Iron Maiden 2007
So suyesh and I get late for the Iron Maiden Concert. We enter around 8:15 into the 1500 bucks area. By 8:30 the barricades to the 1500 bucks area are broken and most people from the 900 area have spilled over. We don't recognize anyone in sight and no cell phones work.
Noticing this suyesh says "Lets go to the first row". Not amused at the prospect of pushing past about 30,000 people ahead of us I play for time "Well, lets roll a joint first". (hoping he'll change his mind later). No luck. So we're off.
"Hi" .... "sorry" .... "thank you"....
Finally we reach the dense part with people standing stoically against our progress as if we were Borivlites on a Virar local. I relax thinking that we'll hang around here .. but suyesh suddenly starts again shouting "Dont push... don't push" and plows straight into a 1/2 inch gap ahead. I GRAB onto him and follow. This happens a few times and by then we've built up a fan club so there's this whole bunch of unknown strangers pushing us ahead. To cut a long story short in about half an hour we are just behind the front row chilling after suyesh has finished his pilgrimage by touching the front railing.
After that it was a crazy concert, randomly getting pushed everywhere. Screaming, shouting. The last time I ever did stuff like this was maybe 13 years ago. Man, what a ride.
Here's a video recording of the last song they played. Taken by suyesh on my Nokia 6265.
If for some reason you are unable to see the embedded video the YouTube page for it is - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKgx_0OlqGw
Noticing this suyesh says "Lets go to the first row". Not amused at the prospect of pushing past about 30,000 people ahead of us I play for time "Well, lets roll a joint first". (hoping he'll change his mind later). No luck. So we're off.
"Hi" .... "sorry" .... "thank you"....
Finally we reach the dense part with people standing stoically against our progress as if we were Borivlites on a Virar local. I relax thinking that we'll hang around here .. but suyesh suddenly starts again shouting "Dont push... don't push" and plows straight into a 1/2 inch gap ahead. I GRAB onto him and follow. This happens a few times and by then we've built up a fan club so there's this whole bunch of unknown strangers pushing us ahead. To cut a long story short in about half an hour we are just behind the front row chilling after suyesh has finished his pilgrimage by touching the front railing.
After that it was a crazy concert, randomly getting pushed everywhere. Screaming, shouting. The last time I ever did stuff like this was maybe 13 years ago. Man, what a ride.
Here's a video recording of the last song they played. Taken by suyesh on my Nokia 6265.
If for some reason you are unable to see the embedded video the YouTube page for it is - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKgx_0OlqGw