Bamboozle Left
Bamboozle Left - Day One
Verizon Wireless amphitheater
4.4.09
This is Going to Take More Than One Day to Type
I’m so tired. And sore. Today has been filled with several mixed feelings, but I learned a lot. I woke up at seven this morning, sick to my stomach. I don’t even know what it was, I made ramen last night, so I’m not quite sure what didn’t agree with me, but I crawled back to bed for another hour. I had plans of leaving maybe around 9:30ish. I really didn’t want to get out of bed and the whole way there I was entertaining the idea of coming home. I felt awful. I might have been slightly dehydrated because I forced a sandwich down before I left, but it wasn’t until I was sipping water while in the parking line that I started to feel better. Kind of … hey, I can do this. So we wait in a line, which was proclaiming - Parking Opens at 11:30 NO Early ENTRY!!! … they let us in slightly before 11. So much for no early entry.
I park and I’m fairly close, but I had to go wait in the Will Call cos I needed to buy a ticket, but alas these really cool people who I keep running into at shows found me. I went and bought my ticket and came and chilled with them for the next about two hours. Bands are going up and down the line passing out shit, seriously its insane the stack of promo people were holding by the time we were going in. But they left cos they had early vip entry so they stand us up and they all said entry at one.
It’s about 12:30ish and I look up and see Troy rocking by on a scooter [apparently this is a new merch guy thing] I call him and he does this fancy turn and brags about it and I laugh cos he’s a dork. Fearless is going down the line asking people to do the pump jump to get on the Fearless myspace page -_-. Seriously that should have died a long time ago. Its like an inside joke from Every ave that’s now gone way way too far. So we watch people for a minute before I ask him where exactly is this acoustic set and he pulls his phone out and gets all frowny and tells me he doesn’t know, but he will find out and come back.
So he scoots off back towards the buses and Bobby and andy are making their way down the line. Andy’s eyes get all wide and he stops all “It’s you!!!” and I laughed and point out it’s not my fault I haven’t seen them in forever and he’s squinting at me and he’s all “Arizona?” and I’m all “HEY!!” and he’s “Oh wait! Chicago!!” and I’m like..yeah, way to be, dude. : P So then his phone rings, after I get a hug and he’s off taking to it and Bobby walks up to me, then turns his back to me and I’m all, uh? “are you just going to ignore me?“ and he gives me a hug and apologies that he wanted to see what the phone call was about, so andy tells him about the convo and then I try to edge away to let them go pimp their set time/stage out to everyone else and Bobby’s like, “Hey! No! Big hug, come here.” and he’s really super adorable, so I give him a hug and he’s all, “I’m gonna see you there, right? 5:55” I… not even thinking hey every ave’s at 5:30.. Promise to be there. Andy gives me another hug and I promise to be there and by then, everyone around me is whispering and gossiping cos Bobby keeps giving me hugs and they go off down the line. Troy comes back a bit later with… “Um, I still don’t know. But come find me at the merch tent and I’ll tell you.”
Which ok, I wasn’t aware they’d be so many fucking tents, I should have asked him where the tent was before agreeing to meet him there.
Oops.
So one comes and people come out all bag search and ticket takers…but nothing happens. One oh five, one ten, one fifteen… one thirty, they finally start letting people in. I get into a line and these two ladies are literally taking everything out of every purse. I’m all O.O wtf… the old guy in the next lane peeked into it then waved on.
I hopped over to his line, not because I was smuggling anything in, but just because it was quicker. Then of course I picked the wrong lane to get my ticket scanned, the guy was soooo slow. But we finally get through and I’m so fucking lost. I figure up the hill had to be the main stages… I just didn’t know how to get up there. I was following the asphalt and suddenly came up on a stairway and bolted up it and volia! Main stages.
The Cab was scheduled to play the Imagination stage at 2:30. First band on that stage, so I figured I’d go wait. There honestly wasn’t as many people as I thought. I walked right up to my preferred spot on the right in front of Marshall/Cash and chilled out. Time seemed to fucking stop. Even the security guard in front of us kept pulling his watch out and groaning.
But I wasn’t expecting someone to play on the adjacent stage, but they did! They started at two and made that half an hour go by so much faster. It was Mercy Mercedes which … I don’t know, their band name will never stop being weird to me. I want to call them Mercury Mercedes for no real reason. But so Ian and Marshall were watching them then Johnson joined them, then singer came out. It was still a really long half hour. So they finally go off, they recheck all the Cab gear, then they finaaaally get on stage.
