Sometimes just three days to pull the plug. Enough if they are intense, full of new experiences, beautiful people and an incredible concert.
Paris, France. The main purpose of the trip the performance of Radiohead Monday, June 9 at the Bercy arena. Let's start from this.
Manuel and I said we go to the stadiums to 19. You enter. Short stop to buy t-shirt made of 50% cotton and 50% recycled plastic bottles. Great. In short, it advances towards the stage, passing to the side. We are around the tenth row, missing time and you sit down. 20 hours beginning on the opening act Bat for Lashes, three women and a British man who remembers the sound of Bjork and we continue the advance towards the stage, reaching the second row.
The excellent test of the quartet does not lessen the wait for Radiohead. 21.30 hours the audience calling out the band of Oxford. Suddenly. The lights are dimmed and the sound starts to get off the stage. Here they are, Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway. We are almost at the foot of Jonny and also very close to Thom. It begins with All I need and go with There There, Lucky, and 15 steps. The lights are amazing neon lights of the big reduction in the peak stage, used in the most congenial.
I can not help cheering every song that comes to us proposed, are in complete ecstasy and I feel my emotions rising and falling, joy, tears, goose bumps, sweating. The peaks creed were "Weird Fishes" and the first song of the first bis "Exit Music (For A Film)" from OK Computer. Here in the entire hall fell silent for a moment, I've never seen anything like it: 15.000/20.000 people in religious silence to listen to one of the most emotional pieces of the history of Radiohead.
The finish is entrusted to the Amnesiac and "Idioteque" ballad many times late into the night back to times of 'Women Motors' Milk +.
This is the complete tracklist:
All I Need There There Lucky
Bangers and Mash 15 Step
Nude
Pyramid Song Weird Fishes / Arpeggi The Gloaming
My Iron Lung
Faust Arp Videotape Morning Bell
Where I End and You Begin
Reckoner Everything In Its Right Place
Bodysnatchers 1st Encore
Exit Music For A Film
Jigsaw Falling Into Place House of Cards
Paranoid Android Street Spirit (Fade Out)
2nd Encore Like Spinning Plates
You And Whose Army?
Idioteque
Since Couchsurfing know I am traveling more often with this method and so this time too. Manuel I and we were hosted by Gabriela & Angel, a Brazilian couple living in Paris for a year, near Montmartre. Their welcome was special and in their small appartementino open-space and Manuel I, we felt at home. It 'true we are out and they were often busy with work (he journalist and video maker, she sociologist), but it is not no time to cook them a nice pasta with fresh tomatoes and mushrooms and a nice chat about the world and music. Fig, fig, fig tree!
And finally .. well Paris. Just a touch and go, but it was nice to see people already known as the Latin Quarter and Montmartre and new places like the Quai de la Loire, a channel at the edge of what university students in Paris to dine mo 'picnic. And we are united with a beer, embracing the beautiful sunset that was playing hide and seek with the buildings.
Chapter Petition in Defense ZTL
In just over two weeks, the petition has reached over 800 fee. Proceed. The Committee met with the town council that has been expressed, of course, to defend the decision to reopen the LTZ from 16 to 8. Go ahead.
The collection of signatures continues with two banquet Piazza Arturo Michelangeli, in Corso Magenta near LIBRACCIO tomorrow, Saturday 14 and Saturday 21 from 15 to 19. Otherwise you can sign at the street Arteinte Cattaneo 22 / a or at the Association Vivicentro being Tosio 1 / E. Also on Friday 20 at 17.45 there will be the second Critical Mass, or a bike ride in support of ZTL. It
people, no cars.
Song of the day: Exit Music (For A Film) - Radiohead .
I could not do otherwise. Thom would have messed up ....
