I've never been overseas in my life. That's gonna change in July when I go to London for a week. I've never really been too keen on travelling. I don't particularly want to go to places where they don't speak English, nor do I have any desire to see famous landmarks, ect. I have always thought, however, that one day I'd go to the UK ... but much later in life. I've always said I need a reason to go travel overseas ("Because I want to" isn't a good enough reason!), and then one day several weeks ago I got that reason!
Having been a big Queen fan since I was about 14 (I'm 31 soon), I've always had the dream of seeing them live. Obviously, with Freddie Mercury no longer with us, it was an unlikely dream. I was 6 months too young to be allowed to see Queen guitarist Brian May on his world tour in 1998 (he played in an 18+ venue here in Perth), which probably would have been enough to satisfy my dream. I was gutted I couldn't go.
Queen have done two 'world' tours with Paul Rodgers singing in the past 7 or so years and frustratingly never came to Australia. So again, I was disappointed.
I received an e-mail a few weeks ago saying that Queen (with that Adam Lambert kid singing) are headlining day2 of a London music festical called Sonisphere and that tickets were going on sale the following day. I thought about it for a few days, checked my financial situation, realised I could (just!) manage it ... so went for it.
So yeah, in something like 14 weeks time, I'm realising a dream and going overseas at the same time. I'm not too sure what I'm going to be doing on the rest of the days I'm there (apart from on my first day finding one of these Aussie pubs I hear about so I can watch Origin III!), but I'm sure I'll work it out closer to the time.
