N*E*R*D at the Astoria on Valentine's Day was not only the best thing this year, was one of the most exciting and passionate gigs I've ever been to. The mood pre-gig was some serious idol-worship I'm thinking Michael Jackson, Justin Timberlake type stuff. Every single person just going absolutely fucking mental - obviously all this made more intense because it was only their second ever gig over here, and the only one this year. Just pure non-stop energy, love, strangers hugging each other and grinning like loons, every person singing every word, dancing and moshing all over the place, Pharrell had us all singing anti-war songs (remember this was the night before the huge anti-war march), threw roses to the girls at the front, I felt like we were in a better world for a while there. Ahhh....
― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:37 (twenty-one years ago) link