| SMS conversation I had today:
Me: Hey, look, I got a playlist. And it was awesome!
Evul-chick: Fuck you. I hope she's not mad for real, but then again, if she is.. score? I'm stupidly tired, need to get up and do work tomorrow, it's 2 AM, and I spent an hour jumping (me and Viz ended up a feet higher than everyone else during Misery Business.. in time to the music, too.. yeah, it was awesome). The opening acts were also great, or, well, the 2 we saw properly, anyway (stupid people at the stupid door.. it took us 2 HOURS to get to the stage!). Paper Route were fun, and had a theremine, an accordion, and lotsa weird stuff like that, and was generally really nice to see and listen to. Not fantastic, but good. You Me at Six was... well, holy hell, those guys kicked some serious ass in the energy department, they just rocked out sooo hard, and were so much fun. Paramore: well, details tomorrow, but yeah, that was awesome beyond awesome, and I don't even know their songs all that well. ---------------------- Ok, so here's what my day was like, because the entire story is pretty damn annoying, I guess. I barely slept. I got up. i went to school, so exhausted already that all I wanted, really, was my bed. And this was going to be a long day. most of it standing in a line that wasn't open yet so me and Viz could get close to the stage and kick total ass. But first, lecture. ..Or so I thought. Goddamn teachers need to learn how to show up for classes, seriously! Also, best part: class was to start at 10.
10:22 I get a textmessage from Marcus, asking where we'll be. I reply Foo bar, because the teacher didn't show up. Marcus replies with a very concise "...shoot me." Marcus has about 2 hours to school, so yeah, understandably, he was pissed. But we usually find ways to make the trip worthwhile, and we had a laassignmentb and stuff we needed to do, so yeah.
Me, I tried to get a hold of Viz after a while. Apparently the bastard was stuck in the wrong goddamn part of the ccountry, since his car had gotten a flat tire and he couldn't get it fixed until that morning. Bastard was supposed to be home Sunday, now he had a 5 hour drive ahead of him! I mean.. holy.. So I run around nervous about what to do, and laughing at the fact our teacher had now scheduled a new lecture for the afternoon, simultaneous with our lab assignment, in the same course. Faantastic. Robin suggested I just ignore it all. Done and done, I had better things to do, like figure out where the hell Viz was. Oh well, also, we saw the latest episode of Top gear. That show wins (airship caravan, 'nuff said!). I abused my rights at school to print my ticket, and got Viz some aspirin, because at 16:40, he finally arrived home, and hey, we're running late because we wanted to be there early, Rise Against's giant lines in mind. Buy the dude some ibuprofene, then he goes and prints out his tickets and we're finally off! At like 17:30. Dammit. Could have been worse, was our thought. We arrived at Gullmarsplan at 18:07, took the tram from there to Fryshuset, and the tram was basically empty, and there's no visible lines as we approach. What the hell?
And then we discover the line goes in the opposite direction than it does on, you know, every other show at that place. *sigh* Que 2 goddamn hours of queing and the worst opening of the doors in the history of concerts. How could they have been so freakishly slow? The only bright side was we got redbull, but that was at 18:50, doors were opened at 18:30, and the show started at 19:30. And we got in at 20:00. What the HELL! Also, the guard stole my wayter bottle, so i wouldn't throw it at someone. yeah, I'm gonna pay 400 SEK to throw a water bottle at someone. Dick. Well, basically skipped the second opener because Viz needed food, and we could sort of hear, and we couldn't get up front anyway, so then it's just way easier to plow through the entire audience once the show starts.
