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So this week has been kind of insane and it’s also gone ridiculously quickly, so I’ve been meaning to write these up forever but yeah.
Monday (F+TM DAY!)
We queued from like, 1pm and were literally the only souls anywhere near the arena. Eventually other people showed up and blah blah, I was overly bitchy in getting across that I had been there since 1PM and not only was I going in first when the doors opened, if any of them took the spot I wanted they were moving. They didn’t take my spot. So after Haim (who are amazing and if you don’t know them you SHOULD), when they started to bring the band’s stuff out, Isa’s keyboard was literally directly in front of me. I was a happy bunny. And also concerned by how well I calculated the exact spot. But whatever.
And then the band came out and it was amazing and I jumped and sang and screamed and Nathan and I raised it up, all demonic and sacrificial and whatnot. Isa caught me staring at her a bunch of times but just grinned at me every time I tried to pretend I wasn’t fucking gazing at her brilliant existence. (Sidenote: the stage at the Echo is about 6 foot, and Isa was wearing a very short dress and I, uncharacteristically, was too damn classy to look once I’d realised what was going on. This is a creepy sidenote and never mention it to anybody ever again.) Florence was so different to any way I’ve seen her before. She was energetic, of course, but there was just this sense of joy about her and it was really lovely. Just simple happiness, I loved it.
AND WHEN THEY DID OH DARLING I COMPLETELY FREAKED OUT. The whole “I spend my days exactly how you’d imagine, looking for Beatles books and walking around graveyards” thing was just amazing.
Also I am NOT INSANE because other people have agreed that she walked over to the right side of the stage every time she sang “I’d do anything, to make you stay” and it made me want to cry because basically: ISA DON’T LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAVE.
Um and Nathan and I spoke the whole “grand ritual” speech, word for word and pause for pause, and the guy next to us just looked at us like we were insane.
And then when it was finished, Nathan got given ISA’S SETLIST. And we just sort of looked at it and touched it and cried for a bit and it was a little bit crazy.
And Friday. Fucking Friday, seriously.
We went to see The xx. After an atrocious day, weather-wise and being drenched as bones (ahem, I couldn’t not use that line sorry), the WORST support act I’ve ever seen, and I have seen some truly terrible support acts, they came on. And it was fucking weird. It was like some kind of spiritual experience, it was like being high. It was trippy and the imagery and the whole thing freaked us out a little. The juxtapositions in the music, the lights, the atmosphere and the imagery was just… incredible but gave me such a strange feeling. It took us a while to calm down after that, tbqh.
And now Ceremonials is over, I’m feeling weird and off and wrong about a lot of things and this week is done with. It’s all very strange. Le sigh.