My Bieber Experience

2011 was by far the best year of my life and it was all because of Justin Bieber.

Not only was I able to have the pleasure of seeing him three times live, I got to meet him too.

This is how it all went..

As beliebers we all pretty much 'stalk' Justin I would say. I'm not one of those beliebers who say I was there with Justin from the start back in like '07 when I wasn't. I only started to watch his videos in December '08. The first one I watched was Common Denominator because it hadn't long been uploaded. The views went up by a mile everyday. I knew this kid wasn't going to be just a boy who uploaded covers of different songs every week, he was going to be something different, something special and he is.

So, after following him ever since, I was beginning to get impatient wanting him to come on tour, My World was released then My World 2.0, I just wanted to hear him live. In the mean time I was following him on twitter watching all his tweets going to different radio stations and interviews.

When I joined Twitter.

When Justin joined twitter.

I simply joined to check what he was doing everyday. When I was bored it was what occupied me. I'm going off the point of my Bieber experience here so...I guess it was when he released his tour, I couldn't wait for the tickets to go on sale. I didn't have enough of an experience to get priority tickets so I couldn't get my tickets on pre-sale I had to wait to see what seats were left like everyone else. When the tickets come on sale I was using www.ticketmaster.com the site crashed because of how many fans wanted to buy tickets, I didn't know what to do  for so long, I really wanted tickets, I thought I would have to give up until someone advised me to use www.tickerfactory.com not long after which got me the tickets in the end, decent ones at that. I was so worried I wasn't going to get any at all, I wasn't bothered where they were going to be, I just really wanted some. I only originally bought 1 pair of tickets off the ticket factory because I didn't plan to go to any of his other dates. 

Where the red circle is where my seats were on the 4th.

I was too excited for the tour, I lost hours of sleep over the one date I was going to on the 4th of March in Birmingham at the NIA. I kept thinking to myself, this is my only chance on the My World Tour, why am I only going to only one date? I looked all over the internet for tickets to the day after in Birmingham too but didn't find any in my price range that were decent seats.

The 4th of March came, I woke up at the crack of dawn, 7am or something like that I just couldn't sleep. I got all ready with my Justin doll all dressed in purple. Purple top, purple vans, purple cardi, all purple because it's Justin's favourite colour. I don't have a picture of myself although a paparazzi did take one for the paper. I arrived at the NIA really early just to see if I could see Justin himself or any of his crew and I did :)

The hotel Justin stopped at and was transferred from to the Hilton ready for the show.

I had to walk past this to get to the NIA.

On the 4th of March the sun was shining, I hung around outside the back of the NIA for hours and hours watching the private cars with blackout windows come in. Getting all excited for whoever it could be that got out the car.

• Pattie, Jusitn's mom got out the car and entered the NIA, she came in and out quite a lot on the phone etc. 
• Alison Kaye, Justin's tour manager arrived with her name in the side of the car window.
• Ryan Good, Justin's stylist back then I saw, he looked up and waved when we shouted him.
• Justin's back up dancers were in and out the NIA for a chat with staff outside.
• Legaci arrived in their own car too.

I thought I was going to be behind the stage with the seats I got but they were perfect.

Pretty close really, lucky considering the ticket site crashed.

I didn't take many pictures on this date which I would of heavily regretted if I didn't go to any other dates.

I have a couple of videos though.

The excitement was indescribable.

Here is another one, his intro to Never Say Never.

I might have a couple more on my phone/camera, I'll have to see and upload them.

Watch them in HD if you wish :)

That night was the first night of me seeing him live, I wanted to take it all in and never forget it so I didn't record or take many pictures but I'm greatful had other dates to be able to do that. But overall it was a great day/night.

Oh and one more...his support acts were Willow Smith and Bluey Robinson.

From the 4th I recorded one of Bluey's covers.

So, because I didn't on;y want to see him live once, I was crazy to see him again, Just before the first tour date (4th of March) I was looking for tickets to the second date with was the 5th, again at the NIA. Ticket master and ticket factory has ran out, my last resort was eBay. I hunter high and low for tickets but I couldn't find any that were a decent price for where the seat was. Some sellers wanted £200 for a seat that was right a the back, I couldn't justify paying that sort of money but I eventually found a pair of tickets which were for floor seating. I was so excited. £60 each but for where the seats were it was impressive.

