I met up with everyone at Victoria, they decided to go sushi it so yeah. I said hello to everyone and tried shaking everyone’s hand. I showed off my new york hat and gave people some “Kisses” chocolate. The meal was pretty nice and then we went to get Stu’s ticket at National Express, I ended up doing it on the phone but nonetheless we got stu out of the door haha. We then went to Covent Garden and checked out some boring street performer as well as cyber candy. I got people to take the stairs since it was quite a gruelling walk!

Afterwards we went to funland, that was.. fun, we had some bumper car action and I did some DDR’ing. Afterwards we went back to Victoria to meet up with stu and have some nando’s action. I took some photos here and there and tried to abuse the 50mm lens.

After meeting up with Stu we went to find the nando’s, I used my google maps app on my phone to locate it but the problem was finding out where we were in the first place, eventually we got there and found out it was packed and it might take 20-30 minutes for a table to be ready, we went to the pub next door to chill out and scream at passers by, eventually we get our seats at Nando’s and had a lovely meal, I ordered two jugs of sangria to treat everyone. We played a few games of “I never” and abused my nando’s loyalty card to get some extra chicken. The meetup was quite fun and ended at Wetherspoons. Max kept playing with his new compact Canon camera bless. I got back home and had an epic sleep! ready for work!

I’m not sure how we spent our evening and morning but I believe we did have an amazing breakfast! We bought everything we needed to make the perfect full english breakfast and got delayed for the actual event that Max and Aino organised. I believe we did quite a fair bit of smash brothering too which made us disturbingly late, no worries though since we’re the host I guess *shrugs*. Passing Brent Cross I was able to smuggle myself a black DS Lite for Stu whilst Karis and Inn were able to distract Stu for a bit.

We arrived at Regent Street pretty late and finally found everyone, we then headed to a very packed Oxford Street finding the restaurant. We were going to have tapas at a place called La Tasca. Quite a fair amount of people were about which was fun and we had a lovely seat booked and all.

The meal was alright, paella was just wet rice and bits of stuff however we did order a fair amount of stuff and in the end, the bill was a joke. It came to £200+ and people were simply gobsmacked by it, it was rather awkward for people, especially when some were refusing to pay any more. Me and Alice decided to save the day by pitching in the rest so everyone was able to pay the bill and avoid embarrassment. But boy Max and Aino aren’t planning any meetups in the future. Tapas is a 2 person event, not suitable for orgies.

The rest of the weekend was spent with Alice, we met up with Jason and Rachel and had some yum yum dim sum at Royal China, I chose this place because Jason and Rachel previously took me to “Ping Pong” to have dim sum when I told them that Royal China is a nicer place and do a wider range of dim sum. So yeah, it was a pretty epic meal at a far less scary price (especially when Jason and Rachel could afford it all hehe). I was very pissed off that we didn’t get free oranges! They usually do it so

We went into the Natural Cafe to sit around and chat for the rest of the day, Jason got me an orange to eat hehe. Was always nice seeing Jason and Rachel, Alice got on well with them too so it was all good We then called it a night and that was that day.

The day after I had to go work and Alice had to return back up north, we said our farewells at Monument and that was the weekend. Lesson of the day, don’t get tapas. Stick with a golden crispy fucking duck haha.

The godly sounds of the word…”godly”

The sky is now a lovely shade of light blue, birds are still singing and people in the living room are starting to show signs of life. I randomly met some of Kazzie’s mums friends, it was funny saying hello to them. I felt a bit out of place since Kazzie was still in sleep. Eventually everyone woke up and complained about the lack of sleep they had, I kept talking about how godly of a bath I had, I think I repeated the word “godly” several times (no wait, i dont think, i know, you’ll see soon). Sooner or later Kiernan and Inn emerge in the living room too, I think at around 9am since they did plan on waking up at 10am. Inn complained that I was constantly using the word “godly” that my voice sort of went through the ceiling and straight into her ears hehe bless. I apologised and made people tea.

“You could of had everything!”

Whilst settling down, we watched some tv, namely challenge TV. I think we managed to catch some Crystal Maze and Takeshi’s castle, with Takeshi’s castle we pondered at the thought of the amount of casualties made from the show. Some of them are ever so close in falling down and crashing their skulls into the hard concrete bits of the course. I said that they simply didn’t air all the casualties and that under the rivers and ponds are a nice layer of dead bodies and decomposed corpses of ex contestants who missed the platform or fell off the bridge the bad sort of way. Though left with a sinister and morbid thought we were soon cheered up with the contestants falling over comically theres one of the courses where you had to catch a ball that was falling down a maze type thing, you had to sort of predict where the ball would come out and sort of jump for and catch it with a bucket. There was one contestant who saw the ball fall down into the muddy pond but felt obliged to just jump face first into the muddy pond any, weird Japanese. I explained about an endurance gameshow (japanese naturally) I saw on Tarrent on TV in which contestants were to take laxatives and have a lovely camel ride, the aim was to see who was the last person to you know… relax themselves, there was a toilet in the middle of the arena and the camels just rode around in circles.

After Takeshi’s castle we watched some Crystal Maze, this was immense, Popey explained how him and his friends used to shout out “AUTOMATIC LOCK IN” whenever there was an automatic lock in clause in some of the rooms. Unfortunately the contestant managed to pass the courses that had the clause. We werent pleased, it was funny how we didn’t want them to win. A winning team is a boring team! Everytime a contestant would give up in a room we would all shout “YOU COULD OF HAD IT ALL!” or “YOU COULD OF HAD EVERYTHING!” in the most dramatic voice ever. The team didn’t win this time which was a plus! Haha, not like the prizes are amazing anyway.

Back to the Harrow on the Hill

After some Crystal Maze action everyone was pumped up and ready to head off for the meetup and stuff, I had to meet up with Alice at Kings Cross so I had a bit of a diversion to take, not to mention selling my tickets to someone on Musebay. Kazzie’s mum asked for two strong men to carry some fridge into the house, initially I was assigned that role but I passed it onto Jon and Ste since i’m just skin and bones, inn went off to take photos of them doing the handy job haha.

I unloaded most of my stuff into a plastic bag and left it at Kazzie’s place, I was once again assigned in Inn’s car whilst Kazzie followed behind Inn to Harrow on the Hill. I can’t remember the car arrangements but thats a bit trivial. I think Kiernan was in the car with me too, Kazzie was slightly mad that we had all left her behind at the end and that noone was going to sit with her. I wasn’t too fussed at who’s car I was sitting in. Inn quickly told me to go and sit in Kazzie’s car, but once I started walking to Kazzie’s car it seemed that Max and Aino were to sit in Kazzie’s car. Having that sorted, we were ready to head off to Harrow on the Hill. I think…

Once we were at the Harrow on the Hill we met up with Gem and Cara in their hotel room, Kazzie was worried about parking and stuff so we ensured that Stephie was going to ask the Hotel people that Kazzie’s car was hers so it wouldn’t get clamped and all. Upon entering Gem and Cara’s room I quickly went to the toilet for a wee, only to find a floater in the toilet.. *shudders* after doing my business I quickly flushed the toilet and went outside to tell people theres a floater, Leon suddenly appeared and then I just glared at him haha. After some bantering we went to Stephie’s place for a bit, she was surfing on the net in her room with the TV, fancy. I think inn then went off to find Ril, so me and Kazzie (and Kiernan i think) were left lounging around with Stephie whilst she did her make up. After some bantering and squabbling everyone all met up and were ready to go to baker street where most of the people were (the actual Musers Meetup, held in Regents park).

I think by now the following people were about; Inn, Kazzie, Stephie, Kiernan, Gem, Leon and Ril, Aino and Max sort of headed off to Harrow on Hill by themselves whilst the others were on other cars meeting us all at Regents Park. During the tube journey we went passed Wembley Stadium and sighed that we will be seeing them soon, I think someone mentioned how they saw people already camping outside the venue waiting to get some golden circle action! Sad sad sad! We quickly sang happy birthday to Ril since yesterday was his birthday and all, we were originally going to do the “Hip hip, HORAY!” thing but he was too old to we only did 3 and counted them as decades haha!

Once we were at Baker Street I managed to meet up with my Musebay ticket buyer (David Ticketman, thats right, his surname is Ticketman), we quickly did our transaction in the dodgiest way possible, Inn and the gang walked passed us and laughed at our dodgey dealings but I shoo’d them away. An additional £80 spending money for the weekend was nice! The guy was actually buying 7 tickets for his friends and all, sounds a bit crazy if you ask me (especially when you find out that touts were selling 3 Muse wembley tickets for a tenner!). After selling my tickets I left Inn and the others to find eat or do whatever they were supposed to do whilst I went to pick up Alice at Kings Cross Station.

Meeting up with Alice

Alice had just finished her major exams on Friday (which was why she wasn’t about on Friday) and wanted to join in with us all since her friends she was going were travelling at a different time and all. The morning was pretty hectic for Alice since there was a flood in Halifax which meant she had to drive all the way to Bradford Station in high speed megaoverdrive. Gem explained earlier on how Halifax never floods and that it was funny how it was flooding today. Alice however managed to catch the train from Leeds to London. Her luggage was a bit too minimal since she didnt bring her mp3 player which meant she was just left sitting around in the train for 2 hours.

Back in London, I was queuing up in Kings Cross station for paper one day travel cards for Alice since she didn’t have an Oyster. The queue was pretty long so I thought I’d save some time by queueing up (rather then lounging about in the station for 30 minutes and doing that again). After purchasing the ticket I tried looking for a poncho or something waterproof since it was raining quite a bit now. I had a look at boots but to no avail :(. Eventually Alice’s train arrives on Platform 1, I grace Alice with a nice long hug and we begin heading off to Baker Street where everyone was waiting for us (I told them that we were quite close anyway so we could have easily met them and all), not before a quick toilet break, apparently the toilets in the carriage was broken so she couldn’t use it so she just went to the one in the station. It was pretty funny waiting for her and hearing women coming out of it whilst rolling their eyes and complaining about how long the queue was (got to love male toilets, you just go in and out within seconds haha). We quickly headed off to Baker Street to meet up with the rest of the gang.

