Gabelicious' Journals

Green Day Review Part 1.

Are we the waiting…

On October the 5^th was finally the day I waited all my life for. So it was a really weird feeling that I wasn’t excited at all. It was so unbelievable and surreal that I just couldn’t believe I would really see Green Day after all this years of being a huge fan of them.

Since the show wouldn’t take place in my hometown my mum and I had to drive to Cologne a bit early. It was raining like shit when we arrived in Cologne. A few diehard fans waited in front of the arena. We hadn’t a reason to wait in line that early cause we had seats anyway. So instead of waiting at the arena we walk around through the rain while waiting for my good friend Leila to join us. When she finally arrived we went to a café to chill out with some coffee and cake. Leila was so scared of me cause I was so relaxed and not hysterical in anyway.

We made our way to the arena at 6pm when they opened the doors. Holy shit I can’t tell you how fucking big this arena was and all these ppl with their Green Day shirts on, that was pretty cool. We checked out the nice merch but we didn’t buy some cause yeah I’m first really broke and on the other hand I already have so much Green Day stuff. We still had to wait for them to open the doors to the seat and standing area, so we just walked around for a while. Around 6.30pm they opened the doors and we searched for our seats. I was a little bit shocked how close we actually were to the stage but wasn’t still too excited, so I was shocked by this as well. There were so many seats and the standing area was pretty big as well, but ppl moved in pretty slow and bit by bit it got crowed. At some point we saw a small dude with black hair and two blonde highlights checking the guitars behind the stage, we were like OMG is that Billie Joe!?!?! We got nuts, I don’t think it was him but I’m still not sure at all.

At 7.30pm the support act Prima Donna popped on stage and start to rock the show. They were pretty cool but the sound was pretty fucked up that my ears start to hurt. I think it wasn’t the band’s fault, maybe the crew just fucked it up or they wanted Green Day to sound even better. The arena was pretty empty at this time and things didn’t get that crazy. You can describe their music as Rock’n’Roll with a glamour rock touch. The singer was really born as a performer and looked so cool with those tight pants together with this leopard coat. The highlight was when he throw up his coat and was half naked (he didn’t wear a shirt under the coat O_O). I have to say this view wasn’t that bad. :D They played a few songs but everybody was just waiting for Green Day to start. When the singer said that they would play their last song everyone was freaking out not because they were that bad but cause it meant Green Day would be next. I felt their pain it must sucked to support Green Day. ;) Watch how they performed "Soul Stripper" here. The sound on you tube is better as it was live.

When they left the stage it was already 8pm and I start to get really nervous when I saw the crew setting up the stage. The stage looked so awesome with this big wall of LSD screens looking like buildings. So the crew did their job well and then the famous pink bunny popped on stage. At this point it felt like watching a you tube video or Bullet In A Bible (the live concert DVD). I saw this so many times, when ppl were singing along to YMCA while the bunny was ex-ing a beer on stage, but being a part of all this was so out of this world. He entertained us for a while till he was escorted by some security guards. lol

Then we’re waiting again and my legs were already shaking, it was like waiting for death to come. Things got nuts and suddenly the light was out and the Song of the Century was blasting. Leila was like OMG the show starts let’s get our asses up, I can’t sit any longer. I was so shocked that the show would start in a few seconds and my legs were shaking so much that I could hardly stand.

Then… BOOM… out of nowhere Billie Joe, Mike Dirt, Tre Cool, Jason Freese and Jason White popped up on stage. OMG this is GREEN DAY was the only thing I was thinking. Leila was freaking out and rocked to 21^st Century Breakdown while I was so overwhelmed that I was just crying of happiness.

I finally realize this isn’t just a dream this is REAL. It was like seeing the ghosts of long lost friends coming alive in front of you. I couldn’t believe those are really the guys I look up to for so long and who gave me so much strength with their music. It was such a incredible feeling that I still have to cry when I think about it and write all this down.

... stay tuned

A special gift for all the Green Day fans here!

Hey my FOE and Buzznet friends!!

I have a special gift for all the Green Day fans here!! You all know I love this band more than everything and I love to share the love. So the other day they aired the radio concert Green Day played here a while ago and I recorded it. I don’t record all of it, I think I missed 2 or 3 songs, but there are still 8 songs.

