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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 withkingbantam, 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!
All safely in the warm (and pretty much forming our own Gareth fan corner tucked away at the back of the hall) photographs with the actors were first on the agenda. Most people just wanted their photos with James so we waited until nearly the end to go up. Gareth looked very nice in his orange t-shirt and white shirt and his hair looked great with a bit of a fringe (although you can see why they change it for Torchwood as it makes him look very young). Went up for the photo - Gareth was very smiley and sweet and put his arm around my waist whilst JM was super cuddly putting one arm around my shoulders and the other around my waist. The photo was followed by a great deal of conspiratorial whispering between the two boys which finished with them both turning to look and smile at me and Gareth waving - all of which coincided with me tripping and almost falling down the stairs - real smooth! The professional photographer should probably lose the "professional" part of his moniker as the resulting photo has the worst shadows I've ever seen but despite that it's actually a really nice picture of the three of us.
Gareth's Q&A was next. He definitely relaxed as he went on and was very articulate and funny. We did manage to prise a few spoilers from him, James and Cath so avoid if you are a resolute spoiler phobe.
First question was inevitably "What was it like kissing John Barrowman?" and he replied that it was "Smooth" because of how clean shaven John was. He seemed quite pleased about this as he indicated he wasn't sure quite how he was going to cope with the notion of stubble!
He was asked whether Ianto got more action in the second series and he confirmed that he got more action in every sense of the word.
Gareth said he didn't have anything lined up at the moment post-Torchwood and was auditioning a lot - he seemed keen to get back into the theatre and said that he would even do panto (he confessed that he used to be a snob about panto before he saw John in Jack and the Beanstalk).
He got asked (presumably by a non-fan) how he got into acting and whether he went to drama school and he said that he hadn't gone to drama school (mentioned not wishing to spend three years pretending how to be a giraffe!) and repeated the story about his Aunt encouraging him to take drama classes when she was looking after him and how he got his break through the National Youth Theatre.
He promised that we would get a better idea what Jack and Ianto got up to with a stopwatch and that the stopwatch would make a re-appearance.
When asked what shows he liked Gareth said that he was a huge Star Trek fan and that he used to go on QVC and buy all the toys and videos which worried his aunt who was looking after him at the time.
He said that in the beginning he had been a bit obsessed with finding out what other people were saying on the internet about him and Torchwood and that he had to stop himself from doing that because he was just literally spending his life in front of the computer. Gareth also confirmed that he has read some fanfic (!) and that he thought some of it was very well written if a "Bit dirty!".
flatlanddan asked him when he was a kid what he wanted to be when he grew up? Answer - "An astronaut."
He was asked what his first reaction was to finding out that Ianto was going to be Jack's lover and he said he was very flattered as "Everyone fancies John Barrowman so why wouldn't he want to get a bit of that treasure?" and that he was very flattered and privileged that the producers considered him good enough to be the love interest to the lead and that he had gotten a lot of interest from being a part of that relationship and that a lot of the questions he gets asked revolve around Jack/Ianto.
cyberamanda asked him about his philosophy degree and he confirmed that he's still taking it through the Open University and that it helps him order his thinking which he felt was very helpful for an actor.
His playlist to pull too would be some Portishead, Gorecki and a whole host of other bands I've never heard of and a slightly scratched version of Percy Sledge's When a Man Loves a Woman playing on repeat in a log cabin (complete with roaring fire).
Gareth told a story which seemed to suggest that he had come up with the backstory of Ianto working at Torchwood One and hiding Lisa away after the battle and meeting Russell T Davies and repeating the back story to him only for Russell to reply with "That's for me to decide!".
He said Ianto was described to him by the producers as a semi-regular who wouldn't be in every scene and who was "Alfred to Jack's Batman."
He rather deftly deflected the question about what was the most romantic thing he had ever done or had done to him but made the audience "awwww!" anyway by saying that he was quite a romantic at heart.
