The Other October Gig: Bowling for Soup – Farewell UK Tour

So, while I've been busy winning a couple of cool-points by seeing Spector (that's a thing, right?), a couple of weeks ago, I also did a little bit of making up to my teen-self by checking out Bowling for Soup at the 'new' O2 Academy Southampton Guildhall for their Farewell UK Tour.




We've seen Bowling for Soup a few times now and to give them credit, it's always a fun night out and this certainly was no exception. Their support, Patent Pending really won me over by appealing to 16-year-old-me with their bouncy, happy pop-punk, they swam through the crowd too!

Bowling for Soup pretty much only played the hits, with only a few new ones thrown in, which is definitely what you want as a old fan who's not kept up to date.


I know I've taken quite a few photos and I do take photos at gigs, what was pretty noticeable at this gig though was the sheer amount of people videoing everything, definitely a new peeve of mine. I mean, do it, but at least video things the right way round - really though, all you're achieving is a sore arm and Bowling for Soup are even kind enough to give you a 'photo opportunity' moment so really in this case, you have no excuse.






I felt a little bit out of place, what with all the much cooler people with blue hair, but I laughed and danced a lot, you simply cannot beat a bit of pop-punk. Apparently this isn't Bowling for Soup's last UK tour ever, it's just for a bit, but it does mark the end of something.

Duuhh.

This was so, so fun last night.

© Ruth Johnston 2010.

Could have done with some seating as they were sitting down and it wasn't a dancey affair, plus it felt like I'd been running around all over the place yesterday so I could have done with it. I was dying for around 45 minutes of it because I was so thirsty and it was so boiling. It was fun once I managed to get a drink though. The whole gig was an interesting experience, it wasn't just songs that I like, they had a lot of banter with the crowd and told a lot of jokes, the support, Bob Scheider was pretty good too.
At the end of the gig, people from the audience were allowed to take the set home, I saw one woman with a rug over her shoulder as she left.

So as well as the photography I did yesterday, I also modelled.

© Abbie Hutchinson

This is for Abbie's project, I've seen all the potential final images and it looks great, I can't wait to finish mine, I think there's a lot of editing to be done, and with only three weeks left(!)

© Abbie Hutchinson

My G10, 35mm lens and replaced Diana F+ came in the post today, I'm looking forward to using all of them.

Excuse the absence of posting.

...I have been lazy and haven't been bothered, my Project 365 has been kept up to date but nothing worth writing about has happened to me, so I haven't.
It's quite boring during exam period, it's basically like being a widow, but I'm used to it now.
I saw this earlier, and I am unsure if it is in poor taste of just one of those jokes, good on them for donating all the profit to the Haitian Earthquake Relief Fund, although it's not really something I've overly conscious about - the news is somewhat of a huge reality TV show sometimes, it's hard to know what affects me and what doesn't.