Birthday Weekend! Who you callin’ full moon crazy?

Katie July 14, 2009 0 Comments

My birthday is on Sunday, and I have quite a weekend (and week!) planned.

Friday Lauren, another Katie, and I will be heading to Boston, MA. Originally we were going to see Honor Society at 11pm at the house of blues, but the show has been changed to 2pm at the Paradise Rock Club on Saturday.

Saturday we have the Honor Society show in the afternoon, Lauren has a M&G;, and then that evening we have what we believe to be 3rd row tickets for the Honor Society/Jordin Sparks/Jonas Brothers concert.

After that, we are driving back to CT.

Getting up early on the 19th, we are going to Long Island for another Honor Society Full Moon Crazy show – which I have a M&G; for.

Then we are not going to the Jonas show that night – coming back to CT.

Monday my cousin and I go back to Long Island for an Honor Society signing in the afternoon, and the Jonas show that night.

Tuesday I go *back* to Long Island for ANOTHER Jonas show, this time with a Jordin Sparks M&G.;

Wednesday is off to NYC for another Full Moon Crazy show at the Blender Theater.

Thursday I get to sleep and have the day off. And Friday its back to work!

Full Moon Crazy!

Katie June 3, 2009 0 Comments

On the way to NYC Wednesday night, Lauren and I were waiting for Honor Society’s “big announcement”

As I guessed, the announcement was the “Full Moon Crazy” tour, which is a tour within a tour. Shows are either the pre-party or after-party of the Jonas Brothers World Tour.

This morning the Boston show went on presale so I was able to purchase the first of 3 (possibly 4, depends on how crazy I want to get) sets of tickets.

We’re still waiting on info for the Farmingdale and New York City shows… Which will put me with 5 Honor Society shows in 6 days. Full Moon Crazy indeed.

Honor Society May 2

Katie May 3, 2009 0 Comments

I got to the park around noon and made my way over to the amphitheater with Kat and Lisa (of shine on media) and their friend. Shortly after I met up with my friend Amber who was completed rided out, so we just sat and chatted near the entrance where there was already a line forming.

We were able to hear sound check, and clips of “Full Moon Crazy”, “Why Didn’t I” and “Over You” were played. We could have gone up to the top of the amphitheater to peek inside, but figure with our luck, they’d be gone by the time we finally made it up there.

At 3pm, we were let inside. Amber and I ended up getting a spot in the 7th row, pretty dead center. The place was so tiny, that it really didn’t matter where you were, you still had a great view. Tons of merch was being sold, especially after word got out that buying a tshirt or poster got you a wristband to go to the meet and greet after the show.

I spotted the set list on the stage and took a picture to figure out what they’d be singing (which always ruins the surprise, but oh well)

Over You
Full Moon Crazy
Two Rebels
Why Didnt I
Goodnight My Love
My Own Way
Heartless
Nobody Has To Know
Don’t Close the Book
See U In The Dark

The first show seemed a bit off. Everyone was really into it, and if they hadn’t had a second show I probably wouldn’t have even noticed that the first one wasn’t full energy (they totally went all out for the second show)

In the first show, Alex dropped his drumstick after he twirled it, which I had NEVER seen him do before. But he kept on going with just the one stick until he had a chance to grab another one.

After the first show, they took a walk around the park with some fans (I sat that out) I did get a chance to talk to Andrew when they made their way back briefly though.

In the second show, they threw kisses into the crowd. One hit me in the hand. It was pretty painful and my hand was red for a good couple of songs! lol Who knew kisses could be so dangerous?

Once the show was over, we waited for the greet and meet, Amber and I each got our pics with the guys, I told them I (and Lauren!) would be seeing them at least once this summer (and me twice) and before we got in reallll trouble for talking too long, I left lol

Honor Society 2-15-09

Katie February 18, 2009 0 Comments

Sunday I had the pleasure of attending Honor Society’s first SOLD OUT show at The Fillmore at Irving Plaza in New York, NY.

I was lucky enough to be placed in VIP seating for this show, although our seats were not anywhere near where we’d be able to see. We took over a different table because no one had seemed to claim it, and just a couple of minutes later THE JONAS BROTHERS showed up and were right next to me. I was close enough to touch them, if I didn’t mind losing my arm to one of their security guards. Joe’s latest flame, Camilla Bell, was also present.

Shortly after the brothers passes us, the fans on the floor also spotted the guys up in the balcony and the screams started (or perhaps continued.. they were screaming before/after every song on the sound system) and the camera flashes started going off.

Just after 7pm, the gentlemen of Honor Society took the stage with their new song “Over You” which I don’t believe had been played on the East Coast previously. The energy stayed up for almost the entire show, they took one break to sing a slower song “Goodnight My Love” in which Alexander left the drums and came up front to provide some vocals on a mic he shared with Jason and Alexander.

They did a cover of Kanye’s “Heartless”, then went into my favorite song of theirs Nobody Has to Know. After that song ended, Michael mentioned how they were disappointed that they couldn’t spend Valentine’s Day with us, but it wouldn’t be very gentlemanly of them if they didn’t give us a gift. When I looked down, the crowd was surging forward and for a second I thought I was back on the Rock Boat – it looked like waves, but it was people inching forward, they must have spotted our “gift” to the side of the stage…

The gift was Honor Society’s friend, OUR friend.. THE JONAS BROTHERS. The brothers joined them on stage for the song “Don’t Close the Book” which Honor Society had played with them when they opened out on the west coast the end of last year. They went to teach us all the “Ohs” that we would have to sing along, but most of the crowd already knew it. You gotta love YouTube.