But they were good, although I missed their name, and I'm too lazy to look it up. And they certainly had energy. Paper Route were also really interesting. Theremines, xylophones, accordions and a slide guitar as well as conventional band instruments made it feel schizophrenic, but that was part of the fun. So I wasn't prepared for You, me at Six being so much better. Seriously, holy crap those dudes just kicked ASS. And their cover of Lady gaga's Pokerface was, surprisingly enough, really good. Definitely a band i want to see again, and neither me nor viz would be surprised if they headline their own show next year. new album in january, so i should check that out. Also, we had fun at all the people thinking the band starting were going to be Paramore. We could go on laughing aht the "hah, opening act, fooled ya!" thing all night. Also, we had found a decent spot where we were taller than the rest, and rocked out, and found some people who rocked out as well.Short people. Score! Paramore setlist ahoy: Intro
Ignorance- Hey, I sorta knew this one!
Caught Myself
That's What You Get-Proof this was going to be awesome. Holy HELL people went mad, it was awesome.
Lookin Up-After this, there's a line on my sheet, so i guess they actually did some talking here or something? Or they just changed settings. Either way, their talks were fun. not Stephen Lynch funny, but nobody expected that (or wanted 30 minutes of talking between songs). Lots of "this is an awesome show" and "we're havings o much fun" and screaming from the crowd, and.. well, everyone had an awesome time, Stockholm's a pretty insane place to headline, because we're not too spoiled and love our music.
Emergency
Crushcrushcrush-Good song, mad audience.. yeah, pretty awesome stuff.
Turn it Off
After this, Haley talked about how they wanted to change up the setlist a bit, and hoped that was okay, so the crowd yelled, of course. And we get:
The Only Exception- All calm, sweet and really nice. Not the best ever, but really nice.
Pressure- Another one I knew, and it was awesomely awesome. And Haley had thrown up the horns, made a "we're all acrobats" comment to the bassplayer and.. well, yeah, it had been an awesome show so far.
Careful
Where the Lines
and finally, "Goodnight Stockholm", making viz super-happy as this is one of his favourite paramore songs:
Decode- It was pretty good, yeah. Then they left the stage.. aww. Cue obligatory chanting, of course. Haley comes in and says they thought the show was over, but then, hell, they were gonna play some more songs because they wanted to and this was so fun. And the boys had their acoustic instruments ready, so hey:
Misguided Ghosts-For some reason i'd wanted the empty pictureframes with lightbulbs in to get lit all night, and that finally happened. Noteworthy is that the sorta velvety silver and red background they used went superwell with the spotlights. Light and not light, and totally freaking awesome!
(mariachi intro)- "Stockholm, do you know what's going on? What's going on? I don't know what's going on", and, well, hey, we recognized the intro to:
Misery Business- Goddammn this was SO AWESOME. Me and Viz ignored the fact that we were drenched in sweat from jumping for the past hour and started jumping synchronized to the chorus. of course, to sync it properly, we also ended up leaping a foot into the air each beat, and I think we were noticable, in case anyone had watched the stage, what with Viz towering over everyone already and me being in the 90th percentile in height, hehe. Totally awesome, and all i wanted was hallelujah and For a Pessimist, i'm Pretty optimistic. So new singles make me disappointed, despite being really good:
Brick by Boring Brick- In the end all the other bands of this "minifestival" came out on stage and started jumping like crazy along with everyone else. A really fun moment, I like those. And hey, it was awesome as an ender. We went to the soundboth and I eyed the setlist 'til the security woman gave it to me, and also gave me and Viz a waterbottle to share. yeah, we needed that, but I wasn't at all tired due to the energy of a great show (and You me At Six being a great warmup, I'd guess). I said it'd be funny if I took the waterbottle and found that guard and thre at in his head. "Betcha didn't see that one coming!" was Viz comment of chouice, mine would have been "Hey, look, there's water bottles inside too!" Sent the text which opened this thing, which was meaner than the one Viz got from Truls, that said she was at a nice concert too, and she hated him. Yay for us? Took a freaking half hour to get out, and while we wanted to go get food, we had to catch the last trains home, and talked about how that might have been the best concert of the year, or at least one of the best. Yeah, that was awesome. Went home, showered, ate, attacked in utopia without Angel (I hate doing that, but I ain't installing ANYTHING on this computer) and then i tried to sleep. Should have been far easier than it was. But it was all so totally worth it! |
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