Thursday and Friday were the last days of our wedding anniversary, and like I mentioned before, I got Robyn tickets to see Barenaked Ladies at the Arena at Gwinnett Center, and it was money well spent.
First of all, they only used half the arena, so even though we were sitting in the corner, we were still pretty close, secondly, Barenaked Ladies just rock! But I might have said that before…
Opening for them was Mike Doughty’s Band who were actually quite entertaining, be it telling strange stories, promising to sign anything and everything after the show and segueing Guns N’ Roses’ Paradise City into Kenny Roger’s The Gambler. But once BNL took the stage, it was non stop fun and sing-a-long’s, well almost, as we hadn’t bought the new CD till last Saturday, but we sang-a-long with the ones we knew anyways… Of course, no two Barenaked Ladies shows are the same, and they played up to the Atlanta crowd during the first adlib section, saying stuff like “We’re Barenaked Ladies and we’re no joke, we’re Barenaked Ladies in the land of Coke”, I guess you had to be there to appreciate it… Which reminds me, I’ll need to buy this concert on CD once it becomes available like I did with the Glasgow show 2 years ago.
Things were brought to a close last night when the final part of Robyn’s gift to me took place, the Thrashers vs. the New York Rangers, this would be my first live hockey game and damn, I’m hooked… Unlike Baseball or Basketball when there are plenty of lulls in plays when you can get up, stretch the legs and maybe get something to eat, not in hockey. We were literally sat in the one position (edge of the seat if you must ask) the entire night (even during the intermissions) as we were afraid to even blink incase we missed anything. I mean the Rangers scored after 15 seconds, and the pace didn’t let up from that point on. Plus there is so much going on, like trying to follow the puck, luckily our seats were great for this as we didn’t need to move our heads at all, there were explosions, fights, goals (7 in all), zamboni’s and an awesome crowd who were baying for blood at every chance… It’s like the modern day Roman Colosseum… Just a shame the Thrashers lost…
To make it even better, Robyn enjoyed it too, way better than the Hawks game, so it looks like we’ll be going to more hockey games in future.
First of all, they only used half the arena, so even though we were sitting in the corner, we were still pretty close, secondly, Barenaked Ladies just rock! But I might have said that before…
Opening for them was Mike Doughty’s Band who were actually quite entertaining, be it telling strange stories, promising to sign anything and everything after the show and segueing Guns N’ Roses’ Paradise City into Kenny Roger’s The Gambler. But once BNL took the stage, it was non stop fun and sing-a-long’s, well almost, as we hadn’t bought the new CD till last Saturday, but we sang-a-long with the ones we knew anyways… Of course, no two Barenaked Ladies shows are the same, and they played up to the Atlanta crowd during the first adlib section, saying stuff like “We’re Barenaked Ladies and we’re no joke, we’re Barenaked Ladies in the land of Coke”, I guess you had to be there to appreciate it… Which reminds me, I’ll need to buy this concert on CD once it becomes available like I did with the Glasgow show 2 years ago.
To make it even better, Robyn enjoyed it too, way better than the Hawks game, so it looks like we’ll be going to more hockey games in future.