@tommcfly FOLLOW MEEEEE :(
So, this blog post isn’t gonna be about my past few weeks or a stupid long vile rant or shit like that. It’s going to be about the best day of my life, Monday 5th July 2010, when I went to see and meet McFly in Wigan. Prepare for an essay on every minute detail.
I have to admit, although I was excited about the gig during the weeks leading upto it, I wasn’t as excited as I could of been. This was probably due to the fact everything was spontaneous, there was no planning and everything from the times to the places to the means of travel were all last minute decisions. Another reason was that we wanted barrier, and to do this you have to camp out in the cold overnight, and it’s pretty head wrecking. You emerge looking like a beast of the swamp, grey skin, sweaty hair ragged everywhere, clothes hanging and make up crusty. You feel like you’re about to fall asleep, die of stomach pain and freeze to death, at all times. So although we did wanna be stuck against a metal bar for hours, we didn’t feel like doing that this time round to do it, but with every McFly gig comes camping, no matter where, when or how, you just do it, it becomes a chore after a while. You do get rewarded with being a few inches away from your idols, so I suppose it is worth it, in fact no, it is definitely worth it, every time I’ve been front row it’s been an amazing experience, so yes, definitely worth it, I can’t doubt that. I just wish there was a gig where you didn’t have to freeze for a front row spot, would be so much easier!
Anyway, we were all complaining and protesting about how much we didn’t want to camp (funnily enough as I was packing clothes and hygenic aids into my bag ready to go to Wigan on Saturday morning to be the first group of people to camp outside), and we pretty much established how much we didn’t feel like camping, but we didn’t wanna lounge round at the back either, it wouldn’t feel right. Little did I know that a text at 7:30pm on Friday night would change all of this. My uncle was at my house ready to pick me up to take me to my dads for the weekend. I had all my camping stuff packed and ready to lug into the car for the next day, and he recieved a text and looked quite amused. I thought it was a joke he got sent or a funny pic, but he handed the phone to me. “Tommy Jay Smith - Hi Alan, tell Jamie and Steffi to be at Gate B at 6:15pm on Monday where someone will take them to meet the band - Tommy”. I literally started screaming fit to burst, turns out my uncle had set up for me and my friend Steffi to meet the band at Wigan, because he said I really deserved to meet them, as I’d travelled all over the country and spent lots of money to try and meet them in various places, most of the time leaving empty handed in tears. So then, we didn’t have to camp or queue or do anything drastic - we could leave on the day in the afternoon and still have a great time!
It came to Monday and because I’ve been in a spot of bother concerning Sixth Form attendance, I had to go in. That was another con of camping - not being able to attend Sixth Form therefore possibly losing my place in the Sixth Form altogether. So I got up as early as possible and got ready quickly to get into Sixth Form for 9am even though my lesson which was Sociology didn’t start till 9:30pm. My Ethics teacher saw me sitting on the stairs so she said I could sit in her classroom because it was free for the morning, and when I told her where I was going that evening, because she’s from Wigan she gave me some numbers of Wigan taxi firms and told me about directions and train stations and stuff, so I found that really useful. Also found out her 8 year old son is a huge McFly fan! So I got chatting to her about McFly and then got disrupted having to go my lesson. Had double Sociology, then dinner. At dinnertime I got called into Kiera (Assistant head of Sixth Form)’s office, and she told me my mum was on the phone. My mum asked for me to get out of school at 2:15pm so I could “pick up my little brother from school”, but really she was doing it to get me out early so I could get ready in time to get the bus into town to get our train into Wigan at 4pm. Had double English (Well an hour and 15 minutes thanks to my mum!), and I literally sped walk to the car park where my uncle was waiting to take me home in the car, and I have never eaten food or got washed and dressed so fast in my life, the only thing I took time on was my make up and getting my stuff to take with me! Everything else was rushed, and I ran round the corner to the busstop, leapt on Amie and charged on the bus. Got to the train station, waited for Steffi and Sophie and bumped into one of my good friends Kelsey, who was more than happy to hear my excitement to see the band in a few hours. Bought our tickets and got on the train blahblah, got to Wigan and got a taxi as soon as, our taxi driver was a legend, going onto us about McFly, asking us if our favourite was Danny and telling us when he met Maroon 5 on a beach in California and didn’t know who they were! Bless him :)
