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kidsxheroesHey, so let me ramble on and sound like a braggy cunt about the awesome-ness that was the last part of this week. After 6/7 years, Sugarcult, MY BAND, finally got back to the UK to play a couple of shows and i just CAN'T EVEN!
I last saw them in Feb 2005 in Washington DC on the Take Action tour. See, i've been doing that kind of stupid shit for awhile! A uni trip to NYC just fell around the same time and DC was only a hour or so flight away so why not?! So i think they had last played the UK the end of 2004 and while since then they've played some shows in American (and possibly Japan too), i'd resigned myself to the fact that i wouldn't get to see them play live again. So all of this didn't feel real at all and has been a giant crazy headfuck.
I was just as bad back then as i am now and would whole tours or as many shows as i could cause even then i had ~issues but then my friend and i were never front row for shows, we'd speak to the band a few times if the opportunity came up and they were always really good to us and looked out for us at certain times. They were just the most awesome and lovely and, ugh, baaaaaaand <3
This is long and rambly and idk if anyone cares so have a cut and save yourselves!
But, it had been 6 years since i last saw them (spoke with Marko quite a lot, threw Tim a wave and earned a look of "...you don't live in this country. You're here?!" from Airin/Aaron. It was also the time mtv interviewed me at the show about suicidal kids and how music can help get you through shit like that, it was a really weird trip!), seven years since i'd had any kind of real contact or conversation with Tim and was all "no way are they going to remember me. I wouldn't expect them too. It's been a long time and they've seen a lot of faces over the years." More on that in a bit.
The first show was in Birmingham on wednesday and i was FOREVER ALONE! at the show but that was ok. I saw Aaron watching the support in the crowd at one point and i got all flaily on the inside cause they were for real back and right there and just, it's crazy! A little later, Marko was stood a person over from me watching the next support band. It's pretty well known im quite afraid of people so i did nothing except glance over occassionally and gleeface so hard on the inside.
Sugarcult finally came on and i don't think i've ever smiled so much during a show. It was perfect <3 They last released a record in 2006 so they were songs they had never performed here before. The record didn't even get released here but i guess enough of us ordered it from the US cause so many people were still singing along with those "newer" songs, it was amazing to finally here them live.
I'd been kind of right in the middle of the crowd, a couple of rows back when some cunty boys who were cunts decided to start a ~pit. It was basically 3 of them being the biggest dicks possible. I took an elbow/arm/whole body to the nose and at the time i was convinced i'd broken my nose. People around me were really sweet and made sure i was ok and all "You don't have a nose bleed, you're good!" and put themselves between me and the douchebags for the rest of the show. So then i'd moved a little bit to the part of the crowd that was all about the same height as me so i had an awesome veiw of the stage and this is when shit got awesome and just weird and awesome some more.
I was more Marko's side of the stage and he's all about reaching out to people in the crowd and making sure they're having a good time and whatnot. So, he's looking out into the crowd in my direction and gets this crazy big smile on his face and i smile back cause BAAAAND! but kind of "you're not looking at me lol" and then he points right at me, makes this gesture about the flower in my hair so i know he means me and just :D and shakes his head in disbelief and puts his hand of his heart and i just gleeface back and nod my head and wave AND I JUST CANNOT OK? SIX FUCKING YEARS AND THIS BRO STILL REMEMBERS? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! ;_________* FUCKING WHAT?!
A couple of songs along and during the intro or something, Tim looks out into the crowd in my directiong and pulls a similar face to one Marko made just before our ~moment. He points and :D faces with a side on confusion and makes this gesture of "YOU WITH THAT TATTOOS! IS THAT YOU? OMG NO WAY!" and it happens all over again and just WHAT IS THIS! I HAVE NOT SPOKEN TO YOU IN SEVEN FUCKING YEARS, HOW DO YOU REMEMBER?! I LOVE YOU ALL SFM FOR IT BUT WHAT EVEN?!
I hate and apologize if i sound like the most braggy of cunts cause i hate that shit, but it's not like Sugarcult are huge with thousands of people wanting a piece of them but they are MY band and i adore them so it's a crazy big deal.
