My Ears Must Hate Me

The concert last night was amazing! Paramore was so good! Hayley got the audience going and she was running around the stage headbanging. And then the guitarists backflipped over each other!!! It was so awesome!

Jimmy Eat World was really good too. They went straight from song to song without skipping a beat. It was a really good concert. Here's some footage:






My ears hurt so bad from going to 2 concerts in 4 days, listening to my iPod, and I just got a really bad head cold. Ouchy Pouchy!

Set the date: June 28

WARPED TOUR!!!! WOOT! WOOT!



Yes, that time of the year is upon us: Warped Tour is a mere two months away! Eek!!

A complete list of the tour can be found here, but I have listed the bands that I will be able to see, with the most important ones highlighted of course.

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3OH!3
Action Design
A Day to Remember
Against Me!
The Aggrolites
The Academy Is...
The All-American Rejects
The Audition
Alesana
Anberlin
Angels and Airwaves
As I Lay Dying
August Burns Red
Beat Union
Between the Trees
The Briggs
Broadway Calls
The Bronx
Charlotte Sometimes
Cobra Starship
The Color Fred
The Devil Wears Prada
Entice
Evergreen Terrace
Everytime I Die
The Fabulous Rudies
Family Force 5
Farewell
Forever the Sickest Kids
From First to Last
Greeley Estates
Gym Class Heroes
The Higher
Horrorpops
Hunter Revenge
Jeffree Star
Katy Perry
The Lordz
Lost Point
Love Equals Death
The Maine
Mayday Parade!!!!
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
MC Chris
Norma Jean
Oreska
Phathom
Pierce the Veil
Protest the Hero
Reel Big Fish
Relient K
Say Anything
Say No More
Set Your Goals
Shwayze
Stick to Your Guns
Story of the Year
Street Dogs
Tat
Treaty of Paris
Valencia
We The Kings
Your Highness Electric


50 bands on 5 stages! Although I counted 64 bands.....but who cares? WARPED TOUR!!! You can see my report of last year's warped tour and the injury I sustained.



P.S. I am going to Jimmy Eat World/Paramore tonight!! Double Woot!!

THAT WAS FREAKIN' AWESOME!!!

Last night was the MCR concert and it was incredible!!!

I was so scared we were going to be late. We were all running a little behind. :) I had the lady at the MAC counter do my eyes and I looked awesome. I found a really cute black shirt at Target and wore that with my hat and my skull sneakers and black bracelet and necklace. Black nail polish completed the ensemble. I didn't end up dying my hair. I was going to see if they had some black hairspray at Hot Topic, but I didn't have time. It took a long time to do my eyes.

We got to SaltAir 45 minutes before the doors opened and then we were in line for another 45 minutes after that! We all had to pee really bad so we headed straight to the bathrooms after we got inside. K. That place is a dump. It's called "The Cursed Palace" because it's burned down at least two times and was flooded once when the Great Salt Lake rose. Here are some pictures of the outside:





And this is what the inside looks like, minus the stagecoaches in the middle. And everything was painted black. The stage is to the left and the bathrooms are to the right. The bar is up the stairs.

Back to the bathrooms. I wouldn't be surprised if we all caught hepatitis in those things. They were disgusting! Yuck!! During the concert Gerard said that this was one of the most beautiful place they've played at. I'm guessing they had a much better bathroom than we did. :)

Drive By opened up and they were amazing! I'm still kicking myself for not getting their CD and having them sign it. The second opening act was Billy Talent. Not so much a fan of him. But he did get some good energy going. I thought it was cute when he said "If someone falls down you help them up. Gentlemen, take care of the ladies!!"

During the interim between Billy Talent and MCR we met this kid from Idaho and he was roasting in his sweatshirt. He had it pulled halfway over his head when MCR came out and everyone went NUTS!! So there's this poor kid who is getting crushed and can't see anything. It was kinda funny.

This concert was a lot different than last year's. I was so excited for flames and the giant balloons full of confetti that would burst, but when I saw the stage I was like "Yeah, there's no way they can get flames going on that stage." Gerard even said they cut their budget way back for this tour. But it was so AMAZING. They just rocked out all night long. Along with tracks from Black Parade and Three Cheers, they played stuff from Bullets, two B-sides (yay!) and a couple songs I've never heard before. One of them was called Desecration Road.

