The concert ended about an hour and a half ago and my ears are still ringing. I find myself talked very quietly because I’m scared I’ll be that awkward person shouting at others. However, Brady is currently just as deaf as I am so it would probably help if I spoke up. Quandary.
The show was completely amazing tonight. I don’t have much energy left so pictures and videos may or may not come another day, but it was truly spectacular. A quick breakdown of events, however, I can do.
We were on the floor in front of the stage, pretty decently close actually! Closer than we were at their Regina show last year. I was sooo pumped to be so close, even though there was a good amount of super pushy people near us.
The first band was called Anami Vice. They were terrible when we saw them as openers last year, and strangely, they were worse today. There were a couple of people around us that knew all the words to their songs, but almost everyone else just seemed bored. It was pretty exciting when they left the stage. The applause for them lasted a couple of seconds. Baaaaad.
Down with Webster was the second band. I have to give them credit. They’re not a band I listen to regularly at all, but they put on an amazing show. Their drummer is fabulous and they have really good energy without being doofuses. It also helps that they were after Anami Vice. But seriously, they were good, and while I only recognized their singles, it was easy to get into and enjoy. However, it was midway through their show that I started getting dizzy. I always start to feel it in the very top of my head, and then it spreads all down my head and face. Once it finishes my face, I faint. Not ideal. But we had such a good spot in the crowd! I tried so hard to overcome it. I moved around a bit, I turned around and got a different view, some light, less noise in my ears, but I could see that Brady was desperately bracing himself against the crazy amount of people trying to push closer. There was no way I was getting more space. So I gave up and we left the crowd to go find a drink and a seat.
We got a drink and sat in a pretty unpopulated area until DWW was over. It was nice to rest our legs. I am very much someone who likes to push to the front of the crowd, and Brady would probably prefer to be seated, so it was nice for me that he wasn’t as disappointed to leave the crazy crowd. In the short break between DWW and Marianas Trench, we found some Mini Donuts and a bathroom. Not a whole lot to report from that part of the evening…
Marianas Trench had their main stage set up as expected, plus two catwalk stages coming out the sides. Those were less populated, and right by the walls that would normally enclose the rink. So I figured, less people plus walls to hold onto if need be met my needs better than pushing back into the big, sweaty crowd. I was right! We actually loved that spot so much better than our original spot. Those guys never stay in one place for very long, so we got lots of close ups of all of them. Plus the sound was better. And there were less pushy people. My only complaint was that corner smelled of fart. And it wasn’t me. I’m pregnant, and I wasn’t the one farting! Oh well, that happens I suppose.
It was quite an epic show. It was the closing performance for the tour they were on, so there were tons of pranks going on all through the show including absurd amounts of fog, sound guys attached to the ceiling, and live lobsters. But I wouldn’t do those stories justice tonight so just trust me when I say, even if you don’t like their music, it was one heck of a show tonight!
We arrived home to our son asleep in bed, and our amazing friend Jerilee reading on our couch. Only an amazing friend would do such a long stretch of babysitting and not let you pay her. We appreciated it sooo much! We loved our night out.
So now, my legs hurt, and my butt hurts, and muscles I didn’t know existed (and probably don’t anymore) hurt. I’m going to bed.