Well I'm now another year older, it was a quiet birthday as is the usual standard, I spent most of the afternoon in a meeting then ordered chinese, wow I should really slow down!
Back in February I had holiday from my new job which needed to be taken and so I did, I had planned two weeks or so of fun and interesting things to do, there was three main things
A Hevisaurus concert, more on that in a moment.
Visiting my partner in Finland, I never get tired of being with my partner and I still adore Finland as much as when I first visited, it was a wonderful and calm visit.
The last thing was going up to Doncaster to a convention to meet some people most notably 'Eric Stuart' a fine musician whom I've been a fan of for a while and talked about before here in this blog, I had thought I had everything sorted, I was wrong.
Usually when I'm planning a trip I've got everything worked out to the letter, everything, I check this through and through, again and again, this time I forgot one major thing, the train tickets, I had stupidly thought I'd got them in advance, I had not and buying them on the day was far far too expensive versus the time it'll take, so I didn't go, which sucks but there will be other chances, I'm sure of it.
Perhaps the most interesting venture of my two weeks was actually seeing one of my fave bands Hevisaurus, live and in the UK for the first time at the Southbank Centre in London, I went with a couple friends and it was a absolute blast, it was everything I had hoped from a concert by them, it all kinda zips by in my memory now but I was a bit sneaky and got some video recorded.
We had got told before that we were not allowed, but I decided just to take some short videos during the concert and I'm glad I did because they came out great and captured some really unique moments which I won't forget, how close I was to the band, being singled out by the main singer, yes really, and the guitarist giving me the metal horns as he passed by, it was wonderful.
Oh and the Southbank Centre later shared my video on Facebook!
Seriously, if he was pointing at the audience, it would be above my viewpoint, he is pointing directly at me.
Again, he's looking down from the stage, he must have seen me holding my phone or the fact I'm wearing a bright green shirt with Hevisaurus on it!
(Source: Twitter)
So in short I was a lot of fun and I really hope it's not the only time I see them live!
A couple a months in and this year is already fairly interesting, got a few more interesting months planned again, looking forward to it!
So to close, here is a song from another band I like called Blind Guardian, 'Otherland', which has been stuck in my head for over a week now!
