Cinnamon Girl

Long post I know!
 

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFIObTdAl4Q
 
So me and my best friend Leah have been obsessing Lana for over a good year, we've been waiting for the chance to see her live for ages but we've never had the luck or chance. Until the tour was announced, we got two standing tickets as soon as they were available back in November for the first London show and we vowed back then that we would be first in line.
 
And so on May 19th, we set off at 2am for the Hammersmith Apollo, I live fairly close so it wasn't a hard journey. We arrived, first in line as we expected and got ready for the long wait. By the time it reached 6pm and people were starting to get ready to move (doors opened at 7pm) we were knackered but excited. The door staff had already told us that knew how long we'd been there and told us a treat was on the way.
 
About 20 minutes later Rob and a woman who I presume to be Lana's assistant came out with about 20 signed Paradise - Special Editions and 1 lyric booklet. Leah managed to grab the lyric booklet and I got a copy of the special edition. We were so grateful and nearly sobbed there and then.
 
 
 
 
Then doors open and panic and chaos happens, people running and shoving to get to the front. Luckily we managed a front row position slightly to the right but a perfect view.
 
 
 
 
Kassidy came on, did their thing which I have to say I enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would. At the end of their set Barrie threw his guitar pick onto the front of the stage and I managed to get one of the security to give it to me. I wonder if he washed his hands before he touched it..
 
Then it was time for Lana! We screamed like absolute mentalists, which you'll be able to hear in the videos I post below. She was so so so good, words can't describe, we were shocked by her beauty, couldn't keep our eyes off her.
 
Favourites during the show were probably Ride, Born To Die, Summertime Sadness, Young & Beautiful, National Anthem, Video Games and Without You.
 
Ride, SS, Y&B and Without You had me crying, apparently I was on the big screen at one point..
 
And then during Video Games, something amazing happened. We decided to hold up our "Can We Have A Photo Please? <3" sign to see if we could get Lana's attention and we did! She saw it and winked at us!
 
You can see the wink here in this guy's video at 2:59 -
 

 
Then during National Anthem she came down as usual, interacted with the crowd and then finally got to us.
 
The conversation was something like this:
 
Us: Can we have a photo please?!
Lana: Sure!
Us: Can someone else take it..?
Lana: I'll take it!
*Lana takes phone, stands next to us and takes 3 selfies.*
Us: Thank you so much! We love you! We've been here since 2am waiting!
Lana: I know! I heard about you guys, thank you so much! I love you! *Hugs and kisses us.*
Us: Thank you! And thank you for the signed stuff earlier!
Lana: Oh you got them! Good! I'm glad!
 
And then she went, to the next person. We just stood there in absolute shock, not knowing what to do. But it happened! We finally did it after all that waiting!
 



 
MY VIDEOS:
 
Intro/Cola: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151369809436946&set=vb.715991945&type=3
Carmen: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151369862706946&set=vb.715991945&type=3
Without You (She stood at the front of the barrier for most of this!) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151369177901946&set=vb.715991945&type=3&theater
American: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151371726526946&set=vb.715991945&type=3&theater
Young & Beautiful: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151372971021946&set=vb.715991945&type=3&theater
Ride: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151374757846946&set=vb.715991945&type=3&theater
Video Games / National Anthem: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151373066781946&set=vb.715991945&type=3&theater
Video Talking To Lana - You Can't Hear Or See Much But It Happened! I Think My Phone Went Into Her Sleeve... https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151371526811946&set=vb.715991945&type=3&theater

Damn, this has just made me want to hear all these songs live so much more. Imagine Noir though! And For K Part 2... Go Go Dancer

So we got to the venue around 1pm so we'd have a good place (hopefully near the barrier), but the queue was really small and we managed to get into the priority queue which was fabulous! We knew Lana would be arriving at the venue at some point so another girl and myself waited around the stage doors while our friends held our spot in the queue. We kept meeting the members of Kassidy (except Barrie) and other random tech guys/security people which we kept asking about Lana's arrival. We saw some fairly interesting stuff:
 
 
 
 
After waiting in the wind and rain and hail and occasional sunshine for 3 hours, a random guy told us to wait by the stage doors further down and that she'd be here in a few minutes. I found out that he was a 'fan' (aka autograph collector who sells her signatures for money) and so has met her several times. Finally, she arrived! She saw my flower crown and sort of gasped and smiled and I was about to take a picture but my stupid camera wasn't working so she went and signed some people's things, and took her time! Honestly, she was so so genuine and lovely.
 
