Doesn't time fly, eh?  This weekend we took Georgia to see her first gig.  At this rate it won't be long before she's off to uni...

Jamie and John had bought 6 tickets to see Scouting for Girls at Wolverhampton Civic hall on Saturday night, so at lunchtime we closed the door on our dust fulled house with its still-not-finished extension and drove down to Coventry to J&J's.

After a restorative cup of tea, followed by a livening beer, we walked to the station, and got the train to Wolverhampton at 4:45.  This is the first time I'd ever been out in the city, having previously only used Wolverhapton as a cut through between the M6 and the M5 on the occasions when there is midlands motorway gridlock - anyway I digress (as usual ). 

When we got off the train it became fairly obvious that the Wolves had been playing at home, which meant finding somewhere to get food was slightly tricky as most venues that sold both food and drinks were busy and also were manned with door staff.  Anyway, after asking a policemen, we found our way to a bar/restaurant that managed to meet our needs for pre-concert food and drinks.

As it was Georgia's first gig, it was decided to let her get the full money's worth from the tickets and so we wandered over to the Civic Hall at about 7:45 - as luck would have it this was a good move as it was now raining, but the door queues were very short, making it easy to get in out of the rain.  On the under card was some bloke with a guitar (sorry whoever you are if you read this - I didn't catch your name amongst your rather bizarre waffling intro) and a band called The Days.  Both were competent performers and did the required job of warming up the gradually filling hall. 

In addition a couple of pints of cider also did the required job of warming up yours truly.  Georgia and Emily decided to leave us old fuddie duddies and go further forward towards the stage as SFG came on.  As you'd expect from a band with a large teen following, there was lots of good humoured shouting and singing along - mainly by the accompanying  mums, which made the whole thing very enjoyable, although my impression was that the band have written a lot of their songs to a plan with the same theme...they do all sound pretty similar.  Anyway all good fun. 

That is until Georgia found herself feeling a bit hot and sicky because of the crowd and heat, so had to go out for a cool down - Jane took her out so they missed one of the songs, but managed to get back in right at the front next to the stage.  Cuh!   True to form Jane also got told off by security for climbing on the speakers for a better view .  Unfortunately we had to leave the hall at 10:35 to make the last train back, so missed the encore, but had that was tempered by the happy experience of meeting The Days who had decided to meet and greet everyone leaving in the foyer - nice touch lads - and it must have worked cos I still remember who you are