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Okay folks, its part of the time you've been waiting for. COBRA ADVENTURES THE SECOND.
So lemme think, we must have got there about 4ish? I think. We hopped off the train, and went in search of a bunny teddy in london. Let me tell you, this sounds like an easy quest. It was so fucking hard and before easter too, you'd think there'd be bunnies galore. All we could find were monkeys and fucking Paddington Bear. -headdesk- eventually we found this dinky little bunny key chain thing and spent the last of our money on it and then scrambled off to find the venue.
We went the wrong way trying to find the damn water rats. All the while I'm like, Dionne, we're going to get caught in a gang war or drive by. Cos you know thats just what I do lol. Anyway, we don't arrive at the venue til like 5? 6? I forget really. We wander in and pretty much its straight to the toilets, and then since its the water rats. Home of our famous [lol i say famous...] mirror picture avec Seans thong, we decide its time for a new Dionne and Zoe Water rats toilet picture [this starts a tradition by the way. Now every gig we go to we seem to take a toilet mirror photo]. It's kinda hard tbh because we can't actually see how they came out cos we're using a disposable camera [and most of them are shit but heres two okay ones]
That's the little diddy bunny in my hand.
Then we go back out and are being are usual cool self when who should we spy but Miss Vicky T herself and we're like eeee. but cool. Cos we're cool. and then Gabe hops out and its a semi-flaily moment. So we wander over and we're like hey, chat to him for a bit and give him the little bunny which he appears to love a lot. XD
Then they leave and hang out in the front smoking. We consider getting drinks, flail about what to actually do and then decide hey we should just go hang out with them like. But alas as we move to go outside they all leave in a big group. So. Zoe and Dionne put there stalking skills to the test and in true spy motion follow them down the street, round a corner and into a back alley. Were they enter...
'The Famous People Pub with Pete Wentz inside [we actually don't know what was so special about it, but they went inside and not many other people did, I named it XD. Also it's not actually in this picture, its around the corner. but shh.]
Anyway, we go and buy some cigarettes and then merrily hop back to the venue, sitting outside and smoking. Oh good times. At which point its around 7 and people get chucked out of the bar and queue up to go inside. We stay sat outside like the cool kids that we are.
We got given FBR samplers and leaflets. We should so be like FBR models or something.
Anyway most of the queue went in, some came back out because they didn't have any ID because they were all diddy and under 18. We sat around outside some more since we decided we'd rather wait for the return of the Cobra's than to watch the support bands. So we hung around, went and got some doreetz for food, kept skipping back and forth to the place they disappeared to. Almost got caught in a ferocious gang war [yeah they may have be like 11 years old but there were lots of them =P ]. And then lo and behold. Cobra came back. As we were half way between there place and the venue, we both shriek and run and then try and be cool but its a little late for that now, still we manage to pull it off.
We light up cigarettes, and casually wander over to them, talk to Vicky and walk with her to the venue happily chatting away. She's like a little bundle of cute really. We're like would you mind have a photo with us and shes like no thats fine, but lemme go and say hi to someone first. So we're like yeah sure and then we run back and grab Gabe. Walk with him instead and I ask him to ring Lesley but it goes to her damn answerphone. BADTIMES. Then we get back to the venue and Vicky is waiting for us, bless her. We have our photos taken with her
Yes I look shit as always. Sh.
We merrily follow them all in. Then we're like hmm what to do? So we wander down, take one look at the support band and then wander back to the bar. We get accosted by the smallest support band, they beg us to buy a shirt but we have no money so we give them hugs instead.
Then we spy...NATE. And he's like following Alex around like its the cutest thing and noone even knows who he is and its so adorable and argh. wanna smoosh him. So we're stood by the door and he walks by us and we pounce on him. And we're all hey! And he's like Hey, I'm Nate, and we're like we know, and he looks so pleased and happy that we knew who he was and we get smooshy hugs and then photos
And then he's like I'm really sorry, I have to go sound check and get ready and we're like it's alright Natey, we'll be down the front of the stage. Don't worry and he waves and disappears. so we happily smoosh on down to the stage, and somehow through the miracles of being me we do actually end up right in front of the stage, right in front of Ryland [okay so thats not much of a happy miracle but still front of the stage WOOT].
They played sexy back whilst we were waiting for them to come on stage and some other funky music so we had a little boogie down. The boys and Vicky came on stage and NATE WAS WEARING MANDALS. BEST THING EVER.
They were so very good on stage, Vicky being her sexy self, Gabe wiggling and guh. Nate being just adorable behind the drums and Alex being all cute. Even Ryland was pretty funny. They had quite a lot of onstage banter between them which was funkyyyy.
I have a couple of videos.
They're not so great quality, but all we had was my mobile phone so eh.
So after the show we hung out for a bit, decided not to jump Gabe just yet, because he was being bundled upon by a billion million fans. So instead we jumped upon Nate again, got some more snuggles and signatures this time, then we jumped on Alex and then Ryland. Got photos.
Then we talked to Vicky again, she is seriously adorable.
We got kicked out of that bit and into the bar, and there we accosted Nate for more snuggles and then Gabe. For pictures and signatures.
He actually signed above my ass. ON THE SKIN.
We hung out with them drinking for a bit longer, had a good ol' time and then we went and got McDonalds and caught the tube...
We had a carriage to ourselves which was pretty funky. So we decided to take pictureees.
The [lame attempts at] Jwalk pictures;
The oh gosh thats shocking picture
The 'Treckett' Kiss Picture;
The My God We Are So Rock And Roll Picture;
Then we had to wait in Paddington for a train back to Reading. The wait was long and boring. I amused myself with my McDonalds toy,
I renamed Snow White, to Nate.
