Depeche Mode

I never put up a post about Depeche Mode! Stellar gig, picked up a gorgeous Violator t-shirt beforehand (wish I got a tour one too). Myself, Tasha, Arthur and Catherine stood near the back right but had an ok view of the stage.

This was the full set list taken from setlist.fm

In Chains
Wrong
Hole to Feed
Walking in My Shoes
It's No Good
A Question of Time
Precious
World In My Eyes
Insight
Home
Miles Away/The Truth Is
Policy of Truth
In Your Room
I Feel You
Enjoy the Silence
Never Let Me Down Again

Encore:
One Caress
Stripped
Behind the Wheel
Personal Jesus

Home by Martin on his own was fantastic. I loved the visual on the stage screen for Walking in My Shoes, it was a great big crow! All the classics went down a storm of course and the tracks from Sounds of the Universe blended in well. Can’t believe I forgot to pick it up in London.

Resurrection Records CDs

While we were in London, I popped into Resurrection Records (of course) and picked up the following:

C-Drone-Defect - Dystopia
Combichrist - Today We Are All Demons
Grendel - Chemicals + Circuitry
Helalyn Flowers - Stitches Of Eden
Rotersand - Random Is Resistance
Scary Bitches - The Island of the Damned
Seabound - Double-Crosser
The Cure - Bloodflowers
The Cure - Wish

Placebo

Tasha and I went to Placebo in the Olympia last night. Placebo was the first gig we went to see together many years ago. We had standing tickets then but now, being old and a bit senile :) we got seated tickets. Still we had a good view.

Silversun Pickups were a great support band. I noticed on Last.fm they got to 68 in their Best of 2009, so well gone to them. Placebo got to 19 so even bigger congrats to them.

Placebo were fantastic of course and played mostly stuff from their newer albums.

Here’s their set list from setlist.fm.

For What It's Worth
Ashtray Heart
Battle For The Sun
Soulmates
Speak In Tongues
Follow The Cops Back Home
Every You Every Me
Special Needs
Breathe Underwater
Julien
The Never-Ending Why
Blind
Devil In The Details
Meds
Song To Say Goodbye

Encore:
Bright Lights
Special K
The Bitter End

Encore 2:
Infra-red
Taste In Men

Fixing My Notebook

I successfully replaced my broken LCD in my Studio 17 with a new one from Rolta. Their screen cost €200 versus Dell’s €400 and they had it out to me in 2 days, so well done to them.

This time things were a bit trickier reassembling the unit as I had to move a cable strip from the old LCD to the new one (I had disassembled the unit previously to get the part number). In fairness to Dell, they have the full instructions here but it was just a placement issue on my part. The cable strip had a padded section to protect the wires and I couldn’t press the screen bezel back together, so I moved it about and that sorted that.

Then there was not enough length to make the connection to the motherboard so I had to disassemble again and move the cable along more.

Finally got it all together and it successfully booted up, with screen, sound, keyboard, wireless, etc. all working.

My advice to people:

1) use a proper laptop bag with good padding, slip cases on larger laptops force pressure on the unit

2) if you have a slip case, carry with the bottom of the notebook in your palm

3) maybe get accidental damage insurance

4) don’t bother with Dell, try Rolta or LCDs 4 Less