10th June 2005 - Window shopping and Ben Folds
Early start to the day (around 10am), Nava and I set off to Southampton town to see what we can find on the itinery. After much looking and deliberation, we buy nothing although we did manage to get a Blacks Jura tent held on reserve. We told the guy (name was Steven) what we were up to and he seemed genuinely interested and helped muchly in our deciding of what we would ultimately purchase.
Set off back to Nav's place, had lunch and went to meet up with Suk. Had tea with Suk, Ian and Kieran (which I'm sure ended up with us talking about poo, or some topic in and un-PC fashion - always happens...). Afterwards, it was a trip to see Polly (who was cheerful as ever) and found out that she was also going to see Ben Folds play at the Southampton Guildhall on Friday night (herself, JJ and Lucy). Polly didn't know Ben Folds looked like an old-man with curly mullet-style hair and big glasses, so I think she was a little disappointed by not having a good-looking guy play for her. Better luck next time Polly.
So, Ben Folds. He was absolutely awesome, brilliant and played it cool. He and his band managed to mess up the very first song, with his bass player laughing to himself about something. Ben follows suit and that was it – the crowd loved it though, because Ben just doesn't take it too seriously – he has fun with it all. Turns out that they had just seen the new Usher video and thought it was rubbish. Anyway, I could go on about the gig, getting us to sing the trumpet section for Army, playing Philosophy with Mirsilou(sp?), playing The Luckiest specifically for a couple who were getting married soon, and encoring with a hyper-speed version of One Angry Drawf and the signature ending of chucking the piano stool at the piano keys. Hearing his live music recording is one thing, but actually seeing him hammer out the tunes was amazing - I've never seen anyone move so fast. I was a little annoyed to not take my digicam because an email said that Folds management doesn't want photos taken, but others took photos. Ah well, towards the end, it didn't matter - I was there. My first Ben Folds live experience, an artist that I would definitely go see again.
[picture to come]
Polly, Lucy and JJ - did any of you happen to take any photos? If so, could you post them to me to my Hotmail address, please? mr_steve100@hotmail.com. Thanks.
-- steven
Set off back to Nav's place, had lunch and went to meet up with Suk. Had tea with Suk, Ian and Kieran (which I'm sure ended up with us talking about poo, or some topic in and un-PC fashion - always happens...). Afterwards, it was a trip to see Polly (who was cheerful as ever) and found out that she was also going to see Ben Folds play at the Southampton Guildhall on Friday night (herself, JJ and Lucy). Polly didn't know Ben Folds looked like an old-man with curly mullet-style hair and big glasses, so I think she was a little disappointed by not having a good-looking guy play for her. Better luck next time Polly.
So, Ben Folds. He was absolutely awesome, brilliant and played it cool. He and his band managed to mess up the very first song, with his bass player laughing to himself about something. Ben follows suit and that was it – the crowd loved it though, because Ben just doesn't take it too seriously – he has fun with it all. Turns out that they had just seen the new Usher video and thought it was rubbish. Anyway, I could go on about the gig, getting us to sing the trumpet section for Army, playing Philosophy with Mirsilou(sp?), playing The Luckiest specifically for a couple who were getting married soon, and encoring with a hyper-speed version of One Angry Drawf and the signature ending of chucking the piano stool at the piano keys. Hearing his live music recording is one thing, but actually seeing him hammer out the tunes was amazing - I've never seen anyone move so fast. I was a little annoyed to not take my digicam because an email said that Folds management doesn't want photos taken, but others took photos. Ah well, towards the end, it didn't matter - I was there. My first Ben Folds live experience, an artist that I would definitely go see again.
[picture to come]
Polly, Lucy and JJ - did any of you happen to take any photos? If so, could you post them to me to my Hotmail address, please? mr_steve100@hotmail.com. Thanks.
-- steven
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