The Main Event: Sadie and the Hotheads!

Jammin'

 

Having fun!

Isn't she lovely? 

A few weeks ago, I was procrastinating writing an essay, which I happen to be doing right now, and I decided to search 'Sadie and the Hotheads' just to see what came up. Tour dates appeared on their homepage, so out of curiosity I wondered if there was anything near Oxford. On Monday, February 18 they were playing Milton-Keynes, but I have essays due Monday night/ Tuesday morning so I decided against that. After several moments of contemplation and a little sadness, I realized that they were going to play in London the weekend I was there! I was all over that! (We happened to have Sunday night free to do as we pleased)

There was a little announcement below where you purchased tickets saying something along the lines of "Enter for your chance to meet Elizabeth McGovern!" WHY NOT?!? She's one cool and beautiful lady, yes I'll enter! I kind of forgot about the whole thing, ok well not really, I'm far too in love with her to forget such a thing. I did manage to get through my homework then a few days before the concert I got an email saying I was runner up and I'd won free tickets! I didn't believe it so I Facebook messaged the band - crazy right? Well they responded the next day saying "Yes you did win, it's legit - see you Sunday!" (fangirl freakout) I had a little trouble coercing people to come with me but I managed to get one of the boys to come with me. 

I was so excited I got to the venue 90 minutes early, but no one was around so I grabbed a hot chocolate then went back when I saw people were starting to gather. We waited until 7:05 when they finally let us in, luckily it wasn't freezing cold. I got in, got my hand stamped as a "guest." then proceeded in to decide where to sit. I chose middle of the second row. I think the only person more excited than me was the girl next to me - she was a contest winner so she was going to get to meet Ms. Elizabeth. Everyone else I me was very chill, just there to enjoy some good music. 

The first two acts were pretty fantastic. Open Road was the first act followed by Rachel Sage who was accompanied, by a very cute fiddle player that looked kind of like Kate Moening. 

Finally, the band walks on to the stage after a short intermission and starts playing, "Where's Elizabeth???" and she comes dancing on with her back up vocalist. They danced around for a bit, just having fun until they started with their first song, which I'm pretty sure was "All the Time," but it's been a few days and I was just in awe sitting there. My favorites are "How not to lose things" and "Superficial," but all if it is wonderful. 

They wrapped up then came back for an encore to sing "Open Mic Blues Song," which is quite cool. I mean one line is "I'm happy today so shoot me." Then it was all over. There was a little part of me that was disappointed I didn't get to meet her but my new friend's excitement made it ok (I mean the girl flew in from Hungary for the show) and I was just happy to have gotten to go at all. It was so worth it. 

Thanks to Sadie and the Hotheads for a wonderful show and an amazing night! 

Now I'm back to reality filled with French Philosophers and women's history, but I'll always have the memory of that night to take with me along with everything that's happened these past few weeks and what is yet to come!