I’m currently lying on my bed at the hostel after meeting the man who has impacted my life arguably more than anyone else. This is gonna be the biggest mess of thoughts because I don’t even know how to organise what I’m feeling at the moment, and I don’t want to forget anything.
Okay so the show was absolutely phenomenal. I couldn’t eat before hand because I was so nervous. I’ve been waiting for this day for nearly 5 years, and it could not have been better. Seeing Darren live is the most incredible experience I’ve had.
I was always really skeptical when people said that they forget that it’s him on that stage, but now I totally understand. I’ve also seen the bootleg and listened to multiple audios of the show, and the real thing is infinitely better. The moment he descends from those rafters will be forever imprinted in my mind as the first time I saw my idol live.
There was an issue tonight, but Darren covered it really really well. At the end of Tear Me Down, he was having issues with his wig, so he ripped it off, and got Rebecca to put it back on after. After the song, he said something along the lines of “wow, we’re already wigging out tonight!”.
I don’t know if they’re new adlibs or if he’s been doing them for a while, but there was also “I saw an American in Paris… Hilton” during the section about shows he could see. He carwashed a middle aged guy who at first had his arm on the armrest, but Darren nudged it off, and the guy seemed pretty okay with it, but I was in mezzanine so I couldn’t really see properly. The guy he kissed was there with his boyfriend (?), and Hedwig was flirting so hard with both of them at the same time.
I was at the front of stage door, in the very first section he comes to. My friend Emma asked him a question, and he spent ages answering that, and then other people were talking to him so I didn’t get a chance, but I did get him to sign my phone and he took it and turned it around to face me while I was filming so I have video proof that we were in the same place! I’ll try to post the video soon but I’m not sure what tumblrs limit for videos is so we’ll see how it goes. Literally as soon as I walked away from stage door to let others get to the front, I broke down crying. I had to stop at the doors of the theatre for a minute to calm down.
It’s honestly so surreal that I just met my idol. He means so much to me and had changed my life in so many ways. I didn’t get to tell him that, but hopefully tomorrow night I might get to say something to him, and hopefully give him the gift that Emma and I put together that includes a letter from me.
Okay that’s enough for now, but be prepared for another post like this tomorrow night.
July 8, 2015
July 8, 2015
