*The Used* -- The Astoria 2 (mean fiddler) 24th January 2003
Over-all Coolness: 10/10
Sound: 10/10
Organization: 8/10
Atmosphere: 10/10
Me and laura set off on our journey to london like we do at 5:40 pm after a day of exams... i am looking forward to just sitting my ass down and watching the used. We guessed it would be best to sit down since the pit would be WAY to crazy.
So we got there, the queue seemed huge had a bit of a chat with my sister and me and laura also had a convo with the guy in the queue about the glassjaw singer.. but thats another story. So we kinda guessed we wouldn't get the good seat places but we tried and we perched ourselves on a table. We waited and managed to get good seat bits.
So through silence sound excactly like lost prophets.. they supported well though. Got the croud going well and i found my fingers taping on the surface of the railings.
Took the used a while to get on the stage... before then i sow lost prophets walking around... which was a bit weird. dunno why. So yeh.. they began opened very nicely.
Bert, Jeph, Branden and Quinn all came out, played off with "maybe memories", the mosh pit was just as me and laura expected, absolutely mad... so glad i was not in there. I had a nice view... hehe my sister was down in the pit i could see her getting squashed. I can't quite remember the order but "the taste of ink" was early into the set and guess who came out!? (no not kelly osbourne) but Joel from Good Charlotte?! crazy! and he began to sing along... he looked a bit gay dunno why. Still it was nice to see them supporting the used.
They went through there current album (self titled) with songs like "bulimic" (on of my favourites of the set), "buried myself alive", "blue and yellow", "pieces mended", "box full of sharp objects" and to kinda finish it off with "say days ago".
I couldn't believe the energy from this band, it was exhausting just watching them! (which is a good thing) Bert... is.. probably one of my favourite singers of all time in my book anyways. I have ALWAYS wanted to see a singer through themselves on the floor and sing there heart out, i've wanted to see them react with the croud and touch there hands and scream into the croud and let them sing. Bert did all of this (kelly osbourne is a lucky girl) I was just so impressed when he was on the floor though... man i would LOVE to do that. They played so well live i was very impressed indeed.
Bert kept the crouds attetion well, he constantly talked to everyone and did his little laugh, which is SOOO cute. He was saying how they were there because "they loved music" which is ofcourse a main reason for everyone but i have never really heard a band say it before, so it kinda made me happy. haha he also did a little flip backwards! i was well impressed! At the end he threw up on stage, which i think is his trade mark in a way nows.
They walked off, the croud stayed put, it was about 2 long minutes the croud were still waiting... they finally came back on and played "on my own". Which is just guitar and him.. while the drummer Branden and Jeph came into the croud and threw water all over them. That song was so emotional though.. I felt pretty astounded by it all.
So in my eyes it was a beautiful gig, i didn't dance but i sure felt the energy off the stage. I think this band goes on my favourites of bands. :) I'll be going now and listen to "on my own"... while i fall into a happy cheerful slumber.
Night night everyone *xXx* (hope everyone has beautiful lovely dreams as i'm sure i will of being a singer in a band hehe)
(ohhh yehhhh nice one adrians friend for croud surfing and slapping Berts hand man.. no you won't read it but that was cool)
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24/01/03 time: 4:43 pm
Pictures i just took:
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24/01/03 time: 4:38 pm
My exams actually were okay! when you sit down and do them it really doesn't seem that bad, infact there better than lessons. So i probably won't do GREAT on them but i don't THINK i did awful... so i'm in a very good mood indeed!
Soon i see the used AND i got my dashboard pictures back! there so lovely i can't wait to shove them on here!
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24/01/03 time: 7:53 am
hmm.. exams very very soon... i dunno... i think i'm okay.. i think. I really just don't know what to exspect and i know thats silly because we've had tons of exams and tests before but i just don't know what gonna be in those papers... i just went over stuff that i don't really know about but i bet theres a load of other crap i didn't even care to look at.. thats my luck anyways.
I bet in the maths there is sooo much division and shit.. oh wells... okays i better go and clean my teeth. Atleast its not just me, atleast the rest of my year are going through it too.. Anyways the used tonight! yipee and i think i'm gonna get my dashboard pictures back! wo yeh!
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23/01/03 time: 6:49 pm
i'm on the phone 2 Pat, for some reason i am listening 2 the forest gump theme tune down phone... random. hello patty fatty catty. do be doo
okay so i DID study today, not that much because of some certain boy jumping on the trampolene with me :). My mum said she wants me to get in a C in maths... hmm.. lets just say i will try. No promises. I feel like.. i'm ready to go into those big ass halls now, my head doesn't cry with pain anymore when i think about how much i have to think and stuff... so thats a good sign. I will start taking emergency accense aswell nows, to calm my nerves.
