Sunday, 29 August 2010

Grammatics final ever gig at The Brudenell, Leeds

It was Friday the 20th August in Leeds at The Brudenell.

I went to this gig because they had been one of my favourite bands of recent times and since they were splitting I wanted to show my support like I had the other two times i'd seen them live. This was by far the best Grammatics gig I went to out of the three. I remembered The Brudenell from when Franz Ferdinand played there, the footage was on their DVD.

I got the train down to Leeds and was there within a few hours, I got lost in Leeds once and was walking through Leeds in the pouring rain, my clothes were soaked. I had to get a taxi to the hotel or else I would've probably never even got to the gig at all! When I got to the hotel I got ready and made my way straight to the gig because I didn't want to miss anything.

I arrived at The Brudenell near enough at 8PM, the hotel to the gig wasn't that far of a walk. When the first band came on, These Monsters I had a headache so loud music wasn't what I wanted, but my non headache self would like them. The next band on after These Monsters was Blue Roses, I was already a fan of their music, so that was another good thing about this gig. I went down towards the front for this one, so I could listen. Then finally it was time for Grammatics to come on, when they came on everyone started clapping, whistling and chanting loudly. They were totally amazing, i'm so glad that I decided to go to the Leeds gig, I just want to re-live this gig over and over because it was so brilliant. One for the scrapbook!

I think this gig is going to be remebered for years to come by fans of Grammatics.

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Thursday, 26 August 2010

My cinema experience


A little while ago I went to the cinema for the first time since 2005, the last movie in a cinema I saw was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. This was for my friend's 16th birthday and until Inception came along I hadn't seen a movie since then. We went to Vue in Princes Quay, I went because I thought that I should go to cinema because i'm not the biggest fan of them ever. I don't see the point when:

  1. It costs quite alot, to see Inception it cost £5.20 for one person.
  2. Then there's the price of food and drink which is normally a £3 plus for a drink and the popcorn around the same price.
This makes the total price of going to the cinema: £11.40, if you add bus fare it's easily more than the cost of a DVD. I didn't include bus fare though. A pre-order DVD on Play.com is £9.99 for the cheapest.

Anyway...

When I was buying my drink from the drink place or whatever it's called? I was.. I don't know. I paid for my drink and walked off without taking it. I don't know why I did it, I just wasn't used to how things worked in a cinema. I hadn't been since 2005!? Someone passed me my drink and the man who served me asked if I was alright, like I wasn't all there in the head. That was embarrassing. On we went into the movie, I did enjoy the whole time I was in cinema. I was really excited about it all the way through and I thought Inception was fantastic, all the special effects were amazing and in the end I thought it was a good movie overall. It did confuse me at the end, although it'll never beat Toy Story 3.