January, January
Okay so it’s the last day of January, one of the things I wanted to do this year was post on every month so I’d have twelve hopefully fun filled blogs by the end of the year.
January did not start out awesome.
Okay so I’m sitting here listening to some Paramore and going through my January memories.
I guess New Year was pretty boring just sat with the family and blah, blah, blah.
First Saturday was awesome though, 3rd if I remember correctly? Well we went to the Catty (Cathouse). We took Kieran though. We only took him because our friend Grant is scared of “social gatherings”. He is the most awkward boy you could ever meet! So back onto the point it was me, Kieran and Rhys. Rhys and I had a bunch of fun. Kieran I’m not sure. Yeah it was incredibly fun though, dancing, singing and talking to people.
Then of course there was a big boring gap.
Then there was Wednesday 13th January. Up at 8am and out the door for 10am with Grant. Down to Port Glasgow train station were we bumped into Louise, Reagan and Kieran. We were all incredibly ecstatic! So on the train up we all took pictures and chatted. Then we raced up to the top end of Buchanan Street to get in queue to meet YOU ME AT SIX!!
We sat and queued for about 6 hours? It was fun though we went wonders and all that had some wee banter. At one point on our little wanders, Louise, Kieran and I were in HMV on Argyll Street, a woman was talking to us about the ym@6 signing and she said have you got your stamp yet? Puzzled we said, “No are they doing stamps?” yeah so we then ran all the way up Buchanan Street and just made it! Grant had fucked off though, and he nearly missed the stamp guy completely! So we ran to the back of the queue to find the stamp guy and get his hand stamped. Fortunately he did get it stamped. So another hour or so and we were finally getting in to the live set. They played about 7 amazing songs. During the last song though, we all went to the front of the signing part. So there we were for another 15 minutes. Waiting on them to come and meet us. Then they came and I was babbling like an idiot as usual. I did get a Kiss from Chris and a high five from Dan. That was awesome! So afterwards Louise, Reagan and Kieran went home but Rhys – who met up with us earlier that day – Grant and I went to the back of the building where they would be coming out, not satisfied with meeting them once. So once there we met a few nice people. We were there about an hour before they came out. Security was tight. No one at the back even got to meet them! They just came out and straight into the van. Once they came out though it was madness! Everyone RAN after that van, myself included, so anyway there was rumors going about that they were headed to the catty and so we went there and met a few cool people, one we sat and spoke to for a fair bit was Meagan, she was nice, we waited with her to get a bus home and then went for our own since the guys didn’t come to the catty, it was amazing though! Now I have a signed album.
That was probably one of the wilder days. So again there was the boredom.
Then there was Twenty Twenty! Monday 25th January. I left school at break and went and got ready and left for Glasgow myself. Rhys was staying at school. So I managed to get up for about 12 and there were a few people there, Rachel, Laura and Lauren and Jake and Clare – they travelled down from Aberdeen like wow – so they invited me to sit with them. They were awesome and then about one Twenty Twenty arrived! First to get out the van was the beautiful Sam Halliday! I was like Hi, Hi, Hi, Hi! He did say Hi back and then it was Sam and Sonny! I got hugs of Sam and Sonny and I was like Hix10 to Jack as well and I’m like “I’ll get past saying ‘hi’ soon” he just started laughing like yeah. So that was awesome. Then the New Cities came and then THE BROADCAST! I actually love this band, I seen them last year with Mission District. I went up straight away to chat with them, I talk to the lead singer guy Azza on msn and such so I feel like I know him kind-a like so I’m just like ‘Can I get a picture Azza?’ and he’s just like ‘aw yeah wicked’ and then my heart stopped. So anyway got a picture with Steve and Adam as well and Marc, well Marc had fucked off at this point. So anyway at one point I had went to Subway for a drink and The Broadcast guys were like just sitting there eating a subway! As boring as it sounds it just amused me that these four guys who play awesome music and are just awesome are sitting in the same Subway as me. So anyway I’m walking out and I kind-a looked at Azza and smiled. Then I walked into the door. Can you imagine the embarrassment? I’m smiling at the guy I adore and then BANG I walk into the stupid door! Yeah so anyway I also tried to get Azza to threaten Rhys into buying a ticket but Azza was like ‘I’m not going to make him buy a ticket, if he wants to buy one then cool man but he doesn’t have too’ he said this in a jokey voice, then he says to Rhys ‘but please buy a ticket, it would mean the world to us if you did!’. They’re just amazing guys. So then Gap Year Riot turned up and went in. Time passed and Dave and another guy from Gap Year came outside for a minute and the doors locked on them and they must have been out for at least 40 minutes. Then this woman was going in and she had a key like and Dave and that guy go to walk in and she’s like ‘sorry I can’t let anyone in’ and everyone who heard laughed at her and then we all started saying who they were and she’s like –in the most cheekiest voice ever- ‘well I didn’t know that did I?’.
Anyways just waiting about after that and then I see the guy who signed my head at Mission District I was just like ‘Hey didn’t I meet you at TMD’ and he’s like ‘yeah I signed your head.’
I know most of these wee stories will not mean much to anyone reading this but y’know these are wee things that make me laugh and I want to be able to look back at this and remember them.
So anyway then we eventually got in, I went straight to Merchandise and bought the ‘I got down with Twenty Twenty t-shirt and their two EP’s. So I went to my wee place at the front and just got quickly changed into my TT tee. Ailsa’s face was priceless when I took my top of she screamed my name I’m like yeah Ailsa draw attention to me. So the Broadcast were on first and I was just so amazed. I just love these guys live! I used up most of my battery filming them! That was worth it though since they linked my video on Facebook. So yeah they were completely and definitely amazing, I love them live, so I have tickets for April to see them, can’t wait. Then up were The Gap Year Riot, – they’re a Glasgow band – they were pretty amazing! I only knew one of their songs but the rest were awesome! I want to go see them again in March I think it is? Yeah so the next act was The New Cities, they’re from Montreal – I think so anyway, Canada and they are absolutely amazing! The energy from them was just epic and like wow, my most commonly used descriptive word ‘wow’, yeah they were really awesome anyway. So then it was TWENTY TWENTY!! They came on and my heart stopped, I kind of had to force myself to start breathing that finally I was seeing them! They opened with ‘Yeah but no’ and from then things just went from good to amazing, I also got some really cool pictures of Jack. So the gig, even though I cannot describe how amazing it was due to my lack of vocabulary was really, really remarkable and just one of those significant days. It was truly astounding and the night went perfectly!
So afterwards I met everyone from the band and got pictures and all that Jazz meeting them all was fantastic and I asked the Broadcast to sign my ticket for their gig, the look on Azza’s face was just amazing, he just looked so stunned and exultant. It kind of made my day in a way, his expression, I can’t even describe. So after meeting all the bands I said bye to a few people and then we walked to Central with Laura, which was fun we just talked about random stuff and then we waited till her train came and then we went for our own.
So I guess that was a pretty good day.
Last Saturday of January we went to the Cathouse, which was entertaining.
So I suppose this month hasn’t been too bad, when you compare it to this time last year the highlight was missing school and going to Braehead to see Twilight. So things have changed a lot!
February should be fun!
Amanda xx
