Concerts

The best two shows I have been to :

Green Day (August 9 2009) I won tickets. I felt like the luckiest girl on the planet. seeing Green Day was a dream I have had since I was 10 fucking years old and it happened. The whole thing was emotionally overwhelming. Seeing those three, in the flesh... The people that I have loved with all my heart for years... There, sharing with me their songs. No words for how wonderful it was.

The Strokes (March 17, 2011, SXSW)- so amazing. I was sooo close to them. Until I got pushed back by the 30, 000 people that were there. lol They played my favorite song (Whatever Happened) first, and there were fireworks at the end when they play last nite. It was free, and again i felt so lucky that they played for free in Austin, which is just six hours from where i live. Being there with all the people singing every word along with the band. I have also loved them for forever, so seeing them was Fan-fucking-tastic.

I have also been to these FUCKING amazing concerts. Again, this is probably redundant, but I live in a very small town, and so i feel so lucky that these bands have come to my town:

All-American Rejects/ Action Action
Aiden
The Used x2 and one time Atreyu was there
Taking Back Sunday
Mindless Self Indulgence
Silverstein/ Dance Gavin Dance

And then, being a violin player -multiple orchestra concerts/operas that have blown my mind.

^ We went to the same Green Day show! Haha. That was my 3rd time seeing the band.

Big ass rant coming up, just a warning

Soooo, on Tuesday night I saw PTV, WCAR, BMTH, and ADTR (in order from who played first to who played last). This was my second/third time seeing all of these bands. But anyways, I hung out with a buncha losers because my friends were too busy/aren't into this kind of music. The second I got there I bought a BMTH shirt and ADTR shorts I fucked up my knee during BMTH's set 'cause some fat chick fell over and knocked over about seven or eight people... including me... being at the bottom But some dude pulled me up a minute later after I was screaming in agonizing pain from having four people on top of me while I was on my knee. And then during ADTR's set (beginning) some bitch was pushing everyone into the mosh pit when we were in the seating area, so I punched her before I shoved her in. And then I fell again and hurt the side of the same damn knee and it bled too... still had a good time though
At the end of their set they dropped balloons and shot confetti out at the crowd while playing The Downfall of Us All. OHOHOH and I flashed my tit on accident while crowd surfing... [/irrelevant].

Basically, April 5th, 2011 made my fucking year. First show in a long time, and definitely not going to be my last one this year.

Sorry about it being all a gigantic block. & these are just the more interesting deetz, not all of them xD

Ugh, or not, ignore this

To Billie Joe Armstrong: Hey thats cool that we went to the same show. It was fucking amazing. And its cool that you have seen green day three times! i hope i can do that some day!

and to tunnels. I might be going to that New Orleans Jazz festival!!! is it really only forty five dollars??

PS. the strokes put on a fucking amazing show. if i go this will be time # 2 seeing them. I hope you can go.

Bands i've seen live:
Andrew McMahon
Sufjan Stevens
The Maine x4
Mayday Parade x3
We the Kings x4
Foals
McFly
All Time Low x2
You Me At Six x2
Nevershoutnever x4
Every Avenue x3
Panic! At the Disco
The Rocket Summer x2
The Starting Line x2
New Found Glory
Paramore x2
Deerhunter
Owl City
Cobra Starship x3
Rufus Wainwright
The Academy Is...
The Almost x2
Breathe Carolina
The Getaway Plan
Last Dinosaurs
Holy Fuck
Leena
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Mod Sun
Muse
Dance Gavin Dance
Alexisonfire
The Get Up Kids
Jimmy Eat World
The Mission in Motion
Third Eye Blind
The Blackout x2
There For Tomorrow x2
This Town Needs Guns
Metro Station
The Aquabats
The Veronicas
Heroes For Hire x2
Townhall Steps
Midnight Youth
Kids of 88
The Naked and Famous
Cut Off Your Hands
The Earlybirds
The Checks
Die! Die! Die!
Nathan King
Clap Clap Riot
Kingston x 2
Elemeno P
Streetwise Scarlet
Ivy Lies
Fat Freddys Drop
Deja Voo Doo
A Kiss Goodbye
P-Money

Upcoming:
Warped Tour 2011

You would never guess from this list that I live in Christchurch, New Zealand, other than the fact the last bands are from New Zealand so nobody would've heard of them.

