Last night Matt & I together with my good friend John (who flew over from Jersey especially) went to see Dream Theater at Wembley Area. As you can tell by the spelling they are American and if you had to guess what their music sounded like, then based on the picture then you would probably say LOUD! And you would be wrong as it is VERY LOUD and actually well written and melodic and their musicianship is amazingNow as a teenager I was fully exposed to all the excesses of 70's prog rock and am still a complete sucker for intricate time signatures, keyboard/guitar duels and lyrics that make no sense. With DT you get all of that and more as it's VERY LOUD. They played for 2 hours and included all the songs that we wanted to hear, the visuals were great, the sound excellent and best of all it was the first gig I've ever attended with one of my boys.
Now before you get the "dragging his kids to see bands they don't want to see" face on, Matt is probably a bigger fan than me (although I have seen them before) and enjoyed it just as much as I did. He knew all the words and drummed and clapped along like a good 'un.
We stayed at Wembley TravelSauna. Why do hotels have to have the heat up to tropical and why was it next to the North Circular so that sleeping with window open would mean that you could be cool but not sleep through traffic noise or quiet (window closed) but not sleep through the heat.
Lunch today was at the Hard Rock Cafe, and then the obligatory trip the Apple store in Regent street.
Oh and we won the Rugby semi final as well.
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You can sleep through the biggest storm England had seen in 300 years and yet you couldn't be as lucky at this gig.
Hard luck M8
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