Oh my god. I don't think that I have ever done so much queueing and waiting around in one afternoon (except maybe at Thorpe Park) as I did yesterday. It was rather ridiculous.
So let me tell you the story [NB: If you cba to read all this just skip to "the good bit"]:
So Ami and I got on the train to Victoria from East Croydon, only then to discover that the Victoria line wasn't working. This led to the MOST MASSIVE trek around east London EVER. Serious it was like, 20min on the circle line from Victoria to Liverpool street, then 10min on the central line from Liverpool street to Stratford and then another 10min on the overground from Stratford to Hackney Central. Of course there were quicker routes but that is not the point.
Okay so Curie and Ali are there already when we get there along with rather a lot of other people. The extremely camp guy (who I did in fact come to like throughtout the afternoon) comes round asking for people who have priority tickets. Naturally I said no. Less than 2minutes later I realise that I do indeed have priority tickets. So theres me running down the road and I run up to him and I'm like "no, wait, sorry, I do have priority tickets" and he totally didn't believe me until I showed him the email.
I've just realised this all sounds extremely boring. So I'll continue quickly. Basically: Curie and Ali dont get in cos they dont have priority but then they get priority to another one, Ami and I wait around a lot, we go inside and fill in a form, we wait around some more, we go out side to wait around some more, and some more, and then some more. AND THEN we finally go to the place. It was funny having 60+ people walking around London in one big group.
The Good Bit
Ami and I get inside. I'm all like "oh my god, we're in the tv, this is weird" and Ami's all like "oh my god, you me at six are like that far away from us, this is weird". I assure you, it was rather weird. I will now list what happened in the order it happened... as best I can remember (yes I know it was only yesterday but I forget these things).
1.
You Me At Six come in and everyone screams. Standard. They did Finders Keepers and Save It For The Bedroom. They did both of them quite a number of times cos Josh kept messing them up. But hey who cares, he looked fiiiiiiiiiiiiiine. So yeah that was good. Oh apart from Max spitting. Not kool. Hopefully they show that on tv. But basically he spits and it goes over everyone near him. IT WENT IN MY EYE. It stung =(
2.
Annie and Nick come out and do their opening link. So Nick's standing there with a carrot stick in hand and just goes "argh why is it so hot?" We laughed but I don't think he heard.
3.
Fanprentice. Was alright. It was so obvious that the girl who won was gonna win though. She looked a bit like Amelia's cousin I thought.
4.
Chats with You Me At Six. I think this was the highlight. And my favourite bit of the day. Basically they're doing a quiz for Josh where they go around his room and then they ask him questions about it. They will probably edit it out though.
Annie: Question one. According to your band mates, what do you spend the most time doing in your bed?
Josh sits back in his seat and says: Well I don't like to brag but err you know...
Annie: No, not that, a) reading, b) sleeping or c) masturbating?
I thought that was ratherrrr funny.
5.
Chats with Chipmunk. He was quite funny. But he did look extremely bored whilst they were talking to YMAS. But yeah he was good.
6.
Grimshaw Files. We were quite near the back so couldn't really see what was going on but yeah.
7.
Oh my god and then they made us do things. How embarrasing. She was like, "applause, now a little bit of appluase, now do a big belly laugh (this was most embarrasing), and then laugh as if it's only a bit funny, now aww as if something was sweet, and finally make a noise as though something was really gross. I think this was just to make us look silly.
So there it was. We didn't get to meet Annie, Nick or You Me At Six.
BUT!
I cunningly recognised Exit Avenue! So I walk up to them and I say, "sorry, are you exit avenue?"
And drummer goes, "I think you've just made our day"
One of them turns around like, "has it just happened?"
And the drummer's like, "yeah we just got recognised, and it's at you me at six's shoot as well."
So they all gave me a high five =)
We also got them to have a picture with the Is This Canterbury (www.myspace.com/isthiscanterbury) sticker thing.
And then it was time for a rather long trek home. It took an hour and a half to be precise.
But was a good day overall. And Ami enjoyed it which was the main aim of the day.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00l1tg8
You can watch it here until 6th June.
We're on during Grimshaw files (from 9.00) and during the end performance (from 26.20)