The show was amazing, rough in parts yes but still perfect. They looked so fucking happy and touched that people still came out for them and they got such an amazing reception. They were so playful with each other and bantered with one another and ugh, perfect <3
As they always did back in the day, they say they'll be hanging out to say hi to people at the merch stand. I don't have too much time before my train but enough to maybe get a quick "hi!" in. Im still by the stage talking with some random guy when they come out and i go over to say hi/bye to Marko and we get a hug on the move and it turns a little into this:
when i say i kind of need to go and he was all "no you don't, you're coming over here with me" and drags me over to the merch stand. All i could really say to him was thank you so, so much for coming back over *_____* and he was all "Did you enjoy it, was it good?" *_____* and i was all "Dude, it was amazing" *_____* And there were epic hugs and then i had to be all "i really do need to go...BUT IM COMING TO LONDON SO YAY!" then there were more hugs and i had to peel myself away. I saw Kenny with just a couple of people and went to say hey/thank you/thought i was never going to see you guys play again and he is just always so super smiley and enthusiastic and awesome. Tim has a smallish group around him and i thought "i can maybe spare 5 minutes more" and went over to wait my turn or whatever to say hi. He looks over from signing and taking picutres and goes "YOU! COME HERE AND GIVE ME SOME SUGAR" and gives me a crazy big hug which is kind of gross cause he is completely soaked in sweat from the show and it's kind of grim but i don't really care. There is a lot of ~earnest eyebrows~ from us both, each being OMG YOU CAME BACK! and just <333 I say i really have to run and catch my train but tell him i'll be at the London show cause like anything has changed over the years and he gives me another huge, gnarly hug. I love that hobo.
It was all a giant headfuck but so fucking perfect and i really just...can't! ;_____* I get no sleep that night and get up for work at 6.30am though im not in till 9 just to finish at lunch and haul ass down to London for the next show. They even had their old school banner up this time and just *__________* Their performance was so much tighter this time and even better than the night before. Again my face hurt from smiling so damn much!
Islington security are epic, epic dicks and even though the band did their usual signing thing after the show, security were all EVERYONE NEEDS TO LEAVE NOW! I think all band members will milling around outside and we got some Marko time. He was all WE'RE TOTALLY COMING BACK! WE WANTED TO GET BACK HERE FOR SO LONG BUT IT DIDN'T WORK OUT BUT SEEING HOW PEOPLE STILL CARE WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT WORK WE WILL BE BACK!
I had my phone out to eventually get a picture and he took it off me all "what's this?" wanting to look at it as i've got a gelaskin cover on it with my arts on (msi art). He asked about the band and was all OH, WE'VE PLAYING IN AUSTRALIA WITH THEM! ONE OF THE GIRLS, SHE'S MARRIED TO THAT DUDE, Y'KNOW? UM...THAT GUY I THINK, THEY HAVE A BABY? SHE'S HOT and i did say "Yay, im kind of a little bit in love with her" *_____O cause im shameless in my creeping! Anyway, Marko got all WHAT IS YOUR WEBSITE, THIS IS AWESOME, I WANT YOU TO DO ARTWORK FOR MY RADIO SHOW! and im a douchebag with a lone business card hiding in my wallet which i give him cause he won't remember/know how to spell my name and he's all "pfft, i know this!" Anyway, a couple of Marko pictures:
one where he decided to wrap around me/try climbing me and got bummed out you couldn't see his leg wrapped round me. I was holding his leg up and not just standing there all "...umm..."
and another more ~normal one, as normal as you can get with Marko and i look proper derpy and awful.
So yeah, BAAAAAAAAND! <3 It was just amazing and perfect and im so damn happy! The day after the gig i spent the day down London and got to hang out withpiratesunk which was awesome. I love that lady and it was great to spend more than a few minutes with her before a gig for a change! We got lunch and went to art and comic stores and *_____* over tiny little dogs that were stupidly adorable and got cupcakes and coffee and did some doodling and i drew her a really awful gway in stupid sunglasses with coffee cause i suck at drawing on demand but she seemed to like it so :3 Was quite sad to leave London really.
