I guess it's time to write about this.
I'm still recovering, I'm putting that out there now.
It started at 8am on Saturday morning waking up on a mattress on Jays floor. We got up and showered (together obviously) ;) we got ready and had some breakfast, still had loads of time untill getting collected my Richey and his dad, waited around for a bit until we heard Jays dad ask us "why are you up so early? Swear Rich, You'd remember your sons leaving the country this morning aha. We got collected shortly after that and we got to the airport and we met jays mother, Yvonne. If anyone doesn't know she works security at the airport and managed to get us through the lines and stuff in a few seconds, well everyone besides Andrew(chuckles) He had a dodgy print out of his boarding pass and had to go back and get a rea one from the Ryanair desk. We said our goodbye to his mam and we went to found our gate for the flight, as soon as we hit that, We hit the pub :D nothing like an Ice cold pint of bulmers and a jam scone at 10.30 on a saturday morning, I was ordering my drink and scone and I asked for Bulmers and jam scone, the lady replies, "that's not jam" I was like "Well what the fuck is it then?!" I didn't mean to say it out loud but I came out and she just laughed and said it was cherry or something. A few minutes later the rest all walked into the same pub. I'll try list everyone:
Eoghan, Warry, Regan, Hannah, Greg, Ste, Barry, Hamo, Al and Craig.
So that left All of them and Jay, Richie, Andrew and myself on the plane. Ste met some girls he knew in the airport that I ended up spending most of the night with at the after party later known as Steph and Laura. I'll explain that later.
So yeah, we got on the plane, Three to a row, I sat with Jay and Richey sat with Andrew. I'm an alright flyer. I'm not as bad as I used to be since My trip flying on my own two years before to London. This flight was actually grand. The lads had fun throwing tampons they had found in the bathroom at each other. Eoghan managed to throw one further than he thought and hit a girl in the head that was not in our group. Warry and steph literally argued the entire flight about her being from Belfast therefore being English, not Irish, while she Argued she was Irish because she lived in Ireland. I'd get back into that debated right here and now, but as I found out, the irish think they are english and the English think they are Irish, so the conclusion, No body wants them. I kinda started feeling sick on the decent to Leeds-Bradford airport. Swear down I was going to get sick on jay at one point, but I didn't tell him, We got out and got our of the airport into fresh air and I felt better thank god I didn't fancy being sick all day.
We got our taxis somewhere around 1.10pm and got to the Uni about 1.40 Then me Jay. Richey and Andrew walked back to our hotel. Since we were flying out at 9.30pm the next night we booked a hotel, while the rest were flying out at 6am So they planned on just going to the airport after the after party. We ended up walking down and trying to find our hotel instead of getting a taxi to it. Richey knew where he was going, just he took the long route. It took us about 30 mins to get to the hotel after being one road away for about 10 mins as we were not sure exactly where it was. Fuck england being on a hill. Seriously all of Leeds was one big hill.
We went down, got changed and headed back up to the University to see the bands. not before you know, we hit the one of three subways. Fuckin' lovley shit.
I was not arsed walking. I'm not gonna lie, I'm lazy enough. So i got the lads to get a taxi.
This taxi driver was fucking hilarious. We were all dying in the taxi by the time we got to the University. He was an Indian man, so you can guess the English Indian accent He was like "going to the festival?" And Richey goes "yeah we are, The drive started saying, "going to pick up chicks??, take them back to the hotel, and roast them? are you going to eat them as well? their milk is nice, you should milk them too and drink the milk" We were dying of laughter at this point. for serials.
We got there and were directed to the E-tickets line as we booked online. FUCK THAT LINE. It took us about an hour and 10 mins to get through that line, while people with tickets were flying by, We talked about how the gig in london didn't go so well as there was capacity problems for the bigger bands and stuff and an early curfew on the bands. We hoped that wouldn't happen here We ended up getting into the gig about 4.10pm or so. The lads went down to see the wonder years while I went to the main stage, otherwise known as "The Glamor kills stage" to see HIT THE LIGHTS on my tod. I seen the other lads there though, so all was good. HIT THE LIGHTS were actually so good. The singers not that good live, but you could still hear him atleast. I hate seeing bands where the singers totally drowned out. "Stay out" is my favourite song by HIT THE LIGHTS and I loved to hear it. It's just such a tune! During the set me and some of the lads did these shorts of jeager that you get in what was practically a test tube in science back in secondary school. After HIT THE LIGHTS I headed straight for the bar, It was time to get my drinking on. price for drink wasnt so bad, I think it was £3.75 for a pint of Bulmers with blackcurrant. I got two just for the sake of not having to go back into line because the bar was pretty packed. I headed back to the main stage as SET YOUR GOALS were due to play soon enough. I had the choice of going to see SET YOUR GOALS or WE ARE THE OCEAN. In the end SET YOUR GOALS with the lads. SET YOUR GOALS won. I couldn't actually believe how good these guys were, the entire band was wearing suits because, they have a fair few kinda politically motivated lyrics and one singer was just dressed normally. It was just so good. They looked so good no stage and one of the singers could just be heard so clearly. I wish i knew more about them such as names, so I wouldn't just be saying "one singer" aha.