He was asked whether he was fed up with people hanging around the set and he (lied) that he wasn't and that he understood that people were excited by the filming process and wanted to know more about it.
I asked him if he could write a storyline for Ianto what would it be and he said he had many ideas that he would love to see in the show and that he quite liked the dark and angsty aspects of Ianto's character.
I also asked him if there was a Torchwood body swap episode which member of the cast would he most like to imitate and he said Naoko as "I'd just want to hide in my trailer and play with them for hours." Definitely a breast man is our Gareth!
There was then a Q&A with James, Gareth and Cath Tregenna. Cath confirmed that she had written episodes 4 & 5 (not a two parter) and that the cast had just watched episode 5 on the big screen. JM bowed down to her on stage and said that he thought the episode was brilliant and that it had him in tears (the episode with Naoko and the guy from World War II?). Cath also confirmed that one of her episodes put two of the characters into a position where they are practically alternate versions of themselves.
Gareth and James clearly get along brilliantly and they obviously had a great time on set and off (Gareth had taken James out in Newport for the full Newport experience as he put it).
James confirmed that he would be doing an English accent as Captain John , although a low class English accent that was very different from the accent he used as Spike. Gareth said that they had recently filmed a scene together where Ianto is threatening to kill Captain John in a slow and agonisingly painful way (tying in with the recent spoiler from Thursday's filming?) and there was talk of them dragging weevils together.
James repeated the story he told at Dragoncon about how taking the role in Torchwood meant that he had to confront his own homophobia and that he was very uncomfortable watching John being very overly sexual with the girls (Naoko) and trying to grab her and that he had approached Naoko and suggested that she sneeze in a manner which would have headbutted John (not exactly easy given how small she is!) or that she stamp on his foot and break some bones to get him to stop bothering her and that he had then realised that the entire crew was looking at him in horror because they're used to John being John. He said John had been super professional the next day and that John had asked him what he needed to be comfortable with the scene and that later on he had gotten injured badly (bleeding through his costume) and hadn't wanted the producers to know and that John had completely looked after him and he finished by saying that "I would go into hell for that man."
He also said that he would much rather kiss John Barrowman than Sarah Michelle Gellar.
James said that his character calls Ianto "eyecandy."
James said that he'd gotten the part in Torchwood because he'd been in the UK at a con and had wanted to go out but Lisa who runs the cons with him had wanted to stay in and watch Doctor Who. He thought the show was brilliant and got his manager to call up Russell T Davies and ask whether there was a part for him in Who and he was told that there wasn't but that there was a part for him in Torchwood if he wanted it. James said that Torchwood was one of the best shows in its genre and that he would happily come back for series 3 if they wanted him.
Cath talked a lot about how she got into writing (started out as an actress before becoming part of a writing programme at BBC Wales which no longer exists). She was asked whether she had fed anything from the actors' performances into her writing and she mentioned that she had learned that Jack and Ianto together could be very humorous.
There was a discussion about how actors like lines which can have different interpretations and Gareth mentioned a line in an episode they'd filmed which had Torchwood Three discussing a mental hospital and Ianto's response is "I Know it." and Gareth said how much he liked the line because it could be interpreted that either Ianto means that he knows how to get there or that he has experience of the place.
Someone asked Cath Tregenna about the negative reaction to Gwen on the net and asked her why she thought that was and was it jealousy? Cath rather misunderstood that the question was about Gwen the character and not Eve the actress and launched into a passionate defence of Eve (aided and abetted by the two boys who went off on a bit of a tangent about the glory of Eve's body). Gareth said that he used to read a lot of negative stuff about himself and Ianto on the internet and that he'd learned not to take into heart and that he didn't mind so much if the comments were funny.
This prompted my favourite line of the day when Gareth said that someone had posted the following on the net " I don't know why everyone keeps going on about Torchwood having too much sex in it. The only pair of tits I saw was when Burn Gorman and Gareth David Lloyd were on screen."
