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The Infernal Week part 4 - HIM in London

Time for the final part. I'm prodded awake up by an already dressed and over excited Emma at around 8am, turn my phone on and reciceve a text from Fiona (sent at 6:06am) telling me she is already in the queue and to get my butt down there. I tell her she's mental then go and get dressed and make my way to the Astoria. En route I recieve another message giving me abuse for not being mental enough to have had my arse out of doors earlier! So Emma and I join the queue a little further back as Fiona and Sorm are all ready fenced in at the front. There are more girls joining us for this gig so Fiona and Emma headed off to the train station to pick up Medusa and bring her to the venue. Once they returned I left to do my only shopping of the trip (I'm not a good shopper). I went looking for the Vans shop as I'm looking for a specific pair. Couldn't find them here in Edinburgh so thought I'd be a dead cert to find them in Vans very own shop. How wrong was I? 'Sorry, we don't have black and grey. Meybe you'd like the bright purple?' No I fucking wouldn't! I pick up a Greggs on my way back to the line to make myself feel better.

While sitting in the queue with Medusa and Emma, I get talking to a lovely Japaneese girl for a while then Janne appears from Denmark and introduces herself. Not long after that Claire and Ashley arrive again and bring with them fudge! One last trip back to the hotel for an pee and we are ready for the gig.

We get inside and I manage to squeeze in on the barriers beside Fiona and Storm. The 'drum tech' for Kill Hananh appears. Then like before he stays onstage as he actually seems to be the real drummer! The rest of Kill Hannah comes on and the singer (still in white jeans and Burberry boxers) decides to do his whole getting in with the edge of the crowd thing again. Although this time I did find it pretty entertaining. More to do with the fact that he decided to stand on the barrier, legs either side of Storm and dick in her face!

Tonight when HIM take to the sage Ville is wearing a black suit jacket, those skinny arsed grey jeans and the fucking black Grandad hat! Seriously the Grandad hats must go. Lots of people seemed to get pulled out of the crowd during the first couple of songs, and that's when some big fat prick of a security guy decided to break a couple of Storm's fingers. The trooper that she is though, she stayed where she was until the end of the show! The band again was fan-fucking-tastic and this evening the set list was a little different (as expected) they played The Sacrament and Razorblade Kiss. I've no idea what the deal is with curfew times in London. Messages were relayed and the band were practically chased off the stage to make way for some shitty club night. During the last song (Funeral of Hearts) the poor sound engineer was actually being made to start packing up WHILE THE BAND WAS STILL PLAYING! It's not on London. Get it sorted. We were out of the venue by just after 10pm I think!

So with the gigs finished we all headed back to the hotel, had some photo's taken (Storm you're dead for that group one) and had a bit of goodbye as Ashley, Claire and Storm were heading off. Medusa and Janne had decided to sleep on the floor in our room before leaving in the wee small hours to catch flights and trains home. Fiona and I had a quick chunk of sugar tablet that I brought down fron the Christmas maket in Edinburgh (bad idea) and then we all headed out for a bit of a wander. Things then started to get a bit silly as we stepped out of the hotel with a piggy-back ride for me from Fiona - who then got the giggles. We found the 'Soho Hotel' but were getting funny looks so moved on, then found 'Garlic and Shots' but got there just after last orders (again - what the fuck is with closing times in London?) and then decided to just wander around for a while. More giggles on the way we ended up in the 'Soho Book Shop' where Fiona got a present for the husband then we decided to have a wee look downstairs (of the shop, not Fiona's husband!). Back outside, more giggles and some abuse from a couple of drunks before deciding to head back to the hotel. Emma, Medusa and Janne went to sleep. Fiona and I sat up giggling then eventually moved to her room to give them peace. By the time I got back to my room (about 4am) Janne had gone and Medusa was just about to leave. Emma went with her and I never saw them again! 10am my alarm goes off and the room is empty. I packed my stuff, checked out, got on the tube and met Claire at Kings Cross for the journey home.

I just want to add a little note here saying how much fun I had and how great it was to meet you all. I'll be seeing some of you again soon and I can't wait.

Hugs,

Joanne