Friday, 17 July 2009

Wow really?!

I've spent last night and tonight going through the pictures I took of the gigs and watching the videos I took and I don't think it's sunk in fully yet, every now and then I'll be sat there and it will hit me like "wow I not only saw Nine Inch Nails, but I saw Gary Numan WITH Nine Inch Nails" and even then it feels surreal. So lets recollect my thoughts on the nights shall we?

Manchester - The Beginning Of The End

I woke up at 3 am and left home around 4 am to catch my flight to Manchester where I would spend my first 3 hours in Manchester either freaking out, trying to calm Ro down, finding out where Adam was and trying to keep myself calm whilst waiting in the airport for Ro.
After meeting up with Ro and getting into Manc we decided well Ro decided it would be best to walk to the venue from the train station, which was a nice-ish walk till we got lost, saw the amount of steps we would eventually have to walk up and just generally walked too much!
When we got to the pre-sale line Adam had already made us some new buddies who I have to say are amazingly nice people, in fact over the past few months I've seen how amazingly nice MOST NIN fans are, but actually meeting a load IRL and seeing that they are actually that nice was amazing. Trent should be proud to have such a large fan base where the majority of fans are sweethearts.
I'm trying to work out what I can tell you, but Ro has done an amazing job with it haha
The gig it's self was amazing, although I have to say and don't hold it against me I almost kinda did fall asleep during La Mer, though after only have 6 hours of sleep the night before it is kinda understandable, but I do believe Trent noticed that I happened to be the person on the rail who was literally asleep on their feet cause the singing in the following song was louder and had more force (or it seemed to me it did, perhaps cause it woke me up) but all in all it felt pretty damn intimate which you may think sounds insane, but it was, so suck it.
I got to half shake Rob's hand in Manchester and he smiled at us... SCORE... as well I made friends with the security in front of us (always a must!) and he managed to get me Justin's plectrum at the end of the gig! epic!

I'm rambling now haha...

London - The ending

So wow! Now I'm Nothing wow! What a way to kick it off and not only that but to come on stage whilst it looks like your still setting up caught everyone off guard it was awesome.
I have to say this was my favourite of the gigs, Non Entity was played and for those who know me, know how much I adore that song and it really made me cry then to have Gary Numan come on stage was just amazing really.
I keep using amazing and it doesn't come close to how it was for us. Tam shook our hands when we called her over she seemed kinda shocked that she was being called to, then when she saw us a look of recognition passed on her face... = EPIC! to be recognized by someone who you respect so much because their work inspires your was just bloody fantastic.

I don't know what I can say to you guys that Ro hasn't said, or that I haven't really said already, the whole thing was amazing and I honestly do not believe it could have been any better both Rowan and Adam are amazing people and I'm so glad I had the opportunity to spend the days with. I got a load of pictures that I've put on my facebook and I have some videos on my youtube where the sound is a bit shot haha but still!

I thank everyone that I met and spent time with I will never forget them and I will never forget the gigs that we went to because the whole experience was life changing!

If I recall something better or if I can actually write something worth reading I shall come back and edit this but for now this is me saying goodbye.

J

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