So i'll probably right on here tomorrow, i'm going to see the used! yay! oh yeh did i tell you? i got 2 straighteners?! hehe they sent me another pair i'm selling them wo yeh!
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22/01/03 time: 7:57 am
Morning! my eyes are very tired.
So its the last full day of school till we start doing mock gcse's.. me = crappy my pants. Well actually... i'm not... i'll probably be crapping my pants once i've sat down in my maths exam and the first question is a long division sum and i can't do it. THATS when i'll be crapping my pants.
Luckierly tomorrow is just a day where we get to study.. so i'll be studying.. hopefully. Everyone pray for chloe so that her stupid arse brain will sit down and study. I would much appreciate it.
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21/01/03 time: 6:16 pm
hmm... i should be revising... i should be i dunno.. trying to do something.
Nope.. i'm here... sitting doing NOTHING! stupid me.
Sugar magazine comes out soon :/ the one where i'm in it.. kinda scared...
Dunno why i keep doing big spaces and one sentences.
okays i'm gonna go bye bye
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20/01/03 time: 4:59 pm
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20/01/03 time: 10:40 am
In my graphics lesson... i just cut out the windows and i think i need a rest... so yeh.
I thought my weekend was quite yummy really, i'm proud i had it :). Me and laura just sat around in p.e this morning with our legs against the wall trying to do the splits (we did not succeed) and we listened to disco music and britney it was much fun.
James and Lammas are here. James put paint on my apron naughty boy!
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19/01/03 time: 6:04 pm
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19/01/03 time: 5:45 pm
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19/01/03 time: 5:39 pm
Check out here its su kat and caz's site, i met these girls at a party once, we had fun jumping around to new found glory and millencolin... i like em. So check out there site i'm sure you'll like it too.
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19/01/03 time: 4:50 pm
Hmmmm lazy sunday afternoon... i've got no time for worries! lele the small faces are SUCH a cool band.
So soon i have my mocks for GCSE... can't say i'm not worried because i am. I know my maths will go horribly wrong. I sure know my physics is hardly going to be that great too. I tell you what though i am definitely looking forward to doing my BIG drama performance... also this week on friday i see "the used" which i am sooooooo happy about. Can't wait really. Also i can see if i can get some pictures of the yummy Chris of dashboard confessional yum yum yum.
hmm.. and robby is yummy.
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18/01/03 time: 1:17 pm
*Dashboard Confessional* -- The Metro Club 17th January 2003
Over-all Coolness: 9/10
So all day i was listening to dashboard... as you can imagine all day i was looking forward to it. When i walked out of that maths room last lesson.. ahh man was i happy.
Me and laura got on the train, it was cool got a mcdonalds and bought a flower aswell in liverpool street. There were no problems in getting to the venue.. i mean it was my first time to the metro so i didn't really know what to exspect. Because audioslave were also on that night i think a lot of people thought we were going to that.. it was kinda funny me and laura were like "NO we are dashboard fans!"
anyways.. got to the gig, quite a big queue. These american kids outside were trying to get tickets bless them. So we waited.. and waited... and waited... then the manager or something came out and was like theres been a gas leak.. blah blah blah we waited for like 2 hours outside (and i didn't have a coat) So this wasn't a good start. We finally did get in though.
The metros small, quite a crappy layout too... but theres virtually no stage.. so we could get all the way to the front. We nearly, these nice boys let us to the front because we are small. So the support band "colour of fire" came out, i gotta admit i really liked these boys almost sounded like the used. Talking of the used! Kelly Osbourne was there?! hehe crazy.. i was thinking ohh wonder if Bert is here, but i don't think he was. Anyways so the colour of fire.. really good one song in particular called "cut it" i really liked.
So next up was ofcourse Dashboard, all the guitars were being tuned (ahh lovely guitars) then Chris came out... yummy yum yum. His voice and eyes and smile are soooo cute! He said he wanted to start off with a new song because we had already wasted a lot of the gig outside... and it was just him being acoustic... that song sounded so lovely... it made me have butterflies and looking at him, my eyes filled up with tears. It was a beautiful song.
He carried on playing "saints and saliours", "the good fight", "swiss army romance", the songs from his ep "summers kiss" and mostly "the places you have come to fear the most" i can't tell you how much i think they are good live, the drummer, mike? i think thats his name? he is gorgeous and very cool. My favourite song "So impossible" was played i much enjoyed.
In the middle of the set this fat ugly guy came and stood infront of me and laura and started asking everyone if they had any lipstick... i asked him why? and he was like i'm going to get on stage, draw the peace sign on his belly and say about the war.... hmm... why? what are a load of kids who just want to see Dashboard going to do about a war. I told him to go away. He was really annoying though... grr... annyoing. Still he went away and what i was SOOO happy about was that Dashboard played "Tonight I'll Take What I Can Get"! Yay! i love that song. He also played another new song with his whole band which sounded god damn good.
