Friday - Getting To Union Chapel!
Well - you have been warned ... Long rambling posts to follow .... Feel free to ignore, but I want to remember as much of these days as I can.
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I left here at 6.15 on a cool foggy morning, and drove to my brother's house. Tim lives in Exeter, so i was leaving my car there. He drove me to the coach station on his way into work. The coach left right on time at 8.20am.
I snoozed part of the way up - and listened to my mp3 ... nothing James, as I was shaky enough already! As I got into Victoria I sent a text to
So we got our tickets and headed towards Picadilly.
Once there we checked in, only to find we were in the same room - well, for the first night. As I had booked the 2nd night as a cancellation I had two different rooms! So we got organised and headed straight out for Union Chapel.
Not too much of a queue - but there again, people do come and go a bit. I joined the end, and was soon joined by 2 ladies (Karen & ?), and then a few minutes later by Catherine, who had come down from Scotland. Needless to say we chatted - about .... James!!!! It was great to meet them - and lovely to no longer feel a "Newbie".
Over the next few hours I was able to chat to
Slowly the seconds ticked away - and we started to move foreward. The weird thing is that I couldn't wait to be there, yet, in some ways I knew once there it would soon be over.
The 4 of us sat about 6 rows back on the right, with GreySunrise sitting on the same row. I spoke to pne or two other people I knew, including someone I had met on my first ever trip (yet still don't know her name!) and
Then the lights started to change - and the gig started ...