Athletes In Paris @Kensington Roof Gardens, London
10.2.2012
After a day of hard core shopping and running on a tight + late schedule the wife couple ElluLinda finally got on the move.
As we knew we were heading off to a fancypancy members only club we decided to take an early start.
Thinking nobody would notice our special bottleneck gloves.
Ellu's words: 'Nyt lähtee lapasesta.' = A Finnish saying meaning that the situation will get out of hand. Literally translated: Now it will go out of the mitten.
Ellu forgot her iPhone on the tube. (thankfully some friendly French tourists called out for us and Ellu got it back)
Ellu had topping up problems with her Oyster card.
We were running 2hours late to get to the gig. Surprise, surprise.
We couldn't find the club.
Thankfully we were guided to the gardens by a polite and posh Kensington male.
One fine area Kensington is. And oh my how golly lovely and HUGE the Whole Foods there is.
Anyway.
We finally got to the venue and happily were there right on time to see Rosie Vanier and later our great Athletes In Paris.
Very much liked Rosie's hair deco!
I have to say my concentration on her performance wasn't exactly 100% as I was chatting away with co-workers and Ellu.
But after the gig I did go back to check what I'd more or less experienced but missed. And she's not that bad!
Rosie Vanier online here.
And then it was time for Athletes In Paris! The last act of the night.
Find the Athletes online here.
Most of my onethousandtwohundredandfiftytree pictures were of Matt, the singer, as the stage lights were pretty perfectly on him. Hardly any light in the back. As usual.
The gig kicked off with an acoustic version of the band's new single 'Echoes Louder Than Voices' which they played off stage. Later played again on stage.
We got to hear all our favorites like 'No Bridge, No Crossing Allowed', 'Heartbeat' and 'Borrowed Time'.
You can check out some shaky video I took from here:
What do you think about the newest single 'Echoes Louder Than Voices'?
After the gig we continued with a drink at the more clubbish side of the venue.
Continued by checking out a bar nearby the Roof Gardens with a few of the band members as the other half of the band stayed to pack up. We did offer to stay and help! Roadies.
Ellu found her new love, a full length fur jacket. Unfortunately the jacket owner wasn't too fond of Ellu's attempt to take it with her.
Unfortunately the Athletes had to head off home to return their van in good time. Pity they couldn't stay for a good night out with us!
We decided to go back into the the club as we had free access.
A great night. Many new 'friends'.
Greetings to the guy from Dubai who taught us a lesson of his country's manners:
'In Dubai we don't care about money. We care about friends. Have a lovely evening ladies. Let me know if there are any problems or if you would like more drinks.'
I guess it was true as he didn't really care about the thousand pound stack of money he was going through in his hands.
Greetings to Mr. South Africa.
Greetings to all the people we found pictures of in my camera.
Greetings to the person who was taking all those random pictures.
Greetings to the VIP area of the club.
Greetings to the toilets and thank you for very good toilet roll. We enjoyed it so much that we took a couple with us back home. (common' it was so soft!!)
Greetings to the girls who were drinking black sambuca.
And last but not least: greetings to whoever decided to spill red wine on my cream leather jacket.
FYI thankfully I rushed to the toilet and got it all off. Looks brand. Phew.
All in all a night out with Ellu never lets me down.
Bus, McDo :(, bus 2, home, safe, sleep.
Brilliant.
xo
Linda
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