12.07.05

More Pain

Posted in Uncategorized at 10:24 pm by GaZ

Remember when I hurt my right ankle a couple of months ago? Well the other week I went and did exactly the same thing, except to the OTHER ankle. DOH! At first I didn’t think it was as bad, but it’s now almost 2 weeks gone and the swelling still hasn’t gone down much, and it still hurts to put much pressure on. Maybe i’ll go see a doctor at the weekend. Hopefully it’ll be better within a few weeks, in time for skiing with my family in January! woo!

In other painful news, Manchester United were knocked out of the Champions League by Benefica tonight. This season is just going from bad to worse! The performance was abysmal! With the recent departure of Roy Keane United are seriously missing a strong midfield presence. I hated Alan Smith when he played at Leeds, and I hate him even more playing for United! His good games are the exception rather than the norm. And don’t even get me started on Rio Ferdinand. He’s been going downhill all year and his lacklustre performance tonight will only serve to fuel the arguments that he’s an overpaid nonce. Sheesh.

So on to some music news to try and calm me down: last Saturday Hanne and I went to see the most famous thing to ever come out of Norway: A-Ha, live at the NEC Arena! Unfortunately the NEC is little more than a large warehouse with a less-than-brilliant sound system and some cheap podium thingies set up around the perimeter, so I was less than impressed with that aspect of the event. But they put on a good show, playing a couple of their older “classics” as well as some of their newer material (I didn’t even know they were still making music until then) from their upcoming album (another surprise to me): Analogue. Also, there were way more people there than I expected. I was thinking it was just gonna be a bunch of older, mostly Scandanavien, women, but in a shock turnout the majority actually seemed to be (drunk) middle-aged Englishmen! Surprise, surprise.

Following that, on Monday me and a couple of guys from work went to see Faithless over at the NIA… definitely more my style! The crowd was awesome! We had tickets for seats in the stands around the edge, which was a bit of a shame as the standing room only down on the main floor was heaving and would have been brilliant fun, however given the state of my ankle I’m glad I gave it a miss this time. Dave (one of the guys I went with) took a couple of videos on his mobile phone. The video is shocking and the audio isn’t very good either but it’ll give you a small idea of what it was like (Note to parents: don’t even bother wasting the time downloading the clips; you’ll just shake your heads and dismiss it as “awful” :-P).

• Insomnia (~8MB)
• We Come One (~3MB)

Anyhoo… i’m off to watch TV and get some sleep…

(I can’t get no sleep… *doop doop doo doop doop doo doop doo doop doo doo doo*)

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