Not a lot
of people can say that they sat in a café with 5sos for over an hour, but after
this weekend I can safely say that I did. I SAT IN A CAFÉ WITH 5SOS FOR OVER AN
HOUR! I still haven’t screamed about it. It all still feels like a dream. Okay
let me start from the beginning.
5 Seconds
of Summer are made up of 4 teenage boys from Australia. They started off with
posting videos on Youtube and soon came together as a band and are currently
touring with One Direction. This pop rock band was formed in Sydney in 2011.
The band includes Luke Hemmings (vocals, guitar), Michael Clifford (guitar,
vocals), Calum Hood (bass guitar, vocals) and Ashton Irwin (drums, vocals).
Honestly, a
few months ago I wasn’t a huge fan of these boys. It was only early this year
(2013) that I actually fell deeply in love with them. I had heard of them and
heard them sing but I was never a really big fan that made it my mission to
know everything about them (I’m still not like that now btw). Soon all my
friends were talking about them non-stop and they were all I would hear about
for months and months. I finally bought their songs on itunes and before I knew
it, they had become my most regularly played artist. I couldn’t stop listening
to them, seriously they were and still are all I listen to! I never became that
fan that would tweet them a million times a day to get noticed or watch every
single interview or video that they have, I don’t think that determines how big
of a fan you are. But I did genuinely really enjoy their music and they just
made me really happy.
So the
first time they came to Perth, which was the 8th of June for their
Pants Down Tour, I didn’t get tickets to go. I didn’t really try to get
tickets, I just thought I would give the people who really did love 5sos a lot
a chance to go, cause I would have hated myself if I had taken away a true fans
chance away to see the boys. I also had a very, very big exam to study for so
yeah I didn’t get tickets. Besides, I knew they were opening for One Direction
anyway and thought that would be good enough.
The time
finally came for the One Direction show, and they arrived in Perth which was
honestly the most exciting time of my life. I had stayed up all night on
twitter just to hear about them landing, I don’t even know why I did it or how
it would benefit me, it was just so exciting and thrilling. I ended up staying
up till 2am on a school night just because I was so excited about them being in
Perth. So the next day on Thursday 26th September, I went with my
friends Nicola and Sharin to the Crown Hotel to see if we could just get a
glimpse of One Direction, not even knowing that 5sos were staying there too. We
had no luck with either of them, but we did see Josh Devine (One Directions
drummer). The next day on Friday I went with my friends Nicola and Kayley. We
found out that 5sos were staying at the Promenade which is connected to the
Crown so we ventured up there only to find Luke’s mum sitting there drinking
coffee. This got me very excited as it confirmed the fact in my head that the
boys were actually in Perth. I was so tempted to go up to her and ask her to
help me meet the boys but I didn’t want to appear rude.
After finding
my friend, Lauren (@LaurenM_Green on twitter), I went to show her that Luke’s
mum was in the café in the promenade. However, when we went there, Luke’s mum
wasn’t sitting there but the actual Luke Hemmings was. I had built up all that
courage to talk to Luke’s mum to try and help us meet Luke, I wasn’t prepared
to actually see Luke Hemmings, or any of the 5sos members for that matter. I
thought that Nicola and Kayley were standing next to me but they weren’t, they
were outside the lobby so I sprinted out to get them. Luke saw my little freak
out and probably thought I was going to go and tell everyone that they were
there so he got up which revealed Ashton and Calum. They started walking to a
nearby restaurant called The Merrywell.
After that
we had given up so we went to mcdonalds to get some ice cream and then we had
to go back to the hotel to wait for my mum to pick us up. We sat on the side of
the road outside their hotel for about 5 minutes and then we see Calum and Luke
walking into the hotel. I said hi to Calum and he waved back and they both
entered the hotel. At this point we didn’t really know what to do so we just
continued to sit on the side of the road, I didn’t see this but apparently
Ashton had sneaked behind us and entered the hotel, we saw that he was taking
pictures with girls in the lobby so we went in. That’s when we first talked to
Ashton. Now I don’t really know how to write this so I’m just going to write
out our conversation in script form so here we go:
Me: Hi
Ashton! How are you?
Ashton:
Hey! I’m good!
Me: Is Luke
alright? He looked really sad.
Ashton: Nah
he’s fine, he just needed to pee.
Me:…. Oh
alright, that’s nice.
*Looks at
his Marvel shirt*
Me: I
really like your shirt!
Ashton:
Thanks! I really like your…. *looks me up and down* attire. ( I was wearing a
Pinafore)
*Kayley
shows that she is wearing a Marvel top too*
Ashton:
that’s so cool! Can you tell me who this guy is? *points to one of the
characters on his shirt*
Kayley: I
think that’s Mr. T
Ashton: was
he even in the Avengers?