Alice, Mission 1: Guide the lost french man

As soon as we arrive in Baker Street we were given to directions to the cafe that inn and the rest were sitting around in. Initially when I walked passed Weatherspoons I told Alice that this was the most likely going to be the meeting place for musers! (more from this later) Upon meeting up with inn and co at the cafe, Alice was immediately given a mission to help some poor french man with directions and all. Ril was actually trying to help the guy first since he knew a bit of French but it didn’t work too well. It was pretty funny see her go at it helping the french guy, I constantly joked around with everyone by doing Joey’s take of speaking French (“Bler de la bler! De blue bla blei” (see, italics make me sound french, i bet you thought that too :P)). After some french banter, we discover that the guy wants to go to Marble Arch and all from Baker Street using his magical map. It was pretty confusing because Alice was good at her french but had no idea what the guy wanted to go or do exactly. It got really confusing and eventually Alice gave up hehe. Bless. I blamed the french guy for being confusing, if he wanted to get to Marble Arch than he could of took the tube to Marble arch, thats what the tube is for :p.

The nando’s sniffing nose

Still raining, we decided that the park wasn’t a good idea to be so where to go? Max had mentioned that he was going to take away a Nando’s so immediately we knew that there was a Nando’s, the trouble is where? This was where my super sensitive nando’s nose was put to use. I managed to quickly point at the place we should be walking to get to Nando’s. Now I haven’t been to this nando’s before, neither have I looked at any maps prior to this meetup. Lo and behold, after walking down the road a bit (every was slightly sceptical that I could find it) we find a nice Nando’s restaurant gracing us with their godly flamed grilled chicken aroma. I was smug about it, once again I was about to sniff out another Nando’s. We all went inside and got ourselves a seat. I think this is where I constantly kept calling people “kind stranger” (though I was doing it quite a lot on Friday too). Everytime I was served at a restaurant, shop or the venue I would say “thank you kind stranger” at the end. Usually I’m greeted with nice responses and all which was good, most of the time the staff were confused.

We had some lovely seats downstairs with big cushioned up chairs. We all ordered our food (I think just me, Alice and Leon ordered since Gem, Ril and Inn finished eating their breakfast not long ago) Alice had extra hot pita per usual but I chose hot for my wings. Alice wasn’t too pleased that I picked hot haha. I preferred extra hot on whole chickens and hot on chicken wings! Ho hum. Leon had
a veggie pita since he was a veggie.

“HEAD TO KFC!”

During the nando’s fest Stephie and Kiernan phone inn up wondering where we were, we told them that we were at Nando’s in Baker Street. They initially had no idea where to go and all so it was up to inn to guide them to the restaurant. It was really funny listening to inn give directions and all, I was constantly going “head to KFC” since Nando’s was located in the same road as KFC and it was nice and red, but inn was persistent in not telling them to look for a KFC, she constantly used other places such as Starbucks and Pizza Express, Stephie and Kiernan were very confused. Kiernan later on explains to me how the stores inn suggested were on the corner so they had no idea which road inn was talking about. In the end KFC saved the day as a noticeable landmark and Kiernan and Stephie were able to find us, KFC 1 - Inn 0 haha.

We were now joined with Stephie and Kiernan who were very hungry (like us) and were ready to feast on the beasts (except Stephie, she feasts on bits of vegetables). I remember how relieved I was when I ate my food because I was really hungry after having just a burger and some burnt yakitori’s for dinner last night, and since I was sleeping outside and all I felt a bit weak and all so the food really helped! The spices helped out on my nose too as it was getting a bit sniffly haha. Kiernan was a bit scared on the heat of the peri peri sauce so she ordered just a medium for her chicken pita (you cant get any fitter with a chicken in a pita). She wasn’t impressed by the heat (medium are for losers thats why!) So yeah, we have a lovely meal and all. I think Stephie ordered some frozen yoghurt in which Inn happily helped herself in some (she did ask dont worry hehe). We then started to play a game on how tall we can get the frozen yoghurt, well it wasn’t a game since it was more of a task for me to see how tall I could get it. I was warned that the machine was located upstairs and all so not only did i need to ooze the frozen yoghurt out of the machine in a way that it stands up tall, i need to quickly run back downstairs to show everyone before the whole thing falls apar, the final masterpiece was pretty tall, though a bit of it fell off (which I quickly attached back on)

Right after taking photos of the frozen yoghurt, Inn suggested I’d eat the thing without using my hands, it wasn’t hard at all but you were guaranteed an instant brain freeze! I do so and as predictable as ever I got brain freeze. Inn somehow managed to dare Ril to do the same thing too which was funny because he got frozen yoghurt all over his mouth when doing it hehe. After all chicken was consumed as well as the mountain of frozen yoghurt we decided to meet up the rest of the gang before we headed off to Wembley Stadium, we phoned them up to ask where they were… and guess where? “Weatherspoons!”

I immediately told Alice about how predictable musers were in terms of places. They could not escape the curse that is weatherspoons, its all about the cheap alcohol I suppose.

A very brief meet and greet

I think this was one of the shortest meetups I’ve been to (short for me anyway, only because we were at nando’s eating). Upon arriving we were greeted with millions of musers (millions is a lie but it did feel like a lot!) It was confusion all the way, most of the unknown musers I have never met were lingering at the back of the pub whilst the ones I’ve met were all walking around meeting each other. As Stu explained, it felt like speeding dating only without the dates and more weirdo’s haha. Alice hadn’t a clue of most of the musers around, she knew the obvious ones but lacked to recognise the less obvious ones. She said how she thought Max was a lot taller and all (but he’s not bless). I managed to simply point and tell alice who most of them were, I did a pretty good job as well (until I reached to the random people at the back where I had no idea who they were either), I really should of did a proper meet and greet. Naming the people present at Weatherspoons is going to be a painful and pointless task so its probably best for you to just look at the photos and find out who’s who! Some key new characters that I met and had a slightly longer chat with were Gemsy, Blee and Haze I think, Haze was fun to speak to again in particular since we only met last year in November for Muse at Wembley Arena.

After a quick banter Inn decided to take some mega ultra group shots of everyone, so in order to do that she required everyone’s attention. Who else can generate enough attention on a crowd so big? Me haha. Initially I was going to slam the table at an ungodly rate, Phoenix Wright Style but my arms were still weak from lack of energy and sleep from last night so I sort of managed to stand on the coffee table type table and do an Aino impression. I dont think aino and max aren’t aware of this impression still but basically during the February Mona meetup when we were doing all sorts of challenges; Aino did a Salmiaki challenge and to get everyone’s attention she shouted “everybody listen to me” in her funny accent. So now whenever I called everyone’s attention I used Aino’s line and accent to draw everyone’s attention, the sheer sillyness of it managed to get everyone’s attention and all! Wish I had done the slam to be honest, people love the slams :p. I told everyone to get ready for some big group shots as Inn whipped out her DSLR camera equipped with a nice wide 18-55mm lens (wish I had mine). Seeing as I wasn’t really keen on being in group photos I whipped my DSLR camera out too and started taking separate broken down shots of the group whilst Inn was focusing on a wide group shot. It was fun because I just made them stand around for 5 minutes and a bit. Funny thing about my shots were that they were totally random ones, I really wasn’t concentrating so most of them turned out blurry due to a slow shutter speed. Below are some shots, some people are looking quite natural judging from their expressions but some (like Ril) were plainly posing hehe.

Hand up = Go, Hand down = Stop

After taking some group shots we were ready to head to Wembley Stadium, since I had already got everyones attention I was yet again leading everyone to get to Wembley Stadium, Inn and Leon had to quickly drive back to the hotel since Leon had left his ticket in the hotel (silly him!), not to mention a few people wanted to unload some stuff back in the hotel rather than bringing them along to the gig and all. I was cool, I had my camera nice and smuggled in my bag with bits and bobs in my laptop bag for the gig (some of which were to distract the guards and all!). They left slightly earlier than everyone else.
Back to leading, I quickly did another Aino impression and we were all ready to head off, at one point Alice had to use the bathroom and told me to promise her not to leave her once she’s in the toilet hehe bless. I had to do the same thing too (was a long trip and I had a bit too much bottomless action! (bottomless drink that is, not man love with a guy with a flat arse!)).

The journey was filled with random stops to check up on people and perform headcounts but I managed to establish a simple rule that is; if my hands is up, you go, if it’s down you stop and wait. A lot of waiting was required for people to top up their stuff and buy tickets. Once the long wait was over we went straight to our station, to our amazement Inn and Leon were there in the carriage. We quickly ran down the stairs to get into the same carriage as them. It was quite a rush since the last people barely got in. Next time when you’re in a big group just split them into smaller teams, its a lot more manageable and all

It seems that the train was just waiting around for quite some time before it headed off which was why Inn and Leon were still there. Once the train was moving we started talking in our own little groups, at one point we all started singing happy birthday to Ril again, it was far more majestic and grand than this morning’s singing since we now had more people involved. Once we arrived at the station things become harder to manage since people knew exactly where they were going. Me, Alice and Gem knew we had to wait a bit before heading in anyway since Gem had to wait for Cara and Alice had to wait for her friends to give them their tickets. We walked pretty close to the stadium and decided it was best for us to stop and wait, eventually we saw Haze come back saying how he was hungry and needed to use the bathroom since he had a bladder of a 9 year old girl. Since the food in Wembley Station was extortionate, we decided to head to McDonalds for Haze to unload his bladder and fill up his stomach. We still had plenty of time to spare since they were only support bands playing (I’ve become more and more prone to missing support bands and only seeing the main act!).