They’re growing up so quick. -proud sniffle- Cash was on fucking fire, jumping up, counting one, two, three before demo’ing what he wanted us to do. EYE Contact. Will never stop being proud about it. They’re so fucking good live. Ian got 2 -3 solos, they played Can You Keep a Secret?, That 70’s Song, I’ll Run, We Will Rock You excerpt, Risky Business, Disturbia, and Bounce.
They won me over with their live show before, and I hate that it was so good. Alex’s such an eye contact person, and he gets so happy when you’re singing along - even more so if you’re doing the stupid hand gestures that seem second nature now. I caught Marshall’s eye once and he gave me a smile and a nod before I got distracted by Cash. Ian came over once during a solo and was awesome.
I rushed from there over to the Fearless tent to see if they knew where Every ave would be, they gave me a bag for wearing a fearless-artist shirt and I’m like, eh? I didn’t do it for you. O.o. But ok. I got a calendar now : ) So I run off to the Kazoole tent and get distracted by the S//C tent and stopped to say hey to Rob & Des shortly. It’s awesome when people don’t know who you are. I forgot how sweet Rob is.
But Every ave, I excused myself and ran down the trail, I spotted Josh [cos you know that’s real hard >.>] so I stopped him and asked him where the fuck should I be going and he’s all, “Um? I’m not actually sure. Maybe that tent over there.” He gave me this grimace and I laughed, wished him a happy birthday before I went the way he told me, calmer I wasn’t missing it if Josh wasn’t even there yet.
I walked up and… it’s a Bamboozle VIP tent.
FML.
Realllly?
I wait and Dave comes out all awkward as he is prone to be and I wish him luck and he’s all “what? You can’t come in? Well fuck. You’ll be there at 5:30 though?”
I promised I would and I went to get water… I hate paying 4.00 for a bottle of water that’s like 89 cents. Sigh. So I wander over to Saints & Sinners stage cos The Friday Night Boys would be playing there at 3:45 ish? I wish I could have stayed later. I should have stayed later actually. But I didn’t. I stayed for Chasing a Rockstar, an older song, and High School, I don’t even know if they played my song or not : ( I’d love to catch those boys live some time.
But WTK was playing at 4:00 and I know a lot of people out here are not fond of them. Which is weird to me, because they’ve … they were one of those bands that I happened to stumble upon right before they blew up. I’m not ready to let them go, I’m fucking amazed how far they’ve come, I don’t want to stop being a part of that. And I haven’t seen a show yet, that disappointed me. I’m sure when that day comes, I’ll change my tune, until then, they were fucking awwweesome.
I stayed towards the middle cos I get a little weary about my toes where festivals and WTK are concerned, but fuck it was good.
They played Stay Young, Whoa, Skyway avenue, The Middle - Jimmy Eat World cover from the night before, Secret Valentine, and Check Yes, Juliet.
All spot on, hand gestures and all ; )
I left them to go scoop the merch tents and see if I could find one of the Cab to talk to and lo and behold Singer was there. I was all, hey he’ll redeem himself. The crowd around him was small and so I walked up and he poses for a picture with the two girls in front of me and signs another and gets another picture and then it’s just me and he didn’t even look up at me, when I took a step forward, just like, cut me off, brushing past me to grab onto his girl and go.
Literally - jaw floor.
That hadn’t just happened. I mean I shouldn’t be surprised, I’ve only actually met Singer once and that’s cos the whole band went to Dennys, but still. Fuck.
[edit: Now that I’ve cooled off - it’s 5.16.09 And I’m going to finish writing what I can remember]
I was blown away. This made, the third time in two days he’d blown me off. Earlier when we were still standing in line, he walked by us with his girlfriend and promised he was going to come right back he was cold and getting a jacket, then provided to go the long way around to avoid us. I honestly wouldn’t have such a problem with him, if he did shit like this, without him promising to do something else. He’s the one who goes on stage and says ‘hey find me after the show we’ll be around all day, we’d love to talk to you’. Don’t put yourself out there and raise our hopes if you’re going to be an ass.