So I'm pretty excited....I've convinced my mom to come see Lynam with me again, if she feels up to it. We had SUCH a good time last time, and I've really been wanting to get her out to another show. She's such an amazing mom!

Also, since I have now seen Lynam 30 times (yeah, I'm a little obsessed), their singer/guitarist has taken to giving me a pick at basically every show. lol. It's so sweet. I must say....the one two weekends ago was the most meaningful.....he'd promised me a pick with the band name on it some time last year, but he never had them made so instead he brought me one from 2008 when Lynam played Motley Cruise. XD

Bands I've Seen Live: In order from who I thought was the best and going down.

Madina Lake
30 Seconds To Mars
Three Days Grace
Breaking Benjamin (2x)
Paramore (3x)
Nickelback
Flyleaf
From First To Last
My Chemical Romance (2x)
Seether
Taking Back Sunday
New Found Glory
Simple Plan (1st mosh pit ever)
Rise Against
Automatic Loveletter
10 Years
Sick Puppies
Jimmy Eat World,
Saosin,
HIM,
Placebo,
Hurt,
Julien K.
(I can't be arsed to name off every single non-big name opening band. Most of them I didn't really enjoy)

A few bands that I haven't seen a full set include: Incubus, Yellowcard, The Donnas, Atmosphere, Audioslave.

This is the list of concerts I've been to and am planning to go to
-August 2003: Lollapalooza
-July 24, 2004: Warped Tour (Where I saw Simple Plan)
-March 1, 2007: Rise Against, My Chemical Romance
-September 1, 2007: Projekt Revolution (Saosin, Madina Lake, Julien K, Placebo, HIM, Taking Back Sunday, MCR, and totally didn't stay for Linkin Park)
-February 19, 2008: Hurt, Seether, Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace
-April 15, 2008: Schoolyard Heroes, Automatic Loveletter, From First To Last.
-April 19, 2008: Paramore, Jimmy Eat World
-May 16, 2009: Madina Lake!
-October 24, 2009: Paramore
-November 7, 2009: Dane Cook (Not a band, but who cares! XD)
-April 14, 2010: Sick Puppies, Breaking Benjamin, Nickelback
-May 26, 2010: 10 Years, Flyleaf
-July 30, 2010: Honda Civic Tour (New Found Glory, Relient K, and Paramore)
-September 3, 2010: 30 Seconds To Mars

Upcoming:
-April 23, 2011: Madina Lake (Definitely happening)
-April 27th, 2011: Sevendust, Three Days Grace and AVENGED SEVENFOLD FINALLY It's still not 100% set in stone, but it looks good so far, just waiting to know if my leave chit gets approved.

Shows I've been to:
Hellogoodbye (with support from Go:Audio and Sherwood)
Green Day (with support from Prima Donna)
Green Day (with support from Frank Turner and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts)
Frank Turner

The first Green Day show was phenomenal. Purely because we had the most stunning view and well, Billie Joe was blond.
I'm now hoping to one day see Mumford & Sons.

1st: I think the date was March 1st '09 Secret Valentine Tour with We the Kings, The Maine, There for Tomorrow, The Cab Versa Emerge!
2nd: 11/23/09 Glamour Kills Tour with All Time Low We the Kings Hey Monday and the Friday Night Boys
3rd: 4/10/10 AP Tour with NeverShoutNever (hated him left pretty early on in the set), Hey Monday, The Cab, Every Avenue, and The Summer Set
4th: Warped Tour '10 July 31st saw We are the In Crowd, Pierce the Veil, Hey Monday, We the Kings, Four Year Strong, and some of the local bands, and bits and pieces of others.
5th: Tour with Attack Attack! Pierce the Veil, Of Mice and Men, and In Fear and Faith
6th: Beneath it All Tour with Hey Monday, Cartel, The Ready Set, This Century, and We are the In Crowd
(I actually saw the last two within a week)
Yesterday Night: Dirty Work Tour with All Time Low, Yellowcard, Hey Monday, and the Summer Set.

