Monthly Archives: October 2006

Pearl Jam, Bologna, 14 September 2006

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Pearl Jam’s Bologna concert was extremely hot. By the end every single piece of my clothing was saturated.

The setlist:

Setlist: Small Town, Do The Evolution, Animal, Severed Hand, Given To Fly, World Wide Suicide, Save You, Even Flow, I Am Mine, Marker In The Sand, Green Disease, Daughter/(It’s Ok by Dead Moon), Alone, Whipping, Present Tense, Comatose, Porch

1st encore: Black, Better Man, Life Wasted, Alive
2nd encore: Bu$hleaguer, Why Go, Baba O’Riley (by the Who), Indifference

Highlights included Bu$hleaguer, Present Tense, Baba O’Riley and Indifference.

Here are some photos:



The instructions for the bus to and from the concert area

The support band My Morning Jacket

Some local fans handed out photocopies of the Italian version of It’s Ok by Dead Moon, a tag often added to Daughter. Eddie only sang the chorus in Italian.

Eddie pointing to someone in the first few rows of the crowd

Matt during his Even Flow drum solo

Stone on guitar and Boom on keyboards

3 guitarists: Mike (lead), Stone (rhythm) and Jeff (bass)

Sweating near the end of the concert

Eddie with the George W Bush mask during Bu$hleaguer



The bastard with the tambourine and the person next to him (out of shot) pushed their way through to the front row. They didn’t have fan club wristbands (so they weren’t let in early) yet they still got to the front. And he got a tambourine! When the guy next to him was pushing through I told him to f*** off. He promised me he wasn’t pushing-yeah right!

The band members line up to bow at the end of the concert

The Bologna concert ticket

Ramazan, AFL Grand Final And Autumn

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I will post more photos from my trip to Italy and Switzerland soon. In the meantime, here are the main stories of the past week (not counting this morning’s bomb explosion):

Ramazan

Last Sunday (24 September) Ramazan (Ramadan) began in Turkey. The main changes I notice in Mersin during this holiest of Muslim months are:

a) The drum banging (and the consequential car alarms) on the street at 3 or 4 am in the morning.

b) Work mates and other folks refraining from drinking, smoking and eating during daylight hours.

c) Businesses changing their offerings and trading conditions, particularly those in the food industry.

I hope to write a more detailed Ramazan post soon. In the meantime, you should visit the great Ramadan blog written by some Nomadlifers.

AFL Grand Final

Shortly after 7 am yesterday (30 September) morning Peter gave me a call. Unlike in 2005, this year’s AFL grand final was on Fox Sports Middle East. And it was a great game, despite the stupid 5+ minute ad breaks after each goal in the first half. Even though West Coast defeated Sydney by one point in a thriller, it still wasn’t as good as 2004’s final 🙂

Autumn Is Here

The generally pleasant weather of autumn announced its arrival with a bang. A very short but extremely heavy storm hit Mersin. I was driving in my boss’s Volkswagen Beetle at the time and the visibility was very poor. Thankfully, I got through the violent weather without accident.