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A real LP with artwork and cd/vinyl is cooler anyway than a mp3!
Yo! All things went well yesterday. Our hotel is located right near the Trafalgar Square and as you can see the wireless internet is working. We arrived a bit late at the stadium, so missed The Enemy and only had the last few notes from Kasabian. Well, we got 2 more chances. Fuck me! Wembley Stadium is soooo huge, can’t believe it if you’re in… just massive. The right place for an Champagne Supernova Gig with the best setlist they’ve ever had. “Roll With It” for the first time in 10 years (haven’t heard at any gig before) and “My Big Mouth” was just blowing me away. Love you boys!
Just have a look fellas
Fuckin In The Bushes
Rock N Roll Star
Lyla
Shock Of The Lightning
Roll With It
Cigarettes & Alcohol
To Be Where There’s Life
Waiting For The Rapture
The Masterplan
Songbird
Slide Away
Morning Glory
My Big Mouth
The Importance Of Being Idle
Half The World Away
I’m Outta Time
Wonderwall
Supersonic
Live Forever
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Don’t Look Back In Anger
Falling Down
Champagne Supernova
I Am The Walrus
No gig today. On the way to visit the Tate Modern in a few minutes and probably do some shopping in the afternoon. Few cd’s and maybe some clothes. One of the good things about the credit crunch in London is that loads of big designers sell there items for less than the half price. Club NME & Ed Banger Birthday party tonight. You’re right, that sounds really good.
The Dead Weather – Jack White’s side-project have announced that they are streaming their new album online in its entirety for the next 24 hours.
The band, which also features Alison Mosshart of The Killers, Dean Fertita of Queens Of The Stone Age and Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs, are streaming ‘Horehound’ exclusively on Facebook’s iLike.
On my way to London within the next hour. Can’t wait now, this will be something special. Bring it on boys… i’ll let you know what happens here in London over the next days.
8 months since i ordered my tickets and now just 1 day away. Entourage is also full of gleefull anticipation. Definitely will have some great days. Got w-lan and all that stuff in our hotel, so i will try to write a few messages from London to let you know what’s going on there.
If anyone else who is reading this will going to one of the gigs, here are the stage times
Taken from the forthcoming album ‘Humbug’ (out August 24), it’s certainly not as dark or pounding as the rumour mill might have had us believe, after all these QOTSA stories about Josh Homme, who produced it. It’s already being compared to some of the tracks on the flipside of the ‘Teddy Picker’ EP.
Thousands flock to L.A.’s Staples Center for a star-studded memorial, while family and friends gather in Hollywood for a private farewell.
Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Hudson and Usher have all been announced to take part in the memorial service for Michael Jackson today (July 7) at Los Angeles’ Staples Center. John Mayer, Lionel Richie, are also slated to participate in the service, as are sports stars Kobe Bryant and Magic Johnson, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III. The service will be preceded by a private burial at a Los Angeles cemetery at 8am.
Exactly 8,750 people were each awarded two tickets to the service via an online lottery over the weekend. 11,000 people will be seated inside the Staples Center, while 6,500 more people will watch on screens in the Nokia Theater next door. The event will be produced by Grammy Awards producer Ken Ehrlich and directed by Kenny Ortega, the director of the London shows that were due to take place this summer.
The home of English football since 1923, the new Wembley Stadium opened in Spring 2007 and quickly reestablished itself as the country’s leading venue for sports and entertainment events. Operated by Wembley National Stadium Limited, a fully owned subsidiary of The Football Association, the new stadium offers up to 90,000 fans at football/ rugby matches and around 80,000 at concerts the opportunity to watch world-class events with unrivalled views of the action in state-of-the-art facilities.
There are 688 food beverage kiosks are located across the Stadium selling a variety of food
There are 2,618 toilets around the Stadium
To provide easy access, there are over twenty lifts and thirty sets of escalators in the Stadium
OASIS will take to the stage at Wembley Stadium on 9th, 11th and 12th July 2009 as part of their biggest ever tour in the UK and Ireland this summer. For that reason we’ll have our own countdown and post some footage around these gigs in the next few days till Thursday, when our man will be on site for the 1st gig (he will attend on the other shows, too) of Noel & Co. at the home of british football. CoolProphet will try to keep us up-do-date from London over the weekend and write about his impressions of these major shows, which will definitely be the highlights of the whole 12 month world tour, which started in August ‘08 and will end in September.
First taste / Oasis @ the press conference for their summer tour in Wembley last October
Oasis star Noel Gallagher has spent an amazing £1m on drugs and enjoyed every minute of it, he told an Italian newspaper. The 42-year-old also labelled Chris Martin from Coldplay an ”idiot” after he claimed not to have taken drugs and slammed the rival band and U2 for using concerts as stages for “‘rock politics”.
At the peak of the Britpop era, Noel and brother Liam’s hedonistic excesses were well known and their partying was legendary. Gallagher once revealed he had taken cocaine at a Downing Street reception in a toilet reserved for the Queen. In his interview with Corriere Della Sera, he said: “I look at Chris Martin who says he has never taken drugs in his life and I think he is an idiot.
Doing drugs is the most beautiful thing about being in a rock band. Up until 1998 I must have spent £1m on drugs then I stopped because it is bad for your health, brain, life and for people around you. But while you use them – except for heroin which kills people and which I have never tried – as you lot (Italians) would say ‘Mamma Mia’.”
Turning to bands who used concerts to get across a political message, Gallagher stormed: “We get on the stage and play. I have been to loads of concerts where bands don’t play they just talk about politics. At a U2 or Coldplay concert there is always a message about poor people or people dying from hunger. ‘OK, but can’t we just have a nice evening? Do we always have to feel guilty?”
Gallagher – who with the rest of Oasis met Tony Blair several times at the height of their fame – also spoke of his own political views and said: “I grew up with Labour in opposition. I heard their policies on education and minimum wages and I thought they were right. Then they got into government and wow, I got to know them. Then as time passed they became like all the others – it was like when you find out Father Christmas doesn’t exist. I don’t vote any more – anyway it doesn’t matter as nothing will change.”
A video of Michael Jackson rehearsing for his London This Is It! concerts at Los Angeles’ Staples Center on June 23rd, just two days before the singer’s death, has been released to CNN. The footage shows Jackson and his backup dancers performing choreography to HIStory single “They Don’t Care About Us.” The video comes just days after AEG Live CEO Randy Phillips refuted claims that Jackson was frail and listless during his last rehearsals at the Staples Center. AEG Live, the company staging the 50 This Is It! concerts at London’s O2 Arena, provided CNN with the video.
