my first time at camden market and Circa Survive l
hi,
so on the 21st of august i ordered tickets to see circa survive at the camden barfly, courtesy of my mothers credit card... i didn't know what i was letting myself in for.
i
thought, yeah we'll go, we'll cue for hours, i'll get stuck at the
back, wont be able to see anything but still have a pretty good time.
OMG
how wrong can you get. we got to london at about 11.30 had a look round Camden market and had a couple drinks etc. paul had chocolate buttons but didn't want all of them, so i offered them to some foreigners, thinking they were english, "do you want some chocolate?" "...(possibly german gibberish)?" "oh erm... le chocolat?" "oh! er... no" i swear theres more tourists than english people in london. anyway. at
around half 2 we decided to cue outside the barfly, then around 3 the
roadies started to show up, waiting for the tourbus. then the bus shows
up and nick steps out first. this was before i found the balls to go up and ask... ...for
a photo. (Nick Beard, no that isn't a nickname, bass. and thats Colin
in the backround, guitar, the only one i didn't get a picture with.) they're all so easy to talk to, they have absolutely no ego, amazing guys. and then Anthony (Green, world famous singer, for those who are uninformed) steps off the bus. "hi anthony, d'you think we could have a photo?" "yeah sure, i just woke up haha, its monday right?" i
couldn't believe how easy it was to get so close to these guys, who are
superstars in the states. but this being the first time they've toured
on their own in the UK, almost completely unknown here. ^
Steve ^ i know it looks like we pissed him off by asking for pictures
here, but he was just listening to something the guy who we met there
(guy called Ashton) was saying. after we'd taken pictures, we just
kinda stood around for a bit thinking how we could go about getting a
backstage pass, (which we didn't even need in the end) we offered to
help take some of the drumkit up and Steve said thats fine so off we
went. helping with the equipment and everything. as a result, we got to see them soundcheck! Brendon, guitar. i love his hoody. and i look like a freak in this picture.
those last few pictures are blurry because i turned the flash off, i didn't want to disturb them. eventually we did go back outside. because we wanted to be sure of our place in the cue. and we'd already seen them soundcheck. when the doors opened we got our place RIGHT AT THE FRONT, as in practically on the stage. the
support acts were awesome, im standing there taking pictures with
Brendon (guitar) standing just to my right and Anthony stood a couple
of feet behind me... ^ thats pauls shoulder, he's standing right next to him... again
i'm awestruck by the fact that this man is worth millions in record
sales alone. not just with circa survive but with Saosin and 'The
sounds of animals fighting' and yet he just stands in the crowd with
the rest of us. after the support acts, when they took the stage, the crowd went absolutely mental. and with good reason. this is Circa Survive at their best. at
one point Anthony grabbed my head and put his forehead to mine as he
was singing... i've shared body fluids with a man who, everyband he's
been in seems to achieve automatic fame. they
bought me to tears with their last song, 'All your friends are gone'
which was a song i listened to alot after me and Kayleigh split. and it
really helped. to say the least. the lines; "you keep it on the inside, because thats the safest place, thats the safest place to hide. all
of your friends are gone, and you were barely holding on, we were
lonely they fooled us once again, we're the loneliest of men, we're the
loneliest" just hit so close to home, but not only the lyrics, the
way the music elevates that part of the song to this sort of cathartic
euphoric level, that its no longer a song, but an epic porttrayal of
such raw emotion.
after their set, i grabbed the set list, said
thank you to almost all of the guys (Anthony was being swamped by
fans, but we'd already chatted with him a few times...) and left for
the tube station in a sort of post-apocalyptic daze. such an amazing
night.
oh i forgot to mention i got anthony and nick to sign my
excersise book, (i had it on me because i came straight from college)
and nick signed my ticket.
i was exhausted when i got in and went straight to bed and slept like a log. and then the next morning. i went and got my new guitar! (the black one)
probably the best birthday ever. and i've still got the party on saturday to come and my actual birthday on thursday.
lately i've been looking into classic rock in a big way. by 'classic rock' i mean late 60's through to early 80's.
and i can't help but think that if i was the age i am now back in say... 1970, i could have really made something of my musical ideas. right now i so desperately want to be in a band like The Doors or Deep Purple, there was such vision in their music, especially the latter. but besides that, that sort of music could really flourish back in that day, if a band such as the doors were to come on the scene today they would be no doubt stifled into submission. the only act thats around today that sings of that heyday is Wolfmother, but even they sound like a decomposed, tainted echo of the genre.
(^The Doors performing Roadhouse Blues ~1970)
the depressing fact that by being in a band myself, i'm only adding to the problem of the modern music scene, because its a saturated market. simply put, there are too many bands. which relates back to the fact that back in the day of Led Zeppelin and co. such a thing was not so common.
the fact is that any band that does succeed in todays market has to conform to at least some degree, which takes out the personal, expressive ideal of music in the first place.
okay i'm blurring my points now, but basically i've been reading alot about, and listening to classic rock music and i'm frustrated with todays choking music market. ...just a thought.
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