Post by Hold on to your kite on Aug 26, 2005 13:41:40 GMT
WOO!!! I am SO HAPPY right now!!! Last night I went to the Kings gig at the SECC and it was AWESOME!!! So I'm now going to launch into a little description of what happened...
So I decided to head to the venue pretty early so that I'd have a shot at getting to the front. I arrived at around twenty past two and there were like three other girls there so I was kinda like the second person there as the girls all knew each other. I sat down next to them as they had already started forming the queue. A couple of hours later my sister arrived and after 4 hours of sitting on the freezing SECC floor thay started letting us in.
I was kinda worried that there'd be more than one door opened and I'd end up being overtaken by people and miss out on being at the front but they were really cool about letting us in slowly and we made it to the barrier. I was quite surprised but really happy.
The support act were wicked they really got everyone going and I had a good few chances to molest the lead singer but I refrained as I was too embarrassed to do it! After they finished Nacho came on to set up and some muppets in the crowd were shouting "w*nker" at him for no reason, I waved at him and he waved back, he looked REALLY cute last night.
So the Kings came on and it was an awesome gig, everyone was really into it and it was sometimes hard to hear Caleb over the crowd. Caleb thanked the crowd alot and said we were "f*cking beautiful" which was cool. He also said that it was the last gig they'd be doing over here for a while which sucked but I'm really glad they chose to do it in Scotland.
Afterwards, a little bruised but really happy my sister and I headed outside as we'd decided to try and meet them. I tried to bribe one of the staff with everything I had but no luck. We met a couple of really nice girls outside and saw Nacho, we shouted to him and he waved but he didn't come over. They had to leave but we waited on. A while later we saw Caleb leave in an unmarked car, it just drove past so we were a bit gutted as we were the only two people waiting. Then a woman told us they'd all left. I think I saw Jared leave with a girl too. A Nacho left with like six!
Disappointed we faced six hours waiting for the first train home. Just as we were about to leave the manager for the support band came over and asked us if we were going to the
AFTERSHOW PARTY
we were like "no, we were just looking for an autograph/photo, dunno where it is, we don't have passes..." Then he was like, "you can come with me" (!!!!!!!) So we accepted of course met the bassist of the support act and that cool roadie with the long, grey hair! We got a taxi with the manager dude to the club and he got us in on his pass, we eveb got to skip the queue! He was really awesome, so friendly and such a cool guy. Not long after we got in we saw Caleb and Nathan walking past, they had a couple of bodyguard type guys with them. They walked past a few times but spent alot of the time downstairs. Jared wasn't there as he was "busy", think he maybe went somewhere with his girlfriend if he has one> No sign of Matthew either but Nacho was there too.
I managed to get Nathan's autograph but I didn't really get to talk to him and I didn't get Caleb's but it was just so awesome to go to the aftershow party and see them just hanging out. I have some pics from the gig but not the party as it was just so chilled it didn't feel right to go shoving a camera in their faces. They left just before three and we just left then to and waited three hours in the freezing cold for the first train home.
It was an awesome night and I can't thank my new most favourite person in the world, who invited us along, enough!!!
Maybe not the most exciting read/tale but I LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!
So I decided to head to the venue pretty early so that I'd have a shot at getting to the front. I arrived at around twenty past two and there were like three other girls there so I was kinda like the second person there as the girls all knew each other. I sat down next to them as they had already started forming the queue. A couple of hours later my sister arrived and after 4 hours of sitting on the freezing SECC floor thay started letting us in.
I was kinda worried that there'd be more than one door opened and I'd end up being overtaken by people and miss out on being at the front but they were really cool about letting us in slowly and we made it to the barrier. I was quite surprised but really happy.
The support act were wicked they really got everyone going and I had a good few chances to molest the lead singer but I refrained as I was too embarrassed to do it! After they finished Nacho came on to set up and some muppets in the crowd were shouting "w*nker" at him for no reason, I waved at him and he waved back, he looked REALLY cute last night.
So the Kings came on and it was an awesome gig, everyone was really into it and it was sometimes hard to hear Caleb over the crowd. Caleb thanked the crowd alot and said we were "f*cking beautiful" which was cool. He also said that it was the last gig they'd be doing over here for a while which sucked but I'm really glad they chose to do it in Scotland.
Afterwards, a little bruised but really happy my sister and I headed outside as we'd decided to try and meet them. I tried to bribe one of the staff with everything I had but no luck. We met a couple of really nice girls outside and saw Nacho, we shouted to him and he waved but he didn't come over. They had to leave but we waited on. A while later we saw Caleb leave in an unmarked car, it just drove past so we were a bit gutted as we were the only two people waiting. Then a woman told us they'd all left. I think I saw Jared leave with a girl too. A Nacho left with like six!
Disappointed we faced six hours waiting for the first train home. Just as we were about to leave the manager for the support band came over and asked us if we were going to the
AFTERSHOW PARTY
we were like "no, we were just looking for an autograph/photo, dunno where it is, we don't have passes..." Then he was like, "you can come with me" (!!!!!!!) So we accepted of course met the bassist of the support act and that cool roadie with the long, grey hair! We got a taxi with the manager dude to the club and he got us in on his pass, we eveb got to skip the queue! He was really awesome, so friendly and such a cool guy. Not long after we got in we saw Caleb and Nathan walking past, they had a couple of bodyguard type guys with them. They walked past a few times but spent alot of the time downstairs. Jared wasn't there as he was "busy", think he maybe went somewhere with his girlfriend if he has one> No sign of Matthew either but Nacho was there too.
I managed to get Nathan's autograph but I didn't really get to talk to him and I didn't get Caleb's but it was just so awesome to go to the aftershow party and see them just hanging out. I have some pics from the gig but not the party as it was just so chilled it didn't feel right to go shoving a camera in their faces. They left just before three and we just left then to and waited three hours in the freezing cold for the first train home.
It was an awesome night and I can't thank my new most favourite person in the world, who invited us along, enough!!!
Maybe not the most exciting read/tale but I LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!