{"id":4090,"date":"2013-04-03T14:12:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T13:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aguidetolovelossanddesperation.com\/?p=4090"},"modified":"2013-04-12T21:57:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T20:57:17","slug":"imagine-dragons-o2-academy-bristol-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aguidetolovelossanddesperation.com\/?p=4090","title":{"rendered":"Imagine Dragons @ O2 Academy Bristol 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have actually been there<\/strong>. I cannot believe it. I\u2019d waited for two months.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

In the morning, I went to an interview. Then I took the young lady to her friend, with whom she went somewhere where they have sea, for a week. A ticket, my mobile, money and paper GPS in my pocket and also I went to refuel for 30 pounds. I could have chosen either a shorter way around Stonehenge and Bath or up way to Swindon and on M4 to Bristol. The weather was beautiful, it was warm, and I wanted to watch the landscape so I took the way around the stones. My paper GPS didn\u2019t fail me, although once it didn\u2019t give me any idea where to go. Just before Bath, I drove a teeny-tiny road and I got somewhere totally bizarre\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

YES<\/strong>. I have seen the real old English countryside<\/strong>, all inclusive, for the first time! Too bad I didn\u2019t have Lucy\u2019s camera with me, because you wouldn\u2019t believe it and it was too far away to use my iPhone. I have never seen so much greenery and those classic stone houses built on hills. So many sheeps, small roads\u2026 I was driving about 5 miles per hour with my mouth wide open and I was just like oh my, oh my, oooh myyyy. I even stopped twice just because I couldn\u2019t believe my own eyes and I kept thinking that there\u2019s just a castle missing! Seriously, so typical!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

So I keep driving for like 3 minutes and guess what I see, a castle XDDDDDDDDDD<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The village is called Norton Saint Philip<\/strong>, if any of you were in the neighbourhood, you have to go there. Then there was another village, very similar. After ten minutes I saw Bath from another hill, so mouth wide open again and also some more of ooooh myyy. Like when we were in Bath for the first time. We all just stood there on the hill, not able to speak for 3 minutes.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Fakt jsem tam byla<\/strong>. Nem\u016f\u017eu tomu uv\u011b\u0159it. \u010cekala jsem dva m\u011bs\u00edce.<\/p>\n

R\u00e1no jsem m\u011bla pohovor a v poledne jsem vezla sle\u010dnu ke kamar\u00e1dce se kterou let\u011bly na t\u00fdden n\u011bkam k mo\u0159i. V kapse l\u00edstek, telefon, pen\u00edze, pap\u00edrovou navigaci a jela jsem je\u0161t\u011b pro benz\u00edn za 30 liber. Mohla jsem si vybrat cestu bu\u010f krat\u0161\u00ed okolo Stonehenge<\/em> a obejct Bath<\/em> nebo nahoru ke Swindonu<\/em> a po M4 do Bristolu<\/em>. Bylo n\u00e1dhern\u011b, bylo teplo, cht\u011bla jsem se pod\u00edvat po okol\u00ed, tak\u017ee jsem jela okolo kamen\u016f. Moje pap\u00edrov\u00e1 navigace m\u011b nezklamala i kdy\u017e jednou v\u016fbec nebyla napsan\u00e1 silnice, kam m\u00e1m ject. P\u0159ed Bathem jsem jela na \u00fapln\u011b mali\u010dkou silni\u010dku a dostala jsem se n\u011bkam, kde jsem to v\u016fbec nech\u00e1pala…<\/p>\n