So I was flustered and frustrated and shocked, so I sent an angry twitter all, fuck Singer. Just fuck it. I’m done. I didn’t even want to tell him shit at that point. And of course I immediately get a direct message from this girl in Arizona I befriended because she sent me the ninja cards I was missing, but she’s like, Singer’s BFF-ever and I should have known better than to say a damn thing. But she and I direct message back and forth for awhile, her trying to be all ‘I’m sure he didn’t mean it’, but I was done dude.
Where am I? after WTK, so it’s like 4:30? I think Hey Monday was playing at like 5:05 or something, so I went to see them play and I stayed until 5:15, then figured I should head over to the Kazoole stage where Every ave would be so I could get slide in when the band before them finished. At like 5:25ish? I think. I don’t really remember the dates, but I remember I got up there and there was no barrier between stage and crowd.
I hate that.
Especially with bands like Ea, they jump around, Josh is a tall motherfucker. It’s really awkward to be knee level with him and then crane up to see him, you know? I was fairly certain he was going to knee me in the head. Or hit me with his guitar. Came close a few times. But Mike took his drumset back I guess, because they were setting up an arbor’s and we were all O.O Wait, wtf…isn’t it every ave? then Troy came to set shit up and I relaxed, trying to tell people they must be borrowing their kit and some people left, but then every ave came up to set up their own shit and awwh poor guys. I don’t know why they got shoved on the tiniest motherfucking stage. There’s no reason Hey Monday or The Friday night boys, or even - as much as I love them - The Morning Light, should have been playing a bigger stage than Ea.
But they were good. They’re always good. The stage was just so awkwardly small and it was positioned perfectly for the sun to be directly behind them which made looking at them difficult, Dave was not really in a good mood. At all. I kind of felt like he was yelling at us when he wasn’t singing, but his singing was good. He kept making us jump and jesus it was hot, asshole.
Hands down, they are one of my favorite bands ever. I wish there was something I could do to increase their fan base here, but it’s too daunting for one to take alone. Really can’t do it.
So they finish and I panic. Because it’s now 6 and The Morning Light started at 5:55 and I fucking know there’s not going to be enough people there for them to not notice I’m not there. So I book it to the Saints and Sinners stage, literally sprint up to the stage, there’s only like four rows or people and andy looks up and I try not to look guilty and mouth sorry at him but he just grins and shrugs, does that whole pointy-bass thing Jeremy does sometimes and I stick my tongue out. Whatever. Im here now. He seemed content and holy shit.
When did my shy band who nobody knew and they didn’t know how to be on stage grow up?
This is the first time I’ve seen them without Harrison and oh. My. Fucking. God. Harrison should have left a long ass time ago. Matt filled in piano and backing vocals and shit, that dude has a voice!! They were laughing, andy *talked* a LOT! It blew my mind. It was honestly a completely new band. One that that just fucking stoked to be where they were and what they were doing. It didn’t matter there was only like 20 people watching them. They were so amazing, I was so proud of them.
They sang all the usual songs, Brand New Friends, my two favorites which are both technically off the Ep - Books and Letters and Clouds - though Clouds is on the full-length. I was worried they opened with Clouds and I missed it, but they closed with it!!! Andy kept checking up to make sure I was singing and clapping when I was supposed to and it was just awesome.
I’m so fucking pissed those dudes aren’t going to be around for aaaages. I don’t even fucking care they’re coming out with a new album. I get they’re a different band and they need to make songs that don’t rely on Harrison’s voice/piano, but fuck, that just came out!
-childish stomp-
So they announce - like every other band - they’re going to hang out at their merch tent after their show - the only difference is this is the first time I’ve known there the merch tent was. I’d passed it several times. So I don’t have anyone else to listen to, until 7. All time played at 7 and Cobra at 7:30 so really neither were essential, so I chilled awkwardly by their merch tent while they tore down. Bobby came by but this girl sort of pounced so I left them to it. Matt was the first one to come back and then andy and andy got swarmed. I knew I wasn’t the only one who thought he was adorable, but Damn O.o what a change. He talks on stage and the girls like him, shocker.
So I go talk to Matt because no one is, he is the oldest member of TML I’m pretty sure, tall, bald, a little intimidating. But he’s sweet, so fucking sweet. So I go up to him and tell him how fucking surprised I am. I compliment him on his piano/voice and he’s all blushy and I just try to communicate my dumbfoundness over how much better they are and he got even more shy but excited.
“You’ve seen us before?”
>.>
Uh, yeah. A few times.
