So what about yesterday? Yes, it was one of the most amazing days and nights and yes I saw The National! It was amazing. Almost too overwhelming. The waiting was killing me. At 9 they weren't there yet and then when it was 9.10 I started to have doubts and thought they would maybe show up at 9.30 instead of 9. But then the lights went out. But...nothing yet. And finally they were there, and it was bliss. I sat smiling, big, big, smile. This wasn't my first concert, for Marion it was, but for me it wasn't. Still though I felt this was kind of my first, meaning that it really was a cocnert of a band I have really come to love and is part of all those bands that I have come to love over the last, maybe 2 years. So many I have to see live. It's so much better than just listening to the album. There's nothing compared to seeing them play their songs, hearing them play them as you are there with them. It was magic. I didn't cry, but I felt like it many times. The feeling when a song starts and you think like, which one is this and then you recongize the melody or the singer starts singing and you recognize the lyrics and this rush comes over you, making you scream from the inside: Yes, they're playing this one, WOOHOO! There was just one minor dissapointement, which was that they didn't play We Are Looking For Astronauts. But...I have a new favoutire, which is Mr. November, LOVE that song and they played it. It was the perfect way to end, but instead they decided to come back on stage again to play some other songs. But oh, do i love that song, every bit of it. I was out all day. I had not slept very well, almost not at all. Maybe I went to bed too early, thoughts kept racing through my mind, making it impossible for me to fall asleep. So I was feeling pretty tired when the day started. Took a shower and everything, had the last bit of my muesli/oat cereals and at 9.30 I went to Clément's place. Knocked on his window, noone came, so i thought, hmmm, maybe still asleep? Fortuantely no, but he had just come out of the shower. He woke up at 9 and went to take a shower at 9.20, thinking that taking a shower at that time would make him be right on time. But no. I don't know how it happened, but we still manages to be on time. We had only half an hour, which makes you think it's impossible. We had to go in town to meet up with Euan at the Canterbury West Train Station to walk from Chartham station, which is the first station you pass when going to London, back to Canterbury. Our whole trip maybe took soemthing like 2 and a half hours. So yep, we take this filmmaking very seriously. We all want it to be very good. I wish I could tell you all about the story, but I'm afraid someone might steal our idea and even more so our title. So my lips are sealed. But it was amazing we were able to still be on time as we first met Ciro, who apparently had broken his toe during his football training. Must be very painful. And then later on we also met Marion who went to the library, but couldn't concentrate, cause she was constantly thinking about the concert. When we has said goodbye to her Clément said soemthing like, wow, she must have been really anxious to go, cause the library opens around 9 and when we met her it was still soemthing like 9.40. So yeah, she must have realized very quickly that it would be no use to study today. Clément and I took the bus. I had no idea where the station was, or so i thought. I actually kind of new, because I had noticed the train tracks that are just in the middle of this street that goes uphill into town. From the first moemnt I saw those tracks, just in between a row of buildings, i fell in love with the image. So instead of goign off the bus where we usually go off, we had to get out earlier. We arrived at the station around 4 past 10, so not at all too late, which is quite an accomplishment. I really believed we would not arrive in time. Euan was already there standing in line for a ticket. We got ourselves a ticket as well. Then Euan wanted to buy soemthing to eat so we went to this great place. It's this big hall with really ncie and fresh products, kind of like an in-store market. I don't think it's that expensive eather. i'll definitely check it out again. To get to know places like that you really have to know some British people who really know the town. We took the train and then got out at Chartham, which only takes 5 minutes, but it's already pretty far from town. So then we started walking and taking pictures, lots of them. We saw some really good things. Like this little space behind some bushes, which probably is the porperty of someone, but there were some farm buildings which look like they were completely abandoned. So beautiful to see. Also some bridges over some water, which looked perfect. And a lot of open fields with the most beautiful trees and very big. I like it when in an open field you find this big tree standing all by itself. And especially in autumn, the leaves, gorgeous. We walked and we walked. A great way to start your day. The weather was not too cold, just right. I'm not having such a cold anymore, i'm already getting better. So hopefully it will stay this way. i might even go and sing a song at the karaoke tonight, cause we really have to go Alice! No excuses. This is the day. Of course they won't have any songs by The National, but I won't really mind. It's just to have fun. When we were back in town, we walked back to Keynes college. Euan had to go a different way, he lives in Canterbury where he shares a house with some students, so he left. Clément and I then walked all the way back. I still had half an hour, so it wasn't a problem. I would meet up with Marion at 1pm at the busstation at Keynes college. Luckily I was so smart to bring my cocnert ticket and ticcket for the National Express already with me, so i didn't have to go back home. At the busstation i said goodbye to Clément and then waited for Marion and together we went into town by bus to take the National Express. The trip to London corst soemthing like 13 pounds. Euan had to Clément and me, though, that the price