Thank you for playing the way you play

Currently watching the DVD that comes with the New Found Glory self-titled album 10th anniversary edition. Its making me nostalgic in a massive way for 2002. I love the fact that music becomes such a massive part of your memory and that not just songs but bands, can bring back faces and places and make you feel safe. Summer 2001 I listened to the self-titled so much, it was the summer between college and uni and I had a summer job at a small hotel. I used to take the CD to work and play it when cleaning, I even convinced my boss that I was listening to the radio and he believed me!
Then I moved to London and in May 2002 NFG finally toured and I saw them for the first time. It was a gig at the Garage in London and it was a way too small venue for them to be playing considering and it was so immense that I kept going to see them over and over again that year. At the Forum with Finch supporting, at Reading festival, where I wore my NFG hoodie for the whole weekend and had some guy yell out "New Found Glory" at me across the campsite. That was the summer that Sticks and Stones came out and it helped me through my first major heart break, I was convinced that Head on Collision was written about my break up with my first love!

This is all just a long way of saying that there are some bands that stay with you no matter what, whose music buries itself deep inside of your soul and gives you hope no matter what. There are a couple of bands that will hold that place for me and New Found Glory are one of them. They have been in my life for a whole lot longer then any boy and after every break up or bad day they are still there. When the boys don't call or text me back or tell me they don't want me, New Found Glory will always be there. I would rather have their music and all that it means to me then any of the boy drama, but then of course I probably wouldn't have needed their music as much if there hadn't been any boy drama!!