It’s Friday 7th October 2011, the day I’ve now been counting down to for over 4 months; I’m finally seeing Black Veil Brides live in Exeter playing their second show of their first ever European headline tour!
For the whole day I've been very reluctant towards my work due to being more preoccupied with the thought of meeting one of my all time most loved bands of this generation: that is the epic Black Veil Brides.
The temperature dropped quite a bit when outside the Exeter venue and as typical English weather, it started drizzling on the Black Veil Brides army that surrounded me but it didn’t seem to bother them, which made me think “I have a great feeling about tonight”. Something made the long wait in the cold and rain outside the Lemon Grove that bit more bearable; Ashley Purdy (bassist of BVB) stood inside entrance waving and smiling to everyone, which got several screams and teary eyes, even from the guys in the crowd but I missed this. However, I saw him looking out the window a short while after and again he smiled and waved to the massive group of us that were stood outside freezing our butts off, but I like to think his actions were only to me...what, a girl can dream can’t she! Finally, as darkness enclosed over the Lemon Grove, the BVB army gained entry into the lovely warm venue, which was very appreciated after standing outside for what seemed like forever. At last, the night can commence.
2 support bands are playing tonight and to be part of Black Veil Brides European tour is such an honour and would have probably placed so much pressure on to Yashin and My Passion but they seemed to handle it alright in all fairness.
The 1st support act on stage is My Passion. Before I turned up to the gig tonight I had a negative opinion about them that was obtained by others, which even left me writing on Twitter, "My Passion on Kerrang! Tv...eugh kill me now" but I watched them for the entirety of their set and my opinion suddenly morphed into a much more positive one and now I can't wait until I see this band again when they support Madina Lake in November this year. My highlight of My Passion's set was when I was so near to touching frontman Laurence Rene's hand and now I think I've developed a crush towards their bassist Simon Rowlands (such a hottie). They performed "The Mess We Made With Our Lives", which got a positive response from the crowd because we were jumping to the beat of the bass drum (Jamie Nicholls) and everyone was screaming for Laurence's attention. 
The 2nd and final support act tonight is Yashin and having previously seen them a year ago as headliners in Plymouth, they showed me they can still kill it even as support for a fantastic "new(ish)" American band. Just before Yashin came on stage though, I had to get a bit of air as I would've fainted as a result right there and then-I found out soon after people already had collapsed due to heat exhaustion, but when I returned, no word of a lie the crowd doubled in size, leaving me to lose the people I came here with and only finding them before the first riff of Jinxx's (guitarist of Black Veil Brides) electric. This meant I stood to the side throughout Yashin's performance leading me to miss Harry shirtless as it was ripped off ferociously by members in the audience; hopefully my dear friend Lewis wasn't involved in that. Yashin played a brand new song tonight for everyone called "Runaway Train", which got cheers and screams for being so damn good and as always to round off their set, Yashin performed their cover of Britney Spears' hit track "Everytime" before exiting the stage in order for preparations to begin for the main attraction at the Lemon Grove tonight.
I'm finally back in the company of my friends and now I can deeply enjoy the rest of the night. The atmosphere at this present was electrifying with fans excited for anything to happen-even if a banner got moved on the stage or the lights went down completely way before anyone important entered the stage, cheers and woops could be heard throughout the entire ocean of people because we were all so stoked for the night that laid ahead. With CC's drums set up without a fault, Jake and Jinxx's guitars tuned note perfect and Ashley's bass is ready to bang some heavy beats. The night is young and is prepared to be ripped to shreds by the worshipped members. All of the lights are switched off inside the entire of Lemon Grove, meaning one thing and one thing only...BLACK VEIL BRIDES ARE ENTERING THE STAGE!
The crowd went into automatic up roar with genuine excitement and enthusiasm when the starting riff was played of "Set The World On Fire". No matter what the song, every single person in this room tonight was screaming out the lyrics back to Andy Biersack, especially during tracks such as "Knives and Pens", "Rebel Love Song" and "Sweet Blasphemy". Christian "CC" Coma played a pretty epic solo from what I could hear rather than see as I
was stood behind a tall, fat, sweaty guy with my face at armpit height; safe to say I wasn't feeling to good after. When the American band disbanded off the stage after their 'final' song, the audience were chanting "we want more, we want more" repeatedly. They were back on stage at the Lemon Grove to play "Fallen Angels" as their encore and during most of its entire content I couldn't help but watch the mosh pit building up to the right of me; I noticed the whole pit was made up of dwarfs, which made me laugh so much and made me say "I wonder if I join them will they realise I'm not one of them"; even though I'm short I don't think they would have appreciated it as much.
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| Taken by Abi Read |
Finally, after the last beat of the drum was played and last vocal was sung, Black Veil Brides exited the stage on an almighty high after their 2nd show of their first UK headline tour. Even though I love this band to pieces, tonight they disappointed me a little because as well as not being able to have any sight of them throughout their whole show hardly anyone could hear Andy Biersack sing his heart out. This fault was due to the sound techs not doing their job properly so for this I don't blame Black Veil Brides it just makes me want to see them again to actually get to see what they are made of and when I found out they're coming back to the UK in March/April next year I decided there and then that I'm going to the Bristol show.
After the gig finished I didn't get to meet the headliners because a mate of mine didn't want to wait around for them even though they came out 1-2 hours after the venue closed up for the night but I got to meet every member of My Passion, which was a bonus and now I love them because they make great music and they are all fantastically nice guys to hang out with. Also, they all commented on my height and saying that I was the shortest 17 year old they had ever seen-someone of course who hasn't got dwarfism etc. Below is a photo of me and Jamie Nicholls-the drummer of My Passion
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