Then we
took pictures with him which I think are really cute and he sort of like leaned
his head on mine and he was pretty much resting his head on mine, I sort of
looked at him like ‘are you alright?’ because he was resting on my head pretty
much, but we got a photo and I was very, very happy with it J
Then Ashton
left and went upstairs to his room, we went around the corner of the lobby
where there is a cute little café/restaurant/bar called Market&Co. and saw
Luke Hemmings. There was sort of an organized line waiting to get photos with
Luke which kind of surprised me as I had seen what had happened previously when
people thought they saw Harry somewhere in the pool (it wasn’t pretty and quite
frankly very annoying). I let Nicola and Kayley go in front of me because I
wanted to get a video of him saying hi to my friend Kristy. So I got it and I
apologized for freaking out earlier and luckily he had no idea what I was
talking about, I then got a photo with him and then got a video for Kristy.
Can I just
say that Luke is definitely the most awkward person I have ever met in my
entire life. He cannot hold a conversation which I find both very awkward but
very cute. Soon after that Luke left and we were all left star struck, we
hadn’t expected to meet anyone and yet we did!! We didn’t sleep much that
night, and we went back the next day even more determined to meet the other
half of 5sos.
So on
Saturday morning, we caught a ride from my mother to the Promenade again. We
were just sitting in Market&Co. drinking strawberry infused water when all
of a sudden my friend Nicola started saying my name over and over again and
looking behind me, I turned around and saw Ashton at the bar, ordering a
coffee. The first instinct I had was to take a photo of him as proof of him
being there, but of course with all the luck on my side, my phone was not on
silent and was up full volume and he heard my camera snap. I then called my
friend, Kristy, in hopes of getting Ashton to talk to her on the phone.
However, before I could reach him some girls went up to him probably asking for
photos. I was about to walk back to my seat but when I turned around I saw
Calum and Luke standing less than a metre away from me, I instantly walked up
to Calum and asked him to talk to my friend, which he did. It was so cute
because Kristy has been a fan of 5sos since 2011 and her favourite member is
Calum so being able to get her to talk to him was just the nicest feeling. I
decided that whilst Calum and Kristy were talking I would make conversation
with Luke, however, two insanely awkward people trying to make conversation is
both embarrassing and awkward yet also very entertaining.
Me: So Luke
did you have a good night last night?
Luke: Yeah
it was good…
Me: …good.
-the end-
What a
lovely conversation eh? Luckily Calum was done talking to Kristy. Their
conversation went like this:
Calum: hello
Kristy: hi
Calum!!
Calum: How
are you?
Kristy: I’m
doing great right now. Are you going to the city later?
Calum: not
sure
Kristy: are
you going to do an acoustic show?
Calum: who
knows
Kristy: is
that a yes?
Calum:
maybe
Kristy: is
that a maybe-yes?
*Calum
laughs resulting in both Kristy and Cassie to explode into a million tiny
little pieces*
After they
say their good-byes I quickly get a photo with Calum and then they all leave.
Shortly
after that we got a call from Nicola’s mum because she somehow found out we
were at the crown (she specifically told us not to go there-oops) so she came
and picked us up. None of us wanted to go home so we ended up driving to the
city (common shopping area in Perth). We walked around for a bit, found my
friend Kristy who was still buzzing from her call with Calum, and got food. We
parted with Kristy for a bit so we could go to the Perth Arena (the concert
venue) because we had heard that Zayn was at the arena. Suddenly Kristy called
us and screamed “5SOS ARE IN THE CITY”, so we immediately ran to where she was
and I got a glimpse of Ashton walking out of General Pants&Co. Then Calum
and Luke appeared and they started walking off to a taxi, they were being
chased by a whole group of girls and only had one security guard with them. We
saw them walk off into their taxi and drive off to who knows where.
~skipping
to later that night~
We ended up
bringing home another friend, Emma, who I had met up with in the city. We
caught multiple buses to get back to the Crown and waited in the Promenade
again. We ordered several bowls of wedges and just sat around for hours and
hours. We waited for 5sos to come back from their show that night, they came
back at around 9 and we were just sitting there waiting. They sat down in the
chairs at the table next to us and started to order food. We patiently waited
for them to finish ordering their food and whilst they were waiting for their
food to arrive we went and talked to them. Emma and I went to Ashton first.
This is how our conversation went:
Emma and I:
Hi Ashton! How was the show?
Ashton: It
was really loud…. And sweaty
Emma:
that’s fun
Ashton:
Have I met you guys before?
Me: you
haven’t met Emma but you’ve met me, you said you liked my attire yesterday
*Ashton
looks me up and down again and then sort of face palms a little bit*
Ashton:
yeah that sounds like something I would say.
