I agree Tony. Fantastic day out from start to finish, with all flaws (the usual poor security and unpunished pushers-in). Imho, it's very hard to beat a day of bands in Hyde Park in the Summer Time. Another one to be added to the collection of great gigging memories. I'm going to Copenhagen on Friday and I'm tempted to go to Roskilde on Saturday where Paul McCartney's he
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The crowd were mad for it on Friday night in Hyde Park! I feel that they subject themselves to far too punishing a schedule. The Stones now do 2 shows a week and the Who and MCCartney really ought to follow suit to get the best out of themselves. In March the Who did back to back gigs at the O2 and and MCCartney followed suit at the same venue in May - silly for performers of their age if you ask
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A contributory factor may be that their setlist was brought forward by 30 mins at short notice and they were given no time to do a sound check. On Friday night the sound checks were carried out by the crew of not just the Who but their 4 support acts and seemed very thorough. It will be interesting to hear what happens in Paris on Tuesday, firstly for how good a performance they deliver and se
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BBC broadcast just finished. They showed about 10 songs of a rather curtailed 16 song set list. For those seeing them in Europe and America later in the year, I hope this was not a sign of problems. I thought Roger sang pretty well but Pete looked to be in one of his pissed off can't be bothered moods. I'd be interested to hear the thoughts of others with a deeper knowledge of this band
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Yep, I'm watching now. The naughty line in Who are You?, the show opener was left in Sad that they've dropped Can't Explain as their opener imho. Pictures of Lily is back but Substitute not played since mid April, perhaps due to the strain of that chorus on Roger's voice.
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The show at Hyde Park on Friday night was filmed for a future official release. I was there. Their official start time for tonight's show is 945pm but the BBC2 broadcast is not until 2240pm. So either the BBC are joining the show half way through and broadcasting live or it's a delayed broadcast with naughty words edited out There were a few of those on Friday night...
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QuoteBeast Maybe it's something to do with the planned Stones museum in London? Oh don't say that Beast. I want a gig . However, realistically it's not a bad shout. Announcing the start of what would be a building, renovating job would be far from thrilling though. IORRian Crawdaddy tells me that the Old Crawdaddy club in Richmond is now a posh eatery so perhaps they'll make
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Quoteflairville I think you'll find StraycatUK is referring to a UK gig not Knebworth. Yep, that's my take too. August 15th could well still be the date, but just not at Knebworth. We'll see.... It does definitely sound like something is afoot though.
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QuoteBastion Quotegrzegorz67 QuoteBastion QuoteKarlos123 Ok. Gimme place and date. Hopefully announcement is coming next week. Nothing is going to happen. This suggests otherwise. Why else would they bomb us with this #Stonesism marketing? Oh forgive me, a London gig is extremely likely yes. But anyone expecting Knebworth this year is out of their mind. I agree - Knebworth is looking
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QuoteBastion QuoteKarlos123 Ok. Gimme place and date. Hopefully announcement is coming next week. Nothing is going to happen. This suggests otherwise. Why else would they bomb us with this #Stonesism marketing?
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QuoteEddieByword Wembley would be good............. That's a very good shout as they've yet to play it since it was rebuilt and I'm sure they're keen to do it. Last show there was 12th June 1999. I was there. The tail end of the BtB tour and their last £30 all GA tickets tour. The whole lower tier of seats was unreserved too and available to GA ticket holders. And even then
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I would actually much prefer London as it's a helluva lot easier to get to than Knebworth, especially so for the many European IORRians who will charge across in their droves for this as they did for Hyde Park and the O2. Lady Jane, you will see them again ><
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And like the fool that I am, I've just signed up to this Stonesism lark. So no Knebworth but London very strongly and subtly hinted at. Luckily for me, living 80 miles away, I can get there at short notice pretty much any time.