is pretty much the same when you go by train and by train you gain half an hour, cause it's only one hour and a half, instead of 2, which is when you go by bus. So maybe next time, train would be a good option as well. Marion and I still had some time left, cause the coach was leaving at 1.50. So we decided to go to Tesco real quick to get us some sushi and a sandwich. Marion also took a bottle of water, which unfortunately she had to throw away when entering Shepherds Bush Empire, the place where the concert was held. I managed to drink all my water before, so i had to throw away an empty one. The trip to London seemed to take longer than when i went to London the first time. But i guess, marion was right, when she said it was because I was really looking forward to go and could hardly wait. Then everyhting seems to take longer. But it was good, because we had time to chat. I think i might really like her parents, which seem so conscious of the environment, using no liquid soap, because of all the plastic bottles and are really serious when it comes to taking long showers. They also use special soap to do the dishes, so that afterwards they can sue the water to water the plants in the garden. So they're pretty much doing for all I stand for nowadays. I'm going to start my own palstic bags to the supermarket as well. It's so much better. When we finally got to London we had something like 3 hours. We wanted to walk, but had no idea how to get to Shepherd's Bush, even though i dont think it's that far away. Because we could find a map, we decided to both buy one, whichw e can also use when we go to London in December. We ended up taking the bus which was something like 3.50. The bus tripw as around 45 minutes. But that was different ont he way back, which was why we managed to be at the coach in time, because we were destined to be late. We left Shepherd's Bush Empire just some minutes after 11, and I had to wait pretty long, before the woman behind the desk finally came to me so i could buy two T-shirts and the EP Cherry Tree for Marion. So when we took the bus back to Victoria, we only had maybe 30 minutes left. And thinking that the bus trip would take us around 45 minutes, we assumed it would be unpossible for us to be at the coach at 11.45 pm, when we also werent quite sure where the coach stationw as for the departing coaches. We got to Sheperd's Bush around 5.30 So we decided to eat our sandwich and walk around a bit and taking some money for the cashmachine. Overall it didn't take so long to wait and because we walked around it didn't really feel like waiting. When we got back to Bush Empire, we noticed that there were quite a lot of older people. Apparently The National are no Arctic Monkeys, so no crowd full of teenagers. But yeah, the music is quite different. But they're oh so good. And the singer's voice is one the best i've ever came across. Because Marion had a ticket for level 1 and I for 3, we had to separate, but we didn't really mind. And as I was sitting in the front row in the middle of level 3, I was thinkign about how excited Marion must be waiting for so long. I myself was soooo excited, and knowing Marion loves them more than me, nomatter how much it is I love them, i knew she must go almost crazy to wait and wait and wait. St. Vincent, who is pretty coola nd similar to Feist, was the support act, and she was really cool. She was all alone. Her guitar and some recording thing,w hich she would make a sound on and then it would repeat itself so that she would ahve a beat. But The National. It was magic. there music is perfect live. such a good atmospehere. From where I was sitting I had a really good look of the entire stage. And I must say i didn;t mind at all to be sitting there instead of downstairs int he middle of the crowd. I enjoyed it so much. I know that if I was in the crowd I would ahve gone totally crazy. But sitting on level 3 was already so good. I loved everything about it. Definitely the best concert so far for me. So afterwards we bought ourselves a T-shirt, which i'm wearing right now. We were in time for the coach, after a woman in the bus back to Victoria gave us pretty good directions to where the coach must be, and Marion, if it wasn't for her, got us to the station for the departing coaches. She suddenly knew where it was and started to run so i ran after her and togetehr we ran to the station, very much in tiem still. And we were even more lcuky cause the coach went to the busstation at keynes, instead of in town. So we didn't have to walk home all the way from Canterbury to Park wood. Lucky us. And then I went to bed. One of the best days of my life. Loved everything about it. Itw as the perfect day out. Can't wait to do it all over again on December 20th when we wills ee Patrick Wolf also in Shepher'd Bush Empire. Totally different artista nd music and I think a totally different crowd as well. But it will be so good. If only I could go back to yestrday night. Why does everyhting have to become a memory?
Mr. November
This is nothing like it was in my room
In my best clothes
Trying to think of you
This is nothing like it was in my room
In my best clothes
The English are waiting
And I don't know what to do
In my best clothes
This is when I need you
The English are waiting
And I don't know what to do
In my best clothes
I'm the new blue blood, I'm the great white hope
I'm the new blue blood
I won't fuck us over, I'm Mr. November
I'm Mr. November, I won't fuck us over
[repeat]
I wish that I believed in fate
I wish I didn't sleep so late
I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders
[repeat]
I'm the new blue blood, I'm the great white hope
I'm the new blue blood
I won't fuck us over, I'm Mr. November
I'm Mr. November, I won't fuck us over
[repeat]
I wish that I believed in fate
I wish I didn't sleep so late
I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders
[repeat]
I'm the new blue blood, I'm the great white hope
I'm the new blue blood
I won't fuck us over, I'm Mr. November
I'm Mr. November, I won't fuck us over
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