Long busy weekend 1 - Kaiser Chiefs at the O2

It is monday night and the first opportunity for me to take a very deep breath, think about an amazing weekend behind me and start to share what I have seen, done and heard in the last days.

On Thursday Thorsten, a felow alumni from my exam year at university, arrived and sure enough I already had a good programme for the night. I had booked two tickets for the Kaiser Chiefs about a week after I arrived in Dublin, determined to decide who to take with my on short notice. Thorsten happened to be lucky, when he decided to come to Dublin about a week ago.

So directly after work we hurried to get there by 18.30 because in my German brain a concert starting 18.30 means being there at 18.30 ;-). Which of course was stupid, but at least we had time to see the two opening bands. One of which was worth seeing at least.

The first band "Danananakroyd" played old school hardcore punk. Well, let's say it was interesting. They had two drummers - mostly to allow them to take turns in standing up from the drumset and jumping around like crazy. The guitar riffs weren't bad, but the two singers - or rather shouters were just awful.

Opening band number two was pretty good. The "Black Kids" consisted of two women behind keyboards and an androgynous guitarist. They played a mixture of rock, funk an seventies disco - at least from my interpretation. Hear for yourself on http://www.myspace.com/blackkidsrock. What I learned from them is that women can look aesthetic when they dance even though they are standing behind a keyboard and singing in high-pitched voices.

Then came the band we had been waiting for. To be honest I have mostly been waiting for one song to go crazy on it. I am not to sure if it was a good idea to have seats booked. In the moment they finally played "Ruby" I would have loved to be in the crowd. So two songs before they left the stage I finally convinced Thorsten to come down with me and jump up and down shouting meaningless bits of lyrics that might not even belong to the song they were playing at the moment. So it was fun! I have seen better concerts. And if Franz Ferdinand would not have been sold out, I might have gone there, but the Kaiser Chiefs were worth their money and we had a good night out!