The long long wait for 4 drunken people

As well as a visit to McDonalds people also went to the cash machine to get some money and all, alot of road crossing was required but I kept ensuring that people used the zebra crossing purely because it was there to pay tribute to the dead spirits of a zebra who was once run over while crossing the road. McDonalds was pretty packed with other fans wanting to have a quick bite before they goto the gig, the toilets there were funny as you saw a nice long queue of people waiting to goto the toilet, I later on realise that they were all women so the men’s toilets were in fact free and ready to go! In the toilet, some guy was actually trying to sell tickets to me! I said no and then he started to approach other people in the toilet, asking whether or not they wanted tickets haha….some weirdo (but at least he tried I guess).

Afterwards we managed to meet up with Kev, Inn and Leon. We however still needed to wait for Alice’s friends before we could go, there were apparently drunk and stuck in Stockwell station. We had a quick visit to the local newsagent as well as Wimpy’s where kev bought some chips. Other than that we were sat around the meet area near Wembley Park waiting for Alice’s friends to turn up. Now and then we would hear announcements telling people not to congregate in the station as well as not stop to take photos of Wembley Stadium (people did so anyway! dumbasses). The wait wasn’t too bad since we had loads to talk about and all, one really vile topic involved why the golden circle was called… the golden circle, and how Muse were going to do a GWAR and literally fire canon’s of Matt’s urine all over the crowd…. this is what you get when you mixed Leon and Kev together. I was starting to understand why Kev invited him to see Muse and all. Hmmm, when I said the wait wasn’t too bad, that was a lie… it was actually pretty bad! The time sitting there was ungodly, Alice would now and then apologise for her friends and Leon would tell her to give him her phone so he could have a proper yell at them. People became slightly impatient about it all and my neck was getting sore from turning around to check if the new batch of people were Alice’s friends. Though I dont know why I did that because I had no idea what they looked like.

It did take a while but eventually Alice’s friends arrived to pick up their tickets, we were trying to persuade Alice to just throw the tickets at them and throw a fit at them since they made us miss a few bands and all, but Alice just handed the tickets over to them where they quickly gathered around the envelope to look at the tickets. It was cool, we didn’t need to go with them since they were already quite pissed as well as the fact that we were pissed too (pissed off at them haha), Alice was really sorry that we had to wait for them to arrive and that they were so late and all. Bless

The ticket process was pretty straight forward, you hand in your ticket and they would wristband you up with a standing or seating wristband, we initially thought Haze had a golden circle pass but found out that he just had a normal one like everyone else bless hehe. I managed to have a friendly chat with the ticket man about how his day was, twas fun. Up to the bag checkers, they did a really slack job! They just had a quick gander at my bag and left it like that, little did they know that I was smuggling a DSLR camera and telezoom lens! Finding the entrance to the standing area was quite tedious too, eventually kev asked someone and we found the block number we were supposed to enter in.

Wow, everything was so… white… and big!

I must say upon entering the stadium I wasn’t too surprised about the size of the Stadium, it felt a bit like Wembley Arena to be honest. The catastrophic size didn’t really hit me at all throughout the gig. We eventually found Kiernan and the rest of the gang who were standing around the centre of the stadium. Alice needed to use the toilet so she nipped off for a bit (again I promised her I wouldn’t leave her). I was still adjusting myself to the size of the venue, nothing really clicked to be honest, Alice kept asking me on whether not I was excited and I kept saying how I wasn’t really excited, and I’ll probably be excited only when Muse start playing. Back to describing the venue, I suppose the size of the venue is mainly due to the amount of seats there were, after all its for football matches so it’s all about the seating.

The standing area was split up in a weird shape, there were two “golden circles” in which the first comers were located, and then there was the standing area for normal people. I found the idea silly since there was a lot of space at the back of the golden circle, its weird how Wembley would cripple the view of so many people by separating the early people with the people who turn up at a decent and less ungodly time. The reason why there were two golden circles was because theres a lovely split in the middle that leads straight up to the stage. I initially thought that there was an inner and outer circle and felt that to be even more ridiculous and arsey about where people would stand. The only benefit I felt the golden circle achieved was to stop people who just randomly arrived to the venue to just barge all the way to the front, but to me, this is one of the beauties of gigs haha. Ah well, enjoy some wide shots of the venue to have a clearer idea of what the venue looks like.. I didn’t take them because I knew I had to upload them and I was more about taking money shots this weekend haha.

A weak bladder will get you lost in Wembley Stadium

There was an announcement in the stadium, telling us that the Streets will be performing in 5 minutes, Alice had came back from her bathroom break, but now it was time for me to need it! (Worst time ever). I told her to hold on to my bag and not to leave me hehe. I quickly ran back to the stadium for a quick toilet break, the queue wasn’t too bad but walking there was a pain (it was Wembley Stadium). Upon coming back to the Stadium, I was lost, The Streets have started playing and there was more people about! I couldn’t see Alice and everyone else. I knew the only landmark that everyone was standing next to which was the grey thing, I started to follow it but somehow I ended further down the left hand side of the stage and still lost like silly. I was dangerously lost! Since when is it hard finding someone in the crowd with ginger hair (I was spotting kev’s hair since there’s not many ginger people in the area) Since the crowd was more packed then beforehand I thought it was almost impossible to find them, I knew Stephie was standing on the rails so that was my hint that I had to get nearer the stalls! I did, but people weren’t happy, usually I’m quite nimble at squishing through people without them complaining (since I’m quite thin and all) but this time people weren’t too happy of people going passed them, one wanker thought it was funny to push me deliberately right after I got passed him, was pathetic if you ask me, its not like I’m going to fall, I’m wedged into a crowd and the push really didn’t seem like a push, just a minor inconvenience. Not to mention I was actually moving back from the stage rather then forward, why would it matter that I’m moving around the stage? Still lost silly I tried texting Alice that I was lost, apparently she started dispatching other people to come and find me.

Now I was quite further down the stage, this is where it sprung to me that perhaps they weren’t that close to the stage, perhaps it was my natural instinct to try and get closer to the stage rather than finding everyone else. I decided to retreat properly and work my way from the front of the stalls, I eventually saw Alice and everyone, their area was more relaxed than further down the standing area which was good haha. I was relieved that I got back, it would have been pretty silly if I saw the gig myself, wedged in with a lot of stupid Streets fans haha. I told them about the pushing and all, it was definitely a bad place to be during the Muse gig if it was already squishy now! I mean come on! Its the Streets playing! I find out about the whole search team out to look for me and I felt a bit guilty about it, but nonetheless I was back! Phew

All we hear is? Come on! Jump!

Man the streets were really bad at controlling a crowd. There was no energy in them, I don’t think Stadium gigs really suited them to be honest. Most of the time you could only hear the music, its the rapping and singing that were a bit, meh? Most of the time he wasn’t exactly singing, just talking throughout the gig. The crowd in my area really detested Mike Skinner, there was one bit where he did a Time Is Running Out cover, that didn’t go down too well with the crowd as well. It was really awkward, it was like cousins having sex. I do enjoy listening to the Streets at the comfort of my own home because you can hear everything nicely and mixed nicely, but it was just really really bad here.

Now to really add to the awkwardness of the gig, Mike Skinner constantly sang the chorus line in Queen’s “Radio ga ga” (All we hear is, Radio ga ga…), but he was hoping to get the crowd to participate in it, he sang “All we hear is…” and tried getting the crowd to go “radio ga ga”. Perhaps the people in the golden circle were saying it, but at our end all we hear are people telling him to shut up of f**k off haha. It was pretty painful seeing him doing it. The thing is, he did this not just once, not twice, but 7 or 8 times throughout the gig! Everytime at our end the crowd were just agitated from it all. Mike Skinner explains how he saw Queen do it on their Live at Wembley Stadium DVD (bless, he was researching!) and really wanted to get the same reaction. The problem lies here, Freddie Mercury didn’t do it 7 or 8 times and more importantly, Queen were the headline, everyone bought tickets to see Queen (unless My Chemical Romance were supporting haha) so obviously the entire Stadium loved Queen, so it was easy being able to pull that off if you were actually Queen performing, not when you’re the streets. As well as doing this “All we here is..” crap, he tried getting the crowd to jump too. Apparently he tried that in Leeds Festival too and noone was listening to him hehe, that felt just as awkward as well, I think they should of just stuck to playing and singing, they were too cocky as a support band for Muse I’d say, he even kept jinxing the damn weather by constantly saying “Please don’t rain”. A lot of head shakes one must say…Alice kept closing her eyes and just sleeping it off since they were that bad hehe.

Look its Muuuse ascending from the centre of the Stadium!

After the Streets were had a nice break for soundchecking and instrument moving etc. We discussed about how bad the Streets were and took some photos of each other. The sky was beginning to turn dark and all which was perfect (since the lighting rocked most when it’s nice and dark!) and suddenly the DJ music stopped. The crowd went at it and screamed like loons and suddenly… the big grey box next to us starts spewing confetti! What a weird place to fire confetti onto the crowd, then suddenly the music started kicking in and you could see heads slowly ascending from the grey box. It was Muse (duh haha)! Quite an unexpected entrance one must say, purely for the fact that they were sitting inside that grey box for quite some time before the show starts. It makes you wonder what they were doing inside, perhaps they had an xbox 360 set up inside and were just playing against each other, perhaps they had a lovely view for the support acts? or perhaps they had their DS Lites out playing Brain Training against each other.

