Crazy Town and London 17th and 18th June 2014

Hopefully this won't be such an image heavy post!
Well...it could be...

Back in June me and Kev went to London to see Crazy Town! :D
I've wanted to see them for so many years (I think the Gift of Game came out 2001ish?) and so when they announced the one off show in London after Download Festival I HAD to be there!

The plan was to go down around lunch time, have a chilled out bit of lunch and find our way to the hotel and head down to the gig.

But when does anything we do go to plan?!

Ended up that Kev had an interview that day, that would run til around 1 or 2pm. And so we had to change our Megabus to about 3:30pm and hope he got to Bristol in time!
Luckily, he was out around 1pm, managed to get the train just in time and then when he got to Bristol we were ready to jump on the coach! Phew!

But it did mean that we didn't get into London until about 6pm. Then we had to get to Victoria station, buy our tube tickets and find our way on two tubes to where our hotel was!

We ended up in Hackney, which has a pretty bad reputation, and we were completely lost. Unfortunately I trust Google Maps way too much and it had us wandering around this council estate aimlessly searching for a Premier Inn!
One little old black lady did try helping us as best she could, and told us to be careful, and eventually we managed to find the hotel. I can't remember what time we got there but we dumped our stuff, and pretty much turned around again! It was so draining!

We found a taxi booth place to get us to the venue because catching a tube would have taken ages, so we ended up getting to the gig at 7:45pm!!

I was so terrified that we were going to be late and stood at the back without being able to see anything and I was just tired and worried and gah...but...we got in there, and it was pretty much empty!! Like maybe 25 people when we got in there?

So we went and bought a drink and headed down to the stage, we were in the second row so that was amazing :) and luckily we stayed there! <3

The starting band started about half 8 (could hardly believe my worrying lol) and they were really fun! They were called Love Zombies, and they had a female singer who was very energetic and it felt like an early day No Doubt which was pleasantly surprising! :)

Then it was Crazy Town who were just awesome! :D I loved it! <3
The only downside was the fact that there were scene-whores next to us who were ALL over them (and themselves!) whipping their bikini-clad boobs out whenever anyone came near our side of the stage (it was a tiny stage...).

But enough of them lol.

It was so good, they were really grateful and so happy that their fans have stuck by them this long and came out to see them :) There were a few CXT tattoos and people that had seen them back in the day and it was just so nice to see for them! :)

The photos aren't the greatest quality (when are they ever with my camera?!) but hopefully they put across how fun it was ^_^

And after it was over I managed to get a setlist from one of the roadies! Ahhh! :D So awesome <3

I was aching like mad by the time we left, and my throat was all croaky, but we made it back to the tube station and got the tube back to Hackney. We stopped and got some fried chicken to take back to the room with us which was yummm :)



So the next morning we went down for breakfast, went back up for showers and then went on our merry way into London town!

We headed towards Covent Garden (for purposes I cannot divulge to my one reader! :P) but there were a few photos that I can share!

So yeah, it was a lovely night and day in London! :)

Baby you are my picket-fence

So just another general update from the last couple of weeks :)

On the 24th March me and Kev went to Cardiff to see Russell Howard! He was as good as I expected him to be and more, loved it! :) Always fun to see something different like a comedian!
Here's a couple of photos that are nothing special. There was a big NIN poster outside that Kev got excited about, but alas it is gone now.

Then the weekend after was Cardiff Comic Con so we were back in the capital! That was really fun, though I put up another post about that, so go find it!!

I did forget these photos though! Kev in the pub hehe and a nice cobweb lit up in Newport station that I had to take a photo of!

Not a lot happened during the week as usual, and then this weekend it was finally SUNNY and WARM! Ah!! <3 Haha. So me and Kev decided to go to St. George's Park! We took sarnies and a drink and some food for the ducks! It was so nice out :)
We sat on a bench watching the world go by eating our ham sandwiches and then had a stroll around the large pond. We tried feeding the ducks and swans, but they really did not care for the bread I'd taken. What's that all about. It wasn't even stale!! They quite liked the berries from the graze box though lol. At least the manic moorhen and pigeons liked my offerings lol.

Anyway then we got a tasty ice cream! First of the year, woohoo! :D Then we sat watching an older guy with a remote control boat that he was sailing around the pond and watching all the little kids throwing bread (pointlessly!!) and the dogs running around enjoying themselves!

It was a really nice day :) Can't wait for summer to be upon us so we can do more! Really wanting us to meet Noah and April in Barry with Eva and Dolphie, that's gunna be such a good day I can tell!
Not that anything is planned of course, but it will HAPPEN...lol.

Other than that, not much has been going on! With all these events going on I have been having pretty bad weekends or random days in my diet...so it's not coming off so fast any more. I lost 1 and a half pounds last week but I'm not sure this week will go so well. If I can lose another 1 and a half that will be a whole stone gone! Fabulous!
I'm really hoping I can drop one dress size by the time I go on holiday. My work trousers are definitely looser but I'm not sure I'm quite at a lower size. I do hope so though! I've ordered a pair of trousers that I really wanted in the smaller size so that I can aim to get into them. Fingers crossed!
Hopefully it will keep coming off me. I really need to start exercising though, I can feel that I'm getting flabbier with the weight loss and I need to tone up as best I can! Not too sure how to go about it, but I would really like to not be more worried about flabbiness than fatness lol.

But this weekend will be another bad day for my diet 'cause we'll be eating out again.

Uh, because we're going to Cardiff (again) to see Fall Out Boy! :D
Finally! After all these years!
ALWAYS wanted to see them and never had a chance to. I can't wait! <3 I hope it will be as amazing as I've hoped! I know a lot of people think they're naff, and only little teens seem to like them, but hell, I was a little teen when I started loving them so I'm allowed!

We still have some events to come too. After FOB I have Dirty Dancing with Tracey. Then we have Easter which hopefully means me and Kev can go down to Noah and April's for Easter treats and to celebrate my birthday! I already have cupcake plans and I cannot WAIT! <3
Then we have Derren Brown in Bristol, then our holiday in Cornwall (which is overly exciting me still!) and then there's a gap of about 3 weeks before NIN in Cardiff. Then that's it! For now!
I'd like to get tickets for the McBusted show in Weston because Backstreet Boys AND Five are playing with them, and that would be amazing! But alas, money is constantly a struggle at the moment (event after event, help me stop my addiction!) so we'll see how that goes. Sadness. Lol.

Then hopefully the summer will be calm and we can do more Fatboy gatherings <3 Fun times ahead for 2014! Loving this year so much already lol.