Me: Yeah….
Who says attire anymore?
Ashton:
ummm……. So! Do you guys want photos or something? (trying to avoid my question
aha)
Then he
takes photos with Emma but since I got a photo the day before I decided to be a
lovely best friend and called up Natalie and got her to talk to Ashton. This is
how their conversation went:
Natalie:
Hello?
Ashton: Hi!
Natalie:
Hey, wait who’s this?
Ashton:
Ashton!
Natalie:
aekjrnejgr hey
Ashton: So
where are you from?
Natalie:
Perth
Ashton: Why
aren’t you at the show tonight?
Natalie: im
sorry, im at another show
Ashton: Aw
bummer, well I’ve gotta go
Natalie: rejkgerhjgn
bye
Ashton: bye
frjgrnejng
Natalie:
Haha bye
Then Kayley
wanted to get a video of Ashton saying Hi to our friend Charlotte, so she used
my phone to do it. Just before Ashton was about to leave I asked for a hug,
whilst hugging me he said “nice meeting you” right in my ear. Being my awkward,
fangirl self I sort of made a weird narrggg noise in his ear whilst trying to
say “nice meeting you too”, he laughed and then walked off to use the atm
machine. I then went to Michael, we
didn’t really have much of a conversation, I told him his hair was really cool
(he had just dyed it an electric blue) and he answered back with a really
genuine and enthusiastic thanks! I then got a selfie with him, and can I just
say that I am the first person in the world to ever take a picture with him
with his blue hair (Emma was the first). After we took a photo I said thanks
and he said no problem and then he sat down again because their food had
arrived. So we went back and just sat there, enjoying the presence of the boys.
After a few
minutes the most random thing happened, 2012 X-factor contestant, Veronica
Bravo, walked into the restaurant and went up to the boys (whilst they were
still eating) and asked Michael to go and sit with them. It was kind of a shock
because I had supported her during her time on the show and she just randomly
walked in, I didn’t know whether to feel overwhelmed or frustrated because she
had just taken Michael away from his food and disturbed the boys’ dinner. So
Michael left to sit with Veronica and her friends (here is a sneaky photo that Kayley and I took with Michael and Veronica in the background
)
and then Calum and Luke got
up to go back up to their hotel room. Emma hadn’t gotten a photo with Luke so I
went up with her and took this as an opportunity to talk to Calum more since I
didn’t really get to talk to him before. This is how that conversation went:
)
Me: Hey
Calum! Thanks for talking to my friend, Kristy, earlier
Calum: No
problem!
Me: She was
so happy, when I saw her she was crying
Calum: Aww
that’s so cute!
Me: She
really wants to meet you, she’s coming here tomorrow, do you think you will be
here around 12?
Calum: Yeah
I’m pretty sure we will be just hanging around
Me: Cool!
Check your dm’s on twitter
Calum: okay
Me: I dm’d
you my number
Calum: oh..
okay
Me: sorry
that’s really creepy…..
*Calum
starts laughing making Cassie fangirl a little less silently than she hoped
for*
Then there
was an awkward silence as we realised Luke and Emma were waiting for us to
finish talking.
Emma: you
guys seem tired you can go to bed if you want
They say
their good-nights and their nice-meeting-yous’ and then they leave. We go back
to sitting at our table to find Ashton still there, sitting there with his legs
stretched out using another chair as a foot rest, he was just on his phone and
I had the biggest urge to go over there and talk to him, just at that moment
when I had gathered up the courage to go over and sit with him, his security
guards and tour manager came over to accompany him. So for over an hour I kept
looking over at him and I could see that he kept looking at our group as well.
At one
moment Kayley and I decided to be stupid and she kept patting me on the head,
but every time she patted me I would blink. Now you can imagine that this would
look very odd if you didn’t know what we were doing and then I looked over at
Ashton to make sure he couldn’t see us acting like idiots but to my surprise he
was sitting there watching us and blinking every time Kayley hit me on the
head.
We just sat
there for an hour and a half just enjoying Ashton’s presence, it was quite
comfortable, there were a couple of occasions where he would look over at us
and smile. It was a nice moment and I wish I could have gone up to him and
talked to him a bit more, he did seem a bit bored. When we got up to leave he
genuinely looked sad, I looked over at him and smiled and he smiled back and
waved at me. That was the end of that day.