So everybody who talks with me or read my tweets these days knew that I tried everything to win some tickets for that concert (you could only win them) but I had no luck!! =(

But then the other day I was able to experience it at least and it felt so good!!

To make a long story short – I’ll give you a link to download these 8 live songs in high quality! Good?

Track listing:

1. 21 Guns

2. American Eulogy

3. See The Light

4. American Idiot

5. Jesus Of Suburbia

6. She

7. Basket Case

8. Minority

DOWNLOAD

Hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I enjoy it.

Have fun with it!!

xoxo, Tina

Goodbye!!

Hey guys!!!

As some of you guys already know I won’t be around here for a week. I’m flying to Poland tomorrow to visit my relations and stuff!! So I’m sad I’ll miss the 21^st Century Breakdown release and you guys for sure!! But on the other side I can’t wait for Poland, I love this country!! I’m sure I’ll have a blast there, wish me fun!!

I wish you all a nice week, I’ll miss you all!!

Talk to you in a week!!

LOVE YOU!!

Lots of love Tina aka Gabelicious

Damn I should already sleep, it’s 12am here and I’ve to get up in 5 hours, fml!!

MY RECORDS OF 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey music and CD lovers!

So maybe some of you remember that I started this â�œRecords of the Yearâ� thing, to document all the CDs I bought in 2008!! So now 2008 is over, so letâ�™s take a look on what I bought:

Cobra Starship - While The City Sleeps, We Rule The Streets (14,24â‚¬)
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (7,49â‚¬)
Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV (9,74â‚¬)
The Academy isâ�¦ - Santi (11,99â‚¬)
Various artist - Vans Warped Tour 05 (4,99â‚¬)
Simple Plan - Simple Plan (12,99â‚¬)
Gym Class Heroes - As Cruel as School Children (16,04â‚¬)
Die Ã„rzte - Jazz ist anders (11,51â‚¬)
The Kooks- Konk (12,99â‚¬)
Funeral for a Friend - Tales Don't Tell Themselves (9,99â‚¬)
Madsen - Madsen (7,99â‚¬)
Green Day- Basket Case (3,99â‚¬)
Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll!!! (18,99â‚¬)
Madsen - Goodbye Logik (10,99â‚¬)
Various Artists - Snakes on a Plane-The Album (2,50â‚¬)
Green Day - Bowling Bowling Bowling Parking Parking (2,50â‚¬)
4Lyn - 4Lyn (gift)
Various artists - Vans Warped Tour Compilation 08â�™ (gift)
The Academy isâ�¦ - Fast Times at Barrington High (20,90â‚¬)
Gym Class Heroes - The Quilt (20,90â‚¬)
Bela B. - Bingo (5,99â‚¬)
Funeral for a Friend - Memory and Humanity (15,99â‚¬)
Butch Walker - Letters (2,61â‚¬)
Butch Walker - Left of Self-Centered (2,61â‚¬)
The Academy isâ�¦ - Almost Here (gift )

Holly carp I spend 227,93â‚¬ for CDs last year!!! O_O But they were it worth, I love CDs!! Hehe itâ�™s fun that I bought all the TAI CDs in 2008! =) Fast Times is definitively my fav record of 2008! I also really like While The City Sleeps, We Rule The Streets , Jazz ist anders, Stop Drop and Roll!!!, the Butch Walker records and the Warped Tour records I bought last year!! Iâ�™m excited what Iâ�™ll buy this year!!

But there is a lot of amazing music I canâ�™t buy here in Germany, so I have to download them. So there is so much more music I want to share with you guys! I really like to recommend the music I love so I plan to make a music blog, where Iâ�™ll recommend my fav record of the week or the moth! Would you like that?

If you like the idea let me know! Iâ�™ll post a poll in a while!! =)

Any suggestions how I could name my blog?

xoxo, Gabeliciois aka Tina

Twentieth-five album of the year: The Academy isâ�¦ - Almost Here

Hey TAI lovers!!

Yeah the last record I got in 2008 was â�œAlmost Hereâ�œ!! Finally I got it! I had it for sure on my computer before but I need to have the music I love physical too if that makes sense to you!! =) But itâ�™s not that easy to get when you live in Germany so it took me forever to find it!! I got this one finally from eBay too and my mum gave it to me as a Christmas presents!! =) I love her for this!!

