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Post by sianlouisa on Nov 15, 2005 13:16:29 GMT
haha hazy what an idea. feel free to start...
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Post by no1kolfan on Nov 15, 2005 14:20:27 GMT
Totally bored with day to day life I decided to take a trip, and oh what a trip it was. After two flights and long taxi ride I arrived at my hotel a day before the gig. I crawled into bed and sink into a deep slumber. The next day I opened my eyes forgetting for a second, just a second where I am and what is to happen, only a few hours later, then all at once it hits me. I won’t bore you with what I did that afternoon; I’ll skip right to waiting for them to start. The lights go down and people begin to scream, the anticipation is at a climax. I see their faces, its weird, a strange familiarity like a friend you’ve never meet. The music blasts through the speakers and I lose myself, each song means something to me, each song tells a story about my live and his voice is my thoughts. I leave my spot and walk around the venue, I want to look at the others fans, we’re all so different yet so similar, all here to lose ourselves for a couple of hours. I sit at the bar and sip on a drink, I can see the stage and the music is still deafening, my ears buzz and my hips shake. A guy comes over and asks why I am alone. I tell him I am not alone, I am surrounded by friends; he laughs and thinks I must be high. ‘Wanna come to the after party?’ He asks in a rough American accent and I nod and get us another drink. We arrive at the party, I still don’t really know who he is but he has kind eyes and I trust him. He asks which followill I fancy. I laugh and change the subject, I know what he thinks. An hour drifts away, the bar fills up and they finally the Kings arrive. I slip into the loo and take a look in the mirror my black eyeliner is smudge and my hair is a mess. I stumble out of the toilet and straight into Calebs arms, my heart stops for a second and I say excuse me, I can’t look him in the eye, he has always been an illusion and I am terrified when I finally come face to face with him, so I walk on. I return to my place at the bar but I’ve lost my friend with the rough American accent. I order another drink and light up a cig. There is a tap on my shoulder and its him again; Caleb is smiling at me and looks so beautiful close up that I wish I had fixed my hair when I had the chance. He asks me my name; the next few hours are a haze of smoke, vodka, beer, shots, laughing, dancing and desire. The bar closes and he asks me to leave with him. Do I want to be just another girl on the road? No but he is standing right there, saying the right things and I want that moment to last forever and i lose myself. Oh hey I wonder if this is the same girl I saw right before I left the after party. I was standing by the men's bathroom saying goodbye to Dale, Lesley, and Anita. Anyway I looked over and saw Nacho go into the bathroom and right behind him was Caleb, then I see some girl pushing her way in the bathroom right behind Caleb. I just thought she was going after what she wanted lol. Lesley did you happen to see that as well? So, I'm guessing this is the same girl, no?
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Post by sianlouisa on Nov 15, 2005 14:34:10 GMT
i thought you were carrying on the story then and got way confused.
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Post by Porcelain on Nov 15, 2005 14:47:53 GMT
oh when will the kings come back to the u,k? probably after the 3rd album is released woah...3rd album do you think it will be released in the uk or the usa first
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Post by no1kolfan on Nov 15, 2005 14:59:47 GMT
i thought you were carrying on the story then and got way confused. haha oh no, just after reading that it sounded like the same girl I saw before I left the party and wanted to share :-P Sorry to have confused you
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Post by cornflake on Nov 15, 2005 15:29:25 GMT
no1kolfan so the story is true. Ah....we can only speculate the conclusion of the story, but really I want to hear about the gig.
When this particular person says "The music blasts through the speakers and I lose myself, each song means something to me, each song tells a story about my [life]" I am thinking I want to hear more about that. It's about the music man. How was the gig? Which songs were your favorite?
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Post by sianlouisa on Nov 15, 2005 15:30:44 GMT
it's ok it doesnt take much... i bet they will release the album in the us first this time. just to annoy us brits maybe at the same time coz i would have said that theyr following in the us has grown so much since this release. woooo a new kings album im so excited.
