I went to the concert, I fought through the crowd.

Its been a pretty cool few days. On wednesday I went to mikes with quirke dean tom and saul, and we spent the evening played Unreal Tournament over mikes LAN, which was awesome, especially as we mostly spent the evening trying to blow each other up with the Redeemer, which is always fun. Thursday was daniellas party, which was cool, with everyone getting very drunk, and myself and nick managing to control the music for most of the evening. Unfortunately I ended up leaving with some alcohol which I thought was leftovers from the 3 bags full which I had bought for various people, but it turned out that it was dannis. Hopefully I can return that at mikes tomorrow, if she comes. If not, it could ge complex. Friday I spent being hungover a lot, though jennis advice of drinking orange juice did help, meaning that I was able to join her in seeing the strokes that evening. We arrived at the hammersmith, got foods, and joined an amazingly short queue. We got in, parked ourselves behind a barrier a little way back from the stage, due to us both feeling a little fragile, me due to my still slightly present hangover, and her due to lack of sleep and such. Jenni got me to buy her a beer, and we waited for the first support to come on. I never managed to catch the name of the support, despite the leader saying it at least 4 times. The second support came from Adam Green, though jenni only realised this when we were told. Apparently he did a really good cover of "What A Waster". And he was very, very drunk which was amusing. During the breakk me and jenni signed up for The Strokes mailing list, and because of this we a got a free Adam Green CD and some funky stickers. Then it was time for The Strokes, who were amazing, despite having had very mixed reviews. I knew every song except the opener, which I can only assume is one of the songs from later on in their new album, as I haven't listened to that part of the album much. Apart from this, they played a really great set, with a variation of their new stuff like "Juicebox", "Heart in a Cage" and "Evening Sun" as well as the old classics such as "new York City Cops", "The End Has No End", and of course the classics "Last Nite" and "Reptilia". The only thing missing was "Is This It" which I would have thought would be a good opener, due to being the first song off their first album. Overrall, a great gig, though a few songs in jenni felt a bit faint so we had to move back so she should get some air. I went to get her some water, and laughed at the stupidly drunk guy who stacked it while leaning on the bar. A couple of minutes later we went back forward a bit, and I think we ended up pretty much level with where we were before. I managed to get a few decent photos, but my battery died just before "Reptilia" came on, which sucked as that and "New York City Cops" where the two songs that I wanted to video. Oh well. I got a recording of most of "Last Nite" and Juicebox" which I had yet to listen to. And now I'm going to play Guild Wars. I'm not addicted. Honest.