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Dedicated for sure
This dude certaintly is dedicated
Dear sir/madam
Firstly i would like to thank you all at Gatecrasher for giving me the best night of my life! What started off as the most expensive nightmare off all time turned good in the end! I was travelling to London on friday 30th May to see Paul Oakenfold play at Heaven. Me, my girlfriend and 2 other friends set off from where we live, Fort William (550 miles from London). The plan was simple, drive to Glasgow, get the 13:40 train from glasgow to euston, go to Heaven for a top night and get the 07:55 train from euston back to glasgow, then there was just the 105 mile drive back to fort william. Easy!
HOW WRONG WE WERE!!!!!!!!!
The 13:40 train was cancelled! no problem, there was one at 15:36, we would get that and still make it on time. That train broke down at Killmarnock! We were still there at 18:40, virgin were sending another engine from glasgow to take the train to london, estamated time of arrival in london, 02:30 if we were lucky! We decided to get off the train at Killmarnock and go back to glasgow for a night out. I was not a happy bunny!!!!!! I wanted to see Oakey! I new he was only playing a few dates in the uk this year and i wanted to see all off them. I drove the 1100 mile round trip just to see him at Homelands the week before, i wasnt going to let virgin trains spoil this one.
I told the others that i would pay for flights if they were up for going, we went for it. We got a taxi from Killmarnock to Glasgow, on the way i phoned Glasgow airport and enquired about 4 flights. There was a flight at 20:35 to heathrow but the return flight was from gatwick, that was ok, i asked how much, £731 for the 4 flights........I thought f**k it, am not missing this night! i booked the flights and got there with 10 mins to spare. We arrived at heathrow just before 10 o'clock, got washed and changed at the airport when my girlfriend informed me that she burst the zip in her black knee high boots. Nightmare! i decided to put the bags in left luggage and try and sort something on the way. When we were putting the bags away i spotted black flight socks, so i cut the toes off and put them over the top of the boots. Couldnt even tell they were on, result! It was now 23:10, still at heathrow, i wasnt sure if we would get entry into the club after midnight. The taxi driver at heathrow said it would take 40 mins to get there, we would make it! We just got passed Trafalger square when THE TAXI BROKE DOWN!!!!! I was ready to cry!! He got us a another taxi and we got there at 23:55. At f**kin last!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is where my night turned good! I had 2 spare tickets and asked someone at the door if they could help me get rid of them, i got full price for them and i thanked him for the only good thing that has happend to me that day. He asked me why, and i told him my nightmare jouney from hell. He turned out to be the manager of the club, and gave us V.I.P. passes for the club since we had such a nightmare. When we were in the v.i.p.bar he saw me and introduced me to the Gatecrasher promoter! He thanked me for making such an effort and took time to talk to me for a while. I was well chuffed! I then went through to the main room to watch the man himself, the reason i made the effort, Oakey was superb!!!!
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