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Popey / Stu from Musecast did a fancy video trailer for Haarp, looked pretty good ergo you should check it out 
Right folks, for all you oldies, chances are you’ve heard this but nonetheless it’s still fun to listen to! This was one of my most sleaziest gameboy sounding cover ever, and strangely I still like it. Nothing beats square synths and crazy fat bass lines hehe.
Punintended
I’ll release some new stuff in future but I think people who are new to the site need to experience the retro covers to appreciate the site more hehe. Post your opinions after you’ve had a lovely listen
Well that was a lovely morning of jamming in captcha codes and constantly refreshing for some ticket buying action. Hope most of you were able to get the tickets and all. I must say Ticketmaster and Seeticket really need to get their act together and improve the system they are using. It’s just far too messy. Most people were stuck with “server is busy screen” or were told that the tickets they requested weren’t available when in fact, a majority of users don’t realise that the websites use certain tricks to ensure that transactions go through, and that usually involves blocking out the people who constantly refresh and letting those who just popped in to buy them.
I’ve seen it done before, you go onto the page and bam, server is busy, but no matter how many times you refresh it’s the same screen whilst some people manage to get it first time. Once the board was given a tip to simply purchase the tickets through a proxy in order to bypass their sneaky system of directing people with a certain ip address to the busy page and letting the first timers get their way. I believe cookies might be involved too but who knows. It’s definitely not the best way of reducing load since the people who refresh a lot are the ones who want to get the tickets the most.
Muse ticket selling day, nothing beats waking up dead early and battling it out with loads of musers to buy tickets. For those who’ve been living in a cave all their time or havent been using a decent feed reader, Muse have been announced to play at the Royal Alert Hall for a charity gig on April the 12th. It’s been some good months since Muse toured in Lundun so it will be good to see them again.
Ticket buying is pretty much second nature to a regular gigger so it will hopefully be a breeze buying tickets, problems only arise when you start buying tickets in groups and stall tickets are either not an option or they’re sold out. The problem is when companies have no idea of demand and server loads when people are all rushing in and buying tickets all on the same time to ensure that they get to see their favorite band. Definitely a bad call to release all tickets for the event (it spans out to a few days and includes a nice array of performances ranging from comedy to good old ROCK). I’m very sure that the server will not cope with the load and cause loads of people panicing and further adding load to the site by continuously refreshing their pages, oh yeah.
Anyway, the best method I would recommend anyone is to simply buy the tickets at the venue. You have no idea how stressless it is, buying Radiohead (lol?) tickets was fun when you were the first ones in the queue and knew you were guranteed for standing tickets, you also get your tickets in hand too!
So yeah, how is your ticket buying experience? Any tips for your fellow muser friends? Feel free to register and post your comments on ticket buying.
Part 2 of the 2 gigs in one week week. I managed to catch up with Michelle to eat some sushi and check out Polysics. They were epiccly jumpy last time and this time I heard more of their stuff so will appreciate it more. The gig was excellent as usual and everyone was crazy during the gig. I took loads of photos but eventually had to hide and move from the front to the middle of the venue since the security guard caught me hehe. Luckily they couldnt confiscate my camera hehe. Anyway, here’s some photos
We went to some pub afterwards and had a chat with Michelle and her friends from Virgin. I managed to get a Big Issue card thingy the big issue sellers wear and michelle was up for wearing it and looking like a hobo hehe. All in all a good day for gigging and photo taking! The keyboardist was cute and tiny as ever! and the lead singer was fun with his engrish!