He usually doesn’t come to meet & greets, I’ve actually never … I take that back. I think the second night of sell outs, I talked to him briefly. But not like andy & bobby. So I laugh and tell him the shows I’ve seen and he’s all O.O awwwwh. So he gives me another hug and andy’s still being a target for these girls to throw themselves at so I ask him what’s next.
He tells me about recording, then going on tour with Every ave and I’m all o.o Say what?
He gets sooo apologetic then. It was so cute, I’m wearing an ea shirt and he’s all, uh…well, actually, I don’t think we’re coming anymore West than Texas.
O.o
FML.
I threw a mini hissy fit. There was no Way Every ave was having their first headlining tour …w/ the morning light and I was missing it.
I fucking wish there was something I could do man. I want to go to that show so badly. If I had a job, I’d have the money to fly somewhere it is. I fucking would too. But it’s skipping Chicago too. They can’t go anywhere Ea will be on the 2nd half of Warped.
So it’s all these obscure places, but anyway, side tracked like whoa…
Matt’s like glowing there’s people talking to him and andy’s slowly pulling away from the girls and I shift, to get his attention and he gives me this grin and nod before these other girls are all ‘can we have a picture?’ so Matt and I are awkwardly waiting… I have this weird relationship with them. I never asked them for autographs or pictures, so it feels weird now, because they kind of know who I am and it’s I don’t know. I just feel weird, like I can’t ask. Wish I could. Andy and I would have made ridiculous faces. But so he breaks away and gives me this hug and I’m like EW! You haven’t showered. He just laughs and I fucking love that boy. Even if his already limited taste in music is somehow losing quality. Lil Wayne, really, andy?
So I bring up the fact I’m not going to see him for a year and he’s all O.O “What? NO. We’ll see you before then, won’t we?”
I’m all *skeptical* You’re going on break, touring with Ea and NOT HERE, then going to record. That’s like a year.
He started pouting and hugged me again all, “well I’m sure I’ll run into you lots tonight”
[Thanks for jinxing that andy, I never did find him again]
It’s getting closer to 7 so I reluctantly pull away from them, and go back to the main stages, I decided to check on the Cab one more time and low and behold, they’re doing a singing at the FBR tent, so I get in line, five minutes later the lady running it comes up and cuts the line off right where I am.
No fucking way.
Seriously I was just not meant to meet the Cab.
I wasn’t.
I was still pissed. But I just went up to wait for all time low. I didn’t want to be close. I knew that’d insane. It’s so hard with all time low. I love their music, I love them musically live - but I fucking hate their fans and I hate every time they open their mouths to talk in between songs. Seriously.
But it wasn’t that bad. For them anyway. They were so good. They played a new song - which surprise, sounds like all the others, but it’s light and fun and summery and what I need when I get too down. There was two memorable instances, once when alex said something about dicks and this guy I guess close to the stage …actually whipped it out and for a few moments alex was actually speechless before he just cackled and pointed out the guy whipped it out in front of like a million people and how they were best friends now. This girl sitting on her boyfriend shoulders flashed them, but none of the band recognized that. I was just surprised people still did that.
Cobra was right after them and Cobra is always fun.
Even if I feel like I’m getting too old … Gabe is so much older, so it somehow balances out. He sounds like shit though when he talks. I don’t know what the future of Cobra’s gonna hold, but his voice isn’t healing like it should. Vocally he pulled it off. They played a new song - Pete Wentz is the only reason we’re famous - and I’ve got to say, the two new tracks I’ve heard - not liking it so far. We were talking about it today. Not looking good.
And there was a slightly awkward song - Snakes on a plane, where uh, alex from atl came out to do beckett’s parts and when they got to travis’ part, Jeffree star came out and launched into hollaback boy. O.o Which we all kind of stood there going … ‘Um?’
But Metro Station was playing after that, then Fall Out Boy and I really wasn’t going to stick around for Metro. I went to find andy to say bye, but their merch tent was deserted and in my wanderings I totally accidentally stumbled upon Every ave’s. It only took… I don’t know 9 hours to find. I told Troy and Josh bye, but they were kind of seriously drunk by this point. It was Josh’s bday though.
So after that I just went home.
Glad I went. It was so worth it for the bands I went to see, but it was a stark reminder in remember that it’s the music that comes first. The music is all I should expect from them and I shouldn’t be surprised to find out people are assholes.
