secret gig!

talk about how your day changes in an instant:

so i was home yesterday afternoon and desperately needed a nap, so i thought if i lay down for 1 hour that should be enough...4 hours later i get out of bed reluctantly, and head to my local library to check e-mail. at 5:55pm i read an email sent from the KT Tunstall website informing me of a secret gig at camden town, starting at 7:00pm! holy cow!

i called g and told her to get her ass to camden town right away. you had to buy the tickets first, either online or over the phone, but i didn't have my debit card or anything with me to buy online. i MAD RUSHED home to call the ticket line and finally got through after about three minutes. bought the tickets and was out the door by 6:20pm! got to the venue by 6:57pm and gabby arrived a minute later, whew! all that rushing was sort of for naught though, as they made us stand outside for another half hour to forty minutes before they started letting us in.

so this secret gig was put on as a fundraiser for the tsunami disaster. four acts came on before KT, and all of them were great in their own way. the first guy was a piano player and looked like an absolute geek, but his songs were so funny and catchy and i think his geekiness added to his performance. there was a girl singer/songwriter (i forget her name), a four-piece band (three guitars and one singer), and then one of the members of a band called amplifico came out and did her own thing. apparently KT's taken her under her wing. anyhoo, all of them did really well and were all very talented. then kt performed...

i was SO close to the stage - only one person seperated me from the front! KT was literally just two feet in front of me. her performance was awesome. she's so petite in person but she's got such a strong and unique voice, and she's so good with the between-song-banter too. very funny. all in all a kick-ass performance.

so that was my day. should've been studying but do you think i felt guilty? HELL NO! i love how life's unexpected like that.

oh, and favourite song lyric of the night (from the girl singer/songwriter): "...the pillow painted with your dreams..." or something like that...

CET