The_Edge89
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Looks like fun.
Shit, that looks scary!
And on them shutting down booths and arresting people. I hope U2 stay out of there in the future if this is what will happen.
Looks like fun.
I hate to say it, and feel free to agree with me, but if the booths go against "the way things are done" in Russia, it's their right to shut them down and I would hope that, like playing in Sarajevo w/o agreeing with or supporting what goes on there, U2 would be able to separate music and politics for the good of the fans and not stir things up more.
or maybe I'm just tired and cranky
I hate to say it, and feel free to agree with me, but if the booths go against "the way things are done" in Russia, it's their right to shut them down and I would hope that, like playing in Sarajevo w/o agreeing with or supporting what goes on there, U2 would be able to separate music and politics for the good of the fans and not stir things up more.
or maybe I'm just tired and cranky
Protesters being arrested, okay, I get that.
But I do wonder about the booths being shut down - I can only imagine there was a lot of preparation between U2's camp and the Russian folks, and they would have let them know what would be going on before and during the show.
Someone mentioned there was a Get Up, Stand Up bit after SBS? If that's the case, that might have been it!
It was still a bit scary when I went 8 years ago. At least the neighborhood we lived in was scary. The building had several former KGB agents living there, and there was gunfire occasionally late at night, etc. Everything else was completely fine. If we were a little too noisy or obnoxious out in public we'd get disapproving looks from the police, but we'd shut the hell up pretty quickly.
And on being cranky today. I'm the same. PMS sucks.
Yeah, being under that kind of scrutiny, you'd soon be on your best behaviour in public, wouldn't you?
Umm, yes. We got into enough trouble trying to exchange money at a bank because we hadn't declared it at the airport. Nobody told us that we had to declare every dollar we had - we had just assumed it was excessive amounts that you had to declare. They were SO pissed off at us, and even our translator was worried for us. When a local gets scared, that's NOT a good thing.
Ahh, memories!
ETA - oooh pretty pic!
So what happened?
See? The military were just there to protect the eyesight of the concert-goers!
As far as I can remember, after about an hour or so of us sitting in their waiting room not knowing wtf was going on, they came back and exchanged it. But we were told they were making an exception for us just once, never do it again, you need to obey our rules, yadda yadda. I know I was freaking out the entire time, as they had left with our American money (we couldn't even bring Canadian $$ for some reason ), and I didn't know if we'd even get THAT back. I'll have to search for my journal that I kept during that month and see if I'm remembering correctly. It was pretty crazy.
Time for lunch. Thank god - I'm so hungry!