American Idol Shakeup

Katie July 3, 2010 0 Comments

I, of course, won myself some tickets to see the American Idols Live show in Bridgeport, CT (possibly Katie Stevens hometown show?) in September.

Then last night Katie and the Arena at Harbor Yard tweeted that the show got changed to July 9th – aka the following Friday – aka the night I already have tickets to see Jack Johnson.

I had also been trying to win tickets to the Mohegan show July 13, but had no luck there.

I have contacted the contests I had won to see if there was any way I could “trade” tickets for the Mohegan show (not expecting much, but I figured it’s worth a shot) and told them if not to try and give the tickets away again as I am now no longer able to attend.  I am not to impressed that they decided to give everyone a WEEK notice on this switch and I am sure I will not be the only one unable to attend now. It is such a bummer.

If anyone has connections for tickets to the July 13th show – let me know!  I really don’t want to miss this tour but there isn’t much I can do about it!

There is also rumors that a bunch of shows are going to be canceled come Tuesday (something like 7 or 8) and that the tour itself might end up ending in August instead of September. (Good news for Lee and Crystal who will have more time to work on their albums – but bad news for all the fans!)

Seems like the touring industry is in for a big hit with the economy – and the high ticket prices aren’t really helping matters.  The Jonas Brothers also canceled a bunch of their dates and rerouted others (mine wasn’t affected) and other tours aren’t selling as well as anticipated either!

American Idol Thoughts

Katie March 16, 2010 0 Comments

I keep meaning to blog about American Idol but then something comes up and I get distracted.

I really have no clear cut favorites – I am rooting for Katie Stevens since she is named Katie and from CT, like me, but she is really going to have to kick it up a notch to stick around to the tour. Same goes for Andrew Garcia – early on these two were my favorites but it seems possible that both of these artists peaked too early. We’ll have to see what they end up doing tonight. (Which I won’t be seeing until tomorrow, but that’s besides the point)

I also enjoy Siobahn Magnus. She can sing – and she’s a Hanson fan so I really can’t go wrong there. Casey James is also a favorite from early on – he’s cute and he seems to have been somewhat consistent.

As far as the eliminations last week – yes, I was shocked and yes I think a couple of them weren’t right. I am doing rickey.org’s office pool and for the girls I had picked Katelyn, Lacey and/or Paige to go home. I only got one right there – either of the other two I picked should have gone before Lilly, IMO.

For the boys I thought Todrick Hall and Aaron Kelly would be going home. Definitely did not expect Alex Lambert, though I do not support the petitions to bring him back. Odds are really good he wouldn’t win, so why put the poor kid through all that heart break AGAIN? I definitely agree he got a bad break, but that is the way the game is played. If he couldn’t get the votes to make it into the top 12, he wouldn’t get the votes to stick around for that long. (Although, maybe if he came back with a new hair do and last name, I’d like him more?)

I’m not sure if I will be blogging about Idol throughout the season – probably only when I have something I want to say… but I will most likely be live tweeting from the performances on @KatieSociety.

However, I am off to see Idol Alum Carrie Underwood tonight so I will have to catch up on everything tomorrow! Word on the street is Paige Miles might be to ill to perform! She has no voice… hmm.

Taking a gamble on the Idols

Katie August 16, 2009 0 Comments

Decided to go up to Hartford today to try and meet the idols. Didn’t have tickets, but figured it was worth a gamble to see who we could meet before the show.

Temperature was in the 90s, but luckily most of the barricade area was in the shade. We snagged a nice spot in the middle of the barricades. But then the buses came (3 of them) and we allll had to move so they could get in to the garage. (They were SUPPOSED to go in an alternate entrance, but I’m not sure what happened with that)

We ended up at what we thought was the end of the line at the barricade, but when Michael Sarver came out, he came all the way to our end and we were the front! He said “They weren’t going to let us out, after what happened at the hotel” and I was like “why? what happened?” he turned around to sign more so I thought I wasn’t going to get a story, but then he turned to me and said that a guy and his daughter were at the hotel at 5 am and “they” don’t like when people show up at the hotel. And that he got kind of aggressive and said “we’re trying to sleep! How would you like it if I came to your house at 5am?” Which is generally my theory on hotels (I won’t go to their house, so why go to their hotel?)

Then he went through the whole line and like half an hour later (maybe less, but it seemed REALLY long) Danny Gokey came down. Got his signature, we asked him for a pic (me and the girl next to me) and he said he couldn’t do photos, he had press and was in a rush. So I thanked him for coming out and spending time with us since he didn’t have much time and he was like “Oh! No problem!” Like 5 people down from us, were a group of girls who had at LEAST 3 photos w/ Danny (and most signed) They gave him a build a bear and HE STARTED TAKING PICTURES WITH THEM.

If you don’t have enough time for pictures with everyone, DON’T take them with ANYONE! Especially not girls who already have several with you and were bragging about them all earlier. I get wanting to spend more time with them because you “know” them, but taking pictures with them was really pretty crappy, imo. So that definitely did NOT impress me and I am still not a Gokey fan. (I went in trying to be open minded and nice to all of them)

A little later, Matt Giraud showed up. Girl next to me got a pic w/ him and I asked him for one and I guess he didn’t understand me or hear me, because he was just like “nice to meet you” and left. He didn’t sign Lauren’s thing either and we tried to call him back, at least for the autograph, but no such luck. We were the end of the line for him though, so maybe he had press also, I don’t know. I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt.

Around 3pm they said that was it and that it was “too hot” and no one else was coming out. OK, it wasn’t ‘too hot’ for us to be waiting in the 90* degree heat – and the area the Idols were in was pretty much shady and cool so THAT was a pretty lame excuse. Press, official M&G; coming up, etc. Fine.. but don’t make up stuff!

We’ll give it all a try next month, hopefully we can get at leassst a pic w/ Kris but I’m really not getting my hopes up at this point!