He also said that he's read an alternative commentary of Cyberwoman and at the emotional moment when Ianto is all choked up with tears about Lisa he says "I'm...." and in the pause someone had interjected with "Rubbish!"
Major points for being so self-effacing.
Someone asked how Jack could be the Face of Boe and Gareth did this hilarious spiel about Jack being run over by a train and his head being severed from his body and Ianto out of love taking the head and keeping it in a large jar. When someone then asked how the hell Boe could have children Gareth started "well what happened was Ianto took Jack's seed...." before deciding not to go any further!
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.
The delayed start time coupled with the fact that most of the JM fans were getting 3-5 items signed meant that the James Q&A (which I suspect would have been the highlight for a lot of the attendees) was only 30 minutes long. He was very entertaining and talked about his new album (which he wanted to call Girl with Feathers because his girlfriend loves birds but was convinced to change it after his girlfriend pointed out that he probably didn't want a picture of himself on the cover with the words "Girl with feathers" underneath and how he couldn't talk about his new film Dragonball Z.
He mentioned that Captain John (like Jack) is omnisexual like Jack and that there is a snippet of dialogue in the episode which goes something like this:
John: "I can understand why you like it here.Look at him and her and wow what's that?"
Gwen: "That's a poodle"
John: "Nice"
He also mentioned that there's a scene where his character thinks that he has hurt Jack in the worst possible way and killed him and then Jack walks through the door. James said that he was really struggling to convey his character's emotional response to Jack being alive and that he was getting tired. So to relieve the stress of the moment John decides to whip his cock out which apparently lightened the mood and because John was prepared to be so vulnerable to help him it let Marsters get the reaction he was reaching for!
Dan then won mega bonus points for confessing to a rather shocked crowd that she's never seen James in Buffy or Angel but loved him in Andromeda and could her tell her more about his time on that. James thought the question was hilarious and said that he felt bad that he said no to returning to Andromeda as the people were really nice but he just couldn't face being on the show again.
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")
I have to say that the concert itself was kinda strange. I have heard many a tale of rowdy Marsters' fangirls and so expected the concert to have a really kicking vibe. Instead it was all a tad funereal. Sure everyone was very appreciative of the acts at the end of each song but I have never seen a more static crowd in my life! Hardly anyone swayed never mind danced - it must have looked really weird if you were on stage looking down at this unmoving sea of faces! Dan and I did our best to liven things up with a spot of dancing but noone else joined in!
Disgracelands (the band Gareth helps out with and who backed him on the night (no idea where the name Breath of Blue Fire came from on the website!) did a couple of tracks first up. Not really my thing - the music was good but the lead singer did rather sound like he was howling in agony.
Gareth then did his set which was really short at only 4 songs. I think we were all a bit anxious about what he would sound like but he was actually great. He has a really deep growly voice and he sang a Muddy Waters song, some Kenny Rogers, a fantastic version of Glory Box by Portishead which I really hope someone caught on video because I loved it and ended with a quite angry track about loss which he dedicated to his mother who he lost two years ago. It was a great set although a nearby group of JM fans were a little disrespectful during it- when the performer is up on stage pouring his heart out about the death of his mother it isn't really polite to talk and giggle at the top of your voices so that everyone including him can hear you - little respect and common courtesy ladies!
Naoko had come to see the gig and was kind enough to sign autographs forcyberamanda and I - she looked lovely - very smart and she dispelled the rumours that she is going back into Avenue Q - she said she was very tired and just wanted a bit of a rest now that filming was over.
JM's music wasn't really my thing - the songs were pleasant enough but seemed very short - you'd only just gotten into them and they were over.flatlanddan and I went outside for some fresh air and Gareth was there with someone called Paul who works on Torchwood as First AD and his brother and sister who arrived while we were stood there and who had unfortunately arrived late enough to miss his gig. Poor guy - spends all afternoon worrying about it and they missed the gig anyway!
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!
