Buying tickets for Athlete is harder than you might think! This being the second time I have seen them I have tried desperately to get in the standing area rather than the seating area where my last tickets were.

The first time I went to see Athlete was at the Brixton Academy in London. It was brilliant and even though I only heard some of their songs before I was struck by how good their other songs were.

Tunes such as Wires, You Got Style and Half Light were obviously massive hits at the gig that got me hooked on to their anthem style music that they play. I still think about that gig a lot for a number of reasons, some of them which I cannot say but what I can say is the crowd and the lights (and of course the band) were in tune and amazing! It was electric to say the least. Now I did have more than my fair share of pints that evening, and so did some others! But I am not over exaggerating when I say that that night magic was free flowing from the stage right to the very back of the venue. Check out a few of these photos I found on the net from Avolites

Based on that experience I wanted to go see them again. As per usual Sam and Billy (who didn’t attend the last gig) are normally straight on to the bandwagon when the words ‘do you’ and ‘gig’ are mentioned in a sentence. Billy hasn’t been to too many gigs but Sam is a groupie of nearly every band in the world. She loves gigging so any chance she’s all over it like white on rice.

I was on the net trying to find people talking about the Brixton gig and found out that Athlete were coming to the Brighton Centre which is not too far away from St. Leonards On Sea (hmmm maybe it is ). Sam organised the tickets for Athlete and both Billy and Sam met me in Brighton after work.

We got to the Brighton Centre in good time to have a few drinks before the show started. The warm up was o.k but didn’t do the job they should of done. By the time Athlete was on everyone was sort of bored I suppose. There was no real buzz. I guess I was just comparing everything to Brixton. Athlete were good but I could tell they were trying to gee up the crowd with no luck.

Anyway the gig ended and we all made our way to the car park where Bill jumped a massive queue to pay for our ticket. Brilliant, we all thought, we can get home and to bed by somewhat of a reasonable hour. Oh how we were wrong….

The NCP car park was choc blocked and we weren’t getting anywhere fast. So I decided to wonder off to the pizza place to get some food. You could see on peoples faces that they weren’t impressed and considering it was a Monday night the vibe wasn’t good. However I was quite merry at that point being able to get out of the car park and stretch my legs. In the end I got the pizzas and the guys pulled outside just at the right time.

Big up to Sam for arranging the tickets for Athlete and the driving!

P.S. There were a couple of fit birds in the Pizza place that were wearing bunny outfits…shame about them falling over hahahaha. I will remember them!

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