The first concert covered by The PAP DX Blog wasn't properly covered. That's because it was taking place at the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron). It is almost impossible to take a photo or record a video there, because if you do the staff will be on you in an instant. However, when I went there in March 2010 to see Alison Moyet, I managed to take a couple of photos and record 20 seconds of video. And when I originally wrote about it in the blog (in Greek) I combined my post with a review of the Yazoo concert in Manchester which had taken place two years before and which has already been covered here in English.
The first thing I noticed when Alison came on stage was how much weight she had lost compared to 2008. That didn't matter at all to me because I had considered her beautiful since her Yazoo days in the 80's no matter what her weight was.
Thankfully she didn't follow the "program" mentioned in the press release (which was probably the tracklist of the new compilation her record company insisted on releasing as she mentioned in one of her interviews) and as a result we got an extra Yazoo track and more from her first two albums which were her most successful. Most of the songs were presented in a different arrangement to the ones we were use to from her albums. You could say they were more "jazzy" in some cases.
Tuesday, 6 April 2021
Alison Moyet live in Athens March 2010
Tuesday, 30 March 2021
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Wednesday, 24 March 2021
When I went to Munich in 2010 to see some jewellery
Since the blog's 10 year anniversary last year, and taking into account the fact that because of the current situation, there is no travel and no concerts, I started revisiting some of the blog's early posts that were only available in Greek, translating them to English. I did that with all concerts from 2009 (and some from 2010), but I also want to do that with other posts that don't have anything to do with concerts. This was my first "pure travel" post from 2010, when I went to Munich, not to see a gig, but to attend a jewellery exhibition where a friend of mine (in fact, one of my two BFF's) was displaying her work.
When, during the month before the trip, I was announcing to my friends that I would go to Munich, everybody was asking "who are you going to see?" meaning "which artist" or "which band".
Here we can see the arrivals section at Munich airport. There is a yellow line to indicate, for those waiting outside, where they should stand, in order to enable travellers to exit safely. A line like this would be completely useless in Greece, so at the Athens airport they have installed a metal bar, otherwise everyone would rush to the door.
Unfortunately, at Munich Airport, they were using Microsoft Windows, with the tragic results that we have all come to expect from this operating system.
A Fast food chain with seafood from the North Sea.
Beers, beers, beers
The Pope!
Bayern Munich FC memorabilia and merchandize.
Proof that even in 2010 you could NOT escape the 80's!
Sausages and beer. What else could somebody ask for?
Augustiner Bierhalle (Augustine's Brewery), where we enjoyed the aforementioned sausages and beer. I loved those particular sausages (Weisswurst) so much, but I couldn't easily find them in Greece. So, when a few months later I was coming back from Paris with a stopover at Munich Airport, I discovered that one of the airport's restaurants had Weisswurst. It was 10 o'clock in the morning, but needless to say, I had them for breakfast!
Ducks, in the frozen lake next to the exhibition center.
On our way back to the hotel from the brewery, we came upon a performance from Helly Meier a famous Munich street artist. After the performance, people could buy his CD. He was an expert at making fun of the nationalities of the people attending his performances. This is the dialogue we has while I was buying his CD:
- How much is your CD?
- 10 Euros. Where are you from?
- Greece.
- Go away! You have no money!
(Join us here again soon on The PAP DX Blog, for more Germany when we have "Group sex in Berlin" one year later in 2011)