Again I lost sleep that night, but was up even earlier to see who I could catch today. I went to a different place at the NIA this time and I was that excited my pictures weren't the best because I was shaking with who I saw and a big fence was in the way also, a few beliebers were pushing me right up the fence from behind so I was squashed.  It was a good experience although it was pouring down with rain most of the day, my whole body was freezing cold but it was all for Justin so I didn't mind.

Again I came early to see if I could see any of the crew or Justin himself and this time I did.

• I saw the whole Smith family, Willow, Jayda, Jaden and Willow.
• Willows dancers
• and Justin himself getting out the car with Kenny.

That is Willows feet as she walked around the front of her bus.

As I said earlier my pics aren't the best because I was simply too excited, cold and shaking.

This is Jade, one of Willows back up dancers, she was taking a pic of us all up the fence.

She was amazed by our dedication.

When I began to get too cold I decided to get in the queue to go into the venue, I couldn't wait to get in I was freezing cold, starving and thirsty, I reminded myself who it was all for once again. I had never seen a queue like it.

The red circle is where I was sat for the 5th of March.

My seats were amazing, I sat myself down got myself some chips and a drink and chilled.

This was the view from where I was sitting, amazing show.

I did take a couple more pictures at this show because I wasn't expecting to go to another date so my photographic memory came in handy for me, I cans till see everything that happened.

This is my favourite picture off the whole tour.

He was so close when he came over the top of us in his heart singing 'I'll never let you go'.

Again this date was an overall brilliant night. I never wanted it to end so I looked for another date to go to.

I couldn't find any tickets to any of his dates I was able to get to. It was depressing me, surely that was the end, I had a look at where he was for his last tour date. It was Nottingham, an hour and half/two hours up the motorway for me, surely he would be worth it. This was the date I finally fixed my mind on that I wanted to go. I hunted the internet high and low, finally found one last competition that was open on the 21st of March, his last tour date was on the 24th plus I didn't find out about the competition till about 7pm so the people that knew already had a 6/7 hour head start on me. The competition was closing the next day! I knew I had to get my head down and try and win this and I did, because I won.

What I had to do was draw Justin Bieber with the hair style I thought he should have next. (My opinion has now changed also I'm not the best drawer of people) but I had a go. The one with the most likes won because the competition was set up on Facebook by a company.

There is a picture of the poor drawing I did which got the most likes for me to win the competition.

I worked so hard to win this competition I deserved and there was still the beliebers that had to threaten me and put me down, but I held my head high because I was proud of myself.

The news finally come in, it had to be me because I had the most likes, I kept track with the distance between others the competition closed at 3pm and an hour later the news had finally come in.

I was so please, I'm Louise Eaton. 142 comments were majority of people bitching about how I'd won and they didn't but hey your always going to get people like that but there were others that were really happy for me. One of the people competing with me who was trying for Sheffield didn't have enough likes to win that competition so when they found out they lost they tried to change it to Nottingham because they had about 5 more likes than me but the Facebook page knew what they had tried to do. In the end they was only making their selves look stupid because I was the one on my way to pick up my tickets at the box office.

I had no idea what the seating plan for the Capital FM arena was like. So I was going no knowing where I was going to be sitting, I was highly surprised when I got there after two hours of travelling up the motorway at rush hour, for the third time I remembered who it was for.

Once I collected my tickets I was waiting in a much shorted queue than at Birmingham to grab my seats.

This was my view.

Impressed was not the word.

it was a brilliant show, brilliant 3 days on the tour.

I took a lot more pictures and videos in Nottingham, Justin went out with a blast on his last date.

It was amazing.

And the countdown from 15 minutes was getting closer.

Ohhhh owoah, ITS JB.

My friends say I'm a fool to think that your the one for me.

TELL ME WHAT I WANNA HEAR.

And all the haterz I sweat the look so small from up here, cause were bigger.

