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We (Richard, Robin, Christina and I) went to see the Kings of Emo tonight, at the astoundingly hot Carling Birmingham Academy (you have aircon, use it). The trip there was pretty fun, I’ve never driven around Birmingham city centre and only got a *bit* lost and ended up parking under the city in the car park for the fabbo refurbished Bullring shopping centre. We walked around the revitalised city centre trying to find the venue, cue Robin gesticulating wildly and saying yeah, it’s just round this corner, and us following someone that had a Jimmy Eat World t-shirt on. McDonalds dinner of 2 cheeseburgers, I made up for it later by having smoked salmon for supper. Since we got there over an hour after the doors opened there was no queue but we still hadn’t missed any of the support acts - I think. We were thoroughly warmed up by the almighty Hundred Reasons, I realised during this performance that they really are one of my favourite British bands, to be honest I think I preferred them to Jimmy, but that was probably because of familiarity. There was a fairly long wait before Jim came onto the stage and opened the set with an acoustic version of something from the new Futures album. I simply had to get out of the crush when they burst into “salt sweat…” as I feared for my mangled toes (I may have lost a nail - seriously). So Richard and I watched the excellent performance from the sidelines, my favourites were all the famous songs, as I only have the Futures album and didn’t recognise some of the more obscure stuff.

Much hilarity (read: boredom) ensued when we couldn’t find our way back into the car park cos the shopping centre was closed and it took us 20 minutes to realise that you had to go into an entrance that looked closed like the rest of it. Good times were had by all, except for when Richard wrote ‘gaymobile’ on the condensation in the car, the dastard.