I missed The Audition and then suddenly they are coming back here next week! Good times :) So I'm going to see them at Manchester, Sheffield and then Slam Dunk Festival later on in the month (which is gonna be freaking wicked btw!). I'm just well excited and wanted to post about eeeeeet! Gonna buy those boys a drink for being so good to me in Chicago.

This always makes me smile even though I wasn't there.


If you haven't already, you need to go check out the new album from The Audition here:
http://www.victorme.com/victorstream_audition.php
It's out on the 28th!

So Leeds Fest 2007 was amazing, Leeds Fest 2008 was amazing so no prizes for guessing what Leeds Fest 2009 is going to be! Last year I ate pasta and sauce everyday, got muddier than I've ever been in my life, wore wellies for 5 days straight and loved it, spend ridiculous amounts of money in mikshakes and spring rolls (not together!) and saw (in no particular order) Mindless Self Indulgence, Alexisonfire, Avenged Sevenfold, Tenacious D, Anti-Flag (twice), Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Taking Back Sunday,  Biffy Clyro, Rage Against The Machine, The Killers, Pendulum, Kids In Glass Houses, Goldfinger, MXPX, You Me At Six, The Audition and All Time Low as well as a few comedians! Not bad, eh? Good freakin' times!

And this year we already plan on seeing Kings of Leon, The Prodigy, Brand New, Fall Out Boy, Funeral For A Friend, Lostprophets and AFI and there's still loads more to be announced. There's a few bands that I'm wishing on to make an appearence but whether they will or not, I guess I'll have to wait and see! I hope that it stays sunny this year because it's going to be my only Summer holiday and chance to tan seeing as there's no way i can afford to go back the USA! SO EXCITED THOOOUGH!

 

Took a trip to the Zoo in Lincoln Park with Alex (well Alessio is his real name and yes, he does look like Gabe Saporta) because it was completely free! I love animals and I love free stuff so, despite the cold, the day proved to be a goodun.

We went to that Wizard of Oz park first to get some touristy photos of the statues and I was trying to explain to Alex the characters and that I was Dorothy in a school play of it once but he didn't seem to have a clue what I was on about haha! Then we headed to the zoo and did what you usually do in a zoo...looked at the animals. I made us go to the Polar Bear pen sooo many times but I still didn't see the damn thing! They had a good selection of big cats, though haha.

Then after a day at the zoo, we went back to the hostel and watched Charlie's Angels 2 before going our seperate ways as Alessio was leaving for Hawaii really early in the morning...lucky for some! That's about it really from this day.

FOR THE PHOTOS FROM THIS DAY CLICK HERE.

Finally managed to find the almighty Bean thing and Millenium Park which is pretty much what yesterday was supposed to be about but I gave up when it started getting dark.

( wtf is a chicken tikka? )

CHRISTY! WE ONLY GOT BLOODY BACKSTAGE!


 

Oh yes, my friends, it is true. Halfway through the night some dude came up to us and gave us backstage passes! Click the cut to read tales of a boogeying Barratt man, a spinning out junkie Noel, a girl who pulled Bob Fossil(!) and many more...

( holy shit-sauce! )

 

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