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believe in the boogie?!
2005-07-08
i am absolutely amazed and stunned! so i went to mark owen's gig here last night and i can't believe how much it rocked. despite being really excited about seeing him again after eight long years, i had my doubts. his last show here was nice but i think i mostly enjoyed it because i was absolutely crazy about anything related to him and take that. back then, he had a nice album out but didn't really put on the best show. so this time, i was really anxious about it. i wanted him to be awesome but was still afraid that he would fuck it up. which he totally didn't. i would even go as far to say it was one of the best concerts i've ever been to. he put so much emotion and passion into each and every song that you simply couldn't NOT be into it. he rocked out during the fast songs and really put his heart into the slow songs. he even played an absolutely stunning cover of joy division's "love will tear us apart" which i believe is one of the hardest songs to cover ever because a) it's very difficult to sing without sounding like an idiot and b) it's one of those songs that are just *up there* and it's likely that people find your attempt at covering it silly. but it sounded perfect and just...right.
in fact, i was so happy today that i went shopping. i bought some super-pretty top and a new book. i desperately needed a new one as i finished the last one on thursday and i have to work from 6 to 2.30 tomorrow which means lots of sitting around doing nothing which can only be survived with the help of a book and lots of willpower.
i was also gonna write something about the blasts in london but i think the topic's through by now. too many people have said too many things about it already. so i'm just gonna say that such things always seem so much worse and more real when they happen in places that you have been to yourself.
last week, i whined to my mum about how pissed off i am about everything in my life at the moment and how i just want to get out for a while and she said she needed some rest after all the stress with her illness and stuff. and she asked whether i was up for going to spain with her for a week or 10 days. i agreed and we decided to go book a trip to lanzarote as soon as she's back at work (probably next week) and able to tell when she can take time off. we're probably gonna do it right when we get back from london. we get back on 21st november and probably gonna fly south one or two days later if that's possible. we want to book a little appartement or cabin or whatever and a rental car and just...relax. that's exactly what i need at the moment. just get out and away. i need time off. off of my job. off of my life. just off of everything.
i enjoyed it all so much and am still glad i went there. unfortunately, the place was full of ex-tt fans who were less than impressed. in the very beginning of the gig, they played the sound of a phone and everyone thought he was going to sing "babe" (which i would have found awful!) and you could clearly feel the disappointment of the crowd when he didn't. some people left through the gig because they thought it sucked which made me so angry. i mean, i knew it would happen because i had seen the crowd before the gig and half of it were girls you would expect at any regular boyband show but it was clear they weren't into mark's stuff. which makes me think they can't be quite right in their heads because he hasn't been making take that-esque stuff since '97, so what were they expecting?
what i find really upsetting isn't even that many people didn't enjoy it but that people who would enjoy it will never go to his shows because of his image. stupid, pretentious pricks!
but i shouldn't be complaining. i heard that "how the mighty fall" debuted at no. 18 in the german charts which is about 300 times better than i expected. i even had my doubts about the quality me-compatibility of it until last thing. i feel like due to him "showing" me what he's meaning to say, i understand what the songs are about. now i can't stop listening to it. i'd also love to listen to the previous albums (yay, he played "clementine" and some songs off the second album! <3) but i can't find them. i really must organize my CD shelves some time. alphabetically, chronologically, whateverly...i just need some system as i can never find the records i am looking for. meh.
damn, i am so obsessed with him since last night. i even joined his official forums and i think i'm also gonna join his fanclub. though that is not too unusual as i'm an addict for internet forums and fanclubs and anything super-official-and-special related to bands i like.
*happy sigh* i'm just so glad and relieved that he did such a good job and that he finally seems to be getting the attention he deserves. <3
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