I've met:
Hey Monday (2x)
Pierce the Veil
We are the In Crowd
Every Avenue

So I didn't get to see Black Veil Brides last Wednesday (the 27th). That's when all the tornadoes came through north Alabama and I was in a storm shelter, hoping that everyone I care about would be okay....fun stuff. Not really sure when my next show is, unless we do decide to go see A7X and BFMV on May 6th.

Super excited about seeing Blessthefall in October. I wasn't sure whether to go last time they were touring, because it was pretty soon after they got their new vocalist, but I'm really looking forward to it.



Sugarcult last month was good. Pretty chilled, actually, I don't think I've ever been to a show before when I've just walked in without planning to get in early, stood at the barrier, and got pushed like, once.

i know warped tour last year was pure amazing. so was the bigger lights, friday night boys, for the foxes, and even cute is what we aim for (though shaant is not my forte). panic! at the disco, foxy shazaam, and fun. were absolutely amazing a few weeks ago. i have never been to a better show in my entire life. i used to rate things from one to warped tour, no longer! i'm psyched to see the black cards, neon trees, and panic! again in september. i'm not sure about my upcoming shows though /:

Avenged Sevenfold - twice
Thirty Seconds To Mars - twice
Placebo
Slash & Myles Kennedy
Iron Maiden
Slayer
Peaches
Rose Tattoo
Lauren Harris
My Chemical Romance
Nightwish

and a lot of Portuguese bands you never even hear of

I've seen WAY too many bands live to even recall. Like, literally any "mainstream" band you can name, I've seen. Mostly because every years I go to lots of festivals with 10-20 big names there.

My proudest feat however? I've seen A7X eight times. Soon to be eleven! Pit tickets, against the barricade, every show. I've met M. Shadows twice, met Johnny once, met Arin Ilejay once. I also have ZV's guitar pick because he recognized me from so many shows, Syn's pick for the same reason, a setlist, and have had Zacky wave to me from the tourbus.

My second proudest feat: I've only seen MCR once, but at that show I was waved at by Frank, nodded at by Mikey, and had a shout-out and a kiss blown to me from Gerard, because I drew them a picture and Gerard reached down and pulled it out of my hands. I was against the barricade for that show as well.

I've been to two "for real" concerts:
Sparks the Rescue/The Scenic. Small crowd, bad people.
The Summer Set/We the Kings. Six Flags had the wrong time so me and my friend got to the concert hours late and caught the end songs of TSS and stayed a bit for We the Kings.

:/ My concert experience has sucked so far...

I don't know if there's a thread for upcoming concerts, so I'll just post here anyway.

Motley Crue w/ Bret Michaels (September)
Def Leppard w/ Heart (October)
Foo Fighters w/ Tenacious D (December)

Best bands live that I've seen:
Green Day
Madina Lake
Foxy Shazam

I swear, those three have some of the best energy I have ever seen on stage. They're pretty much some of the only bands I can ever say to have as good/better music just listening-wise than their mastered stuff.

Tours/bands I've seen:
Projekt Revolution 2oo7:
Madina Lake
Mindless Self Indulgence
Julien-k
Placebo
HIM
Taking Back Sunday
My Chemical Romance
Linkin Park

Minutes to Midnight:
Chiodos
Coheed and Cambria
Linkin Park

21st Century Breakdown (loop one/2009):
The Bravery
Green Day

Bamboozle Roadshow 2010:
Good Charlotte
LMFAO
Boys Like Girls
All Time Low

21st Century Breakdown (loop two/2010):
AFI
Green Day

A Thousand Suns:
Does it Offend You, Yeah?
Pendulum
Linkin Park

The Second Stage Turbine Blade:
Coheed and Cambria

Warped Tour 2011:
DRUGS
The Devil Wears Prada
Madina Lake
Foxy Shazam
Hellogoodbye

I've seen a couple other random ones like Maroon 5 and whatnot, but that was just like, on a whim :P

mac miller
katy perry
& alot of others i don't remember.

soon to be all time low & mayday parade.

The only concert I've ever been to was a Motley Crue and Poison concert on July 8th in Biloxi. New York Dolls were the opening act, but I missed them because we got stuck in traffic :(
It was totally kickass though. Motley Crue is my favorite band, so I was really glad it got to be my first concert.