Fangirling hard

I may have mentioned Coasts once or twice on this blog before (by Coasts I mean the band not the geographical terrain) and that would probably be because I'm fangirling….hard.

To be honest I hopped on the bandwagon fairly late in the game  when I randomly decided to go and see this indie rock band at the Wardrobe in October 2015. It wasn't  'random' though was it, it was fate.

Coasts returned to Leeds only a week later to play a free gig at Trinity Kitchen and guess who was front and centre.

Most people who I talk to and say that I'm going to-yet another- Coasts gig don't actually know who I'm babbling on about so here's the scoop:

The band, now known as Coasts, formed in Bristol in 2011 after attending the same university; Bath Spa uni - the very same one that I attended. 

I found out, when I asked them in Hamburg, that the guys (well Chris and Jimmy at least) did Performing Arts and graduated the same year that I arrived. (2009)

Coasts may be most widely known for having had appeared on the second season of Made In Chelsea or maybe you heard them on FIFA16.  They released their debut album in January of this year and have been blowing things out of the water ever since.

Earlier this year, in March actually, I kind of went to Germany to go to the Berlin and Hamburg dates of Coasts European tour yet alas I didn't have enough dollar to get to the U.S. for the American leg. *cries*




Alas this was not the case... insert awkward dialogue from the merch table:

However when Chris, Jimmy, Ben, David and Liam returned to the U.K. I knew that it was a 'go hard or go home' situation.

The original plan was to go to the first and last nights of tour (which were Bristol and Leeds) yet unfortunately  for me Coasts are just so awesome that Bristol was soon sold out….closely followed by all the tickets for Oxford being snapped up.

Last Thursday I woke up early to make a large batch of chocolate chip cookies before hopping into the car. Glasgow here I come!

Except before that could happen I may have had a ever so slight breakdown.

When I bought my tickets for the Garage 2 at Glasgow which I would then be able to pick up at the venue the website told me to bring along my confirmation email but the problem was that there wasn't an email to be found….anywhere.

The clock was ticking and I still didn't know where this email was. The doors at the venue were set to open at seven but it was nearing five and we still hadn't left the house and it was going to take four hours to get to Glasgow.

Imagine the scene, you're cruising along the M8 and suddenly you desperately need to go to the toilet. You can't stop though because otherwise you'll miss the gig completely. Hence the need for the bum shuffle dance as we journeyed further into Scotland.

No sooner had we pulled up into Sauchiehall Road and walked through the doors (I didn't even need that bloody email) than Coasts came on stage with Wallow. I loved the feeling of walking into the club and being met by a wall of incredible sound.

The Glasgow crowd were hilarious and I especially loved the chanting of 'Game Of Thrones' before Wolves.  Somebody even even ended up splashing beer over my head which was actually quite welcome because it got very, very sweaty.

We were spending the weekend at our cottage (another couple of hours further on) so at the end of the set we weren't able to linger. There was just time to give Chris the box of cookies.

Fast forward a few days and we have a familiar situation yet in reverse as now we need to get back to Leeds.

My sister was supposed to be meeting me at the Brudnell Social Club yet as she was pulling out of the drive her car broke down.

Coasts were going to be on stage in approximately forty minutes time and neither of us were there yet.

If I thought that the Glasgow crowd were great then Leeds was totally insane! Forget Game Of Thrones this was more full on stage invasion. Completely epic!

You  know when you are about to a really famous person and/or someone you really admire and get super tongue tied and nervous - well you would have thought that I'd be over that by now as I had kind of met Coasts once or twice before *ahem*

Jimmy: hey we've seen you before.

Chris: yeah she came to Glasgow...and Germany

Me: *thinks* I wonder if they liked their cookies