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Post by no1kolfan on Nov 15, 2005 16:17:36 GMT
it's ok it doesnt take much... i bet they will release the album in the us first this time. just to annoy us brits maybe at the same time coz i would have said that theyr following in the us has grown so much since this release. woooo a new kings album im so excited. I look for them to release it in the UK 1st again, because they are soo big over there. I know it may seem like there are a lot of fans over here in the US, but there really isn't. I mean at the show only half of the place was full (best that I can remember). I was shocked that more people didn't show up. I however am helping to change that. I've been telling everyone I know to check them out and so far I've gotten about 10 people into them, so I'm happy!
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Post by katietill on Nov 15, 2005 16:23:11 GMT
i assumed that by "do i wanna be another girl on the road?" that she mean another girl that they hooked up with.. maybe i have read it wrong. but yeah i agree with andy i think hearing about their aftershows is cool. you get a better sense of them. like katietill's story and caleb being vain. but it isnt really any of our business who they hook up with, and it aint really fair on the guys telling other people. have i got this whole story wrong? my thoughts exactly aww thanks guys
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Post by no1kolfan on Nov 15, 2005 16:24:33 GMT
no1kolfan so the story is true. Ah....we can only speculate the conclusion of the story, but really I want to hear about the gig. When this particular person says "The music blasts through the speakers and I lose myself, each song means something to me, each song tells a story about my [life]" I am thinking I want to hear more about that. It's about the music man. How was the gig? Which songs were your favorite? I honestly have no idea if it's true or not, or if this is the same girl. I saw another girl run into Caleb before I left so it could have been her as well. So many girls throwing themselves on the guys it's hard to keep up. :-P Yes! I totally agree. Althought all the guys are total cuties it's all about their music. The gig was really good. However, I've enjoyed everyone that I have been too. I mean I hear them play and I lose track of what they are doing sometimes on stage b/c I'm to busy dancing haha. When I saw them at the Ryman in Nashville (apart from being way in the back) I didn't see anything haha I was just to busy dancing. At the 2nd show in Alabama I tried to watch them more. Which was cool because I made eye contact with Caleb, Jared, and Nathan a couple of times and saw them smile. Then at the show at Vandy I was dancing and looking at Nathan just about the whole time haha. I'm sorry I got way off the subject here haha
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Post by doll on Nov 15, 2005 19:07:42 GMT
The gig
It was October so it was cold outside, I knew I needed a jacket but I also knew that inside would be hot, scorching in countless ways. I decided that I’d rather leave my coat at the hotel rather than risk flinging it off in a frenzy at the show and losing it. Waiting outside, there wasn’t much of a queue just a few cool kids too hip to turn up early and I feel them watch me. I stand alone, shivering in the early evening breeze, my stomach is flip-flopping.
I stumble into the auditorium, the heat hits me all at once, and it was like walking into a furnace, at that moment I was glad I decided to leave my pretty coat at the hotel. Sorry, I am going into way too much detail. First stop is the bar, to calm my nerves I order a double vodka tonic, I’m feeling a tad annoyed at the fact I am nervous because I can’t understand why, I guess it was more butterflies than nerves.
‘Crimson and Clover’ is wafting quietly from the speakers, I smile to myself because I remember reading somewhere that it was on of the first songs that left an impression on Caleb and made him want to do the whole music thing. I thank Tommy James for that, for inspiring someone that inspires me, he’s my god for that night. I don’t really have a favourite brother, but I guess Caleb sticks out to me because it’s his voice I hear when I close my eyes and drift off to a place that makes me feel like me, a place where I feel most comfortable, lost in my thoughts, meeting all the crazy, eccentric characters from their songs.
