2009-05-31 Guano Apes
by Vasil KolevWorking Saturdays are weird. I don’t see a lot of sense in them, the same stuff I do in the Saturdays anyway, without being told to work them, I just have an excuse to bring my bass guitar to the office :) One of the colleagues brought his guitar and we spent half the day doing strange stuff (while some stuff was going on in the background, which happens anyway Saturday).
I then went home to leave the gear (it seems pretty rude to go to a concert with your own musical instrument) and then to Universiada for the Guano Apes concert. I met some people, we managed to get in (pretty swiftly), the hall filled up and the warm-up band started.
“Fyeld” were warming up – weren’t bad, but the sound wasn’t good and weren’t so much interesting. The crowd jumped for a while, we warmed up and then a half hour pause followed until Guano Apes.
(note, this was a pretty accurate – at 20:00 Fyeld stared, at 21:00 – Guano Apes, there were no weird delays, etc.)
And Guano Apes came. They played with joy, did a lot of their good things, one of the guitarists in the end jumped in the audience, it was fun (and, they of course ended with Lords of the boards). The problems were elsewhere – the hall was too small (almost all of the standing room was full, no space for moshing), full to the max, and the sound just wasn’t right (at least Sandra’s voice should’ve been louder). The organizers blew that part.
It was worthy seeing/hearing them live, although I didn’t feel in the right demographic group for this concert :)
And I want to apologise – I said hi with some people and still can’t remember who they were. I even shook hands with a girl while going in the hall, then iffi did that (but not Stefan), and we sill have no idea who she is. It happens a lot and a lot more to see someone, to talk a bit and for me not to have any idea who those are…
(and I think I met someone like me at that concert :) )