In the end the fat ugly guy got on stage with his top off (yucky)... then on the last song "hands down" he came back in the croud and started jumping infront of me and laura with his sick sick arm pit hair and if you know me I HATE flesh in pits... GRR stupid! but i got over it.
Dashboard then did a little instrumental bitty which was cute and he looked very emotional and lovely. I took so many pictures... but i think my camara broke?! :( i will be distressed if no pictures come out. I also bought "the places you have come to fear the most" on proper cd since i only have a copy, who shall i give the copy to?
So yeh.. all in all it was a good show, except for the fat ugly peace man. And on the way back of the train there was this drunk guy constantly crying on the phone.. random. hmmm... chris is yummy.
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17/01/03 time: 07:57 am
I see Dashboard in approximately 11 hours and 32 mins... yay! i'll update next after dashboard!
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17/01/03 time: 7:55 am
1. Where do you currently work?
2. How many other jobs have you had and where?
3. What do you like best about your job?
4. What do you like least about your job/school?
5. What is your dream job?
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16/01/03 time: 5:00 pm
Do be doooo... another day that has ended of school.
Another day that counts down to the mocks of gcse... dum dum dummmm! (you know the scarey like shocked thing) another day that will lead on to the next... but wait? whats that you say? tomorrows special? whys that chloe? thats right! You see Dashboard Confessional :)
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15/01/03 time: 5:07 pm
i like my compersition...
it may not be as good as most other peoples (miss classical... goody goody... yeh your so good, god damn RAGH!) ... but i like it. And i may have cheated?! but come on people! i just want a C one little C in music! not an A or an A* or B a C! I will be like a happy bunny if i get a C.
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14/01/03 time: 8:31 pm
Something Corporate rocked on xfm.... i am proud of them boys.
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14/01/03 time: 7:57 pm
So my evening has consisted of tears falling down my face because of Noras old journal entries...
i just couldn't stop my eyes from filling up with tears... obviously you won't know what i'm talking about... if you don't know me to well. Noras journal... i read it, i've red it for over a year now. On her live journal, journal she gave out the password for her old journal.. its hard to explain but these entries where when her mother was dying (she has now passed away).. i can't say much, its not my place to. I just, i can't explain, but the stuff she has said really does make me realise how precious life is and how much i love my mum. I gave my mum a big hug when she came back from work...
So... yeh i must now go and listen to xfm since something corporate are playing... should be good.
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14/01/03 time: 7:51 pm
I just nearly died... seriously...
I thought i lost everything! on my website that is.... but it was just geocities being weird for a second... my heart nearly stopped... god.. i would of seriously HATED that if i lost everything. Everything that i've ever written or recorded... that was suck ass... so i've decided to make back ups of everything now... just incase.
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13/01/03 time: 4:38 pm
i played on my dance mat and got all hot... my legs began to be tired.
I really need to drum right now... while everyone is out of my house... i feel so bad for not practising. Okay gonna do it now.
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12/01/03 time: 11:31 am
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I like these pictrues
talking to: Chrisy
doesn't the sun set look pretty! i love all the red and orange and blues all mixing together.
its pretty cold outside in a strappy top!
Do you like my barbie sweat band from asda!?
lelele my feet in my garden.
my computer is gay because: it doesn't want to open mp3 files at this paticular time! gay gay gay
dashboard: to calm my nerves.
my brain : stupid
song: showoff -- no regrets
click on the pic.. go to emogame sign-up list and if you haven't played the game... god damn you, you stupid foool! ... go... now.
music: Ronan Keating
What Kind of FLIRT are you?
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hehe yehhh (batting eyelashes)
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crapping my pants about: maths
Sound: 10/10
Organization: 5/10
Atmosphere: 10/10
what day is it?: Dashboard day! wheee
no-where, i will when i'm 16. if it counts school...
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well what do i like best about school... hmm my friends being there, i seem to be a lot happier when i'm around alot of people than by myself.
The coursework, the counstant worrying about my exams and my future.
To be in a band... and not be really famous or anything just get to tour and have some good fans... bands like the starting line or hmm.. taking back sunday. I would love to sing...
printed out: All the words to the ataris -- blue skies (finally)
song: Saves the day -- All i'm losing me! do be doo first every saves the day song i got..
talking to: Deans cousin (random!)
song: Plain White T's -- Stop
5 days till: Dashboard confessional... got it written on my hand... yay!
6 days till: Dashboard... come on.. i was dancing around in my room today to dashboard with my ticket in my hand... it was fun.
song: north star -- broken parachute
hehe look at my dance mat, its so cool.
