Somewhere Along The Way [English]

Girl At A Rock Show

„Thanks for coming to our show!" Jesper said to the crowd before leaving the stage. It was their last day of tour and the audience just caused him goosebumps when starting to sing along to their first single as loud as they could. Jesper almost didn't hear himself anymore. Juggernauts played two encores, but the audience was still yelling and applauding when the band has already left the stage. Jesper was overwhelmed. Too many emotions. He looked to Liam who seemed to be overwhelmed as well while Mike just stood their grinning and out of sheer joy George even forgot his bass on stage. What a crazy concert!

"Lads, this was the best night of my life!" Mike yelled at the guys when they arrived at their backstage room. A bit more than 250 people came to their last show in the O2 Academy Islington in London. Sold out. For the first time the band could sell out a venue. They just got the information on the previous day because their manager didn't want to stress them out. But at the same time, it just motivated them to give more than 100 percent for the last time. It was London. It was their hometown. A few years ago all four boys decided to move to London to start making music. And now they played the grande finale of their first club tour here. Jesper couldn't imagine any better place to do that. And everyone came: families, friends, girlfriends. Everyone. Even Jesper's former history teacher asked him for two tickets and attended the show together with his 16-year-old daughter. She was a huge fan and Jesper's teacher already the best dad in the whole world! Alongside all these people there were even Jesper's grandparents who finally saw their grandson playing live on stage. Jesper even dedicated a song to them and although he couldn't see their faces he knew that his grandma was crying.
While Jesper was happy that his family supported him on this special day, the other guys were lucky that after four weeks of touring they finally saw their girlfriends again. George was reunited with his longtime girlfriend Tessa, Liam saw his girlfriend Mary again who has already joined them for three dates before. And then there was Mike who brought one of his flings to the show – while he was official still single. Only Jesper was probably even more single than his band mate. After ending things with Chloe he had a few dates with a girl but wasn't interested in a relationship. He enjoyed Christmas without worrying about finding the right gift for his girlfriend and just spent some quality time with his parents at home.

Jesper didn't need a girlfriend who was drooling over him at the side of the stage. All he needed was seeing the happy faces in the audience. This was pure joy to him and it reminded him why he was doing music: to make people happy. After all these stressful weeks in the past months and all these annoying discussions with their producer Ben, Jesper finally felt happy with everything that was going on right now. Their debut album "Some Day" was released right before their tour and it received much positive feedback. Jesper didn't expect it since he felt so unhappy about the whole recording process. But now that "Some Day" was out, he finally felt like a real musician. It was his idea to name the album like that because that's what Jesper always thought 'Some day we will release an album. Some day.' So finally, the day has come.

Actually, the day the album was released Jesper went to his favorite record store to buy it. This felt so surreal to him. It was his work. The music he has written. He still couldn't believe it! Although Jesper didn't really like the way their producer worked, he tried to trust this guy. He was such a well-known producer in the music world while Jesper was just this unknown music guy from London. So although it wasn't easy Jesper tried to trust Ben and it seems as if it was the right decision.

When the band arrived at their backstage room, they were welcomed by friends and family. They brought a cake, sparkling wine and beer to celebrate the tour and the successful album release. "Some Day" was in the Top 50 in the UK album charts! Jesper still couldn't believe it. Months and months of working in this dark studio was just worth it. Just half a year ago no one really knew Juggernauts but now radio stations wanted to play their songs, music magazines wanted to interview the guys and people wanted to see them playing live.