♥ The Chateau ♥

Last night's social gathering at Jill's was a hoot to say the least. The evening->Morning mainly consisted of: 

*Rory setting me on fire within five minutes of him entering the room. I can now say I've been set on fire... something I've before managed to avoid even with years of playing with matches/lighters/anything with a flame

*For the rest of the night, going on to say, "I can't believe you set me on fire, Rory..."

*Me walking across Rory's spine ("In these shoes? I doubt you'd survive...")

*Getting sickened by Jayne/John and her masculine femininity.

*Watching Jill's alias, Auntie Susie, dance away. 

*Trying to stop Jonny from jumping on us and laughing at his screams of pain, "Argh! My fuckin' crack!"

*Spiking Gary's drink

*Jamie not Smiling

*Going, "Laura, don't go on holiday, we'll miss you!"

*Doing impressions of another (wo)man, "Just 'cos ye've got one more bollock than me, disnae mean you should be braggin, a'rite, son?"


And this morning, I woke up voiceless and with a nose that can only be described as feeling like I'd snorted a wheelbarrow full of coke.

Was a good night.

Well yesterday was mostly good. Me, Lauren, Laura and Rory strolled around town for a bit, being scared by huge-eyed cats, yelling at The Streets and basically having a chuckle and 'acting childish' in Costa. We wondered around for a bit, but time went kinda quick, so me and Laura had to catch the bus.

 

I went home, had tea and shizz and then went to meet everyone at 6.40pm. We got to the Tunnels early, so went to get Keri food. Again, when we went to the Tunnels, we were early, so we started to queue up. Lauren came out and Jamie said hi while 'avin' a faaaag. Damn, he is the jolly giant. Then Lauren brought Michael out. Aww :D We spoke about the drumstick thing and soon after that we got let in. Met Nadia and Lauren's dad and made our way to the stage. No-one was in front of us, so we were right at the front. The Rebel came on first. They were... uh... different to say the least. The lyrics were genius though. Something along the lines of, "Thatcher won't give nothin' for free, I have to pay for a cup of fuckin' tea." The main guy was also playing about with a gameboy which was kinda cool. Michael was getting ready to set up his drums, so tapped me and went, "Fuckin' brilliant, aren't they?"
"Yeah, he fucked a prostitute when he was 13? They're um...weir--interesting! Quite Adam Green though..."
"Oh, better than Adam Green - more original. I've obviously been with them every night and you can't really hear their lyrics from the back, but God are they good!"
Then he went on and played around with his drums :P Jamie said hi on his way up and right behind him was the only one I hadn't spoken to yet, "Jackie!" He recognised me and let out a chuckle and said something about how he was really looking forward to the gig. They got set up and played a brilliant set. Starting with Cult Status, proving Rory wrong as he thought they'd start with You're Supposed To Be My Friend. Guitar strings were snapped, video clips and photos were taken and there was quite a bit of laughter. Jamie was amazingly good, Michael was going at it like a kid with A.D.D and Jackie was extraordinary. It was brilliant.

On their way off, I praised Jamie and stopped Jackie, "You were brilliant!"
"Thanks! Best gig of the tour!"
"Gimme a hug!"
*Hugs*
"I'm all sweaty!"
"Ooh, I loves it!"

"Ahaha :D"

 

The Long Blondes were soon onstage getting ready to set up. Screech came right in front of us, so he posed for a photo, but my camera flashes three times and takes the picture on the third flash, so he had looked down. We have an amazing hair shot, though :P

Their set list was...

Only Lovers Left Alive

Appropriation

Once and Never Again

Weekend Without Make-Up

Lust in the Movies

Madame Ray

Swallow Tattoo

You Could Have Both

Giddy Stratospheres

Separated by Motorways

 

They were brilliant. We stayed at the very front until to two last songs where we got shoved back a bit, but it was alright. Tamer than Morrissey and that's just weird! Although, at the end, Dorian did a stage dive. *Strokes* Which was nice muaha
We went to the stage to try and steal the setlist, but it had gone and all that was left was the bassist, Reenie's glass bottle of water, so, we had that. I hid it under my jacket.