She went inside (but only to put down her handbag) and a few more people had gathered round (fans + paps) and some annoying couple had pushed in front of me ('Lana please have a photo we need to drive home to London Lana Lana...') so after she had seen to them, another girl who had just had Lana's name tattooed on her boob, she went inside again and was about 2 minutes. She came back out with her bodyguards and they each were holding about 5 copies of the limited edition Paradise boxset (that sold out!) and they had all been signed by Lana. Everyone was holding their hands out for one, and Lana had one copy left and looked up at me and put it in my hands, then went back to signing things. Alas, some other girl had her hand on my limited signed Paradise and snatched it out my hand! Then had the nerve to stand directly in front of me (I probably would've been next to have a photo with Lana) and she got her photo. It would have made me angrier, but Lana was right in front of me and I kept blurting out things like 'you're so pretty!' 'you're perfect!' and she had this big gorgeous smile the whole time, and she was like 'I'm not!'. Her security people kept saying no to everyone who said 'can I have a picture please Lana?' but she replied 'stop telling me just give me 2 more minutes' and Lana carried on signing away. Anyway, after these other basic hoes who hadn't been waiting for 3 hours had got their pictures, I FINALLY got a picture with Lana and my friend, and I look like a mess but she is adorable.
 

 
I'm going to have to make a separate post about the actual show lmao, but I forgot to mention she kissed my cheek!
 

 
Pics of Lana signing:
 
 
 
Part 2 coming soooon

I had to place the rest of the shows here because I had too many images in the OP! Enjoy
 
May 12, O2 Academy, Birmingham, United Kingdom

 
 
May 13, O2 Academy, Birmingham, United Kingdom

 
 
May 16, SECC, Glasgow, United Kingdom

 
 
May 19, Hammersmith Apollo, London, United Kingdom

 
 
May 20, Hammersmith Apollo, London, United Kingdom

 
 
May 23, O2 Apollo, Manchester, United Kingdom

 
 
May 24, O2 Apollo, Manchester, United Kingdom

 
 
May 26, Vicar Street, Dublin, Ireland

 
 
May 27, Vicar Street, Dublin, Ireland

 
 
May 29, Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 
 
May 31, Vorst Nationaal, Brussels, Belgium

 
 
June 2, Torwar, Warsaw, Poland

 
 
June 4, Siemens Arena, Vilnius, Lithuania

 
 
June 10, Ukraine Palace, Kiev, Ukraine

 
 
June 12, Minsk Arena, Minsk, Belarus

 
 
June 14, Riga Arena, Riga, Latvia

 
 
June 16, Hartwall Arena, Helenski, Finland

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfJ1kToU6_s
Tadaaaaam

Paradise version of Yayo tbh...like, come on. It has it's own charm and you know it

I need unseen shit though

"lanadelrey likes your post"       

lana with a fan 

"lanadelrey likes your post"       

awww that's really sweet. poor mom getting shafted all the time 

Lana and Barrie, again and again 

 

 
 
 

why isn't this an emoticon yet. 


This face corresponds to at least ONE emotion i feel every single day. 

Here are the pictures of my collection with all my latest cd i got during my moving 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There's so many, I love lana gifs so much.
 
Sexy and I know it Lana

 
I can't take myself seriously for long Lana

 
Could you look this cute with a forehead as big as mine

 
Kiss wave

 
Fan overload

'Yum, tastes like pepsi...'

 
 
'never was there ever a girl so pretty'

giggly Lana

TWERK

 
 
 
 
So many more...

Just made this, but fudge the annoying watermark at the bottom...  And it looks like she's a nazi. 
 
Neeext.

Her and Barrie 

http://24.media.tumblr.com/fe976353f2c37f14add649a0f0dc49f2/tumblr_mm9wcosQoZ1ruqs4bo3_250.gif
I've always thought this one was so sweet
Sorry I can't post the image I'm on my iPad

Buy young and beautiful...like an american ooh ooh ooh ooh oo wooh

i feel like there has got to be more to the interview

number 9!!
but still no airplay near me atleast

#10! Imagine if she were to have US late-night/talk show promo...which she won't
 
This is the highest I've ever seen Lana on iTunes. I try not to get caught up in charts but this is pretty cool.

#10 and Born to Die album 36 #.          It really shows how big Lana could be with some promo.