It was funny watching Muse just stand there posing whilst everyone cheered at them, they then started to walk down the crowd to the stage with some random people in yellow suits following them. We couldn’t see but from the photos they sound like fun ha!. They kicked off the gig with Knights of Cydonia which everyone later on complains to be a good opener but would have preferred it if it was the finisher instead of Take a Bow. I’m not going to review the gig itself too much since you can read reviews and stuff for that, however I will bullet point some noticeable things during the show, for full details you could check Musewiki for the setlist and notes, anyway, some bullet points:

• Dan the trumpet man was here to play Knights of Cydonia and City of Delusion, was happy they played that, he got a nice mention and all, I think Stephie and a few others were talking about how “fit” he was haha
• Morgan received no attention this time! Popey was heartbroken, I don’t think you could even see him at the gig. I think Muse are keen on making Muse a 3 member band now
• Some of the clips on the screens were fun to watch, some were a bit obscure and Windows Media Player visualiser esque, I loved the feeling good one with the cherry blossom petals, plug in baby’s one was awesome too.
• Most of the songs were extended and finished off with a riff fest, was lovely for moshing
• I didn’t really use my smuggled camera since we were standing in a place that was difficult to take photos in, not to mention the amount of security guards standing in front of us all. Would have had it instantly confiscated!
• There was this crazy haired lady who was a bit too enthusiastic about the gig (hence why she’s crazy), she spilled wine over some guy and almost got wine on us, she went nuts on all of the songs! Alice was a bit scared from her especially when she kept jumping on her feet! They should have a pit for crazy women and see whether or not they could cope with not being “the annoying crazy one”. I kinda had the feeling that she was the same crazy lady that was dancing along during Bliss when Muse played at Wembley Arena.
• Dom’s green trousers, Dom’s green trousers, Dom’s green trousers! I think Muse are trying to use Dom to target the gay scene
• Soldiers Poem was the mobile phone waving song, it was fun and sappy, I tried recording a footage of it on my phone with deliberate phone swaying.
• Unintended was ultra chees, nonetheless a song to sway with the person you’re next to hehe, I’m quite glad that they’ve kept Unintended ultra simple with Matt on the acoustic and Chris on the bass.
• Microcuts was played this evening (not the other I’m afraid), that was fun to listen to!
• During blackout, aerial acrobat ladies ascended from the stadium via balloons and danced around throughout the song, this was one of best moments of the gig, was spectacular and really complimented with the song, I managed to take out my DSLR camera for that occasion, though most of the shots werent too good haha.

That’s about it, I also managed to set my life ambition for the gig, which was to give one of the security guards a hi5! At first it was impossible getting his attention and all, and when I did we tried it twice and missed! GARGH! He gave up and went back to his job while I screamed “nooooooooo!”. It would have been something I would have regretted to do for the rest of my life! Luckily near the end I saw him again and managed to get that hi5 in the end haha! Then the rest of the musers gave him a hi5 too. Stephie was lucky enough to get the guards to get her the setlist they possessed which was lucky, we pondered at what she had to do or show to get that setlist haha.

Muse finished with Take a Bow which was a bit of a weird climax, the flames near the end was the best though! For a moment there they were rammstein haha. Jus that one moment :p. Now here’s the hard bit… How the hell do you get 77,000 odd people out of Wembley Stadium and back to whence they came?

The ungodly exit and the forever vanishing Kazzie

Getting out of the venue and back to Harrow on the Hill was a pain! So many people were oozing out of the venue, and unless you have a light sabre like Celtic Rose and Firebaptist (who weren’t with us) its actually really hard to find each other in the dark, lost in a sea of sweaty and horny musers (i’m assuming the ones at Trafalgar Square were still horny after the Muse gig).

We made the big G sign (exit G) outside our meeting point, we phoned up people who were missing in the group and managed to gather everyone to the sign and all. Finally out of nowhere emerged Kazzie and Adam, they were nowhere to be seen during the entire purely because they both went off somewhere else to see Muse and all. Adam looked as gay as ever so I mocked him on that one and Kazzie just looked silly with her big yellow shiny thing and silly clothes (apparently loads of people spotted her during the gig!). I managed to meet Adams mum and all and strangely gave her a hi5 (probably some excess hi5 mojo coming from the security guard I hi5′d earlier on). Eventually we had everyone and was ready to head off. We tried being sly about it all and held each other’s hands to make sure noone is lost. Kazzie was the main culprit of disappearing, she wanted to speak to Adam some more but wasn’t aware that the trains were going to stop after a certain time so it was crucial that we got to the station as soon as possible. Kev thought the announcement said that the met line closes at 11:15pm odd which I felt very strange since trains usually stop running after midnight. I kept asking kev if he was sure and he kept assuring me that was the case (in the end is wasn’t haha).

The entire road back to Wembley Park station was flooded! I would have been easy for one person to worm their way out of the crowd but we had a big group with us, and having Kazzie disappearing so many times meant that we were in trouble in terms of catching the last tube home. Once Kazzie and Adam said their goodbyes, Kazzie was instantly texting adam and everything. Now remember this, Kazzie is letting loads of us stay at her place, not to mention she had to drive people around, so we really couldn’t lose her and all. This was were people started to get annoyed with Kazzie and told her to stop being distracted and make sure she’s still with the team. At one point we were disturbingly lost and we needed Inn to get on Leons shoulders and wave an umbrella to get Kazzie’s attention because she was left at the back again! During this time I kept spanking Inn’s butt and telling kev to join in (in which he started to pinch it haha). It was fun until Inn started attacking kev for it, he was a serial butt pincher the entire day, Stephie’s bottom was most likely in prune state from all of kev’s cheeky bottom pinching. We were getting very worried about Kazzie but we eventually managed to find her again, we were in a position where we seriously couldn’t lose anyone since there was a crowd of people heading to Wembley Park station and we weren’t in a position to wait (especially with the train deadline and all).

Eventually we all manage to get into Wembley Park station, some of us wanted to go to Baker Street whilst some needed to get to Harrow on the Hill, so this was where we had to part with some of the musers (can’t remember who to be honest! haha). We headed to your platform and managed to squeeze in with the other musers into the carriage. It was VERY packed! This was where I was able to do the sardines joke! It was funny when Stephie was squashed by so many tall people hehe, you couldnt see anything but a hole where Stephie was sort of crouching and hiding from all the tall people (ie everyone), Bless.

The legend of Kebabland

It was packed but we still managed to have fun talking to everyone in the carriage, eventually we were freed from the carriage and go out of Harrow on the Hill station. People were hungry (kev mainly) and so Kev decided to take everyone to Kebabland (land of Kebabs) to get something to eat. Upon arriving at Kebabland we immediately got ordering, the seating area was closed off which meant we were only able to takeaway the food or just lounge around the place and eat standing up or squatting. The staff working there had the funniest accents and none of them were really able to say the phrase “next please?”, the word next was alright, its when they say please it sounds more like “pliz” or “plis” or even “bliss”. When I was ordering I kept commenting on their funny accents hehe. I ordered myself a shish kebab and some water (for Alice since she was thirsty). Alice didn’t want anything because she wasn’t really hungry, I think nando’s was all good for her.

I then started explaining why I preferred shish over doner kebabs, purely because you’re getting proper chunks of meat being grilled on the spot rather then some random bit of processed meat getting heated up on a stick. Doner kebabs are nice, but it has to be in classy greek kebab restaurants and all. Kebabland, although having seats, didn’t seem to make quality doner kebabs, so yeah, shish it was. I tried asking the waiters how kebabs were made but was interrupted by a guy with a bloody nose. Ah well. Once we ordered everything we decided to head back to the hotel, I wasn’t keen on eating in Kebabland so I was saving it till when we get to the hotel so I can eat in peace please/plis/plees.

We stayed at Gem and Cara’s hotel room for a bit, finishing off our food and all, had a lovely chat about the gig and everything. Kazzie was absolutely mashed from the gig and was lying in the bed. Once all the food was consumed we began planning our ungodly trip back to the hotel. I think Ste and Popey were heading to Kazzie’s place from Baker Street so we had to head off soon and all in case they had to just wait around in the car for us or something, i dunno. Once Kazzie got some energy back we were off again. I can’t remember the seating arrangements too well but I think Alice, Blee and her friend were in Kazzie’s car whilst me and kiernan were in Inn’s car. I think inn led the way again whilst Kazzie followed, soon after we reached Kazzieland kazzie pretty much knew where she was going and it was sort of a free for all. The car journey wasn’t that bad.. bad seating arrangements if you ask me haha *grovels* :p I can’t remember which car journey it was I was required to give directions to but yeah, one of the car journey’s I was giving directions to inn to drive back to Kazzie’s and all. At one point I had my head on one side as if I was dead and I think Kazzie phoned up to ask if was alright or not haha, the sniffles had caught up with me again, definitely no trampoline time tonight haha!

We eventually got home and pretty much got ready to sleep! We initially wanted a second BBQ but since it was far too late and everyone was tired, we decided it was definitely not a good idea and all. I quickly nabbed my duvet I needed, Alice had her own sleeping bag and all. No mattress was found so we were a bit stuck, there was an air bed but that was just ridiculous to get set up. It was electrically powered to blow up and all but the noises made were ungodly. Everytime I turned on the on switch for it to inflate I would get an ungodly whriling noise, each time would turn it off and apologise to everyone. I tried messing with the settings but it was still really loud. I think I tried turning on the switch about 6 or 7 times before giving up completely and sleeping in the floor :(. Blee and Popey were sleeping in the other room and I warned Blee about the snoring Popey emitted during the night, not to mention Ste’s. It was actually funny listening to Popey snore; me, alice and ste were still awake and all when Popey was sleeping and they all managed to catch me recording Popey snore AGAIN haha! We had quite a chuckle but eventually we all fell to sleep, well most of us anyway…

Next up, the finale of the trilogy; some more nando’s action, VIP pass cockups, some godly photos of Muse and finally, Curryland!

Getting ready for the ungodly/godly weekend

Some random time in the morning I’m posting on the message board telling people I’m suppose to meet everyone at 1.30pm and how it was 12.30 and I was still in my underwear. I wasn’t really taking packing up seriously! Probably due to the fact that I did live in London so if there was something that was missing I could easily come back home and pick it up, it also means that travelling isn’t as hectic as everyone else (I can get to Victoria station in just 30 minutes mm). Around this time we’ve established that Kiernan has flown from America to Dublin and to London to visit everyone. She was staying at Kazzie’s the entire weekend and was at her place at the time, Inn was heading off to meet Kev and Stephie at their hotels and all, which sort of leaves me and Popey msn’ing about and posting on the board. So yeah, right now our meeting spot was Yo Sushi! at Victoria station at around 1.30-2pm, the rule was, at 2pm, we eat! I better get ready!