 

I followed everyone on the way out, but lost my lovely friends, when my equally lovely cousin spotted me and introduced me to his friends. I got out to the foyer (that's the wrong word) where I saw Michael and Jamie selling their merchandise and showed Michael the stolen bottle, "Oh, you punk rocker!" Keri bought me a badge and El Jackson turned up behind me again (Cue another "Jackiieee!" and a chuckle from the man himself) I showed him the water and again he laughed. He seemed to take great pleasure in laughing at Jamie and Michael for their stallmanship :P He buggered off somewhere (we couldn't find him for a while after that) so I got my photo taken with my buddies and heard girls behind me say, "Quit hoggin' my man!" about Michael hehe. I whispered this to him, to which he replied, "Well, they'll have to prove their love and buy something!"
I continued to show him pictures of my advertising. "And where did you stick them?"
"On this bus."
"Ooh, it looks a posh bus."
"First bus? Haha, hell no!"

"What did they say?"
"Um... just had like the website address on it and stuff."
"Well, good effort, Kirst, maybe it brought people here!"

 

More banter that I can't really remember.

 

I saw my cousin again and said, "Wanna meet some 90s?" and he seemed eager. I introduced him to Jamie and they spent about five minutes attempting to get the back off one of the 1990s stickers.
I did the old 'drinky drinky' sign to Jamie after he'd left.
"Aye, but it's okay, 'cos so I am I..."
"Yeah, but you can handle it..."
"That's what you think ;)"

Spoke some more to him and the McGaughrin and then saw Screech from the Long Blondes again.

 

"Screech! You legend!"
"Oh hi!"

"Can I get my photo with you?"
"Sure."

But then he got talking to the McGaughrin. Bah... Keri eventually managed to get our photo and I took one with her and him. He spoke to us for a bit.

"I was gonna give you my drumsticks, but I couldn't find you at the end!"

"Aww! That's okay, though, I stole one of you's water."

"Oh, Reenie's water! Hold onto that, it might be worth something."
"eBay..."
"Haha yeah! Tonight's been brilliant. One of the best gigs we've ever played, we've never had an atmosphere like this before..."
"So that means you'll come back then?"
"Oh, definately!"
"Didn't you lot just get signed the other week?"
"Yeah, about 3 weeks ago. So we'll have our first single out soon!"
"Great! 'Cos everywhere always said 'Unsigned Act' and I thought, 'Why are they unsigned?!'"

"Yeah, well, there was a big, long, boring story that I probably shouldn't get into, but it took longer than we'd hoped, but it's all good now we've signed!"

The chatting continued and we got onto the subject of getting pushed around a bit.

 

Me: "Everyone started a bit slow, but then the place went mental."
Screech: "I didn't think it was that slow, but near the end, I was worried about you guys down the front, I saw you all almost on the floor and was like 'Oh, no, don't hurt yourselves!'"

Me: "Aw, it's nice you get these caring rockstars!"

Screech: "I saw you when Dorian jumped into the crowd at the end as well!"
Me: "I stroked Dorian!"
Screech: "Ahaha, I did think he might do it, he's been going all weekend, 'I really wanna try jumping in the crowd!'"
Laura: "I tried to steal his shoe, but..."

Screech: "Oh yeah, well I don't know if he'd have been happy!"
Keri: "I kept getting stood on!"
Me: "Everyone got stood on!"
Laura: "We told you to bring appropriate footwear, Keri!"

Screech: "Aha, well, I really had better get going anyway or else they'll all go without me..."
Me: "Aww... but yeah, come back."
Screech: "We will, we definately will. Bye!"
Me, Laura, Keri: "Byeee! Aww!"

