#train station concert :)

[jakeperalta]

on my knees crying and begging for the uk railways to be renationalised... I can't keep living like this.......

[amariarrindell]

TO HOLD + BE HELD, 2024

as photographed on my grandfather’s camera

amari arrindell

[pineapplefulfillseveryneed]

En route to Sparks gigs at Wolverhampton and @glastofest, Ron and Russell stop for a quick performance at @stpancrasinternational. ✨

[floralcrematorium]

here are some breadcrumbs about my band AU while I work on some character sheets for the main trio -- we'll be seeing miss Seychelles first

• Alfred is lead singer + guitar, Matthew is bass, and Michèle is backing vocals (though sometimes she does get duets... LET HER SING!) and drums

• Michèle can also play piano -- she grew up taking piano lessons and got into drums when Alfred began showing her and Matthew his dad's record collection

• The band get discovered by their... agent by pure luck when they're messing around in a music shop in a big city

• Alfred and Matthew are half brothers. Alfred's father is the one who got him into music, his guitar was his father's

• Michèle and Matthew grew up next door neighbors. They speak in French to one another when Alfred's pissing them off (which is often)

• Alfred is ~23 at the beginning of the AU while Michèle and Matthew are both 20. Due to the events which lead Alfred to move back in with his mother and the half-brother he didn't know all too well, Alfred was held back a year. Alfred had mini-van in high school and for the two years he could drive before graduating, he was Matthew and Michèle's ride everywhere. Instead of gas money, they paid him with cans of Arizona iced tea

• Michèle's sense of fashion is/will be heavily inspired by Edith Victoria's from Meet Me @ The Altar and a mix of the flowy loose garments she wears in canon

• Matthew's sense of style is giving dad-core. Very much leaning into the outfits Patrick Stump wore on Fall Out Boy's recent tour

• This band is Alfred's baby. His drive to make it in the industry tests the group's bond... He is a moth testing fate as he desperately flies towards the spotlight

• Michèle and Alfred work together on melody but all three of the bandmates work on lyrics together

• Matthew is the least musically experienced

• the woes of Fall Out Boy's fourth studio album, Folie à Deux, are thematically important down the line...

• Adventures await them in Europe... A contest (not the Annual Song Contest™, a made up one so I have excuses to pull in other Hetalia characters), love, friendship, rivalry, and found family

[flowersforvax]

finishing my Joker Out patch on the train to Köln on the morning of the concert like the gods intended

[lovelaceisntdead]

Do I get last minute tickets to girli in brighton next tuesday yes or no

[femmeidiot]

okay I'm just gonna focus on the good things hehe (trying)

[amiscreations]

My Wembley Stadium Tour Experience (Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe)

TLDR: the Wembley Stadium tour just felt so empty, like half capacity if not less. There were people CONSTANTLY walking in front of me, like at least once per song, more than that before I moved seats. I was seated far away, so it was already harder to get into than when you're down the front, but this made it almost impossible and killed the experience for me.

So I mentioned this in the previous posts tags, but I was honestly a little disappointed by the London show. I know I'm not the only one, as I've seen numerous people online say similar things. Also I do not wanna come off as ungrateful, as I know lots of people would have killed to be in my place, however I am also allowed to judge experiences as they are. I AM grateful to have been there for such an iconic show, especially for Leppard, and I am also privileged to have front row to compare it to, but that doesn't mean I can't be disappointed by it.

The lead up to the concert before I went into the venue was honestly great! I met up with my friend from Italy, who I'm also going to Glasgow with, and we just hung out around the Wembley Park until she had to go in (she had a VIP package, I just had a regular seated ticket in the stands, so I went in after her). When I got in, MammothWVH played first and they were amazing! They honestly stole the show and I wanna hear more from them.

