Tales of an Amorphic Destiny

May Day Long Weekend – Eurovision, Monaco and Rock Band!

May 26th, 2008 at 08:33pm James

The May Day long weekend lay ahead of us. Kevin’s copy of Rock Band for Xbox had arrived complete with guitar, mic and drum kit (!), the final of the Eurovision song contest was on Saturday, the Monaco GP1 was on Sunday, and we were very well stocked with beer, meat and BBQ coals. Game on!

So the day finally came when Kevin stayed home for the delivery of the much anticipated “Rock Band”! Hooray for Kevin!! Two guitars, a microphone, and a drum kit all projected on the big screen at The Grove. In combination with huge amounts of beer, cider, vodka, bbq food and fish pie lovingly made by Joe what more could a bunch of Beamers and friends want?

So the party started with the boys off to do some shopping and some cooking while the girls (Chloe, Sarah, Garvita and Lynda) jumped in and formed the first band. I would just like to say girls ROCK!!

But we knew our time of dominating the game would be short-lived as more boys arrived including the ever so competitive Party Dave who was keen to get straight in there.

We feasted on Joe’s pies, Garvita’s samosas and James’ marinated chicken as well as an array of German sausages.

Rock Band was/is truly awesome. Guitar Hero was always great fun, but the addition of vocals and drums makes the whole band experience so much more fun. The drums are especially cool and it took all of our powers combined to manhandle Kev from the drum stool…

The games continued until the wee hours of the morning before a bit of sleep for some, in preparation of the next day of partying.

Saturday started with the usual bacon and egg rolls which James cooked up for everyone. This was followed by sitting around in the backyard having a few drinks and catching up with Lynda’s sister Rose who had just landed from Australia that morning. Before we knew it, it was time to light the next bbq and get cooking before Eurovision started.

Kelvin and Christina came around to join the fun, as did Kev’s mate Carl. I ran around and organised a quick sweep and printed out the drinking rules for eurovision.

A jug of fruity shooter was made. A shot of which was to be consumed when our country from the sweep was playing. “Poor” Kevin had 3 countries in the sweep and had to have 3 shots – he REALLY hated that! We’d all had enough drinks by this time to be convinced that wearing the Viking helmet while our band played was also a good idea.

I think a few people were surprised that watching Eurovision could be so much fun. But the cheesy songs, funny accents and ridiculous dancing and props combined with Terry Wogan’s famous dry commentary resulted in huge laughs all round. It seemed not a moment went by without a shout of “Use of Props!” or “Keychange” meaning that we all had to drink. I bet Little Adam can hardly wait for next year!!

Sarah was the eventual winner with Russia and picked up the winning glass of coinage and the last shot – yummy!

There was plenty more Rockband to be played after Eurovision with Chloe fronting the band with consistent scores over 95% (but on easy). The drumming became too hard as more drinks were consumed but the band played on until the early hours of the morning.

Sunday was a wind-down day. The rain outside was a good excuse to be lazy so we ordered pizza and settled in to watch the Monaco Grand Prix. Afterward what else could we do but play more Rock Band??? Again it went well into the wee hours…

Monday there were still a few stragglers who didn’t want to give up but the weekend finally came to an end and the rockband tour which included 3 dates at the same venue was complete – until next time…….

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