: )
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Verizon Wireless amphitheater
4.4.09
This is Going to Take More Than One Day to Type
I’m so tired. And sore. Today has been filled with several mixed feelings, but I learned a lot. I woke up at seven this morning, sick to my stomach. I don’t even know what it was, I made ramen last night, so I’m not quite sure what didn’t agree with me, but I crawled back to bed for another hour. I had plans of leaving maybe around 9:30ish. I really didn’t want to get out of bed and the whole way there I was entertaining the idea of coming home. I felt awful. I might have been slightly dehydrated because I forced a sandwich down before I left, but it wasn’t until I was sipping water while in the parking line that I started to feel better. Kind of … hey, I can do this. So we wait in a line, which was proclaiming - Parking Opens at 11:30 NO Early ENTRY!!! … they let us in slightly before 11. So much for no early entry.
I park and I’m fairly close, but I had to go wait in the Will Call cos I needed to buy a ticket, but alas these really cool people who I keep running into at shows found me. I went and bought my ticket and came and chilled with them for the next about two hours. Bands are going up and down the line passing out shit, seriously its insane the stack of promo people were holding by the time we were going in. But they left cos they had early vip entry so they stand us up and they all said entry at one.
It’s about 12:30ish and I look up and see Troy rocking by on a scooter [apparently this is a new merch guy thing] I call him and he does this fancy turn and brags about it and I laugh cos he’s a dork. Fearless is going down the line asking people to do the pump jump to get on the Fearless myspace page -_-. Seriously that should have died a long time ago. Its like an inside joke from Every ave that’s now gone way way too far. So we watch people for a minute before I ask him where exactly is this acoustic set and he pulls his phone out and gets all frowny and tells me he doesn’t know, but he will find out and come back.
So he scoots off back towards the buses and Bobby and andy are making their way down the line. Andy’s eyes get all wide and he stops all “It’s you!!!” and I laughed and point out it’s not my fault I haven’t seen them in forever and he’s squinting at me and he’s all “Arizona?” and I’m all “HEY!!” and he’s “Oh wait! Chicago!!” and I’m like..yeah, way to be, dude. : P So then his phone rings, after I get a hug and he’s off taking to it and Bobby walks up to me, then turns his back to me and I’m all, uh? “are you just going to ignore me?“ and he gives me a hug and apologies that he wanted to see what the phone call was about, so andy tells him about the convo and then I try to edge away to let them go pimp their set time/stage out to everyone else and Bobby’s like, “Hey! No! Big hug, come here.” and he’s really super adorable, so I give him a hug and he’s all, “I’m gonna see you there, right? 5:55” I… not even thinking hey every ave’s at 5:30.. Promise to be there. Andy gives me another hug and I promise to be there and by then, everyone around me is whispering and gossiping cos Bobby keeps giving me hugs and they go off down the line. Troy comes back a bit later with… “Um, I still don’t know. But come find me at the merch tent and I’ll tell you.”
Which ok, I wasn’t aware they’d be so many fucking tents, I should have asked him where the tent was before agreeing to meet him there.
Oops.
So one comes and people come out all bag search and ticket takers…but nothing happens. One oh five, one ten, one fifteen… one thirty, they finally start letting people in. I get into a line and these two ladies are literally taking everything out of every purse. I’m all O.O wtf… the old guy in the next lane peeked into it then waved on.
I hopped over to his line, not because I was smuggling anything in, but just because it was quicker. Then of course I picked the wrong lane to get my ticket scanned, the guy was soooo slow. But we finally get through and I’m so fucking lost. I figure up the hill had to be the main stages… I just didn’t know how to get up there. I was following the asphalt and suddenly came up on a stairway and bolted up it and volia! Main stages.
The Cab was scheduled to play the Imagination stage at 2:30. First band on that stage, so I figured I’d go wait. There honestly wasn’t as many people as I thought. I walked right up to my preferred spot on the right in front of Marshall/Cash and chilled out. Time seemed to fucking stop. Even the security guard in front of us kept pulling his watch out and groaning.
But I wasn’t expecting someone to play on the adjacent stage, but they did! They started at two and made that half an hour go by so much faster. It was Mercy Mercedes which … I don’t know, their band name will never stop being weird to me. I want to call them Mercury Mercedes for no real reason. But so Ian and Marshall were watching them then Johnson joined them, then singer came out. It was still a really long half hour. So they finally go off, they recheck all the Cab gear, then they finaaaally get on stage.
