Jack Penate - Nottingham

25/10/09

Jack played in my SU bar which is amazing as I live literally over the road. Went with Aneesh and managed to stand bang in the middle on the front row.

The support act were bizarre, but we enjoyed them all the same. I think their name was Theoplis London, or something similar. They were from New York and played hip-hop, rnb stuff. The lead singer was insane and kept licking his lips at me and Neesh!

Jack was amazing as usual, he came on with 'Everything is new'. He played an accapella version of 'Learning Lines' which was cool and he played my favourite 'Pull my heart away'. He spat his beer out into the crowd at some point and managed to hit me square in the face, cheers for that Jack. The best part was during 'Tonight's Today' he came and stood literally right in front of me, so I gave him a huge hug...then he crowd surfed right onto my head! It was immense. Sadly we didn't meet him after as security were a bunch of bastards, but we still love Jack!

Everything Is New

Pull my Heart Away

Learning Lines

Let's All Die

Let's All Die

Every Glance

So Near

Tonight's Today

Jack Penate - itunes festival, camden

3/7/09

Blimey, twice in a month!

itunes are doing a a series of gigs at the Camden roundhouse, featuring a different band each night. The tickets are free and Jack happened to be playing just before i leave for my holiday, and also my 18th!

I took Jessie as my plus one and met her at Paddington. My train was over an hour late, which was really annoying :\ We got the tube to chalk farm around 7 and walked straight in and got 10 free itune downloads which was nice of them. Then venue is a big circle and was really cool. We managed to stand about two people from the front slightly to the right and had a great view of the stage, which was set back from the crowd.

I didn't really like the support band 'Golden Silvers' they had a few cool songs but they mostly sounded the same and used the keyboards way TOO MUCH!

Jack finally came on he was brilliant. The crowd wasn't as good as the thekla crowd, as most people didn't seem to know Jack's new stuff. Me and jessie danced loads and Jack looked our way a few times, mostly because we were the only ones waving around to his new stuff! I think it was during Pull My Heart Away, i was the only on in my area singing, and Jack looked right at me for ages! Right after the song he said it was lovely to see people singing to his new stuff, WHICH WAS ME! Kid Harpoon came out and sang 'Give Yourself Away', he was pretty good. Anyway overall fab night and managed to catch the last train home. Can't wait to see it on TV and to buy it on itunes.

Jack Penate - Bristol thekla

24.06.09

It seems to be a habit for people to buy me Jack Penate tickets for my birthday! Which is a very,very good thing.

Me, Jessie and Chrissy got the train up to Bristol, got lost, then found the right way and went to the pub to wait for a bit. When we were queuing outside the Thekla, i think it was Chrissy, said ooo was that jack! I didn't believe her, but then he just strolled past in a big black hoodie! We didn't go up to him as hie seemed to be going somewhere.

Got let in around half 7 and waited for a bit. The support act came on, The XX. They were ok for about three songs then they went a bit Glasvegas and sounded the same for the rest of their set.

We managed to be pretty much on the front row, the venue is sooo tiny! Jack came on to 'Everything Is New', which was really cool live,as they had a load of drums. I think he played most of his new stuff, can't think of a new song that he didn't play. Which was fine by me as i think his new album is better than the first! He did play 'Torn on the platform, 'have i been a fool' and 'spit at stars'. He came over to where we were standing loads of times and looked at us quite a bit too. It went crazy when he lept into the crowd at the end of 'Lets all die', he jumped right by me and chrissy! So i managed to ruffle his hair and shove him back on stage, which was fun. Last song he played was 'Tonight's Today' which was great.

At the end of the gig we had to wait for Jessie's dad. So we thought we'd sit by the exit of the Thekla to see if Jack would come out, there was about 20 of us waiting i think. He came out after about 20 mins and signed stuff for everyone, he was really lovely and asked to make sure everyone had got something signed. So me and Chrissy handed over our tickets. At one point he was signing something for someone and he looked right at me, which was very exciting haha. Then he offered to do some photos too, so me and Chrissy had ours taken. I went up first and was such a dork! He was very nice and put his arm around me and had his photo taken, then i took one of him and Chrissy.

Overall a very good night and an amazing birthday present!

Videos:

Everything Is New

Torn on The Platform

Every Glance

Spit At Stars

Pull My Heart Away

Let's All Die

Let's All Die, Jack jumps in the crowd

Be The One

Tonight's Today start

Tonight's Today chorus

Tonight's Today end

Reading Festival

22/08/08

FRIDAY READING REVIEW!!!
awesome day.

Anti-Flag- Me: Ok, wasn't very impressed, they were more pop than punk if im honest. When they yelled political stuff at us it annoyed me. We get it you don't like Bush.
Jessie: I liked them, they were American..and punky

Get Cape.Wear cape.fly-good, we wern't really paying attention him as we were getting food XD

Blood Red Shoes- very good, inside the tent was fun :D

Dizzee- really fun, shame his stupid trousers were so low (PULL THEM UP!) i thought they'd fallen down at one point because they were so low, haha.

Jessie: ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo he was SIK BLUUUUUUUUUUUDDD

Fix up

Just a Rascal

Serj Tankian- not very good, his mic was too low and was very odd!

Jessie: he bored me, he was ok in an odd sort of way tho

Biffy Clyro- great, seen them once before. Great band and the set was good.

Jack Penate- aww jack i love him, he was brill and i really liked the new stuff he played. Digged his reggae style dancing :D Can't believe they ripped his shirt off!

Jessie: ahh he was gd, apart frm gettin crushed evry 5mins haha

Fratellis - we were waiting for the loo at this point! Im not a huge fan anyway.

Queens of The Stone Age - really really good, it was dark by this point so everyone was dancing and having a good time.

Jessie: ahhhhhh yessss tht was kllll wiv our druggy buddies

No one Knows

Rage Against The Machine - AMAZING, wow they were so good (shame we had leave early!) They came on in orange boiler suits and bags over their heads, good stuff - opened with Bombtrack then went into Testify. The atmosphere was great for Rage, only went a bit scary when we got crushed! Thankfully we had been with a group of guys that got us out alive!
It wasn't too crazy and most people were lovely, One of the guys we talked to did get pissed on! Ahaa it was quite funny but gross at the same time.

Jessie: yh the atmosphere was ELECTRIFYING haha

Bulls On Parade

Bulls on Parade 2

Testify

Opening/Bombtrack

Jack Penate

10/10/07

Pete and Jess took me, I'm sure the tickets were birthday present. Before the gig i had no idea who Jack was! We listened to his CD on the way up, which i really liked. He was brilliant live and i had a really good time.