I find a spot right up front and light up a cigarette, I know I am not meant to smoke inside but the lights have gone down and I know that nobody will care. ‘Molly Chambers’ is introduced to us first, we’ve meet before but live it hits you a million times harder and I screech along, “you want, she’s got it……” After the first song they go straight into the next, Nathan thumps the drums and I feel the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end, like someone whispering into my ear. It’s the incredible ‘Taper jean Girl’; I howl along with Caleb, I feel like I am right up there standing beside him. I can’t remember the rest of the order, it’s been a while but I remember ‘Milk’ Everything suddenly calms down, hundreds of eyes piercing through him, I look around and I am surround by people singing, lips moving, under a spell. His deep, raspy voice, so personal, so un-doubtfully Caleb. We all wait patiently for the drums and bass to kick in and then it happens, it’s the best fucking climax in the world, a high that no drug can give you, the crowd erupts.
I remember feeling slightly disappointed that the band didn’t have much interaction with the crowd but then I realize that they are here to play music, fucking fabulous music and that’s just what they’re doing, and I’m suddenly very thankful.
Jared did things to his bass that make me blush, his bass is his lover, and he stokes and pounds it but is gentile and passionate. Nathan hides behinds the drums and puffs on a joint, yet he still hits every beat with such obsession and precision. Mathew looks out into the crowd and his expression is a mixture of disbelief and want, he wants us all to rock out and his guitar is his weapon he’ll fight till the end, till every single person in the audience is sweating and begging for more.
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Post by sianlouisa on Nov 15, 2005 19:17:54 GMT
i would just like to say that you are brave going to a concert on your own im far too weak to do that.
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Post by californiaxwaiting on Nov 15, 2005 20:32:59 GMT
Woah nice story, but over in London its very hard to meet them. Well harder, so i'm jealous.
Don't leave us hanging. I suppose that the gig reviews do sound pretty much the same, i'd like to hear about them though, well things about them.
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Post by katietill on Nov 15, 2005 20:35:18 GMT
you have nice writing skills. i love it when people can put things into such diction, man i can't even do it when complimenting someone. all i can say is, i enjoyed that immensely. (and thats creative for me---gah!!)
"Jared did things to his bass that make me blush, his bass is his lover, and he stokes and pounds it but is gentile and passionate. Nathan hides behinds the drums and puffs on a joint, yet he still hits every beat with such obsession and precision. Mathew looks out into the crowd and his expression is a mixture of disbelief and want, he wants us all to rock out and his guitar is his weapon he’ll fight till the end, till every single person in the audience is sweating and begging for more."
BRILLIANT!
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Post by lavon on Nov 16, 2005 16:11:29 GMT
mmm.. is this who i think it is???
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Post by lmd88 on Nov 16, 2005 19:53:15 GMT
I always wonder what these people who get to meet them look like, is that bad? anyway really great story
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katietill
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Post by katietill on Nov 17, 2005 2:02:44 GMT
come back doll!!!
... is that what caleb said? is it? huh? huh? jk jk. im messin', but seriously, so many unanswered mysteries. where is DOLL?
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Post by tinydancer on Nov 17, 2005 6:26:48 GMT
rest off the story PLEASE!!!!dont leave us hanging like that.....
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Post by katietill on Nov 17, 2005 17:33:30 GMT
you have nice writing skills. i love it when people can put things into such diction, man i can't even do it when complimenting someone. all i can say is, i enjoyed that immensely. (and thats creative for me---gah!!) "Jared did things to his bass that make me blush, his bass is his lover, and he stokes and pounds it but is gentile and passionate. Nathan hides behinds the drums and puffs on a joint, yet he still hits every beat with such obsession and precision. Mathew looks out into the crowd and his expression is a mixture of disbelief and want, he wants us all to rock out and his guitar is his weapon he’ll fight till the end, till every single person in the audience is sweating and begging for more." BRILLIANT! going back, this exerpt sounds so errotic, are you a pornographer, writer?
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Post by doll on Nov 20, 2005 21:03:33 GMT
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