A FAN'S VIEW OF A MARLING CONCERT
(from a since deleted Tumblr blog dated October 2012, probably writing about Marling's appearance at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art on 26 October 2012.)
so last night i got to see laura marling live in Massachusetts, which is like 3.5 hours away from where i live, right, but i really wanted to go and then arielle and her friend, laurel, were going to be there like awesome.
so i went to school, etc. and that was all i talked about all day and everyone was like lol shup up lucy lol but i wouldn’t because this concert was really important to me
so we were supposed to leave at 3:15 because i wanted to get there kind of early so maybe i’d get decent seats, but my dad was getting the car serviced and the people at the servicing place were taking forever so he didn’t even get home until 3:40 and then he had to get ready so we basically didn’t leave until like 4 which made me really mad and i thought we would be really late.
then on the way we got stuck in crazy ass traffic because there was a really bad car accident like /really/ bad car accident so we were stuck for like 20 minutes on a road that should have taken us about 2 minutes to cross.
we ended up getting to the venue around 6:45 and i was really mad because i just wanted to go in but my parents were like nope jk go eat something but i was really persistent and they’re like fine just go wait for like 2 hours in that stupid line
so i went and i mean i was only waiting for like 10 minutes before they let me in and i wasn’t really that close to the front but kind of close so i saw that there were five front row seats left and i walked really quickly to get to them like i would have run but i didn’t want to be kicked out and i got the seats and reserved the four for the people i was coming with.
i really didn’t expect front row seats though wow. and then i was in the room for like an hour before anyone came in and arielle and her friend still weren’t here so i was like fuk because the concert was about to start and i didn’t know if they would get there on time.
then laura came on and i was crying because just wow she’s really perfect okay like she’s so pretty and she’s so nice like she’s really so sweet and humble which i guess you don’t see too often with celebrities but just aw and then she played Sophia omfg when she played sophia like that song just wow and i was so happy i didn’t think she was going to, but between songs, she would tune her guitars and the like and she had these little banters, which were like the cutest thing like she’s such a real person she’s perfect omg so basically it was an amazing concert and then after, arielle, laurel, and i went out to wait for her and we found the backstage door thing and we probably waited for 30 minutes then she came out and ugh we walked up to her and we were like hi etc.
and so then we started talking a bit but i’m so fucking awkward so idk but arielle showed her a note that laura wrote her in response to a note and aw she actually remembered it so 7a7 arielle and then i was going to get her to sign my phone case on the inside but it wouldn’t come out so she signed the outside instead which was cool so now i can’t use it i’m like preserving it in this bag.
and then laura told laurel that sometimes her parents called her laurel and i was like aw you’re like twins and then she was like yeh then she laughed and then i told her we had the same shoes and then we were twins too and her boyfriend had them as well so triplets.
and then i told her about how i started guitar because i wanted to learn how to play sophia and she told us we were adorable and just omfg it was so amazing and she’s so cute awh okay
so basically i met laura marling and sat front row at her concert mhm.