I've Lost My Fear Of Falling

29.11.07 - 30.11.07

On Thursday Kate, my Mum, and I drove to Sydney, got driven to a train station, caught the train to Central, and walked the rest of the way  to meet Emma and Bre and go see my favourite band, My Chemical Romance, for the second time this year.

We stayed at the Holiday Inn, which is literally staright across from the Sydney Entertainment Centre which was very convienient.

On Thursday we went shopping, I kinda fucked up on the locations - Utopia was a lot further away then I remembered, haha. Dude, that shop is so awesome though. It had Evil Dead shirts which tempted me , but I was saving for merch. We stayed in there for a while, oh and Emma bough me this kick ass My Chemical Romance wrist band, which is made of win .It was an awesome day though. Made lots of 'way jokes' so Kate & Mum bought this thing and freaked me out by calling pretending to be reception. Hahah she went from English accent to Asian accent and I totally didnt pick up on it.

Then we got dinner and then went over to the S.E.C to check out how was there and stuff. We headed up to our rooms, ordered room service. We had a plan to go to sleep early, but yeah...it kinda didnt happened. Emma, Bre, Kate and Myself crammed into the one hotel room and spent the night giggling and talking. Bre and Emma decided to RP out-loud, which was possibly one of the most hilarous things I've ever heard. I think Kate was a little scarred for life, but ya know.

Oh! And Miss Emma, got her Syn Gates on, conveniently at 2am, and decided to rock out the hotel room with like…air guitar moves and singing and dancing and crowd surfing onto people on beds. I think she did Syn proud to be honest.

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My alarm decided to stuff up, so we were a bit late. We were down at the venue at 7:30am, around, 12 hours before the show began. We were doing shifts Emma was getting ready; Kate and I literally went straight from bed and ran down there. Yeah, Elle early morning with no makeup and hair is a bad look haha.

Casey from TOC found us and we moved up the line to sit with friends of hers – they seemed real sweet. Had good fun hanging out with people and whatnot.  There was probably less than 50 kids there at Gate A. I heard that one kid had been there for over 48 hours 0_o.

Anyway we met a lot of new people. People from the interwebz and other shows we recognized. People were tied to poles with 'HOMOPHOBIA IS GAY' signs covered in toilet paper, which made me laugh.

Emma came down and I got ready for the show.

Blue Taking Back Sunday shirt, black pants red makeup, and that much hairspray I swear I'm the main fucking contributor to global warming.

Your dreams and your hopeless hair

I was so psyched yet so tired at the same time, which is hard to be. I was in of my state-the-obvious moods of "What the hell I'm seeing MCR with everyone".

The first few hours went pretty quick considering. Emma and I tried to come up with band names and a song, which basically meant I would make annoying, pressuring tick tock noises while Em did it haha. It was good though – she'll be famous one day *nods*.

Trips to McDonalds, trying to sleep, taking photos, group talks and video ipods occupied the next few hours.

At 3pm sound check began. Kate and I rushed over to the middle car park adjacent to the stage door. I know it may seem silly to get so excited over sound check, but I have a thing for sound checks. Something about them is so cool and awesome to me.  I love how they'll sometimes play each instrument separately, I don't know, it's almost like you appreciate the amount of work and perfection goes into it.

Sound check full songs (all the way through, not stopping) consisted of:

Welcome To The Black Parade

Helena

Give 'Em Hell Kid

This is How I Disappear

Dead! ( I think)

The check WTTBP a hell of a lot. So we heard the songs all the way through quite a few times which made me extremely happy and nervous and excited. Hahaha people clapped after the songs.

It was awesome. I may have shed a singular tear (yeah…WSOU reference :] ).

Kate was pretty excited. 'Pretty' being the understatement of the century.

The roadies thought we were all weird hahaha.

Sound check was neat.

Then we went around to the the gates to look around.

Met a few people I knew and talked to some kids about hair and bleaching haha. Woo!  I spotted some of the crew; Jeff P (tour manager), "Jane Doe" (makeup/ costume and whatnot) and Colin from Circa Survive which was cool.

And then Ray Toro came out of the stage door and was about a metre away from me. Yay! He looked tall and white and fro-full and whatnot. I smiled and waved. He gave everyone a  wave and jumped into the van (with good reason; the amount of screaming girls was amazing :O To be honest, the things I've heard about what happened that day were quite terrible when it comes to respecting the band.) Anyway no one had any idea where he was going but ehh he apparently was 'going to dinner' according to the security guards. At 4pm huh? LOL security guards amuse me. The a dude came back with a big back and (what we then relized later) Toro's jacket and Kate and I made theories about it being a body bag and whatnot. Girls were annoying - we left.

And if this is a coronation I ain't feeling the love

It was cool to see him though.

Talked to a few security guards, hahaha.

Security Guard: So…who is everyone here to see?

Elle: My Chemical Romance!

Security Guard:  : / Michael Buble?? *confused look*

Elle: *laughs* MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE

Security Guard:........?

Then we went back to Emma and Bre. Only two hours to go!

Whoa there were bitch fights back in the line, it was pretty hectic.

Ahh I was so damn excited. Even more so due to lack of sleep and a shitload of coke. Emma's voice singing the wrong words to 'River' was circling in my head haha, "I'm a believer" over and over…and over again.

Anyway we got tickets scanned, wristbands were put on, merch was looked at and drinks were bought .And we were ready to go in!

TBC...

xoep.