If there's one thing I wish I could do more of in the world is go to concerts. I love them! I love the feeling I get when I'm there, how nothing in the world could bring me down, how I feel connected to everyone in the room just a little bit and how I know that I can have fun and if I make a fool out of myself (my dancing is terrible!) it's fine because I'm probably never going to see any of these people again!
Recently on the past two weeks I have made up for my lack of concerts in January, February and March and have been to three two within days of each other.
The first concert I went to was 5 Seconds of Summer, who surprisingly no one that I work with have heard of. This concert was good, the boys were amazing and I even found a new artist that I quite like in the form of their support act Jessarae. However I had been having a lot of trouble with my IBS and my anxiety was on an all time high so I felt like poop. As much as I wanted to enjoy myself and dance around I felt like if I moved I would be sick and the vibrations from Ashton's drums that seemed to go straight through the floor and hit my stomach certainly didn't help. I will be honest and say o was relieved to be going home from that one even though 5SOS were incredible.
The same week as 5SOS I saw Mike Dignam. Now this concert was always going to be a good one as I absolutely love Mike and he is such a nice chap. I was quite disheartened for Mike though as he had only sold 60 tickets for this show (just last year he sold out the room) although it was heartbreaking that people seemed to not give a crap I mean £10 a ticket isn't exactly breaking the bank, Mike still gave it everything and sounded as amazing as ever. I honestly think it's the most content I have seen him play his music and the happiest he has been in his music. I especially love when he gets into the middle of the crowd and sings quite possibly my favourite song of his 'great escape' acoustically and everyone around him sings along it never fails to make me smile. And to top it all off Mike being the awesome guy he is came out to meet everyone, as he does at the end of all his gigs, so I got to meet him again briefly and have a picture before running off to get the train. The only thing that would have made this tour better was if I had my best friend with me as we both share a love for Mike.
Finally the following week was The Vamps. Now I will be honest and say that I mainly booked the tickets in order to see one of their support acts perform live again, Hometown. It was an amazing show and I was astounded by the level of talent that each of The Vamps seemed to hold. From Brad flitting between guitars, pianos and drums to Tristan's rapping and epic drum solo it was incredible! There were a few things that I didn't particularly like such as The Vamps new singing 'New Hope Club' coming on and in my opinion ruining my favourite song 'cecila' to Hometowns meet up before that never seemed to happen. However I did get to do a first for me and met two of the supporting acts 'The Tide' and 'New Hope Club' before the show, I can't see me standing outside again in a hurry though. Two and a half hours in the cold and rain to not even see the band you want to not fun! And of course not forgetting Conor Maynard, he was absolutely fantastic. His voice everything was just so amazing, I have no words of how good he truly was.
That's been my two weeks of concerts for the year, as of yet I have no more booked but I can't see it staying that way!
Leigh x
