Finished my last day of work before the holiday today yippee!
And finally was able to stop stressing about handover and get properly excited and for good reason.
I had NO idea that My Bloody Valentine were playing reformation shows in London while we are there. Must have been something I blocked from my mind, and dismissed as yet another incredibly legendary show happening overseas that I would not be experiencing. I only found out because a friend mentioned they are seeing them on Saturday and I checked on their Myspace page and saw they are playing a whole series of shows while I’m there, all sold out! WAH
Thank god for internet ticket reseller sites I say, because I managed to secure us two tickets to MBV’s sold out show at the Roundhouse on the night we arrive in London! 4 hours after landing at Heathrow we’ll be immersing ourselves in all their noisy wall of guitar sound glory! Not a shabby start to the trip at all. Hope our flight doesn’t get delayed or we’ll be screwed!
I can not tell you just how excited I am about this. I have been little miniature squeals to myself and others all day.
During my three years working at a little indie record store, we’d listen to Loveless at least once a week, and each time I had to endure stories about how they had all piled onto a coach and gone to Melbourne to see the band’s one Australian show and how incredible it was. While I sank thinking how I wouldn’t have known who they were at the time and even if I did I wouldn’t have been old enough to be let in the venue anyway. And of course they were broken up, and I would never see them.
AND NOW I GET TO SEE THEM! The circle will be completed.
And then we see Radiohead at Victoria Park and Leonard Cohen, The National and a billion other bands at Glastonbury yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
