amy's blog

yesterday,
we went to the anti racism concert thing in trafalgar square.
it was pretty good at the start, some speakers, and dancers and singers from schools about london.
we were having fun.
me and alice got split up from the rest of the group, but it was okay, because we had got further to the front, just befor lethal bizzle came on, we noticed they had got into the front & centre bit, so we weaved our way over to them. this was a mistake.
the crowd were wild for 'lethal b' and things got a bit rough. quite rough actually. and then he did that '22 grand job...' and people got a little out of control, we had walked our way into the worst patch and could barely stand up. people were pushing & kicking & punching, and we had lost laura.
so we tried to fight our way out, but we were just getting pushed back. there were so many people, we were like drowning, then i lost my shoes, don't really know when they came off my feet, but it seemed funny, a man helped us get out of the madness, and we walked right out of the crowds checked we were still in one peice, and then i remembered my lack of footwear. i had trodden in glass and my feet were bleeding, we hobbled over to the fountains and i washed my feet to get the dirt out, which seemed kind of silly, as i had to walk barefoot some more, and they just got more dirty.
i was looking for a first aid place so i could get some antiseptic, but they didn't have one, so a police man told me to ask a man in a yellow tabard, i asked him. he was just a bit patronising. geez. he called someone else in a yellow tabard, she called an event organiser, who called a first aider (all i needed was a plaster to keep the dirt out!) and they took my name so they could ask on stage for my shoes back. the woman sprayed a bit of antiseptic and gave me a plaster which i put on. and we met up with someone else from school, who was carrying someone elses bag that happened to have my size shoes in it. so i wore them for a bit. we walked up to where the backstage area was. and we saw the paddingtons messing around, alice asked them if they would ask on stage for my shoes. and they said okay and all climbed into a port-a-potty. it was strange. we went back down to where the stage was, and watched for a while, we kept well out of the crowd though.
and we saw a man that looked EXACTLY like julian barratt (from the boosh) wasn't him though.
we were next to a man and his mum, and all these girls kept running up to him and saying 'oh my god your from ........ i love your band!' and getting photos with him, we had never heard of them. ever.
we were dancing, and i looked round, and the ambulance lady was calling me, though i didn't know if she was calling me or someone else, but it was me.
my shoes had been found!
and all was well!
then we wandered around, went to macdonalds etc.
we saw boy kill boy
they were good
and we saw belle and sebastian
they were even better. and some other band called 'trafalgar' i think. they were great. yeah it was a good day,
now i am aching, and i am betting everyone else is too.
worth the pain i am sure.

yesterday, we went to see the fratellis at camden barfly.
we had bought 4 tickets, and there were 3 of us going, so emma smith came along,
it started at 7.30, so we left early to make it to TOPSHOP. and we went and had a re-take of the original topshop glasses photo. we walked around there for a while, tried on the wigs. there was a huge afro one, and a german girl told me i should buy it. i didn't,
we got back on the tube and it was about 7.05 so we panicked a little, but i think we decided we'd be fashionably late or something, because we seemed to be dilly dallying, we got off in camden, and the directions said 'take a right' we took a left, and went to macdonalds, by now it was way past half seven, so we were planing on missing the support.
after macdonalds we strolled up. and saw some suspicious characters lurking about under the 'camden lock' bridge. we walked past the elephants head we did, pete sweets boozer. and then we saw barfly, so we walked in, and it was just a pub, so we were a little confused, 'wheres all the music?' and so we had a look around and some man said ' go down there and take a left' so we did. and there was a tiny little staircase with a man sitting at the bottom saying 'ticket?' so he stamped our hand, we went upstairs, and found the place, it was brilliant. really quite small, like the size of a classroom. and very few people (few more came later, but still way less than expected) and the music hadn't started yet, which was good for us. so we stood about a bit, and then the first band came on, so we moved a bit closer, and when we decided we liked them, a bit closer, until we were at the stage, there was just one person infront of us, but then her friend turned up, who was soo tall and i couldn't see a thing. the first band were good, the second band were even better 'figure 5' they were called, and the drummer... HAS NO ARMS! it was incredible, he just had drumsticks strapped to his stumps and played like that. very very clever. and they were a bit kaiser cheif-y. which was good to see, bit of tambourine shakin, some strage dancing.

