I’m off to sunny Roskilde for a few days to get pissed and watch Slayer and Jay-Z and My Bloody Valentine with a load of Tuborg swilling Scandanavians. And a bloke from Wexford.
Then I’m of to Copenhagen for a few days to have a gander at the jazz festival. I may even pretend to like [...]
July 1, 2008
Categories: Drink, Gullible Travels, Music . Tags: Roskilde Festival . Author: oftroad . Comments: 6 Comments
14th of June. Why does everything happen on the 14th of June?
May 22, 2008
Categories: Drink, Gullible Travels, Music . Tags: Festivals, Fleet Foxes, Livestock, Madness . Author: oftroad . Comments: 7 Comments
I know. I can’t believe it either. A mere 10 years after Ryanair decided to schedule daily flights to Latvia - the home of the prostitute - and Irish men about to embark on a lifetime of Catholic wedded bliss decided to visit Riga by the lorry load, a ’shocking’ French ‘undercover documentary’ is [...]
March 4, 2008
Categories: Drink, Gullible Travels, Meeja . . Author: oftroad . Comments: 11 Comments
Ticket for Roskilde 2008 landed on my doormat last Monday.
On Tuesday, My Bloody Valentine were confirmed to play.
Sometimes life is so fucking sweet.
February 10, 2008
Categories: Gullible Travels, Music, Public Art . . Author: oftroad . Comments: 10 Comments
So there I was, outside Hogans at 3am with two lovely ladies (well one lovely lady and one hulking brute) planning the rest of my night. I felt that I wasn’t drunk enough yet for a Saturday night, and my mates had just deserted me, so the plan was that I’d charm them in [...]
February 2, 2008
Categories: Drink, Gullible Travels, Transport . Tags: Dublin Taxi . Author: oftroad . Comments: 12 Comments
And so it came to pass that myself and someone I had met only 12 hours previously were in a minicab in London being driven past Buckingham Palace by some Nigerian fella at about 4am.
Somehow the conversation turned to a drink that is apparently popular in Nigeria that is supposed to give a man a [...]
January 21, 2008
Categories: Gullible Travels, Transport . Tags: London, Viagra . Author: oftroad . Comments: 5 Comments