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Coming back home has never been more depressing than last night. I've been away for just 3 days and its been enough for making me feel I dont belong here. It's London where i wanna be, where i should be. I loved the city, the people and the attitude.
We're light years away.
Punk and metal is huge there. Bands fill up venues two nights in a row with 6000 people. People that listen to the best music and that found out years ago that there's more punk than skate punk.
Set up a show in Madrid for Lagwagon and you'll have around 2000 people freaking out, bring Bullet For My Valentine and you'll have the city asking "Bullet what?". And that with heaps of awesome bands. As Oscar said, we're 10 years behind.
Im not saying I dont like punk-rock anymore, i still love Lagwagon and thousands of other old bands, i'm just saying there's a lot more out there, new bands that are doing an awesome job, and lots of people dont seem to realize that. Maybe Ritmo y Compás gets filled for Funeral For A Friend or Coheed and Cambria, maybe even Caracol, but compare that with Brixton Academy, Astoria or Mean Fiddler and it'll look like a damn joke. No wonder bands dont tour Spain, it's coming from playing for thousands of kids to just a few hundred, if even. And that'd be for FFAF or C&C, dont even think it'd be the same for Silverstein or Over It.

Anyway it's not only about shows, its about everything. There are Virgin stores with every damn CD all around the city, people with awesome clothes and haircuts and the best fucking clubs. We just went to Mean Fiddler but it was the best thing Ive seen and I had the best time ever. 5 pounds to go it that were really worth it. A club with my fave music, full of people like us, everyone dancing to Bullet for my valentine, Fall out boy, Atreyu... And on saturday also a show (Nightmare of you).
Try to open a place like that in Madrid and you'll go bankrupt. The reason? There's just a few people that would go over and very fewer that would pay to go in.

The simple thought of next friday going out around tribunal just makes this feeling of sadness and frustration worse. I only remember feeling like this when i got back from Canada years ago.
I wanna go back. To London. To Toronto. I wanna feel I fit in the way i felt it this weekend.
It only takes a 2 hour flight to see the shit we're stuck in. We definitely live in the wrong country.
I see things a lot clearer now, I'll move abroad eventually. As soon as I can. I like this place, the weather, the food and the people I have here but I want more.

About Taste of Chaos I'll say it was unbelievable. Probably the best gig I've been at. 6000 people going mad and bands giving all they have. It had nothing to do with what you can see here.
It cant get any better than Story Of The Year's show. The Used did great too, all the songs they played were good ones (I personally think they screwed up with the last album except a few songs that are amazing), despite i hadn't listened to Killswitch Engage much i really enjoyed their show too, Bleed the dream were a great surprise and FFAF were simply amazing. I missed Reggie and the full effect cause i was at the merch stand and My American Heart turned out not to be playing. The only disappointment of the night was Rise Against, one of the bands i was most looking forward to see. They played good but the setlist couldn't have been worse. Where was "Black masks & gasoline"? "Anywhere but here" was good, same as "blood-red, white and blue" but they could've save the rest cause they're, in my opinion, good songs for a longer set but definitely not what i expected for 6 songs.
Anyway, they're still one of my fave bands all time, and as I said the rest of the bands were smashing, including every setlist.

Seriously, I wanna go back. To London or in time. What a fun a trip. It's been a blast. Everything ruled, the city, the shows and the people I went with.

Best phrase award goes to: "Jo tio, ya son las dos.. ah no! que es que lo tengo en pesetas" (Oscar)
Also, seeing Maldo, Oscar and Arturo singing "Brotheeer, broootheeeer..." like a gospel choir and making up lyrics to one of the songs of Son of Dork was one of the funniest things ive seen in a long time.

"Eeeeeeextrañaaaa, la raaazooon...."


Listening: Bullet For My Valentine - Hit the floor.

posted by susiluz @ 5:39 PM