They’re growing up so quick. -proud sniffle- Cash was on fucking fire, jumping up, counting one, two, three before demo’ing what he wanted us to do. EYE Contact. Will never stop being proud about it. They’re so fucking good live. Ian got 2 -3 solos, they played Can You Keep a Secret?, That 70’s Song, I’ll Run, We Will Rock You excerpt, Risky Business, Disturbia, and Bounce.
They won me over with their live show before, and I hate that it was so good. Alex’s such an eye contact person, and he gets so happy when you’re singing along - even more so if you’re doing the stupid hand gestures that seem second nature now. I caught Marshall’s eye once and he gave me a smile and a nod before I got distracted by Cash. Ian came over once during a solo and was awesome.
I rushed from there over to the Fearless tent to see if they knew where Every ave would be, they gave me a bag for wearing a fearless-artist shirt and I’m like, eh? I didn’t do it for you. O.o. But ok. I got a calendar now : ) So I run off to the Kazoole tent and get distracted by the S//C tent and stopped to say hey to Rob & Des shortly. It’s awesome when people don’t know who you are. I forgot how sweet Rob is.
But Every ave, I excused myself and ran down the trail, I spotted Josh [cos you know that’s real hard >.>] so I stopped him and asked him where the fuck should I be going and he’s all, “Um? I’m not actually sure. Maybe that tent over there.” He gave me this grimace and I laughed, wished him a happy birthday before I went the way he told me, calmer I wasn’t missing it if Josh wasn’t even there yet.
I walked up and… it’s a Bamboozle VIP tent.
FML.
Realllly?
I wait and Dave comes out all awkward as he is prone to be and I wish him luck and he’s all “what? You can’t come in? Well fuck. You’ll be there at 5:30 though?”
I promised I would and I went to get water… I hate paying 4.00 for a bottle of water that’s like 89 cents. Sigh. So I wander over to Saints & Sinners stage cos The Friday Night Boys would be playing there at 3:45 ish? I wish I could have stayed later. I should have stayed later actually. But I didn’t. I stayed for Chasing a Rockstar, an older song, and High School, I don’t even know if they played my song or not : ( I’d love to catch those boys live some time.
But WTK was playing at 4:00 and I know a lot of people out here are not fond of them. Which is weird to me, because they’ve … they were one of those bands that I happened to stumble upon right before they blew up. I’m not ready to let them go, I’m fucking amazed how far they’ve come, I don’t want to stop being a part of that. And I haven’t seen a show yet, that disappointed me. I’m sure when that day comes, I’ll change my tune, until then, they were fucking awwweesome.
I stayed towards the middle cos I get a little weary about my toes where festivals and WTK are concerned, but fuck it was good.
They played Stay Young, Whoa, Skyway avenue, The Middle - Jimmy Eat World cover from the night before, Secret Valentine, and Check Yes, Juliet.
All spot on, hand gestures and all ; )
I left them to go scoop the merch tents and see if I could find one of the Cab to talk to and lo and behold Singer was there. I was all, hey he’ll redeem himself. The crowd around him was small and so I walked up and he poses for a picture with the two girls in front of me and signs another and gets another picture and then it’s just me and he didn’t even look up at me, when I took a step forward, just like, cut me off, brushing past me to grab onto his girl and go.
Literally - jaw floor.
That hadn’t just happened. I mean I shouldn’t be surprised, I’ve only actually met Singer once and that’s cos the whole band went to Dennys, but still. Fuck.
[edit: Now that I’ve cooled off - it’s 5.16.09 And I’m going to finish writing what I can remember]
I was blown away. This made, the third time in two days he’d blown me off. Earlier when we were still standing in line, he walked by us with his girlfriend and promised he was going to come right back he was cold and getting a jacket, then provided to go the long way around to avoid us. I honestly wouldn’t have such a problem with him, if he did shit like this, without him promising to do something else. He’s the one who goes on stage and says ‘hey find me after the show we’ll be around all day, we’d love to talk to you’. Don’t put yourself out there and raise our hopes if you’re going to be an ass.
