Patrick Motherfucking Stump!
So I'm nearly a week late, but here is the gig recap for Mr Stump's show in London on Monday night. You know, the EXTRA show he put on to say "fuck you" to the scalpers? Yeah that one.
So we rocked up at the venue just after 7pm. We managed to go there from Kings Cross tube station a REALLY odd way, but we made it. Harlots were in force! bebunny, kopperblaze, xclusiveantonym, dancinbutterfly and jenepel were all present and accounted for! The venue was seriously tiny, with a bar out the front and the theatre out the back. We hung out in the bar for a while before heading in.
The support act, The Proxies, were completely adorable and hilarious. Very earnest bb!band who met Patrick via Twitter of all places. It was the lead singer's birthday and they all sang to him - which was around the time I started shipping him with the guitarist. Their music was electronic psuedo-punk-pop but the guitarist kept adding in death metal screaming every now and then. It was adorable.
There was a loooong wait between the support set and Patrick's. jenepel, dancinbutterfly and I headed into the bar area where there was another fannish gaggle. We were chatting with bexless, jamjar and oh god there were others but I FAIL at remembering names, let alone usernames sorry! Anyway, we were just hanging and chatting when four very nicely dressed guys wearing ties and carrying instruments walked through the front door, through the bar, and through the door into the backstage area. Obviously Patrick's band! We were all going, okay maybe time to go back into the theatre area because it might be showtime soon, then I looked out the front windows of the venue and I saw a Patrick Stump out there! I remember pawing at jenepel's back going "I think Patrick's about to come inside" and then he did!
Tiny hotass with gravity defying hair, wearing his tux and bowtie and these mad gorgeous white boots - he walked right past us, and only dancinbutterfly was switched on enough to actually walk up to him, shook his hand and told him his boots were "spectacular." They were too. He said "Thank you!" smiled a lovely smile and disappeared into the backstage area. HI PATRICK HIIII.
And then it was showtime!
As you can see from this terrible photo I took, he is very small and the stage really needed to be higher.
But yes! Patrick rocked the fuck out. That man is a tiny ball of energy bouncing all over the stage, waving his arms around with his lovely little fingerless gloves.
(decent photos all courtesy of dancinbutterfly)
He gave it his ALL. He was sweating like a mofo. He played guitar on some songs and on others he just sang and waved his arms around. He tried to get us to clap very complicated rhythms. Sometimes he would just STARE unblinking into the audience for long periods of time. Strange, strange man. He said the whole band were jetlagged to fuck and he was SO relieved that he got here AFTER the Royal Wedding shenanigans. Of course, the English audience got all mouthy and he was like "No! I mean because of the travel, I'm all for royal weddings! Mazel tov!"
He said something along the lines of how he talks a lot during shows these days (which was awesome to hear, considering Pete would always do the talking in FOB shows) and then he threw to his saxaphonist, saying it was his turn to talk - and he used one of those crazy mouth instrument things like in the intro to "Living On A Prayer". (Bon Jovi fans, show me some love here?)
He did ALL the songs from Truant Wave and padded the set out with some Cobra Starship and and AND there was a point where he went up the back and sat down at the keyboard - and you could barely see him at all at this point - he was all "Hey! I'm back here now!". Then he broke into Sinead O'Conner's "Nothing Compares 2U". He fucked up the words at one point, apologised saying "Oh I fucked that up, never mind, let's skip forward to my favourite part." By this stage the Harlots and I were all in a fannish cuddle huddle, singing along and gripping each other's hands. Gorgeous.
He also told us that his album will be out in July - "twenty-somethingth" and that his guitarist, Michael Day, said it was fantastic, but he might be biased. He thanked his whole band, Scooter was the drummer and Matt Rubano on guitar and I didn't catch the name of the saxaphonist with the awesome hair. He bookended the set with Spotlight and it was such a great show. Can't wait for the album.
Afterwards, we hung out in the bar having drinks. Some of the band members were still around but it was obvious when Patrick came out because he got (politely) mobbed. After a lot of humming and ha-ing we decided to try and meet him and went and hung around the huddle, fully expecting that Patrick would meet a few fans then disappear backstage. But he didn't, he hung around and met everyone who wanted to meet him, signed things, posed for photos and was basically a total gentleman!
All the harlots got to meet him, and he was so fucking sweet and polite and patient. I got a hug! I had to lean down, the man is TINY. I also got him to sign my ticket for graciexmae because she loves him more than anyone I know and she never gets to go to shows. The process for this was quite excruciating as it involved me apologising to him about fifty times. "Sorry, could you sign my ticket, it's for my friend who never gets to go to shows and she'd so love to be here" "Sorry can you put her name on it, please, so she knows it's for her?" "So so sorry but could you hold it up so I can take a photo of you with it?" (Sadly, this photo was eaten by the camera. Drat drat drat) DANCE FOR ME LITTLE CELEBRITY. DO MY BIDDING.
God I'm so awkward, I should never meet famous people. Anyway, it was success. We bullied xclusiveantonym into coming up even though she was beside herself and basically everyone got hugs and photos and signatures and it was awesome!
He is really the sweetest! He was so patient and met everyone who wanted to meet him, what a gentleman! We also bothered Matt Rubano, told him how much piratesunk adores him and got him to write her a note.
DANCE FOR ME LITTLE CELEBRITY. DANCE DANCE DANCE.