So we got to Haigh Hall and asked the security where “Gate B” was, and they said that Gate B was actually just the main entrance where everyone would be going into. They just told us to come back at 6:10pm and then the woman who issued the meet and greets would be out to take us to McFly. It was only like 5pm, so we went to the queue and spoke to all our lovely friends, such as Meg, Vicki, Jade, Sam, Melissa, Cheryl, Hannah, Rachie, Bronwyn, Claire, Amanda, Josh, Lucy, Amber, Jenny, Sofie, Sophie, Livvy, Jennie, Elena, Katey, Louise, Josh Dunn, Cassie, Danni, Stacey, Siobhan, Kel and seriously I could go on. There was a bit of drama going on in the queue over numbers and stuff and I just thought to myself, “I really am glad I never camped now!”. Chatted and took photos with people and then the M&G girls decided to go for a walk and we went to a little play park and sandpit thing by the toilets and cafe, and had a little too much fun on the swings. At like 6pm we decided to make our way back to Gate B, and we watched everyone run for their lives down the park to get to the barrier, of course cheering for our friends. I was really happy that they split the queue into sections of about 20-30 people and tried to lead them down to the front really calmly, so campers actually got to the front and little slags who’d turned up 10 minutes beforehand didn’t sprint past and run right down to the front, a regular occurrence at standing McFly shows. At 6:15 give or take a few minutes, a woman come out and ticked our names off a list, and then another woman gave us wristbands and took our ticket stubs off us, and then once everyone had been “approved” they made us gather and listen to some “rules” that they had set, which were: We weren’t allowed to take our own photographs with McFly, they would be took by a professional photographer and we would find out after the M&G how to get our photos and we needed to be as quick as possible, obviously we were allowed to chat with them and whatever and get stuff signed but we needed to kind of “hurry up” and not take all day with them, and their girlfriends and families were off limits. They had to line up in front of a metal fence thing, outside right in front of their girlfriends and friends and we had to go along them in this line…weird yeah but oh well. They led us down, everyone staring at us as it was obvious what we were doing, and told us to wait outside these gates things to check everyone in before we could go inside the VIP backstage area. We were all jostling around outside really nervous, trying to calm ourselves down. We deliberately put ourselves to the back of the M&G group (There was only about 15 of us anyway) so we got slightly longer with them, even if it was only by a minute or two. Then they took us through to the backstage area, me gripping Steffi’s hand and walking really slowly and nervously. The McFly boys were in there eating/drinking on some table with all their girlfriends (minus Izzy…whats happened to her these days?) and Danny waved over at us then disappeared into this green trailer thing. We were made to wait outside this little compound thing and Tommy Jay Smith came over and we literally nearly hugged him cos of the fact he gave us the M&G but we just told him how appreciative we were and he told us it was a pleasure, bless him. Then Georgia, Danny’s girlfriend came over to some girl at the front of the queue because she knew her, and she seems really lovely and polite and stuff, they were talking about mosquito bites (?) haha. Twenty Twenty were lounging on the grass near their own trailer, looking quite lost and then McFly came out and lined up at the front of this little compound, and because the barrier could see into the backstage area, there was a million and one screams, which was kind of annoying because we wanted to be able to talk to them in peace, now with “DOUGIE U SEXAYYY BASTARDD” going on behind us. Someone even shouted Jamie Jones and Cassie Judd to me and Cassie, but we couldn’t see who it was, kinda freaked us out actually :’). Then we got let into the compound backstage thing and we were told to line up and then we’d get to speak to the guys individually. Dougie was first so here’s what happened…
