Hammersmith Horror
OK, not horror. Not even close to horrible, but I couldn't resist the title. Kate Bush's "Before the Dawn" was possibly the the best concert/production I've ever seen.
Adj. and I got to the Hammersmith Apollo a little after 17:30 (for a 19:45 show where they don't open the doors until 18:00). We were meeting someone she knows loosely and his boyfriend in the queue. Security was pretty tight; they really DID check my ID (twice) to make sure that the tickets had my name on them and that I was the person who bought them. The crowd skewed older (no surprise, really), but there was a good mix of people.
We stopped off at the merch stand for programme books and tee shirts (plus a lapel pin for me) and hung out talking until they opened the seats for the hall.
Now, I knew we had good seats, because I'd looked on a map -- Row E, seats 20 and 21. What I didn't know was that they'd build the stage out. So we walked forward. And we walked forward. And we got to Row E.
It was the first row. As in, the very first row. As in, there was nothing between us and the stage. And seats 20 and 21 are just about the center of the row.
Wow.
I shall, at some point when I come down from floating in a sky of honey, squee about the concert itself.
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