All in all a MOST awesome night. Thanks for being so great PStump! You are not like porcelain and you were not a brat and I'm glad I met you.
So we rocked up at the venue just after 7pm. We managed to go there from Kings Cross tube station a REALLY odd way, but we made it. Harlots were in force! bebunny, kopperblaze, xclusiveantonym, dancinbutterfly and jenepel were all present and accounted for! The venue was seriously tiny, with a bar out the front and the theatre out the back. We hung out in the bar for a while before heading in.
The support act, The Proxies, were completely adorable and hilarious. Very earnest bb!band who met Patrick via Twitter of all places. It was the lead singer's birthday and they all sang to him - which was around the time I started shipping him with the guitarist. Their music was electronic psuedo-punk-pop but the guitarist kept adding in death metal screaming every now and then. It was adorable.
There was a loooong wait between the support set and Patrick's. jenepel, dancinbutterfly and I headed into the bar area where there was another fannish gaggle. We were chatting with bexless, jamjar and oh god there were others but I FAIL at remembering names, let alone usernames sorry! Anyway, we were just hanging and chatting when four very nicely dressed guys wearing ties and carrying instruments walked through the front door, through the bar, and through the door into the backstage area. Obviously Patrick's band! We were all going, okay maybe time to go back into the theatre area because it might be showtime soon, then I looked out the front windows of the venue and I saw a Patrick Stump out there! I remember pawing at jenepel's back going "I think Patrick's about to come inside" and then he did!
Tiny hotass with gravity defying hair, wearing his tux and bowtie and these mad gorgeous white boots - he walked right past us, and only dancinbutterfly was switched on enough to actually walk up to him, shook his hand and told him his boots were "spectacular." They were too. He said "Thank you!" smiled a lovely smile and disappeared into the backstage area. HI PATRICK HIIII.
And then it was showtime!
As you can see from this terrible photo I took, he is very small and the stage really needed to be higher.
But yes! Patrick rocked the fuck out. That man is a tiny ball of energy bouncing all over the stage, waving his arms around with his lovely little fingerless gloves.
(decent photos all courtesy of dancinbutterfly)
He gave it his ALL. He was sweating like a mofo. He played guitar on some songs and on others he just sang and waved his arms around. He tried to get us to clap very complicated rhythms. Sometimes he would just STARE unblinking into the audience for long periods of time. Strange, strange man. He said the whole band were jetlagged to fuck and he was SO relieved that he got here AFTER the Royal Wedding shenanigans. Of course, the English audience got all mouthy and he was like "No! I mean because of the travel, I'm all for royal weddings! Mazel tov!"
He said something along the lines of how he talks a lot during shows these days (which was awesome to hear, considering Pete would always do the talking in FOB shows) and then he threw to his saxaphonist, saying it was his turn to talk - and he used one of those crazy mouth instrument things like in the intro to "Living On A Prayer". (Bon Jovi fans, show me some love here?)
He did ALL the songs from Truant Wave and padded the set out with some Cobra Starship and and AND there was a point where he went up the back and sat down at the keyboard - and you could barely see him at all at this point - he was all "Hey! I'm back here now!". Then he broke into Sinead O'Conner's "Nothing Compares 2U". He fucked up the words at one point, apologised saying "Oh I fucked that up, never mind, let's skip forward to my favourite part." By this stage the Harlots and I were all in a fannish cuddle huddle, singing along and gripping each other's hands. Gorgeous.
He also told us that his album will be out in July - "twenty-somethingth" and that his guitarist, Michael Day, said it was fantastic, but he might be biased. He thanked his whole band, Scooter was the drummer and Matt Rubano on guitar and I didn't catch the name of the saxaphonist with the awesome hair. He bookended the set with Spotlight and it was such a great show. Can't wait for the album.
Afterwards, we hung out in the bar having drinks. Some of the band members were still around but it was obvious when Patrick came out because he got (politely) mobbed. After a lot of humming and ha-ing we decided to try and meet him and went and hung around the huddle, fully expecting that Patrick would meet a few fans then disappear backstage. But he didn't, he hung around and met everyone who wanted to meet him, signed things, posed for photos and was basically a total gentleman!
All the harlots got to meet him, and he was so fucking sweet and polite and patient. I got a hug! I had to lean down, the man is TINY. I also got him to sign my ticket for graciexmae because she loves him more than anyone I know and she never gets to go to shows. The process for this was quite excruciating as it involved me apologising to him about fifty times. "Sorry, could you sign my ticket, it's for my friend who never gets to go to shows and she'd so love to be here" "Sorry can you put her name on it, please, so she knows it's for her?" "So so sorry but could you hold it up so I can take a photo of you with it?" (Sadly, this photo was eaten by the camera. Drat drat drat) DANCE FOR ME LITTLE CELEBRITY. DO MY BIDDING.
God I'm so awkward, I should never meet famous people. Anyway, it was success. We bullied xclusiveantonym into coming up even though she was beside herself and basically everyone got hugs and photos and signatures and it was awesome!
He is really the sweetest! He was so patient and met everyone who wanted to meet him, what a gentleman! We also bothered Matt Rubano, told him how much piratesunk adores him and got him to write her a note.
DANCE FOR ME LITTLE CELEBRITY. DANCE DANCE DANCE.
All in all a MOST awesome night. Thanks for being so great PStump! You are not like porcelain and you were not a brat and I'm glad I met you.