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!All safely in the warm (and pretty much forming our own Gareth fan corner tucked away at the back of the hall) photographs with the actors were first on the agenda. Most people just wanted their photos with James so we waited until nearly the end to go up. Gareth looked very nice in his orange t-shirt and white shirt and his hair looked great with a bit of a fringe (although you can see why they change it for Torchwood as it makes him look very young). Went up for the photo - Gareth was very smiley and sweet and put his arm around my waist whilst JM was super cuddly putting one arm around my shoulders and the other around my waist. The photo was followed by a great deal of conspiratorial whispering between the two boys which finished with them both turning to look and smile at me and Gareth waving - all of which coincided with me tripping and almost falling down the stairs - real smooth! The professional photographer should probably lose the "professional" part of his moniker as the resulting photo has the worst shadows I've ever seen but despite that it's actually a really nice picture of the three of us.
Gareth's Q&A was next. He definitely relaxed as he went on and was very articulate and funny. We did manage to prise a few spoilers from him, James and Cath so avoid if you are a resolute spoiler phobe.
First question was inevitably "What was it like kissing John Barrowman?" and he replied that it was "Smooth" because of how clean shaven John was. He seemed quite pleased about this as he indicated he wasn't sure quite how he was going to cope with the notion of stubble!
He was asked whether Ianto got more action in the second series and he confirmed that he got more action in every sense of the word.
Gareth said he didn't have anything lined up at the moment post-Torchwood and was auditioning a lot - he seemed keen to get back into the theatre and said that he would even do panto (he confessed that he used to be a snob about panto before he saw John in Jack and the Beanstalk).
He got asked (presumably by a non-fan) how he got into acting and whether he went to drama school and he said that he hadn't gone to drama school (mentioned not wishing to spend three years pretending how to be a giraffe!) and repeated the story about his Aunt encouraging him to take drama classes when she was looking after him and how he got his break through the National Youth Theatre.
He promised that we would get a better idea what Jack and Ianto got up to with a stopwatch and that the stopwatch would make a re-appearance.
When asked what shows he liked Gareth said that he was a huge Star Trek fan and that he used to go on QVC and buy all the toys and videos which worried his aunt who was looking after him at the time.
He said that in the beginning he had been a bit obsessed with finding out what other people were saying on the internet about him and Torchwood and that he had to stop himself from doing that because he was just literally spending his life in front of the computer. Gareth also confirmed that he has read some fanfic (!) and that he thought some of it was very well written if a "Bit dirty!".
flatlanddan asked him when he was a kid what he wanted to be when he grew up? Answer - "An astronaut."He was asked what his first reaction was to finding out that Ianto was going to be Jack's lover and he said he was very flattered as "Everyone fancies John Barrowman so why wouldn't he want to get a bit of that treasure?" and that he was very flattered and privileged that the producers considered him good enough to be the love interest to the lead and that he had gotten a lot of interest from being a part of that relationship and that a lot of the questions he gets asked revolve around Jack/Ianto.
cyberamanda asked him about his philosophy degree and he confirmed that he's still taking it through the Open University and that it helps him order his thinking which he felt was very helpful for an actor. His playlist to pull too would be some Portishead, Gorecki and a whole host of other bands I've never heard of and a slightly scratched version of Percy Sledge's When a Man Loves a Woman playing on repeat in a log cabin (complete with roaring fire).
Gareth told a story which seemed to suggest that he had come up with the backstory of Ianto working at Torchwood One and hiding Lisa away after the battle and meeting Russell T Davies and repeating the back story to him only for Russell to reply with "That's for me to decide!".
He said Ianto was described to him by the producers as a semi-regular who wouldn't be in every scene and who was "Alfred to Jack's Batman."
He rather deftly deflected the question about what was the most romantic thing he had ever done or had done to him but made the audience "awwww!" anyway by saying that he was quite a romantic at heart.
He was asked whether he was fed up with people hanging around the set and he (lied) that he wasn't and that he understood that people were excited by the filming process and wanted to know more about it.
