Billy Idol Concert
I would have made this entry on Tuesday night, but I just couldn't think of how to explain it, so most of it's coming straight from my sketchbook. Some of the text seems to show up big... For starters, before the concert I'd decided Rat Race was my new favorite Billy Idol song and then on Tuesday I memorized the words. So my Da and I went to pick up Taylor, and I might mention she looked AWESOME with Clockwork Orange eye makeup and everything. When we got there, I noticed a Breaking Benjamin poster for this Friday-a concert which I may or may not be going to. I was really excited and almost forgot to give the ticketaker-well, duh-my ticket. For the record, The Cotillion(the venue) is a small place where you get to be extremely close to the band. We went right up front. A lot of things were different from the last time I was there. It was less smoky, there were tables on the floor area, you could bring your camera in, and you could bring drinks on the floor-which kinda pissed me off 'cause about a thousand idiots with beer got on my nerves. One particular guy who was like my dads age was already hammered before 7:30. Didn't take much to figure that out. I saw one guy with an Ev shirt from one of the same concerts I went to-didn't say anything though, 'cause he looked like someone who'd just be like "Whatever...go away freak..." So we started talking to this guy in a pink shirt-which matched my neon pink Dickies shirt/dress that attracted quite a bit of attention 'cause it was blinding. He said Taylor's Nirvana shirt was cool, and we started talking about all these cool bands and such. He went to a Queens of the Stoneage concert awhile ago, and he might be going to Lallapalooza. He was nice, even when I screamed in his ear a few times during the concert-which shows a lot about a person, haha. Taylor and I call him Pinky now whenever we talk about the concert 'cause we never asked his name. So pretty soon soundcheck started, and I was screaming n such, 'cause that meant the real thing was getting closer. One of the soundcheck guys was all like, "Comin' up in a bit, BILLY F***ING IDOL!!!" Starred out for courtesy and so Twilight won't hurt me. The band came out awhile later, and then Billy. We screamed so freaking loud! The entire concert was full of energy. I screamed more, louder, and longer than anyone though, a lot of people turned around to see who was being so freaking loud. It was so cool when they played Rebel Yell and White Wedding 'cause everybody in the crowd screamed it. Taylor and I kept screaming "WE LOVE YOU!!!" Before they played Sweet Sixteen Billy was talking about the story behind the song, and at one point he's just like "Are you listening?" and we all screamed. These two dizzy ditzes tried to get through us, but I was not moving so then those punks freaking pushed us and ran in front of us. I would have screamed some profanities(actually, I think I did...) but it was too loud, and in the end it didn't matter... They started playing Rat Race. Billy came by us and I was singing and rocking on and screaming. And then, for the 6th time direct eye contact with Billy. But this time it was different. Billy held my eyes for an entire minute(which is a long time if you think about it) and we sang Rat Race together and he pointed the mic towards me and stuff. And he said something to me in the mic like, "Yea, I can hear you screaming!" and something about how I was the loudest and such. A ton of people turned around to see who he was starring at. I still didn't break eye contact. After Rat Race the guy beside me(who was cool, though he kept running into Taylor) was like "Woah, did you see? He was looking right at you the whole time!" and I'm like "I know! That was so AWESOME!" And Billy said to the crowd(referring to me) "That young lady has a lovely voice" and I think he asked them to give me a hand or something. He was kind of being sarcastic of course, 'cause I was screaming the whole time. So in total for the night I had eye contact with Billy 8 times, Steve Stevens twice, and the bass player twice, and the drummer 0-'cause duh, he's the drummer-he was in the back. So they played everything from the new album, and some old ones, including Eyes Without a Face, and a few covers too. At the end Billy(playing the guitar), Steve, and the bassist all came right up in the middle together. Since we didn't have water the whole time, after we'd said goodbye to Pinky, my parents got us some(my mom and aunt showed up at some point-but we never saw my family at all). Then we got shirts. I got the red one that the bassist was wearing, and Taylor got the green and blue one with Scream lyrics on it. Then I grabbed a tiny poster from off the wall. Dad didn't let us go wait at the side doors for autographs, which I don't think I'll ever forgive him for. But when mum came home she handed me a ticket with something in blue on the back, and I'm like "What's this?" Billy gave her a hug and a kiss after she got his autograph ^_^ PS. Billy's pants were HOT. They were leather, red and black with skulls on them-the same ones he wore in the April issue of Blender. Most of the time he had his shirt off, but he had 3 different shirts, and a green and black jacket that said JADE on it. He was also wearing this cool necklace with a lock on it, and a buncha chains. Steve had an awesome guitar solo. We may be going to another concert of theirs in July. I forgot what else I was gonna say. Sorry for the bad quality on the stuff from my paper-it is just a scanner.
Pre concert scans from my paper:
Tiny poster:
Ticket:
Billy's autograph on back:
Public 'cause I want even the people I don't know to be jealous-haha.