16-June O2 Arena... help.

[schnucams]

Jun 18, 2009 2:37:15 GMT swissgirl said:

T Watch it in HQ

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz3IQiblvaQ

karma for that, I actually shed a tear watching that.


Katie, karma for your pics too when I can

[2drunk2remember]

amazing show on tue. glad i made the trip from ireland.

my sis was handed 3 drum sticks by a security guard at the end and she was almost killed for them!!!! but they made it home safe to dublin, cant wait for oxegen!!!

[handsintheair]

Jun 18, 2009 2:37:15 GMT swissgirl said:

The two shows were friggin brilliant!! I already posted some of my pics in the individual threads and here is a video of Manhatten that I recorded. I love Calebs little speach at the beginning. Sorry about the shaking. It was at the end and I was tired of holding up my arm the whole time. Watch it in HQ

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz3IQiblvaQ

Wow, just watched your vid. You can tell it's 100% from his heart.

Lucky, lucky, lucky people.

[angieb]

Unsurprisingly lily's family are all gorgeous, the boys she was with (aged maybe 6 - 15yrs old) were all similar. All were at the aftershow party and well behaved.
They near enough took up the whole of row D block 112.
One of the highlights of the night was seeing lily looking at caleb, she didnt look at the other guys, she couldnt take her eyes off him and shes clearly madly in love with him. it was extremely sweet watching her dancing and singing along. Went away thinking not only is she lucky, but actually Calebs VERY lucky to have found her. Beyond beautiful.

[sharon]

So nice you met them Angie. I think the boys are Saffron"s , remember them in a photo with lily last year,did you see Caleb at the aftershow party?

[Savanna]

I think I'd love to meet Lily, she seems sweet. Wouldn't want to take a picture directly next to her though, haha

[timgrw]

Swissgirl that Manhattan vid just gave me chill bumps. Thanks so much for capturing it x

[katie44]

Jun 18, 2009 21:06:23 GMT Savanna said:

I think I'd love to meet Lily, she seems sweet. Wouldn't want to take a picture directly next to her though, haha

I totally agree with this, no way I would look decent next to her.

[katie44]

Jun 18, 2009 18:13:22 GMT schnucams said:

Jun 18, 2009 2:37:15 GMT swissgirl said:

T Watch it in HQ

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz3IQiblvaQ

karma for that, I actually shed a tear watching that.


Katie, karma for your pics too when I can

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[lauralimonada]

awwww just caught up on all the awesomeness in this thread!

can't say it enough- i love these boys!
i love all you for being awesome.

i'm all sentimental but everyone- truly THANK YOU for sharing all your stories. can't say it enough!!

THANK YOU!

[lardydar]

Jun 18, 2009 20:33:06 GMT @angieb said:

One of the highlights of the night was seeing lily looking at caleb, she didnt look at the other guys, she couldnt take her eyes off him and shes clearly madly in love with him. it was extremely sweet watching her dancing and singing along. Went away thinking not only is she lucky, but actually Calebs VERY lucky to have found her. Beyond beautiful.

We were in 113, could just about make them out....she was giving it some, bless. Well said Angie.

[kol29]

Only getting to give my review now cos of the painful lack of Internet in my flat but better late than never right?

To be honest words can't really even begin to describe how utterly amazing this gig was. I'm still in a complete state of awe from how unreal they were.
I managed to get a ticket last minute outside the doors of the O2 (seated block 102, face value off a lovely polish girl!) which made it all the more sweeter! Unfortunately my cousin, who has not only been to every Kings gig with me but pretty much every gig I've ever been to, had to stay at home cos her friend had come over to visit us nd she isn't in the slightest bit KOL-inclined so coming with us wasn't an option! In all honesty I thought the guilt was going to kill me! We're as close as Matt and Jared are, have been since birth so her not being there was awful! But her being the incredibly selfless person she is meant that when I rang her to tell her I'd gotten the ticket all she could do was get small child full of smarties and skittles excited and creep out every in the shop she was in!
I'm looking for a ticket for the 30th for her so if anyone can help me out I'd be forever in your debt!

Back to the show tho - the set list was to die for RML nearly killed me, once I heard the opening chord and saw Matt turn over towards us my heart stopped!
When Caleb said he thought we sounded like we knew more of the older stuff, i screamed so loud i gave myself a headache!
Every song was perfect and they were all on such a buzz it ws impossible not to get completely lost in it! The crowd were absolutely brilliant, not one bum on a seat all night!!
Every one of the boys were playing out of the skins but golden star for effort has to go to Matt tho, he was truly an absolute god! Every note just sounded incredible its impossible to describe how amazing he really was!