I had packed myself the bare essentials, clothes for all days (had to look sharp and all!), a wiimote for 4 player wii, gamecube pads for smash brothers action (I managed to reduce the load by asking inn and popey to bring a pad as well, as well as Max bringing a wiimote so the amount of stuff I brought was minimal). As well as that I brought my DSLR camera, my 55-200mm telelens (its Wembley Stadium so it made sense) and various chargers for batteries and phone batteries etc. With clothes I decided to be a bit retro and dress up with the same clothes as I did last week, I wanted something stripey so the white and blue went well, I made sure I wore my crazy big cuffed shirt and mask to ensure I could ninja my way around and all! The rest were just a simple cardigan and two scarves to vary from hehe.

I had to make a quick detour to fetch my camera before I made my way to Victoria. I think I was slightly delayed from all of this and people were getting quite nervous that I’ll be late once again haha (but fashionably late). I think was about 10 minutes late from it all so it wasn’t too bad.

Yakitori and peeping popey

I finally arrive in Victoria Station, I immediately head up to Yo Sushi and look around for everyone, I immediately catch Inn’s attention, she already had her camera ready snapping away so I retaliated with some fast action snapping. I immediately reach to them and out pops stephie! Was quite a surprise considering… no actually it wasn’t really a surprise, it made sense since Inn did pop around the hotels that kev and Gem were staying. Her voice was disturbingly high pitched! I comment on that immediately and she explains how she gets all high pitched when she’s nervous.

We immediately get ordering, I decided that the bar seating area wasn’t really a cool place for us lot to sit since it was a bit antisocial so I opted for us to all move to the seats with tables and all which everyone did. We all started ordering like made, Popey just told me to pick stuff up that he fancied whilst Inn ordered bits and bobs. I ordered chicken yakisoba and some prawn tempura, I was really addicted to the tempura lately! Oh some time later on Stephie’s voice returns back to it’s normal self when she’s less nervous, I did imitate how Stephie should sound and did a really deep irish voice hehe.

At one point Stephie orders a mushroom dish in which the waiters had no idea what it was, I later on find out that she wanted a mushroom nigiri, I started banging on the table and telling the waiter about how embarrassed I was with my friends lying to the waiter, I then had a proper lecture about how there was this bond of trust between the waiters and customers and how stephie totally destroyed that bond haha. It was pretty funny, I got both the waiter and Stephie embarrassed

Sooner or later Kiernan and Kazzie arrive on the scene and Inn once again does the Stephie hiding trick! Everyone was happy seeing Kiernan arrive (as well as Kazzie) and we all got down to food ordering etc. Kiernan tried some yakitori to see what the fuss is all about and I think I bought Kazzie a chicken yakisoba to try out (she had firecracker rice last time). I managed to persuade both of them to come by promising Kazzie that I would buy her a chicken yakisoba since she was poor and had very limited amount of spending money and all, Inn was actually impressed of how easy it was for me to persuade Kazzie to goto yo sushi! I literally told Inn to put Kazzie on the phone and after a quick chat I persuaded both Kazzie and Kiernan to come along.

The food was lovely per usual, I’ve only noticed that Yo Sushi! in Victoria has two conveyor belts going at opposite directions (Picadilly’s one only has 1). Inn started ordering some green tea on top of her unlimited water since she loved it so much and it got to a point where the waiters just gave us the entire teapot to help ourselves with (last time was crazy). Stephie tried some miso soup too but kept saying it tasted of wood (the spoon), I personally loved it. Inn ordered some sashimi to try out whilst Kiernan ordered another Chicken Yakitori, the portions were quite small for Kiernan and she said could have eaten about 50 of them haha.

Some random time later on Max and Aino arrives on the scene, they sort of sat behind me and Inn and talked to everyone, they also paid Kazzie her Wembley Tickets money in which she immediately waved about, Stephie took her money out (which she flashed earlier on) and waved the amount of notes she had with her in comparison to Kazzie (Kazzie wasn’t pleased hehe). There was another point where I took a photo of Stephie and Popey where it looked like Popey was looking down her top hehe. Classic!

Near the end I decided to eat some Beef Raymond (I mean Ramen) haha. It was lovely hehe, nice and spicy. I loved the fact that you can just order random bits of food and try it out, the portions were small enough for you to experiment. I think after that (as well as Kazzie ordering some more fruit and wanting to drink some of my green tea) we were ready to pay the bills and depart for Trafalgar Square.

Quick Krispy Kreme break

Before heading straight to Trafalgar Square I also managed to pop by to Krispy Kremes for some doughnuts, originally the girls wanted to go to lush but all the guys overruled this, the key point being that only the guys knew their way to Trafalgar Square so it meant that they had to follow hehe. I ordered a dozen of Krispy Kremes since there was quite a lot of people about and all so we’d save a lot of money, well I did anyway. I charged everyone £1 for them haha! Anyway, onwards to embankment! We have some muse fans to laugh at!

Lion climbing and running away from Sylvie

The trafalgar square encounter was surreal and funny at the same time, as soon as we arrived we immediately saw the muse fans congregating around the stairs at Trafalgar. What do they look like? They were so easy to spot, just look for a Muse T shirt, one of the most original things to wear during Muse meet ups, singalongs and gigs. They were everywhere! As if looking emo wasn’t enough, you had to really join the pack and wear a Muse t shirt to say you’re going to a Muse singalong, you know… in case people didn’t know (haha). Though I suppose you’re supposed to be recognised at the singalong rather than acting all ninja like me and the rest.

I hate posed shots, not to mention the fact that two of them are wearing Muse t shirts…

We decided to climb the lions and just lounge around the square for a bit whilst the Muse fans sat and melted. Btw take note on the terms I use, “muse fans” are the people who turned up at the singalong for a sing and wear muse t shirts whilst “musers” are the sane (sane not same) type who aren’t singing and don’t wear muse t shirts (except kazzie, she’s a bit of both!). I began dishing out the doughnuts (for money of course) and we started getting into photography mode.

I look epic here haha

I was lucky to bring my 55-200mm lens for some proper photo action of the muse fans, couldn’t be complete without a telezoom lens eh? It felt like taking photos of the wildlife. I was using that mainly to check out the people from afar, occasionally taking photos to spy who’s arrived and who hasn’t. I think at this point it had become tiresome and I decided that it would be funny for us to just walk right behind them (since they had no idea who we were) and started posing before dashing back to our spot. Kiernan noted that she was going to visit the group soon since she had to speak to the muse moms. So yeah, the afternoon was spent tempting fate and running right into the lions den (more animal related metaphors) to get photos taken haha.

I was pretty ninja about it since I ran right around the entire square to make sure they had no idea where I was heading back to and all (they probably knew though). Eventually Kazzie got in some of the action too and started posing right behind the musers (see her in the photo above?). It got funny until I had my second go and Sylvie managed to spot me lounging about! She called out my name and instead of responding I legged it! She was about to chase me but gave up hehe, oh yeah! The whole thing was caught on camcorder so it was a pretty darn funny looking back at it hehe. This was around the time where Kiernan was actually over there talking to people too, she was asked many times where she was hanging and who she was hanging out with but Kiernan was cool enough not to crack

Sooner or later it was time for us to move out, our spot was going to be the place where they were going to sing and all so sitting there wasn’t a good idea, we tried moving into some cafe tables which was right next to the steps that they were sitting on but eventually we got broken up, Stephie Inn and I were sitting on the table with some old ladies whilst the others were approached by other muse fans. We immediately cheesed it to find a better spot since we didn’t really want any confrontation with so many muse fans and all. Eventually we found a little corner above the stairs which was perfect for ninja photo taking and spying!

*tap tap*

I turn my head around and find that Gem and Cara had found us! Of all people, they couldn’t find the massive mess of muse fans congregating on the stairs, she found us ninja’ing about in some corner. Chances are Gem spotted my hair again :(. We explained our situation of why we were in hiding and then they join us with the hiding too. Sooner or later we managed to spot kev in the area! He too has been caught with Popey and the rest of the gang (well he probably found them and approached them). We would have joined in but we were sticking to being ninja about it all. Eventually when the muse fans started to head to the square we decided that we needed to get kev’s attention without him luring a bunch of people to see us. Everyone tried calling him and luckily Cara was able to phone him up. It felt like the Matrix when Morpheus was phoning up Neo and giving him directions, we told him to just turn around and walk straight on and he’ll eventually meet us hehe, and that he did. We managed to meet up with kev and all and had a lovely chat.

Everyone started to split up and all and it got a bit confusing as to what happened, I eventually decided “what would be the best place to sit that would prevent me from being caught, and I can enjoy watching the muse fans sing?” what better place than sitting right in front of them all and enjoying the best view on the top bit of Trafalgar square! Thats right, the place everyone will be looking and all! I decided to go Ninja mode so I wore my mask at all times, though it didnt hide much, I did believe it kept me pretty ninja at times (though I did get recognised afterwards haha). When things started to kick off I just sat there with my doughnuts and camera in one hand taking photos of the action. It was pretty surreal since they didn’t really have the right to clear people away, the mics and PA was illegally set up (tut tut) but it was good that they had some PA system since none of them could sing in key haha.

Who’s horny?

Kev, stephie and inn later on joined me and thanked me for picking such a glorious spot to watch people sing, to the muse fans we could have been some random people who happened to pass by and watch them all go at it, but noo. I joked to kev at the whole hierarchy of the seats, and how admins and mods are sitting at the highest part of the square whilst the muse fans were at the bottom singing to him haha. The seats were lovely, you could capture the entire crowd and its perfect for photos too!

I think the others (Popey and co) were standing where me stephie and inn were originally hiding. We tried being cheeky and took photos of each other standing right behind the event, it was pretty surreal haha.