The first thing that threw me off was the fact that people would not stop getting up and walking around. I understand you may need the toilet or want food etc, (and that is the advantage of a seated ticket) but this was constant. I had an aisle seat originally, and I stayed in that for MammothWVH and Mötley Crüe. I am not kidding when I say people were CONSTANTLY walking up and down this aisle throughout both bands. Again I know the aisle is there for that reason, but it really took me out of the experience. This is kind of on me tho, as I didn't think about this when getting that seat, but I just feel like it shouldn't have been that constant, y'know?

Similar to this, after I moved from my aisle seat to another seat nearby, I had another problem. People around me were still getting up and walking past/over me. And the space between seats is super small, so you really are being walked over. I could see this happening all over the stand seats too, as well as on the floor. I had this new seat for Leppard, and again it was at least once per song where a group of people got up and walked in front of me. Also the people in front of me kept on standing up, which you just DO NOT DO if you're in a seat (unless you're on the floor) there were even signs saying please remain seated. So this meant I couldn't see. I wasn't going to tell them to sit down, as at the end of the day they were just enjoying themselves, but it was still annoying. Maybe this is common? I've never been to a gig in a stadium where I've been in upper seats, so maybe this is just what its like? idk.

Also, and probably the main thing about the show itself, was that it felt SO. EMPTY. I would say the seats were about 75% full at MAX, and the floor was barely half full. The floor was all seated as you can't queue for GA around Wembley, but it looked barren, and sort of ruined the atmosphere. This is why I could change seats so easily, as I was spoilt for choice. I hate to say this, but I honestly think Leppard and Crüe set their sights a bit high with Wembley, but even then they could have added more seats to the floor at a cheaper price, and lowered the price of the stand seats.

Also people just did not seem to be into it? Maybe it was just my section, but it kinda goes hand in hand with people constantly getting up and moving around. People seemed to treat it as just another night out, rather than a concert where the artists are performing live in front of you. No matter how far away they are (and I was quite far away for this one) they are still there.

And remember my friend who had VIP? she was in the FRONT. ROW. and STILL SAID THESE SAME THINGS? And I have seen other comments and show reports saying the same. Mostly about how empty it was.

Soz for the long post you guys, but I feel like I needed to say this to get it off my chest. I know this comes off as super ungrateful and tone deaf, and I did enjoy some parts of it, but overall, for something I have been looking forward to for months, I was very disappointed. Of course, this is all my personal opinion and experience, and I know so many people had an amazing night, so please don't think I am trying to rain on your fun!

[you-will-return]

Today was... well... something...

The BC show was great, no doubt about that. The guys were really having fun up there. Could I have done without the heat and getting my head pressed against the barricade so hard by a crowdsurfer that the back of my ear split open? Yeah, definitely. But does that mean that I didn't have fun? No.

I mean I would've had more fun for the rest of the day if I had still had the ability to crane my head and not suffer in the heat. But the BC show itself was just as great as always.

I saw some of my usual concert buddies again (bc fans of a feather or smth like that) and I had so much fun at the Attila and Sleep Token shows as well.

Wish I could've stayed for Gojira but I desperately need some rest, a glass of water and an Ibuprofen ASAP.

Currently I'm stuck at a random train station in the middle of nowhere and I'll probs be home at 4 (kill me).

I want to sleep soooo badly

[konakoro]

Whenever I have "video game" dreams, they're always gradual horde survival/"last as long as you can"-esque dreams and I absolutely hate it. I hate those kinds of games as is because they stress me out so much, but now I'm physically in a scenario where more zombies and monsters keep showing up to rip my face off and murder me horribly.

I just wanted to pull a heist on a concert, not get swarmed by zombies and feel my spine get ripped out...

[sommerregenjuniluft]

just delusionally singing along to dominic fike live songs since my friends basically just told me they wouldnt go with me to the concert :,))

[melodramasgf]

fuck this city for having trash public transport

[boyyeahright]

aminé too damn fine it should be illegal

[fuckitfireeverything]

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[terriblelizbians]

fuck bruce springsteen!!!!!! stupid asshole made me have to run around a whole building to catch my train!!!! evil