 

Once more, who turns up on his way to the toilet? "Jackiieeee!" *More chuckling* I asked if he'd sign some stuff for my lovely friends, which he did and I attempted to let Neil meet him too, but he waited for a bit and disappeared, strangely...
Jackie: "What's your name?"
Keri: "Keri."
Jackie: "Carrie, right, with a C?"
Keri: "No, with a K"
Me: "Kay-Ee-Arr-Aye."
Jackie: "Ohhh! Keri!"

Rory: "Yeah, you have a really lame spelling, Keri..."

Jackie: "And your name?"
Jill: "Jill."
Me: "With a J, not a G!"
Jackie: "Yeah!"
Me: "Yeah, 'cos we saw you at Franz and that's when--"
Jackie: "I know thaaaat! :D"

 

We got a group photo and then he had to dash to the toilet. I spoke to Lauren some more about the whole Dorian strokage and we got more photos and then it all goes a bit blurry. I remember it being almost empty and Jill and Jamie emerging from outside saying we had to go, so I said bye to Jackie and got a hug from him after he was telling the story of the girl who didn't look happy to be there and how he was tempted to kick her over. More hugs and Jackie slurring, "Yeah, yeah, Lauren, Myspace's where it's at!"

So, we had to leave and Jackie yelled "Kirsten, see you on myspace!" and Laura said she'd add him. We left and I never got to say goodbye to Jamie the Giant or McGaughrin. Grr...

 

We pranced around town before getting a lift and dropping people off. We got home and dad said, "Bad news."
I knew what was coming.

"Your Uncle Jock died at about 8.20. I didn't wanna tell you in front of your friends."

Well, ain't that something to ruin an amazing day?

 

Fare thee well...

 

XxXxX

Well, last night was pretty amazing, but I'll start from the start (Bet you're happy about that(!))

 

I went into town pretty early, about 12ish (That's early for me) and thought, 'Hold on, why am I in town? I don't need anything...' so I went to the Music Hall and saw three huge Stage Truck, but no tourbuses. There were some angry roadies telling stories round the back, so I walked round twice. They musta thought I was a bit weird. So, somehow, I managed to pass time and met up with ma at about 2pm and got some food, then put the Schwest onto her bus home at about 3.30pm. I went for a bus at 4pm and got home half an hour later and left the house half and hour after that again. I got to the Music Hall at about 5.30 and there were quite a few people there. I watched, bemused, as a bequiffled (there were loadsa people with quiffs) man was being told a Hobo's life story. Me and this guy watched on looking amused and when he left, I took his place behind some girl. I spoke to the guy and girl for a while who were cool. Laura turned up telling us tales of her interview to which we chuckled. We got into the Music Hall at 7.30 and got to the front. Well, about three rows from the front. Sons and Daughters came on and were pretty good, but you couldn't hear the lead wifie's vocals over the guitars and drums. They were still cool though. But yeah... the lack of instrumental playing from the lead was funny. But, boy, could she play tambourine!

 

Moz came on at about 9 and everything went mental. It was brilliant, I took loadsa film clips and photos. The highlights were:

*After everyone chanting, "Morrissey, Morrissey, Morrissey!" he returned the favour by chanting, "Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Aberdeen!"
*The banter: "Um... we're in Stirling tomorrow. Any advice? Should we be scared? Well... we're not.", "I was trying to think of big bands from Aberdeen... it was quite difficult... so I stopped."
*"GIRLFRIEND IN A COMA!"
"Erm... no." [They start playing Girlfriend in a Coma]

*How Soon is Now and Still Ill were pretty amazing. Everyone went wild, though.

*The shirt throwing.

*The changing of shirts.

*The yelling of "I Want Yer Baybez!" to make up for lack of sign saying the same thing.

*The lack of flowers and contemplating stealing flowers from the window box.

*The throwing of crap onto the stage and trying to get the security guys to notice.

*Being ignored by security guys.

