Gareth David Lloyd Photos

Photos of Gareth (and one of Gareth, Cath Tregenna and James Marsters) from the Celtic Blues event.

They're not great (this weekend has confirmed that my camera is lousy and has the slowest shutter speed ever) but these were the best of the bunch:

Celtic Blues - Gareth David Lloyd and James Marsters - Report

So arrived in Cardiff on the Friday and checked into the St David's hotel (super swank), admired the beauty that is John Barrowman's Porsche before meeting up with cyberamanda, flatlanddan, rivier, randommagic, crystalshard and lonelybrit . Marvelled at the glory of the Bay (like a mini film set!), posed for the obligatory shots in front of the water tower and the front of Ianto's tourist office and visited the Doctor Who exhibition (which I felt was a little small actually- still it was fun to see the prop Daleks and boggle at how horrifying skinny David Tennant must be judging from his teeny suit!). Finally we retired to watch Children in Need, which was like watching the worst, cheapest regional television imaginable complete with the humilating sight of no less than 3 microphones failing on poor Lee Mead and some of the worst camera angles ever. Still it was worth it for the lovely performance by John Barrowman and the amazing Time Crash (complete with best and cheekiest line ever!)

cyberamanda and I got up early on the Saturday for another wander around the Bay before heading off to find out where The Point was and being slightly freaked at the fact that there was already a very large group of women queuing outside (presumably to get front row seats?) - despite the fact that the doors weren't going to open for another two hours. We retreated to Terra Nova (cheapest and best food ever) to calm our nerves before meeting up with the others and heading off to the venue.

We met up with kingbantam, jhava and lorely_se in the queue and waited for the doors to open. And waited....and waited. Sadly they let us in 30 minutes late (a delay which really bit them in the ass as it ultimately meant JM's Q&A being curtailed) which meant that by the time we went in we were all freezing and had had to endure random football fans asking us what the hell we were queuing for and the hilarity of the enterprising guy who started handing out business cards for his grave cleaning service - most surreal moment ever!

( Photographs )

( Gareth's Q & A )

( Gareth, James and Cath Q&A )

It was then time for autographs and to be honest the organisers made a bit of a mistake here as they had both James and Gareth up on stage together and had one queue for both instead of separate queues. Problem is the vast majority of the attendees were Masters fans and probably 90% of them bypassed Gareth when they were done and didn't get anything signed by him. So Gareth sat there staring into space for very long periods of time and I think as time when on he just started to get more and more stressed about the upcoming gig so that by the time we got to him he could barely string a sentence together - poor lamb!

Also rather naughtily even though they always announced the event as having 3 guests Cath Tregenna's autograph wasn't included in the package (a fact I found out only after she had signed my Torchwood book which was more than a tad embarrassing). As a result I don't think anyone spent £10 for her autograph and so she sat there looking rather forlorn on her own until she left.

( James Q&A )

The event then ended and we raced back to get changed and get back to the concert. More queuing in the cold ensued (with the people in the non-wristband queue apparently getting quite unpleasant with the security guards about why they couldn't be in the special queue and asking what the difference in the queues was (security guards brilliant answer? "£90")

( The Concert )

And that was it. Adored Cardiff Bay, loved my hotel, thought Gareth came across exceptionally well and hell I even really liked his singing - altogether a great weekend!