Eventually I met a few people there, including a photographer for NME and Tom Kirk’s brother, we had a pleasant chat about everything and talked a bit about cameras too haha. I kept stealing inn and kazzie’s lens to take some proper wide shots of the crowd and all. At one point the NME photographer got everyone to cheer at her direction so she could take a wide photo of everyone. I eventually ventured in that too and told them I wanted to take a photo so I got myself a money shot too. Just with a wider lens than both photographers hehe (sometimes the kit lens was useful!). Everyone waved and cheered and I took a couple of shots just in case. I think they sort of introduced me as crazybobbles! My cover was sort of blown! haha but just to ensure I’m not going down on my own I sort of told everyone that kev was there too and pointed him out to everyone, oh yeah (to be honest I don’t think they heard the person announcing my name and all) About then everyone was about to rock! There were two people who brought acoustic guitars but you couldn’t hear a thing since they had a PA system set up. Imagine the chaos if they didn’t have one, you’d be getting a lot of out of tune muse folk singing muse songs for an ungodly amount of time! (Microcuts!! GARGH!)

The singing began, they kicked off with Hyper Music. One of the things that I wasn’t anticipating was the fact that they had a PA system as backup, and this was what probably saved them from being a massive flop. The performance wasn’t too bad! Afterall, the actual music was being played so the actual singing from the crowd wasn’t that audible if you ask me. The stage performance was a bit.. uhm.. I’ll just explain it, you had Jordan, the main organiser wearing white jeans and t shirt with black braces, some other dude wearing the exact opposite colours and someone else. Jordan was carrying a blow up silver guitar and basically air guitaring along to the tracks and occasionally they sang into the mic and all (not the best singing and all, bit of a laddish sort of sing).

They had setlists and all but tried teasing them by not handing them out just yet, they even thought it was funny by handing the setlists to people like us since we were “random” people hehe. We chuckled and read the setlist.. boy it was long, no way were we going to catch the entire show! The setlist was almost longer than Muse’s setlist haha, the songs they picked were quite bad in places. The worst choice of song would have been “Microcuts” a crazy full on falsetto song! Oh how much I would pay to see them sing that without backing! They would sort out the pigeon problem in Trafalgar Square by howling like lunatics and forcing the pigeons to explode (if not by the emoness of the song than by hitting their natural resonance and exploding)

Most of the time I would just stroll around the stage and take photos, there was a time where there were a bunch of chav kids loitering around the area, they had a stick and all I was worried things were going to get messy, luckily the police came and stopped them (and the stick) haha. It would have been a climax though if they had started a fight, chav’s vs emo: live at Trafalgar Square. At one point Roger Kirk said some words about the charities and really did his part in raising awareness and funds for the charities. Kazzie was really enjoying the music and moshed totally on her own on stage in front of everyone, I was hoping she’d stage dive but she didn’t haha, would be a bit painful if you landed on the concrete though haha.

There were times where I’d get the people to wave their ridiculous banners and flags so I could take photos of them, they were really responsive to a person with a DSLR camera which I found pretty cool. After a while we got bored of the entire thing and decided to leave, I tried to keep it cool and gave everyone a \m/ sign before I jumped off the platform thingy and left, the jumping was… well.. hmm… basically I managed to land on my feet, but since it was quite a high jump, my bag sort of weighed me down and bam! I fell on my arse Oh the shame! the shaaaaame! Oh and like any self respecting person, when you fall over, you leg it, so thats exactly what I did. The shaaaaame haha, during my run someone chased me up and gave me something attached to my bag that broke off during the fall. I took it and continued running off to the direction the rest were at. We did a bit of talking and then Stephie caught up to tell everyone about my dramatic falling on my arse incident haha. Grr. I was doing so well and all too

Not feeling satisfied about how I exited I decided to come back on stage one last time and really give them what they wanted, a proper musewiki related speech (filled with other bits and bobs). I asked everyone if I could do it and they were pretty encouraging of it so off I go, back in the wild lands of shame (still using animal metaphors here) where I was going to give a speech to all the musers and effectively revealing who I was.

I entered the platform thingy through the side just so I wouldn’t get shamed again haha. I managed to get someones attention and asked if I could do my speech and all. They agreed and said I could have a quick moment with the crowd after the song (Darkshines). The speech was pretty godly, I was asked how I would like to be addressed as and I said “a representative of musewiki”. I got my introduction and all and came on stage with my mask on to an ungodly amount of musers ready to listen to what I was going to say…

It was pretty nerve racking, but I was pretty used to talking to so many people on a stage (after all I did do a breakdance in Royal Albert Hall before, and that wasn’t even a performance, I just invaded the stage and did it!). So yeah, some of my performing arts A level skills were used here haha. I did a quick bow to everyone and approached the mic… the first words… “hello…” then I dunno, I sort of lost it as to what I was going to say. I introduced people but told them I wasn’t Crazy_bob, I then told them to go to Musewiki because it rocked, then I get a lovely primitive crowd roar response (animals). I then sort of joked around with Musecast and said “and if you’re bored pay Musecast a visit, its an alright site” couldn’t be more condescending haha (but Popey found it funny). It was pretty good, so I decided to go all out and get the crowd going with..

“WHO’S HORNY?”

I have no idea why I said that, I was suppose to say “who’s ready to rock?” but I have no idea why I said who’s horny. The crowd cheered and it seemed like everyone below me was horny haha (that or they had no idea what i was saying and just cheered). So yeah, my next line was “who’s ready to rock?” (the word rock was sort of dragged out in a rock and roll kind of way) and the crowd was estatic at this moment! So I thought I’d end it properly by making them spell muse.

“Give me an M” “M”

“Give me an U” “U”

“Give me an S” “S”

“Give me an E” “E”

and to cheese it off, I asked “And what does that spell?”. Sure they were going to know what that was going to spell haha. And to reallllllllly realllly end it off I quickly went “SMELLS LIKE LUNDUN” I knew somewhere, an Inn and Popey were laughing their arses off at that line! I exited the stage from the right in case I’d fall off my arse again haha. Only after the speech did I realise that I have publicly asked everyone in Trafalgar Square (not just the musers and muse fans, everyone) if they were horny. It was quite a speech, I felt I really ended in style. I knew I did a better job than the other 3 hosts :p I should have been the host really haha.

After that I met up with everyone, more people were about this time including Beast Bob, Lauren, Jon, Ste and other people . I discussed my speech to the musers and sorted out car arrangements to head to Kazzie’s place, it was a bit hectic so I just told everyone to go to their allocated drivers, that seemed to work. Off to kazzie’s we go! I ended up going with Inn, Stephie and Kev. We were to head off to Harrow on the Hill where Inn’s car was parked and also meet up with Kev’s friend Leon. I had no idea who this Leon was but after seeing Inn’s reaction, he sounds like fun! The others took different routes, Ste had his Car parked up in Brent Cross and Jon had it parked somewhere else. We were going to buy food and stuff on the way but meet up at Kazzie’s place in the end. The food shopping wasn’t too planned but nonetheless we continued with the journey.

Yakitori shopping and the unlocked house

Upon arriving at Harrow on the Hill we met up with Kev’s friend Leon. He was fun (as prediected)! He wasn’t shy or anything so immediately he was talking to everyone and all. We walked up to the hotel and paid a quick visit to Kev’s room, it was an ok room and all, Kev was talking about how long it took to press his trousers and all. We also laughed at the retro radio he had, Stephie went back to her hotel where we told her to wear a less revealing top. We left the hotel and saw Stephie heading our way, even from a distance we could see that Stephie’s top wasn’t covering much up! Stephie explained that this was her only top that wasn’t revealing haha. I think kev joked about how long it took Stephie to find a non revealing top haha. Our next thing to do was to head to a local Tesco’s (at Harrow on the Hill) and shop for BBQ stuff. We parked up at Tesco’s and immediately got busy with the food shopping.

Inn rang up the others to see where they were and surprisingly, they were all behind us (not literally), they weren’t at the stores (though they were going to go to another Tescos) yet so we were the first one’s to go shopping. We sort of allocated them the burgers and stuff whilst we bought the weird odd bits of the BBQ including the chicken yakitoris and the chicken wings. Shopping was quite fun with a load of musers, everyone kept disappearing and coming back. Kev took ages trying to pick out some food since he was allergic to wheat, he looked at every kind of kebab only to find that they had wheat in them hehe. At one point he dashed off to find the food for people with special diets (picky people). We bought quite a lot of stuff, including 2 boxes of chicken wings (hot and spicey) , 2 boxes of yakitoris, nando’s marinade and sauce, pringles (watching stephie reach the pringles was gold!), dorito’s, nando’s salsa, normal salsa (boring but Leon insisted we needed one), an onion (Leon brought a red onion so I had to fetch a white one grr), a red pepper, some WKD, some scotch whiskey for Leon? and some cheese. I think that was all, we sort of split the bill in a weird way. I only paid for the Yakitoris and the onion whilst Kev paid for the chicken wings and some other bits, kev got a bit arsey that I only spent £4.18 on the shopping hehe (I paid a lot last time :$). Once the shopping was done we packed it all in the boot and headed off to Kazzie’s place.

Upon arriving at Kazzies we had found out that the others are still behind us all (not that far behind thankfully). We sort of went up to the door and I immediately tried opening it and lo behold, it was unlocked! Judging from inn breaking into Kazzie’s house the night before I would have thought they wouldn’t lock the door once again. It was pretty funny unpacking everything at Kazzie’s house, Inn phoned up Kazzie asking is her mum around and we discover that she was, so we had to be extra quiet in case she thought we were house ninja’s (wouldn’t want Kazzie’s mum shooting Kev with a shotgun would we?). We tried being extra silent about everything but Leon kept making a noise so I kept shushing him up haha. I then told everyone it was best for us to just leave the house with the stuff inside and lounge around outside with our brews and drink until the rest arrive. We could have stayed inside but Kazzie’s mum wasn’t feeling well and was asleep so it wasn’t a good idea to wake her up and all.

We need two bags of charcoal! (No we dont)

Before I get started on this chapter, I think it’s best to establish who’s actually attending this bbq, since theres so many people involved, I can kinda miss out characters during the entry so yeah.. here’s the people who turned up at the BBQ:

Kazzie, Inn, Popey, Kev, Stephie, Leon, Ste, Jon, Beast Bob, Lauren, Kiernan, Gem and me! Hopefully that helps for those who werent actually at the BBQ, just so you’re not surprised when people just suddenly appear haha.