One thing that got me while SET YOUR GOALS were playing, I started to mosh and shit with everyone else, but I took a break for two songs I didn't know. There was this girl, she was like 14 or something she was tiny, so she got on her mates shoulders. Some lad actually walked across the floor and tried to push her off, she was horrified but when he done this some people in the crowd caught her and put her back up, so he comes back. What fucking douchebag comes back for a second time?! So i stood beside her and when he extended his arms to push her i knocked them away. He squared up to me, he was a little smaller than me, and I was just like, "You're a fucking douche, piss off" and he moved his head that ever little bit closer to mine, and before he pulled it back I had pushed him with both my arms and he went flying stumbling back across the mosh pit that had been cleared into a circle and fell on his ass, he got back up and looked at me, obviously he couldn't hear me but i gestured with my arms that he could come back if he wanted and try again, but he just got up and acted like it didn't happen. Fucking right, douchbag. Later the girl came over to me and said thanks. I didn't care for the thanks, I done it regardless. but the thanks was nice. :)
SET YOUR GOALS finished playing there set with Mutiny! Which I can safely say has now ranked 3rd on my best songs heard live list. They didn't play "Work In Progress" which Is my favourite song by them. I was gutted but still happy at the end of the set. MUTINY!
More drinks were had between the break, It was seriously warm inside at the stages.
Next was FOUR YEAR STRONG. these were the best band for me for the weekend. They were so tight, and so good at everything, they told a story about a lad named Moe, who had a ticket to slamdunk to see them play, but had died shortly before. They dedicated their set to him. It was so cool. They played stuff off the new album that I didn't know. I knew I should have listened to it more before I went. Heroes Get Remembered, Legends Never Die was just so good. I love this song too much. I spent most of this set losing my shit to great songs, killer break downs with the lads and moshing. Shit was seriously epic. Anthony Kelly, said they'd be playing here in Autumn. I can't wait for that. To see them again would be amazing
More cooling drinks were gotten this time, I hit the shop for some milk. It just felt like the right thing to do. Love milk.
Jay and myself had lost Rich and Andrew at this point and everyone else, we actually just decided we had enough in the pit and just decided that NEW FOUND GLORY were more of a sing along, band so we stood at the back of the hall singing along. It was just so good. They played everything but My Friends Over You. They played Hit or Miss for their last song. That killed me. It's not my favourite song and I was burning up so I left to find jay, who went to get our after party tickets. Only to find out they came back out to play an Encore including My Friends Over You. Gutted. So so so Gutted. I will go see them again to just hear them play that.
I went and bought a FOUR YEAR STRONG hoody in the merch, on the way out as we decided to go back and shower before heading to the after party. Silly Eoghan handley decided to just wear a T-shirt as it was roasting all day, but it got freezing that night, especially in sweat soaked clothes, so I let him wear the hoody I bought to keep him warm and said I'd get it back off him when we get home(which i did last night). Me and the lads went back to the hotel to shower. We were leaving the rooms again back to the after party and I go, "I feel so much lighter now that I've changed" and Jay goes "Probably because you just lost a leitre and a half of sweat in your clothes" despite how horrible that is, It's probably true.
We decided to get some dinner before we went to the gig, dinner at like 11.30. Aha. We headed for burger king, only to find it closed and then realised there was a Mac Donalds like, 20 feet from it. Talk about competition. Had a nice chicken legend and straw berry milkshake :)
The reason I'm posting so long about Mac D's is because while we were sitting there, there were 4 lads highly dressed up at a table counter in front of us, the cleaning guy came over to see if there was anything there he could clean and they more more or less told him to "fucking wait" and then when they were done, left a huge mess and one even tried to knock over what was left of his drink but lucky enough, it didn't fall over. I felt so bad for the guy, I know england can be fairly Racist. but the cleaning guy, was white English. Lads were just being dickheads. We finished eating and he came over to us and asked were we finished, we said yeah, and we cleaned up everything, and put it into the bags we got them in and kinda wiped off the table, and asked the lad, where the bin was. I could TELL we caught him off-guard, the lad was genuinely surprised at what we did and was like, "oh no I'll put it in the bin don't worry." so we gave him the bags and left. He was so nice, He shouldn't have been working in that job. Mhhhm, strawberry milkshake.
