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  1. I had a couple of hours spare on my hands this week, so worked out a list of all the Blink shows I've been at. Then trawled through setlist.fm and worked out a list of all the songs I had/hadn't seen live. Some glaring omissions in there but seen a lot of awesome ones also!

    Interested to see anyone else's list if anyone is as sad as me lol

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  2. 2 minutes ago, Champ182 said:

    Amazing haha. Was this the night you ended up in that lost documentary??

    No, that was the Brixton Academy show on 14 December 2004
    I made a massive fcuk-up then. On the day of the show they announced that the first 50 (I think) people to go to the Atticus tent inside the venue, would get a "Meet & Greet" with Mark
    So my same friend Nick and I went to queue up at the venue really early, and we were in the first 50. So we all got taken backstage down a corridor towards the room where Mark was (this is where the clip from the lost documentary was filmed)
    And as we were walking down the corridor, a security guy said you can take photos but absolutely no flash photography. I had one of those disposable Kodak cameras where you needed to "charge up" the flash. When we got into the room with Mark, I took a photo of him but somehow the flash went off 🙈 and the asshole security guard threw me out before I got to meet him. I was raging!!

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  3. 3 minutes ago, Cheerios4u98 said:

    that's so cool. It says "congratulations on being selected." what did you have to do to get into the show?

    This will probably sound made-up but fcuk it 😂

    Found out a few days beforehand about the show - no tickets were available for sale to general public, but went on Google and found out the name of the production company running the event. Got the address of their office (was somewhere in London) and skipped school  (I was only 15) one afternoon with my friend Nick to go up to their office and ask if they can put us on the list

    We thought because it was an MTV Event dedicated to The Cure, that we should pretend to be really big Cure fans. So we spent the entire train journey memorising as many Cure songs/albums as we could in case the production company asked us what our favourite songs/albums were 😂

    I only vaguely remember being in their office but we lied through our teeth about being huge Cure fans, I remember they took a photo of me and my friend, then wrote our names down on a list and gave us the above flyer. Honestly never ever expected it to work in a million years, when we got out the office and safely round the corner we were bouncing around screaming like idiots

    If anyone remembers @Roxy from back in the day, she was there that night too, outside the venue to meet Blink. Not sure if she got into the show though

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  4. 3 hours ago, Cheerios4u98 said:

    I've watched/listened to this countless times. So cool that you were there to see it in person! My favorite cover blink has ever done by far.

    Just going through my shoebox of old Blink stuff, found this old piece of paper which I think functioned as the ticket (we had our names on a list)
     

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    And the flipside had this text on it:

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  5. On 8/5/2022 at 11:16 PM, not the worst here said:

    Peak moment

    I was in the crowd for that, Old Billingsgate Market in London on September 17th 2004. They played All Of This with Robert Smith too.
    Was taking a piss in the urinals then some guy comes in and goes to the urinal next to me, I look up and it's Mark 😂
    Also got my guitar signed by them that night
    One of best nights of my life. Got in so much trouble at home for sneaking out but so worth it

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  6. Enema and TOYPAJ definitely feel distinctly different for me. Straightaway in Anthem Part II you've got Tom singing about societal collapse and corruption in politics, there was nothing like that on Enema. You've obviously got lighter tracks later on in the album but in general it feels a lot more serious thematically than Enema.

    Both absolutely outstanding albums imo, along with Dude Ranch and Cheshire Cat. On any given day I could make an argument for any of those four being my favourite album, I love them all deeply from start to finish.

    Self-titled album I also love but in a different way, I would never consider it as a candidate for my favourite Blink album. It has some great songs on it (including probably one of my top 5 Blink songs Here's Your Letter) but on the whole am less keen on the "darker" vibe of the record. Although oddly I rate Boxcar's album as high if not higher than any Blink album, and that was kind of the halfway house for Tom between TOYPAJ and self-titled in terms of all the difficulties he was going through around the time.

    Everything since the self-titled I basically don't consider to be on the same stratosphere as "original Blink". Few songs here and there (Wishing Well, Natives, Pretty Little Girl, Sober etc) that I like, and I do listen to all quite regularly, but don't hold it in anywhere near the same esteem as <=2003 stuff.

  7. 5 hours ago, GuitarPunk2512 said:

    I attended the same reunion tour show on 8/25/09 at Jones beach. That concert was awesome seeing TBS, Weezer, and blink for my first time 

    Was so good, great lineup for their reunion tour. I went with a guy from here in fact called Fabian, not sure if he's around any more

    On 7/28/2020 at 8:33 PM, yocoxy said:

    Remember seeing you at an AVA gig at the electric ballroom and recognising you from here. Thought it would have been weird to approach you though😅 must have been 2005 or 2006
     

    Haha I remember that, I think it was their first ever UK show

    On 7/28/2020 at 7:02 PM, twentytwenty said:

    Awesome! Here’s my list 

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    On 7/28/2020 at 6:13 PM, Tom Bot said:

    Trying to be king but the ace is back, whattup Rory! 

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  8. Watched a 6-parter on Netflix called The Forst (La Foret), for anyone who knows what Broadchurch is it's kinda like a French version of that. Young girl goes missing in small French village, local police department investigate everyone in the town and uncover various filthy secrets. It was really good

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  9. 7 hours ago, Mitch. said:

    Was severally ill when I was 16.  Had a brain infection.  Spent a month in a coma while the docs figured out what was wrong.  Spent 8 months in hospital all up.
    When I was brought out of the coma (it was induced), my dad put my iPod on and played I Miss You, to which I started singing along to it, so the docs knew I didn't have brain damage.
    Doctors had told my parents to say goodbye to me about because they didn't know what was wrong at first.  That's why Not Now means a lot to me too.  Related it to my olds.

     

    That's how I was able to meet Mark and Tom.  I had tickets to 6 of thier shows in '04 and missed them all.  My old man got in contact with the guy who started Atticus and Macbeth with them to see if they could see me while they were still in Aus.  They weren't able to, so they sent me a DVD telling me to get better, and I was able to hang with them since...

    I remember that at the time, was crazy. Wasn't that back when Tom told you his new project had initials AA, and no-one here believed you. Then a few months later Angels & Airwaves was announced and everyone here felt awful for not believing you ?

  10. Lemmings has always had my favourite lyrics, in particular I love the line "I know it's for the best but sometimes I wonder will I ever have friends like you again?"

    I also love in Here's Your Letter "I'm talking to the ceiling, my life just lost all meaning, do you still feel the same way?"

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