The 16th was my 5th time seeing them and it amazes me each time how they somehow manage to improve on perfection! I count myself unbelievably lucky to have witnessed such mammoth talent from one gene pool every time I leave a gig!

Sorry for the essay but it was really that good!

[lauralimonada]

kol29 what a lovely review! sounds like you and your cousin are really close! best of luck for the 30th!

[chichi]

Jun 17, 2009 19:15:53 GMT @angieb said:

Sorry been asleep most of the afternoon, yeah a few months back we was asked if myself and the other mod wanted to meet the guys, as a thanks for modding the forum, mainpage and chatroom.. we got to spend about 30/40 mins all in all with him i'll bring my posts over from the o/s

yes myself and julie were in the vip section, we were amongst mark ronson, natalie imbruglia and lily and family, and johanna and alissa...

had lily in my eyeline the whole show and i have to say she was really going for it dancing and singing along.

i couldnt believe we got trani, i nearly crapped myself when i realised, and quickly phoned marg. yes the gasmask thing, it was a video on the screen, and it was this repeatative video of some dude looking at the camera wearing a gasmask.. weird but true. there was these people moving all around him... caleb missed a few words out of it, then looked at matt and started to laugh!!!!


sex on fire, the place went NUTS. friggin mental.

calebs beard was insane. its very thick and extrememly sexy.

okay so afterwards, we waited around with lily etc to be told where to go for the aftershow party, we were kindly allowed to go and its been knightmare keeping this a secret from you all....then went into this weird room, where i had problems with a stool, ended up nicking lilys seat when she left cos that stool and me didnt get along very well.

around 1am-ish, we got a nod and in walked jared. we was introduced and we shook his hand, we told him what job we do here, we talked about what we deal with, i explained that we've built a nice community here, and that we're all friends and even going to shows together, we spoke about debs, and explained that we're going to wear yellow on the 30th just for her. which jared thought was cool, he sends his wishes to debs. we spoke about the site, does he come on here, we spoke about their my space private pics which led to twitter convo.
we spoke about why it doesnt bother him that kol are referred to as "selling out" cos of obtn, we also spoke about why he turns his back to the crowd, he went into great detail about that, he explained that the sound of the bass sounds different to him when hes facing it, and the whole time he wants the music to be heard as best as possible, he explained that hes not being rude but merely trying to play the best he can, that hes connecting with the sound from the amp, he explained that as far as hes concerned people shouldnt come just to see his face, he said "theres 3 other good looking people in the band, look at them!" basically (i hope i'm explaining this properly) he wants the music to be best he can do, everything else is insufficent.
nacho walked in, and we congratulated him on becoming a dad, he was walking around with a huge smile on his face. theres more to it but in fairness i dont know how much of that i should write. needless to say jareds SO pleased for him, and proudly told us nacho is the first bro to become a daddy.
he was standing up the whole time he talked to us, but after a while grabbed a stool and sat down, he was unbelievably nice and friendly. he thought trani and mcfearless bombed. but i explained it sounded great to me, and explained there was moments i just closed my eyes and got lost in it all, he was nodding and i dunno he was so lovely. he went off to talk to alissa for a while, but was sitting around us for the rest of the time we were there.
we didnt get to meet the other guys.
didnt take a pic, it would have been weird cos he seemed to want to talk, and i couldnt say "i want a pic" didnt feel approiprate.

thanks to jared for coming over and making time for me and julie and really taking a interest in what we do and for being so friendly. jared seriously impressed me with the way he was with us. thanks to everyone who arranged this for us.

Yes jareds aware people think its him being rude, we did say can we put that on the site, so folks can understand and he nodded and said yes.

it was EXTREMELY difficult keeping it a secret.

I'm kinda shy in real life, i can stutter my words if under pressure, but i honestly felt sod it try your best to get out what you want to say. felt he went away knowing this site is full of cool people, who all have enjoyed getting to know each other and building a great community, he seemed pleased with that cos we spoke about it a few times.

wanted to say about debs... wanted to big up the great folks on this site. but really it was jared, he seemed to just wanna talk, once he seemed comfy talking he was just talking away, especially with the amp thing.

ah i also told him that the fans that come for just sex on fire and use somebody we've referred to them as the "sex somebody" fans.... which he loved... he repeated it then got what i meant...
cos i said sof was just mental, said i've seen them play it a few times, but that was crazy.

I've forgotton another thing, god knows why we started talking about it, but Jared says stay away from the Twlight books, they're too addictive, they'll hook you in!!!!!!

That's awesome! Thanks Angie!