So I was flustered and frustrated and shocked, so I sent an angry twitter all, fuck Singer. Just fuck it. I’m done. I didn’t even want to tell him shit at that point. And of course I immediately get a direct message from this girl in Arizona I befriended because she sent me the ninja cards I was missing, but she’s like, Singer’s BFF-ever and I should have known better than to say a damn thing. But she and I direct message back and forth for awhile, her trying to be all ‘I’m sure he didn’t mean it’, but I was done dude.
Where am I? after WTK, so it’s like 4:30? I think Hey Monday was playing at like 5:05 or something, so I went to see them play and I stayed until 5:15, then figured I should head over to the Kazoole stage where Every ave would be so I could get slide in when the band before them finished. At like 5:25ish? I think. I don’t really remember the dates, but I remember I got up there and there was no barrier between stage and crowd.
I hate that.
Especially with bands like Ea, they jump around, Josh is a tall motherfucker. It’s really awkward to be knee level with him and then crane up to see him, you know? I was fairly certain he was going to knee me in the head. Or hit me with his guitar. Came close a few times. But Mike took his drumset back I guess, because they were setting up an arbor’s and we were all O.O Wait, wtf…isn’t it every ave? then Troy came to set shit up and I relaxed, trying to tell people they must be borrowing their kit and some people left, but then every ave came up to set up their own shit and awwh poor guys. I don’t know why they got shoved on the tiniest motherfucking stage. There’s no reason Hey Monday or The Friday night boys, or even - as much as I love them - The Morning Light, should have been playing a bigger stage than Ea.
But they were good. They’re always good. The stage was just so awkwardly small and it was positioned perfectly for the sun to be directly behind them which made looking at them difficult, Dave was not really in a good mood. At all. I kind of felt like he was yelling at us when he wasn’t singing, but his singing was good. He kept making us jump and jesus it was hot, asshole.
Hands down, they are one of my favorite bands ever. I wish there was something I could do to increase their fan base here, but it’s too daunting for one to take alone. Really can’t do it.
So they finish and I panic. Because it’s now 6 and The Morning Light started at 5:55 and I fucking know there’s not going to be enough people there for them to not notice I’m not there. So I book it to the Saints and Sinners stage, literally sprint up to the stage, there’s only like four rows or people and andy looks up and I try not to look guilty and mouth sorry at him but he just grins and shrugs, does that whole pointy-bass thing Jeremy does sometimes and I stick my tongue out. Whatever. Im here now. He seemed content and holy shit.
When did my shy band who nobody knew and they didn’t know how to be on stage grow up?
This is the first time I’ve seen them without Harrison and oh. My. Fucking. God. Harrison should have left a long ass time ago. Matt filled in piano and backing vocals and shit, that dude has a voice!! They were laughing, andy *talked* a LOT! It blew my mind. It was honestly a completely new band. One that that just fucking stoked to be where they were and what they were doing. It didn’t matter there was only like 20 people watching them. They were so amazing, I was so proud of them.
They sang all the usual songs, Brand New Friends, my two favorites which are both technically off the Ep - Books and Letters and Clouds - though Clouds is on the full-length. I was worried they opened with Clouds and I missed it, but they closed with it!!! Andy kept checking up to make sure I was singing and clapping when I was supposed to and it was just awesome.
I’m so fucking pissed those dudes aren’t going to be around for aaaages. I don’t even fucking care they’re coming out with a new album. I get they’re a different band and they need to make songs that don’t rely on Harrison’s voice/piano, but fuck, that just came out!
-childish stomp-
So they announce - like every other band - they’re going to hang out at their merch tent after their show - the only difference is this is the first time I’ve known there the merch tent was. I’d passed it several times. So I don’t have anyone else to listen to, until 7. All time played at 7 and Cobra at 7:30 so really neither were essential, so I chilled awkwardly by their merch tent while they tore down. Bobby came by but this girl sort of pounced so I left them to it. Matt was the first one to come back and then andy and andy got swarmed. I knew I wasn’t the only one who thought he was adorable, but Damn O.o what a change. He talks on stage and the girls like him, shocker.
So I go talk to Matt because no one is, he is the oldest member of TML I’m pretty sure, tall, bald, a little intimidating. But he’s sweet, so fucking sweet. So I go up to him and tell him how fucking surprised I am. I compliment him on his piano/voice and he’s all blushy and I just try to communicate my dumbfoundness over how much better they are and he got even more shy but excited.
“You’ve seen us before?”
>.>
Uh, yeah. A few times.
