If I had, I imagine I might feel the same :) I've not been reading reviews of the current round of gigs, so have no idea what I'm really expecting it to be like.
Although rain was forecast for the South Park gig, I remember the day looking pretty optimistically sunny so I decided the freedom of not having to carry a coat about all day was worth more than the protection afforded by said coat should it rain. With hindsight, that was a poor choice :)
Rain down, rain down on mebopeepsheepJune 29 2012, 17:44:27 UTC
It was, yes. Coming up on 11 years ago, blimey.
I wore a hooded fleece that day - I didn't live far from South Park but knew it would be around midnight when I got home so was assuming I'd be cold, rather than drenched. As it was, somewhere around the lower half of the park, on the way out to Morrell Ave, we realised that we were going to be soaked through to the skin, and gave up attempting to fight it. I think my fleece and jeans doubled in weight from the rain, but luckily we didn't get too muddy. Walked home squelching, and undressed in the hallway, dumping all the clothes in the bath to drip, and made cup-a-soups to warm ourselves up.
Although the review says "three songs later", our emails and notes at the time [I was reviewing it too] say it really did start raining during Paranoid Android - but only a little, not the big cloudburst. Enough to make everyone in a 50yd radius around me laugh, though.
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(Saw them in 1990, don't want to spoil that memory. Suspect sea of mud likely. Nostalgia for South Park gig.)
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Saw them in 1990, don't want to spoil that memory
If I had, I imagine I might feel the same :) I've not been reading reviews of the current round of gigs, so have no idea what I'm really expecting it to be like.
Although rain was forecast for the South Park gig, I remember the day looking pretty optimistically sunny so I decided the freedom of not having to carry a coat about all day was worth more than the protection afforded by said coat should it rain. With hindsight, that was a poor choice :)
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I wore a hooded fleece that day - I didn't live far from South Park but knew it would be around midnight when I got home so was assuming I'd be cold, rather than drenched. As it was, somewhere around the lower half of the park, on the way out to Morrell Ave, we realised that we were going to be soaked through to the skin, and gave up attempting to fight it. I think my fleece and jeans doubled in weight from the rain, but luckily we didn't get too muddy. Walked home squelching, and undressed in the hallway, dumping all the clothes in the bath to drip, and made cup-a-soups to warm ourselves up.
Although the review says "three songs later", our emails and notes at the time [I was reviewing it too] say it really did start raining during Paranoid Android - but only a little, not the big cloudburst. Enough to make everyone in a 50yd radius around me laugh, though.
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> as if "let's all meet up in the year 2000" were still a sensible thing to say
A simple matter of picking the right calendar?
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