 

There's more but I can't think.

 

Brilliant.

 

Fare thee well...

 

XxXxX

Jonny is bored in the car on the way to Newcastle. I can tell he is bored, 'cos he asked me a really long question, "If you could have your own festival over a Friday, Saturday or Sunday, where would you have it? Who would be playing? (Any bands, even bands that aren't around any more, bands with dead members, new bands, current bands, whatever) How many stages and who would you invite?"

So, I decided to think something up...

I would have to have this festival either in a huge field in Scotland somewhere, like T or, just my back garden. Dream bands (including bands that would have to or rebirth) would be The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Smiths, Joy Division AND New Order (Dunno how that'd work, though.), Queen, The Pogues, Jimi, Pulp, Blur, The Yummy Fur, V.Twin, Franz Ferdinand, The Fiery Furnaces, 1990s, Morrissey, Charlotte Hatherley and Ash (together again and Chazza seperate). They would be the main ones, but obviously, there'd be loads more, especially new bands like The Automatic and local bands like Right Hand Left, 'cos they rule. I'd make my dad play too, JB and The Classics.
There'd also be a comedy block for an hour every three hours, where my lovely comedians would perform and make us chortle.
I would invite all of my friends and seeing as we're doing a wish thing here, I'd invite all of you myspace lot too. W00t! And after the music had sadly ended, we'd try cram into my house and garden for a massive party. I'd say, if it was in the summer, we'd have a BBQ in the garden, but Moz'll be there, so I wouldn't want him to storm off.

 

In Jonny's exact words, "All my mates. In my backie lol. There would be a legend set and a futures set. I'd have mozzer round and new order! Id have me tea with hooky! The automatic, right hand left, the subways, the chili peppers, A-HA, panic @ the disco and of course the BRAVERY! and id have ross noble and derren brown present with their own wee gigs too! And ill [have] my space set up to see if any other bands wanna be on the bill! There would be a free beer tent and other drink tent! And a dvd making tent so you could make your own personal dvd and id give everyone there their own video camera and all of it would go on the extras! You can tel im bored lol ive probs missed out a lot of acts aswell they can play via satelite lol XxxxxX tb"

 

Think he gave it slightly more thought than me... All that in five pages of a text... Jesus... so what would your festival be like?

 

Fare thee well...

 

XxXxX

[MUSIC: The Long Blondes - Once and Never Again]

 

Hello, bitches, how goes?

 

Last night was very much fun. Well... yesterday in General. It was Laura's Party Part 2 of 2. We went to Jimmy Chungs at lunchtime and apparently, NEDs just love it there too... There were loads. All of whom seemed to believe we were laughing constantly at them/slagging them off. Eavesdropping! (Lol, that's your speciality, Jonny :D )

 

[MUSIC: Morrissey - Disappointed (Live)]

 

So had some nice stuff and fucking fantastic cake. Mmm... We then returned to Chez Laura where we ate some more and played Jenga. Ollld schooool. We watched "Rumour Has It..." which was quite funny, ate some more, played slowly-increasing-in-vulnerabilty-Monopoly, which was funny. "I Wasn't In The Room!" we ate ice cream, drank and watched Saw II and I finished my huge thing of Bailey's ice cream and cracked open the rum. "Kirsten, you smell like my Granny!" and Laura left random comments to people on myspace and attempted to text Lauren. Stuff like this carried on all night 'til about 5am. Good times.

 

So, boredom a few days ago, led me to figure out that it's...

14 days 'til Morrissey

22 days 'til 1990s/The Long Blondes

33 days 'til The Zutons

36 days 'til Derren Brown
68 days 'til Dylan Moran
91 days 'til T in the Park

 

Speaking of T, ma says that there are apparently, "Growing concerns about it" now 'cos the place it's at is near a poultry thing. Woo, Bird Flu city! Fuck off, no-one's stopping me from going! I mean, look at the lineup change... http://www.tinthepark.co.uk/lineup06.html

 

[MUSIC: Morrissey - Girl Least Likely To]

 

What the hell are the Arctic Monkeys doing on the Main Stage when Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and We Are Scientists are on Pet Sounds Area and the Radio 1/NME Stage? I know they're getting really big, but srsly! And El Presidente on the main stage? I don't mind them, but I'd rather see Editors up there than them.

