WARPED TOUR RECAP, GO

Jul 17, 2010 14:39

...RIGHT SO I WENT TO WARPED YESTERDAY!

And it was.

Pretty awesome!



Right, so traffic was terrible and also lol New Jersey so we didn't actually get there until like an hour after the gates opened. Missed Andrew WK, but we did just make it to see REEL BIG FISH.




Reel Big Fish is, according to Kelly, a ska band.




They wear ridiculous shirts.

So when we first got up to see them they were just starting to play ENTER FUCKING SANDMAN, which was great enough already, but then they in come the TROMBONE AND TRUMPET.




Metallica with a brass section is almost as great as Metallica on cellos.

And then they played their own songs, which are pretty great! They have one about a girl who leaves you for another girl. And one about beer. I need to go find their stuff, I think.

After that, we went to the AP Advent stage!




...Which was also the Glamour Kills stage. Somehow. I really don't get it.




There was a guy in this shirt! Half these pictures are creepy ninja shots, get used to it.




My friend Mac wanted to see some screamo band called Enter Shikari, who are. Not incredibly terrible for a screamo band? Kelly and I sat in the back and watched while Mac went into the pit. I really only took this picture to show off the gaggle of scene kids in the background. Apparently getting to watch the show backwards is worth paying extra?

So yeah, eventually I went off to the tents because BRYCE AVARY WAS DOING A SIGNING. I got there about half an hour early but the line was still a bitch, and everyone took forever each, but I had a Camelbak and bought a CD and poster while I was waiting around.

Which, after a good 45 minutes, I GOT SIGNED.

AFTER HE GAVE ME A HUG

AND THEN THIS HAPPENED.




/flails all over

And then I got ANOTHER HUG and a handshake and I flailed all the way over to the next stage.

Oh but, I did talk to him a bit! And I wasn't flaily or obnoxious at all! I think. I said something about how much I loved music and how I was glad there were people like him out there who loved music so much too. I can't remember what he said back, was kind of blinded by his DARLING SMILE.

...right, next stage.




HI JUSTIN PIERRE HI.




HOW ARE YOU AND YOUR HAIR DOING TODAY.




He basically spent the entire show playing with his hair when he wasn't playing guitar, it was kind of great and I wish I had a picture of it.




More importantly, HI MATT TAYLOR FUCKING HI.




HI MATT TAYLOR'S SWEET LITTLE SMILE HI.




lol and sometimes there were tambourines.




CAN I JUST TURN THIS INTO A "PICTURES OF MATT TAYLOR MAKING FACES" POST.




I guess I had to take a picture of Josh at one point? Just for completion's sake? You can't really tell here, but he was wearing these awful day-glo orange earplugs. They were kind of hilarious.




RIGHT, BACK TO MATT TAYLOR'S FACES.




Such as his concentrating face!

Adorable bassists aside, the show was really fantastic. Fucking loud, though, this show screwed my hearing over for longer than any of the other shows, and we weren't even in the pit. I wish I'd listened to their album a bit more before I went, though. I only knew a few lines out of a few songs, and shouting lyrics while jumping up and down surrounded by people doing the same thing is kind of the best thing in the world. But yeah, Justin was adorable and oh my god his voice, I knew it was great from the recordings, but hearing him sound just as great in person just. Kind of blew me away.

Biggest problem was, by this point all I had eaten that day was cereal for breakfast and half a camelbak of water. Which isn't eating, but. I was starting to lose it, and heat and I are not good friends so I had to stop watching sometimes in favor of groaning and taking deep breaths. So after Motion City Soundtrack I stopped by and grabbed a Powerade, then rushed back to the indoor (thank god) stage for TEENY TINY CABLINGS.




Highlights include: SINGER'S SEXY BACK




SINGER'S KIND OF AWESOME SHIRT




SINGER'S STUPID HAT




MARSHALL'S BLACK WIFEBEATER




THE KIND OF AMAZING TOURING CASH-AND-IAN REPLACEMENTS. I forget their names, Singer introduced them at one point though.




His little earnest faaace.




FISTPUMPS, YOU GUYS.




sldkfj hi marshall hi

Alexes being hot aside, the show was pretty great. They played right after MCS, so by the time I had Powerade and got to the stage they only had three songs left. But it was okay because they were That 70's Song (which he introduced as "It was inspired by Michael Jackson"), I'll Run, and then Singer was all "Okay, so for our last song, we're going to sing something that's entirely about sex." And of course I was hoping and praying it'd be Can You Keep A Secret, but it was Bounce. Which I was perfectly okay with, because you actually get to bounce when he says "Bounce bounce baby," and it was kind of hilarious.

