Friday, November 13, 2009

searching for security in tragedy

Okay, the time is here for video and pictures from the The Devil Wears Prada concert! It was awesome, me and my friend were standing in front, by the barrier, right in front of Jeremy. The band did a really good show and were really energetic at stage. They played all of their good songs, the only one I missed was Still Fly. Karoline and I had been asking them everywhere if they would play it, but they didn't. :( I guess we were doing it a little late, or they just didn't want to. I don't know. I was just really happy that they played Big Wiggly Style, Hey John What's Your Name Again?, Dogs Can Grow Beards All Over and Dez Moines. I liked the setlist. :)

The crowd was good, there were not too many people there (like I expected seeing as they're not that big in Norway and I guess they probably have many fans that aren't 18 yet. Not that they checked my ID anyways!!). But the people who were there were crazy! People kept climbing onto the stage and were stage diving into the crowd and crowd surfing on this really small crowd, it was awesome. And as you can hear on my videos people were singing along..! Haha, you can't even hear Jeremy in most of them!

To me, the only sad part was that I the volume on the microphones were too low. You could barely hear their singing which obviously is an important part..

After the show Karoline and I were just hanging out in there. We didn't want to go home because that kind of meant the night was over, which made us sad, plus it was really early (only like 11) so we had time. And then right after we bought hoodies suddenly James (who plays the keyboard) was standing there right next to us! So we talked to him for a while and took a picture with him ^^ And then we went to get some water and he actually walked over to us later to say bye before he left. I didn't expect that, it was nice. Afterwards we also talked a little bit to Jeremy. They were both nice and really down to earth :)

So that was the concert, it was a really really great concert, definately one of the best ones I've been to.. (and I've been to quite a few by now..!)





And then the pictures, first the picture of Karoline, James and me :D
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And I got a really funny picture of Mike. He looks crazy with those eyes and his missig tooth!! XD haha
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4 comments:

Karoline Tufte Lien said...

IT WAS SUCH AN AWESOME CONCERT!!
I had so much fun with you :) Can't wait for the next one.. Wherever it might be and whoever might be playing.

Great video and pictures, especially that one of Mike, hahah! :)

Loup said...

Takk for denne posten, det var bare å trykke på linkene for å høre litt på musikken du liker.
Det gir meg anledningen til å svare hva kristen metall angår. Jeg må takke deg, for du fikk meg til å oppdage.. at det finnes, rett og slett. Jeg trodde metall var nødvendigvis svart metall, på ulike versjoner. Nå sitter jeg overrasket etter å ha lest gjennom tekstene til bandene du har nevnt. Det er virkelig kristen musikk, uten tvil. Likevel må jeg innrømme jeg ikke klarer å trives ved å høre på sånt. Er det noen plass for hva er åndelig i meg selv, i en musikk som snakker så sterkt og hardt og voldsomt til hva er materielt i meg selv? Det forblir et mysterium for meg. Den slags musikk er forresten i seg selv et mysterium for meg. Det er vanskelig for meg å uttrykke det på norsk, håper du skjønner hva jeg mener uansett.
Jeg har lest også litt gjennom bloggen din og syns du er en ganske herlig og interessant... og i tilleg søt jente :-) . Jeg bare lurer på hvorfor du blogger på engelsk. Kanskje har du flere engelsktalende lesere?
Unnskyld for at jeg ikke kommenterer på engelsk, min engelsk er desverre enda verre enn min norsk :-(

hjerte said...

Ååå så koselig :) Jeg er ikke konsertmenneske, men skulle litt ønske jeg var det.

Henrik Østmoe said...

SICKKKK:.... jeg er på en av de filmene. Big wiggly style filmen tror jeg. Det var så UBER bra. Fikk du trommestikke? :O

Jeg snakket forresten også med James etter konserten :D

Hvis du tilfeldigvis så meg så var jeg hvertfall han med svart tdwp tskjorte med en fyr som spyr på også hadde jeg en grå tdwp genser som hadde en dinosaur på :) og blå bukser. Beste bandet i VERDEN.