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Bring Me The Horizon: March 2008
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Thursday, 27 March 2008. And so it begins. I'll burn every bridge that I cross, and find some beautiful place to get lost". Freshness stung our faces as we stepped off our flight onto Trondheimian tarmac and towards the tiny airport of Norway's ex-capital. An uneventful flight was preceded by unimpressed check-in staff as I unravelled my passport from the waterproof pouch in my gleaming new moneybelt. "Overkill? I suggested, "yes" he replied, dryly. And hitchhiking to hell. The headlights are in full beam.
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Bring Me The Horizon: January 2008
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008. It will show you places where I am and have been. Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.). Tuesday, 22 January 2008. After much pestering and smelling something fishy from my nose, my visa support chappy admitted,. Which means if I hadn't asked he would have had my support documents ready for 17th March (ring any bells? A full 10 days before my departure. Why can't they just tell me the truth? Hep A and B vacs yesterday in ...
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Bring Me The Horizon: Visa Vie
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Saturday, 20 December 2008. Funny at that time in the morning), the soft rap of knuckles against the door and the heavily Russified "Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike. Wek up! I dutifully obeyed and was within the hour queuing at one of two tiny windows of the packed Kruskovo ticket booth, "Moskva Pashalsta". Seeing that I was approaching wits end and speaking some basic English she sat me down with tea and cake and picked up the phone. A few calls later and she had found me an address. After triple checking...The X...
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Bring Me The Horizon: Not Moscow (Zelenograd)
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Monday, 10 November 2008. Walking through the Neo-Renaissance frontage (thanks Wiki), and leaving my Couchsurfing clan behind after an afternoon in St Pete's Chambers of Horrors which was entertaining despite the whole thing being in Russian. Very Madame Tussauds. Perhaps they had run out of material when they presented the murder in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment as real. Zelenograd. A place I had believed to be a suburb of el capital. I was pleasantly wrong. I had seen and read of 'Duchas' (Russian ...
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Bring Me The Horizon: One Day I Will Leave This City
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Thursday, 11 September 2008. One Day I Will Leave This City. You know the rainy days they ain't so bad when you're the king. Stumbling, trundling reluctantly back into the arms of the waiting Leningrad on our local train service with seats as wooden as the expressions of the locals that rode them. Besieged by tired, flyaway thoughts and memories collapsing into dreams. Did that just happen? The train seller hops from the platform of an unnamed station and into our carriage. The mobile train seller. Back ...
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Bring Me The Horizon: September 2008
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Thursday, 11 September 2008. One Day I Will Leave This City. You know the rainy days they ain't so bad when you're the king. Stumbling, trundling reluctantly back into the arms of the waiting Leningrad on our local train service with seats as wooden as the expressions of the locals that rode them. Besieged by tired, flyaway thoughts and memories collapsing into dreams. Did that just happen? The train seller hops from the platform of an unnamed station and into our carriage. The mobile train seller. Back ...
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Bring Me The Horizon: November 2008
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Monday, 10 November 2008. Walking through the Neo-Renaissance frontage (thanks Wiki), and leaving my Couchsurfing clan behind after an afternoon in St Pete's Chambers of Horrors which was entertaining despite the whole thing being in Russian. Very Madame Tussauds. Perhaps they had run out of material when they presented the murder in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment as real. Zelenograd. A place I had believed to be a suburb of el capital. I was pleasantly wrong. I had seen and read of 'Duchas' (Russian ...
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Bring Me The Horizon: C Major
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Sunday, 1 February 2009. After the final I awoke in another couchsurfer's home in the city centre - she had kindly put me and Bastian up for the night as the last train back towards Djim's direction departe. D before the final began. With a new phone and my visa registration in the bag I finally got round to exploring some of the capital with Djim and his girlfriend Kristina. The tour was mainly an exploration of The Arbat, "Moscow's mo. U shall not pass! In the mother tongue. I couldn't get enough o...
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Bring Me The Horizon: April 2008
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Monday, 28 April 2008. Waking up in a Plaskart is a more difficult job than going to sleep in one. There was barely room to manouvre my 6 ft frame out of the bunk. I was twice close to round-housing one of my more delicate co-passengers. The fun continues as each traveller attempts to carry out their unique morning ritual in the kind of personal space a factory-farmed. Chicken would shudder at. I got bored and strolled away from the desolation and into town. Petrozavodsk had much to offer and over the co...
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Bring Me The Horizon: Champions and Thieves
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Thursday, 8 January 2009. In my mind it was to be the consummate battle between good and evil; those that had built glory and those that had bought it. No, wait I'm jumping, see? Invariably the photographers' finger is off-cue and a re-jump is necessary. By the third or fourth take the jumper has lost more heart than an actor under the direction of Francis Ford Coppola. but it was amusing to watch until Bastian turned up. Champions don't bottle it when the pressure is on. 11 January 2009 at 15:33. The Go...