Afterwards we sat around for a little while and saw some band called Artist VS Poet. Who weren't all that bad, I might have to look them up later. Mostly we were just resting and still recovering from MCS. We missed Hey Monday, but after a little while Mac decided we should go see We The Kings, which I was all right with, even if it meant going back out into the sun.

But thanks to the mystical power of electrolytes and shade, I was feeling much better!




I said hi to Trav's hair for Eggo, from afar.




He's a pretty good showman!




He was kind of great too. I think I need to learn this band a bit.




Wild arm gestures!




Okay, see that orange speaker-maybe-thing in the background? With the guy sitting in front of it? Yeah, for the longest time I thought that was actually a portrait of someone, and could not figure out why it was there. Then the guy moved. Yeah.




Then Trav taught us a new gang sign! Which according to Eggo was stolen from Weezer.

Also I swear the guy in the terrible hat looked a lot like Pete Wentz from the side. Except I think he turned out to be Asian, so.




Suddenly, acoustic guitars!




Then, a Cassadee! They did this darling duet that Trav said he wrote about his fans. And Cassadee has a great voice, no one told me this and I think I need to go look up some Hey Monday.




Such cuties! (again, portrait.)

And then after that song APPARENTLY THERE WAS A BRYCE AND I MISSED HIM? idk man it was weird, Trav introduced him and then he ran off stage before I could figure out how he'd gotten on in the first place.

Then we had another hour or so to wait for the next band, so we went shopping!




And I took a creepy picture of this guy's awesome tats!

I went and bought a Rocket Summer tank before We The Kings, and afterwards we went back to the tents and I got a Warped shirt. Then there was some more sitting inside, and then I found new musics! No it was hilarious, see.

We were sitting down and I was drinking my sno cone-Powerade hybrid (which was probably my best idea ever, not gonna lie) when this guy walks over. You know, those guys who walk around with headphones and try to get you to buy their CD that the major labels won't take. He was just all "Hey you guys want to hear some music?" and I'm just like "I like music!" and took the headphones. It was some decent stuff, and the guy said his CD was only five dollars, so I start going through my bag only to find that, oh noes, I only had three ones and a twenty. I asked my friends if they had any ones, but eventually the guy just said he'd let me have the CD for three bucks. SCORE.

...Eeeexcept then I looked through my bag again later and found out I had a five the whole time. Whoops. I'll upload later after I've listened through it, but earlier that day someone gave me a card from them offering a free download over here, so. idk I'd already passed up supporting an up and coming band earlier in the day so I might as well make it up like this.

Right, picspam. After some more sitting we finally started walking back to the stage. Bring Me the Horizon was playing, which is some other screamo band that was kind of eh.




At least sometimes they walk on things?

Right so after a while everyone started leaving, which we used to our advantage and charged right into the pit. My first real pit since Muse, yay!




I was bored while waiting, so I decided to take some pictures of techs!




Decent-looking techs, too!




Techs with tattoos! Techs with bald spots!




Bald spots and amazing hair!




Techs in tight plaid shorts!




Looking okay from the front, too!




...Okay, so I took a lot of pictures of techs.




Tech that looked a bit like Sean Foreman!




Tech that looked a bit like Nate Novarro!

...well, he did without the zoom on.




Tech that my mom thinks is hot!




Scene kids watching the show backwards again!




Oh and then the band finally appeared. But this chick had to get in the way of my first shot of them.




Oh, hi, and who might this hot ass belong to?




Not the guy with the green hair!




Not the guy with the tacky flag-bass!




No, I'm talking about FUCKING TYSON RITTER.




The stupid faces only start here!




EVERYONE PURSE YOUR LIPS, NOW




QUICK, SOMEONE MAKE A SEX FACE




Agh fucking cymbal in the way, I swear that drummer is actually Bob Bryar.




I TOOK ALL THESE PICTURES BECAUSE TYSON WAS MAKING A STUPID FACE BUT I'M ONLY NOTICING NOW THAT THERE ARE BACKGROUND STUPIDFACES.




No, seriously, are they synchronized in stupidfacery?




A) STUPID FACE

B) BACKGROUND STUPID FACE

C) BOB BRYAR




Seriously, trim the beard and cut the hair a bit and THAT'S HIM.




I forgot to zoom in! LOOK, AN OBLIGATORY FULL-STAGE SHOT!




This may or may not have been before Dirty Little Secret, which was kind of the best intro to a song ever.




Yeah, yeah it totally was. This was the part where he told all the girls to say "DIIIIRTY" and then yelled at us for not sounding dirty enough.

