The big Gig

We are up early today to fit in H  3 hour tour of  lower Manhatten before we meet eccy for lunch 

( these little men have been keeping me on my toes as we walk the city - you can't cross the street without them except when tour leader H says it's ok which can catch you by surprise and does seem to defeat their purpose) 

We are doing the ground zero tour today and you need to bring a box of tissues particularly for St. Paul's chapel .

 The church was used by 9/11 rescue and support workers as a central resting point and has become a simple and moving memorial for September 11. It makes you realise how devastating an event like that would be no matter where it happened in the world except that maybe the Americans have better resources to deal with it (Off the soap box now) . The Church was also interesting because it is the oldest continually used public building in Manhattan. It survived a couple of other major disasters events like the NY city fire of 1776 when 1/4 of Manhatten burned to the ground.

We Walked past the water monuments and of course saw first of the new towers just opened day before ( why do they keep doing it? ) 

Rushed back to meet Eccy for lunch and a quick shop at Macey's department store ( No H you are not going to big gig in T shirt that seems to be covered in plane food) 

We played Spot the famous person on the way to gig at terminal 5. Jenny won with a glimpse of John Cleese leaving a swanky hotel. 

We get to Terminal 5  And have to Queue with 3000 other dedicated fans to get in ( but hang on we do manage to get parent reserve seats in the VIP balcony  - a fairly rare reservation I believe). This gives us a great view of the Gizard boys on stage  and later on the headliner Mac demarco crowd surfing across the top of 3000 people. King gizzard as a support act were of course fantastic but the crowd was mostly here to see demarco and they went total off. The heads were moving in a  jerky waves as various bodies crowd surfed their way to the security guards who were working harder than anyone.  The stage was full of coffins for the final act . I'm not sure what that meant but great to see all the gizzards and entourage (  Nic and Liam )  helping to set it all up . 

Of course we loved king gizard the best  ( their light show was amazing ) . Even the kids going home on the subway commented on how great they were. It was lucky the proud parents could get their heads through the sub way doors as we lapped up the left over glory of the night.