On Wednesday 8th August, I took a look at my
phone to see I had a missed call from an unknown number. I called my voicemail
to hear a message from Ben at Orange Rockcorps asking for me to call him back,
as my mind tried to consider what it could be about. I swiftly recalled
entering the competition and was ecstatic to hear that I had won!
Just under a week later on Tuesday 14th, my good
friend Vickie and I travelled to the O2 Academy Islington for our exciting day
ahead. For the two of us, this day had been a long time coming.
Earlier in the year when organising our school talent show,
we had booked for the Lonsdale Boys Club to come to our school to judge the
show and to perform. After so much support from the boys, we unfortunately had
to cancel their appearance and we were absolutely gutted!
Prior to this, I also took part in a feature called ‘DIY DJ’
on Fearne Cotton’s Radio 1 show whereby I had to choose a song by an upcoming
band to be played on air, where I chose ‘Light Me Up’ by the Lonsdale Boys Club.
The boys sent me a lot of love over Twitter for this and we had spoken every
now and then on the social networking site ahead of the Islington gig.
So our moment finally came and we headed into the venue just
after 6:30pm to go backstage to meet the boys. We were joined by 4 other girls
who had won meet and greet tickets via other websites, including Becky and
Sophie who we coincidentally also knew from our school.
I was not surprised in the slightest to find out that frontman
Charlie, bassist Topher and Loz on the keyboard were all lovely! We had around
20 minutes with the boys were we discussed the previous talent show
arrangements and my appearance on Fearne Cotton’s show, as well as the looming
show that we were all so hyped up for. The boys were also interested to find
out that we were from Chelmsford, the location of this weekend’s V Festival,
where the boys will be playing on Sunday on the Virgin Media Undercover Stage,
with an agreement that we would each be looking out for each other.
After leaving the backstage meet and greet area, we made our
way to the stage, where we had prime position at the front. In such an intimate
venue, we could not have been any closer to the stage if we had tried, even
being able to perch on the edge of the stage to give our legs a rest!
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Playing their former singles ‘Sista Shake’ and ‘Light Me Up’,
upcoming single ‘Ready To Go’, as well as fan favourite ‘Hooligans and
Hulagirls’, the boys had the crowd dancing and jumping for the whole hour of
their set. With an insight into some of the tracks on their upcoming album, it
stands solid that this group, signed to Gary Barlow’s record label, have a very
promising future!
I’d like to thank Charlie, Loz and Topher for such a fantastic evening and for being such genuinely lovely people when we met them. Huge thanks also go to Cath at Charm Factory and Ben at Orange Rockcorps for making the night possible!
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| Topher |
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| Loz |
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