Take your Shots

“Who wants a shot? You want one? Good. You? Everyone else having one? No, go on have one. Go on, just a little shot. Go on, stop being such a bore. Why not? Don’t be stupid, I’m getting you one anyway. Jagers all round. Go on have one, its on me. Don’t have a Jager then have something else. Have a Sambuca. I’m buying. Three Jager bombs and a Sambuca please. You don’t want it, I’ve already ordered. Come on just drink it. Go on. Ready? Everyone ready? Come on, take your shot. Ready, 1-2-3 gulp.”

These people piss me off. They are a pub nuisance. Go take it to that poncy bar up the road. Wankers.

Hyde Park Curfew

So at the end of the Bruce Springsteen concert in Hyde Park Sir Paul McCartney came onstage to have a bit of a sing song, only for the plug to b pulled halfway through the second song as they went over the curfew.
I Saw some mobile phone footage of it on the news. Everyone stops playing apart from Springsteen who carry’s on in his bombastic fist pumping manor. A bit embarrassing to say the least.

I have to applaud the authorities on this one. No I don’t care about the local residents. If you’re lucky enough (I mean rich enough) to live that central in London then expect noise. Especially in the summer months when there’s always a few concerts in Hyde Park.

What I applaud them for is not giving them time to do a rendition of Hey Jude. I’m sure they would’ve done it. And it would’ve gone on for ages.
“La la la la la la la… la la la la hey Jude, all the people at the back. La la la la la la la… la la la la hey Jude, all those in the front. La la la la la la la… la la la la hey Jude all together now.”
How much longer will McCartney continue joins other old rock stars on stage and bang out a couple of songs from the sixties?
Well there’s the Olympic closing ceremony. Then please, no more.

The Doors - The Changeling

The other day I was listening to an NPR podcast that had some bloke talking about a new book he’s wrote about The Doors. Do we really need another book, magazine article or film about Jim Morison and The Doors?
Of course not, but anyway, the guy was saying how their music was made in a time of (and therefore reflected) political uncertainty and fear. Such as Vietnam protests, assassinations, cult murders…
Yeah like there has never been any history or dramatic events before the late sixties or after.
Its easy to give bands and rock stars more gravitas than necessary. Like Dylan-olagists that believe the worlds answers are hidden in his lyrics.
Though the bloke on NPR was correct in saying that The Doors made some great songs and also some bad ones.
For me their strongest album is defiantly their last one L.A. Woman. So many great songs on it. The title track, Riders On The Storm. But none better than the first song.

Euro 2012 As It Happened

Szczęsny has a howler.
Pavlyuchenko (or as my dad always miss pronounces his name at his time at Spurs Paddy-o-chonko) scores Russia’s fourth and stakes their claim as contenders.
Van Persie plays like Emile Hesky.
Shay Given scores a diving header and gets chalk all over his face.
Spain use an experimental art project no strikers formation.
Shevckenko gets a brace. Mario Gomez gets a brace (wish he’d done that in the Champions League final).
Bendtner gets a brace and Ronaldo can’t hit a barn door.
Spain hammer Ireland and Roy Keane gets sick of ITV patronising them with 'but didn’t they have a good old sing song’.
Danny Welbeck back heal's a winner.
Ibrahimović puts his karate skills to use with a volleyed goal.
Ukraine v France match delayed because of a storm of biblical proportions.
Poland fuck it up and go out, as do Russia.
Greece put an end to the crap jokes about them crumbling like their economy. Christian Ronaldo finds his club form as he puts two past Holland.
Balotelli scores a great volley and then does one of his ever so annoying non celebrations.
John Terry clears a ball off the line that was actually over. 'Well it evens up Lampard’s non-goal from the World Cup' says the commentator. Not so sure that Ukraine feel that way.
Ronaldo’s bullet header.
Spain bore a half arsed France off the pitch.
Two bullet German volleys.
Joe Hart shouts and waves his arms about in the penalty shoot out until Pirlo shuts him up with a chip down the middle.
Ronaldo spends most of the second half against Spain doing that pre free-kick drama thing that he does. Only to blast all of them over the bar.
Balotelli's first half blows Germany away.
Spain run away with it in the final, putting to bed the Spain are boring theory.