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[funkypunk]

5 years ago...doesn't seem like it. Seems both more and less time than that. Scary day, sad thoughts and memories.

[Brian Damage]

Feels like two years, and they say time goes fast.

I was thinking today about a holiday I had back in 2001 with one of my kids, came form Australia back to NZ in November of that year. Just after 9/11, they actually took my sons wheelchair apart to make sure it wasn't a pipe bomb, at Melbourne airport. The reason I thought of it was a guy who comes in to work, originally from Manchester, lost a brother in the 7/7 attack. He has lived here for years, but was still close to the brother he he lost. Poor bugger was not a happy man today.

[Sal Paradise]

war, war is stupid

and people are stupid

[Sal Paradise]

funks, what memories do you have of that day?

[funkypunk]

funks, what memories do you have of that day?

Getting to work about 10 and being treated like someone who everyone had thought was dead, and keeping trying to ring friends to see if they were ok but the phones were all jammed up so it was hard trying to get through. Ha - finally getting through to my mum out int he sticks to tell her I'm alive and she hadn't heard a thing about it. Had to tell her to turn the tv on.
Going out and finding Resa amid the chaos - that was done through this board, it was the only thing that seemed to be working. Qotsa were supposed to be playing in London that evebing, that's why she was here.
Having to walk out of central London because there was no transport.

And the next night, I remember going into town with Chubbykipper, Dee, Alex and a couple of others as a 'fuck you we're not giving in' thing, and seeing all these pcitures some woman had put up of her missing fiancee. That was heartbreaking seeing them, they were everywhere because she was so desperate for him to be found.

I still feel lucky, coz the Northern Line had broken down that morning (which is why a bus was bombed instead).
Scary day, coudl see fear everywhere.

You?

[Eric_Hunt]

Going out and finding Resa amid the chaos -

did she really die in a car crash?  

[funkypunk]

Going out and finding Resa amid the chaos -

did she really die in a car crash?  

Yes, but that's not allowed to be discussed here.

[StrangeLight]

Going out and finding Resa amid the chaos -

did she really die in a car crash?  

Yes, but that's not allowed to be discussed here.

really? i remember a lot of euros being skeptical about her death, and a lot of otherwise good people turning really fucking ugly when they accused her of faking it. so if she really died, why can't we talk about it?

[Courtney]

Fuck, Ressa died? Shit that is horrible.

[funkypunk]

Going out and finding Resa amid the chaos -

did she really die in a car crash?  

Yes, but that's not allowed to be discussed here.

really? i remember a lot of euros being skeptical about her death, and a lot of otherwise good people turning really fucking ugly when they accused her of faking it. so if she really died, why can't we talk about it?

Can you talk about that in another thread please? I just started this coz I realised it's 5 years ago that the tubes were bombed.

[fifiroxy]

I narrowly avoided being blown up that day
Much to everyones dissapointment

[funkypunk]

I narrowly avoided being blown up that day
Much to everyones dissapointment

Shit, what happened?

[sashdogmonkey]

I was late to work that day and only got one stop on the tube when they told us to get off as 'London Underground was closing down'.  I bobbed it as I thought that is not normal.  I called a few people who looked online and said there had been a derailment or something.  I got on a bus to carry in into work and then my sister called me and said get off the bus, I am looking at footage on TV of a bus that had been bombed.  I leapt off the bus and walked back to my sister's place where I was living at the time.

The few weeks after that were horrible.  Finsbury Park which was my stop at the time was covered in missing posters of a girl who not long later was identified as dead but the posters were still there.

I couldn't get on the tube for a while and London was full of armed police.

:-(

[Courtney]

London bombings happened literally 5 days before I went there. It was an eerie time to visit London and Europe as a whole.

[fifiroxy]

I narrowly avoided being blown up that day
Much to everyones dissapointment

Shit, what happened?

I stayed up all night getting trashed with some people in a hotel, after seeing EODM (with Josh) supporting Har Mar Superstar, left at about 8.30 and got the Northern Line
Decided fortuitously NOT to take the Edgware line, saying to my friend "I cant be bothered to change"
Laziness saved my life

Weirdly this American girl at the hotel had been saying to my friend who is half Irish half Pakistani "You Look Like A Terrorist" all night
Im sure she still thinks that we did it
Operation Osiris and all that

[funkypunk]

I was late to work that day and only got one stop on the tube when they told us to get off as 'London Underground was closing down'.  I bobbed it as I thought that is not normal.  I called a few people who looked online and said there had been a derailment or something.  I got on a bus to carry in into work and then my sister called me and said get off the bus, I am looking at footage on TV of a bus that had been bombed.  I leapt off the bus and walked back to my sister's place where I was living at the time.

