4 posts tagged “concerts”
i wish i could see her one more time. just because her show was my favorite, out of every single damn show that i've ever gone to. she sings it so well and with so much feeling. gah. if you have listened to cat power and you do not like her, i will seriously consider not liking you anymore.
next show (if nothing else that sounds cool shows up in the meantime) is progressive nation.
opeth.
dream theatre.
3.
nerdy prog freaks, here i come.
i love the feeling of concert tickets in my hands. i'm going to go see cat power and i'm excited. i think it will be just her, i don't think she's coming with anyone else. those shows are always the best. i hope hope hope that it will be as great as i imagine it will be in my head. also, this is our second show. (it's the little things)
when i was a kid i remember watching mtv and listening to the forbidden marilyn manson. he was so fascinating to me. the way he dressed (or rather, didn't dress, at the time), his makeup, his gender neutrality. everything about him fascinated me. not to mention, i thought the music was hot shit. i hadn't ever been able to go to the concerts but this year, i was not going to miss it for the world.
ended up buying tickets the day that they started selling, right when they started selling. i got general admission because sitting is for wussies - if you can't mosh at a manson show, then seriously, the terrorists have won (oh simon amstell). i went to the show with jeff. so we got there earlier to make sure we had good parking so that we didn't have to try and find our way back to some obscure parking lot in downtown seattle. we got off good - parked right next to the paramount. you could tell a lot of people had really brought out their finest goth gear for the show - jeff and i seriously looked like the most normal people ever compared to everyone else there. we went to go stand in line when doors opened only to realize that there were protesters. as we walked to get to the back of the line they were ranting on and on about how we had lost jesus and how we would all go to hell (the sign was actually: god jesus? it's hell if you don't!). not to mention that we're all homosexuals! a few people took pictures with the protestors, which was hilarious. and one woman actually tried to light their sign on fire. i liked her. :)
we got frisked on the way in but mostly for actual weapons, they were pretty chill with chains and stuff because honestly, most people were mostly wearing chains as clothing. i'm not sure making them take the chains off is a good idea.
the paramount isn't huge but it isn't a small club venue either. we walked in and were relatively close to the stage so i was pretty happy about that. the first band came out - Ours - i really wouldn't recommend them at all. they just... aren't a great band. in fact, most of us just stood there and tried to keep our ears from bleeding during most of the times the lead singer opened his mouth. they got boo-ed off stage because seattle OLDER folks seem to be very impatient.
after they got off-stage - the lights came back on and we just kind of stood there waiting for them to set up manson's set so that he would come out already. there were really irritating arseholes that were standing next to us - one kid in particular who kept crying out for manson randomly and going 'WE HATE LOVE, WE LOVE HATE' - trying to get us all to say it. nearly got punched in the face, really.
fast-forward. the lights turn off - you can hear the sound of a guitar and drums - someone doing a hell of a job on the bass - and then you can see a very very skinny man's outline on the dropped curtain and then everyone in the place went nuts. i won't get into the details of the show - track listings, etc. - i will say this though. he played two songs from eat me, drink me and most of the rest of it was older tracks, some that i wasn't expecting. he played "rock n roll nigger" which was probably the highlight of 2008. i literally went nuts when i realized that he was actually performing this song, and i was looking at him, and he was in front of me, close enough that he looked real. it was phenomenal.
he encored like four or five times because we just would not let the man leave. at the end of the show, he had a little podium put up for him and he was leaning over it and into the audience the entire time, with his lipstick all over his face and his shirt ripped to shreds. it was absolutely beautiful.
when the house lights turned on, i was so sad to have to leave but you know, i enjoyed every second of that concert (even the half-naked moshing jerks who kept running into me!).
so first off: we got the house! super excited about that. also saw today that black tide is coming back to seattle. now, i have to say... i got hooked on this band by accident. my friend dragged me to an avenged sevenfold concert - a group i'm not a fan of - but i went just to hang out and have a good time. well black tide, this band of relatively young boys who play very amazingly done "metal" opened for them. i loved them and by the end of the night i had one of their songs, which i had never heard before, stuck in my head. needless to say, i'm also in love with the lead singer of the band. but you know, we all have our fan-girl crushes on cute little metal boys named gabriel, right?
