Seeing 5 Seconds Of Summer Live

I've had many eventful days but the day me and my friend Ellie went to see 5 Seconds of Summer has to be the most eventful one yet.

The day started with us simply going out for breakfast, having a quick walk around Sainsburys as that's the only shop near where we were staying then went back home to revise and have a shower. It was so peaceful and relaxing...until mother arrived.

Due to not actually staying in Cardiff it meant we had to get the train there, the train station was about a 5-10 minute car ride from where we were staying but obviously only when you are in a rush do you hit all the red lights.

Both Ellie and I thought we had about 20 minutes to get ready meaning we took our time...oh no!! We were told we had 3 exact minutes to get changed, do makeup and finish hair along with getting our butts in the car.

How we managed to do it I have no idea but somehow we did!!

The side that we parked the car meant we had to cross the windiest bridge ever resulting in us running and screaming praying we wouldn't fall!! (We didn't).

Annoyingly we had about a 10 minute wait for the bus which meant we could have actually finished out makeup instead of having to do it on the train but I guess early is better then late!!

The train arrived and we were so happy that we could relax again for another half hour and finish making ourselves looks half decent. Oh how we were wrong. After about three stops and waiting for what felt like ages for the ticket man to come, he was in our carriage and could see that we needed to buy tickets, to have the surprise of him walking past us and announce on a speaker that the train was unable to continue to Cardiff and we would have to get the bus. Now don’t get me wrong there is nothing wrong with that, except I had no idea where the hell we were! I have traveled to Cardiff many times now via the train and I’m getting quite good at saying what is where at all the stops that I have to go through on the way. But wherever we had to get off the train I had no idea, I even tried explaining it to family members that lived in Wales and they had no clue either. Due to needing to be the cool head of the two (Ellie doesn’t cope well under pressure) I asked people opposite us if they were also going to Cardiff and if we could stick with them as we had no idea what we were doing. Thankfully they laughed and let us follow them to the two buses that were provided for us. Although it wasn’t the most ideal situation at least we knew it was going to get us to Cardiff.

Yet somehow the train company didn’t think it through and only supplied two buses, one going to Newport and one going to Cardiff, so as you would expect all of us going to Cardiff got onto the Cardiff bus yet due to there being so many of us, loads of us were standing and it got to the point that those that hadn’t got on the bus yet was saying how unsafe it was and how this could have been planned better. As much as I hate confrontation this time I was actually kinda glad someone said something as the Newport bus then said it will take people to Cardiff afterwards. Ideal! Ellie and I quickly jumped off the Cardiff bus that would have resulted in us standing up and hitting loads of people as the bus moved for half an hour to a bus that was going the other way but meant we could actually sit down. At the time we thought this was a good idea, maybe not! For those who don’t know Newport was the complete opposite direction to Cardiff in comparison to wherever we were meaning the time that we would arrive in Cardiff was becoming further and further away. Either way we had a laugh and I was able to show Ellie more of Wales and finally we got to Cardiff.

Now being the smug idiots that we were, gloating that we didn’t have to pay for train nor bus tickets meaning we got to Cardiff for free, we didn’t realize that would stop us from getting out of the bus station. Now like mentioned before I was feeling pretty smug and wasn’t going to pay for what would now be an expensive train ticket (why do they always charge more paying at stations rather then on the train) to just get through some gates to get us into Cardiff central. Instead I dragged, quite literally, a complaining Ellie (she had a small rip in her tights and she was going crazy over it although the stress caused me to create a massive ladder, she didn’t see how little I cared (sorry Ellie but there were bigger things I was thinking about)) and made her walk around the train and bus station just so we didn’t have pay. It worked though; it got us to where we needed to be.

Like most people who go to Cardiff we went shopping. Sadly I didn’t get anything, mainly cause I am trying to save money and the only thing I really wanted was a £55 dress from Topshop which I really didn’t need, especially at that price. Ellie got a few things and in the end we were wandering around looking for shops that we hadn’t already looked at.

Now as much as I was flattered to know that two boys thought Ellie and I were cute but did they really need to run at us to inform us. Yes they did literally run. The worst parts were the fact that one of them said that they were a musician and travels often especially down to Plymouth and that they both had to be in the late 20’s or early 30’s whilst both Ellie and I were 17. It was just super awkward. With this the ‘musician’ then tried to get Ellie to skype him later that day. I’m sorry what? Why do boys feel the need to beg for attention? If they both just came up to us and started speaking to us nicely instead of making it look like they just wanted to get into our pants we would both probably have talked but it was just creepy. To any boys reading this, please don’t try and force girls to give you their number or follow you on social media pages as its just uncomfortable and makes you look super desperate. Just be nice and we will be nice back. Same for girls, don’t push yourself onto other people, it’s just a bad situation for everyone involved.