He usually doesn’t come to meet & greets, I’ve actually never … I take that back. I think the second night of sell outs, I talked to him briefly. But not like andy & bobby. So I laugh and tell him the shows I’ve seen and he’s all O.O awwwwh. So he gives me another hug and andy’s still being a target for these girls to throw themselves at so I ask him what’s next.
He tells me about recording, then going on tour with Every ave and I’m all o.o Say what?
He gets sooo apologetic then. It was so cute, I’m wearing an ea shirt and he’s all, uh…well, actually, I don’t think we’re coming anymore West than Texas.
O.o
FML.
I threw a mini hissy fit. There was no Way Every ave was having their first headlining tour …w/ the morning light and I was missing it.
I fucking wish there was something I could do man. I want to go to that show so badly. If I had a job, I’d have the money to fly somewhere it is. I fucking would too. But it’s skipping Chicago too. They can’t go anywhere Ea will be on the 2nd half of Warped.
So it’s all these obscure places, but anyway, side tracked like whoa…
Matt’s like glowing there’s people talking to him and andy’s slowly pulling away from the girls and I shift, to get his attention and he gives me this grin and nod before these other girls are all ‘can we have a picture?’ so Matt and I are awkwardly waiting… I have this weird relationship with them. I never asked them for autographs or pictures, so it feels weird now, because they kind of know who I am and it’s I don’t know. I just feel weird, like I can’t ask. Wish I could. Andy and I would have made ridiculous faces. But so he breaks away and gives me this hug and I’m like EW! You haven’t showered. He just laughs and I fucking love that boy. Even if his already limited taste in music is somehow losing quality. Lil Wayne, really, andy?
So I bring up the fact I’m not going to see him for a year and he’s all O.O “What? NO. We’ll see you before then, won’t we?”
I’m all *skeptical* You’re going on break, touring with Ea and NOT HERE, then going to record. That’s like a year.
He started pouting and hugged me again all, “well I’m sure I’ll run into you lots tonight”
[Thanks for jinxing that andy, I never did find him again]
It’s getting closer to 7 so I reluctantly pull away from them, and go back to the main stages, I decided to check on the Cab one more time and low and behold, they’re doing a singing at the FBR tent, so I get in line, five minutes later the lady running it comes up and cuts the line off right where I am.
No fucking way.
Seriously I was just not meant to meet the Cab.
I wasn’t.
I was still pissed. But I just went up to wait for all time low. I didn’t want to be close. I knew that’d insane. It’s so hard with all time low. I love their music, I love them musically live - but I fucking hate their fans and I hate every time they open their mouths to talk in between songs. Seriously.
But it wasn’t that bad. For them anyway. They were so good. They played a new song - which surprise, sounds like all the others, but it’s light and fun and summery and what I need when I get too down. There was two memorable instances, once when alex said something about dicks and this guy I guess close to the stage …actually whipped it out and for a few moments alex was actually speechless before he just cackled and pointed out the guy whipped it out in front of like a million people and how they were best friends now. This girl sitting on her boyfriend shoulders flashed them, but none of the band recognized that. I was just surprised people still did that.
Cobra was right after them and Cobra is always fun.
Even if I feel like I’m getting too old … Gabe is so much older, so it somehow balances out. He sounds like shit though when he talks. I don’t know what the future of Cobra’s gonna hold, but his voice isn’t healing like it should. Vocally he pulled it off. They played a new song - Pete Wentz is the only reason we’re famous - and I’ve got to say, the two new tracks I’ve heard - not liking it so far. We were talking about it today. Not looking good.
And there was a slightly awkward song - Snakes on a plane, where uh, alex from atl came out to do beckett’s parts and when they got to travis’ part, Jeffree star came out and launched into hollaback boy. O.o Which we all kind of stood there going … ‘Um?’
But Metro Station was playing after that, then Fall Out Boy and I really wasn’t going to stick around for Metro. I went to find andy to say bye, but their merch tent was deserted and in my wanderings I totally accidentally stumbled upon Every ave’s. It only took… I don’t know 9 hours to find. I told Troy and Josh bye, but they were kind of seriously drunk by this point. It was Josh’s bday though.
So after that I just went home.
Glad I went. It was so worth it for the bands I went to see, but it was a stark reminder in remember that it’s the music that comes first. The music is all I should expect from them and I shouldn’t be surprised to find out people are assholes.
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