Uncovered

The two first photos taken of my trip home! (And not necessarily the best!)

Awwwww....

Death becomes her (err, me)

"Renee: At age 68 a truly fanatic fan of your spoken word works will stalk you and torture you for a period of weeks. After refusing to sign any more autographs, the fan will kill you."

Heeeehehe

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A little early (otherwise I'll forget)

To Dutchy,

You're the first person to receive a personalised shout out, it seemed appropriate as you are my most avid reader (and comment-er). To my Sensei and co-creator of the Pandy line of nicknames, hope you have a great birthday bash (not to out-do the stag night).

R



(Can you tell how bored I am?!)

Here we are now, entertain us

Why on EARTH does Europe have to be overcome with rocking festivals all summer long? There are literally 10 I would go to if I a) had money and b) had time off work. So far we've got (potentially)

June
8th-10th Isle of Wight Festival : Snow Patrol, Muse, Kasabian, The Feeling, The Fratellis, Wolfmother
14th-17th Nashville, Tennessee : TOOL, The Police, White Stripes, Franz Ferdinand, Ben Harper, Wolfmother
15th Live Earth, Hyde Park : Foo Fighters, RHCP, Snow Patrol, Bon Jovi (FUCK YEAH!)
15th-17th Nova Rock Festival, Austria : Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Metallica, MCR, Incubus, The Hives, The Killers, Me First & The Gimme Gimmes
28th - 1st Rock Wercher Brussels, Belguim : Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam, Metallica, Kaiser Chiefs, Muse, Tori Amos, MCR, Marilyn Manson, Incubus

July
19th-22nd Benicassim Valencia, Spain (BOOKED!) : Arctic Monkeys, The Hives, The Magic Numbers, Iggy & The Stooges

August
24th-26th Reading (I WILL get tickets again!!) : (rumours) RHCP, Smashing Pumpkins, Razorlight

And many, many more that Carol says I'm not allowed to look at anymore cause I'll end up broke and homeless. Party pooper...

I'm baaaack

Hear ye, hear ye! I have had loads of correspondence regarding the lack of posting here lately (no, really). Unless you have been living under a rock you would know I was in Australia for 3 and a half weeks (not NEARLY enough time, but that's not for here) and am currently blogging my little heart out - it's gonna be a doozy.

In the meantime be comforted to hear that I had a brilliant time back home. To those of you I got to visit/hang out/get drunk and silly with I had a fucking blast (!!) and really do miss you. I felt celebrity-like for a while there, but sadly it's back to reality - dreary London and it's surly inhabitants - for now.

Only news to report is that I am now the proud co-owner of a shareroom! That's right.. some lucky soul has won the right to share a 10 x 8m room of love with moi. We're currently on a bed hunt so it's very cosy living at the moment.

Slight reprieve though, I'm off to Manchester this weekend to visit Courts before she goes galavanting through Europe once again, the lucky devil. Azz, Dyl and I are travelling in style after work this Friday... I forsee empty wine bottles and angry bus drivers. Hurrah!

And one last thing.. we humbly welcomed our new housemate Taffee to the Villas on Saturday! It's good to have another male in the midst (and being easy on the eye helps us all get through these cold and dark days). Upon arriving back on Saturday morning it seemed Taff had been more than welcomed into the house debauchery. What have we done...

Pickle me grandmother! (here's one I prepared earlier)

(I just found this half started post written a week after landing. I shall add to this when I can)

Number of days spent in Adelaide? 10
Bottles of Coopers consumed? A six-pack less than a carton
Pints of Pale/Sparkling consumed? More than 15
Champagne? 4 bottles
Jager bombs? Ugh. One.
Food consumed from North Tce after 6am? hotdog and half a sausage roll
Money won at the Cas? minus $4
Beaches visited? 3 (Seacliff, Glenelg, Victor Harbor)
Tim tams? Caramel and black forest. Gone!
Approx weight gain so far? Far too much.


