The Bloomers

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Oooh More Lights

Went to see Bon Jovi on Saturday at Twickenham stadium. I've seen Bon Jovi some times, but that was a long time ago. So, I was very excited.

Took the train to Twickenham, the station there was very organised for big events with lots of police controlling the traffic. The walk from the station to the stadium is through a residential area and bizzarely lots of people had converted their front drive or garden into shops, selling food, drinks, inflatable guitars etc.

The stadium itself is pretty big. Never been there before, its quite imposing.

Had to queue to pick up our tickets because TicketMaster are incompetent and didn't post the tickets to us (but said they did). It was a long queue. Therefore we missed about half of the support act, The Feeling. But finally, after collecting tickets, going to the toilet and buying bottles of cider we got to sit in our seat and watch some music. The stadium was less than half full but The feeling threw their all into it and were quite good. Our seats were in a pretty good position, half way back, quite low down. They built the seats for dwarves however, and my knees touched the seat in front.

After the feeling bought a jumbo hot dog, more cider and crisps. Ate. Got ready to rock.

Bon Jovi came on stage, everyone stood up so the seat was irrelevant, and they played Rocking All Over The World by Status Quo. Bizzare. But it got the crowd going. And it revealed Bon Jovi's stadium mastery. It was still light, and so the stage show lights didn't really kick in until an hour in or so, but instead they playe dto the crowd and got everyone going. Here's the full set list:

• ROCKIN' ALL OVER THE WORLD
• LOST HIGHWAY
• BORN TO BE MY BABY
• BAD NAME
• SUMMERTIME
• CAPT. CRASH
• SLEEP w/ Mercy & Jumpin' Jack Flash
• BLOOD MONEY
• BLAZE OF GLORY
• ANY OTHER DAY
• IN THESE ARMS
• WE GOT IT GOIN' ON
• IT'S MY LIFE
• FAITH
• I'LL BE THERE FOR YOU - RICHIE VOX
• HAVE A NICE DAY
• I BELIEVE
• WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T GO HOME
• BAD MEDICINE w/ Shout
• PRAYER
• ALWAYS
• WANTED
• SATURDAY NIGHT
• I LOVE THIS TOWN
• TWIST & SHOUT

That's 2.5 hours, pretty much non-stop. Awesome. Two encores. One of which involved an on stage discussion about what to play. By the end Twickenham was in raptures.

Earth 'not at risk' from collider

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7...

Our planet is not at risk from the world's most powerful particle physics experiment, a report has concluded.

Don't Panic!!

Stick with it past the load screen....brilliant...

I like it.

Interesting. DRM free MP3s from Amazon. They'd be cheap too if that price was converted from $$ to ££.

What's your favorite type of cheese? Or, if you don't like cheese, why not?
Submitted by Draegon Scribe.

Extra Mature Cheddar.
Cheese of the Gods.
Just add Branston Pickle, sliced bread and butter to make Food Of The Gods.

The guys at 37 signals dispense some amazingly sensible thoughts given that they are developers and designers...

Productive jealousy - (37signals)

http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/10...

For me, all it took was a core belief that there was no reason I couldn’t do the same. That there was no such thing as a cosmic conspiracy allowing just a chosen few to prosper and oppressing the many.

...that's exactly what I've been trying to articulate when I say that anyone can do anything with practice.