I was thinking about my experiences with 54 over the past week and a bit and I realised that my whole perspective on the band has changed.
After Exeter, Lakis seemed rather taken aback that someone would travel a 200 mile round trip to see the band, spend most of the night talking with them and everything else. It was almost as if he was amazed someone would do that for them.
So, I go to see the band again at Dudley, Lakis gets me put on the guest list, they seem genuinely happy to see me again, still talked with us, cared what we thought about the performance - made it worth the journey again.
Before I saw them at Exeter, I thought 54 were a good young band, having seen them live twice, they've gone up in my opinion, still need a few things before they are a truly great band though imho
But more important than that, having spent time with the band, I'm thinking of them as great people rather than just a band, which very few people from bands have managed to do over the years. It's almost as if they're friends rather than anything else now (cue mad stalker music
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Anyway, the end result is that the band think a helluva lot of their fans and this is very much appreciated. It means a lot to Lakis that I'd journey 200 miles to see them - it means a lot to me that they made it worth that journey and that they care about it.
You know, I think I'm beginning to see why Madgirl's so obsessed with the band
After Exeter, Lakis seemed rather taken aback that someone would travel a 200 mile round trip to see the band, spend most of the night talking with them and everything else. It was almost as if he was amazed someone would do that for them.
So, I go to see the band again at Dudley, Lakis gets me put on the guest list, they seem genuinely happy to see me again, still talked with us, cared what we thought about the performance - made it worth the journey again.
Before I saw them at Exeter, I thought 54 were a good young band, having seen them live twice, they've gone up in my opinion, still need a few things before they are a truly great band though imho
But more important than that, having spent time with the band, I'm thinking of them as great people rather than just a band, which very few people from bands have managed to do over the years. It's almost as if they're friends rather than anything else now (cue mad stalker music
)Anyway, the end result is that the band think a helluva lot of their fans and this is very much appreciated. It means a lot to Lakis that I'd journey 200 miles to see them - it means a lot to me that they made it worth that journey and that they care about it.
You know, I think I'm beginning to see why Madgirl's so obsessed with the band