Either way we managed to get away and walk into the Mac shop leading to Ellie and I wanting to cry and all the amazing makeup neither of us could afford to buy. This also led to us playing the game find-the-5SOS-fans. It was good fun actually. Yet during this game we then spotted those lads twice again. Scarily once by the girl’s toilets that really freaked us out. Now I’m not saying that they were following us or that they were being inappropriate but it was just freaky, plus both Ellie and I are paranoid so that doesn’t help. We decided maybe if we left the shopping centre this would be better and maybe we could find somewhere to eat. Oh how we were wrong.

To put a long story short, after sitting down for ages contemplating where to go, Ellie is a fussy eater, we had to call my boyfriend so he could help us find where we were and get us back into the shopping centre with the food courts allowing us to go and eat. To this day Ellie is still smug that she was able to get us back to the food court before Sam could. Sorry Sam!

You would think it would be easy for two girls to find somewhere to eat when there are so many options and we needed to eat before the concert. Of course not! Instead of going to Ed’s Dinner where we were planning on going, or Pret where Ellie gave as an alternative we went to a Mexican restaurant that neither of us had heard of before. Such a sensible decision! Ellie had the chicken wings that she swears was under cooked so only ate half of one of the three and just ate my chips whilst I had some chicken that still looked pick so I just took them out and ate the rest. Personally we both said we wouldn’t go back but I’m sure there isn’t actually anything wrong with the food and we were both just over reacting. The actual restaurant itself looked amazing and was cozy but you still had your own space. It was very nice in that sense, very Mexican like.

Due to being such nice people (or stupid either way) I volunteered us to take my neighbours cousin and her friend into the concert and take them to their seats even if they were literally diagonally opposite to where we were sitting. So once we collected them we stood watching the line get bigger and bigger until the doors opened. Somehow this created three separate lines, which was quite amusing to watch. Yet this turned into us getting impatient so whilst the line was at the shortest that we had ever seen it we quickly joined resulting in us only having to line up for what must have been less then 5 minutes. Just when Ellie and I thought that the day was about to get better our tickets wouldn’t scan. I wanted to cry! It had something to do with the ink smudging meaning it wouldn’t work but thankfully the lady was kind enough to let us in anyway. I have never been so relieved my whole life…then we had to get to our seats. Getting the two girls to theirs was simple as Ellie and I were able to push our way through (must have been due to the stressful day) allowing us plenty of time to get to our seats before the opening act came on.

Lets just say this procedure nearly ended our friendship with the arguments we had on what we should do and trying not to create a scene, except sadly we did! We had the seat numbers 59 and 60 but for some strange reason the row ended at number 59. Two girls in the row tried to help us but even with their help we couldn’t work it out. If you think you’ve caused a massive scene before then you should have seen this. We had to get two assistances to come and…well assist, but this caused a slight problem, especially when the opening act came on just as the man was looking at our tickets resulting in the whole room going dark except for my phone light reflecting on the paper so the man can see the seat numbers. Thankfully the second man we had was more helpful and asked the people on our row to all move up one enabling us to sit together. I have never apologized to so many people in my life. Embarrassed was an understatement. Due to not actually knowing who the opening act was it wasn’t that big of a loss even if they were good. Sadly the only thing we could focus on was protecting Ellie from getting attacked by the foam finger of the person next to her. We clearly annoyed her!

Thankfully it didn’t take long for 5 Seconds of Summer to come on and we were up dancing and singing along like crazy people. I’m surprised after the day we had that we didn’t go crazy! The boys were amazing and we both loved the show, even if Ellie didn’t know all the songs and felt that they could have interacted with the crowd more. But hey it was 5 Seconds of Summer, we didn’t care after that.

Although we planned to meet the girls after the show was over to take them back to their hotel we couldn’t find them anywhere! We were basically the last people to leave the venue and looked everywhere for them with no clue where they could be. Due to the stress and excitement I didn’t even think about getting their numbers meaning I had no way of calling them but somehow they got mine and text me saying that they were back at the hotel and were fine. How I was not covered in grey hairs I have no idea!

After waiting for ages outside the hotel, and dragging Ellie around the shopping centre cause she needed the loo, we finally got picked up and started our journey back to Plymouth. 1am and home, ready to get up at half 6 for a shower and school. It was an interesting day lets just say that!

Talk to you later x 

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