The terror twins do London...
I swear, next time elvenpirate and I are let loose on the population, I'm gonna start keeping a tally. Of all the people who seem convinced we're lovers (the receptionist at Cold Steel, the guy in the hotel, random peeps in Camden), people who think we're weird (everyone who comes in contact with us) and all the people who moved away (which is brilliant when people sit down in restaurants/pubs on the table next to us, then move to a different table a few minutes later)
I also swear that leaving Paul and meeting Chel is the best things that have ever happened to me. Its like my confidence has bounded like 500% since. It really does help having someone there saying 'yes, you CAN do it'
Like... if three months ago, you had told me I would drive down to Central London on a Saturday, I would have laughed like if you had grown a second head.
But, Saturday, that was exactly what I did. Down the A5, down the M6, Down the M1, and onto the North Circular, round to Shepherd's Bush. And we only got slightly lost the once. I felt... actually really proud. Stupidly, so. but hey!
We found the hotel really easily. And it was a brilliant hotel. The Abbey Hotel its called. It's only a very small hotel but was really great. The guy who runs it is very friendly, its clean, tidy, neat... don't have any complaints about it - its like 50 ards from the Empire
And Is fully recommended to anyone who goes to the Shepherd's Bush Empire.
(Again, if anyone missed it - http://abbeyhotel.org )
Where was I?
Oh, right.
Yeah.
The hotel
Very small. 11 rooms. Old victorian house and now a B&B. All hte rooms are en-suite. And very entertainingly so. The room we were in, the bathroom was originally like a walk-in wardrobe, type. Now converted.
Cue many many 'coming out of hte closet' jokes.
So, then one of the main reasons we were in London - for Chel to get her nipple pierced. So off we toddled down to Camden to find www.coldsteel.co.uk so she could get it. And where she proceeded to make me choose what colour bar she was getting *roll eyes*
Anyway, we would both recommend Cold Steel - very friendly, very professional. Chel says 'its good and nice and welcoming and stuff' so there you go.
Then we went shopping at Selfridges for me to get moisturiser. Whimpered at the price. £37. Dior Hydracure for Very Dry Skin. Its expensive but it works so its more than worth it. I have no acne. I had acne, used it before I went to bed, woke up without acne
Dior is fucking love!
Lunch at Garfunkels. Scaring people who sat next to us and they went and sat somehere else. We weren't even trying, which was brilliant.
Then onto the main event.
Taking Back Sunday.
Our tickets were 3rd level. But there were a group of people who didn't have seats together and did we want to swap for 2nd level.
Yup.
So yay for better seats.
Only, not.
Because there were two couples in front of us. Emo scene-kids who didn't stop making out the whole gig. It was really gross. We kept wanting to throw ice-cubes at them and tell us to get a room *laugh*
Beat Union, the support group were crap. So that when/how Lullaby was written.
Taking Back Sunday themselves were... a lot better than I was expecting. They pretty much kicked-ass. Great gig. Knew how to work the crowd and like when they were saying how much they appreciated everyone coming to the gig and how overwhelming it was, you really believed them
The only downside was that Adam got... well... pretty boring to watch, really. Great voice, emo-cute but.. well... boring performer. All he ever did was like play with the microphone, swinging it around and I spent half the gig waiting for him to drop it, twat someone with it or choke himself. And none of the abve happened LMFAO
Think thats about it for the weekend.
elvenpirate did I miss anything?
So, now we just look forward to the next time we terrorise people in London. Which is in less than two weeks time. This time at St Giles Hotel and the Astoria when we see Simple Plan on the 11th Feb! :D
I also swear that leaving Paul and meeting Chel is the best things that have ever happened to me. Its like my confidence has bounded like 500% since. It really does help having someone there saying 'yes, you CAN do it'
Like... if three months ago, you had told me I would drive down to Central London on a Saturday, I would have laughed like if you had grown a second head.
But, Saturday, that was exactly what I did. Down the A5, down the M6, Down the M1, and onto the North Circular, round to Shepherd's Bush. And we only got slightly lost the once. I felt... actually really proud. Stupidly, so. but hey!
We found the hotel really easily. And it was a brilliant hotel. The Abbey Hotel its called. It's only a very small hotel but was really great. The guy who runs it is very friendly, its clean, tidy, neat... don't have any complaints about it - its like 50 ards from the Empire
And Is fully recommended to anyone who goes to the Shepherd's Bush Empire.
(Again, if anyone missed it - http://abbeyhotel.org )
Where was I?
Oh, right.
Yeah.
The hotel
Very small. 11 rooms. Old victorian house and now a B&B. All hte rooms are en-suite. And very entertainingly so. The room we were in, the bathroom was originally like a walk-in wardrobe, type. Now converted.
Cue many many 'coming out of hte closet' jokes.
So, then one of the main reasons we were in London - for Chel to get her nipple pierced. So off we toddled down to Camden to find www.coldsteel.co.uk so she could get it. And where she proceeded to make me choose what colour bar she was getting *roll eyes*
Anyway, we would both recommend Cold Steel - very friendly, very professional. Chel says 'its good and nice and welcoming and stuff' so there you go.
Then we went shopping at Selfridges for me to get moisturiser. Whimpered at the price. £37. Dior Hydracure for Very Dry Skin. Its expensive but it works so its more than worth it. I have no acne. I had acne, used it before I went to bed, woke up without acne
Dior is fucking love!
Lunch at Garfunkels. Scaring people who sat next to us and they went and sat somehere else. We weren't even trying, which was brilliant.
Then onto the main event.
Taking Back Sunday.
Our tickets were 3rd level. But there were a group of people who didn't have seats together and did we want to swap for 2nd level.
Yup.
So yay for better seats.
Only, not.
Because there were two couples in front of us. Emo scene-kids who didn't stop making out the whole gig. It was really gross. We kept wanting to throw ice-cubes at them and tell us to get a room *laugh*
Beat Union, the support group were crap. So that when/how Lullaby was written.
Taking Back Sunday themselves were... a lot better than I was expecting. They pretty much kicked-ass. Great gig. Knew how to work the crowd and like when they were saying how much they appreciated everyone coming to the gig and how overwhelming it was, you really believed them
The only downside was that Adam got... well... pretty boring to watch, really. Great voice, emo-cute but.. well... boring performer. All he ever did was like play with the microphone, swinging it around and I spent half the gig waiting for him to drop it, twat someone with it or choke himself. And none of the abve happened LMFAO
Think thats about it for the weekend.
elvenpirate did I miss anything?
So, now we just look forward to the next time we terrorise people in London. Which is in less than two weeks time. This time at St Giles Hotel and the Astoria when we see Simple Plan on the 11th Feb! :D