Thanx Robin
V
Yeah, see now I’m wishing I went to the V festival as well as the entertainment centre gig…
they’re playing my songs!
Ooh! Tonight I learned the Duranies will be playing a gig at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. Yeah, I hate that place, but I’m fricken well going anyway. Anyone aside from Nicole want to go with me? Didn’t think so… 🙂
The night I almost converted to Judaeism and saw Duran Duran play live at the Ethyl Barrymore Theatr
Several mystical occurrences occured on the US leg of our trip. We’re in London now, but here’s a brief summary of some of the strange events that happened along the way. Tuesday before last there was a bash at the Australian Embassy in NYC welcoming the Aussie SF writing contingent. I accidentally got shitfaced and, after hours of merrymaking, fell in the gutter alongside Kaaron’s husband James. oops. I can’t even remember the last 2 bars we went to, let alone how we made it back to the hotel. When I woke up I realised that something was missing (aside from about a trillion brain cells). My camera. Now, see, this has been wanting to happen for years now, but somehow I always get the damn thing back, or my wallet, or passport or whatever, but not this time. Nope, this was to be the time that I got my…
Red carpet massacre
[Vandermeer, better avert your eyes from this blog post]Well, its official. I have the pdf tickets in my hot little hands. Yes, we are going to see Duran Duran live in concert at the Ethyl Barrymore theatre on Broadway next month! I had to change our flight to London in order to achieve this and I’m amazed by the fact that not only did my travelling companions Rob and girliejonesnot mind, they’ve actually decided to accompany me to the gig! I was way prepared to go on my own. Hell, I was prepared to fly to London on my own if it came to that. But it didn’t. We are all going and I am so excited.The Duranies have a new album launching, Red Carpet Massacre. I loved their last one, Astronaut, so I’m hoping this one rocks, but the boys have a very uneven track record with past albums. Medazzaland…
Arena: what were they thinking?
Jeff Vandermeer once described me as a Duran Duran apologist and he’s right. I am, and I’m not going to apologise for my apologism. I love that band’s later music, although I do wonder how I ever came to hear it at all. By time my inner fangirl kicked in, their CDs were lining the five dollar bargain bins. Before Notorious, it was all just teeny bopper shite to my ears. Anyway, last year Rob bought me a couple of Duran Duran music DVDs from JB Hi Fi when he found them in the bargain bin and this weekend I decided to play them to accompany my daily treadmill routine. The first one, Sing Blue Silver was awesome. Footage from their big US tour 23 years ago. The boys were so goddamn pretty! Lipstick pretty with mullets reaching up to the ceiling. Awful hair and awful clothes. But the doco…