After some bantering outside, the sky turned pretty dark. Kazzie and the others arrive at the scene. Was funny how we were outside drinking tea / brew and everything. Kazzie entered the building and we got right into the BBQ. The food the other people brought was immense, they tried doing the same thing with the Nando’s sauce but apparently some bottles were smashed and was replaced with a milder sauce, luckily we actually had some spare! Ste also managed to buy two crates of beer (I originally had a typo here and wrote bear, imagine two crates of bear, terrifying) for the men to drink, it was funny because the entire night i probably drank about 2-3 cans haha, there were a lot of times where I was passed a can and i just left it there unopened (ninja), I didn’t want to wake up with a massive hangover plus I was meeting up with Alice the next day at 1.30pm, had to be on my best behaviour haha.

We later on find that the propane BBQ (which I renamed Hank (King of the Hill)) couldn’t be used because Kazzie’s mum didn’t get propane that she promised Kazzie. She was also sleeping upstairs which meant we had to keep quiet. Kazzie wasn’t too pleased with the situation, but me and Inn managed to work something out, we pretty much said that we’ll buy some new coal and stuff and just use little nigel (i didnt come up with Nigel’s name, Popey did, it sucks!) for the BBQ. People (well the guys) tried sorting out the Gazebo, I actually wanted to stay and do the Gazebo too but was roped into coming with Kazzie and Inn to buy charcoal and stuff for the BBQ. Kazzie’s temper was bad here, she sort of gave up and all but we made sure that this wasn’t a flop by getting the charcoal bbq sorted. The other problem was the noise since her mum was asleep, my suggestion was to just do it at a park and bring everything. I ordered (yes ordered haha, I was on a power trip :$) people to clear up the gazebo and get prepared to move out once me Kazzie and Inn got the charcoal and all. Gem cleared up the Gazebo since all the guys were too lazy to do it.

As well as buying the charcoal I bought some additional instant bbq’s just to ensure that we have more grilling area. It was all a bit excessive in retrospect but then inn kept going on about how it’s better safe than sorry, she actually wanted to buy another bag of charcoal (thank god we didn’t) the charcoal we had (well it was more wood to be honest) was ungodly and did a pretty good job!

48 gazebo poles, 5 confused men and one inverted gazebo flap

After arriving back to Kazzie’s house, we sort of calmed kazzie down, I think Gem or Kiernan went upstairs talking to Kazzie’s mum and she was fine about everything now. We have sorted the tension in the house and was ready to get the BBQ going. Kazzie decided that we can just eat outside the garden rather then going to the park, which was a good idea since I wasn’t keen on moving things about and theres a very high chance that we’d forget something. So back to setting up the gazebo and BBQ in Kazzie’s house. I was pretty much being team leader here since noone had a clue what they were doing, I managed to order Kev, Beast Bob, Leon, Jon and Ste to start rebuilding the Gazebo again, it was pretty funny since they haven’t seen the instruction so they were just stabbing in the dark (quite literally). At one point we quickly did some Star Wars light sabre battles, where at one point it was Kev (Yoda), Me (Darth Vadar) and Popey (Luke) battling it out, though kev didn’t really have a clue what he was doing so it didn’t look like a light sabre battle so I keep telling him to hit me, “go on! hit me! hit me!”…

.. and so he did..

ouch! I get whacked in the tummy by a gazebo pole by Kev (of all peoplpe) haha. Bastard! Though I was being pretty evil with the gazebo leading. I just kept popping over at the construction site and telling them how bad of a job they’re doing and how me and Popey managed to finish it within minutes. It was really demotivating but fun at the same time haha, they finally manage to get the Gazebo sorted and were putting the flap over the Gazebo when I told Kev (it was kev’s doing) that the flap was the wrong way round haha, I told him off real good that he went to the corner bless hehe. I had to flip the gazebo flap the right way round for him before he came back from the corner bless.

What about the BBQ?

Whilst all this Gazebo drama was happening the BBQ was doing really well! The wood we bought was pretty cool and we were able to get the BBQ going very quickly, with the help of Popey’s frisby. We did a lot of fanning on the gazebo and I managed to take some nice long exposure shots of the sparks and all.

I think the first things we put were the burgers, we also had the other instant BBQ going and were cooking Yakitoris. I think Aino was cooking something else too, it was wrapped in foil so it was probably her brownies or something I dont know. Strangely it wasn’t really about the food that night though, it was strangely more about the chips and dips (and drinks). There was a lot of sitting around and crisps eating. I tried the Nando’s salsa sauce with some salted doritos and absolutely loved them hehe. Leon preferred his generic salsa shit as well as Lauren. Lauren was a bit tipsy looking throughout the night since she kept falling all over the place haha. Leon then started to have a food fight with Lauren and cover her face with Salsa and hummus, not a pleasant sight. I kept giving evils at Leon for creating such a mess at the party (which I later on had to clean up) and for smothering all the girls with salsa sauce (he even got Kiernan a ginger beard).

The BBQ was kind of left abandoned after the first batch of burgers was cooked, Popey gave up his BBQ role and people were cooking steaks and stuff (I managed to nibble a bit of steak hehe). I think around now I stopped taking photos and had to charge my camera battery using Kazzie’s charger. Inn was still snapping away! (God so many things happening at the same time).

The death of the BBQ and yakitori

The BBQ died out for a bit and then we started to make another one but this time cook the sausages and yakitoris (this is where a part of me cries inside). Since Popey had left his role, the food were just whacked on and were left to cook. Now during the Leeds weekend we learnt that shoving sausages into a BBQ was a bad idea, they’d spit like crazy and char the entire thing up! Since noone was maintaining the bbq most of the food were left burnt. I think during this time Inn was driving Kev and Stephie back home. Kev was feeling tired around midnight and wanted to go home and rest up for Saturday and all. Inn was being proper sportsmanlike and drove them back to their hotel rooms, she knew that she would also need to make another trip to drive Gem and Leon back but was cool about it.

A quick sidetrack from it all (though I’m only doing this because I was sidetracked from writing this bit, I was watching an interview with Bruce Willis about Die Hard 4.0 haha) was how kev and stephie received giant hugs from everyone. We’re talking a proper group hug, more chaotic than tellytubbies hugging. Was quite fun with kev, with stephie, since she was vertically challenged it was like we were hugging nothing haha. Inn instructed us to leave her some food from all this travelling, but since the food was all burnt we could only provide her with burnt sausages and some steak. I think the BBQ was quite a flop since people were more interesting in socialising then taking care of the BBQ, it would have been nice if the food was cooked though, I was actually starving the entire evening :(. Ho hum.

People did try eating the burnt yakitoris but it just tasted like ashes haha. The bottom piece of chicken on the stick was alright, it was the least burnt down bit of the stick haha, I couldn’t even pick up some of the sticks too! It was that bad! Leon tried clearing out some of the yakitoris by feeding it to people, again… food fight, bad form! Food is not fun! It should be eaten, not toyed around and thrown about! Before Popey talks about how if starving children want it they could come and get it, I was hungry Though to be honest it was getting pretty late/dark for anyone to bother with the food. I think that was the problem. Ho hum.

Muse singalong part 2

During the evening Kazzie got the guitars out for a singalong. I was in charge of the guitaring since kev wasn’t about and we basically sang and played the songs Kazzie could play along to, which was Time is running out and Supermassive Black Hole. We did a pretty good job I must say. I was surprised that people were actually singing during the singalong but it was pretty fun. Though take note that I couldn’t hear any bass going on, evening when it was amplified. Though it was open air i suppose, ho hum. Lauren managed to film the entire singalong on her camera and it was a great laugh, Ste tried to get me to play some Manics songs but it was pretty limited because I needed the chords with me to remember what was going on haha. The singalong was definitely better than the Trafalgar Square purely because it wasn’t just someone playing the CD really loud with some background grunts and moans, you could actually hear people singing (because it was a more smaller but live rendition). Eventually we stopped when neighbours and Kazzie’s mum were telling us to pack it in haha, it was pretty late!

Nobody won, honest

Ooh I forgot to mention Aino and Max, I think some time during the BBQ they called it a night and went off sleeping in the living room, occasionally I would wonder into the living and just give them a confused look as to why they were being antisocial in the living room (they weren’t really sleeping, just lounging around in the living room). It was pretty funny how later on they tried sleeping in the living but was interrupted to much that they just had to go upstairs and sleep in Kazzie’s room (apparently a few musers walked into Kazzie’s room to find them inside their sleeping bag, with the bag sort of ruffling about, chances are they were having sexy beast *shudders* (though Kazzie is more mortified since they were doing it in her room!)).

After a crazy night of bbq’ing we took the fun into the living room, for some wii and smash brothers action. Though the energy was getting weaker and weaker as the evening went on. We had a few games of smash brothers and wii, Inn managed to come back for some wii action and tried completing the single mode in order to get multiplayer mode going. But yeah, I think everyone was lacking the energy to play really. It all came to a halt where people just went to sleep. Oh and in case Popey thinks i’m going to hide it, we did have another smash brothers 1 on 1 battle, I didn’t take the battle too seriously but he once again gambled cupcakes for my 400d camera. The beginning was once again quite a sight, I keep whooping him and all, but near the end, I got a bit too cocky and decided to fall off the stage and lose all 4 of my lives, I was initially going to lose 3 of my lives, then mash Popey up a bit until he was definitely going to lose, but he managed to tempt me to fight him one on one with all our lives ready and all. Bad mistake. Lets say some proximity mines were thrown in my direction and I was unfortunate to die at the last life Ah well. Its still mine :p I managed to have another game where I was playing against 3 players, Popey, Jon and Kazzie I think. The beauty of this match is that I wasn’t time wasting anymore so I just got down to it and whooped all 3 of them haha. Take note it’s hard beating 3 people, you have 5 lives and you have to defeat 15 lives off your opponent, but sometimes… I just do it :p Oh some random sideplot includes Lauren breaking her camera, the lens sort of gets stuck and she’s doomed haha, thats what warranties are for

Uhm.. yeah, the wii appeal died soon after and Inn had to drive Leon and Gem back again. Kiernan accompanied Inn on the trip Inn would be going back to Kazzie’s house on her own so some company was needed (plus Kiernan wasn’t tired). It was sleep time.