 

I'll stop ranting and go get some tea. Ooh, am off to see The Little Kicks/Right Hand Left/Edison tonight. I didn't realise that Edison is Jason The Pirate's band! Awesomeee!

 

Fare thee well...

 

XxXxX

Greetings, my lovely bitches. How are you? Really? That's great!

 

I have done more in the first 3 days of the holidays than I usually do for the whole two weeks. I'll run through the highlights as I'm feeling like I could write for days again. So... Friday. Last day of term which is always fun. Don't think we did any work at all... And at night was Laura's 'Easter Gathering' aka her Part 1 of 2 of her birthday egg-stravaganza (like the little easter joke there? I did chortle, myself...) which was hella fun. Main funniness? Danny and Gary's balloon tits ("Your boob, sir."), Jonny being the sexy dominator (Lmao)  - "Sit on my lap, bitch!", Trying to stop Rory going near Laura's iPod and the photo of everyone scared and the hilarious film. Ah, cannibal zombie gollumy things rule. Yes, overall a very good night. Although, I do still have Master Jonathan's watch... Have been wearing two since...

 

Um... on Saturday, I didn't do much. Got really pissed off at my dad. Sunday, I left for Edinburgh. We shopped for a bit and went out for tea with Schwest and 'Thew. Monday, still in Edinburgh, went to the Edinburgh Dungeon which was absolutely hilarious. We all need to go down and get 'scared' sometime, right? Megabuuuus! Lol. Although, this summer, Glasgow, next summer, london... will have to be the summer after that :D Yeah, so schwest used gher wunderbar HMV discount to get me Green Wing Series 1 on DVD, but refused to buy me Morrissey's album, so I had to buy it in Asda yesterday. Oh. My. God. How good?! And Moz got filthy! Eg: "There are explosive kegs between my legs." explained by Rory as, "He is referring to his bollocks..."

Then, there's, "Now I'm spreading your legs with mine in between..." O-ho, Mozilini!

And, "I entered nothing and nothing entered me, until you came with the key." Oh, 'key' that's what you call it nowadays, is it? Yeah, so now I can't wait to go see him. Me and Laura with our lame banners down the front, "Mozzerfunker, I want yer baybeez!"

 

And finally, Rory wrote on my jacket in chalk yesterday. All of it is coming off, 'cept "Poppy Cock" in huge writing.

 

Jonny is currently moaning 'cos he has just realised that he likes a Michael Jackson song.

 

Fare thee well...

 

XxXxX

Hello, hello.

 

Again, I felt like an update. And thought I'd force you to download something. A short, 1 minute 5 second video clip of 1990s live. You can get it here: http://www.vimeo.com/clip=27560

 

Very cool. Also, check out www.myspace.com/1990sband and www.1990s.tv

 

And if you're in Aberdeen and are free on the 30th April, go check them out with The Long Blondes (w00t!) and The Rebel at the Tunnels.

 

Wow, this week seems to have gone past awful quick. Had that 'exam success' thing on Tuesday. Basically, some guy called Jim, speaking crap trying to be funny and getting us to revise and shizz. He also tried some Paul McKenna type thing to get us to sleep. That stuff doesn't work on me, though. "Life's a bitch", Rory. Nice. Imo/Modge seemed to have a bit of a chuckle at that, Rory. Lawl!!!1!!9!!!9!!!0!!111! God, I suck. Although n00b speak is a fun thing to do online...

 

My unsly subliminal messaging didn't work, did it?

 

Fare thee well...

 

XxXxX