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I'm coping soooooo well with the porridge radio split I promise (lying) 👍

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lol i met gene gallagher and he was an asshole

noooot to shit on people for no reason, but if anyone’s wondering

i work at a small venue, roughly 200 capacity. villanelle (his band) sold about 100 tickets

the band showed up with a huge tour bus. we don’t have any parking available for a huge tour bus and they were aware of this. they showed up at 11am despite being told load in was at 5pm and every sheet they were given said 5pm. the tour manager proceeded to get shitty with us because venue staff were not available to assist - they were due to arrive at 4pm since load in was confirmed for 5. our venue has a cafe and they were getting mad at minimum wage cafe staff who repeatedly said they don’t have anything to do with the events venue.

we tried to be nice and assist as much as possible, giving them numbers for people who could help. also, without knowing who they were we offered to give them free coffees to try and make their day a little better, off our own back, we all chipped in for those. this will become relevant l8r ♥️

gig went on, villanelle as the headliner only played a 30 minute set and before his final song gene openly said “sorry for the sound it’s what you get when you play a fucking coffee shop.” NOW, i totally understand (as someone in a band) being pissy cos the sound’s shit. but, bit poor taste to say that right in front of the audience and the sound engineer who has been working for 7 hours to set up and make things alright for you. fair enough, bitch when ur out, but not fair to throw that out in front of him and everyone.

the rep for the event (who is female and physically much smaller than gene) tried to gently tell him that he might have upset the engineer and it might be an idea to apologise as they’re on their first ever tour and probably don’t want to leave an impression as bad to work with. gene then YELLED at her (and took a step towards her) so aggressively, saying “i’ll say what i fucking want i won’t have people bitch about me” that the rest of the band looked shocked and immediately started apologising to her after he’d left.

he then went into the toilets, which were closed with a sign saying closed as they were being cleaned, saw that my colleague was very obviously mopping and the floor was very obviously wet and went “and there’s NO FUCKING WET FLOOR SIGN WHAT IF I FUCKING SLIP” like bro 🙄

he was still yelling when he left, going “oh well come fucking here maybe if you do your job you’ll get a free fucking coffee” which was particularly rude considering we did that as a gesture of kindness, were under no obligation to do that and all chipped in for that just to try and make the band’s day a little nicer. but apparently that’s a joke to him ahahahhaa

to his credit he was totally fine with the fans at the event so if you’ve met him and he’s chill just know this is how he behaved with people trying to make his gig a success

and for the record the rest of the band were delightful and apologised repeatedly, they were all lovely guys. just a shame they’re stuck with him lol.

But now u kno.

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i love my life a little too much sometimes and i think it’s because you get too used to being unhappy? so when you aren’t you decide one day it’s going to come back around. and idk if it will or won’t but i’m trying to just enjoy right now. also let me recommend you new bands.

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bae’s doppelgängers increase 🤣

and as i feel the fandom could use a laugh here’s a reminder of the time i told the internet a grainy photo of my perfectly average bf was van mccann. he loved it as u can see from him reacting to it. he volunteers to replace the big man in any future tours. you too, indie girlies of tumblr, can find yourself a brown haired british man who plays a fender telecaster.

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making my return to tumblr. say hi if u fancy discussing catb, indie girl life etc

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and as i feel the fandom could use a laugh here’s a reminder of the time i told the internet a grainy photo of my perfectly average bf was van mccann. he loved it as u can see from him reacting to it. he volunteers to replace the big man in any future tours. you too, indie girlies of tumblr, can find yourself a brown haired british man who plays a fender telecaster.

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glad i saw them right before it all went to shit haha. (cardiff castle night 1, was good. i am old for tumblr and miss sneaking out to see them in 2014.)