Little Boots concert :D

The concert was fantastic :D I've been looking for photos on the Internet from our concert (as I couldn't belive the amount of people taking photos and videos on their phones and cameras) but couldn't find any. However I did find some from an earlier date in the same tour which you can see here. As you read through this blog post you'll find references to photos you can find in that link :)

We got to the venue 15mins before the doors opened and although there was already a queue it wasn't very long when we joined it. The venue was very small and intimate, but had fantastic acoustics. We managed to stand quite near the front. We weren't in rows as such, but there were only 2 or 3 people in front of me, so I was very close! And I could see :D I did have to stick my elbow in a big man next to me a few times as he kept pushing me out the way and then when that failed I just slipped in front of him :P I'd never stood before at a concert before, so was quite nervous about that. I hadn't realised that my claustrophobia would be a problem and I did feel quite claustrophobic at times, but I coped. And the venue was much hotter than I expected as it took ages for the air con to start, so I'd gone all wrapped up in loads of layers (poloneck with a t-shirt on top and then a hooded jacket on top of that), but went to the toilet to strip down to just a t-shirt! As for being on my feet for so long, I managed but it was hard. As I wasn't used to it, all my muscles (feet, legs, back, shoulders and neck) started hurting about half an hour into my standing. And I had to stand for 4 hours in total, owww! I did manage to stay on my feet though, but wouldn't do it again as I didn't realise it'd be that painful! :P

The reason I had to stand for so long is because there were 2 support acts on first and the stage had to be re-set up between each act, so I'd been standing for 3 hours by the time Little Boot came on stage! The first support act was Erik Hassel who was from Sweden. I didn't really like his music though. The second support act was Ellie Goulding who was really good. I think she's going to be huge. It was a shame that the instruments drowned her vocals out a bit though. You can see her in pictures 1 to 7.

Then eventually Little Boots came on! You can see her in pictures 8 to 15. And it was worth the wait because her performance was amazing :D For those of you who are familiar with her album 'Hands', she played all the tracks from that apart from 'No Brakes' and also performed a brand new track that wasn't even finished yet called 'Echoes'. Her voice was great live and as well as singing she also played lots of musical instruments - I counted at least 6! See pictures 10 and 15 for one of her stranger instruments called a tenori-on! I sang along to most of the songs. And Little Boots involved the audience with clapping in songs and seeing if we could sing key parts louder than Liverpool had :D

Little Boots wore some fantastic outfits too. Her tour is called the Skull of Dreams tour, so she had a big black skull with flashing eyes on stage with her! She started off wearing a shiny silver hooded cape and then took that off after the first song to reveal an amazing black and silver outfit (see picture 9). Later on she wore an white jacket over the top of it made of small-ish 3D pyramids. And towards the end she wore a white dressing gown before taking it off to reveal gold wings on her sleeves! And she had really long false eyelashes (which you can see in the photos) that I later discovered through one of her blogs on the Internet take her at least 4 attempts to put on each time, lol.

I bought a great Little Boots black tour t-shirt, which has her name as a simple logo on the front in sky blue and white and then her tour dates listed on the back :D

Me, mum and Claire all had a fantastic night :D :D :D