Taylor Swift Concert

Wow. We were really lucky to score some tickets to the Taylor Swift concert last night (thanks Jemily), and we had an awesome time! Not only were the tickets in a box, which was awesome, but halfway through the show, Taylor showed up directly below us and sang “Hey Stephen”. Seriously, we could have jumped out of the box and landed next to her. Too bad our camera was pretty much dead, because we only got two pictures the whole night.

There was a really cool part of the concert between songs where everyone just screamed for like, five minutes. She just stood there, so totally awed by the amount of noise pouring from that place. Or at least she looked awed. Maybe that happens everywhere. But she said “Dallas, I can promise you, that for the rest of my life I’m never gonna forget this moment.” It was kind of cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcsBogYfP54

Taylor is a really emotional performer. You can tell her heart went into every song she wrote, because she FEELS every lyric in her facial expression and body language. It made for a really entertaining concert. She has a seriously crazy life, but you can tell she honestly LOVES what she does. It was really fun!

The first band was The Rust. They are a start up band from Nashville but they were pretty good. Their bass player was very strange. He iterated between two movement patterns. He was either a very stiff robot or a slithering snake. I know those are too different extremes but he was very peculiar. Next time you see me ask Andrea or I to give you an impression.

The next band was Evan Taubenfeld and he was terrible. He talked to much, used the f-word like crazy, and took way too much time. The third band was Parachute. I was very impressed with these guys. I had not heard of them until Andrea did a little pre-concert research. Andrea listened to some of their songs on their website and told me they were good. They put on a good show and I would definitely go see them again. I have included one of their music videos below of my favorite song called Mess I Made.

Unfortunately due to the time it took between acts it was 10:45 before Secondhand Serenade came on stage. I know that this may be a big shocker to some of you but Andrea and I like sleeping. We were getting tired and we were feeling bad for leaving Grandma Norrie home with the baby all night so we didn’t stay for the whole show. We stayed for about 25 minutes of Secondhand Serenade’s set and it was great. I love that band and knew they would be fun to watch. Unfortunately the lead singer doesn’t ever open his eyes when he sings so he was very strange to watch live.

We had a great time at the show and it was fun to catch up with Jenny and Michael. Here is a photo from the concert, I circled us in yellow.

Concert Picture

If you know of any concerts coming up let us know. We are always open to going to concerts.

Bamboozle Roadshow 09

So last week my little brother and I went to the House of Blues Dallas to see some awesome bands at the bamboozle roadshow. It was my first ‘rock’ concert, so I didn’t know what to expect but I liked 3 of the bands so I thought it would be fun. When I was leaving the house I was wearing my glasses and Andrea told me to take them off because I looked too nerdy to go to a rock concert. Jake thought about wearing a vest over his t-shirt but decided that I would make fun of him so he didn’t. As it turned out the vest would have been fine because we were some of the few people that didn’t have fluorescent colored silk screen t-shirts on with a vest, bandanna, or 1950′s era hat! Although I felt out of place because the average age of the people at the concert was about 16, the concert turned out to be awesome and Jake and I had a blast. We the Kings totally stole the show, they were amazing. Forever the Sickest Kids was good as well but they were so loud that Jake and I couldn’t even hear each other and my ears were ringing for the two days following the show. Even with all of that I would go again in a heartbeat, I would just try to dress a little more hip… Here are some videos from the concert:

I have to be honest, when my wife told me she had gotten tickets, I wasn’t too excited about going, but now that we are just a few hours from the show I am actually looking forward to it. You know it should be neat to rub elbows with the elite members of the LDS music scene. Who knows, maybe I can get an autograph from someone cool!

We don’t really know what to expect since apparently they are scaling it down this year. It is happening in one of the BYU ballrooms at the WILK therefore, not exactly black tie, but I am sure some people will get all gussied up for this thing. I hope there are some performances from the nominees, that would be cool.

Some of this years nominees are:

• Steven Kapp Perry
• Tyler Castleton
• Mack Wilberg
• Craig Jessop
• Gladys Knight
• Jenny Jordan Frogley
• Julie de Azevedo
• Peter Breinholt

With all of these stars it has to be an amazing night! Well, it is getting a little late so i should probably go get ready and while I do I probably should listen to some sweet church music and get familiar with the artists. I’ll write again tomorrow, hopefully with some photos of all the celebrities I get to meet.