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QuoteBeast Thanks for your perspectives, BluzDude - interesting for us Brits to read! The Who undoubtedly put on a great show, but I agree with others that the lack of an encore was disappointing. And I'm with grzegorz67 when he says Johnny Marr was a revelation. His set was excellent and trumped Paul Weller, IMHO. I like Kaiser Chiefs but I was unfortunately trapped in endless food, drin
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QuoteRikards Bumping this up again, since the Rolling Stones Facebook page posted something with 'London' highlighted. Could it be? This is the strongest hint yet! So pick from Wembley, Twickenham or maybe an indoor venue such as O2 or Wembley Arena. Don't rule out Hyde Park either as it hosts events outside BST, such as Jeff Lynn's ELO last September. Now hopeful again
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Quotecrawdaddy Here's a video of Baba O'Riley that was taken by Andreea, standing right next to me. Excellent video Crawdaddy. Please pass on my thanks to Zgubi for sharing it. I glanced over at your group many times during the day and I thought I recognised her from her video diaries. I am especially grateful as there was a bit of crowd trouble over to the left of me in my sec
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Got back to my place near Swindon at 3am and still feel properly knackered. Great great day out and had a chat, of sorts with Mr Crawdaddy over the fence, who in turn introduced me to PaulyWaul. You and all the other IORrians got superb viewing spots with PaulyWaul and Beast getting the very best. I agree with others that the abrupt end with speeches from Pete and Roger eulogising one another, fa
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Ha - I wondered when you might resurface Tony! I'm meeting my friend and his son at 11pm for some nosh then queue up in GA Early Entry which opens up at 1pm. Our entrance is down Park Lane near Hyde Park Corner. GA Normal Entry is the top end of the Park as for the Stones 2 years ago. So Zgubi - the Romanian Lass who made all these great Youtube diaries last year! I don't recall
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QuoteMarthaTuesday I was thinking of going on Friday. Was going to be a last minute decision - see if any tickets available on the day, because I might be busy. But - having checked out the secondary sites yesterday and today I'm thinking maybe not... I guess I'm a casual fan when it comes to the who - but I've never seen them before and wouldn't mind doing so...but not e
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Quotepaulywaul Quotegrzegorz67 OK so now the Roll Call. I get the feeling a lot of IORRians also like the Who and there will be a goodly number of us in Hyde Park on Friday. The BST website is now showing all sections as sold out and prices on the secondary market have gone cuckoo. So who's all going ? Me for one Me, Beast, a couple of friends of mine/ours, and no doubt we will hook up
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OK so now the Roll Call. I get the feeling a lot of IORRians also like the Who and there will be a goodly number of us in Hyde Park on Friday. The BST website is now showing all sections as sold out and prices on the secondary market have gone cuckoo. So who's all going ? Me for one
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Of the shows I saw : 1. Stockholm : Extremely long and very good MR, though mediocre setlist. 2. Paris : Great venue, huge 76,000 crowd, very hot day and good atmosphere. The band had certainly tightened up a bit since Oslo. Also travelled without a ticket to this sold out show and bought a face value spare from someone I'd met queueing for the Oslo show. 3. Oslo : A fair few goof
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And a belated happy birthday from me too. Seen you live twice this year - O2 show 2 and Birmingham. Looking forward to seeing you again at the Tele2 in Stockholm, where I saw some old friends of yours last year Long may you keep rocking sir !
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Well, they reworked Factory Girl for Glastonbury and a fine job of it they made too Perhaps the Worzels can be the Support Act ? They're still going you know !
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QuoteMarthaTuesday Quotegrzegorz67 The last song is pretty much unplayable in this day and age Martha. I saw them play it live on the opening night of Licks in Boston in 2002 but recent news stories probably make it a non starter. Guess you're probably right... was thinking perhaps possible with a few tweaks to the lyrics but perhaps not! Nope I agree Cracking Tune imho and would lo
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The last song is pretty much unplayable in this day and age Martha. I saw them play it live on the opening night of Licks in Boston in 2002 but recent news stories probably make it a non starter.
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You Gotta Mooooooo Neigh-bours Miss Ewe Sweet neo corn Tumbling Rice Brown Sugar Wild Horses Little red rooster If You Need Me Have you seen your mooo-ther baby, standing in the shadows. Bull to Cry (Cock-a-doodle) Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Heartbreaker Old Macdonald's farm....... (well, if we can have All my ex's live in Texas & sloopy.....
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QuoteSpud To be fair...I probably wouldn't bother with one. To this day I still sit outside Kings Cross all night when I've attended a London show. ...Not sure whether it's the masochisic streak or the Yorkshire frugality Hi Spud, Neither a Lender nor a Borrower be and all that ? I'm a Scot so I take a similar stance . A night under the stars or at a railway stat
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QuoteSpud ...of course I'd be there. I could afford a better bed for the night than a trolley on Stevenage station this time ;^) Ha ha I do remember reading your story on here Spud. I laughed at the time!
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