The Gig, A&E and Zelda.
Thursday, 19 May 2011
Okay, I really do need to write about this bloody gig seeing as a week ago we were setting up for the damn thing. I actually wanted to make an effort for this post by watching the DVD that Laura made for us of the whole thing, but I've been putting it off. I watching it last night after I got in from seeing Kris, Lee and Andy but couldn't be bothered to take the suitcase off my bed.
I don't really know what to say about it. We had a few technical things go wrong, like really bad feedback. Really, really bad feedback that made us stop and start again in the first song. Glad I have band mates who kind of know what they're doing. Then the acoustic guitar wouldn't work properly when we played the acoustic song, then more feedback. Then there was me acting like a retard because of my nerves killing me. And I forgot the words to the last song. But it was all in all, kind of a success.
I think this is the only time in the last year that Kris actually praised something I've done. And Cam was telling me how proud he was of me. And Todd said he was kind of amazed at how good we sounded. And everyone just seemed so supportive and it was enough to make me tear up just a little bit the morning after.
After we finished the gig, we had an hour or so to kill before the end of the actual party, which I spent a lot of time talking outside with cigarettes with Iain, Cam, Jon, Todd and Ben. And then someone started tampering with our equipment so a few people disappeared. Thankfully, I managed to get a few people to help us carry our amps back, rather than murdering Kris slowly. I rewarded them with Jubblies, and then it was just me, Todd, Ben and someone called Philip (one of Todd's friends, not just some randomer)
After Philip left it was just us three attempting to will ourselves to go to Babylon. We did it eventually, but didn't actually go in. Then we went to the Royal London, and left rather promptly, and then Planet, where we spent the remainder of the night. My priority more than anything was looking after Iain, who was so upset, and looking after Todd who was in one of the most drunken states I've ever witnessed before in my life.
This actually lead to me traipsing to Birmingham at around 4 in the morning just to make sure he was okay, which he was. And we watched Scott Pilgrim on Blu-Ray, and it was awesome.
Since then, I've really not had a lot to do. I was taken into A&E on Monday, and I've been kind of out of action since. I had to leave club before Black Jack even finished, and Iain came with me. It's not something I really want to talk about, but I'm almost recovered now, and nothing too serious.
Iain's been looking after me really well though. I had to have him sleep in the spare room with me because I started freaking out and hallucinating, and I was terrified. I've needed to be around someone for the past couple of days just in case I fall over. I'm going back to theirs tonight because I had the first night alone yesterday and I didn't like it. I feel like I need to be around people.
So, last night I hung out with Kris, Lee and Andy. I'm probably not going to see Lee and Andy until September now, but I said I'd nip around to Kris on Saturday to say good bye properly. We played on Soul Calibur, then a lot of Mortal Kombat, and then watched Andy complete Zelda.
There was also a little side-quest where we wanted take away Chinese food, but everywhere decided to close, so we went to Asda to recover what little food we could that was similar to a take away. I ended up with a Shin Cup, Prawn Crackers and 8 vegetable spring rolls. Kind of a cop out, but it still tasted awesome. Kris had bought Cheese Triangles and we had the conversation of what he could do to make them taste better. Lee's suggestion was snort it. Then Kris said something like it was better than snorting tea. Then the conversation continued like this:
Me: You snorted tea?
Lee: It's reasonable.
Lee: It's reasonable.
Kris: ...What?
I don't know why that made me giggle so much. But anyway, back to watching Andy complete Zelda. We had a laugh doing it. Like Andy was joking that Ganondorf was going to pop out of a tiny chest in the light room in Ganon's tower, and Lee thought he'd be all crumpled up. And when Andy was running out of the collapsing tower, he was just shouting at Zelda for not being fast enough. My favourite part was possibly when Andy was just about to fight Ganon and Lee said "one little hitch" just at the point where he lost the Master Sword, and Andy's face just fell.
All in all, it was a really good night. It was nothing out of the ordinary though, it was how we spent a massive portion of our year. Just dicking around on games and eating food. I'm really gonna miss that corridor. But I'm glad I managed to see them before I left at the very least.
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