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Quote from Backdrifter

I considered invoking Kramer, Marge Simpson or the Bride of Frankenstein but opted for Henry.

You will indeed regret not adding Boston 2. You'd sit there thinking about it happening and feeling excluded. For my part, as ludicrously expensive as this 4-gig extravaganza is, I have no qualms about it as there's no question in my mind that this is finally it and that makes it huge for me. I'm fortunate enough to be able to do this so I'm doing it.

You're dead right (on all counts). I went for it.

So excited!

Now they just need to play a cover of the 'lady in the radiator' song 😃

Quote from Backdrifter

You'll be up near the back of a rear block audience right, raised, the equivalent of about 2 blocks back from the stage. It won't be too bad but like all venues you'll be at the mercy of anyone in front of you who's very tall, has a huge head, high hair like the Eraserhead guy and a coldstream guard's hat. But if he's not there - not sure he's much of a fan - it should be ok.

Massive kudos for getting an Eraserhead reference into the 'What Genesis shows will you attend' thread!

I'm still on the fence about doing a second night in Boston but thinking if I don't, I will regret it.

Quote from Backdrifter

Sarah Harding of Girls Aloud died this morning, aged just 39. She'd had breast cancer, which is much more treatable now but a year ago revealed it had spread to other parts of her body.

I'm assuming there probably aren't any Girls Aloud fans here. As far as manufactured pop acts go I really liked them, they had some good catchy songs and put on a good live show. It's very sad news she's died so young.

I read about that, and it's absolutely awful. They had some good songs, and she seemed like a genuine character. Very very sad.

Quote from MoonlitKnight

Dark and grey . . .

... an English film?

Cloudy and muggy here. It's gross.

I like seeing discussions about non-Genesis related topics, as much as I like discussions about Genesis. I don't really see the site as a forum just for Genesis, more a forum for Genesis fans who can discuss Genesis and anything else they want. That's why there are dozens of different sub forums, no? Including ones like this one specifically for non-music topics?

Anyway, having bumped the thread back up, maybe now it will sink into oblivion.

Oh, a colleague bought me a scone for breakfast this morning. It was some sort of raisin with oats affair, and was absolutely delicious. Now I'm having a bitter coffee from a seven eleven, and thinking I really need to get something more substantial for lunch!

Quote from FirthOfFifth

Interesting that in the last few seconds of the video it’s just the three of them close together on stage. Wonder what they’re playing ?

If they play in that configuration my guess would be the vocal section of Fading Lights, or maybe an acoustic version. Or FYFM.

Quote from Noni

Quite like this track.

Me too. It has a very distinctive tone. I'm certain I heard it first on the stupendously good German Netflix sci fi show Dark.

Ukraine 1-2 France

Israel 1-1 Austria

Scotland 2-0 Moldova

Slovakia 1-1 Croatia

Switzerland 0-2 Italy

Belarus 0-0 Wales

Belgium 3-1 Czech Rep

England 4-0 Andorra

😂

Looks like it starts with Abacab.

Quote from therealvw

Hello one and all.

I've got 2 tickets , which are now for the 25th September, Manchester.

When I originally booked them, for the December 2020, then April 2021, we had also booked flights and accommodation. (We live in Auckland, New Zealand. ) So had planned a couple weeks or so back in the UK.

When we booked the tickets ( when ever they were officially released) we had only just started hearing about this virus in China and did not expect it to spread and to be so virulent. As the year went by and the virus took hold, and the concerts were rescheduled we still held out hope that covid would burn out..

With foreign travel being on hold for a long time, the flights thankfully were refunded. And I have been watching to see if this third reschedule would also be pushed out to a better and safer time. It looks though like I am out of luck.

... So, although I not 'Selling England By The Pound' I would like to sell my tickets...

I am struggling with Ticket Master UK ; They require a UK bank account (or one on the list of approved countries, which New Zealand is not one) for the funds to be transferred into if you sell the tickets through them. I've contacted them with regard getting a refund, one of their policies mentions if the concert does not go ahead on the original date planned they will refund.(I am guessing they will try to get out of this due to the rescheduling)

Also, to add to the misery of trying to book flights and get back to the UK New Zealand is back in lock-down, having recently had Delta get into the community. After about 4 months of no infections in the community we all thought we were doing very well.!!

Chances of us traveling back to the UK and getting all the covid test/vaccination paper work together, AND sort out the managed isolation stays at both ends of the travel, are very slim if non existent as I believe booking Managed Isolation is on hold.

So.. Question to the masses....

Does anyone on here want the tickets, 2 seats.. and is happy to transfer the funds to a New Zealand bank account?? I can use the Ticket Master 'transfer to another ticket master member' for the tickets if this eases any worries. Payments cleared etc..

New to the site, but I assume there is a DM, or PM ability if you would like a private message??

If you have got this far in the read, Well done.. and please respond if you like.

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Oh man, what a pity, your whole story. I'm not in a position myself to go to that gig, much as I'd love to.

The NZ approach has been the envy of many since the start, and I think history will judge Jacinda Ardern very favorably. Hopefully your country's vaccination program can catch up quickly and reduce the need for further lockdowns. One of my favorite stories of the whole pandemic was the anti-lockdown protest in NZ that garnered a huge crowd of one. One single idiot.

I wouldn't mind a quiet life, I must admit.

Hope everyone in the path stays out of Hurricane Ida's harm's way.

Puts my stupid griping about brief periods of sweltering heat or freezing cold in perspective.

Tragic earworm that has really stuck.

"If I don't make it home..."

Quote from Noni

Before I put my sixth sense in, just want to hear others opinions.

As do I.

I think the fact that, after his four years in office, Trump garnered the second most votes of any candidate ever (second only to Biden) will be the topic of many political and sociological dissertations for many years.

🔥

Hot take: Biden did what Trump said he would do. So another way of thinking about your question is, would you vote for the person who said they would do something, or the person who actually does it?

My admittedly uninformed view of the particular issue at hand, is that it has been managed atrociously. At a minimum, collaborate with your allies. Of course, they should never have been there in the first place, which is on Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld et al.

I've said here before, I understood the vote for Trump over Clinton at the time. Clinton was coming off an inglorious spell in the state department overseeing such historic crusades as the completely needless destruction of Libya and Syria, and was almost unelectable. Anyone else - like Sanders who had a ferocious grassroots movement - and even with Russia meddling, I doubt Trump would have got in. But he did. After four years of his ineffective and harmful bollocksry however, Trump or Biden? No contest. Trump's a sham.

The board right now!

WOAH.

Didn't see CR returning to Utd!

Quote from Christian

A nice video from Phil‘s performance at Fukuoka Done Japan, 7th May 1995

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Looks a very cool gig. I like the intro, and a brave choice to start with one of his most demanding vocals with I Don't Care Anymore. It's a great version.

Also, it's a nice touch that Phil always tried to say a few words in the local lingo, but it's very funny that they had to subtitle his Japanese!

That one sounds like Brian May dialled in a performance for an obscure Russian songwriting collective of mostly authors who dabble in music.

Quote from FeelItComing

Not only that. He has spent his entire adult life recreating the photo in various ways, and apparently has a tattoo of the album title.