I asked him if he could write a storyline for Ianto what would it be and he said he had many ideas that he would love to see in the show and that he quite liked the dark and angsty aspects of Ianto's character.
I also asked him if there was a Torchwood body swap episode which member of the cast would he most like to imitate and he said Naoko as "I'd just want to hide in my trailer and play with them for hours." Definitely a breast man is our Gareth!
There was then a Q&A with James, Gareth and Cath Tregenna. Cath confirmed that she had written episodes 4 & 5 (not a two parter) and that the cast had just watched episode 5 on the big screen. JM bowed down to her on stage and said that he thought the episode was brilliant and that it had him in tears (the episode with Naoko and the guy from World War II?). Cath also confirmed that one of her episodes put two of the characters into a position where they are practically alternate versions of themselves.
Gareth and James clearly get along brilliantly and they obviously had a great time on set and off (Gareth had taken James out in Newport for the full Newport experience as he put it).
James confirmed that he would be doing an English accent as Captain John , although a low class English accent that was very different from the accent he used as Spike. Gareth said that they had recently filmed a scene together where Ianto is threatening to kill Captain John in a slow and agonisingly painful way (tying in with the recent spoiler from Thursday's filming?) and there was talk of them dragging weevils together.
James repeated the story he told at Dragoncon about how taking the role in Torchwood meant that he had to confront his own homophobia and that he was very uncomfortable watching John being very overly sexual with the girls (Naoko) and trying to grab her and that he had approached Naoko and suggested that she sneeze in a manner which would have headbutted John (not exactly easy given how small she is!) or that she stamp on his foot and break some bones to get him to stop bothering her and that he had then realised that the entire crew was looking at him in horror because they're used to John being John. He said John had been super professional the next day and that John had asked him what he needed to be comfortable with the scene and that later on he had gotten injured badly (bleeding through his costume) and hadn't wanted the producers to know and that John had completely looked after him and he finished by saying that "I would go into hell for that man."
He also said that he would much rather kiss John Barrowman than Sarah Michelle Gellar.
James said that his character calls Ianto "eyecandy."
James said that he'd gotten the part in Torchwood because he'd been in the UK at a con and had wanted to go out but Lisa who runs the cons with him had wanted to stay in and watch Doctor Who. He thought the show was brilliant and got his manager to call up Russell T Davies and ask whether there was a part for him in Who and he was told that there wasn't but that there was a part for him in Torchwood if he wanted it. James said that Torchwood was one of the best shows in its genre and that he would happily come back for series 3 if they wanted him.
Cath talked a lot about how she got into writing (started out as an actress before becoming part of a writing programme at BBC Wales which no longer exists). She was asked whether she had fed anything from the actors' performances into her writing and she mentioned that she had learned that Jack and Ianto together could be very humorous.
There was a discussion about how actors like lines which can have different interpretations and Gareth mentioned a line in an episode they'd filmed which had Torchwood Three discussing a mental hospital and Ianto's response is "I Know it." and Gareth said how much he liked the line because it could be interpreted that either Ianto means that he knows how to get there or that he has experience of the place.
Someone asked Cath Tregenna about the negative reaction to Gwen on the net and asked her why she thought that was and was it jealousy? Cath rather misunderstood that the question was about Gwen the character and not Eve the actress and launched into a passionate defence of Eve (aided and abetted by the two boys who went off on a bit of a tangent about the glory of Eve's body). Gareth said that he used to read a lot of negative stuff about himself and Ianto on the internet and that he'd learned not to take into heart and that he didn't mind so much if the comments were funny.
This prompted my favourite line of the day when Gareth said that someone had posted the following on the net " I don't know why everyone keeps going on about Torchwood having too much sex in it. The only pair of tits I saw was when Burn Gorman and Gareth David Lloyd were on screen."
He also said that he's read an alternative commentary of Cyberwoman and at the emotional moment when Ianto is all choked up with tears about Lisa he says "I'm...." and in the pause someone had interjected with "Rubbish!"