The Academy isâ�¦ - Almost Here

Released date: February 8, 2005

Prize: gift

Track listing:

"Attention" â�“ 2:53
"Season" â�“ 3:34
"Slow Down" â�“ 4:04 (Alternative Video)
"The Phrase That Pays" â�“ 3:17
"Black Mamba" â�“ 2:46
"Skeptics and True Believers" â�“ 2:54
"Classifieds" â�“ 2:52
"Checkmarks" â�“ 3:00
"Down and Out" â�“ 4:30
"Almost Here" â�“ 3:06

(click the links to watch their videos)

My fav songs are â�œAttentionâ�, I love this song and it was one of the first songs Iâ�™ve ever heard of them, â�œSlow Downâ�, â�œThe Phrase That Paysâ� it has my fav song line in it (Hold your head high heavy heart),"Skeptics and True Believersâ� and â�œDown and Outâ�! I love all songs but theyâ�™re my top 5! OMG I love that video for â�œAlmost Hereâ� Butcher made with Borgman for TAI TV season 1!! Oldies but goodies!!

Awww Chizzy is in the â�œSlow Downâ� video and Gabe appears in the "The Phrase That Paysâ� video and gives Mike the teddy bear:

Whatâ�™s your fav song? Tell me!

xoxo, Gabelicious aka Tina

Twentieth-four album of the year: Butch Walker â�“ Left of Self-Centered

Hey music lovers!

Butch an amazing musician!! I really like this record, I think it's my fav! Itâ�™s a rock album and kicks ass!! I found this one on eBay too and I bid for it!! Wowow and I got it too!!

Butch Walker - Left of Self-Centered

Released date: July 9, 2002

Prize: 2, 61â‚¬ (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) (It was so fucking cheap that I felt bad)

Track listing:

"Rock Vocal Power" â�“ 1:56
"My Way" â�“ 4:00
"Suburbia" â�“ 4:07
"Trouble" â�“ 3:58
"Alicia Amnesia" â�“ 3:42
"Sober" â�“ 3:20
"Into the Black" â�“ 3:38
"Get Down" â�“ 4:03
"Far Away from Close" â�“ 3:52
"Diary of a San Fernando Sexx Star" â�“ 3:39
"If (Jeannie's Song)" â�“ 4:53
"Take Tomorrow (One Day at a Time)" â�“ 4:30
â�œ[Untitled Hidden Track]â� â�“ 14:58
"Get Stupid with You" (hidden track) â�“ 4:58

(click the links to watch his videos)

"Rock Vocal Power" is such a random and funny intro for the record! My fav songs are "My Wayâ�œ, "Suburbiaâ�œ and "Soberâ�!! The hidden tracks are too funny!!

Whatâ�™s your fav song? Tell me!

xoxo, Gabelicious aka Tina

Twentieth-three album of the year: Butch Walker â�“ Letters

Hey music lovers!

So this is one of the last three records I bought in 2008! You all know Butch is a great producer but heâ�™s also an amazing musician!! I fall in love with his music for a while and I love his new record so I needed to check out his old stuff as well! So I found this one on eBay the other day and I need to bid for it!! Wowow and I got it!!

Butch Walker - Letters

Released date: August 24, 2004

Prize: 2, 61â‚¬ (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) (It was so fucking cheap that I felt bad)

Track listing:

"Sunny Day Real Estate" â�“ 0:28
"Maybe It's Just Me" â�“ 3:20
"Mixtape" â�“ 4:05
"#1 Summer Jam" â�“ 3:28
"So at Last" (Danny Grady, Walker) â�“ 5:28
"Uncomfortably Numb" â�“ 3:33
"Joan" â�“ 4:20
"Don't Move" â�“ 4:08
"Lights Out" â�“ 2:51
"Best Thing You Never Had" â�“ 5:29
"Race Cars and Goth Rock" â�“ 3:02
"Promise" â�“ 3:04
"Thank-You Note" â�“ 7:48

(click the links to watch his videos)

One of my absolutely fav songs is â�žMixtapeâ�, itâ�™s such a beautiful song!! And I have to say Butch looks pretty hot in the video and I wouldnâ�™t mind if he would stalk me!! lol I also really like â�œPromiseâ� itâ�™s one of those songs that make you cry!! Oh and I love the booklet!!

Whatâ�™s your fav song? Tell me!

xoxo, Gabelicious aka Tina

COBRAS AND TAI FOR GERMANY!!!

