holycrapholycrapholycrap!
This is going to be a short point form, because of the nature of the evening.
Pre-show
-Left at 5 with Gordon, we made it to the ampitheatre around 6, to wander and such.
-The pit was already getting packed.
-I bought a shirt and had to be the-girl-who-wore-the-shirt-of-the-band because I didn't come with pockets or purses.
Peaches
-Peaches was fucking sweet, I wish she played more than 6 songs.
-I think I was the only one in the pit singing along.
-The guys around me were saying "She's a dyke, but she sure can put on a show" which I guess was a good thing?
-Her drummer was Samantha Maloney, who is a)awesome, and b)was the drummer for Hole for a while, and c)the guys around me were totally crushing.
Bauhaus
-Gordon left me to sit in the lawn before they started, so at this point it was just me, and continued to be just me until the end of the show.
-Bauhaus was also pretty sweet, the singer was very Bowie-esque, and they closed with "Ziggy Stardust".
-It was about during Bauhaus that I realized how thirsty I was. I had a plan to not eat or drunk or pee during the 5 hour show, it was already not going well because I was already feeling weak.
Nine Inch Nails
-I was standing third from the front, centre, behind a couple tall guys who were behind their short girlfriends.
-I was looking forward to throwing some 'bows at the girlfriends who were bleach blond and had it coming.
-I wasn't prepared for the squish. But I held my own for quite some time.
-I can't fucking believe how close I was to Trent.
-For best mobility, I had my hands up to my shoulders, vertically, so that I could push and have a little space in front of me. There was a girl next to me who had them out horizontally, and choking me, and I couldn't breathe twice because of it.
-For the most part, I was at least half, if not a third of the size of the guys who were around me.
-There was a lot of combined sweat on me, but I was even okay with that.
-A guy behind me kept hitting me in the head with a rolled up paper-towel-tube-looking thing. I asked him nicely at the start of the show to stop hitting me in the head with that, but when he persisted I head butted, scratched and kicked him, to no avail. This dude was an asshole who seemed especially bent on smashing me to the best of his ability.
-However, even with all the squishing, when "Something I Can Never Have" was played, the pit kind of all swayed together, no pushing, just a communal sway, which was one of the best parts of the show for me.
-But it got to the point where I was getting entirely too dehydrated and weak to hold it out, and the asshole guy behind me certainly wasn't helping matters when he was trying to get up to crowd surf (who does that when they are 4 from the front anyways?)
-It was appropriately during "Gave Up" when I gave up and clawed my way out, a larger squish forming in my absense. I was so disappointed in myself that I couldn't hold my own in there, but as tiny as I am in comparison to much larger drunk guys, with no one with me to hold me up and make sure I don't get trampled, I think I held out pretty well until the 6-8 song played.
-I took a three song break from the show where I ran to the bathroom (which was line-free, interestingly, the guys bathroom lines were around the corner the whole night) to drink cold sink water, walk around the back of the floor section, and chug a bottle of Diet Coke before getting back into the show.
-I stood around the back of the crowd, right side, in front of the speakers, and the band's cute photo/videographer.
-A much better time was had there, as I could dance and jump and sing to my heart's content, without getting trampled or even touched my another human being.
-Trent seemed really pleased with the crowd last night. Stopping to say that they'd been touring this album for like 20 years and it was shows like this that made it all worth it and that after this tour their going to take a short break to record a new album so they can tour again and have more shows like this. It made me feel pretty damn special to have been a part of that. Especially because at the show in November all he said, during the entire performance, was that the Toronto show was the fastest selling, and that was it.
I hope someone from the internet has a setlist from last night. I want to live it again. Except the squishing. I had several bruises and a scratch on my arms from the smashing, as well as some really achey internal organs (or internal bruising) that's on my hip, exactly opposite from my paper crane. I remember getting especially smashed there, when my hip was lodged with the pelvis of the guy in front of me. I hope my organs are all in tact still and that none of them exploded or anything.
Alright, I'm gonna head to the shower now, get some of the other people's sweat finally off me, and try to make it down to the Pride Parade with Jess and Todd.
Best Birthday Weekend ever!
EDIT 6.26 2:32pm
Nick sent me the setlist for the evening.
Somewhat Damaged
You Know What You Are?
Terrible Lie
March Of The Pigs
Something I Can Never Have
Closer
Burn
Gave Up
Help Me I Am In Hell
Non Entity
Only
Wish
The Way Out Is Through
La Mer
Into The Void
The Big Come Down
Reptile I actually think this wasn't played, but was somehow wrongly titled, because I know "Dead Souls" was played somewhere in here.
