Queens Of The Stone Age

johnnynolegs · 18-10-2002 10:38am #1

WOOHOO i got me a ticket for monday nights gig oh yeah baby it is gonna be sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good i can't wait woohoo woohoo woohoo

Gar_ptc · 18-10-2002 2:11pm

rawk show

johnnynolegs · 18-10-2002 2:19pm

very rawking show

the fnj · 18-10-2002 3:16pm

How much did you pay for the ticket?

johnnynolegs · 18-10-2002 4:53pm

face value - 27 euros methinks.............

acquiescefc · 20-10-2002 8:57pm

I need a ticket STILL desperately..

pls help

acquiescefc@hotmail.com

or text 0857149186

johnnynolegs · 21-10-2002 9:01am

oh yeah only 11 hours to go woohoo

the fnj · 21-10-2002 11:10am

I hope I'm not over building it

but

this is going to be one of if not the gig of the year. Can't wait

therecklessone · 22-10-2002 2:17am

You didn't overbuild...it was the gig of the year. Beats the Strokes, and Jimmy Eat World.

the fnj · 22-10-2002 11:25am

They passed every one of my expectations, absolutely unreal. Defiantly the gig of the year so far and I can't see anyone topping it. One of the best gigs I have ever been at. I feel sorry for anyone who missed it.

Nicotine, Valium, Vicadin, Marijuana, Ecstasy, Alcohol

Co co co cocaine.

the snitch · 22-10-2002 11:52am

in conways on parnell street before the gig. mark lanegan walks in. looks 7 ft tall. strides purposefully around the pub, taking in every nook and cranny. comes to stand beside us. hits me with a hard stare. turns and walks back out.

the ambassador, not the best venue. sound was murkier than the muddy banks of the liffey. was it the fault if the pissed up sound techs who raised bottles aloft over monitors with naked ladees pictured on screens? or is it that the ambassador, over a year open still wreaks of an mcd hap hazard, inept cash cow? the crowd were like something matt groenig would sketch. but coming from someone who likes an audience with a twist of lemmy, thats a compliment i guess. queens were spot on, and thats what mattered.

the stage was dark and dingy with three spotliights, sticking with the motif on the new album. the low lighting transformed queens into silhouette. trenchant in sound, keeping band to audience banter to minimum, pedal to the metal they careened through songs for the deaf, touching rated R, and hitting one or two from queens of the stonage. though this is head music, feet tapped, fists punched the air and heads thrashed. the pace slowed for dry ice glimpses at something altogether sinister. a darker figure with a doleful vocal. it is he who provides the balance to oliveri and hommes hedonisim. a match made........under the hanging tree? after reports in the music press that he spoils the party by out staying his welcome, last night lanegan, lingering in the shadows mesmirised and sent shivers up the spine.

this was one of those gigs where with the final note of each song, you rue its passing and realize with horror the inevitability of the final note at journeys end.

missed it? you missed out

johnnynolegs · 22-10-2002 12:32pm

absolutely amazing - I arrived in at just after half seven and the first support band had already begun - after dawdling around for a while to find the best place to stand inorder to c and hear the music to the maximum satisfaction i settled for a place rite in front of the sound engineer perfect vision perfect sound. Millionaire came on and played like loons but the night was only really gonna belong to one badn and as they loped onto the stage and struck up the chords for Feel Good the place went absolutely crazy ............... they played all the classics noteperfect aswell and when they played no one knows i thought the roof was gonna come off - a nice little happy birthday song for the bassist and and hour and a half of fine fine music not bad for 27 giros methinks...............

the best gig ive ever been to ????? defninitely close to it....

acquiescefc · 22-10-2002 2:16pm

Managed to get a ticket EVENTUALLY,and I am now speechless and suffering.

Very very very good,what else can i say. Dont thinkMrLanegan outstayed any welcome either.

Nice to see a "new" band in Ireland.

p.s. Sound in Ambassador IS sh1t....sort it out

therecklessone · 22-10-2002 2:34pm

Glad I could be of some service, even if I did look for a little bit more than face value...;)

How much were the touts looking for by the way?

therecklessone · 22-10-2002 2:35pm

Snitch...you ever consider a career in muso-journalism? Thats probably the best review I'll read of the show anywhere...

the snitch · 22-10-2002 5:08pm

thanks but, i think its kinda cheesy........i do have fat jowls and a spot ridden face, a penchant for cough syrup and the next big bandwagoning white boy rock thing......problem is, i'm too old and hoary at this stage to cut the mustard on the 'i'm on the list' front. i'm also a musical mussolini so i rub feathers up all over the shop with no truck. but mostly, i'm just plain lazy.

yours in sounds

fester bongs

therecklessone · 22-10-2002 6:47pm

Originally posted by the snitch
i'm also a musical mussolini so i rub feathers up all over the shop with no truck. but mostly, i'm just plain lazy.

Olaf Tyaransen got away with the same for years...

Raggamuffin · 23-10-2002 12:17am

i was wroking for queens of the stone age
i well deserved to be there

don't mind the snith, i'm her dolfuss,
i still don't know what our musical brenner pass is though.

Raggamuffin · 23-10-2002 12:21am

lazy
......
thats my plan.

the snitch · 23-10-2002 10:45am

grasshopper

acquiescefc · 24-10-2002 2:15pm

Cheers reckless r

Touts were tryin to sell pairs I think for 80 yoyo's. cos i only wanted one they were bit selective....hope they didnt sell em as they didnt look like anyone was buyin.

therecklessone · 24-10-2002 10:03pm

Saw somebody on the Queens board who paid 70...poor ****er.

Setlist for anyone who cares:

Feel Good
Quick
You Would Know
Millionaire
Sky Is Fallin
Gonna Leave
Hangin Tree (with Mark Lanegan)
Autopilot (with ML)
Dead (with ML)
Better Living
No One Knows
Tension
Go With The Flow
Deaf (with ML)
Lost Art

Encores:

Monsters
Sidewalks (with ML)
Avon

Queens Of The Stone Age

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