Dougie was like “Hello, how are you?” so I said “Hi, I’m great thanks how are you?” and we went on like that, just general conversation, he asked me did I want anything signed so I offered him my arm and my Blackberry because I bought a new pink case for it, and then he said “Are you excited for the gig?” And I went “Haha of course I am, I’ve been excited since February, for the last five months since I’ve bought the ticket!” Dougie proper LOL’ed and then Danny was laughing and he went “Eeee are ya excited are ya, are ya from Liverpool are ya!” and I just looked at him and smiled because he’s done that joke about 3 times now! :’) So I asked Dougie for a hug and he went “Of course you don’t even need to ask” and I got a big big hug from him. I didn’t tell him I was LOLing at the fact he was wearing a long grey vest top thing, skinny jeans and white flip flops. I nearly died laughing when they come out (even though he looked hot). So then I went along to Danny and he said “I was only joking about the Scouse thing babe!” and I was like I know it’s okay haha and I got my phone and arm signed by him too, and I asked for a hug and he give me a big one and a kiss on the cheek and I said “You’re my favourite” :’) so cringy but then he went “Awww yay!….I thought Dougie was your favourite?” And I was like er no Danny haha :’) And he went “Well you can have another hug and kiss for being misunderstood!” and I was just like dying by this point, then I said “Haha Danny I bet you’re made up you have another fan!” and he was like “Hahaha -proper Loled in my eye though- of course I am!” and grinned at me and he said “Are you coming back over for a photo with us?” And I was like yeah just going to talk to Harry and Tom and he was like “Oh okay :D” and I was all jelly kneed and shit cos I’d already had an amazing time and I’d only met half of the band. So I went over to Harry and he was like “Hi how are you?” and general conversation and then he was halfway through signing my arm and I went “So do you remember me from Soccer Six?” and he actually said the nicest thing ever, EVER and I full on DIED. He went “I remember your beautiful face” and I went BEETROOT because one of McFly had just said that to me and he was like “Don’t blush it’s only the truth!” and then he signed my phone and I asked for a hug, I got a hug and kiss off him then it was Tom’s turn. He looked quite erm…muscular in this vest top he had on, so I got a huge hug from him, he asked how I was if I was excited etcetc and then he went to sign my Blackberry and he went “Dougie is so greedy, he’s took up most of the space on the back!” and Harry was like “Oh I know I had to do a really thin signature down the side” and I was just laughing at their reaction, got another hug from him and I said “I’m so excited for the new album I don’t mean to be corny here!” and he was like “Oh I’m glad, it’ll blow your mind!” and I said “Will you tweet me?” and he asked me what my Twitter name was and I said “Jamiemcfly” and he went “Jamie…mcfly OH YEAH I see you tweeting me sometimes! I’ll tweet you when I can” but stupid me never wrote it down so he forgot :(. I also forgot to ask him to sign my arm, boo :( so I only have Dougie’s, Danny’s and Harry’s, but I have my Blackberry signed by them all its all good! So then, the photographer asked me if I wanted my photo done, so I got in between Danny and Harry because they’re the two middle ones, Harry had his arm around me and Tom was smiling, and Danny and Dougie were still talking to people so Harry was going “Danny, Danny, Danny, Danny, DANNY, Danny, DANNY, photo!” so Danny went “oh yeah HIYA!” to me, leant in and Dougie posed and I got my photo taken, and from what I seen it was a nice picture too so I just want it sent to me! So I waited by Tom for Steffi to get her stuff and as I walked past I said bye to them all and they all said bye, and then after everyone had their M&G they said bye to all of us and we were literally shaking, they were so lovely and I couldn’t believe it. I’ve met them before but this was something else. We thanked Tommy once more, ran outside and sorted out photos, names, addresses and emails with the photographer, who said we could be waiting 1-2 weeks on our pics (Meh!) and then we were free to go into the gig. There was only roughly about 3 rows on Toms far side, so we sidled into there and ended up 2nd row, while we rang, text and tweeted people, and answered everyone around us questions about the guys. The girls on the barrier who could see into the backstage bit were still shouting and screaming at Danny, Dougie, Harry and Tom because they were still eating dinner with their families and stuff outside, and it was pissing me off because the screams were getting beyond belief and practically burst my eardrum. Steffi checked her Twitter, and because she’d gave Tom her Twitter name and Tom was her favourite, she SCREAMED because Tom had tweeted her, and I’ve never been so happy for someone ever. We got a few pics then Twenty Twenty came on, and at the end they were speaking about McFly a bit, and they said “Oh they’re really lovely guys!” and me and Steffi shouted “WE KNOW!” and everyone laughed and stuff, was a funny moment haha :’). Then we were waiting for McFly to come on, me, Steffi and Siobhan getting all excited and taking pics and shit. Then, the music that they play before the gig went all quiet, and suddenly you heard all these guitars and McFly just ran on stage and everyone went MAD, screaming and shouting (but weirdly we didn’t get squashed or anything, it was so good cos we usually die at gigs cos of how mad the crowd get).