Oh also, he groped himself a lot.




Like, a lot.




And then flipped his hair a bit.




Aaand then groped himself some more.




And then there were more stupid faces.




SOME OF THE BEST BASSES EVER WERE AT THIS SHOW, SERIOUSLY.




Awww and sometimes they make adorable faces.




BEST BASSES, NO REALLY.




...I didn't snap a crotch shot on purpose, seriously I didn't.




lol AND THEN HE DID ONE SONG THROUGH A MEGAPHONE.

I DON'T EVEN, TYSON YOU'RE CRAZY.




Sometimes the show got a liiiittle on the gay side.




...only a little, really.

SO YEAH, after that I stopped taking pictures because at one point I dropped my camera and was getting kind of worried. PEOPLE WERE BEING THROWN AT MY HEAD, OKAY. I'll just say that it was amazing and I got to jump a lot and I knew the choruses to two or three songs so I got to do my shouting! I helped a bunch of people crowd surf! I was even at the edge of one of the circles and got to watch drunk boys flail around and punch each other! It was amazing.

So after having my face properly melted off I started working my way over to the other stage. There were supposed to be like seven stages, but the bands I wanted to see were really only at three of them and two of said stages were actually the same thing. So.




Bryces!

I'm going to apologize in advance for sucky pictures, when I turned the flash on it turned the picture dark and when I turned it off it would get all BLURRY.




I should've just kept the flash on.




Because this happened when I didn't :c




It didn't look as bad in the preview on my camera.




It took me like five tries to get a decent shot of the cute little sign.




Piano!




THERE WAS A LOT OF ARMWAVING AND FISTPUMPING. He was having so much fun, omg.




Also LOOKING TOTALLY GORGEOUS.




Suddenly, ninja hot arms! I mean guitars.




Brycebb /heart hands




Armwaving!




I really need to listen to more of his musics, there was this darling little song with a chorus that went something along the lines of "OH OH OH, OH OH OH PIANO OH OH, OH OH OH PIANO"




A decent shot! ...of someone's blackberry




And then at some point there was CONFETTI. I caught an orange one!




God it must've been so hot up there. Except not, because it was like, 9 by then.




/dotes




...Apparently I took a picture of this guy so I wouldn't feel bad about all the BRYCE BRYCE BRYCE?




WAAAAAAH BRYCE. He just. Was so happy to be there and loves his music and his fans and lsjdf BRYCE.




And then he stood on a speaker.




And flipped his hair a bit.




And then reached out into the crowd...




AND JUMPED INTO IT.

ldksjf it was so hard to get pictures of him floating across the crowd but it was adorable and he had a big stupid grin and sldfkj.




And then eventually he got back up and played more piano. Piano, you guys.




My music kinks, let me show you them.




THIS DARLING BOY WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY GLAMOUR KILLS.




WOOOOO FISTPUMP.




BYE GUYS, YOU'VE BEEN SUPER SWELL.

And then he took a picture of everyone on his iPhone and put it on Facebook. But I can't figure out how to tag myself and I don't see me in the picture, so.

I think the best part was how he started that part up. He took the picture and then he was all "WE'RE ALL FRIENDS HERE, RIGHT? BUT ARE WE FRIENDS WHERE IT COUNTS? ON FACEBOOK?" And then I wanted to shout to him to tweet the picture but that would be tacky.

And he did end up tweeting it anyway, but it was a link to the facebook page.

THE POINT IS, BRYCE.

BRYCE YOU ARE MY DARLING AND I'M SORRY FOR STEALING YOU FROM REILI.

Aaand then we wandered around New Jersey for a while, which was great, being lost in the middle of Camden is my favorite thing, you guys. No, really. But eventually we found the car, only to get LOST AGAIN. LOST IN NEW JERSEY, GUYS.

...But eventually we got home. After getting unlost and dealing with WARPED TRAFFIC.

AND NOW EVERYTHING HURTS AND MY FACE IS BURNED AND.

I WANT TO GO AGAIN.

techies need their own fandom, music is my soul soul, ow ow my marching feet, why am i suddenly shipping bands, hey i remember that fandom, feel free to ignore this, how shallow am i, my suit kink let me show you it, boys boys boys, fandom stealing, probably my only con report, i blame eggo for this, incoherent, omg irl, high on life dude man, oh my god my legs, cuddles and hugs, so many pictures, hugs forever, sleep is awesome amazing, i love everything, woooooooooooooooooooooooooo, rant rant rant rant, deliciousness, pianos are my kink, this one's for eggo, someone shut me up

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