I’m not sleeping outside, peanuts got a mouse

When things died down I immediately stole the duvets available since I was the one sleeping outside (initially I took inn’s one, was snatching it off Lauren and Bob but then inn said they were actually hers so I had to give it back :(). It wasn’t a pleasant place to sleep in. Last time we were playing games and partying till 4am which meant the sky was a nice light blue so it was actually easier to sleep (and I was so tired that sleep was definitely required) this time it wasn’t so late so sleeping was actually a problem. Not only that, pollution was another factor of crippling my sleep! Both the air (from the bbq) and the noise! (coming from inside! damn people chatting away). Popey was initially going to join me and sleep on the trampoline but later on he moved back inside because it was wet. So I was pretty much on my own trying to get some good nights rest on the deck chair type thing (which I only knew how to make it go down near the end). It was actually disturbingly warm and cosy! I was hot from the duvet and chair cushion, but I couldn’t sleep. I was a proper insomniac at this time, everyone else were just wannabes since they all went to sleep pretty easily haha. The mumblings and laughter soon began to die out inside and it became silent. Occasionally you would hear someone crack a joke but most of the time it was dead silent.

About an hour has passed by and I’m still wide awake outside. I couldn’t really get a comfortable position on the deck chair and it wasn’t as nice as a mattress. Suddenly I hear a loud thumping noise, it was peanut, and eek! it had a mouse in it’s mouth, beforehand I already caught it fighting with a mouse but now it’s pretty dark and I’m trying to sleep, so there’s actually a slight chance I could wake up with a dead mouse on my lap, or I could wake up at the sight of peanut holding a dead mouse in its mouth. That was a risk I wasn’t going to take, I decided that the best thing to do is to just go back inside, surrender at the godly thought of being able to sleep outside under the gazebo, it was a really good idea last time, but with the smoke and all, it really wasn’t a good idea this time.

The snoring competition

Now ninja’ing my way back into bed was fine, Popey was actually awake still so that was good (someone to talk to), I managed to find myself a little spot on the foot of the mattress that Kazzie, Beast Bob and Lauren were sleeping (ain’t Beast bob a stud haha). I think I should draw a diagram to explain the sleeping arrangements.

Popey got right cheeky and stole the essence of my deck chair (watch Friends Season 3 if you dont know what I meant about essence of a chair), which meant he technically had a mattress now so I’m sort of sleeping on the floor with no pillow listening to everyone snore. Eventually Popey did go to sleep and boy did he snore! As well as having Ste snoring right next to me, I also had Kazzie and Beast bob kicking the crap out of me (occasionally on the face) when I’m trying to sleep. So picture it, a snore fest with Ste and Popey, followed by some lovely kicking. Sleeping heaven! :/

Sooner or later I was sort of saved by Kiernan and Inn who had just came back from driving Leon and Gem back to their hotel (Leon was sleeping on the floor mwahaha). They were pretty giddy and all, Kiernan randomy just went up to Popey and started riding him, calling him seabiscuit and everything, it was hilarious. The funny thing is how we were whispering everything so it sort of added to the fun! Kiernan did it everytime she went down, just riding Popey. Not sure how to explain the whole riding thing, but basically Popey was sleeping on his back (I think) and Kiernan sort of squatted over and and assumed the horse riding position, occasionally doing some whips as well :p. Definitely made my evening haha. Once they had left it was back to the snoring again.

At one point I went upstairs to use the toilet, after leaving the toilet I noticed Kiernan and Inn were still awake so they invited me in their room for a bit to chat, I think they were having a girly talk and all and was still a bit restless so I continued talking to them for a bit, eventually I left them to go sleep, Inn said I cant wake her up before 10am haha. I knew that wasn’t going to work! But yeah I went back downstairs to suffer the snoring wars.

…it was unbearable, you really couldn’t sleep with all this snoring, it was like a battlefield, people really need to clear their sinuses before they sleep or something, it was oblivious, occasionally Ste would let out some ungodly snores that made Popey and I burst out laughing but once Popey was sleeping on his back, he started doing the same. It just went on and on. I actually got bored at one point and started to record the ungodly snoring that is Popey. Afterwards I just had enough of the snoring and went back outside to the garden.

Back outside again

Outside, it was still chilly and stuffy, the air was still polluted with smoke from the BBQ, I quickly played back Popey snoring and laughed in the comfort that noone could hear me laughing outside. The snores were funny, at first I thought each snore was followed by a high pitched whistling sound, like his sinuses were so blocked that it emitted high pitched noises whenever he breathed out, turns out it was some birds outside (dang).

Running out of places to sleep I decided to take a shot at the trampoline, although Popey said it was wet, i was sleeping under the duvet (well i was wrapped around the duvet so there was duvet sandwiching me). The trampoline was actually alright, I didn’t find it wet as Popey had claimed (I think he was just scared of sleeping outside). So I decided to actually sleep outside in the end. It was pretty funny, for once it was actually comfortable sleeping there, I did get a bit of a draft coming from below (since it’s a trampoline and not a mattress) but other than that it was fine. Draft sooner or later became more of a problem as it was coming at all directions, this required more duvet positioning to ensure that I was fully wrapped in duvet and that I was draft free, this lasted for about 30 minutes until water started to drip from the sides of the trampoline and into the centre, damnit, so this is what Popey was on about. But it was too late to complain, I really needed my sleep, so the there was more duvet positioning to ensure that I could get some sleeping. Later on it got to a point where I was actually thinking about how your body falls asleep; is it in one go or does your limbs slowly fall asleep sequentially? It was one of those moments where you start thinking all kinds of crap to occupy your brain, somehow it actually worked. I finally got some sleep.

… about 2 hours worth anyway.

The morning after (or the 2 hours after)

Yup birds are chirping away, I have had the worst amount of sleep ever (you’ll see the nasty effects in the Saturday and Sunday blog I think!). Nonetheless I don’t think I could sleep anyway, the time was 6am and I felt like getting the day started. I picked up my duvets and shoved it back into the living room. I then began picking up the mess everyone had made, nobody cleaned up last night during the BBQ because they were all too tired and wanted to leave it for the next day. Rather then waiting for them all to wake up and clean the mess I decided to just clean the place up straight away so theres more time and all. It was a painful job, in particular picking up dorito’s on the floor that Leon had spilt. This was why I was a bit grumpy with Leon! The mess he made, so many stuff I found on the floor could have been traced back to Leon; the burnt Yakitori’s, the soft soggy dorito’s found on the place that was meant to store kindling, the salsa sauce still unopened with insects crawling in it and random bits of sausage. Food fights are not cool! (they’re cool if someone else does the cleaning I suppose). There were other bits of cleaning too including picking up beer cans and draining them out, draining random unidentified liquids (hopefully not body fluids) in glasses, throwing away ungodly amounts of food, and picking up all the beer cans that weren’t actually opened (my ones!).

Soon everyone was nice and clean, I forgot to mention that during the night I randomly woke up and went “THE YAKITORI’s”, frantically heading out to the garden to save the other box of yakitori by shoving it in the freezer haha (I didnt care about the rest). I was all dirty and messy from all the cleaning so I decided I needed a bath. I quickly walked up to Kazzie (still half asleep) and assassinated her. Haha, no wait, I didnt, I just gave her prod and asked her to use the bath, I said “could I use the bathroom to take a bath?” “an ungodly bath”, she just nodded away and said “yes”, to be honest, she would have said yes to anything. I think that was probably the time where I should of asked if I could have her L series lens, I could even record it on my phone as evidence (ooh thats a new plan!). I had my bath and wrote on the mirror “Oh yeah! I just had an ungodly bath” onto the condensation. I think a few people saw it.

Afterwards it was a case of lounging about, drinking tea and waiting for the others to slowly wake up. It was funny to watch people sort of wake up and go back to sleep again. Kazzie’s mum got up quite early and saw me downstairs and said do i even sleep at all? It was pretty hectic of me to just wake up at such an ungodly hour, so I told her I did get my sleep but she didn’t believe me that I had much (which was true). Banter was minimal so I just lounged around in the garden some more. Slowly but surely people began to wake up, it was a new day for all, and a new adventure awaits…

Saturday will be filled with random french people, abandoning people for nando’s, meeting an ungodly amount of people at weatherspoons, seeing the streets trying to get the crowd to say radio ga ga about 7 times, watch muse perform, and finding/losing kazzie about 7-8 times after a stamped of muse fans head back home.

Lounging about in central London
After arriving at Central London at 3.30 (was slightly late but I got the feeling everyone was late), noone was actually there haha. Most people were still travelling. So I decided to bum around at the Apple centre until someone arrived. I got to play on the daddio Mac Pro with the Keystation 61es keyboard. I did a quick recording of Hoodoo and sooner got booted off for demonstrations haha. Max managed to somehow obtain my number and phone me up on where I was etc. I told him where I was but he gave up finding the area haha

Some funland action

After a long loung about in London, I finally got a phonecall from Kazzie about where they were. They were waiting for me prompty at funland for some DDR action. So yeah, arrived at funland and met Kaz, Steph, Popey, Jon, Haze, Charlotte and a few other random people haha. I instantly got on the DDR machines and played DDR, I went on one of the machines which I thought was Euromix 2 but it turns out it was In The Groove, that was completely new to me so I just stopped playing on it haha (didnt want to waste my energy on it). I went to the machine that actually had Euromix and played 3 songs; Nori Nori Nori, 5,6,7,8 (mwahaha) and the obvious Can’t Stop Falling In Love (Speed Mix) finale. The other two songs were simply warm ups, no way am I getting into Can’t Stop Falling in Love (Speed Mix) at the beginning haha. I’d be killed hahah. I’ll hopefully upload some videos of me in action when I have time uploading them on Youtube. Was dead impressed