Henry Rollins

[karohemd]

Last night I took a train down to London to see Henry Rollins do his spoken word thing at the Hammersmith Apollo where I met up with raggedy_man (who I got a ticket for his birthday) and pinkapplejam. Randomly, we ran into davywavy, too. The doors opened very early (6:30) but the show only started at 8. Not too bad, the seats were comfortable and I had someone to chat to.
It's amazing how fascinating it is to listen to just one man talk for three hours nonstop, hardly pausing to take a breath. The themes were very varied, from his travels to places like Islamabad, Beirut, Damascus and Tehran (nutter), his time rehearsing for the one-off charity gig for The Ruts, the first time he saw Van Halen live (supporting Ted Nugent *snigger*) and other random anecdotes (like trying to pronounce "Karlsruhe" properly). Surprisingly little about the current presidential campaign but a funny bit about Bush's "Where's Mandela?" blunder (look it up on the googles and youtubes). Always funny but also thought-provoking.
We managed to catch the last train comfortably and I was home just after 1:30.

Comments

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

For a guy who trades on his wild, hard man image (that neck is scary), he is amazing concise, smart and insightful.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

*nods* I think the hard man image is just a by-product of his work out regime and healthy living. He might be angry but I don't actually think he could hurt a fly.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

He's about half the size he was when I saw him in 1992. He used to be astonishingly buff.

[nikkita422.livejournal.com]

lucky!