Okay so I don't even know if I mentioned this here, but Carl went and got us both tickets for the gig when they went on sale in like, July or something, and the gig itself was on tuesday. I was looking forward to it quite a bit (come on, it's Shikari!) and even though I felt like shit at sixth form that day, I hurried home, changed my clothes and jumped on the metro to queue asap.
It was pissing down. When we got there Caitlin and the other few that had been there since about four had been let in for the soundcheck. I was wearing a t-shirt and my grey hoody and Carl was in a white t-shirt. Cold. The guy infront of us was a bit of a twat, which didn't help our morale.. big stupid vans hat cap on, really skinny ripped jeans and all black vans on his feet, one of those twats that brees and dances like they've shit themselves. He kept threatening violence on anyone and everyone: the kids that were spraypainting their hair blue and putting neon paint on their noses just behind us (who admittedly looked ridiculous, but come on), some charvs that were eyeing the queue nervously, some emo guy that looked at him wrongly.. you get the picture. "If I find him inside I'll literally kill him." Lovely!
It got to about half past five and Carl left, citing being freezing and suicidal from the cold, and that he'd be back later. So I started chatting to Katy who I had bumped into, whilst huddling under her umbrella, and some other kids I'd never met (Amy is one name I remember.. and Rachel?) about all sorts, mostly the cold. I was also texting Caitlin who was back outside, a little further up.
It was at this point that I noticed how hungry I was, so me and Katy climbed over the barrier thingy (thank you to that birthday lass and Amy for keeping our spaces) and ran over to Burger King. Some charv bloke inside spotted Katy, said she was lovely looking, enquired about the "concert fing across the road" and asked her if I was "her lad." ¬_¬ To which we responded "no" (me) and "yes" (her) at the same time. He then went "eh, yes or no?! eeee fuck, are you a lass? Sorry like, it's cause ya hood's up man, bless ya. Propa girly voice like!" I then clicked that Katy was frankly terrified of him, so I said, "Sorry, it's just.. don't like telling many people. We're together, yeah." And he went "arrr, lucky lass you are! You dykes then?" How original. He proceeded to tell Katy he had £400, and that he'd pay them both into Enter Shikari, take her for a meal, to the pictures, and generally spend it all on her. This confused us to fuck ("why was he hitting on me when he thinks we're together?!") but it entertained us.
We went back into the queue, only to be told five minutes later that O2 customers could get into the priority queue with two friends. So I took Katy, and Amy who latched onto me and begged. Much cheering and "eee fuckin hell" ing ensued.
Nothing much else happened apart from singing a few Paramore songs and getting told I'm a "lucky fuckin' bitch!" for getting tickets to see them in Manchester (I know I am). So yeah, the doors opened at seven, we ran in, and got right in the middle on the barrier.
First act: I knew it was Rou under there!
True Tiger, haha. They were class, really got the crowd going! They set a fantastic atmosphere, everyone was bopping along quite contentedly.
This bloke was mint, he kept going absolute crazy on stage, and threw his dress into the crowd at the end of the set ;D
Second act were Devil Wears Prada, who I knew a lot of kids were excited to see. I'm not a fan myself, but they definately knew how to put on a good show and instead of being bored and impatient for Shikari, I really enjoyed it! Plus, the drummer was epic to watch and he was kind of cute. Wanted to just hug him, awww.
Scream into my camera for me yeahh?! Thank youu!
After they went off, you could feel how excited everyone was, it seemed to take bloody ages though. I liked watching the crew do their stuff, they were all wearing matching green ES polo shirts ;D they seemed to have a great laugh, enjoying what they were doing.
My favourite moment of ES's set, aside from Rory's antics (crowd surfing to the bar, having to stop playing Sorry You're Not a Winner like three times because he was in the crowd..etc ;D):
HIYA CHRIS ILY
He was in and out of the crowd like six times or something ;D he snapped off his ear monitor at one point, too! I loved his dancing.
For now, here's the video I took of Mothership; the others are uploading on youtube atm and obviously it'll take a while, but I'll put those up later!
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