ANO<\/strong>. Poprv\u00e9 jsem vid\u011bla opravdovou starou anglickou countryside<\/em><\/strong> se v\u0161\u00edm v\u0161udy! \u0160koda, \u017ee jsem nem\u011bla s sebou L\u016fcy<\/em> fo\u0165\u00e1k, proto\u017ee byste um\u0159eli a na iPhone<\/em> to bylo moc daleko. Takov\u00fd zelen\u011b a takov\u00fdch klasick\u00fdch kamenn\u00fdch bar\u00e1k\u016f v r\u016fzn\u00fdch kopc\u00edch jsem nikdy nevid\u011bla. Tolik ovc\u00ed, silni\u010dek… jela jsem rychlost\u00ed asi 5 mil\/h s \u00fapln\u011b otev\u0159enou hubou a \u0159\u00edkala jsem na v\u0161echno jenom ty vole, ty vole, tyyy voooole<\/em>. Dvakr\u00e1t jsem zastavila, abych uv\u011b\u0159ila sv\u00fdm vlastn\u00edm o\u010d\u00edm a \u0159\u00edkala jsem si \u00fapln\u011b, \u017ee tady chyb\u00ed naho\u0159e n\u011bkde u\u017e jen hrad! Fakt takov\u00e1 klasika!<\/p>\n

Jedu d\u00e1l asi 3 minuty a co nevid\u00edm, hrad XDDDDDDDDDDD<\/p>\n

Vesni\u010dka se jmenuje Norton Saint Philip<\/strong><\/em>, kdybyste n\u011bkdy n\u00e1hodou byli n\u011bkde v okol\u00ed, mus\u00edte se tam pod\u00edvat. Za vesnic\u00ed je je\u0161t\u011b jedna skoro stejn\u00e1. Po deseti minut\u00e1ch m\u011b \u010dekal zase pohled na Bath z jednoho kopce, tak\u017ee znova otev\u0159en\u00e1 huba a znova tyyy vooole<\/em>. Jak kdy\u017e jsme byly v Bathu poprv\u00e9. V\u0161echny jsme st\u00e1ly na kopci a 3 minuty nebyl nikdo schopn\u00fd slova.<\/p>\n

\"\"Toilet break, some texting and showing off with my ticket <3 <\/span>
\nN\u011bjak\u00e1 ta pauza na z\u00e1chod, smsky a pochluben\u00ed se je\u0161t\u011b jednou l\u00edstkem<3<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"How to get to the Bristol centre\u2026 <\/span>
\nJak se dostat do centra Bristolu…<\/em><\/p>\n

In Bristol, I had this awesome map and I was quite fucked, so once I took a wrong turn. 1 km before the parking lot, I tried turning on the iPhone navigation that doesn\u2019t really work and you need to keep refreshing. For once, it actually worked and it led me where I needed to! Driving in Bristol is TRAGIC. To me, it was even worse than London! I parked the car and quickly went for a walk. It was about 2 PM, warm weather, the city is amazing amazing, we need to go shopping there with my girls sometimes and also, I want to see that village again <333<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

However, I wanted to stand in the first row, so at 3 PM, I went to wait next to O2 Academy<\/strong>. And I was really the first one there. One minute later, two girls came so we started talking and waited together the whole 4 hours. At 5 PM, it was terribly cold, we were standing out of the sun, and the wind was blowing. We were all wearing just sweatshirts, what a stupid idea. The time was running insanely slowly. Security was offering me newspaper to sit on, but I didn\u2019t want to, thanks.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

And so I found out I might be too old to wait for hours just to be in the first row. It\u2019s not how it was and it just doesn\u2019t go so well. When they finally started letting us in at 7 PM, they let the people with premium tickets in first, so I wasn\u2019t in the middle, but I had to push away some people at the side. What an outrage!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

V Bristolu jsem byla popravd\u011b s touto \u00fa\u017easnou mapou docela v pi\u010di, tak\u017ee jsem si jednou zajela o kousek blb\u011b a cca 1 km p\u0159ed parkovi\u0161t\u011bm jsem si zapnula tu navigaci na iPhonu, jak nefunguje moc a mus\u00edte to refreshovat a ona zrovna fungovala a dovedla m\u011b \u00fapln\u011b na m\u00edsto! Bristol je na \u0159\u00edzen\u00ed TRAGICKEJ. Mi to p\u0159i\u0161lo hor\u0161\u00ed, ne\u017e Lond\u00fdn! \u00a0Zaparkovat a j\u00edt se proj\u00edt rychle. Byly asi dv\u011b hodiny odpoledne, teplo, m\u011bsto je \u00fa\u017easn\u00fd \u00fa\u017easn\u00fd \u00fa\u017easn\u00fd, mus\u00edme tam n\u011bkdy ject s holkama nakupovat a na v\u00fdlet a stejn\u011b chci znova do t\u00fd vesni\u010dky<333<\/p>\n

