Right so a recap. Friday afternoon I head into town around 2ish rather hungover from the night before. Meet up with some of the folks from the V and enjoy a few drinks and some banter. 4 vodkas later I was feeling much much better. Leave around 5ish to get to Earls Court. Join a long queue to collect my tickets. 45 minutes later I have the tickets and I meet up with the lads. There is a fair bit of anticipation of a great evening. We get in and dump the coats in the cloakroom, a quick stop off to buy a t-shirt and onto the bar where we actually manage to run into Rich and his craddle-snatched friends. So a quick drink later and we head in to push our way up front. Then at 8.30 in the usual Metallica style, the lights go out and Ennio Morricone’s theme tune to The Good, The Bad and the Ugly starts up. The grins on the lads faces (and mine no doubt) and the roar was awesome. Never a band to fuck around, they open with Blackened and that’s it. Man the rest of the night was awsome. It really really rocked. Only 3 new songs and the rest were classics all the way. At last, I have seen Metallica doing Enter Sandman live and it so rocked. After that it seemed to be over, they walked around the stage throwing drum sticks and other stuff out into the audience, until James comes back on stage holding a guitar and hits off the base drum. With the words “Seen as we are here”, we get another two songs encore.

And then Lars announces they are headlining Download 2 next June…at which point Fred and I who were pretty much going to go again anyway looked at each other and nodded. Somehow I think there will be a few more of the lads coming along next year 🙂 This was one of the best gigs I’ve been to and certainly one of the most crowd pleasing.

The full setlist
Blackened
Creeping Death
Seek and Destroy
Fade To Black
The Thing That Should Not Be
Frantic
For whom the Bell Tolls
Dirty Window
Sad But True
One
Damage Inc.
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Harvester Of Sorrow
Nothing Else Matters
Master Of Puppets
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St. Anger
Enter Sandman
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Am I Evil?
Hit The Lights

So that was Friday. Saturday I got up late and fucked around online for a while. Headed down to Camden to see what was going on and then a quick trip into town to pick up some stuff. At the very least I needed a new book. Gotten into some Harlen Corbens of late and needed the next book in the series. Then it was dinner at Ed’s (predictable or what) and home for a quiet night. Played some Eve, played some Call of Duty and read for a good while.

Slept straight through Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon is running along quietly to the best of The Velvet Underground. I’m sure there will be some Eve shortly and perhaps a movie tonight.

I’ve finally got the computer sorted and I know what the problem was. It was as I suspect the graphics card. I did a couple of system restores yesterday (what a wonderful feature) and updated using ATI’s drivers rather than the ones I had been using to date and not a single crash so far. This makes me happy. I have a good feeling about it now.

Alex seemed to find something strange the other day. I have trades which I have noy yet read, maybe 10 or so. I also have at least 20 DVD’s which I have not watched and as many as 50 unread books. All for a rainy day