WEAPONDEREPLAY

I’m not English, so please forgive my mistakes. I’ve been wanting to write you since ages ago. But I never found the courage to write you. I don’t know why, I’ve always had the feeling of not having interesting things to tell.
I’m a 24 years old Italian girl who makes Music the center of her life.
I’ve been following you guys since 2006, it was love at first listening. I know I’m not one of your oldest fans, I don’t follow you from the beginning, but now it’s been almost 6 years and I listen to your songs every day. For the happiness of my mother and neighbors.
I’ve always been hearing people yelling “This band changed my life” I was skeptic, and karma hit me in my back, because when I heard ‘Last summer’ for the first time I was wondering why in Italy such an amazing song isn’t known? Why can’t I hear it on radio or see the video on tv?
At the time I was studying Economics, but my real passion was web design, to create websites for me or my friends. And with one of my best friend I opened a fansite about Lostprophets. It was in both English and Italian, at the time I really didn’t know anything about English, my best friend did. I started studying by myself to help her and have the satisfaction to read the articles about the band all by myself. Without help. A simple passion became bigger and bigger, and we had to work really hard to spread the word in Italy, about how amazing you guys were (and still are). No one trust us, people looked at us like we were foolish. We had to send tons of e-mails, to everyone who could help us, and after few months we managed to reach a  contact with Sony Italy.
One of the most beautiful days of my life. (also for my friend, I think).
Your songs always a beautiful feeling, they were (and are) the soundtracks of my life. And I found the courage to tell my parent that I hate Economics, they forced it on me, ‘cause my first choice would have been ‘Advertising’ which wasn’t good enough in their opininion.
I’ve struggled and now, in February I’ll take my degree on Advertising. I’m proud of it, and I’m proud to tell on my thesis how much Music can help people. Well, in a sort of way. I’ll be talking about my project, and my websites about you, that now are two, one in Italian, and one in English (the site who organized the FanVideo for the band). I can tell in my thesis how I felt when I met you in Italy at the Meet&Greet that WE helped to organize. (If you remember, I’m the girl who touched your butt and still I’m ashamed for it, can I appeal to mental disability caused by having you in front of me?).
Ah! Yes! I won one of pass for the prelisting party in London last year in January! I remember that day like it was yesterday. When we arrived at the airport there was no flight for London.  «Hell NO» was a motto for that day. We stayed almost 12 hours at the airport, and we took a scheduled flight, the ONLY one who would leave from Milan. My father was speechless when he discovered that I spent almost 1000€ for two days in London. I blamed  the snow. It wasn’t my fault if the flight ticket costed 500+€. I never gave up on the chance to see you in flesh and bones and listen to the album before the rest of the world. I’m proud of it, I don’t care if people don’t get how important it was for me. In the past year I lived in hell, my mom had a stroke with  a surgery (4 bypass), I was really upset and a little bit downhearted, but with your music, the memories of the Italian gig, the Prelisting party and the meet and greet helped me to go on.  I took 10 exams and now I’m writing my graduation thesis. Thanks to you guys I met amazing friends from all around the world, and I understood the importance to never give up on fighting for what I want. I hope to see you on the next tour, and maybe take another pic together.
So thank you. You made my life better.