So the gig itself, was fucking immense, I mean, the best gig ever, or one of the best gigs I’ve been to. They played their hearts out to every song, and we were all jumping, dancing, screaming. Danny saw me when they first came on and proper grinned at me because I was all excited and because he recognised me, then Tom done a heart shape thing to us and Steffi got overexcited and we were all jellyfied again. Danny kept looking at me all the way through the gig, at inappropriate moments when I am most certain I looked like a total spazzy mong. When it got to Star Girl, like the end of it where Tom goes “Looking up for my Star Girl” Danny pointed at me when it said my Star Girl, he done it again in POV at the “and you said and you said and you said” bit and then in All About You too <3 and then Tom went to Steffi “SHES THE GIRL I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT” and Steffi literally SPAZZED so much, more than me :’) <3 bless! Dougie waved at us when he was over on our part of the stage and Harry pointed at us once haha :) I love it when things like that happen :) And then, Tom and Danny played a 2 song acoustic set, with Too Close For Comfort and The Heart Never Lies. Now, I’m normally too happy at gigs to get emotional, but the end bit of THNL was just too much. “Another year over, and we’re still together, it’s not always easy, but McFly’s here forever, we are the lovers, I know you believe me, when you look into my eyes, cos McFly never dies” and I just cupped my hands to my face and my eyes welled up, Danny looked over at me and done some little sympathetic smile and it made me even worse, it was just beautiful, and it was the first time I’d ever cried at a gig. It got to me and Steffi was still all happy and bouncing and she was like “OMG NO WAY JAMIE!” and I was like ahh :’) pure in tears like haha. Then they played all the usual songs and alls we done was scream and jump and dance, and as soon as the gig was over we met up with everyone, and we were pure hugging everyone and screaming haha! Then Amie dragged me to meet Twenty Twenty, got hugs, my other arm signed by them all and photos and then we were just chilling on the grass for abit, I tried to buy the black McFly hoodie but the cunt didn’t take cards :( so we decided to get a taxi and go to the train station to get our train home, we’d already missed our original train home, so we were just hoping for the best.