Major points for being so self-effacing.
Someone asked how Jack could be the Face of Boe and Gareth did this hilarious spiel about Jack being run over by a train and his head being severed from his body and Ianto out of love taking the head and keeping it in a large jar. When someone then asked how the hell Boe could have children Gareth started "well what happened was Ianto took Jack's seed...." before deciding not to go any further!
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.
The delayed start time coupled with the fact that most of the JM fans were getting 3-5 items signed meant that the James Q&A (which I suspect would have been the highlight for a lot of the attendees) was only 30 minutes long. He was very entertaining and talked about his new album (which he wanted to call Girl with Feathers because his girlfriend loves birds but was convinced to change it after his girlfriend pointed out that he probably didn't want a picture of himself on the cover with the words "Girl with feathers" underneath and how he couldn't talk about his new film Dragonball Z.
He mentioned that Captain John (like Jack) is omnisexual like Jack and that there is a snippet of dialogue in the episode which goes something like this:
John: "I can understand why you like it here.Look at him and her and wow what's that?"
Gwen: "That's a poodle"
John: "Nice"
He also mentioned that there's a scene where his character thinks that he has hurt Jack in the worst possible way and killed him and then Jack walks through the door. James said that he was really struggling to convey his character's emotional response to Jack being alive and that he was getting tired. So to relieve the stress of the moment John decides to whip his cock out which apparently lightened the mood and because John was prepared to be so vulnerable to help him it let Marsters get the reaction he was reaching for!
Dan then won mega bonus points for confessing to a rather shocked crowd that she's never seen James in Buffy or Angel but loved him in Andromeda and could her tell her more about his time on that. James thought the question was hilarious and said that he felt bad that he said no to returning to Andromeda as the people were really nice but he just couldn't face being on the show again.
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")
I have to say that the concert itself was kinda strange. I have heard many a tale of rowdy Marsters' fangirls and so expected the concert to have a really kicking vibe. Instead it was all a tad funereal. Sure everyone was very appreciative of the acts at the end of each song but I have never seen a more static crowd in my life! Hardly anyone swayed never mind danced - it must have looked really weird if you were on stage looking down at this unmoving sea of faces! Dan and I did our best to liven things up with a spot of dancing but noone else joined in!
Disgracelands (the band Gareth helps out with and who backed him on the night (no idea where the name Breath of Blue Fire came from on the website!) did a couple of tracks first up. Not really my thing - the music was good but the lead singer did rather sound like he was howling in agony.
Gareth then did his set which was really short at only 4 songs. I think we were all a bit anxious about what he would sound like but he was actually great. He has a really deep growly voice and he sang a Muddy Waters song, some Kenny Rogers, a fantastic version of Glory Box by Portishead which I really hope someone caught on video because I loved it and ended with a quite angry track about loss which he dedicated to his mother who he lost two years ago. It was a great set although a nearby group of JM fans were a little disrespectful during it- when the performer is up on stage pouring his heart out about the death of his mother it isn't really polite to talk and giggle at the top of your voices so that everyone including him can hear you - little respect and common courtesy ladies!
Naoko had come to see the gig and was kind enough to sign autographs for
cyberamanda and I - she looked lovely - very smart and she dispelled the rumours that she is going back into Avenue Q - she said she was very tired and just wanted a bit of a rest now that filming was over.JM's music wasn't really my thing - the songs were pleasant enough but seemed very short - you'd only just gotten into them and they were over.
flatlanddan and I went outside for some fresh air and Gareth was there with someone called Paul who works on Torchwood as First AD and his brother and sister who arrived while we were stood there and who had unfortunately arrived late enough to miss his gig. Poor guy - spends all afternoon worrying about it and they missed the gig anyway!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!
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Date: 2007-11-19 08:46 pm (UTC)Anyway, great review, I loved reading it and it made me remember things I'd forgotten in my excitement :)
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Date: 2007-11-19 08:56 pm (UTC)Glad you liked the review.