An awesome evening.

Last night I went on an adventure with my two cousins. They are 3 and 6 years older than me.

They have held influence over my musical tastes sice I was a young teen, S being 18 when I was 12, and J being 15, and influenced by S. J was responsible for my first gig attendance. We were trying to work out just how old I was. It was before J had her son so she was around 17, which made me 14 and the youngest person in the room! (and the shortest!). We went to see the Levellers in bournemouth and J's mum and dad dropped us off and picked us up. We had tickets in the seated balcony, I don't think we cared either way!! But then there was a chance meeting with 2 people who happened to have standing seats and wanted seated seats. So they offered to swop! We were delighted and proceeded to dance the entire evening. Turned out they had free tickets because she was the bass players auntie.

So last night we went to Bournemouth again. To the old opera house which is now known as the O2, to see my favourite band, James. Mr G sorted out tickets for my birthday.

I don't even know where to start. It was immense. I got home and couldn't sleep because I was so hyper afterward, and even today I can't stop smiling. They played absolutely every song I wanted to hear. And finished with my favourite song of all time.

I was still pretty much the youngest in the building (excepting the children of the fans who were in their thirties 20 years ago!)