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First the 3121 view.
Now the Pippy Pious James Giovanni view (in a few parts)....
THE MAIN EVENT??
PRINCE IN A BOX : LIVE @ THE VENUE FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE MILLENIUM DOME PT1
The last I heard, it was to be used as a Super Casino. The government had this idea: Make the UK economy look super healthy - encourage stupid gambling - build 'Super Casinos'..
GENIUS!??
Not really, nothing beats good quality high skill gambling. James Deman loves it. But JD hates stupid gambling: the lottery, fruit machines, casinos etc - the odds are over 13-1. You're completely at the mercy of luck, hunches, your Dads Birthday, YOUR BASTARD SHOE SIZE....
Yes boss, If you're gonna gamble, gamble on sport and do your homework. The odds and results are workable: Get Satellitte TV, watch days and weeks of it. Learn and revise all the stats and figures, the players, the conditions, the pitch, the corruptions, and most of all the strategy. YOU need to know everything and then be sensible, strong and not chase the action...
Even then, the best you can hope is to break even over a lifetime of wasted hours. But it's fun, it livens up dull sporting events and keeps the brain in some kind of mathematical shape...
I digress (No shit, Giovanni? Digressing???)
No, actually I'm not, because gambling came heavily into almost every aspect of 28th August...
Yes boss, one thing I've learned about going to gigs, is that if you want it, just fucking turn up and luck it - ticket or no ticket.
On this occasion I had a ticket. Mrs G didn't, but at the last minute she wanted...
She Came
Where?
There!!
OOUU!!
on Level 4 alone (A free ticket form a security guard - which goes to show that sometimes it pays to be 5ft high and have a big smile)
Anyway, the last time - the only time - I ever went to TVFKATMD was 4 years ago, before the GENIUS idea of 'Super Casinos' had even flickered
Then TVFKATMD was a rough shell. There were hastily made stages. It looked every bit the billion pound tent. The event was Public Enemy playing the Repsect Festival. It was FREE. It was a no loose situation..
4 years later, TVFKATMD missed the 'Super Casino' contract and has quickly mutated into Londons new large musical venue. Inside, it now looks something like this..
Inside. A good look around and I utterred a WOW!!!
This is what pop success is all about. This is FUCKING IT!!!
WOW!!! FUCKING WOW!!!!
So, the gig...
We're waiting and Horton Jupiter says the key to the start is to ignore the video screens. 'Prince enters the arena in a box whilst the videos are playing...'
I hadn't even noticed the video screens. I don't buy tickets to LIVE events to watch them on the bleedin tele. Fuck that shit! - Wait till it comes out on DVD then download a bootleg, play some big crowd noise and project it on the friggin wall...
But wait a minute?? A BOX???
THE POP LEGEND ENTERS THE ARENA IN A BOX???
BRILLIANT!!
Yes boss, if I had any remaining doubts about what lay ahead, they were extinguished when that vid came on.
We're on our seats. Standing on the fucking seats, watching a troupe of grown men push a MASSIVE GREAT BOX CONTAINING A DIMINUITIVE POP ROYALTY ONSTAGE TO PLAY HIS GREATEST HITS...
THIS IS POP MUSIC!!
BEWARE FALSE PROPHETS - THERE'S FUCKING LOADS OF THEM....
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