Cht\u011bla jsem bejt ale v prvn\u00ed \u0159ad\u011b, tak jsem \u0161la ve t\u0159i \u010dekat k O2 Academy<\/strong><\/em>. A byla jsem tam fakt prvn\u00ed. Za minutu p\u0159i\u0161ly dv\u011b holky, daly jsme se do \u0159e\u010di a spolu pak \u010dekaly cel\u00fd 4 hodiny. V p\u011bt u\u017e byla fakt \u0161\u00edlen\u00e1 kosa, byly jsme ve st\u00ednu, foukalo. V\u0161echny jen mikiny, blbej n\u00e1pad. Ten \u010das nejv\u00edc na sv\u011bt\u011b neut\u00edkal prost\u011b. Security mi nab\u00edzeli noviny, jestli si nechci aspo\u0148 sednout, nechci vole.<\/p>\n

Zjistila jsem, \u017ee jsem u\u017e bohu\u017eel star\u00e1 na to, abych hodiny \u010dekala kv\u016fli prvn\u00ed \u0159ad\u011b. U\u017e to nen\u00ed to co d\u0159\u00edv a prost\u011b to nejde tak dob\u0159e. Kdy\u017e kone\u010dn\u011b v sedm za\u010dali pou\u0161t\u011bt dovnit\u0159, tak za\u010dali pou\u0161t\u011bt lidi s p\u0159ednostn\u00edma l\u00edstkama, tak\u017ee jsem se kv\u016fli nim nedostala doprost\u0159edka, ale musela jsem vy\u0161oupnout n\u011bjak\u00fd lidi trochu u kraje! Drzost!<\/p>\n

\"\"We are waiting :)<\/span>
\n\u010cek\u00e1me :)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"I didn’t get this XDDDD<\/span>
\nJsem nech\u00e1pala XDDDD<\/em><\/p>\n

The Good Natured<\/span> were opening for them and it was just like if YYYs were playing. Regarding style, clothes, the front singer\u2019s behaviour, just everything, it was just a copy of YYYs. But I liked them.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

After six and a half hour it was finally here. The Imagine Dragons were on the stage. I was singing almost all the songs except for like two. The guys got better according to what I saw on YT, they had really worked on the show. Unfortunately, there was this big defect that they can\u2019t play and sing well Radioactive, which is probably the most important thing ever, right XDDDDD I get it, it must be hard, but when hearing it live, it\u2019s not really kosher. Here you can hear<\/span>, how we the fans nailed it better in the beginning :)))<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Jako p\u0159edkapela hr\u00e1li The Good Natured<\/em><\/a> a bylo to, jako kdyby hr\u00e1li YYYs<\/strong>. Co se stylu t\u00fdk\u00e1, oble\u010den\u00ed a chov\u00e1n\u00ed zp\u011bva\u010dky i pohyb\u016f, prost\u011b v\u0161echno, takov\u00e1 kopie YYYs prost\u011b, ale l\u00edbili se mi. Na YT mi pak nep\u0159i\u0161li moc podobn\u00ed, ale na koncert\u011b hrozn\u011b.<\/p>\n

Po \u0161esti a p\u016fl hodin\u00e1ch jsem se do\u010dkala a Imagine Dragons<\/em> p\u0159i\u0161li na sc\u00e9nu. Zp\u00edvala jsem skoro v\u0161echny p\u00edsni\u010dky, a\u017e asi na dv\u011b, kluci se zlep\u0161ili podle toho co jsem vid\u011bla na YT, tak to maj\u00ed promakan\u011bj\u0161\u00ed. Bohu\u017eel je tady jedna velk\u00e1 vada a to ta, \u017ee oni prost\u011b neum\u00ed hezky zahr\u00e1t a zazp\u00edvat Radioactive<\/em>, co\u017e je asi nejpodstatn\u011bj\u0161\u00ed v\u011bc ever, \u017eejo XDDDDD Ch\u00e1pu, jak t\u011b\u017ek\u00fd to mus\u00ed bejt, ale na\u017eivo to nen\u00ed \u00fapln\u011b ko\u0161\u00e9r. Tady m\u016f\u017eete sly\u0161et<\/strong><\/a>, jak my fanou\u0161ci jsme si to dali naza\u010d\u00e1tku l\u00edp :)))<\/p>\n

