Gavin and I crawled out of bed at 6am- actually had a really good 5 hours sleep in a massive bed each! I would recommend the Jury’s Doyle to anyone! Caught a cab down to the station and got the 6.50am train to Dublin- met a guy who on the train who we had met in Belfast- I felt like total crap on the train and managed to get a bit of sleep. There were engineering works on the line so we all got kicked off the train and onto a coach after about an hour for the last bit of the journey and I managed to get a bit more sleep! Arrived in Dublin about 9am and dropped our stuff off at left luguage and were told that the station stayed open until 3am so we could get it back. Grabbed a sandwich from Subway and walked to the Dublin Point which was about 20 mins walk. Vern, Julie, James, Matt and some of the others were there already- it was cold and there was nothing nearby- no shops or toilets!
This photo taken by Jamie sums up how awful I felt! I look like crap!! Spent some of the day in a pub which we finally found about 10 mins walk away and the only thing in sight and missed them organising the queue so when we got back everyone had gone!! LOL! Had our bags searched on the way back in to join the queue once we discovered it had moved to the front of the building which was briliant because when they opened the door, we just went straight in! As we were running in it was all madness and Matt stepped on the back of my flip flop making it come out and then go back on but inbetween the wrong toe. Managed to sort of fall on to Vern and grab hold of him to keep me up until I swapped toes then legged it inside. Luckily we were all still at the front when we got the bit inside the hall where they stopped us. Flips flops were off then as I wasn’t risking that again and I ran so fast when they let us in and we all made it to the front of the cat walk! James on one side complained this toe was hurting, Andy was on the other side of me! I was on the energy sweets to try and stay alive!
The crowd all squashed up which was unlike any of the other gigs and it rocked!!! Paul waved at me again during the slow bit of Hammer to fall when he was walking down to the front and Brian looked at us all again! He must have known it was us lot again! Could not get Roger to look at me again though!! LOL!
Brian was thanking the crew and I shouted Jim Beach very loudly and Brian said ‘What?’ then Gavin and I both shouted it and he heard. Then Gavin shouted out ‘His amazing pullovers’ at the top of his voice and Brian laughed!!
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At the end of the show, someone threw a blonde wig at Rog which he put on!!! Bless him!!! He is so funny!!!
Decided to leave after the gig and not wait which turned out to be a good idea as I know someone who went to the hotel and had to wait until 4am until Brian turned up and there was no sign of Roger at all!! We walked in to town to the station to collect our bag but it all seemed to be totally shut, we walked round looking for a way in until we finally found the car park and managed to get in there and rescue our bags (including passports so we could actually get home!!). Went to find some food and bumped into the Germans in Burger King!!! Grabbed a taxi and got to the airport about 2am. Found a spot on the floor and put on 3 layers of dirty clothes as it was freezing. I was shaking and feeling very ill and minging- woke up at 3.30am and went to brush my teeth to try and feel better then found a nice bench to go and sleep on and left the others on the floor!!!
Awoken at 5am by Jamie, James and Matt who thought they had lost me. I can say that this was the worse I have ever felt in my entire life. I couldn’t stop shivering and needed to sleep for about a week and was wearing dirty minging clothes! They went to get breakfast and I ate a packet of crisps I bought the night before in a shop in Dublin at 2am! We sat there all feeling minging for an hour before heading off to check in for our flights. Gavin and I had to leave the others who were flying back to London. I actually fell asleep on the flight for the first time ever! Arrived back into Cardiff at 8 and got a text from the other guys saying they met Pete and the red special on the flight back to London- Cool!!!! Dan also rang and said that he didn’t realise that the bridge didn’t take cards so had to go to a service station on the M5 to get some cash so was 45 mins late. Sat in the airport dying and noticed not just the bottoms of my feet were black anymore- the tops were also black and disgusting! Dan eventually arrived and when I got home at 10am, I went straight to bed and so did Gavin. Dan woke us up at 2 and we had a bbq in the garden- it was lovely and sunny but I fely very ill and tired. Back to bed after a nice bath and 10 mins of scrubing my feet with a pumice stone and I felt nice and clean again! Got up for an hour in the evening to see what was happening but soon gave up and went back to bed!