Sunday walked
to the Promenade and waited in Market&Co. We had ordered hot chocolates,
which tasted soooooo amazing by the way, and we saw a tweet from Luke
“Breakfast ends in 8 minutes but I’m too naked to go down”. This gave a lot of
girls the idea that they were in the hotel which soon filled up so much that they
actually had to put ropes up so that the girls wouldn’t be able to go into the
restaurant. Since we had ordered hot chocolates and the staff at the promenade
were aware that we were calm fans, they didn’t make us leave. However when Luke
and Calum were trying to go back up to their hotel room after eating breakfast
it took them 10-15 minutes just to walk back to the lift because there were so
many people wanting photos. Luke looked over at our group, who were just calmly
sitting down and drinking hot chocolates and he smiled, appreciating the fact
that we didn’t want to disturb him and we weren’t freaking out about being in
the same room as him. After they went up to their rooms, we met up with some of
my other twitter friends. We had a big group with us and we had all ordered
wedges for lunch. 1. Because then we had a reason to stay and staff couldn’t
kick us out 2. Because the wedges tasted flippin’ amazing. 3. Also we were
hungry. Soon after that Ashton walked past to the bar to order coffee. I, of course,
was internally fangirling and realise he was wearing the same shirt as the day
before, but I wanted to keep calm so I stayed in my chair and just watched my
friend Kristy freak out because it was the first time she actually had a chance
to talk to a 5sos member. Then Nicki, Emma and I decided we wanted some
strawberry infused water so we went up to the bar and I stood right next to
Ashton because he was ordering a coffee which was, evidently, right next to the
strawberry water. We had to wait for more glasses to come so we could get water
and Ashton had to wait for his coffee. At one point our elbows touched and I could
feel sparks flying and it was a magical moment- just kidding, but this did
cause us to look at each other and he smiled at me, I smiled back and then the
glasses came. I got my strawberry water and left. I looked back at him to see
him still standing there waiting, he looked at me and we both sort of quickly
turned away as if to pretend neither of us were staring. After he ordered his
coffee he came over to our group as he had promised the other girls that he
would come and talk to us after he got his coffee. Kayley got another picture
with him and as they were taking a photo her beanie (which was actually my
beanie) started slipping off her head, Ashton swiftly grabbed it without her
noticing and when she turned to look for it he cheekily grinned and held the
beanie up stating that he had it. After he gave her the beanie back I asked for
a hug and whilst in his embrace I asked if he liked my attire again, he laughed
and pulled away checking me out again and then replying that he did like my
attire. He then asked us if we were coming along to their acoustic show but
none of us were able to attend, when we told him this he looked genuinely
upset, but then we reassured him that we were going to the one direction show
tonight and he smiled and then went back up to the hotel room. Later that
afternoon all four of them came down so they could leave for their acoustic
show, I said hi to all of them but then more girls started coming in taking
photos with them. I really wanted another photo with Calum because in the photo
I had with him I had cut half his face out and also he was wearing a beanie
that day and looked extremely cute (sorry not sorry). So I helped Kristy get
pictures with the boys then when Calum had a free time I quickly asked for a
photo. I am so extremely happy with this photo, it is my favouritest thing
ever.
So after
that they left and I was totally unaware that that was the last time I would
ever see 5sos. I went to the One Direction concert and saw them performing.
Waiting for them to come on stage took forever but when they were finally on
the stadium filled with screams and Kayley and I started screaming “CHICKEN, CHICKEN!
CHICKEN TIMES FOUR”, everyone thought we were idiots, but we knew it would be
the last time we could use the code word. When they were on stage it felt like I
was seeing my friends perform, honestly it was a very proud moment for me, all I
could think was “Wow, Luke was that awkward boy that I met at the hotel and now
he is on that stage just smashing it”. I was literally so proud of them and so
happy to see them perform, they literally took my breath away.
I just want
to say that meeting 5sos all those times and being with my friends and meeting
new people was the best experience ever. It was nice to just be able to hang
out in the hotel and just have fun, and the excitement of waiting for the boys
to come into the hotel and turn our heads every time we heard the elevator
ding. It was fun to just not have to worry about school, or work, or parents or
anything. It was honestly the best weekend ever, I felt free and I felt so, so
unbelievably happy to have gotten the chance to meet these four boys. I have
become an even bigger fan now and I don’t think there will ever be a day that I
stop supporting them. They are such kind, funny people and they have a very
calming vibe (that sounds really weird, but seriously I was abnormally calm around
them!). I hope that every 5sos fan gets the chance to meet these boys.
*Disclaimer:
I did not write this to gloat or brag or anything. I specifically wrote this so
that I could look back at this post in the future and remember every.single.detail
of those few days. Because I did include a lot of detail in this post. It was also
requested by a friend and I also haven’t posted in a while and this has been a
very good experience and thought it was worth sharing J
If you want
to see a video where I pretty much explain everything that is in this post then
please click the video below, it also shows some pictures and video footage of
the boys and also Ashton’s message to Charlotte J
Thank you for reading!
Hope you have a good day! :)
♥Cass