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Convention 2003
Well once again, the weekend seemed to surpass all expectations. I suffered badly with nearly losing my voice,
but hey it was worth it! If you wanna see some pics, look in the gallery or www.stevenisbet.com/KT/ , http://www.lordflashheart.com/convo2003.html
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Friday
We arrived at the Offa Tavern at about 3pm to
be greeted by Andy (Thor), Steve (Loretta) Marie, Richard (Dicko) ,Sarah (Sas), At about half four, Holly (Horlicks), Andy, Marie and I, decided to set off to the
campus to get settled in, so we bid farewell to the other guys and all managed
to squeeze into the back seat of my mums car.
After arriving and me having a mild panic attack for losing my info,
then dashing through the torrential rain, we finally arrived at the
chalet. After an hour or so Julie (Black-Rose),
Jimmy and Samantha arrived at our chalet closely followed by Sarah and Les
(Zippy) so we all set off to see what was going on in the ballroom.
After sitting through a some dreadful karaoke acts, Holly and I found
Marc (Lord-Flash-Heart),Dan (Nunzio)
and Dave. We all headed over to the
ballroom to watch the welcome messages from Jacky and the recorded one from
Brian *how lovely and happy he looks too*.
MayQueen sorry….GayQueen,
came on and were very good, however the talent of the rest of the band was
overlooked by the very camp antics of the lead singer *looks at Steve for the
impression* Now I’m here……….
Then it was off back to our chalet for a party and I’m not even gonna
try to attempt to name who turned up this year, except that it was bloody good
fun, then Raff turned up to play some music, I swear he’s become like the
entertainment of the convention. Marie
and Andy had gone to sleep earlier in the evening and as we were being very
loud, Andy came out in his old mans dressing gown looking very sexy, and
shouted at us to be quiet, rightly so! So Steve, Holly, Les and I decided to
track down Katie who was at Marcs
chalet, which involved a stupid Monkees walk
back. Much drinking and giggling
carried on till morning.
Saturday.
No sleep for me so I decided to clean the chalet manically,
and it is virtually impossible to get grass off of the carpet without a hoover! Went off to the market, I was not impressed, just
the usual collection of bootlegs and pictures, not much else. We all trundled
over to the Ballroom as Katie was taking part in the Tug Of War, we were nice,
we didn’t laugh at the funny faces she made, in fact we even cheered her on, it
must have worked cos her team got in the semi final.
After much walking around, Holly, Katie, Jamie and I, sat down to watch the
Wembley 86 DVD, which was just fab! I can’t wait for
it to be released in June. Its got lots of outtakes
and bits that had been cut from the video like Freddie’s “they’re talking from
here” speech.
Next was the fancy dress evening, the theme was Black and White/We Will
Rock You, apart from Katie, Julie and Samantha none of us even attempted to
dress up, well my nails were black and white ;)but they looked fab all punked up!! Next was Jeff
Scott Soto who was very very good, I won’t try to
describe his set list cos I have no idea, I was too busy dancing with Steve, Horlicks
and Katie. But rest assured JSS sounds much much
better with his own band. After a very
long set, we all proceeded to dance into the early hours.
More partying at our chalet took place until the early hours, I managed to crawl into bed for an hour till we HAD
to get up.
Sunday
*Happy Birthday to Andy babe*
We all rose at the unearthly hour of
We all settled down to watch the extras from the Wembley DVD, well I
missed half of them, but the bits I saw were great. Then it was time for “We will rock you”
which was much better than I’d remembered even though it’d been a year since
I’d last seen it. I have to see it live
again before it sets off around the world. I set off to find some painkillers
for my throat as I’d now nearly completely lost my voice, I didn’t however have
SARS, as Steve suspected we both had.
We then had a few hours of Raffles, Awards, oh and the Talent Contest
which was great. The standard was very high and it was won by a guy who did a
terrific version of Meatloaf songs, some guys on guitars came 2nd,
and Raff’s friend came 3rd, there was
major controversy cos one of the best acts, a
rendition of the “High Voltage” video by two sisters failed to win
anything…..Blasphemy!
JSS came back to do an acoustic set but to be honest I didn’t pay much
attention. He was apparently very good, but my throat was giving me hell and I
still couldn’t find any painkillers.
Julie did get a kiss of him though *wahey*. We
managed to find a table and I had a great night, dancing around, wearing both
of Katies hats in
succession. Then it was back to the chalet once again.
This year the party on the Sunday was one of the best, everyone was
still in great spirits and very lively despite all the craziness of the last
few days, many songs, discussions and jokes till it was time to leave… Special
mention goes to Raff and his hilarious version of Happy Birthday for our dear
Andy.
Monday
After we all cleared up the chalet and me declaring my love to Steve
with a token like no other, 2 nearly empty Vodka bottles, we finally vacated
the rooms. Said our final goodbyes
outside the reception and made lots of plans to meet up again soon. We can’t wait till next year to have that
much fun.
Special thanks to all these people for a fab
weekend:
Andy, Marie and Horlicks: I couldn’t have had
better people to share with *hugs*
Steve: *cough* I HATE YOU! ;) *cough*
Katie: The conventions get better and better,
thanks for the company.
Raff: Thanks for the music, good company and the lovely hugs ;)
Marc, Dave, Dan: Twang…..do you like bread?...i have legs….bye….i love you
Sarah and Richard: We meet again! Love the monkey!
Julie, Jimmy, Samantha, Steve: Great to see you guys again, don’t leave
it another year
Jamie: See you next year! No arguments.
Tessa: lovely to see you, hope it all worked out in the end.
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