The second day I was in NYC, I managed to go to Live Earth. While there were many bands that I would not normally see (the set list is here) it was still a cool event. The whole day was pretty mad, but cool. It started off with a very American breakfast of pancakes in a lovely diner in Brooklyn. I then went to meet Dan at Newark, NJ airport. I had to get my first bus to 'New Jersey' which is known as the 'garden state' or as I (and many others) like to call it the 'armpit of America'.
Everything went smoothly, till we got back to the port authority (bus terminal) in Manhattan. Upon where we realised that there was no storage space in the bus terminal. A friendly NYPD cop informed us that there was no storage in Manhattan since 9/11. D'oh, really should have guess that. So faced with either at least an hour and a half round trip to Brooklyn to drop the bag off or risk it and take it to the Giants stadium we decided to get on the bus to joysey.
We arrived across the Hudson unscathed, all we had to do was get into the stadium. The first security guard was bewildered by Dan's massive bag. Especially as it had presents from the UK, i.e. beer. The second gave us a typical New York reaction "you can't take any of that shit in here" then proceeded to go out of her way to see if she could get us in. New Yorkers can be seen as rude but they can be bloody nice. After talking to the head of security he said we could as long as we store it under the stadium. This is where the fun started. We got to ride in a golf buggy all the way to the security office. It was like we were celebrities, people were giving us funny looks (I'm used to that now). On the way we picked up a mad German woman who had to put her video camera there too. She was batty, she kept on saying how the London concert was much better.
The rest of the day was pretty surreal too. Seeing famous people such as Cameron Diaz (who has insanely long legs) and Al Gore on stage. Drinking beer out of a 'plastic cup' made from corn. Rocking out to 'Bon Jovi'..... it was good fun actually. Seeing Kanye West run up and down the stage about a million times in 20 mins. Akon wading through the crowd with huge security guards and a massive jewel encrusted cross that could feed Africa... it's good job it wasn't live 8 or they would have had it off him. Hearing an old British lady do chimpanzee impressions. Anyways enough name dropping.
Everything went smoothly, till we got back to the port authority (bus terminal) in Manhattan. Upon where we realised that there was no storage space in the bus terminal. A friendly NYPD cop informed us that there was no storage in Manhattan since 9/11. D'oh, really should have guess that. So faced with either at least an hour and a half round trip to Brooklyn to drop the bag off or risk it and take it to the Giants stadium we decided to get on the bus to joysey.
We arrived across the Hudson unscathed, all we had to do was get into the stadium. The first security guard was bewildered by Dan's massive bag. Especially as it had presents from the UK, i.e. beer. The second gave us a typical New York reaction "you can't take any of that shit in here" then proceeded to go out of her way to see if she could get us in. New Yorkers can be seen as rude but they can be bloody nice. After talking to the head of security he said we could as long as we store it under the stadium. This is where the fun started. We got to ride in a golf buggy all the way to the security office. It was like we were celebrities, people were giving us funny looks (I'm used to that now). On the way we picked up a mad German woman who had to put her video camera there too. She was batty, she kept on saying how the London concert was much better.
The rest of the day was pretty surreal too. Seeing famous people such as Cameron Diaz (who has insanely long legs) and Al Gore on stage. Drinking beer out of a 'plastic cup' made from corn. Rocking out to 'Bon Jovi'..... it was good fun actually. Seeing Kanye West run up and down the stage about a million times in 20 mins. Akon wading through the crowd with huge security guards and a massive jewel encrusted cross that could feed Africa... it's good job it wasn't live 8 or they would have had it off him. Hearing an old British lady do chimpanzee impressions. Anyways enough name dropping.
A day time photo
My favourite one of the Smashing Pumpkins. Who were bloody good. All in all everyone put on a good show, even if the music wasn't what I would normally like. It was for a pretty good cause....even if they wasted a lot of energy doing the whole thing....
1 comment:
Looks good. I bet you were rocking out to Ludacris's popular ditty 'Pimpin' all over the world'. Was it done in the style of Status Quo? I'd like to think it was. Please don't burst my bubble.
I must admit, I'd have got pissed until Smashing Pumpkins were on, then gone home.
Fair play to you for resisting the urge to pistol whip Akon as well. He should get back to what he's good at; antiques and molesting underage girls on stage.
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