This blog is getting fiendishly long so, yeah.
So the after party. We got back up there around 12. It was on from 11pm-3am.It was pretty cool to be honest. Down in two little night clubs under the University. one played good music, but was TOO FUCKING WARM TO BREATH IN and the other was cold but shitty to alrightish kinda music, only good songs played were, holy diver by kill switch engage, and This could be anywhere by Alexisonfire. When Alexis came on there was about 15 of us sitting around the table, wrecked tired. Eoghan was alseep on the hoody I gave him, or atleast trying to sleep. Everyone just started to air drum and sing along. It was so funny. I didn;t feel like just sitting around for the night so after I finished a few drinks, I went out with the mentality of chatting some girls up. Jay decided to come with me, we walked around for a while, but instead of chatting anyone up, We ran into Steph and Laura from the plane. We talked to them for a few mins, then Richewy and Andrew came to find us and said they were heading back to the hotel. Jay decided to go with them. I told them I'd be back later. It was only like 1.45am or something, no way was I not making the most of this trip. So they went back, and I stayed, stuck with steph and Laura, they introduced me to Ais and Sam who turns out would be on our flight home. We ended up drinking more, and dancing to some absolute tunes. Me and Sam ended up kicking an empty bottle of vk back and forward for a few minutes. We just walked around for ageeesss. having the laugh stuff, for some reason they kept running away from each other, then Sam and I would be left together. Sam kept having to hold stephs stuff, I found it so so amusing. He always had two drinks and a handbag, Funny thing was that He was with Ais not steph. the night ended and we got kicked out about 3am, We stood outside and walked around for a while. Ais giving steph a jockey back around the place was just funny. It looked like she was going to fall over at anytime. Painful thoughts. I was quite drunk at this point and couldn't wait for sleep, Even if it was in a crappy hotel bed. We ended up like, getting taxi back around 3.45am and I got out first. said good bye to everyone and jumped out of the taxi, nearly fucking hit my head off the roof, but I looked cool. So all was good =D. When I got out I wasn't quite sure where I was but then I figured out I was just around the corner. Lucky for me aha. I hit the room, and hit the deck. out cold withing two mins.
That was the end of my Sunday. I'm not writing loads about Monday, I'm going out soon and have to get ready.
Monday: We got up around 9.30am because check out was at 11. We had showered and got ready. We went and got breakfast in the pub next door. The lads got something fucking delicious looking. I just got some chips. My stomach had not quite settled yet. We walked around and found some cool shops. There was like 3 shopping centers within like, 5 mins from each other. One was practically empty though. Everything was so white. So clean. It was a lovely day, I only had a black hoody. fuck was I wearing that.
The idea of me wanted to stay on the Monday, was the fact. I played an online game for ages, and on the very first day I played it, I met a lad named Rob. This was nearly 5 years ago at this stage. We have always kept in touch and talking. Even though we have both stopped playing the game at this point, We arranged to meet up. It's weird going to meet up with someone you met online. I've done it before because I feel no different about it anymore than meeting anyone else. Turns out He's a sound sound lad. He drove for an hour to get to Leeds.We met up had a pint, moved on, I went and bought something for my room. Then We went and had another pint down by our hotel. We had the chats but he was driving so he was just on the diet coke. we had the chats then he spotted the lads walking around, and got them in. We all had the chats, they were wrecked. We drank so more and I got quite pissed. We ended up going to go get dinner, but first we walked rob up to his car and said goodbye. It was a rally nice thing. Seeing someone you've talked to for so long, but distance gets in the way. I've so many friends that live so far away. I'm used to it I guess. We then went and got subway, I ended up eating and then that with the combination of the drink, I fell asleep in the chair in subway. I'm going to highlight that subways in england are not like what they are like here. They have nice chairs, Armchairs even. It's crazy. Such a nice place. So yeah, I fell asleep and the lads put a basket thing on my head. fair play. Douches. We then headed to the airport. Like a billion hours early (flight was 9.30 we got the bus at 6.20 and got there for 7) I went to sleep on my hoody in the airport while waiting and then we went and got on the plane home. Sam and Ais sat beside me on the plane so I got to talk to them again. It was nice to make some new friends. really nice. We separated from them at the airport when Ais's dad collected them. We got a lift home by my dad.
That was it. The entire two day trip in a fair bit of detail. Amazing Time. Well worth it.
Best band were FOUR YEAR STRONG, but the best song way Mutiny! By SET YOUR GOALS
Ps. Steph is probably the most hyper person I've met in my entire life.
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