Last week I had the honour of seeing the boy band Blue. Scoff if you must, but Blue were totally my band of the 90s, and I have no problem in telling you I was completely in love with Mr Lee Ryan. When the chance to see them live again came up, I grabbed the opportunity with both hands.
After buying tickets a few months ago I soon realised I was most likely going to go alone, and that's not an unusual thing for me to do. Yet I ended up meeting with a friend, Sarah, and some of her family and friends for the evenings antics. We waited until the queue died down, as yes believe it or not it was actually sold out, and then headed to claim our spot at the back - but we could see, so all was well.
The night began with support act Loick Essien (thanks Google). I was surprised that I actually knew his final song which I took great pleasure in dancing along too. Aside from that, I was completely unfamiliar with his material but he did a pretty good job in warning up the crowd.
When Blue greeted the stage with their energetic entrance my inner fan girl showed no signs of shying away. I clapped, swayed and danced along the whole night. I probably enjoyed myself more than any 20 year old should admit. Besides an incident with Sarah and the paramedics the night was definitely a success. I was really surprised with how vocally on point Blue were, because I was honestly expecting them to be terrible.
When I was nine years old, Blue was the first concert I ever went too. Even at nine, I fell in love with the atmosphere of live shows and I think that was where my understanding of music begun. I always appreciated music, and I could recite cassette tape listings to you back to front, as well as know the songs within the first two seconds, but at that gig, despite not remembering much of the actual performance, is where I think things really begun. This was why it was so important for me to go and see them again, to semi relive that experience and I'm really glad I did.
Who was your first concert?
How great that Blue were the first gig you went to. I don't remember mine, but I mainly went to festivals and that kind of thing. Perhaps the first one-act one was a Who tribute band with my dad?!
ReplyDeleteLast year I went to see Steps, so I'm all with you on the cheesy bands from our youth x