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One of my videos, where there\u2019s this certain part of the song, when they were very enthusiastic and yes, they destroyed a drum :)) So for the rest of the gig, they had to use an audio drum. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

A jednou moje video, kde je \u010d\u00e1st p\u00edsni\u010dky, kdy\u017e byli zrovna zap\u00e1len\u00ed a ano, zni\u010dili si buben :)) Tak\u017ee zbytek koncertu jeli na pu\u0161t\u011bn\u00fd audiobuben.<\/em><\/p>\n

I was really looking forward to hearing Bleeding Out and Demons, everything was there, so I\u2019m the happiest person in the world. Eventually, my parents paid for the ticket, because I was telling my mum how I was looking forward to it and how I paid 50 pounds. They sent me 50 pounds and told me to enjoy the gig. I\u2019d kill them for things like this, one can\u2019t tell them anything, but of course, I thank them very very much :)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Dan Reynolds stopped at the microphone for a moment. He said how England is amazing and that with all the energy that\u2019s flowing everywhere he felt like he was on some huge festival. At the end, he told us: \u201cGuys, I have no idea how the hell you can even know us!<\/strong>\u201d :)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I took pictures and videos just with my iPhone, so no big expectations. There\u2019s this one instagram photo you could have seen on Facebook at 2 AM :))) and a few more.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Hrozn\u011b jsem se t\u011b\u0161ila na Bleeding Out <\/em>a Demons<\/em>, v\u0161echno mi bylo zahran\u00e9, tak\u017ee jsem spokojen\u00e1 \u00fapln\u011b nejv\u00edc. Nakonec mi l\u00edstek na koncert koupili rodi\u010de, proto\u017ee jsem mamce vypr\u00e1v\u011bla jak se tam t\u011b\u0161\u00edm a jak jsem d\u00e1vala pades\u00e1t liber a oni mi prost\u011b poslali pades\u00e1t liber, \u017ee si m\u00e1m u\u017e\u00edt koncert. Vra\u017edila bych za tohle, \u010dlov\u011bk nem\u016f\u017ee nic \u0159\u00edct ani rad\u0161i, ale stra\u0161n\u011b jim za to d\u011bkuju, \u017eejo :)<\/p>\n

Dan Reynolds<\/em> se na chv\u00edli zastavil u mikrofonu, \u0159ekl, jak je Anglie \u00fa\u017easn\u00e1 a \u017ee se cejt\u00ed s celou tou energi\u00ed co v\u0161ude proud\u00ed jak na n\u011bjak\u00e9m velk\u00e9m festivale. A nakonec \u0159\u00edkal: „J\u00e1 vlastn\u011b v\u016fbec nev\u00edm lidi, jak vy n\u00e1s sakra m\u016f\u017eete vlastn\u011b zn\u00e1t!<\/strong><\/em>“ :)<\/p>\n

Fotila a to\u010dila jsem jenom iPhonem, tak\u017ee ne\u010dekejte z\u00e1zraky. Jedna instagramov\u00e1 fotka, kterou jste u\u017e ve dv\u011b r\u00e1no mohli vid\u011bt na facebooku :))) a p\u00e1r dal\u0161\u00edch.<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"(c) my best friend iPhone 4 and me!
\n(c) m\u016fj nejlep\u0161\u00ed kamar\u00e1d iPhone 4 a j\u00e1!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