I will be down on May 27th for my birthday (though it's not till the 30th) to go to MCM and creep over Becky Cloonan and will have more hangs with friends and it will be awesome \o/
Yeah, this was long and about things no one probably cares about but it's been a big deal and full of awesome for me and i like to bang on about shit sometimes. Sorry but thanks for reading if you did <3
I last saw them in Feb 2005 in Washington DC on the Take Action tour. See, i've been doing that kind of stupid shit for awhile! A uni trip to NYC just fell around the same time and DC was only a hour or so flight away so why not?! So i think they had last played the UK the end of 2004 and while since then they've played some shows in American (and possibly Japan too), i'd resigned myself to the fact that i wouldn't get to see them play live again. So all of this didn't feel real at all and has been a giant crazy headfuck.
I was just as bad back then as i am now and would whole tours or as many shows as i could cause even then i had ~issues but then my friend and i were never front row for shows, we'd speak to the band a few times if the opportunity came up and they were always really good to us and looked out for us at certain times. They were just the most awesome and lovely and, ugh, baaaaaaand <3
This is long and rambly and idk if anyone cares so have a cut and save yourselves!
But, it had been 6 years since i last saw them (spoke with Marko quite a lot, threw Tim a wave and earned a look of "...you don't live in this country. You're here?!" from Airin/Aaron. It was also the time mtv interviewed me at the show about suicidal kids and how music can help get you through shit like that, it was a really weird trip!), seven years since i'd had any kind of real contact or conversation with Tim and was all "no way are they going to remember me. I wouldn't expect them too. It's been a long time and they've seen a lot of faces over the years." More on that in a bit.
The first show was in Birmingham on wednesday and i was FOREVER ALONE! at the show but that was ok. I saw Aaron watching the support in the crowd at one point and i got all flaily on the inside cause they were for real back and right there and just, it's crazy! A little later, Marko was stood a person over from me watching the next support band. It's pretty well known im quite afraid of people so i did nothing except glance over occassionally and gleeface so hard on the inside.
Sugarcult finally came on and i don't think i've ever smiled so much during a show. It was perfect <3 They last released a record in 2006 so they were songs they had never performed here before. The record didn't even get released here but i guess enough of us ordered it from the US cause so many people were still singing along with those "newer" songs, it was amazing to finally here them live.
I'd been kind of right in the middle of the crowd, a couple of rows back when some cunty boys who were cunts decided to start a ~pit. It was basically 3 of them being the biggest dicks possible. I took an elbow/arm/whole body to the nose and at the time i was convinced i'd broken my nose. People around me were really sweet and made sure i was ok and all "You don't have a nose bleed, you're good!" and put themselves between me and the douchebags for the rest of the show. So then i'd moved a little bit to the part of the crowd that was all about the same height as me so i had an awesome veiw of the stage and this is when shit got awesome and just weird and awesome some more.
I was more Marko's side of the stage and he's all about reaching out to people in the crowd and making sure they're having a good time and whatnot. So, he's looking out into the crowd in my direction and gets this crazy big smile on his face and i smile back cause BAAAAND! but kind of "you're not looking at me lol" and then he points right at me, makes this gesture about the flower in my hair so i know he means me and just :D and shakes his head in disbelief and puts his hand of his heart and i just gleeface back and nod my head and wave AND I JUST CANNOT OK? SIX FUCKING YEARS AND THIS BRO STILL REMEMBERS? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! ;_________* FUCKING WHAT?!
A couple of songs along and during the intro or something, Tim looks out into the crowd in my directiong and pulls a similar face to one Marko made just before our ~moment. He points and :D faces with a side on confusion and makes this gesture of "YOU WITH THAT TATTOOS! IS THAT YOU? OMG NO WAY!" and it happens all over again and just WHAT IS THIS! I HAVE NOT SPOKEN TO YOU IN SEVEN FUCKING YEARS, HOW DO YOU REMEMBER?! I LOVE YOU ALL SFM FOR IT BUT WHAT EVEN?!
I hate and apologize if i sound like the most braggy of cunts cause i hate that shit, but it's not like Sugarcult are huge with thousands of people wanting a piece of them but they are MY band and i adore them so it's a crazy big deal.
