Wassup ant eating pilots? You ready for a post which will actually knock your pants so far down toward your socks people will think you're wearing some kind of funky new shoe? Well I am so let's get this party crankin!

Sunday, 22nd November 2009. I am standing, soaking, salivating and sweltering in 38 Degrees C heat and loving it. I have thousands of bodies pressing against mine in anticipation, driving forward to get as close as they can, like a crowd of brain-hungry zombie kids. They are driven by the desire to see, hear and be near their idols. Their musical gods. They are here to see two great names. Ben Harper, renowned for soulful lyrics and emotion driven rhythm, and the ever impressive and ever evolving Pearl Jam. Neither band need an introduction to this crowd, filled entirely with members of the music loving community which has held these names in such regard, as they are stables in the pages of the modern music loving bible. Both seen as bands who have pressed through difficult times and continued to evolve and produce tracks and creativity of such magnitude NASA at one point thought they had a real life Armageddon on their hands (like the movie).

So I stand and watch as these bands play out their cards and chords to ensure the crowd leave totally fulfilled and satisfied, as though they had just eaten Christmas lunch and had their fill of wine and beer, so much so they need no more. But knowing the fans of these bands, they would sacrifice the comfort to hear just one more track. That's why I am not surprised by the rumbling, thunderous sounds to ensure Pearl Jam play more tracks after leaving the stage for the first time. The cheers and jubilation at the site of Eddie Vedder returning to the stage to address the crowd in the first encore is second to none, and the intimate ways in which he addresses the crowd is overwhelmingly genuine. The stand out tracks of this gig had to be the rare performance of Porch off their debut album Ten, the beautiful duet of Eddie and Ben Harper on Under Pressure http://tiny.cc/t6v40 and the wondrous version of Indifference http://tiny.cc/ZxqFg

All-in-all the gig was spectacular and though the critics wrote it off as a bit of a let down due to the non appearance of tracks such as Jeremy, Daughter and Alive, I think almost every single person there would have left fulfilled and inspired by the bands they have just witnessed pour out their lyrical and musical genius. I know I did.

Anyways, that's it for this morning my lovely peeps, so until next time checkety check yourself before you wreckety wreck yourself and keep on smiling. YEOW!