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| broken part |
Posted - 06/11/2004 : 09:39:49
Anyone going to it? I don't have a ticket but I've booked my flight and hotel.
I have a 3 bed room for 18-21/06 but since I'm alone 2 beds are spare. If anyone wants to meet to try to get tickets for the gig they can have free accomodation (subject to not being a Crackety Jones-like wacko).
Does anyone know where to find some good online maps of Ljubljana? |
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| tisasawath |
Posted - 06/23/2004 : 14:57:33
d*%# ISP, wouldn't let me through to some servers last few days, including this site...
ditto the crowd, broken part. not that I cared much about anything around the stage, but I first thought it was b/c of the stormy weather (sorry about that, my hopes must have been misunderstood or something), then I figured it was the cascading auditorium, if the place is level it gets packed and moving at the front but with the stairs it's lots of sort of isolated sections and it's kinda dangerous to move back and forth too much
too bad about missy aggravation
you sure you didn't offer to buy her a soda and invite her to the parking lot?... heh
you probably should have moshed, less.. suspicious.. than a standing-still sort of physical contact
or you should've just explained to her that people will travel all over the world just to molest HER
or you could've told her you were there as Kim's guest (great to hear that btw)... that should've made her tame...
It pisses me that the impression ordinary people here would get is that the big event of this year was Lenny Kravitz's stadium concert, just because the promoter had to make sure the attendance warranted a stadium show and clogged the media with advertising material ranging from giant posters and tv/radio ads to Kravitz fashion tip articles, degrading him to a poster boy IMO. Pixies didn't need media exposure.
Speaking of a rich concert season, the Beach boys will be here next Wednesday.
thanks, sonicpixie, for the correct sequence of the songs, where was my mind... I didn't get any of the stage setlist papers, I was going by fuzzy memory and a shitty cell phone recording outside the walls (yes, people were desperate) which only had parts of five songs on it... I was just now listening to the end of River... spectacular energy, even with all the cracks and pops of the tiny joke of a speaker
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talking about music is like dancing about architecture - Frank.. |
| sonicpixie |
Posted - 06/23/2004 : 02:59:50
Tisasawath's setlist is very much incorrect - I posted the correct one in the setlist-songcount thread!
Enjoy!
Why do cupids and angels continually haunt my dreams like memories of another life... |
| sonicpixie |
Posted - 06/22/2004 : 04:13:45
Man......my ears still hurt and ring AWH
I was standing RIGHT IN FRONT OF SANTIAGO, which was cool, but I wanted to see Kim cuz I JUST LOOOOVE the way she smiles all the time like she's stoned out of her mind ;-D I smelled some pot in the air too hehehe
I think that tisasawath's setlist is pretty messed up -I admit tho that I was sedated I had to be - In heaven was way near the beginning of the show and Kim sang a lot of it!
I also remember Kim having some tech problems /???/
Frank DID make A LOT of faces and 'LAHLAHLAH' gestures during Here comes your man, and I dig that - I'd like it more if they played LEVITATE ME or BREAK MY BODY instead...and they could have done that - despite the 15 yr olds!
I took a pic with Frank later by total accident- a friend informed me where to go - and I kissed him too...and I wasn't quite aware of what that really menas to me till yesterday afternoon...man I really was sedated....
We were waiting for Kim I really wanted to talk to her, but hey....seems like she left earlier or stayed behind to avoid fans ...which I find weird /???/
FRANKIE=YUMYUM!
Why do cupids and angels continually haunt my dreams like memories of another life... |
| broken part |
Posted - 06/21/2004 : 13:19:14
Oh, and I forgot to say, Joe played Planet of Sound with a beer bottle (as well as Vamos with Dave's drumstick, and here instead of throwing a pick at the Les Paul, like I heard he did at other shows, he was just throwing the Les Paul in the air, caching it and shaking it). What a deity! |
| broken part |
Posted - 06/21/2004 : 13:12:46
I just got back to London after spending 4 days and 3 nights in Ljubljana.
Firstly I have to say this has got to be one of the best European capitals. It's not overrun with tourists (yet) and the women look amaizing, everything is cheap (go pound go!), pretty clean and organised although finding rooms was a big problem. There just aren't enough hotels.
Now - the show:
I arrived with no ticket. I was bidding on the internet for one but that fell through. So I went to the venue at about 1pm on the day of the concert. The sound guys were setting up everything and I took some photos of the empty place. On that day it rained pretty heavily and the gutter that was collecting water fom the main cover gave way and a flash flood was cascading down the steps from the top of the auditorium, filling the mosh pit.