Finished his little dance routine at the end of Bigger.

Here are some videos from the Nottingham date.

Watch them all in HD.

Never Let You Go. <3

Somebody to love.

Runaway Love.

U Smile.

The first two and last dates of the My World Tour were certainly the best!

The goodies I got my the My World Tour and my tickets.

• Tickets for the 4th, 5th and 24th
• Programme
• I got a pack of the photos too
• The long silver thing shot out from the stage (I don't know what it's called)
• and some red and white confetti

That summed up March 2011 for me, which was amazing. Put a smile on my face for the rest of the year.

That was pretty much my experience for the 3 tour dates I went to, impressive eh? Haha.

Best bit is to come..

Meeting Justin Bieber

For the two years I had been wishing to meeting my dream finally came true and shocked me more than ever because I didn't think I'd have a chance of winning the competition I did. It was rumoured that Justin Bieber was going to be turning on the Christmas light in London at both Westfield London and Stratford City. This came out true in the end and competitions were released for both venues on Facebook. I entered them both but sadly didn't win :( so I looked for more competitions and found one on Twitter on Westfield Stratford's page.

Again I worked my hardest, tweeted them all day to win these wristbands to meet Justin.

It was ages until they mentioned the winner after the competition and closed at 4pm, I carried on tweeted them just to see if it made a difference. I was getting so nervous and scared to see if I had won but I was that tensed I guess I would of broke down if I didn't after how hard I worked. It was more towards 6pm or so before the winner was mentioned.

My phone vibrated and it does when a Twitter mention comes through. It was me. It didn't sink in for hours. My jaw dropped and I had no words to say anything. It was unbelievable. I actually couldn't believe it was me that was going to meet Justin after how long I've been waiting and how much I've been trying. As you can see the tweet was on the 3rd of Nov.

I think I was a little excited! My Facebook status

The DMed me on Twitter to send them my email so they were able to send me some details about how I'm supposed to go about collecting my wristbands etc. I had to collect them from Westfield Stratford, the next day on the 4th of November 2011. I live in Birmingham I didn't know how I was ever supposed to go about getting down there. I was getting upset in case I couldn't go but my Mommy was to the rescue. She said she will book me coach tickets to get down there the next day. It took me four hours there and four hours back but it was worth it. The coach left at 7:30am the next day and I couldn't sleep all night.

I was so tired but Justin's new Under the Mistletoe kept me going all the way down there and back. I had never been to London before and the first ever time  I do it's to live my dream.

As the coach was getting into to London, we went past Westfield London, where Justin was going to be in 3 days time. I don't know how I held my excitement in. I had a lot of energy considering I was so tired.

I arrived in London got off the coach and got lost trying to walk straight to Victoria train station because it was my first ever time in London.

Checked in at London, lost. My Facebook status again.

 It took about half an hour from there to Westfield Stratford City. Stratford underground stop was right outside Westfield so I didn't have to walk far. As soon as I got to the venue I went to pick up my meet and greet wristbands. Because I had to go down the next day they hadn't yet done me an envelope with my wristbands in so at the desk they told me they didn't have any in my name. I could of cried, they told me to hang on, asked me what the situation was and got it sorted quickly. I was over the moon when I was handed my envelope. I had a letter that made me smile with the first words.

 I was over the moon.

Once I had collected them I put them in my bag and didn't put it down at any point, I went shopping for the rest of the day in Westfield, it is a new massive shopping centre. I enjoyed my time in London! I didn't want to leave, all the way round there was advertisements on massive s that Justin Bieber was going to be there on the 7th. Billboards and posters, even the mall guide had him on the front. When I had to get the coach home, I slept most the way home. it was a long day but worth it. I had work the next morning at 7am too, I was tired!

For the next 3 nights, I couldn't sleep, I was thinking about what I would say to Justin, wondering what our picture would turn out like, I was dreading it in case I looked a real mess. But it was okay.

So, Monday the 7th of November came. My coach was again leaving my area at 7:30am so my tiredness just kept catching up. Energy drinks were my best friend but the thought of meeting Justin Bieber alone kept me awake. I straight away put my wristband on I couldn't wait any longer.