The few weeks after that were horrible.  Finsbury Park which was my stop at the time was covered in missing posters of a girl who not long later was identified as dead but the posters were still there.

I couldn't get on the tube for a while and London was full of armed police.

:-(

I think I read that they never even found the body of the guy who's picture was put up all round Tavistock Square and the surroundign streets by his fiancee, only traces of blood and stuff on the bus. Those posters will haunt me for life, she was so very desperate to find him. So very sad.

[fifiroxy]

I was late to work that day and only got one stop on the tube when they told us to get off as 'London Underground was closing down'.  I bobbed it as I thought that is not normal.  I called a few people who looked online and said there had been a derailment or something.  I got on a bus to carry in into work and then my sister called me and said get off the bus, I am looking at footage on TV of a bus that had been bombed.  I leapt off the bus and walked back to my sister's place where I was living at the time.

The few weeks after that were horrible.  Finsbury Park which was my stop at the time was covered in missing posters of a girl who not long later was identified as dead but the posters were still there.

I couldn't get on the tube for a while and London was full of armed police.

:-(

I think I read that they never even found the body of the guy who's picture was put up all round Tavistock Square and the surroundign streets by his fiancee, only traces of blood and stuff on the bus. Those posters will haunt me for life, she was so very desperate to find him. So very sad.

Londoners are hardened to this kind of thing, they cope with it amazingly well

[funkypunk]

I was late to work that day and only got one stop on the tube when they told us to get off as 'London Underground was closing down'.  I bobbed it as I thought that is not normal.  I called a few people who looked online and said there had been a derailment or something.  I got on a bus to carry in into work and then my sister called me and said get off the bus, I am looking at footage on TV of a bus that had been bombed.  I leapt off the bus and walked back to my sister's place where I was living at the time.

The few weeks after that were horrible.  Finsbury Park which was my stop at the time was covered in missing posters of a girl who not long later was identified as dead but the posters were still there.

I couldn't get on the tube for a while and London was full of armed police.

:-(

I think I read that they never even found the body of the guy who's picture was put up all round Tavistock Square and the surroundign streets by his fiancee, only traces of blood and stuff on the bus. Those posters will haunt me for life, she was so very desperate to find him. So very sad.

Londoners are hardened to this kind of thing, they cope with it amazingly well

At least the second set of cunts got their mixture wrong and didn't explode.

[Sal Paradise]

funks, I have no experience of that day. I was in the relative safety of rural essex. I was still a schoolkid.

[Mr. Long]

That day I will never forget. Not because I was there but because of how it all panned out.

It was my 18th birthday and the day I was meant to have lunch with my rents in London and then see QOTSA for the first time ever and at Somerset House an amazing venue so the night before I was sovery excited....

...my Dad went to work the next morning to London as always, my Mum woke me up and was in panic mode...

Luckily we got hold of my Dad and he was fine, but certainly a birthday I wont forget but not because of the right reasons.

I always have a thought for those that died that day.

[Sal Paradise]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdSpwEpEnv4

[fifiroxy]

That day I will never forget. Not because I was there but because of how it all panned out.

It was my 18th birthday and the day I was meant to have lunch with my rents in London and then see QOTSA for the first time ever and at Somerset House an amazing venue so the night before I was sovery excited....

...my Dad went to work the next morning to London as always, my Mum woke me up and was in panic mode...

Luckily we got hold of my Dad and he was fine, but certainly a birthday I wont forget but not because of the right reasons.

I always have a thought for those that died that day.

Well Said

[CJ]

I was late to work that day and only got one stop on the tube when they told us to get off as 'London Underground was closing down'.  I bobbed it as I thought that is not normal.  I called a few people who looked online and said there had been a derailment or something.  I got on a bus to carry in into work and then my sister called me and said get off the bus, I am looking at footage on TV of a bus that had been bombed.  I leapt off the bus and walked back to my sister's place where I was living at the time.

The few weeks after that were horrible.  Finsbury Park which was my stop at the time was covered in missing posters of a girl who not long later was identified as dead but the posters were still there.

I couldn't get on the tube for a while and London was full of armed police.

:-(

I think I read that they never even found the body of the guy who's picture was put up all round Tavistock Square and the surroundign streets by his fiancee, only traces of blood and stuff on the bus. Those posters will haunt me for life, she was so very desperate to find him. So very sad.

Londoners are hardened to this kind of thing, they cope with it amazingly well

I remember my fam talking about the IRA bombings in Brum.
Takes more than that to shake old Albion.
But it hurts me more to think of all the kids that die in a Helmand province for absolutely nothing.