When the ticket office opened they were giving reserved tickets only and said that if before they close they have anything left they would sell them for around 25 euros. So I cued up and the worst torrential rain I've seen came pouring down. I mean I was wet to my asshole. In the cue there were quie a few foreigners: italians, croatians, americans, me. I said screw this i'll come back later and went to the pub across the road. I got talking to a guy from LA, Hans, who was travelling with his dad, Ben, around Central Europe. He said he specially made a detour to Ljubljana to see the Pixies event though he didn't have a ticket. Later on he went back to see what the deal with the tickets is and bumped into Kim. She put him and his dad on the guest list. Earlier I had Charles, Kim and Dave walk right past me as they were entering the venue but I didn't have the courage to say anything to them. I mean I would have felt like a complete idiot if blanked. But obvously Hans had the smooth talk and the charm. His father declined the opportinity and offered it to me. I feel that no matter how I say it I still can't appropriately express how much I appreaciated it. Thanks guys. And thanks Kim, you're too kind.
Just like Tis mentionet I can't really attempt to descibe the show itself. One thing I found strange though, was the crowd. There were 2 crowd surfers for the whole show (that's right TWO) and although there was something resembling moshing in a mild kind of way at the front, there were a lot of what looked like 15 year old girls around. Now, I don't mosh. I might jump around when I get excited but I don't slam into anyone's ribs. What pissed me off was that there was a girl in front of me. I just put my hand on her back for lack of a better place to keep it and she was all bothered about it, turning around and moving it away. I'm telling this exactly as it appened. I wasn't 'feeling' her at all, she was just a kid. Just placing an arm ocassionally and wasn't pushing. I got this kind of reactions from a few poeple there. Now just what the fuck do they want? To go to a Pixies show and have no physical contact with anyone in the crowd? I appreciate a more civil crowd and I get to enjoy the music more than if the place goes buck wild but this was at the ohter extreme. I think: "If you don't like it get the hell out of the front rows stupid cow".
One last thing. Dave was taking photos again, this time of the other 3. I think he's on a mission to make the greatest Pixies gig/backstage photo album and when the Pixies pack in it he'll sell it for a furtune (gotta buy those bunnies and tall hat, hehe).
I rambled. What a fate! |
| tisasawath |
Posted - 06/21/2004 : 01:00:47
as loud as hell, behind my :))) ring my ears
a*a*a*a*a*a*w*w*w*w*w*w*w*w
I could probably just cut'n'paste some lyrics to try to elaborate the feelings as trying to describe them in my own words is futile, music is just so much better means of communication (hence the new sig). Just some details (don't want to dissect the entire evening)- the crowd was quite international (this is a small country.. although it alone could still easily fill the place over a few evenings.. scalpers were successful in selling tickets for 100 euros and more but a lot of people were still left without them), Frank made a real goofy look in the opening riff to Here comes your man, kinda apin' with the crowd's response to a popular song, Kim said they had been here before, in 1989, and (I'm not sure I heard this right.. ringringring) joked about boring everyone back then... this would be light years far from the truth, the supposed bootlegs of that show are the stuff of legends here and the local airplay resulting from the impact of that performance is also how I got to hear their music in the first place
gigantic thankyou to Frank, Kim, Dave, Joe, as individuals and as a group, for giving true meaning to the concept of ears and also for playing so many songs from the ones that were rehearsed for the tour, and with such a busy schedule (Italy the day before, Greece the next)
songs:
(not sure of the right order, Bone was first, Caribou and Into the White are right, also the Trompe songs, that Crackity-Something-Broken-Isla package was really pushing the crowd to physical limits too)
Bone Machine
Winterlong
Dead
Ed Is Dead
River Euphrates
Nimrod’s Son
Velouria
Crackity Jones
Something Against You
Broken Face
Isla de Encanta
Hey
Mr. Grieves
Monkey Gone to Heaven
Holiday Song
I Bleed
Gouge Away
In Heaven
No. 13 Baby
Cactus
Tame
Wave of Mutilation
Where is my Mind
Debaser
Gigantic
Caribou
Here Comes Your Man
Vamos
Into the White
U-Mass
Planet of Sound
(I now wish I had payed more attention to Joe's and Frank's playing... but there will be another chance... sooon... right?...:)
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| tisasawath |
Posted - 06/16/2004 : 03:25:22
here's a simple map of the town center
http://www.ljubljana-calling.com/images/CityMapLjubljana.pdf
here's a better one
http://www.ljubljana-tourism.si/img/tmap-slo-ang-2003.pdf
(available through this site)
http://www.ljubljana-tourism.si/index.cgi?set_lang=us
or another version, java, not very printer friendly
http://tis.telekom.si/karta/map.exe?X=461950&Y=100380
(the red circle is the place to be on sunday night)
I hope you make it and get in somehow. There was even a rumour that someone from the U.K. bought 500 tickets to the Križanke gig and that some were buying 10 to 20 tickets, plus many of the tickets were just offered to some v.i.p.'s by the organizers who now say this was their fastest sold out gig. |
| broken part |
Posted - 06/11/2004 : 12:39:00
no it's not a festival. Its opening act + Pixies. the venue is an open air amphitheatre - excellent acoustics |
| benji |
Posted - 06/11/2004 : 09:49:40
Ljubljana....
i've heard thats really nice.
are the pixies playing a festival there?
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