What A Week..Part One
What a busy week its been. On Monday my friends decided we’d go to Sheffield to see The Sleeping who were supporting Fightsar (or Busted as I always call them cos the singer was in the pop band previously!) I’ve liked them since last year after meeting them on the Victory tour they did with Aiden. We’d been in the bar and I remember thinking that Doug (the singer) was one of the merch guys working the tour then at Liverpool I saw him on stage and was like ooh they’re actually really good. So I saw them again in Nottingham on the Victory tour and ended up hanging out at this godawful bar called Stealth were Cameron the guitarist kidnapped us to. Then I’ve seen them again in February and again in April on the Give It A Name festival and they always remember me so I like to go see them and support them cos they don’t get to play here often. We’d talked to Doug loads in Feb at the Liverpool show cos they were headlining and I just thought he was the sweetest guy, quite fancied him too haha. So as usual when I meet people in bands I like I manage to make a complete twat of myself and that happened this time except I didn’t realise til later. I went to go look at merch and asked the guy when The Sleeping were on and he said after the next band so I knew I hadn’t missed them which was good. Now I had my The Sleeping hoodie on and normally I wouldn’t wear a hoodie or tee of the band I’m going to see but I wanted to show my support since they weren’t the headliners. So I asked the merch guy innocent question, no probs…until I see him on stage PLAYING BASS GUITAR!! I felt like such a knob hahaha. After a few songs my friends went to the bar and I went in the middle and was singing my head off and it was a really good show except the people of Sheffield are fucking boring and were dancing a bit but not much and I don’t think many of them knew who The Sleeping were. I saw Doug after he came off stage and cos I’ve met him a few times he always remembers me and hugged me. He always hugs me when he’s sweaty and its gross haha. I saw him several times that night and had a few conversations with him, he and I both got more and more drunk and it was just such a fun night. After the last band had been on my friends and I decided to go get food and as it was a work night it was probably better that we didn’t stay at the venue cos even though several rock style bands had played this club turned into something really cheesy. So we left. Before we left though we saw Cameron who is the guitarist and is lovely. He seemed very quiet though but apparently he’d just been on the phone to his girlfriend and they have a long distance relationship so it cant be easy. We talked a bit then I found Doug to say goodbye. He said “why?” when I said we were going so I told him Designated Dave wanted to get food but demanded that he put us on the guestlist for the Manchester show, so we worked out how to do it and I just had to wait til the next day. We then got food, I was nearly sick, needed the toilet several thousand times then we picked up Gem and Jess’ friend and took her to Barnsley. I got home at 2ish then because I’d drank so much I was almost sick again and then I think my body must go into shock or something because I spent the rest of my night shivering and I had to get up at 6.30am for work so I decided I’m never drinking again. Maybe one or 2 drinks to get a bit giddy lol, but nothing more than that and I definitely wont be mixing my drinks.
Tuesday came, I kept checking my myspace and I got a message off Doug saying he’d put me + 1 on the guestlist. Gemma and Jess said they weren’t bothered about going cos all I wanted to do was go see the band, meet them afterwards again and then come home cos I was knacked from the night before. So that’s what happened. I wasn’t entirely sure if I was defo going and if I did I’d be going with my bloke but then I was talking to my friend Tash who I met online and was going to see Funeral with and I asked her last minute if she wanted to go. She said yes so we went. It was awesome. I saw Doug again after the show and he said “oh did you get in ok?” I said “no…we’re still outside” and he laughed and said “oh shut up” and we kept seeing him loads after that and talking to him randomly and I was telling tales to Tash about the other bands I’ve seen and been lucky enough to meet, god I was name dropping big style lol. I met Sal (who I thought was the merch guy) properly and good lord is he hot! He was hilarious we kept talking to him too, I bought him a pint as an apology and he was just lush. We talked to Cameron aswell, it was just a brilliant night. I wont write every single thing down that we all talked about but it was just such a good night. Then we walked back to the train station after the last band and after more hugs and fanpics etc and came home.
I’ll update more later on I’m going out now. xxx
Tuesday came, I kept checking my myspace and I got a message off Doug saying he’d put me + 1 on the guestlist. Gemma and Jess said they weren’t bothered about going cos all I wanted to do was go see the band, meet them afterwards again and then come home cos I was knacked from the night before. So that’s what happened. I wasn’t entirely sure if I was defo going and if I did I’d be going with my bloke but then I was talking to my friend Tash who I met online and was going to see Funeral with and I asked her last minute if she wanted to go. She said yes so we went. It was awesome. I saw Doug again after the show and he said “oh did you get in ok?” I said “no…we’re still outside” and he laughed and said “oh shut up” and we kept seeing him loads after that and talking to him randomly and I was telling tales to Tash about the other bands I’ve seen and been lucky enough to meet, god I was name dropping big style lol. I met Sal (who I thought was the merch guy) properly and good lord is he hot! He was hilarious we kept talking to him too, I bought him a pint as an apology and he was just lush. We talked to Cameron aswell, it was just a brilliant night. I wont write every single thing down that we all talked about but it was just such a good night. Then we walked back to the train station after the last band and after more hugs and fanpics etc and came home.
I’ll update more later on I’m going out now. xxx