Magenta

Borderline
London

22 October 2005


Marie Davies

 Hello again,

Nice to be writing for the Silhobbit again, I'm the quiet one, but I take photos, but not today, I haven't got it with me, no room in my handbag, sorry.

Well, London again, we both woke up to the hustle and bustle of the traffic and people talking. We got up, had a shower each and went downstairs for breakfast. Charlie said we could have what we wanted, but we just had toast, our figures etc what Jo said earlier.

I was pleased the concert was in the centre of London, because we could do some more shopping, then we had a text from Kayleigh saying to meet us on Oxford Street. Loads of people were looking at her when we met her, so we decided to look real cool and Rock Chick like by walking into HMV and holding up Pure Reason Revolution's new album and saying loudly 'Good concert last night by these' we had a few looks by doing this, and it felt well good too.

We had lunch in this cafe bar in Soho when we saw the tour bus of Magenta.

We knew it was them because it had a Welsh flag painted on the side and Magenta in magenta colour on there too, so it was them. We all went outside to meet them and it was nice to meet TinaMagenta again, and Rob Reed again.
No he didn't wee again, that's his name. Chris Fry said hello too, and he knew I've got a soft spot for pizza, and he gave me his to finish off. Then Out popped Daniel, the new bass player, Jo went coorrr as he went into the venue. We had to fight off loads of photographers too as record company boss David Robinson appeared from the tour bus wearing sunglasses, a long black leather coat, on his mobile and turning down a deal to have Pink Floyd sign to his label, what a guy.

We had some time to kill, but Kayleigh went away to do a interview for the Daily Mirror about females in prog and I think TinaMagenta went too later on after sound check.

The concert started and to my surprise, a prog celeb turned up, none other than Nick Barrett from IQ, so I said hello, and I said "I love Dark Matter" and he said, "Sorry love, I'm in Pendragon!". I felt about two inches tall, how embarrassing.


TinaMagenta
She cooks our chips!
Magenta were very good as normal, a nice crowd, and TinaMagenta just sang like a bird, wish I could sing like her. I knew a lot of their songs and they played most of them I know. The White Witch went on a bit though, had two pints, a wee and had time to pop out to eat a kebab to come back to find them still on the same song.

Well, that was it, two great concerts I really enjoyed both nights apart from some Chav making me spill some of my drink on my new boots, still won't come off. We all went back to the hotel, but Jo and Kayleigh wouldn't share a room with me because I blew off a few times, must have been that kebab.

See you next time,

Love Marie xxx.

Read Jo's review of Pure Reason Revolution here.