"STOP TRYING TO MAKE FETCH HAPPEN, ALED!"

So right now I am holed up in a three star hotel in Edinburgh.
Wow. Wow. Lostprophets in Birmingham. This is tour blog 2/3. Just... wow. Okay, let's see what i can manage.
(Note - this post was done in two parts... and I am now no longer in the hotel.)

Pre-gig:
- Getting up at 8. A positively late start.
- Reaching Brum at around 11 in the rain and sleet and crappy weather
- Getting stranded on the wrong side of the junction and having to beg Kath to come walk me across the underpasses to the Academy
- Realising very quickly that Birmingham in the rain is naaaasty
- Meeting various awesome people who I hadn't met before properly ^^
- Large fries and a muffin in Macdonalds. Nom.
- Getting very wet and sheltering with the Boys Like Girl queue because there was cover!
- Going to Macdonalds again and drying off hoodies/hair/hands under the hand dryers
- Kath passing out on a hand dryer.
- MEAN GIRLS QUOTES ALL DAY!
- Giving up and slumming back to the travelodge witth Aimee and Susie
- Susie dying for an hour.
- Getting back to the gig to a surprising lack of rain.

Gig:
- Getting in to be front row on the left, probably in front of Stu. Pretty decent.
- Slapping the security guard!
- "I love this girl. She has ISSUES!"
- Sharks sounding like The Clash. Pretty decent
- The, um... interesting dancing of the guitarist
- Wondering how old Sharks were (they looked like they were skipping school)
- Spending the entire set trying to work out who the lead singer reminded me of and I still don't know

- Aled being aliiiiiive in Kids' set!
- Having a good ol' fashioned dance and singalong
- Calling various friends and hoping they could hear it
- Mean girls quotes!
- Susie ending up with Aled's stomach in her face and commenting on its lack of squishiness
- Still not beating Leeds in the singalong (BOO!)

- The eternal cheering for Jocko!
- The whole atmosphere... it was amazing.
- "THEY WALKED ON STAGE" - Zoe's contribution to this blog.
- START SOMETHING!
- "Jocko! Jocko! Jocko! Jocko!"
"If you love him so much then why don't you get on stage and encircle him?"
- Getting lifted onstage by the security guard with the lobster red arms (he was the one we'd slapped) and getting deposited in front of Mr Watkins
- Ian staring at me as I scrabbled to my feet most inelegantly.
- Getting dragged onto the riders by Jay after I got lost
- Susie coming up too and a girl called Jad
- Epic grins from all the band
- Jocko being just... excited!
- Ian telling us to sit down and the three of us flatly refusing
- Jay laughing at my DANCE JAY, DANCE! sign
- Doing the Jay dance and singing along to Town Called Hypocrisy and generally making a twat of ourselves infront of 3000 people
- Being filmed by KEITH! (who is rad)
- Getting ushered backstage off the stage
- Adam the barman. A guy who knew all the words. EPIC.
- Moshpit for Shinobi!
- The Light. Just... words cannot describe. <3

Post-gig:
- Begging a plectrum off the security guard :D
- Confusion and hanging out in the wrong place for an hour >.>
- Meeting up with Fran, which was rad, and eating pizza.
- Going round the back and finding everyone
- Jay's drunkeness and general awesomeness... including nearly getting run over, and physically becoming speechless when he talked about wounded soldiers.
- Jocko literally running away but stopping to give me a hug
- Lee stopping to give me a hug and have a very quick chat. I gave him my letter but I have no idea if he's read it or not. Ah well.
- Jay yelling at Sketch and Zoe for getting cold. It was amusing. He practically offered them money for Travelodge rooms.
- Wandering back to Travelodge for sleep and managing to fit 8 people into a room. GOOD TIMES.

And that's about it. I think.
It. Was. AWESOME.