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Per fi ha arrivat aquest disc a les meves mans. Portava més de 4 mesos buscant-lo. Havia preguntat a botigues com Fnac, Discos Gong, Discos Castelló entre altres, i tots em deien que el disc estè descatalogat i que era impossible aconseguir-lo.
Després va començar la recerca per internet, buscant per botigues online de venta de discs, però també em comentaven el mateix. De cop em va venir al cap una botiga d’internet on ja havia comprat anteriorment i que vaig coneixer a Suècia.
La botiga és CDON, i allà el tenien dins el catàleg, però realment no estava molt convençut d’aconseguir-lo a europa. Tot i aixi, em vaig posar en contacte amb ells, i després d’un mes (més de l’habitual perquè no el tenien en stock) me l’han aconseguit i avui ha arrivat a la meva bústia.
Realment agrair tant el tracte rebut, amb constants notificacions de l’estat de la comanda, com la professionalitat que han demostrat totes les vegades que els hi he comprat discos.

Ahir vaig estar al concert de Coldplay a Barcelona al Palau Sant Jordi. Va ser un concert impressionant, plè fins la bandera! Hi vaig anar amb la Laura, una amiga italiana, i alla ens vam trobar amb una companya de feina i el seu xicot. Vam estar a 5a fila, just davant de l’escenari, així vam poder disfrutar del concert en tota la seva força.

Cal dir també que els teloners, Goldfrapp, van estar a l’alçada de les circumstàncies, amb cançons com “ooh la la” i “Number 1″ del seu últim treball Supernature entre altres.

I després van sortir els Coldplay, amb Chris Martin, al capdavant per donar un concert més que bo! A mi em va agradar moltissim, a l’igual que la gent que anava amb mi. Van tocar cançons dels seus tres primers albums, incloent hits com “Speed of Sound”, “In my place” entre altres.

Between 1500 and 2000 people went to Razzmatazz yesterday to see the benefic concert of Within Temptation with the support of Bancaja. Dani, Eva, Lorien, La and me were there to enjoy the only one hour but exciting concert. We expect a little bit larger concert, but it could not be and we must be happy with what we get.
I was surprised in the cue of seeing people I would never say they will be there. Couples of old people waiting for the concert, people that seem to only knew their last hit “Stand my groud” and so on… But then inside i think they realise what Within Temptation is in fact… a gothic band with one comercial hit.

After 5 years without playing in Spain, Green Day gave on Monday the first concert in out country. It was in Badalona, inside the Olimpic Arena. I don’t know how many people were there officially, but I think it could be between 8.000 and 10.000 people jumping and singing all and each song they played during the 2 hour concert.
Almost all their hits were listened in the concert, from “American Idiot” to “She”, and ending the concert with “We are the Champions” of Queen.
It was a long time without going to big concerts, but I think I will start again going to them.
As Billy said: “You’re f**king great.”

You can find more information in the official web site here.

Elefantes has released today 2 of the most expected secrets for me.

The first one: they released the new CD called “Somos Nuves Blancas” (We’re white clouds) with 12 songs inside the CD, and an extra song in their website after getting registered into the web via OpenDisc. This is the gift they give us when we buy the CD. Apart of this song, we will get more gifts soon.

The second one: they showed us the new design of the website. The changes are big. They turn from black to white style, warmer and more according to the new fresh image. The site is fully build with Macromedia Flash, usable and clear. You can find pics, discography, news, guestbook and a TV. They are showing their videos in the website, rotating videos from the last album.

I must say that I’ve been listening to the CD while writing this post, and I must admit that the CD is as good as I expected, and it will be better when I start listening to it again and again.

Two concerts in less than 3 months. Now it was in Sabadell, exactly in Calalunya Park. It was a big concert, four groups together and for free! They played thirdly, just before Ariel Rot, but it was too late for me to stay more time. 1 o’clock was enought for me on sunday night. As lots of people, monday is working day, so I went to sleep.
At last, I could buy my Elefantes T-Shirt, and I found their first album with only 5 songs (just released). I couldn’t listen to it yet, but I will do it soon.

As I promised you yesterday, I was in the concert last night and I took some pics. I have chosen 3 of them.

It was a strange concert. The last time I saw them life in Matadepera was more than 10 years ago. It was in the old hockey hall before it falls down. I was almost all the concert with a little tear in my eyes. Emotion, memories… You know… All this mix of feelings running inside you, you don’t know exactly what’s this, but it’s there.

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After Google with Gmail(1GB) and Yahoo (100MB) is the turn of Microsoft.
MSN Hotmail have announced that the next month (July 2004) they will upgrade all their free e-mail accounts to 250MB.