24HPP in Portugal

Some cool news... 24HPP opens this friday here in Portugal and to celebrate it those good people at LUX (Portugal's trendiest club, where the likes of Kruder & Dorfmeister, Air, Dzian & Khamian hang out) are going to stage a huge party with Rodrigo Leão (one of our best musicians) and his friends playing a set comprising only NO, JD and Mondays songs. Sounds good or what? Just one thing: this will happen in Lisbon... some 330 km from me (HUGE sigh!)

Sorry George, just to recap ... what exactly was the good news?

Hello Huntsy! Well what exactly are the good news, you ask? Nice question, I don't know either!

Is it just me, or does anyone else think it's rather ironic and cool that NO is popular in Portugal?

Yes, what's ironic about it? It's not that NO are hugely popular among the masses (our present Top 3 consists of that colombian bimbo on nº 1, James' live album on nº 2 -yes it's true, they're massive here, maybe it has something to do with Saul Davies, their violinist/guitarrist, living among us after marrying a portuguese, and Coldplay at nº 3) but you know that old saying "not a lot of people bought Velvet Underground albums, but everyone who did started a band"? Well here in Portugal you could say that not many people bought Factory's bands' records, but almost everyone either started a band (like Rodrigo Leão who I spoke about in the beginning of this thread) or had a radio/TV show: António Sérgio, our very own John Peel, is a huge NO/JD fan and he had, no, he still has, a lot of influence among our youth (I'm not a kid anymore, but he had a big part in the formation of my tastes) since the early 80's: the name of his radio show is commonly and widely used as a slang for alternative music! So it's no surprise that 24HPP is having a national release (not many NOOLiners can say that about their countries, can they?), courtesy of Portugal's biggest media company- usually they just release your average, formulaic Hollywood blockbuster.

Hence the "cool news" I was talking about...

Sorry George, again, but ... what, exactly, is the 'cool news'?

Duh!!!!!!