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Jane's Flashmob action this evening - Covent Garden

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by Gareth Dobson
Jane's Addiction are on the Flashmob again...

This afternoon, subscribers to the band's Flashmob text service (£1 for 5 texts) received the following message:

"Bouncey Balloon Babes!
Silly Slippery Trix
Let's Ride Str8 To Hell-ium!
McScandalous!

Jane's Addiction Live Action!
Revolution Bare Action 6pm 2nite
Location?
"

Any thoughts? Where are Jane's Addiction going to play their gig (if it is one) tonight?

Two weeks ago, after their Halloween gig at Brixton, the band gathered outside to Monster Mash with friends and fans. Hmmm.

ps, we now know that it's at Covent Garden at 6pm sharp.
bye then!


jane's in a porn club?

sounds like soho every night of the week.
isn't the point of a flashmob that it isn't advertised?

Re: jane's in a porn club?

Well it is now...

Re: jane's in a porn club?

I'LL SEE YOU THERE.

Re: jane's in a porn club?

It's West End, though I would look closer to somewhere in Holborn. somewhere a bit more 'cultural' where you're plagued by stupid jugglers and inane comedians.

Re: jane's in a porn club?

not worth news...


if you want to see the mighty Jane's Addiction for FREE, you will need to be
in covent garden tonight at 6pm sharp, in the area where they have those
street performer people


jane add

thats covent gdn then... *runs towards train station*

so... was it good fun?

2was it a gig?

who knows?

Re: so... was it good fun?

me me me and the boy Dobson... pics + short video online after i've slept.

Re: so... was it good fun?

probably should have got off my ass and popped along then.
please console me by saying that it was unpleasantly crowded...

Good idea

Good idea, this flashmob thing. Maybe next year there'll be flashmob festivals, or flashmob audiences who turn up randomly for things to clap and cheer.

Time to flashmob the pub, methinks...

Re: Good idea

won't corporations/labels work out how to use this to their advantage and it become some kinda crazy spam-like thang?
i.e. 50,000 people at reading festival get spammed by emi to check out their new garage rock band in the new bands tent? or is that just too clever?

Re: Good idea

that did cross my mind earlier...

Re: Good idea

Undoubtably that'll happen, but such is the fate of a great idea. Although surely big corporations aren't allowed to send you spam/junk if you specify that you don't want it (by ticking/not ticking a box etc)?

Sometimes things build just from word of mouth - like HOGANFEST at Reading this year. Basically, word went round to meet by a certain donut stall at a certain time (1.02am, or thereabouts) for Hoganfest. At 1am, a bloke who looked just like Hulk Hogan started his shift, and suddenly found about a thousand people turning up outside his stall bearing placards and gifts and chanting "Hogan! Hogan!" He was worshipped for while before the police broke it up and charged the poor chap with inciting a riot. There's now a petition going around to ensure that he gets his donut seller's license for Reading 2004.

I love Reading.

Re: Good idea

OH my god, you make me SO wish I had wasted £100+ on a ticket for this year's, I knew it was a mistake to conserve my money and do something vaguely worthwhile/exciting for bank holiday weekend instead etczzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

That sounds like the most fun in the world ever. Even more than that hilarious shouting-bollocks-game everyone enjoys playing so much at Reading each year

Re: Good idea

Don't be such a misery arse. He's only pointing out an example of how word of mouth can work, no matter how daft the idea might be.

Bollocks is annoying, but it livens things up a bit...

Cheerio,

Ian

http://twang.topcities.com

Re: Good idea

Well, I'm glad you found something far more exciting to do, that didn't involve hanging around with the little people for a weekend. Damn those plebs, eh? Subhuman scum.

Re: Good idea

people we camped with got a little angry when we shouted out bolloxs this year, i was most upset. These flashmob things are getting a little old already. People are doing them as though they have become some sort of trend, to be different when infact it has already been done a million times and is far from different. I can picture all the little kids/moshers doing this with their mates in every town centre within the next 6 months and getting up with embarrased faces realising they didnt pull their "act" off with any class or skill and peopel around them are giving them strange dirty looks...oh dear!

Re: Good idea

Sorry to spoil your fun but I'd been going there every year for the last 6 odd now, and last year's was probably the best time I'd had there. So think you've the wrong end of the stick here. If there'd been more than 5% of the NME-approved line-up worth walking from the campsite for, then Vincey Power might have gotten my penies this year. Simple as that.
Just cos I *shock* may get a tad tired of ye olde bollocks cries by 4.30am doesn't mean I suddenly think I'm superior, you can get off your high horse of hilarious rhetoric (sorry, sarcasm) on that one now...

Back to the Flashmobbing thing - was some bit on the local news the other day/night about one that had happened at the weekend in Cambridge I think....built it up a little as they introduced the news item.... Cut to film footage of it all going off - sum total of about 19 people (all students). Dougie's post below in full effect almost. Sounds more exciting all the time ;)

Re: Good idea

that donut guy is so good :drool: i refused to buy donuts from anyone who wasn't Hulk Hogan.
The whole flashmob thing seems very tired. great idea the first time it happened, but then you get people everywhere imitating it, it grates, and gets very dull.....

yep

was a gig, and they played five songs, none of which are in the current tour setlist - being Idiots Rule, Suffer Some, Had A Dad, 1% and My Time.

Re: yep

and round the corner, Simon Bates was MC'ing a stage promoted by the Hong Kong tourist board.

very surreal evening, by all accounts...

jane's addiction piccies

from the covent garden shindig (it was outside the transport museum):

http://www.geocities.com/adienunn/2/janes1103.htm

anyone know where i can host an AVI file i can directly link to...?

Re: jane's addiction piccies

good pics. betcha you could whore them out if you were that ways inclined....

Re: jane's addiction piccies

indeed. see the issue of Q magazine which comes out at the start of Dec.....!! :-D

Re: jane's addiction piccies

awesome

Seymour MBA

Fruity met Seymour at a gig in Manchester's Platt Fields park last year. MBA's set was good, even though it was only played to a bunch of scallies who called Seymour queer, and bemused looking passing OAPs walking their dogs. Fruity's point is this: why are you wasting your time posting on here, when you could be out there saving rock n roll Seymour?




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