It was sooooo much fun. The crowd was really good too. Way better than OneRepublic, although they had to tell people not to throw punches during the opening act. There were a few mosh pits, but we were never in one of them, well except for Megan, but that was an accident. She went to sit on the side of the room for a little while, but when MCR came out she got shoved to the very front of the stage. It was so hot in there that she passed out and hit her head. She fell into a mosh pit and some jerkface stepped on her arm. But some guy pulled her out and she went to the EMT room. She's okay though. She got a blue hospital glove for a souvenir. We found her and totally rocked out for the last song of the night, HELENA!!! That's her song!!! And we were by this back hallway and saw the boys go to their room. It was cool.

It was a nice small venue. We got way close and didn't get crushed! It was amazing! Like ten feet from the stage. I could almost see the sweat dripping off their faces! Some kid kept grabbing my arm. I wanted to knock him over, the little dweeb. When we were on the other side of the room there was this kid behind me that knocked my hat over my eyes. Ha! I couldn't see at all. But he situated it back on my head and then patted it down. It was hilarious.

It was an incredible show. It was so hot in there. When we all got in the car the windows all fogged up cause we were so hot. It took forever to get out of the parking lot. But luckily some guy came around selling shirts because I totally forgot to get one inside!

I'm still super exhausted. It's a workout! All that jumping up and down. I still have ringing in my ears, but I'm not as hoarse anymore. Ha! When I went to the staff meeting this morning they all said I looked hungover cause I was super tired and had my sunglasses on and sat in the corner. But I still had a slight headache and didn't want those bright lights making it worse.

It was such a fun show! I only wish I could've taken a camera in. Oh well. Here's a video of them jamming when Gerard was blond. AMAZING SHOW BOYS!!!

Best News Ever!!!

So I get this e-mail today from the MCR website and they added some U.S. tour dates after their tour in Asia. And one of them is SALT LAKE CITY!!!! Woot! Woot! I am so excited! Come April 11th, where will I be? Jammin' live to my favorite band!

I belong in Seattle!!

Tomorrow night one of my favorite singers is going to be rockin out in Seattle, and I won't be there to see him! James Blunt is going to be performing at the Moore Theater and oh how I wish I could go! He has no tour date for Utah; the closest venue is in Las Vegas this Friday. It's official: I need to live in Seattle. They have the best concerts and the gloomiest weather. It's totally my scene. Even though I probably won't ever see James live, I can still watch his videos!

OneRepublic!!!

My friend Megan and I went to the OneRepublic concert yesterday and it was so much fun! The opening bands were really great and we got to meet all three of them and we even met/hugged/got our photo with one of the guitarists of OneRepublic! Once I figure out how to get the photos off of my phone I will be sure to post them. The guys from the band The Daylights were so cute and so nice. I got the cutest picture of Meg with them. You can check them out at http://myspace.com/thedaylights.


The one on the right is Svend. He's from Denmark. He spoke Danish to us! Not pictured is their buddy Russ, who was such a sweetheart!


The one second from the right is the one we got our picture with. His name is Drew Brown.

The concert was fun even with the horrible Utah fans who have to prove that they are the most obnoxious people in the world. We were like twenty feet from the stage and could barely move through most of the concert because people kept shoving. Meg even lost her shoes. Twice. But she found them. It's kind of funny because when I went to the MCR concert in Seattle, everyone was totally chill and cool and behaved themselves even though it was a concert where you could totally go out of control. However, this concert, which had much tamer music, was completely insane. I've never felt so close to so many people. :) I was pushed, prodded, groped and violated . However, I also inadvertently did a lot of those things to other people as well. Sorry guys! We're all in this together, although it did add to my list of Utahns Are Horrible ...



So along with the amazing concert are the iPod picks for this week which will contain a majority of OneRepublic:
"Come Home" by OneRepublic - They introduced this song as a tribute they had written to one of their friends who is a marine in Iraq. I actually had this as a ringtone for one of my friends and I always get excited when it goes off.
"Apologize" by OneRepublic - This is their first single. Check out the video on YouTube. The lead singer is friggin hot in it (p.s. make sure it is the official video w/ Timbaland and not that fake video with the creepy girl.)
"Stop and Stare" by OneRepublic - I just love this song.
"All We Are" by OneRepublic - Just a great song.

And the MCR pick of the week/month depending on how often I post is:
"My Way Home is through You" I absolutely LOVE this song. It played on my iPod on the drive home from work today and I just had to crank that volume up. Love the song. Love the band. Am naming my first son Gerard. Sorry, I have a slightly unhealthy obsession with that glorious band and its gorgeous lead singer. ;)