This time I knew where I was going so it didn't take as long to do what I wanted to do because going there 3 days before made me remember. The meet and greet wasn't until later on the night, time dragged all day. I went back to the same reception to find out the exact details. She explained how the night was going to go, he was performing and the meet and greet was afterwards, she told me to come back at about 4 so I did at about 3:55 I just couldn't wait. She took us down past all the beliebers that had camped for hours which is what I originally planned on doing if I didn't win the competition, I'm so lucky. We went through about 5 barriers of security I felt like Justin himself being protected that much lol but no, it was crazy. There was beliebers that had been camping out since the night before, they were freezing cold, I felt so sorry for some but got talking to the girls in the section next to me who kept being getting pushed forward, I wish I could of picked them up to come over with me. 

This was the Crowd behind me, I'm so grateful I was in a different section, front row, there were being pushed forward so much! 

A couple of the girls towards the right on this picture complained about me to security trying to make out I had the wrong wristband but I didn't. Security did take the piss out of them for been jealous but it made me all the happier, I waved my wristband even higher in the air after that. Some beliebers just can't be happy for what you have won/done. It annoys me so much.

My view from front row, this changed colour to red, purple, blue, green etc!

The time was getting closer to when Justin was going to be on stage, the excitement was building up, his music started to be played so loud. We had a host kind of thing, keeping up occupied, he was crazy and kept us informed about what Justin was doing. The screams were deafening when we was told he was on his way over from Westfield London. In the best style of transport ever...a helicopter.

Circling and landing at Westfield Stratford.

When he landed a lot of security checks had to be done which meant his security came past me a few times.

Kenny!

And White Kenny :)

I met both of these and Dan Kanter on my way to go and meet Justin after wards.

Anyway, once everything was sorted it was time for Justin to come on stage...here is a video.

Watch them all in HD :)

He turned on the lights with a teenage cancer trust. Such a inspiration.

He came back on stage after his guitar had been tuned and the stage was ready for his to perform.

Scrappy and the rest of the team got it ready for him.

I got so impatient waiting for him to come back on stage. When he came back, here's what he sang.

Chestnuts and Mistletoe.

Never Say Never

It won't let me uploads Baby and Dan Kanter coming on stage never mind but from the other two videos you can imagine what it was like. He kept looking over, my heart skipped each time. His eyes are to die for, I can't look in them for too long, they have just got this special kind of thing.

Here are some pictures of the performances and speech he did.

Performing Christmas Love.

These are pictures from his doing his speech saying thank you because we was such an amazing crowd and for supporting him all the way through up until now, and that he loves us :')

This was the end of the acoustic session, I was gutted but I still have the best part to come.

The meet and greet.

I had to wait outside of a little mobile room for him to get read and have us come in. I was shaking, I couldn't move when it was my turn to go in. Kenny grabbed my things off me to help me and literally had to drag me up the steps because I froze when I looked round to see him in the room. I handed white Kenny a Christmas card for Justin for him to give him afterwards. Justin greeted us I went straight up to him with my hand over my mouth, I couldn't talk, I didn't know if it was for real. Was I really standing next to Justin Bieber with his arm round me? I kept asking myself. We had a picture and he told me how to pose for it said how much it was a pleasure for our support and we had to leave. A cheeky little I love you come out. I was the happiest girl alive. The time has never gone so fast I didn't want to walk out, I never wanted to leave him. Every time he looked me in the eyes I had to look away after about 5 seconds, they were to die for, there was something about them that made you look away. I walked out and started crying straight away, I cried and cried and cried all the way back to my coach. I had just met Justin Bieber, my dream, my idol, my inspiration. It means the world to me, it will forever. He is a massive part of my life and he only just about knows I exist. I wouldn't mind meeting him again! I certainly would. To all the people who want to give up, keep saying Never say Never because it surely worked for me!

I'm the girl next to Justin, Best day of my life by a mile. I love him so much!

My life is now complete!

From this, pretending to be next to him. A pretend Justin.

To this, standing next to the real Justin Bieber!

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