then the fratellis came on, they were very good. they were funny and scottish and some girl next to me said 'what language are they speaking?' and her friend said 'scottish i think'. and they sung some songs no one knew, and then they did 'creepin up the backstairs' and everyone went WILD, i really mean wild. like pushing and chargind forward and throwing beer, my legs got soaked, but it was all good fun, and as soon as that song finished, everyone was calm again. then they did some more songs, and then went off stage, but came back straight away with one more song. then we left. but the whole night was great.

ooh, i am writing this on the new laptop, which came on monday and is brilliant. i love it. the other day, i had history homework due, hadn't done it, so i typed it up in the middle of the night, and i used world book for some revision.
8 mornings left at school until i leave forever. tomorrow is everyones final full day, next week we go in in the mornings and then can leave or stay and revise after lunch. i am only staying for english and science which is good, cos i don't want to be in school while no one else is. after about 15th may, we are leaving for good, only come in for exams, and then, on the 30th june, we go in for assembly, then thats it, forever!
we have a lot planned now we have so much time on our hands, saturday 'rock against racism' free concert in trafalgar square, boy kill boy & belle and sebastian among others, monday myself and lillie are going for a shop about in old camden, and then next thursday we are going to see simon amstell from popworld in islington, its fun to be able to go out and do stuff!

I haven't written on this for the entire holidays!
but i will write right now.
its 23 minutes to one.
and i'm a bit tired
but too excited to sleep.
I'll start with the most exciting things.
Today i saw the mighty boosh again,
not only that, but it was my 16th birthday aswell!
yeah!
and it was excellent, and i got an iPod nano, which i am listening to me boosh tunes on, and i have an apple laptop coming on monday! woooo! i am so excited. i also got some footless tights. and licorice. excellent!
so i went to school
and it was pretty boring
got my new ID though,
and we did a speech on whether britain was a health promoting society, but to be honest i don't care.
i came home at lunch
and then i got archie from school
and i played about a bit with my iPod.
and then it was time to get ready.
so i tried on about a thousand outfits, and when i decided, Alice was at the front door!!
woo, so we went to Brixton (we got sooo lost!) and we queued outside, and then, a tiny man strolled past, and we realised it was Mr Michael Fielding/naboo. that was when we got excited.
they opened the doors, and we went in to find our seats, and the were so brilliant.
they were row E, which sounds a bit far back, it was so close though. and we were pretty central.
we could see them right in the eye, which is better than the last time.
this time it was soo much funnier. i had a stitch. and my face hurt.
i got some photos, which were ok. but i am a bit annoyed, cos when vince did the electroboy dance, he pointed right at the camera, and it didn't take in time, so the photo is of him turning away and all blurred.
I did however get a photo of rudi looking right at me, & naboo pointing our direction from his carpet. they are way too blurred for my liking though, too hard to get a good photo there.
it was so different this time.
at the end, they flew! and grabbed each other in the air and spun around.
and the hitcher, jumped off the stage, and then asked some man for a boost back up, even though there were steps right next to him.
ahh funny,.
when noel ran past us, we were ready with our cameras, but he was way too fast, so although i scraped him with my camera, all you can see is his spangly mirrorball suit.
there were so many funny things about it. i can't even remember them all.
Here are some photos.....

a funny quote... DD
'You fight well for a Jimmy Saville impersonator'
'You lot better shut it, or i'll fix it for you, and you and you!'

ahh, and at the end, old gregg finally got his 'hooks into howard'!
they kissed.
and also there was flying, which i might have already mentioned, but it was so funny, its worth another.

This past couple of weeks i have also been to scotland and to hampstead for my birthday.
it was great in hampstead, such a nice place, if i win the lottery. i will most certainly be buying me a house there.
we also got the bus to Kentish town kentish town, yeah! kentish town kentish no!
and we saw tom from mcfly again! he follows us everywhere we go!