Its the J, U, R, A CAPITAL S another S, I, C, 5...

Shit on me, I saw them! The mighty and increadible J5.

I have liked J5 since their first album in 98 or whenever it was. Thats 8 years of desperately wanting to see them live. As I think I said before, they were one of a few people on my list of people I must see or else cut my ears off that I hadn't seen. The others, mainly, are routed in history and shall never be realised as a dream.

Before I proceed with some gig related stories, I first want to have a little whinge about some bitch faced goat breathed whore on Ebay. I love Ebay don't get me wrong and after 22 transactions, I have never had a problem. Usually the Ebay community is fair and respects both buyer and seller. However, sometimes, you get an idiot who thinks they have the right to be a fuck and let their fuckness fuck up non-fucks. Are you with me still?

So me and H bought FOUR tickets to the gig expecting that our friends would jump at the chance to come along. However...they didn't. The two most likely candidates were Dave and Phil. Both love J5, both love music but clearly neither had the balls to come along and for that there will always be something wrong with them in mine eye. So we sold the tickets on Ebay. By the time we had them the concert was a few weeks away. The first effort at selling got no bids. So we re-listed with a more than fair £40 buy it now price. Someone bought them now (or then anyway!) and we were pleased. I sent a lovely email congratulating them and asking for prompt payment so they would get the tickets in time. They said they would send payment soon. We were pleased. But no payment came...I sent emails...no reply. Still no payment came and now it was Thursday. The concert was Sunday...we were not pleased.
I even texted the scally (incidentally they were a northerner, don't want to cast stereotypes or anything but all northerners are theives*) and got no reply. So Thursday night we re-listed them with a new buy it now of £35, lower than the ticket value! Some bloke bought them and sent payment within minutes...a proper ebayer. At least they had gone to a good home and most of our money was re-couped so we were somewhat pleased.
Still had no word from her, so I have lodged a dispute thing with Ebay. The worst of it is I looked at her feedback and she had done the same to someone else! And when they gave her negative feedback as a result she had the nerve to give them negative feedback too!
Thats the problem with Ebay, its probably the most ingenious use of the internet but it is not infalable to people who think they have the right to screw others over. I wouldn't have minded so much if it was a normal item, but with tickets its time critical.

Christ, I have really gone on! Sod it, thats then end of this post. I shall do a new jollier one on gig related events!

* I really don't mean that about northerners. I love northerners and its unfair to say they are all theives. I would say a good 10% are nice and fair individuals ;)