11!!ONE!!! I managed to get my mate Pete to come along in the end, though I was fortunate to find someone as it was so last minute (and the Chelsea - Barcelona game was on tv). The gig itself was great; the first support band were called Captain and I didn't think much of them, the second support band were Nightmare Of You and I thought they were really good. Brittany had told me about them previously and I'd also seen one of their videos before on mtv2 so I was looking forward to seeing them anyway.
Delays were brilliant! I'd last seen them in October 2004 at the same venue and they were as amazing as before. Greg's swirling harmonies and the shimmering layers of summery pop-rock guitar, bass, and keyboards, backed with foot-stompingly perfect drums were a joy to behold as the band tore thorugh a relatively short but marvelous set. Spring has sprung my friends and Delays are back in town! :-D
Lost In A Melody
Lillian
Long Time Coming
Bedroom Scene
You and Me
Hideaway
Out of Nowhere
On
This Town's Religion
Valentine
*encore*
One Night Away
Stay where you are
Last night was the all important Champions' League 2nd round, 2nd leg game between Arsenal and Real Madrid at Highbury. With the tie delicately poised at 1-0 to Arsenal after the first leg, the Gunners were slight favourites to progress to the quarter-finals, but Real Madrid are no fools and I knew they would come at us and they had the quality to turn the game around. The game itself was end-to-end and both teams came close and hit the woodwork, when on another day both shots could've gone in, it was exciting stuff. The Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann also made some great saves, including one spectacular effort to tip away Raul's goal-bound shot as he was lying on the gound after diving when the first shot had hit the post. In the end Real Madrid didn't quite do enough and Arsenal held firm and the game finished 0-0, which meant that Arsenal had won the tie 1-0 on aggregate and were through to the quarter-finals! After the relatively poor season that Arsenal have had in the Premiership, these are just the sorts of results we need. Safe to say I was in a jubilant mood after the game, I was grinning like a nutter, haha. I can't wait to see who we get in the quarter-finals now, bring 'em on!!! RAARRRR!!!
Delays were brilliant! I'd last seen them in October 2004 at the same venue and they were as amazing as before. Greg's swirling harmonies and the shimmering layers of summery pop-rock guitar, bass, and keyboards, backed with foot-stompingly perfect drums were a joy to behold as the band tore thorugh a relatively short but marvelous set. Spring has sprung my friends and Delays are back in town! :-D
Lost In A Melody
Lillian
Long Time Coming
Bedroom Scene
You and Me
Hideaway
Out of Nowhere
On
This Town's Religion
Valentine
*encore*
One Night Away
Stay where you are
Last night was the all important Champions' League 2nd round, 2nd leg game between Arsenal and Real Madrid at Highbury. With the tie delicately poised at 1-0 to Arsenal after the first leg, the Gunners were slight favourites to progress to the quarter-finals, but Real Madrid are no fools and I knew they would come at us and they had the quality to turn the game around. The game itself was end-to-end and both teams came close and hit the woodwork, when on another day both shots could've gone in, it was exciting stuff. The Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann also made some great saves, including one spectacular effort to tip away Raul's goal-bound shot as he was lying on the gound after diving when the first shot had hit the post. In the end Real Madrid didn't quite do enough and Arsenal held firm and the game finished 0-0, which meant that Arsenal had won the tie 1-0 on aggregate and were through to the quarter-finals! After the relatively poor season that Arsenal have had in the Premiership, these are just the sorts of results we need. Safe to say I was in a jubilant mood after the game, I was grinning like a nutter, haha. I can't wait to see who we get in the quarter-finals now, bring 'em on!!! RAARRRR!!!