Our taxi took 15 minutes alone to get out the park thanks to the traffic from the gig, so the meter was already sky high and then he took the long way round and ended up costing us a bomb for a taxi, thank god there was 4 of us or it would have been absolutely stupidly expensive for our ride home. Ran into the train station and checked the info board and according to the info board our last train had left at 23:03 and it was 23:17. I had to ring my uncle off Steffi’s phone to come and pick us up at Wigan Northern Western train station, and he wasn’t very happy about it, so we had to just chill by the station for a while. We went to a nearby pizza shop, Amie, Steffi and Sophie got pizzas to themselves and drinks, and I got chicken nuggets and chips with tomato sauce, and we just decided to sit in the train station on the stairs leading upto the platforms, until we got told we’d have to leave in about 5 minutes and sit outside because the station was shutting. So we made the most of our five minutes, Steffi spazzing about Tom, Amie talking about Harry Potter and Sophie burping, then we got chased outside and we had to sit on the pavement, eating our food. Got a phonecall from my mum asking where I was and she wasn’t best happy when I explained that we’d missed our last train (We blamed the taxi driver and the gig finishing late, we didn’t say that we’d been pissing around seeing everyone and meeting Twenty Twenty) and she told me she’d been dying her hair and wrung the sponge so hard trying to get the excess dye stains off her forehead she’d burst a vein in her hand. Oops. So we were chilling outside with cars going past shouting dirty things to us and wolf whistling, it got to about 1am and we were freezing and shitting ourselves because a car had pulled up behind us and the two men inside were just staring at us. There was a taxi thing across the road that we could have ran inside if anything happened but it was still mad scary so we were trying to keep positive. My uncle rang me at like 1:45am asking where we were, he was at a bus station in Wigan and he couldn’t find us because there was no one around to ask. I told him to just ask anyone he could find, and eventually we got another phone call at 2am saying he was at the station. He was at Wigan Wallgate which was a 5 second walk from our one, so I told him this and he came down and got us all in the car. He was moaning so it was a hostile ride home, I listened to my iPod and we saw some rabbits (aw) and we were just chatting about the gig. He dropped Steffi, Sophie and Amie off then dropped me off, got in at like 2:45am and I just wiped my make up off, stripped and got straight into bed, having to get up at 7am the next day too for Sixth Form which I actually did (I’m shocked I did that) and then thats that. Still got the blue gig wristband on and the signatures from McFly and Twenty Twenty on my arm, I refuse to wash the part of my arm where the signatures are, MCFLY HAVE TOUCHED MY ARM /girlyfit. I’ve been telling everyone possible about it, anyone at all, and noones particularly interested but obviously I am ;).
So yeah, we’re now waiting for our photos with McFly and stuff, which we won’t get for ages I’m guessing. Sly on our lives really, I’m dreading the big version incase its vile and disgusting, I probably look huge! Still want it though, I want it on my Facebook/Twitter/Every other social networking website possible. I have post gig depression now, because it was such a good gig. Meeting them, seeing all my friends, the gig itself, even the scatty travelling home part at the end was funny and a good experience. I just wanna go back to it! And I’ve now learnt I don’t have to camp out everywhere to have a good time at a gig, we were on the 2nd row and we had a better time than we did on the barrier at Dewsbury, we got more attention that we did on the barrier at Dewsbury. It was absoloutely mindblowingly amazing and I would very much like a repeat of Wigan please and thankyou. I want to go to Surrey now to see them, but I’d have to see what my friend thinks because we’d have to leave him on his own at Jedward which probably isn’t what he wants, and we can’t just ditch him but I’ll talk to him and see at least. I can’t believe it though. The most amazing day of my life ever. I really wish I could go back to it, I know everyone is saying that but I really, really, really wish I could. Especially back to the moment during THNL. <3
“Another year over, but we’re still together, it’s not always easy, but McFly’s here forever, we are the lovers, I know you believe me, just look into my eyes, cos McFly never dies” <3
5/7/10 - <3
I love you McFly.
I actually cried while reading this. youre like the luckiest girl ever.
I cried with this. You’re a lucky girl =’) Twitter: @mcflymyloves
In tears rite now! soo lucky!
Memory Lane
All about you
Corrupted
Alone again
Room on the 3rd floor
Everybody knows
Nothing
All about you Xx
All about you
Lies
Bubble Wrap
All about you
Nothing
Everybody Knows
Room on the third floor
Everybody Knows
All about you
Corrupted
All about you
Room on the 3rd floor
One for the radio
Lies
Ignorance
Nothing
Alone again
Lonely
Unsaid things
I‘ll be OK
Star girl
I‘ve got you
Nothing
All about you
