but yes, onto the gig. i got their early, around the time the doors were supposed to open to make sure i was at the front and when i got there, there was around 20 people just hanging around outside and the doors weren't even open! and they weren't for another 15 minutes. as soon as the doors opened we all rushed through, getting our tickets torn in half and running into the main hall. i was ready for a fight. in england it's usually a scrum to the front and if you're not there in the first 30 seconds, you wont ever be. but i went in there expecting the same thing but everyone just sort of dispersed as i was stood right at the front in the middle of the stage. as the time went on, the people just came in and sort of sat around the edges in little group circles like they were having circle time in primary school. but there was me. stood at the front looking all worried but excited. there wasn't even a rush to the front when the holloways came on either so there was just me and these two rave girls stood next to me at the front and everyone sat down. i thought maybe this was how they do it on the continent but as the time went on, people started to all crowd in. nobody was moshing though. apart from this adolescent boy who was just jumping up and down on the spot. he had too much testosterone in him, CSS had started playing and lovefoxx had just come on. he obviously fancied her. he must have fantasies about her. in his pants. and in his head. i remember what i was like at that age. i had a school boy crush on rose from the pipettes. but lovefoxx is nice too. so yeah, the whole crowd was still apart from this one boy who was really pissing everyone off, rubbing his now tent-like trousers on everybody. if it was in england the whole crowd would have been moving and beating each other up. i wanted to feel like i was back home so i started moshing. this big guy shoved me and i flew into this group of people, then someone shoved this big guy and it was off! the rave was going! someone handed lovefoxx a hulahoop (but she couldn't say in english what it was) and she was off. it was an amazing atmosphere everyone now bopping about and dancing violently around each other. CSS really got the crowd going and lovefoxx didn't stop dancing all night!
i was stood right in front of her. i felt like i was turning into that adolescent boy. she's easy to fall in love with you know. you go to one of their gigs and try really hard not to. it doesn't work lol. hahaha. i just used 'lol' in a blog.
it was amazing.
afterwards, me and my sister who was also there got invited to the CSS aftershow party which was cool. i didn't really want to leave but when i got back to my hotel (which was over the road) i met the fratellis. they were staying at my hotel too. which was nice. it was good to see them. mince looked nakered though. poor man. he had a gig the next night.