Hey German Cobras and TAI fans and everybody who wants to help us,

itâ�™s now over a year ago since Cobra Starship and The Academy isâ�¦ played their first show in Germany and they're missed. So Agi Sophie had this amazing idea that we should let them know how much we love them. So the idea is that we'll make a slideshow with pics of us fans holding a sign saying "I WANT COBRA STARSHIP AND THE ACADEMY ISâ�¦ IN GERMANY"!

But we need YOU to make this happened!! Show us some Cobra and TAI love and sent Agi your pics, we'll give credits and everything.

Here's her Email address: agnes.waibel@web.de

Here her MySpace account.

I also just made a petition to bring Cobra Starship and The Academy is... back to Germany!! So please help us to make this happened and tell your friends about it!!

Go HERE and sign!!!!

Maybe it'll not work and they won't come but even then we let them know how much we love them! So make sure to spread the banners all over the net!

Cobra Banner

TAI Banner

We would really appreciate your support.

Fangs up and Santi,

gabelicious

Edit: Cobra Starship Online is supporting us, go here to their webside I'm co-webbing for!!

Twentieth-two album of the year: Funeral for a Friend â�“ Memory and Humanity

Hey CD freaks!

Oh I waited for this record quite a while! I was so happy when it was out and I could buy! But to be honest I expected more of the record, I really like the music they made but this record isnâ�™t something really new to me!! It sounds to me too much like their other records! But itâ�™s still good and worth a listen.

Funeral for a Friend â�“ Memory and Humanity

Released date: October 13th, 2008

Prize: 15,99â‚¬

Track listing:

1. "Rules and Games" - 2:48

2. "To Die Like Mouchette" - 3:20

3. "Kicking and Screaming" - 3:23

4. "Constant Illuminations" - 2:56

5. "Maybe I Am?" - 3:36

6. "You Cant See the Forest for the Wolves" - 3:22

7. "Building" - 2:38

8. "Beneath the Burning Tree" - 3:34

9. "Someday the Fire..." - 3:13

10. "Waterfront Dance Club" - 4:22

11. "Charlie Dont Surf" - 3:44

12. "Ghosts" - 3:00

13. "Constant Resurrections" - 4:25

(click the links to watch his videos)

Whatâ�™s your fav song? Tell me!

xoxo, Gabelicious aka Tina

Twentieth-one album of the year: Bela B. â�“ Bingo

Hey CD freaks!

Let me introduce you an amazing German artist, Bela B.! Heâ�™s the drummer of one of my fan German Bands ever, Die Ã„rtze! Theyâ�™re amazing so is his solo album!! You should checked him and his band out!! Iâ�™m sure youâ�™ll love him as well!

I bought it in our music store Saturn, it was for sale so it was pretty cheap that I had to buy it! =)

Bela B. â�“ Bingo

Released date: May 12th, 2006

Prize: 5,99â‚¬

Track listing:

1. B-VertÃ¼re (B-verture) - 1:22

2. Gitarre runter (Guitar down) - 3:46

3. Tag mit Schutzumschlag (The day with the dust cover) - 3:06

4. Irgendetwas bleibt (Something stays) - 3:30

5. Traumfrau (Dream woman) - 3:07

6. Letzter Tag (Last day) - 4:13

7. Was ist nur los...? (What's the matter...?) - 2:34

8. 1. 2. 3. ... (feat. Charlotte Roche) - 3:03

9. Sie hat was vermisst (She missed something) - 4:06

10. Der Vampir mit dem Colt (The vampire with a Colt) - 4:48

11. Versuchs doch mal mit mir (Why don't you try me for once) - 3:07

12. Lee Hazlewood & das erste Lied des Tages (The first song of the day) - 3:11

13. Hab keine Angst (feat. Lula) (Have no fear) - 3:55

14. ZappingsonG (Channel-surfing-sonG) - 2:08

15. Wiehr thind sssuper (We are super) - 3:17

16. Baby lÃ¤uft fort (Baby runs away) - 3:49

17. Traumfrau again - 1:05

(click the links to watch his videos)

My fav song is, 1.2.3. â�¦ itâ�™s totally funny!! I really like the cover and the booklet!!

Whatâ�™s your fav song? Tell me!

xoxo, Gabelicious aka Tina