One Night In Buda-fuckin-pest

Have you ever been to the capital city of Hungary? Not yet? Then give it a try. I did - together with my girlfriend Zuzanka - we went down there on the 19. 7. to see the only Robbie Williams concert in central europe. 60 thousand screaming Slovaks, Czechs, Polaks, and, of course, Hungarians. What an amazing concert, what a great show, what a perfectly delivered marketing experience we saw. No kidding! Robbie Williams is for me one of the world´s biggest motherfuckers in today´s showbusiness :) He´s an egoist, a crazy guy, megalomaniac, macho, and a fop, all in one perfectly branded package which undoubtedly deliveres on the brand promise. Some might say his concerts are more an entertainment (even a comedy) than musical performance (singing). It´s definitely a mixture of both - the fun and the musical art. Some may love it, some may quite hate it. But if you want to be successful, to be recognized and loved by the crowd, you´ve got to win the crowd. And the best way how to do it, how to win the crowd is to work with it, to interact with people. That´s valid no matter if you´re a pop-icon or if you´re giving a presentation. Robbie Williams knows the drill very well indeed, so being at the stage and performing live suits him (not surprisingly) well.
As for "Buda-fucking-pest" itself (Robbie´s own words :), one can get lost quite easily there I assume. One has some hard time to even pronounce names of some of the streets, bus/metro stations etc. Let alone remembering those names... We were lucky we found our decent hotel without major "recon" activities in the enemy territory ;) But then we were a little bit surprised at the end of the day anyway, since we had to face the Hungarian reality of not providing the after-concert crowd with enough public transport capacities. Subway just didn´t run after 11 pm. Hereby I´d like to thank an unknown taxi driver who got us safe to our hotel for a bargain price of 15 EUR. God bless this wise man.

T

Here some pics from the concert.