Yes, it's only been a week but my god what a week it has been (to borrow a phrase from Eddie). I now remember why I blocked that initial flight to London from memory. It actually wasn't so bad this time round even though I was on my own (especially since this time I wasn't going with a low cost carrier, I had my own tv screen and free alcohol at my disposal). Heathrow to Singapore was great. I had a spare seat next to me and many vodka's later I was half lying, half sitting across it and 'slept' for about 4 hours, waking up in time for some grub before landing. Singa's to Sydney we had a full house so it was a bit squashy but once again the free vodka's wreaked havoc and I dozed most of the time (and if I wasn't dozing there was endless Cartoon Network at my disposal). The nightmare began at Sydney. I had to proceed through customs then check into the domestic carrier, wait for the transfers bus to take me to the tiny departures hall where I spent 3 hours trying to stay awake. After a few purchases I decided laying on the seats near the sunny window was in order. Eventually the plane to Adelaide arrived and I was finally on my way. After much turbulence and a ride I'd generally rather forget (tired, grumpy, uncomfortable) we decended into Ads. The ladies told us we could get our bags from downstairs. "Excuse me.." I tapped the lady's arm "Since when did Adelaide have a 'downstairs'??". It seems some things do change.

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"The exits are at the front..... and the rear..... of the craft"

Well... Kylie's been and gone. I can't believe it!! After a year and a half from the date I was originally to see her I finally got my chance at Wembley Arena both Monday and Tuesday night. The setlist was the same for both nights but there were differences in both shows (particularly given that that the Tuesday night was her last in London)

Monday
Bevs in hand Dyl, Az and I trotted up to our seats... we were right at the back of the block, but directly opposite the stage - perfect for seeing back and under stage activity (Including nudity between changes!).

Highlights:
- KM forgot the words during 'I Believe In You'. "Sorry! I'm too busy reading your signs!"
- At one point she (unfortunately) said "I know a lot of you have travelled a long way.. are there any Australians here tonight?". Azza and I decided this would be the perfect time and place to disgrace ourselves (and our country). We screamed our guts out... and got looked at by everyone within a 50m radius. Twats.
- Her storytelling.
"I sang with Bono in Sydney.. we asked him what kind of mic do you want? He said 'A plain one'. Later that night he came out on stage and he had a sparkly one.. one of our people told him 'It's a Kylie show. There are no plain ones!'. Around here if you sit still long enough you'll be bedazzled. Like my drink bottle... *picks it up to drink.. notices the sparkly L has fallen off* ohhh (kids voice) it's broken. KY - IE'".

Tuesday
Another day, another rush home from the office to get glammed up. This time Carol accompanied me as did our feather boas. We were seated close to the crowd but further from the stage, still, we had a pretty good view and we prepared the people around us to get up and get dancing (noone sits down for Kylie!!). The guy next to me had been to the Earls Court performance last year so was very excited to be seeing her again... he was equally excited that I was Australian (although disappointed to hear I hadn't travelled over especially to see her - I should've blagged).

Because it was her last performance in London I was hoping for a Robbie special appearance, instead we got Danni for Kids ("Next time we need diamonte encrusted hairbrushes.. it feels more natural!"), which was still pretty surprising.

Just before saying goodnight to the audience Kylie pulled a kid out of the audience. 'Christian' wanted to sing Can't Get You Out Of My Head.. and did, acoustically, to 12,000 enthusiastic fans whilst Kylie danced around him. It was the most spectacular thing I've seen in a while!

Both nights

Favourite moments include

- the Vogue rap
- "Did anybody here disco in the 80's??? Big hair, shoulder pads, earrings?! You should know this then! .... THE ONLY WAY IS UP!"
- KM dressed in 80's garb (complete with Debbie Harryesque blonde spiky wig) doing the shuffle dance (imitated many times since)
- Kinky locomotion with jazz voice
- Someone handing KM a homemade t-shirt parodying her tour shirts (she reads it aloud in EXTREME Australian accent) "Charlene says Relax. OK?!"
- Light Years as the second to last song!

Overall I had a blast - I knew I would! And it made us feel a bit closer to home, even if Kylie does have that annoying International accent now. The only negative is that Matt didn't get his arse over for it...

THANK GOD FOR CODIENE

I have three wisdom teeth in different stages of their appearing acts, shoulders wound up tighter than you could believe and one hell of a headache. Nurofen Plus, you are my hero!!

Awww

Today I got a postcard from Dave when he was in Adelaide over Christmas (he's back at work now.. ahh how I marvel at the efficiency of the postal service).

"You were right about the cricket, you were right about Adelaide and most of all you were right about the pies!"

The front has three views of the city skyline and River Torrens by day and night.

I (oddly) miss it so much!!


(He still reckons I need to tuck into a pie floater... Yuck!! AND I won the Balfours v Villi's debate.. finally!)