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I just had a great couple of days.
Yesterday, I went to Brighton for most of the day to get advertisers for the magazine. Meh, could have been better, could have been worse.
Anyway, after eating a very healthy dinner at Burger King, I headed down to the Concorde 2 to interview Brigade. :-D And it was really, really good. It was easily one of, if not the, best interviews I've ever done. It was just me & Will in their tour van chatting, which was really nice. I felt the most relaxed I've ever been in an interview, it was just really good.
The gig itself was surprisingly good, despite being terrifying - I've never seen so many emos in my life!! It was a really pop gig as well, it kind of reminded me of like, Busted. But without the fucking whistles. Seriously, most of the crowd was teenage girls squealing and screeching their love for Wil Francis of Aiden, urghhh.
But it was actually quite a good gig. Serpico opened the show, and they were quite typical but very bouncy and catchy so I enjoyed them. Brigade were on next and it was pretty annoying because I had a photo pass - and we weren't allowed in front of the barrier?! Yeah, okay. What the FUCK is the point in the photo pass then?! So I have some pretty shit photos, I hope some of them can be saved. Then again, I'm not really much of a photographer, but Brigade only had 5 spaces on their guestlist so I wasn't allowed a +1 for Toady. :-(
They were good live though, but I felt they didn't play a good selection of songs. THEY DIDN'T EVEN PLAY MEET ME AT MY FUNERAL. I was fucking gutted, I've wanted to see them live for a couple of years now, and that's one of my favourite songs ever! And they didn't even play it! I actually had a go at Will afterwards, hahahaa.
Kill Hannah came onstage with neon-green laser beams coming out of their guitar headstocks, it was fantastic haha. They were alright live, nothing really special but they got the crowd going and I quite like their music.
Aiden were also surprisingly good. I didn't enjoy the music THAT much, but they were really entertaining. They made the crowd sit down and jump up (a la Zebrahead), they made everyone put their arms round each other and huddle forwards so Wil could tell us to follow our dreams and "NEVER, EVER let anyone stop you."... and lol, someone threw a glowstick and Wil was like, 'what the fuck, this isn't an Enter fucking Shikari gig', and he started beat-boxing hahahaah, it was hilarious. Then later on, another glowstick was thrown and he started beat-boxing again LOL. They were just really good overall, I enjoyed them a hell of a lot more than I thought I would.
Anyway, I happened to bump into Craig and James so they gave me a lift home, which saved me a lot of worries. They also tormented me with Bring Me The Horizon most of the way home. Bastards. I also met this really cool girl called Alex, she's done so much stuff, like photo-passing at Glastonbury, interviewing Madina Lake, Cobra Starship & Atreyu, all this amazing stuff - and she's younger than me! PLUS she's met Dave Grohl. Oh, I am so NOT jealous much.
Today, I woke up at 8am on five hours sleep. I felt pretty exhausted all day, yet it's almost 2.30am now and I'm still awake - with work tomorrow morning. Anyway, today was nothing special. I worked all day, and I've just felt generally happy. :-)
I was supposed to go out to a Journalist Works meet-up tonight, but I got home pretty late so I would have turned up late, and I ended up just not being bothered about it. I was "supposed" to (i.e. wanted to) interview Good Charlotte tomorrow night, but that's not gonna happen. Then on Sunday night, I'm going to a Johnny Panic gig. What was going to be an immensely busy weekend has turned out to be pretty quiet, really.
And now, the bed beckons me. Although I'm sitting on it, so maybe it's the pillow. Whatever, I'm rambling. Goodnight! |
cheerful
excited
amused
bored