[fifiroxy]

I was late to work that day and only got one stop on the tube when they told us to get off as 'London Underground was closing down'.  I bobbed it as I thought that is not normal.  I called a few people who looked online and said there had been a derailment or something.  I got on a bus to carry in into work and then my sister called me and said get off the bus, I am looking at footage on TV of a bus that had been bombed.  I leapt off the bus and walked back to my sister's place where I was living at the time.

The few weeks after that were horrible.  Finsbury Park which was my stop at the time was covered in missing posters of a girl who not long later was identified as dead but the posters were still there.

I couldn't get on the tube for a while and London was full of armed police.

:-(

I think I read that they never even found the body of the guy who's picture was put up all round Tavistock Square and the surroundign streets by his fiancee, only traces of blood and stuff on the bus. Those posters will haunt me for life, she was so very desperate to find him. So very sad.

Londoners are hardened to this kind of thing, they cope with it amazingly well

I remember my fam talking about the IRA bombings in Brum.
Takes more than that to shake old Albion.
But it hurts me more to think of all the kids that die in a Helmand province for absolutely nothing.

They chose to join the army
there is a difference

[CJ]

I was late to work that day and only got one stop on the tube when they told us to get off as 'London Underground was closing down'.  I bobbed it as I thought that is not normal.  I called a few people who looked online and said there had been a derailment or something.  I got on a bus to carry in into work and then my sister called me and said get off the bus, I am looking at footage on TV of a bus that had been bombed.  I leapt off the bus and walked back to my sister's place where I was living at the time.

The few weeks after that were horrible.  Finsbury Park which was my stop at the time was covered in missing posters of a girl who not long later was identified as dead but the posters were still there.

I couldn't get on the tube for a while and London was full of armed police.

:-(

I think I read that they never even found the body of the guy who's picture was put up all round Tavistock Square and the surroundign streets by his fiancee, only traces of blood and stuff on the bus. Those posters will haunt me for life, she was so very desperate to find him. So very sad.

Londoners are hardened to this kind of thing, they cope with it amazingly well

I remember my fam talking about the IRA bombings in Brum.
Takes more than that to shake old Albion.
But it hurts me more to think of all the kids that die in a Helmand province for absolutely nothing.

They chose to join the army
there is a difference

Good point.

[funkypunk]

That day I will never forget. Not because I was there but because of how it all panned out.

It was my 18th birthday and the day I was meant to have lunch with my rents in London and then see QOTSA for the first time ever and at Somerset House an amazing venue so the night before I was sovery excited....

...my Dad went to work the next morning to London as always, my Mum woke me up and was in panic mode...

Luckily we got hold of my Dad and he was fine, but certainly a birthday I wont forget but not because of the right reasons.

I always have a thought for those that died that day.

Well put Adam.

[Travis Bickle]

I stayed up all night getting trashed with some people in a hotel, after seeing EODM (with Josh) supporting Har Mar Superstar, left at about 8.30 and got the Northern Line
Decided fortuitously NOT to take the Edgware line, saying to my friend "I cant be bothered to change"
Laziness saved my life

Similar story here. I went to EODM with Resa and Sofia which led to post-show drinks at Crobar and ended up crashing at Sofia's flat in Holborn... left her place on the morning of 7/7, and if it weren't for the fact that I genuinely enjoy walking through central London when I'm in no real rush to get where I'm going... who knows?

Remember seeing all the police activity around Edgware Road, but didn't know the whole story until I got home. Hard to believe it's five years already... I love London, and that was surely one of the saddest days in the history of this great city. Religion poisons everything.

[Mother Superior]

I can just remember the whole excitement of the morning, knowing we were coming up to Somerset House and meeting up with you lot for the first time.
I came back from walking Remus, and signed in to see what people were saying about the impending gig (that we`d been really looking forward to cos of the previous cancelled gig).

It was horrific watching it unfold, and I must admit at the time I was pretty pissed off that the gig would most likely be cancelled, and we probably wouldn`t be able to get there anyway.
But I hadn`t seen the enormity of it by then.

Then realisation set in, and we gradually traced all of the people we knew from here that were going to be in London that morning.

I think its a major part of the reason we`ve become such good friends in da real world too.

[fifiroxy]

I heard that QOTSA were never going to play that gig at Somerset House anyway...not why though

[Chubbykipper]

I heard that QOTSA were never going to play that gig at Somerset House anyway...not why though

Maybe they had inside information.

As far as I knew it was a go ahead. Everyone attending certainly thought so.