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The night I died and went to heaven (well, the Glasgow Barfly)
Posted Apr 30, 2004
Tuesday 2nd March - In the simplest possible terms, avoiding unnecessary emotional outpourings:-
Philly and I are doing promotions for the Eastern Lane at Glasgow's Barrowlands. They're supporting The Libertines, my obsession. We get early entrance to the venue to put up posters. The Libs are just wandering around. We sign Pete Doherty up to the Eastern Lane mailing list. He gives us hugs and his e-mail address. We make best friends with Gary Powell. We end up at the aftershow party at Glasgow's Barfly. Gary is so friendly that he comes back to check up on us every ten minutes, occasionally with another band member in tow. In the middle of a scrum of rabid autograph hunters, Philly feels up Carl Barat and he thinks it was me. Apparently his thighs and ass are 'rock hard', leading to Philly being in a haze for days. Also contributing to the haze was Pete giving her his hotel swipe card (signed), a badge with his face on it saying 'HM Prisons Wandsworth' (also signed), hugging us to have a photo taken and holding Philly's hand for ten minutes while he spoke to other people. Carl hugs me and tells me I'm sweet and empties his pocket into my hand to give me an 'up the bracket' badge and, randomly, a sachet of ketchup, which he is as confused about as I am. We get photos taken with Gary: he hugs Philly like she's about to be operated on. We get photos with Carl: his hair ends up falling all over our faces. He should definitely do shampoo ads.
Then (BEST BIT ALERT): I see my favourite journalist ever Mark Beaumont standing at the fag machine. I have to talk to him, so I tell him I love his work. Turns out he remembers me from a fanzine I used to write for three years ago, and says I have everything it takes to be a music journalist (enthusiasm, determination and a 'unique style of writing'). He says i've to e-mail him everything I ever write in future and he'll be my guru. And when i'm in London i'm to call him to meet up.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ahem. We say goodbye to Mark ("Tell Carl I love him!" I yell; "I love him too!" he calls back), and Carl waves and shouts bye to us as he's getting into his taxi.
So: just about the best night of my entire life, and unlikely to be dethroned as such until the next Libertines-related incident comes along. So yes. I am happy. 
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Minor celebrities in the QM
Posted Feb 20, 2004
Also was very very hungover post-Style+Substance (indie-ish nite at the QM) yesterday (Thursday) and was sitting in our usual seats in the pub (the counch-bench right next to the door) when a large group of people walked in. I turned to see who they were, and as I did the guy in the lead knelt down and said, in a Northern Irish accent, "We'll do it right here", pointing at my seat. It was none other than Radio 1 DJ Colin Murray! With a band called Terra Diablo, whose existence I have known of since 5th year in school when the hot guy who worked in Avalanche told me he was forming a band with the hot guy who worked in HMV. They proceeded to chuck us off our seats whilst promising we'd get them back (THEY LIED), and conducted a photoshoot right there. God knows why Colin Murray was there cos he wasn't doing anything, he wasn't even in the photo, but I got to stare at his ass for a significant period of time so that was ok.
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I may implode
Posted Feb 20, 2004
I received a lovely phone call from Traffic the other day. They are a company that gets rabid volunteers, such as myself, to promote bands by handing out CDs to influential people, sticking stickers on things, handing out flyers, and hassling people at gigs to join mailing lists. In return for this work the volunteer will receive free album samplers, gig tickets, and gets the chance to hang out with the bands and witness the soundchecks. I've done it for many bands before: Jet, Razorlight, Billy Talent, Hope Of The States etc. Now that you have the background...
THEY'VE ASKED ME TO DO THE PROMOTION AT THE EASTERN LANE GIG AT THE BARROWLANDS ON 2ND MARCH SUPPORTING THE LIBERTINES! THE LIBERTINES!!!!! MY ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE BAND!!!! I'M GOING TO BE AT THE SOUNDCHECK AND JUST GENERALLY 'HANGING ABOUT' AS THEY COME AND GO AND OH MY GOD I THINK I MIGHT HAVE A HEART ATTACK.
Ahem. As you can see, i'm slightly excited about this (and not at all smug) and prone to giggling maniacally and doing little jiggy dances at random moments when i think about it. Ok when you're with friends, not so good if you're on a packed train or in an anthropology lecture.
Now all I have to do is decide what to wear and just how much to drink in advance.
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Rant
Posted Sep 16, 2003
I wish all those other journal entries weren't there but i'm going to keep them in anyway. Ho hum.
Many many things have happened since last time. Quick summation of my life: i'm going back to uni soon into second year, hopefully moving out with philly, heather and susie, also hopefully getting a kitten; and i'm in love with my best friend who has a girlfriend who was my ex-flatmate's ex-girlfriend which is how she met my best friend and she thinks i hate her and their relationship is going down the tubes cos she's so paranoid. For the record i didn't hate her before and even when i was jealous i made a huge effort to be nice to her, but she still thinks i hate her and moans about how i hate her to my best friend and keeps making him choose between me and her. And basically i do hate her now because a) i'm not going to make an effort if she's not going to accept it, i have better things to concentrate my feelings on, and b) she's making my best friend's life miserable. I wish he didn't keep telling me every minute detail of their relationship though cos no wonder she's paranoid about me if he's doing that, plus it just gets me really upset and worried and frustrated. And he's being a asswipe to all his other friends and expects me to defend him and tell them what's up with him cos he can't be bothered doing it himself. The only reason he says i'm the only one he can talk to is because i'm the only one who won't yell at him and get angry and tell him all his problems are his own fault and if he just pulled his finger out his ass for five minutes he'd be able to sort half of them out. but i DO want to tell him that, and i do get angry with him, i just don't vent it at him because i wanted to keep him and for him to trust me. But i can't cope with it anymore cos all my anger and frustration at him gets bottled up and manifests itself in other, more self-destructive ways. I think i'll have it out with him tonight, because everyone has told me that he seems to have no regard for my feelings at all anymore and he's just using me cos he thinks i'm never going to tell him to bugger off because i'm so 'obsessively in love' with him but screw that, i'm at the end of my patience. Hey, it only took me NINE MONTHS to get to this stage (or four months if you count from the start of his relationship with his girlfreind). How selfish do i sound now? He's just offered me a lift to the union but only if i pay him in. I'll see how it goes tonight, but i don't think i can last much longer.
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aaaaaaaaaaaah
Posted Oct 3, 2001
For god's sake! Why can't I talk to people? I accidentally bumped into my beloved Stuart Caldow the other day (v. rare sighting, considering he lives in Dundee) and I couldn't speak except in weird Tourette-style bursts of random nonsense. And now he thinks i'm a psychotic idiot. I'm really depressed about this actually: i'll need to consult my therapist (Uncle Heavy 
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