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Last weekend was amazing. On Saturday night I saw Easy Cure (The Cure cover band) and Mode Inside (Depeche Mode cover band). I've seen Easy Cure many many times, so I knew they'd put up a great show, but I didn't know Mode Inside. Well, they're brilliant. The singer's got a beautiful, deep voice and he's quite easy on the eye. ;)

And on Sunday night I went to a Duran Duran concert! Again, I didn't quite know what to expect: of course I know most of their hits, but I'd never seen them live before. Well, it was the best concert I've seen in a while. They even played Space Oddity by David Bowie! It was a Planet Earth / Space Oddity medley, followed by Ordinary World. I was actually close to tears, as both Space Oddity and Ordinary World are two of my all time favourite songs. T_T

And I suddenly remembered that my natural habitat is right in front of a stage. XD

I haven't updated in ages, but the last weeks have been awfully busy. At least the Christmas shopping is finally done. I also wanted to post pictures of the Christmas cards I sent to my LJ friends, but I still need to crop and resize the pics, I'll do it next week when I'm home from the office.

Last night I went to an Easy Cure concert with V and they were great as usual. I've seen a lot of their concerts, once I even went to London to see them, they're really, really good. If you can't go to a Cure gig, they're the next best thing. V knows the singer because they used to work together, so we chatted a little with him after the concert. And for the first time in my life I saw a drummer tear apart a snare drum, they had to use a spare one because the skin had a long slash running in the middle of it. I was impressed. XD

My birthday was pretty low-key this year: my mother is sick and couldn't bake a cake, so we just bought some pastries. I didn't celebrate, it's way too difficult to organise stuff in the middle of the week. But I invited my friends to the Easy Cure concert in Milan on Saturday, luckily it's in one of our favourite clubs, so we'll just stay there after the gig for some belated birthday celebration. My friend V. got all excited about it and proposed a make-up session at her place. She said "Come over at 5 PM!" When I asked her why so early (the gig starts well after 10 PM), she replied "But it will take me at least an hour to do your make up!" WTF is she planning to do to me??? XD I think I'll politely decline. XD

Anyway, I didn't write about my night as a radio speaker. I had a lot of fun, I thought I would be nervous as hell but the mood was very friendly and relaxed. And I didn't even stutter! \o/ Here, have a snippet of my friend Barbara (the real radio host) and I talking about Die Toten Hosen version of "Azzurro". In Italian, of course:



I'm the one who speaks first and explains what happens in the video. Man, do I talk fast...

What a great night we had yesterday. Stefano, Elena, Vale and I went to see Easy Cure, THE Italian Cure cover band, and they were brilliant as usual. I've seen them a few times, last night must have been the 7th concert or something, and it's always a pleasure. During "A forest" a little wave of nostalgia hit me, that was the first song I've ever learned to play on the bass after all. *sigh*

After them a Depeche Mode cover band played, a replacement of the band that was supposed to play. They were good too, but it's difficult to live up to Dave Gahan's fantastic voice and stage antics. And gorgeousness.

After the concerts we stayed and danced, the DJ started out with '80s music, then rock, electro and indie. Oh, it had been so long since I'd heard "Du hast" and "Hey girl, hey boy" in a club. At one point, just after the gigs, I turned around... and saw a guy wearing a Rock'n'Roll Realschule T-shirt! I got all excited and was like "OMGOMGOMG he's wearing an Ärzte T-shirt AAAH!" Elena said I should "socialise", so I grabbed her and walked up to him. I tapped him on the shoulder and asked him if he knew Die Ärzte, but he shook his head and looked at me as if he had no idea what I was talking about. I thought he hadn't heard me - the music was quite loud - and I repeated "Die Ärzte, the band on your T-shirt." But he just said "No, I bought it years ago, just because." I really didn't know how to carry on the conversation at that point, so I just said "Ah, OK," gave him a thumbs up and walked back to Vale and Ste. Vale of course told me "WHAT? You left? You should have hit on him!" Bah. I don't make passes at people in clubs, last time I did... Uhm. Whatever.

Anyway! I booked the hostel in Hamburg and I'm really happy about it! Yes! I still haven't decided if I'm gonna wait till December and buy the FURT album in Hamburg or if I'm going to buy it online. I may end up buying it together with the DÄ calendar next week.

Also, today I got up around 12:30 (man, I'm not used to going to sleep at 4:30 AM anymore) and had a wonderful brunch that filled me with joy. Freshly made orange juice, cappuccino, a banana and my favourite bread (rye flour + sunflower and sesame seeds) with butter and brown sugar on it. I used to eat bread with butter and sugar on holiday when I was younger, and that contributed greatly to today's good mood.

So, yes, a positive entry. There have been too little of those in my LJ lately.

My London weekend was bloody brilliant. I got to meet some of the people who post in the Cure Forum, saw Easy Cure live and drank pints and pints of beer. And didn't even get drunk, go me! :P

During the Easy Cure gig there were 2 girls in the front row that were sort of putting up an adult show for the band, kissing and touching and rubbing against each other. The guys seemed to appreciate it very much. ^_^ One of them called the guitarist over while he was playing and snogged him in front of everyone! O_O After the show Demi and I chatted with the band and he said he wasn't expecting that and that he thought she was just going to request a song. Yeah, right. Everyone teased him to no end about that. :P The bassist, on the other hand, wasn't very happy, he said there was a bloke in front of him who kept reaching out and touching his hand during the show. And while we were talking a guy walked over and said he was sooo sexy and caressed his arm. You should've seen his face... Poor thing, he's so straight. XD

On the shopping front, I bought a very cool Nightmare Before Christmas bag, a black corduroy skirt and a pair of over-the-knee socks with skulls and crossbones on them. Demi, on the other hand, bought the whole Camden Market. :P

And now I'm back. *sigh* I wish I could've stayed longer, 3 days can't possibly be enough.

*sigh* I should've known. None of my friends wants to come to London with me for Curedrink UK 2005. And going alone wouldn't be the same.

Well, I sorta know the singer from Easy Cure, one of the 2 bands that will be performing, I haven't heard from him for a long time, but I could send him an email and ask him whether he knows if there's someone else leaving from Milan (there MUST be someone), but... I don't know, I don't want to bother him (or sound desperate and pathetic.) I'd really like to go, though.

Any suggestion?

Current mood: pessimistic