The Academy Is.. Gig Report

[astoryandasong]

I am so bad at gig reports fr rlz- I am like WAS IT GOOD Y/N? OH LOOK TEH PRETTY

But TAI was amazing! And there was bonus bluejbird !


I started the night off in Wagamama, because honestly? So delish. Then we walked along to The Garage and were all like, ugh, a line, so we sat in Nice'N Sleazy's till it was mostly gone. Once inside, I almost immediately was spotted by the super-sweet bluejbird  who did not come across as creepy at all (I may have come across as INSANE but oh well?) and I was excited! I was all HELLOOOO and also her friend Susan was very nice as well! Bandom slasher! In Glasgow! So excited! 

ANYWAY, we went up the top because we've found that the balcony is where its at and we were all standing (always_august  was nearer the front) when this dude decided to make my life difficult! Then I spotted Maria, one of the girls we bonded with at Panic and she was there with Louise, and we totes noticed their spot was awesome. So me and Katie decamped there and lo, my view was unobstructed! Except when the photographer dude stood right in front of me for like a minute.

The Maine were okay- not bad, but  I wouldn't watch them headline. Not yet anyways. 

Then I was like WHEEE because We The Kings came on and did my two favourite of their songs: 'Skyway Avenue' and 'Check Yes Juliet'. I can't remember what else, following my pattern of 'meh song' amnesia.

THEN TAI CAME OUT AND IT WAS AWESOME AND WE LOVED THEM AND THEY LOVED US.

I think I knew it was  going to fucking rock when they came out and did Neighbours right off. I liked that about them- they were so amazing, they came out, did their songs with minimum bullshit (and really in The Garage thats what you need given the curfew).

Again  they made me love them more. Before Decaydance Paris I was not a fan of TAI, but they blow you away live for sure. They just have more energy live- not that the CD lacks it but the live show really shows you how its done.

Not too many songs from SANTI (no Bulls in Brooklyn, sadface) but they did Slow Down and LAX to O'Hare, which, how cool? And they played some new stuff like Summer Hair= Forever and Beware The Cougar, which for the latter was the first time they'd ever done it live.

THEN WE WENT ROUND TO THE BUSES AND STALKED THEM AND IT WAS WORTH IT BECAUSE LOOK:




YEEESSSS HE CAME OUTSIDE AND WAS SO LOVELY AND SIGNED THINGS WHO CARES IF IT WAS MIDNIGHT AND WET. I KNOW I WHINED BUT IT WAS WORTH IT ALL.

ALSO HERE ARE SOME OTHER IMPORTANT PEOPLE



(the butcher probs thinks I am nuts now but loookkkkkk)



PLZ TO BE IGNORING MY CHINS ALSO HE WAS SO LOVELY AND LOOK HOW CUTE HE IS

annnnd I'm done.

Forever The Sickest Kids on Thursday, wheee

Comments

[lokte.livejournal.com]

Hey, just stopping by to say, erm, hey (I'm the Susan person). I am glad to see your after show efforts weren't in vain!

How can you not be smiling when your head is actually touching the actual head of Mike Carden?? IDEK

[astoryandasong.livejournal.com]

Ohh, hello! I am totes friending you, btw :-)

I AM SMILING

(one of my best friends thinks its hilarious to do this thing where she shows people pictures of me both happy and sad and mocking me because I have the same facial expression in all of them)

p.s ur icon rulez

[lokte.livejournal.com]

Your photo of William is just so William it is untrue. I always think Butcher looks scary so you were very brave to go up close to him (although bluejbird assures me he is not scary at all).

P.S. anything to do with Spencer pretty much rules by association :D

[astoryandasong.livejournal.com]

I know, its like- he seemed quite quiet, sort of tired but then the camera flashed and ahaha, yep, there you are!

Butcher now thinks I am nuts cos I was overly polite- I think I was a bit punchy by then but he was actually nice! Mike Carden kind of ruled though, he was speaking to this girl's brother on the phone and everything :-)

[bluejbird.livejournal.com]

I just realised that I hadn't commented on your pics here, which is epically faily of me because I meant to but I think I decided not to because it would be like this:

!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG I AM GLAD YOUR STALKING WORKED OUT YAY!!!!!!!

and I think I decided that was weird. But I'm randomly hyper and thought I'd comment like that anyways. Anyways. My point was- I'm glad you guys had a great time and got to meet the boys after the gig and it was really awesome to meet you! I'm so chuffed there's another fangirl in the city!

[astoryandasong.livejournal.com]

I am just as epically faily :-) I have not commented on your awesome roadtrip!

Are you going to FOB? Of course you are! Let us meet again and flail!

[bluejbird.livejournal.com]

Is the pope catholic? Is Brendon Urie totally gay for his band? Is Pete Wentz a furry?

Of course I am going to FOB! We should indeed meet up and flail (possibly when we're about to converse and hear each other so I don't just go 'WHAT? WHAT?' a lot).
\o/

[bluejbird.livejournal.com]

Hey! I thought I'd push even more creepy on you and give you my mobile number in case you want to meet up and say hi at the gig and cannot find me in the sea of people. It's 07773079671. And oh god, the gig is going to be so good. Sunday night was just amazing. We got barrier from queueing at half past 12, so I think we're going to go early again because our view of Joe was amazing from where we were and it would be great to see that again. Anyways, I'm not sure what time you're getting there but you should totally come and say hi, because it was awesome meeting you at TAI.