A wet Saturday night in Wales
Kevin and moi. These were of course before the deluge. See we’re dry!
Our first glimpse of the stage with the castle in the background. An amazing venue! Rattlesnack Remedy on stage, who were excellent. We stayed further back to watch them. Taking in the view.
In the meantime we’d been to the bar, where I’d bought a pint of wine (saves going back and queuing for ages) and we got some raffle tickets to win a signed guitar.
Toby Jepson – also brilliant, got the crowd going big style. Only annoying part was when it started raining and some idiots near the front put umbrellas up!!
At last Thunder enter!
And yes we had moved a lot closer by then.
The rain began pouring as soon as Thunder took to the stage, but thankfully the umbrellas stayed down. I think they would have been lynched if they hadn’t! The rain did nothing to dampen the atmosphere and everyone joined in completely. It was fantastic. Mud everywhere which made it a little difficult to jump around, but we managed heehee!
They finished with a marvellous rendition of Dirty Love. And I was reliably informed that this was one of their best gigs ever. Kev and Hoss have been to quite a few over the years, and I am joining them from now on. Kevin said afterwards how wonderful it was to see me enjoying it so much :)
At the end they called out the raffle ticket number. And OMG sooooo close. It was the ticket before mine BOO!
Afterwards we walked through the rain to finally find a pub that would let us in, no matter how wet we were. And there, lots of other fellow Thunder gigsters were enjoying a quick one before home. Originally we were going to camp but because of the rather bad weather Kevin decided he’d just be sensible with his drinking and drive home. Got home at 3.30 am. Tired, wet, muddy but incredibly high :D
Hoss took some pictures of me in the rain in front of the stage and as soon as I get them I’ll stick them up too.
This gig definitely ranks up there amongst my top gigs. Can’t wait to see them again.