Since my last post I've been to see The Cure at the Royal Albert Hall for a Teenage Cancer Trust concert, and I'm so glad I went in the end. It was AMAZING!!! The first part of the day before actually getting to London was a bit fraught and anxiety-ridden, but I calmed down on the train ride there. I charged my phone and watched the 'Shrek is love, Shrek is life' video one of my bandmates showed me, then got a taxi from Euston Station to the Royal Albert Hall, and the taxi man dropped my mum off at the hotel we were staying at.
First there was a film directed by Shane Dawson about two teenagers living with cancer, and then Roger Daltrey - he of The Who fame - came onstage with some other people to talk about how far Teenage Cancer Trust has come since it was first founded. After a while The Cure came on and played Plainsong, and I was basically in tears because I was alive to hear one of my most absolutely favourite songs being played live. Everyone looked and sounded amazing! I was in tears again when they played Disintegration because all my emotions were basically happening at once and by the time the song was over I was collapsed in a sobbing heap on the floor but in the best way possible. Near the end everyone surged to the front and that was as close as I've ever gotten to my most favourite band in the entire universe! When the concert was over I bought a £12.50 Cure t-shirt and hopped in a taxi to the Marylebone Travelodge. My hotel room was very small and cute!
Beautiful fuzzy baby
Two Roberts
The next morning I woke up at about 8:30 and went down to see if there was any hotel breakfast available, and when I saw that there wasn't, I went for a walk around Marylebone Station with my Hello Kitty and bought myself a gay baby breakfast of BBQ Pop Chips, M&S milkshake and Jelly Bean Factory jelly beans!
My mum and I had to be out of the hotel by about 12 o'clock, so we both went for a walk around the general area surrounding Marylebone Station. We went to Costa for a sit-down, then I got a cotton candy ice cream from Baskin Robbins before we went to Regents Park to look at the ducks. There were these funny birds that bobbed around along the water and they definitely weren't ducks, but I still can't remember what they were called!
Can anybody help me identify this Birb???
We got the train back to Birmingham at 2pm, and upon returning to Birmingham I bought some eyeliner and I can't remember what else.
I also saw the Manic Street Preachers at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall, and I had a great time! I got into Wolverhampton at about two-ish, hung around outside the venue with my friends Amy, Ava and Ruby and some of their other friends too, talked about the Manics, quickly popped to Costa and McDonald's with Amy, discarded my moulting feather boa from Poundland in Nicky Wire's general direction only for it to get kicked aside by a security guard and bought a t-shirt only to lose it on the way home, hehe! They played two new songs, Europa Geht Durch Mich and the title track from their forthcoming album Futurology, and they were amazing! I can't wait for Futurology to be out. I hope the Manics do another tour and I get to meet Nicky!
Geography teacher Nicku look
Nicky smiley and his meme jacket
Between the 18th and the 26th of April my mum was away in the Maldives. I occupied my time by going to Milton Keynes for band practice and also playing with our singer's pet rats and eating ice cream and watching my Akira DVD, staying at my grandad's house for a few, seeing the new Spiderman film with my sister and my cousin, and I can't remember what else.
Arriving to the intended topic...
This week wasn't good for me in my opinion, so today I took myself out to do some retail therapy!
When I was waiting at the bus stop, I saw some people who had just gotten married riding down the road in a horse driven carriage and I thought it was quite funny and unusual to see!
Today has been successful and a good antidote to a generally rubbish week. Next week I'm going to see Janelle Monáe at the Institute in Digbeth, then Echo and the Bunnymen 3 days after that with Zombie Club in between and tomorrow I should be seeing the new Spiderman film again with my mum and visiting my cousin whose cat has just had kittens. Hopefully things will look up from here onwards!