Good times.
So lemme think, we must have got there about 4ish? I think. We hopped off the train, and went in search of a bunny teddy in london. Let me tell you, this sounds like an easy quest. It was so fucking hard and before easter too, you'd think there'd be bunnies galore. All we could find were monkeys and fucking Paddington Bear. -headdesk- eventually we found this dinky little bunny key chain thing and spent the last of our money on it and then scrambled off to find the venue.
We went the wrong way trying to find the damn water rats. All the while I'm like, Dionne, we're going to get caught in a gang war or drive by. Cos you know thats just what I do lol. Anyway, we don't arrive at the venue til like 5? 6? I forget really. We wander in and pretty much its straight to the toilets, and then since its the water rats. Home of our famous [lol i say famous...] mirror picture avec Seans thong, we decide its time for a new Dionne and Zoe Water rats toilet picture [this starts a tradition by the way. Now every gig we go to we seem to take a toilet mirror photo]. It's kinda hard tbh because we can't actually see how they came out cos we're using a disposable camera [and most of them are shit but heres two okay ones]
That's the little diddy bunny in my hand.
Then we go back out and are being are usual cool self when who should we spy but Miss Vicky T herself and we're like eeee. but cool. Cos we're cool. and then Gabe hops out and its a semi-flaily moment. So we wander over and we're like hey, chat to him for a bit and give him the little bunny which he appears to love a lot. XD
Then they leave and hang out in the front smoking. We consider getting drinks, flail about what to actually do and then decide hey we should just go hang out with them like. But alas as we move to go outside they all leave in a big group. So. Zoe and Dionne put there stalking skills to the test and in true spy motion follow them down the street, round a corner and into a back alley. Were they enter...
'The Famous People Pub with Pete Wentz inside [we actually don't know what was so special about it, but they went inside and not many other people did, I named it XD. Also it's not actually in this picture, its around the corner. but shh.]
Anyway, we go and buy some cigarettes and then merrily hop back to the venue, sitting outside and smoking. Oh good times. At which point its around 7 and people get chucked out of the bar and queue up to go inside. We stay sat outside like the cool kids that we are.
We got given FBR samplers and leaflets. We should so be like FBR models or something.
Anyway most of the queue went in, some came back out because they didn't have any ID because they were all diddy and under 18. We sat around outside some more since we decided we'd rather wait for the return of the Cobra's than to watch the support bands. So we hung around, went and got some doreetz for food, kept skipping back and forth to the place they disappeared to. Almost got caught in a ferocious gang war [yeah they may have be like 11 years old but there were lots of them =P ]. And then lo and behold. Cobra came back. As we were half way between there place and the venue, we both shriek and run and then try and be cool but its a little late for that now, still we manage to pull it off.
We light up cigarettes, and casually wander over to them, talk to Vicky and walk with her to the venue happily chatting away. She's like a little bundle of cute really. We're like would you mind have a photo with us and shes like no thats fine, but lemme go and say hi to someone first. So we're like yeah sure and then we run back and grab Gabe. Walk with him instead and I ask him to ring Lesley but it goes to her damn answerphone. BADTIMES. Then we get back to the venue and Vicky is waiting for us, bless her. We have our photos taken with her
Yes I look shit as always. Sh.
We merrily follow them all in. Then we're like hmm what to do? So we wander down, take one look at the support band and then wander back to the bar. We get accosted by the smallest support band, they beg us to buy a shirt but we have no money so we give them hugs instead.
Then we spy...NATE. And he's like following Alex around like its the cutest thing and noone even knows who he is and its so adorable and argh. wanna smoosh him. So we're stood by the door and he walks by us and we pounce on him. And we're all hey! And he's like Hey, I'm Nate, and we're like we know, and he looks so pleased and happy that we knew who he was and we get smooshy hugs and then photos
And then he's like I'm really sorry, I have to go sound check and get ready and we're like it's alright Natey, we'll be down the front of the stage. Don't worry and he waves and disappears. so we happily smoosh on down to the stage, and somehow through the miracles of being me we do actually end up right in front of the stage, right in front of Ryland [okay so thats not much of a happy miracle but still front of the stage WOOT].
They played sexy back whilst we were waiting for them to come on stage and some other funky music so we had a little boogie down. The boys and Vicky came on stage and NATE WAS WEARING MANDALS. BEST THING EVER.
They were so very good on stage, Vicky being her sexy self, Gabe wiggling and guh. Nate being just adorable behind the drums and Alex being all cute. Even Ryland was pretty funny. They had quite a lot of onstage banter between them which was funkyyyy.
I have a couple of videos.
Click to viewThey're not so great quality, but all we had was my mobile phone so eh.
So after the show we hung out for a bit, decided not to jump Gabe just yet, because he was being bundled upon by a billion million fans. So instead we jumped upon Nate again, got some more snuggles and signatures this time, then we jumped on Alex and then Ryland. Got photos.
Then we talked to Vicky again, she is seriously adorable.
We got kicked out of that bit and into the bar, and there we accosted Nate for more snuggles and then Gabe. For pictures and signatures.
He actually signed above my ass. ON THE SKIN.
We hung out with them drinking for a bit longer, had a good ol' time and then we went and got McDonalds and caught the tube...
We had a carriage to ourselves which was pretty funky. So we decided to take pictureees.
The [lame attempts at] Jwalk pictures;
The oh gosh thats shocking picture
The 'Treckett' Kiss Picture;
The My God We Are So Rock And Roll Picture;
Then we had to wait in Paddington for a train back to Reading. The wait was long and boring. I amused myself with my McDonalds toy,
I renamed Snow White, to Nate.
Good times.