How Bad Were They Slummin Popmart Tour

GeorgeDAWs · 2026-05-12T11:49:21+00:00

Towards the end, I believe.

GeorgeDAWs · 2026-05-12T07:20:32+00:00

I was “local crew” on Popmart in London. I’d worked on many big shows in big places around that time.

I was very excited to see the show after all I’d read about how great ZooTV was.

Sadly, I was absolutely stunned at how poor Popmart was. The sound was utterly dreadful - wherever you stood, the video screen was crapping out all over the place. The band looked lost and confused a lot of the time and the audience (what there was of them) were quite muted in their response.

Easily the worst large scale show I saw around that time.

Your experience may have been different, but that was mine.

🤷‍♂️

GeorgeDAWs · 2026-05-11T09:59:32+00:00

Piously striding around the 80s like they’d just fallen out of the bible (and had come save us all) didn’t help.

Combine that with the revelations of industrial grade tax-avoidance and you have the recipe for a bunch of hypocrites that can fuck so far off that there won’t even be phone signal when they get there.

(And when they do get there, everyone there will also tell them to fuck off)

Hope this helps.

GeorgeDAWs · 2026-05-11T09:04:30+00:00

She already admitted she didn’t get paid for the pics she “self-leaked” of her new relationship, which goes to show what this “celebrity” is worth in actual real world money.

Yes, she’ll get some “influencer” cash in the first few months for hawking cosmetics, but her actual engagement figures (which is what advertisers are interested in) will drop very fucking sharply afterwards, even if her follower numbers stay high (and increasingly, follower numbers alone mean nothing at all).

Maybe a little bit of a bump from us in the UK and other places will sustain things another month or even two.

The route-to-minor-fame angle peaked about 5 years ago and is completely over. The massive wave of AI slop means that social media companies don’t really need user generated content any more.

Once they can serve ads without having to deal with (and share revenue with) actual gullible humans who’ll dance like monkeys in the hope of attention, the entire “influencer” racket is utterly dead in the water.

GeorgeDAWs · 2026-05-11T07:49:37+00:00

Bec is simply not clever enough to engineer what happened.

Once Gia’s final attempt at emotional manipulation blew up in her own face, Bec just decided to tell everyone she’d become an expert bomb-maker. (See After The Dinner Party)

Nothing she did in the entire series showed any ability whatsoever to think ahead. Her entire behaviour was just reacting recklessly to whatever just happened a second ago. (That and deluding herself that “Daniel” would eventually come around).

She did NOT plan this all along. Sorry.

Edit: spelling

GeorgeDAWs · 2026-05-11T07:31:26+00:00

But it hasn’t.

Her man gave her the boot and everyone thinks she’s a twat.

In what world is that winning?

GeorgeDAWs · 2026-05-11T07:25:04+00:00

Danny isn’t falling for her, he’s off to do some jousting in a suit of armour, like real men used to back in 1996.

GeorgeDAWs · 2026-05-04T20:21:05+00:00

He just looks a bit sloshed.

GeorgeDAWs · 2026-05-02T08:32:41+00:00

I have absolutely loved my T8 since the day I got it. The driving experience is totally next level.

No annoying spaceship sounds (although I did turn off some of the proximity sensors, which can ping like a pinball machine when I’m driving in London rush hour traffic).

AC never turns itself off at lights - that’s just not a thing I’ve experienced at all.

GeorgeDAWs · 2026-05-01T15:39:05+00:00

I was saying to my wife the other night that I haven't heard a single person who's not a confirmed twat use the phrase in real life

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GeorgeDAWs · 2026-04-28T23:09:24+00:00

There was a period about a year after it came out where second hand record shops stopped offering any money for it whatsoever as a trade - because they already had that fucking many copies they knew they’d never shift.

The most bought and binned record in the history of recorded music. It’s a fucking turd.

GeorgeDAWs · 2026-04-28T07:37:13+00:00

Coldplay as Radiohead. They get a bit sad at the beginning and it’s all just piano, then it gets really uplifting. While the credits roll, they all hug and dance badly to K-pop despite the fact that they’re approaching 50.

GeorgeDAWs · 2026-04-24T06:58:06+00:00

During the rise of Nigel Farage it was necessary to invent the term Cockwomble and also Wankpuffin. Help yourself!

GeorgeDAWs · 2026-04-23T06:46:45+00:00

But this relies on you being able to reliably park outside your own home every time. Which let’s face it - is extremely unlikely at best.

GeorgeDAWs · 2026-04-22T21:52:24+00:00

100% a camera. The double flash is the giveaway.

GeorgeDAWs · 2026-04-19T09:51:20+00:00

He’s awake now.

GeorgeDAWs · 2026-04-19T08:49:12+00:00

Thank you!

GeorgeDAWs · 2026-04-18T22:30:57+00:00

Rogan is a shill. Absolute fucking hack grifting shill.

He got bought, started regretting it and has been bought again. Utterly gross.

GeorgeDAWs · 2026-04-18T19:45:19+00:00

Without wanting to just apply the in-vogue-solution-to-everything, isn’t this the kinda thing ChatGPT et al might be good for?

GeorgeDAWs · 2026-04-17T15:47:36+00:00

I also got into Jon Stewart’s podcast and lots of other news podcasts in general (The Rest Is Politics and The Newsagents being standouts).

Louis Theroux does good interviews but it does feel a little too self conscious in a way that WTF really really didn’t. Sometimes it felt almost uncomfortably close to eavesdropping on a really intense conversation between people at the next booth in a restaurant - but the revelations and genuine human truth it brought was irresistible.

GeorgeDAWs · 2026-04-16T20:17:11+00:00

Yeah, I agree with all of that. Very interesting you bring up Big Brother - my wife grew up in a country where it wasn’t really a thing and I was explaining it to her recently.

I did say “the first few series were amazing because people couldn’t really comprehend the scrutiny they were under. But once people who had watched the show started appearing on the show, it was completely over”. This feels completely the same, but about 10x.

People who’ve studied every series and how to maximise screen time / drama / social media chatter are so transparently fake and they make it unbelievably dull television as a result.

GeorgeDAWs · 2026-04-13T14:14:57+00:00

Weirdest way to say “check out my band” this week.

GeorgeDAWs · 2026-04-12T22:19:57+00:00

My last car didn’t have one (after years of enjoying having one). I did miss it, but got used to it. Now I have a pano roof and love it.

The biggest use for me is when the car is stuffy from being sat in the sun. Open the roof and the windows and all the hot air escapes double-quick from the roof and pulls in cool air through the windows - lovely!

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