The show was amazing, rough in parts yes but still perfect. They looked so fucking happy and touched that people still came out for them and they got such an amazing reception. They were so playful with each other and bantered with one another and ugh, perfect <3
As they always did back in the day, they say they'll be hanging out to say hi to people at the merch stand. I don't have too much time before my train but enough to maybe get a quick "hi!" in. Im still by the stage talking with some random guy when they come out and i go over to say hi/bye to Marko and we get a hug on the move and it turns a little into this:
when i say i kind of need to go and he was all "no you don't, you're coming over here with me" and drags me over to the merch stand. All i could really say to him was thank you so, so much for coming back over *_____* and he was all "Did you enjoy it, was it good?" *_____* and i was all "Dude, it was amazing" *_____* And there were epic hugs and then i had to be all "i really do need to go...BUT IM COMING TO LONDON SO YAY!" then there were more hugs and i had to peel myself away. I saw Kenny with just a couple of people and went to say hey/thank you/thought i was never going to see you guys play again and he is just always so super smiley and enthusiastic and awesome. Tim has a smallish group around him and i thought "i can maybe spare 5 minutes more" and went over to wait my turn or whatever to say hi. He looks over from signing and taking picutres and goes "YOU! COME HERE AND GIVE ME SOME SUGAR" and gives me a crazy big hug which is kind of gross cause he is completely soaked in sweat from the show and it's kind of grim but i don't really care. There is a lot of ~earnest eyebrows~ from us both, each being OMG YOU CAME BACK! and just <333 I say i really have to run and catch my train but tell him i'll be at the London show cause like anything has changed over the years and he gives me another huge, gnarly hug. I love that hobo.
It was all a giant headfuck but so fucking perfect and i really just...can't! ;_____* I get no sleep that night and get up for work at 6.30am though im not in till 9 just to finish at lunch and haul ass down to London for the next show. They even had their old school banner up this time and just *__________* Their performance was so much tighter this time and even better than the night before. Again my face hurt from smiling so damn much!
Islington security are epic, epic dicks and even though the band did their usual signing thing after the show, security were all EVERYONE NEEDS TO LEAVE NOW! I think all band members will milling around outside and we got some Marko time. He was all WE'RE TOTALLY COMING BACK! WE WANTED TO GET BACK HERE FOR SO LONG BUT IT DIDN'T WORK OUT BUT SEEING HOW PEOPLE STILL CARE WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT WORK WE WILL BE BACK!
I had my phone out to eventually get a picture and he took it off me all "what's this?" wanting to look at it as i've got a gelaskin cover on it with my arts on (msi art). He asked about the band and was all OH, WE'VE PLAYING IN AUSTRALIA WITH THEM! ONE OF THE GIRLS, SHE'S MARRIED TO THAT DUDE, Y'KNOW? UM...THAT GUY I THINK, THEY HAVE A BABY? SHE'S HOT and i did say "Yay, im kind of a little bit in love with her" *_____O cause im shameless in my creeping! Anyway, Marko got all WHAT IS YOUR WEBSITE, THIS IS AWESOME, I WANT YOU TO DO ARTWORK FOR MY RADIO SHOW! and im a douchebag with a lone business card hiding in my wallet which i give him cause he won't remember/know how to spell my name and he's all "pfft, i know this!" Anyway, a couple of Marko pictures:
one where he decided to wrap around me/try climbing me and got bummed out you couldn't see his leg wrapped round me. I was holding his leg up and not just standing there all "...umm..."
and another more ~normal one, as normal as you can get with Marko and i look proper derpy and awful.
So yeah, BAAAAAAAAND! <3 It was just amazing and perfect and im so damn happy! The day after the gig i spent the day down London and got to hang out with
piratesunk which was awesome. I love that lady and it was great to spend more than a few minutes with her before a gig for a change! We got lunch and went to art and comic stores and *_____* over tiny little dogs that were stupidly adorable and got cupcakes and coffee and did some doodling and i drew her a really awful gway in stupid sunglasses with coffee cause i suck at drawing on demand but she seemed to like it so :3 Was quite sad to leave London really.I will be down on May 27th for my birthday (though it's not till the 30th) to go to MCM and creep over Becky Cloonan and will have more hangs with friends and it will be awesome \o/
Yeah, this was long and about things no one probably cares about but it's been a big deal and full of awesome for me and i like to bang on about shit sometimes. Sorry but thanks for reading if you did <3
