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jill
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:16 am    Post subject: London Forum roundup Reply with quote

Forum, March 20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr0y3WdWljE Pregnant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wCI9aNGLKo This Town
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3pE31C9i_M Morrissey

Forum, March 21
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc82oYbLCC8 Beat The Clock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6F-nCDmkdg Ron burns the albums
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwYm8DAMCxE This Town
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zMy_RS_g5s This Town

Photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlepants/sets/72157615633843125/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickhi/
http://simonhickson.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/sparks/
http://williamesharp.smugmug.com/gallery/7683943_sy5UW#496356853_w96PL
http://tinyurl.com/dgsx2b
http://www.rexfeatures.com/set/877743
http://julieedwardsphotographer.blogspot.com/2009/03/sparks.html

Various reviews
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/still-crazy-after-all-these-years
http://www.mstrust.org.uk/interactive/babymsme/2009/bright-sparks/
http://gemsybobsy.livejournal.com/284562.html
http://hamlife.blogspot.com/2009/03/exotic-creatures-of-my-house.html
http://thequeensplayground.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/sparks-fly-this-weekend/
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aw thanks for this, Jill. I'll spend a few happy hours tonight going through everything.

What a weekend eh?


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:23 pm    Post subject: Re: London Forum roundup Reply with quote

jill wrote:
http://thequeensplayground.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/sparks-fly-this-weekend/


I didn't like that review much, with comments like this :

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Anyway, found myself involuntarily going to see The Sparks play at The Forum last night. What? You never heard of them? Same here, my friend. I should have smelled something rotten right from the beginning though...

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Anyway, the crowd - comprising middle-aged women with too posh an accent and mostly gay men - loved it. I loved it too, I earned myself some good tips (but felt slightly greased up in the process, don’t ask me why.)

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Would you pay to see the Sparks? No. Would I? No. But maybe your parents will. Just in case, the band will be performing again tonight at the Forum. Doors open at 7 PM. Bring your own KY.


Obviously a younger person. What were they doing to earn tips in the Forum? Bar staff? Cloakroom attendant? I can't think of any service there, for which you might leave a tip. Maybe tip meant advice?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you very much Jill for posting all these!!
They are overwhelming!

It's nice and hilarious that so many shots are from the crap dance sequence. Ron Playing
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My pleasure - I was trying to enjoy the gigs vicariously :))
Sjadey: This one was interesting to me, since I thought that all the ones who go to a Sparks gig know at least a little about the band
The guy is young, yes (see About/Who's Who), but being young doesn't mean to be deaf or, well, snobbish.

More:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/sparks-forum-london-1652517.html
http://hamlife.blogspot.com/2009/03/exotic-creatures-in-heaven.html
http://swishyhair.blogspot.com/2009/03/just-had-weekend-in-london.html
http://fansonline.net/middlesbrough/mb/view.php?id=1041900 (user Piggy - nice little story)
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Haha, you have my review there, nice one. Great videos too, thanks! :D
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The lot of those photos are brilliant. :)

Top notch performances, as always. They really never do disappoint me, however.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rissacakes wrote:
The lot of those photos are brilliant. :)

Top notch performances, as always. They really never do disappoint me, however.

They really are awesome! It always amazes me how people get such good shots. :D
(Hi Rissa btw, I'm friends with you on Last.fm! :D)
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hehe, welcome, Gemsy - and Rage Kitty! I enjoy reading your posts on the other forum :)

Some more:
http://garethwyn.blogspot.com/2009/03/sparks.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23987457@N05/sets/72157615752498629/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13205452@N08/sets/72157615717139405/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13205452@N08/sets/72157615805806806/
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

On Gemsy's review I'm the one who commented with a 'RON' spam
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gemsy wrote:
Rissacakes wrote:
The lot of those photos are brilliant. :)

Top notch performances, as always. They really never do disappoint me, however.

They really are awesome! It always amazes me how people get such good shots. :D
(Hi Rissa btw, I'm friends with you on Last.fm! :D)


Yes, yes! Russell is the master of tiny thighs and tight pants (I couldn't help but notice) and Ron really has the most gorgeous facial structure I've seen in quite some time. Always a pleasure - they're really a couple of nice looking guys.

(And yes! That's quite true. I guess we're just awesome like that to meet up in likely places, hehe.)
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 8:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah my review is quite fangirly, I do apologise. Hahaha. RON RON RON!

Haha, speaking of trousers - on the Kimono night someobody shouted their appreciation of Russell's bum. He was all, "You like my ass? Well, thank you. I work at it."
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gemsy wrote:
Yeah my review is quite fangirly, I do apologise. Hahaha. RON RON RON!

Haha, speaking of trousers - on the Kimono night someobody shouted their appreciation of Russell's bum. He was all, "You like my ass? Well, thank you. I work at it."


Well, it is quite fabulous. ;D

(Man, I'm a horrible person, hahah. Sometimes I really think women are worse than men when it comes to getting drooly over the opposite sex.)
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rage Kitty wrote:
On Gemsy's review I'm the one who commented with a 'RON' spam

Your elaborate comment makes her review truly complete

Rissacakes wrote:
Sometimes I really think women are worse than men when it comes to getting drooly over the opposite sex

And I've got angst in my glanccce / I've got angst in my glanccce

Back on-topic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M44QcWWfodI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFmPHwf735U
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jill,

Thanks for compiling all these images. I logged on for what I thought might be 15 minutes earlier and have spent 3 hours transfixed by all photos and footage.

Great job!
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 2:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You're welcome, Bobby Muir. I wish there were much more reviews... so far I couldn't find any newspaper reviews, except for the one from The Independent.

More photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/henksys/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blandois/

Offtopic: what Russell does back in LA
http://www.bravewords.com/news/109955
http://tinyurl.com/caahys
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jill wrote:

Offtopic: what Russell does back in LA
http://www.bravewords.com/news/109955
http://tinyurl.com/caahys


Apperantly, Matt Sorum's a huge Sparks fan.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 8:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

New ones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLH2WC7pM_A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-86lC9aA4RI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFIGO42NuN0

http://www.picturenation.co.uk/result?source=fp&s=sparks+mael
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 10:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jill wrote:

Offtopic: what Russell does back in LA
http://www.bravewords.com/news/109955
http://tinyurl.com/caahys


:) For some reason I am not surprised.

He dresses so eloquently, it's only natural that he should be passionate about it. ;D

(And what a lovely photo. I swear, I show more signs of aging than he does, and I'm only but twenty years!)
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Jill for the awesome links! For some reason this pix makes me smile:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23987457@N05/3381250609/in/set-72157615752498629/
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