After the gig, we asked for one more song and then the guys took off and we went home. I\u2019m really too old for stuff like fighting over the playlists or running to the dressing room and demanding drumsticks. The experience was enough for me and also in my hand, I was holding one of the balloons that were flying all around the hall. I don\u2019t even know why. Slowly I was going, I was walking away, when suddenly, from the zone above the dressing room, some guy called down to me: \u201cHey, you!\u201d so I raised my head and I said: \u201cWho, me?\u201d and he said: \u201cWell yeah, of course, hey you know what? Here\u2019s a T-shirt from us.\u201d and he threw an Imagine Dragons T-shirt for me and winked. I\u2019ll most likely never know who he was and why he threw it to me, but okay, I have a T-shirt from ID gig and I\u2019m happy :)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Po koncert\u011b jsme si vydupali je\u0161t\u011b dal\u0161\u00ed p\u00edsni\u010dku a pak to ho\u0161i zabalili a \u0161lo se pry\u010d. Jsem fakt u\u017e moc star\u00e1 na to, se tam pr\u00e1t o playlisty nebo b\u011bhat za n\u011bk\u00fdm do \u0161atny a cht\u00edt pali\u010dky. U\u017e mi sta\u010d\u00ed asi jen za\u017eitek a taky jsem v ruce dr\u017eela jeden z balonk\u016f, co l\u00edtaly v\u0161ude po hale. Ani nev\u00edm pro\u010d. Pomalu jdu, odch\u00e1z\u00edm, kdy\u017e odnaho\u0159e ze z\u00f3ny nad \u0161atnou na m\u011b zavol\u00e1 n\u011bjakej t\u00fdpek: „Hele, ty!<\/em>“ zvednu hlavu a \u0159\u00edk\u00e1m: „To jako j\u00e1?<\/em>“ a on: „No jasn\u011b, \u017ee ty, hele v\u00ed\u0161 co? Tady m\u00e1\u0161 od n\u00e1s tri\u010dko.<\/em>“ a hodil mi dol\u016f tri\u010dko Imagine Dragons<\/em> a mrknul. Asi se nikdy nedozv\u00edm kdo to byl a pro\u010d ho hodil zrovna mn\u011b, ale ok, m\u00e1m tri\u010dko z koncertu ID a jsem \u0161\u0165astn\u00e1 :)<\/p>\n

\"\"The T-shirt, the baloon and a bottle.
\nTri\u010dko, balonek a fla\u0161ka. <\/em><\/p>\n

That\u2019s my story. I\u2019ll probably see them again in the summer. I already paid for the tickets but they didn\u2019t arrive yet somehow. Today the weather\u2019s nice too, I can\u2019t speak, I\u2019m tired and I might die. I got cold when going to the parking lot in the night, luckily the parking fee was just 5.50 pounds. When driving home, I took the road to Swindon and then all the way down to Grateley. 1 AM on the highway \u2013 cool. Costa soy latte, minus one degree outside and me and Franz Ferdinand in the car :)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

To\u0165 m\u016fj p\u0159\u00edb\u011bh. Pravd\u011bpodobn\u011b je uvid\u00edm je\u0161t\u011b v l\u00e9t\u011b, l\u00edstky koupeny, zaplaceny, ale nep\u0159i\u0161ly n\u011bjak je\u0161t\u011b. Dneska tady je taky hezky, j\u00e1 nem\u00e1m hlas, jsem ospal\u00e1 a zem\u0159u asi. V noci cestou na parkovi\u0161t\u011b zima, parkov\u00e1n\u00ed na\u0161t\u011bst\u00ed jen za 5,50 liber a dom\u016f jsem jela na Swindon<\/em> a pak dol\u016f p\u0159\u00edmo do Grateley<\/em>. V jednu r\u00e1no na d\u00e1lnici pohoda, Costa sojov\u00e9 latt\u00e9, m\u00ednus jedna venku a j\u00e1 a Franz Ferdinand<\/em> v aut\u011b :)<\/p>\n

(Za p\u0159eklad moc d\u011bkuju Hani\u010dce! J\u00e1 bych ud\u011blala chybu u\u017e v prvn\u00ed v\u011bt\u011b, jako\u017ee jenom I was there…)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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