Suck
Down In It
Hurt
The Hand That Feeds
Head Like A Hole
Pre-show
-Left at 5 with Gordon, we made it to the ampitheatre around 6, to wander and such.
-The pit was already getting packed.
-I bought a shirt and had to be the-girl-who-wore-the-shirt-of-the-band because I didn't come with pockets or purses.
Peaches
-Peaches was fucking sweet, I wish she played more than 6 songs.
-I think I was the only one in the pit singing along.
-The guys around me were saying "She's a dyke, but she sure can put on a show" which I guess was a good thing?
-Her drummer was Samantha Maloney, who is a)awesome, and b)was the drummer for Hole for a while, and c)the guys around me were totally crushing.
Bauhaus
-Gordon left me to sit in the lawn before they started, so at this point it was just me, and continued to be just me until the end of the show.
-Bauhaus was also pretty sweet, the singer was very Bowie-esque, and they closed with "Ziggy Stardust".
-It was about during Bauhaus that I realized how thirsty I was. I had a plan to not eat or drunk or pee during the 5 hour show, it was already not going well because I was already feeling weak.
Nine Inch Nails
-I was standing third from the front, centre, behind a couple tall guys who were behind their short girlfriends.
-I was looking forward to throwing some 'bows at the girlfriends who were bleach blond and had it coming.
-I wasn't prepared for the squish. But I held my own for quite some time.
-I can't fucking believe how close I was to Trent.
-For best mobility, I had my hands up to my shoulders, vertically, so that I could push and have a little space in front of me. There was a girl next to me who had them out horizontally, and choking me, and I couldn't breathe twice because of it.
-For the most part, I was at least half, if not a third of the size of the guys who were around me.
-There was a lot of combined sweat on me, but I was even okay with that.
-A guy behind me kept hitting me in the head with a rolled up paper-towel-tube-looking thing. I asked him nicely at the start of the show to stop hitting me in the head with that, but when he persisted I head butted, scratched and kicked him, to no avail. This dude was an asshole who seemed especially bent on smashing me to the best of his ability.
-However, even with all the squishing, when "Something I Can Never Have" was played, the pit kind of all swayed together, no pushing, just a communal sway, which was one of the best parts of the show for me.
-But it got to the point where I was getting entirely too dehydrated and weak to hold it out, and the asshole guy behind me certainly wasn't helping matters when he was trying to get up to crowd surf (who does that when they are 4 from the front anyways?)
-It was appropriately during "Gave Up" when I gave up and clawed my way out, a larger squish forming in my absense. I was so disappointed in myself that I couldn't hold my own in there, but as tiny as I am in comparison to much larger drunk guys, with no one with me to hold me up and make sure I don't get trampled, I think I held out pretty well until the 6-8 song played.
-I took a three song break from the show where I ran to the bathroom (which was line-free, interestingly, the guys bathroom lines were around the corner the whole night) to drink cold sink water, walk around the back of the floor section, and chug a bottle of Diet Coke before getting back into the show.
-I stood around the back of the crowd, right side, in front of the speakers, and the band's cute photo/videographer.
-A much better time was had there, as I could dance and jump and sing to my heart's content, without getting trampled or even touched my another human being.
-Trent seemed really pleased with the crowd last night. Stopping to say that they'd been touring this album for like 20 years and it was shows like this that made it all worth it and that after this tour their going to take a short break to record a new album so they can tour again and have more shows like this. It made me feel pretty damn special to have been a part of that. Especially because at the show in November all he said, during the entire performance, was that the Toronto show was the fastest selling, and that was it.
I hope someone from the internet has a setlist from last night. I want to live it again. Except the squishing. I had several bruises and a scratch on my arms from the smashing, as well as some really achey internal organs (or internal bruising) that's on my hip, exactly opposite from my paper crane. I remember getting especially smashed there, when my hip was lodged with the pelvis of the guy in front of me. I hope my organs are all in tact still and that none of them exploded or anything.
Alright, I'm gonna head to the shower now, get some of the other people's sweat finally off me, and try to make it down to the Pride Parade with Jess and Todd.
Best Birthday Weekend ever!
EDIT 6.26 2:32pm
Nick sent me the setlist for the evening.
Somewhat Damaged
You Know What You Are?
Terrible Lie
March Of The Pigs
Something I Can Never Have
Closer
Burn
Gave Up
Help Me I Am In Hell
Non Entity
Only
Wish
The Way Out Is Through
La Mer
Into The Void
The Big Come Down
Reptile I actually think this wasn't played, but was somehow wrongly titled, because I know "Dead Souls" was played somewhere in here.
Suck
Down In It
Hurt
The Hand That Feeds
Head Like A Hole