I went to see Childish Gambino in Berlin on the 15th of February. The show was fantastic! I was so excited to see/hear him perform and while I was waiting patiently (all on my lonesome as I went by myself) a girl named Laura came up to chat to me, she had come alone as well. We chatted and she was lovely and we had heaps in common, we talked about how we hadn’t been able to find anyone to come with us because no one we knew had music taste as fantastic as ours - or my weaker excuse of not having made a huge number of friends since I moved to Berlin - I seem to have been living to work rather than working to live!
We stood together for the whole show and chatted about some upcoming concerts, I told her to check out CHVRCHES and she told be about some other artists she is into, comparing stories about how we discovered some of our favourite artists. Then we started to head home, and as the train came to my stop we hugged goodbye, and as the doors closed behind me I realised that I didn’t have her number, or even know her last name. Friendship opportunity fail! Oh well, maybe she will come to CHVRCHES this month :)
The gig was so awesome though, Childish Gambino is amazing to watch live. He performed for about an hour and had a pretty awesome set list. I love the way he moves, I know that’s a creepy pick up line, but I swear I could just watch him on stage for hours. He had a cold apparently but I couldn’t tell until he said that he was sorry he was a bit sick, his band is pretty fucking cool too, it was just an awesome night all around.
There were a few people lighting up joints in the crowd - that would NEVER happen at an indoor concert in New Zealand! I was so shocked, but apparently that’s not uncommon here - sometimes I feel like such a country kid in this city :)
It was awesome, one of my favourite nights in this city so far! The proximity to awesome gigs here still blows my mind, coming from the south of the south island in New Zealand big concerts are pretty rare, though Elton John totally came to Dunedin in my last year there - so that might be slowly changing!
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