Sorry Julian, I know that's not the most flattering picture of you. Also, I got a new Sex Pistols shirt today because someone left it on the bar at The Shed last night and Alex grabbed it for me - YAY!
Anyway.
We beat fate. Nicola and I beat destiny and yesterday sat through an entire Placebo gig with nothing going wrong! You may have read a few entries ago where we had tickets to see the band in the summer, but due to Nicola getting ill we couldn't make the show. Mom then got us tickets to this tour and we invited Jamie along with us.
IT WAS SUCH A STRUGGLE!
Firstly, I already knew my moms car had been acting up but apparently it had been fine the day before. So when Nicola and Jamie arrived at moms house we all set off to get some petrol and to drop something off at Bob and Elaine's. As we were making our way up to Bob's the car started to make this really horrible grating noise. It sounded really bad and mom said after a few moments that she was going to have to turn the car around and go back. Noooo! Noooo!
We made our way back to moms house, with the car stopping occasionally and mom having to restart it. When we were about two streets away from moms house, the car stopped again and this time didn't start. It had filled with this horrible electric gassy smell and Jamie, Nicola and I got out and pushed the car into a small street, then mom started phoning different tow truck companies.
Meanwhile, i'd been talking to Gav on the phone who was also going to the gig, Loe and him were going to catch the bus at the bus station down to Nottingham, and we all agreed that that was a good idea. Mom sacrificed her ticket to stay behind with the car (she'd already seen Placebo so she wasn't that bothered) whilst we all grabbed our stuff and ran like fuck to the bus station to get a ticket.
Luckily, we all got tickets and eventually we were on our way to the arena.
Blah blah, queuing, blah blah.
When we reached our seats, we immediately started exclaiming about how good the view was. It was fucking awesome! Then we waved a lot at Loe and Gav who were down in the pit. They were playing lots of AC DC, Pearl Jam and Green Day before any of the bands started, and the guy that was sitting behind us was singing along to all the Green Day songs... But in melody.. So every time Billie Joe went up.. He'd go down... Weird much?
Nicola and I decided we should go get some food considering we were all starving so we went to the refreshments behind the seats and got some cheesy nacho's and M&Ms, when we walked back into the arena, it was pitch black and we realised the first band had come on.
The Archie Bronson Outfit are a random band where every song sounds like a sexual innuendo and the saxaphone player looked like Neil from The Young Ones. One of their songs was; "Put Your Head Down" (Ooher) and another one sounded like the lead singer (whose singing voice was like a whiny Robert Smith) was just shouting; "FUCK!" into the microphone every couple of seconds.
Yeah, okay.
The next band was "Howling Bells" another one who none of us had heard of. Juanita, the lead singer, had a very high-pitched voice which she thanked us with after every song. They were kind of weird, but good weird. They weren't amazing but they weren't complete arse vomit either. It took them a while to get off stage though. (And they didn't even play The Ballad Of Bleeding Hearts!! Omfglolwtfzors!)
OMG PLACEBO WERE ON NEXT, was what many of us were screaming.
I noticed a women walking up the stairs to the seats behind us. She had on this really fucking cool Tenacious D shirt so we asked her where she'd got it from, and she told us that she'd been to see them the week before! YESS! Am looking for that shirt next friday!
Suddenly, a random video about saving the Earth from global warming came on. It had loads of random people on it. Cool people such as Flea, Brian Molko and Karen O but then not so nice people like Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco and BRANDON FLOWERS (Arrghh! Nooo!) They played that a couple of times through and then the screens on the stage lifted up and we saw Steve the drummer! Then Stefan the bass player ran on playing the into to Infra-Red. We could see Brian at the side of the stage and he ran as fast as his little legs would go onto the stage and into the song.
OMG OMG OMG.
That's basically how I describe the show.
The only peeves I had were that they played about a billion songs off of Meds, and yet they didn't play Pure Morning or Nancy Boy!! Oh well, they sure as hell made up for it.
Let's see now, what did they play?
Infra-Red, Meds, Because I Want You, Drag, A Song To Say Goodbye, Every Me Every You, Without You I'm Nothing, Bitter End, Special Needs, Special K and some others which I can't remember but were of course absolutely amazing!
Stefan was running around like a lunatic, look away from him from a second and you'll lose him because he'd have jumped onto the drums or he'd be down in the little walk way in front of the pit walking around looking at people. Our block got waved at by him when he randomly stopped playing and leant against the amps, which was quite cool.
Brian was very tiny and I think the only words he said to us the entire night were; "Thank you.", "Hello Nottinghamians." and "This song isn't about drag queens but yet it's still called drag." He was very cute and adorable!
Steve hid behind his drums the entire night and we only really managed to get a good picture of him at the end when he came out to bow with everyone else. He also threw his towel and drumsticks into the crowd!
Pictures will come my darlings.