First of all let me say, Madina Lake are the best band in the whole world ever and I love them so much. I entered this competition in Kerrang to win the chance to see them... and I won. I had a +1 so I invited my friend Eboni.
So after checking the number that they called me from on the internet to make sure they were for real I jumped up and down screaming my head off!
So it's the day of the gig (17th July) and I'm going to get Eboni from her house in ten minutes (she lives around the corner - how convienient?) and I've been dressed for hours. I go to her house and she isn't there so I phone her. It takes about half an hour of phone calls until she answers... to tell me she cant come. I cant go on my own so after hanging up on her (she could have told me sooner) I phone all the people I know to ask if they want to come...they're all busy. (I have such great friends)
I cant go. I go to my room and trash it completly angry with the eyeliner it took me so long to apply perfectly running down my now pink cheeks. Then I hear my phone its my sister.
"Just go on your own!" she tells me, "You don't need fake friends to have real fun."
And shes right, so after re-applying my eyeliner, mascara etc (not as nice as before) I grab my coat and run out of the door.
Once I got there I made friends with random people in the queue and once we got in it was absolutely amazing. They played all my favourite songs! It was well worth the *calculates* one and a half hour wait I had.
When they played "Pandora" I went mad...unfortunatly due to drink spillage my feet were stuck to the floor so after a bit of a struggle I finally made it out of the sticky part alive.
There was one time towards the end where Nathan jumped off of the amp into the crowd and I caught his shoulders! It was so cool. At the end of it they went off into the dressing room and I thought
"Thats it, the night is over..." boy was I wrong. It had only just begun. Me and my new "friends" went out to the bar area and they were there. Signing stuff for us (I got my top signed), taking pictures and Matthew even showed me his tattoos and explained what they meant. HOW COOL!
Then I had pictures taken with them, and I had some of Nathans beer AFTER he drank from it...how WOW! He was obviously drunk by the end of the night and I had a new found respect for them. Taking time out to play for 200 of their biggest fans in the UK and literally GIVING 'tickets' away really shows that they actually care about their fans and we ARENT just another way for them to make money (they didnt charge us a penny)
And my sister even picked me up and drove me home to save me from getting the last train home with God knows who.
I'm definitely going to see them again in October, and as for my 'friends'? They missed out big time! I dont need them and I'm severing all ties, I almost didnt go because of them. I'll make new friends in college.
I kept expecting to wake up and it was all a dream, but it wasnt. Because I went there, did it and I've got the signed T shirt to prove it...now I'm just waiting for that girl to email me the pictures!
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My other sister had her baby on Friday. 4:11pm, 7lb 9oz baby boy called Hugh. Named after his father, how cheesy. They remind me of Pete & Jordan so much!
Thats all folks
THOUGHT FOR TODAY: I'm too happy to think straight!
