Steph's Scribbles: Placebo live @ Ziggo Dome (8 Dec 2013)

This will be one of those super excited posts! Yesterday I was at the Placebo concert in the Ziggo Dome, and I have been looking forward to this for quite some time. Actually since the last time I saw them live which was at pinkpop 2009:

Better quality than my iPhone pics. It was great not having anyone standing in front of you :)

I was so lucky to be able to stand all the way in the front for that concert! You see some snippets here and there when I was in the shot of the audience... I still cringe whenever I see myself in the video. But anyway from that time when I first saw them, I wanted more. And I wanted to at least see them in concert when it's not a festival, and I took my chance! Granted the tickets did not come cheap, I had to pay 50 euro's for my ticket which as a student without a job is pretty much my food for a week. But it was all worth it! And I would go again in a heartbeat! Of course if I had the money. Above is one of the pics I took at Pinkpop 2009 :)

So yeah I was at the concert hall half an hour before the door opened, and there were already quite a few people standing in line. So after we got in, we had to place our coats and bags in a locker, which took a bit of time, and I had to wait for my friend for a bit. Yes this annoyed me a little bit because I kept seeing all these people pass me by getting better spots than me while I was in the line longer. A bit selfish I know, that's also why I kept it inside either way. We got decent spots and even though there were some tall guys in front of me (i'm pretty short), I could still see the stage fairly well.

The opening act was a band called TOY and it wasn't my style to be honest. It felt to me like they were trying too hard to be eclectic. Next to that the light show they had was very annoying. Most people had their eyes shut or turned away from the stage. I couldn't look at them either. The light kept flashing directly at you so you only saw their silhouettes and because the lights were flashing in all colours, it just felt like you were tripping since you started seeing those spots you get after an intense light hits your eye. That for a bit more than half an hour was too much. So I was happy it was over. Don't get me wrong, their music was good, just I've heard it before and I wasn't impressed. Also it just was not my style.

Then for the show we all came for: Placebo!!! The first song I didn't know, which annoyed me a bit, but from there on I sang along with every song. Yep I guess I was one of those annoying people in the audience. But I got a lot of smiles at me from the people around so I guess they didn't mind :) Maybe because they saw how happy I was to be there jumping and singing along and stuff. I absolutely LOVED the concert! Yes I am biased, so you shouldn't ask me to critique them because I've been a fan since I was in high school, which is almost 10 years ago (damn I'm getting old!).

At a certain point two very tall guys (that were under the influence of drugs if you ask me) came standing in front of me. I'm too nice, because if I see someone in the crowd looking forward and trying to pass, I let them pass because in my mind they're trying to get back to their friends... How wrong was I. They stood right in front of me and kept talking the entire time. I could follow their conversation better than I could hear the music. Apparently they got in for only a couple of euro's and didn't even know the band. They made fun of the people that were looking forward to it for months and they were here standing in front somewhere. I kinda got pissed off, I mean fine that you don't know the music is okay, but you don't go to stand in front of short people when you're clearly very tall (nearing 1.90 meters) and then talk instead of listening to the music! So I just sang louder whenever they tried to talk and jumped a bit more against them when it was the appropriate jumping time. This annoyed them a little bit I guess because they didn't talk as much anymore. Thankfully after about 4 songs they wanted to get more beer so they left! I still enjoyed the songs Placebo played while those douchebags stood there, but I enjoyed it much more when they were gone :D They played about 1 more song and then left the stage to wait for the encore. Which of course came pretty fast and so more singing along and jumping and dancing :D They played the new album of course, but also classics such as Special K, Every You Every Me, the Bitter End, Black Eyed and Kitty Litter which naturally I all love. There were a couple more songs I would have loved for them to play, but I mean if they would've played all the songs I would want to hear live, they would have to play at least 5 hours. And I do understand that that would be a bit much ;-)

Afterwards I asked my friend if he liked the concert, since he wasn't biased. And he actually did :) If he didn't he would have said so I do believe. I'm still so happy I got to go! It passed by so fast though, even though they played for about 2 hours.

So here is a very amateural picture of mine and more professional ones I got from the internet :)