After that, both bands left the stage. Honor Society came back out and told us that one of their songs we’d be hearing a lot lately (debut single, perhaps?) and played Over You again. I was excited, this was the one song I hoped they would play. And I guess I’ll be hearing it a lot at all the shows so I’m psyched. After the second version of Over You was finished – they finished their set with their popular myspace hit, See U In The Dark. Unfortunately I was too busy focusing on the band (cough) to see how many in the crowd were doing the Honor Roll.

Once the show was over, the meet and greet lin (which you could only get in if you bought merch) went down 2 flights on stairs, down the block of the Irving and halfway down the block around the corner. It took us 2 hours to make it through the line, but Michael and Andrew remembered us, and that was our big question of the day – it had been 6 months, would they remember us? They also were very impressed with the scrapbook that I had done on Shutterfly that is now complete – because I had them sign it 🙂

Over you
Full Moon Crazy
2 rebels
Why didn’t I
Goodnight my love
My own way
Heartless (Kanye Cover)
Nobody has to know
Don’t close the book – with jb
Over you(again)
See u in the dark

Honor Society August 27

Katie August 27, 2008 0 Comments

Because we’re bored, this post comes to you as a conversation…

Lauren: It was a bright and shiny day. I was running a half hour late due to traffic so I texted Katie that I would drive. When I pulled into her driveway at 4 p.m., her mom pulled up next to me, of course, I thought that someone was following me instead! Katie and I jumped in my car (not literally) and were on our way to New Jersey!

Katie: Again! haha.

Lauren: Yes, we head to New Jersey for the second time in a month.

Katie: What should have been an hour and a half ride, ended up being more like 3 hours.

Lauren: That was a redonculus trek. Not only was there traffic, there was an fender-bender caused by the bumper-to-bumper traffic!

Katie: Anywho, despite a little confusion with our trusty TomTom, we made it to Oakes Park with time to spare.

Lauren: And at 7:38 p.m. the gentlemen introduced and walked to the front of the gazebo.

Katie: And what we thought would be a peaceful evening, sitting down and enjoying the show was ruined, when Michael told everyone to stand up, and we could no longer see!

Lauren: Thanks Mike!

Katie: Then you left me when they started to play. 🙁

Lauren: I didn’t leave for long!

Katie: Okay, you’re right…Lauren went to scope out a decent spot for us to move to. We ended up standing on the side of the “stage” for several songs.

Lauren: We were there for pretty much the entire show.

Katie: Oh.. maybe i was distracted.

Lauren: What else is new – anyways, below is the set list:

This Bed is An Ocean
Kiss me Like You Mean It
Why Didn’t I?
No Win Situation
Two Rebels
Unpredictable
Goodnight my Love
Nobody Has To Know
The Takeover
See u In The Dark

Honor Society August 23

Katie August 23, 2008 0 Comments

August 23 Lauren and I had tickets to see John Mayer in Hartford. But one day I was looking at HS’s myspace and was like “They added a date…” So we decided to try and sell the Mayer tickets (which we were successful at the last minute in doing) and head to Long Island (Islip, NY) to see the gentlemen.

Connecticut and Long Island are kind of parallel to each other. But there is no bridge connecting them. There is a ferry but we would have had to take the car with us and it would have gotten pretty expensive. So basically we drove down the coast of Connecticut, into New York and then up parallel through Long Island, kind of sort of back tracking. I kind of wanted to build a bridge. Or invent a flying car. You know, whatever could get us there fastest.

We got there early and decided to try and see the beach. Except, this is Long Island, everything was private. So we didn’t find much of anything… saw some boats though.

Once we parked, we spotted all the guys on their cell phones. It almost looked like they were all talking to each other. Pretty funny. We paid our $10 donation/admission (It was a benefit for Lupus) and found out that Honor Society wouldn’t be going on until 10 pm. As we listened to the other bands and they said their names, we could tell that this concert was running WAY behind schedule.

The guys took the stage about 10:30 and ended their set around 11:30. We thought they might get shut down because of noise ordinances or whatever it is. Here in CT, I think you can’t play past 11. But despite the wait, a great show was performed, as always.

We quickly said goodbye to Andrew and made our parallel backtracking trek home.

The setlist for the evening was:
This Bed Is An Ocean
Kiss Me Like You Mean It
Why Didnt I
No Win Situation
Two Rebels
Nobody Has To Know
See U In The Dark

Honor Society August 15

Katie August 15, 2008 0 Comments

Although Katie graduated from college in 2006 and I graduated from college in 2007, we both decided to go back to school one more time on August 15th. Our teachers were none other than Honor Society. They performed in front of an all ages audience at the School of Rock East in South Hackensack, New Jersey.

The bus — er — car ride to New Jersey was no ordinary car ride. As we were driving into the city, I noticed that the sun was leaving us and we were heading into a storm. I got a little excited while we were driving over the George Washington Bridge because the sky was dark and greenish and there were bolts of lightning. In my eyes, it was gorgeous, so I had to take pictures:

Of course, the entire time we were driving over the bridge I was yelling to Katie “Look at that!,” “Do you see the color in the sky?!,” “It’s not even dark over Manhattan!” Did I mention that Katie was driving?

As soon as we passed over the bridge, the sky opened up. It was raining so hard that everyone reduced their speed by 20 mph. It was insane. We couldn’t even pull over because there wasn’t a shoulder.

When we hit South Hackensack, the rain had let up, but the sky was still dark and dreary-looking. We drove to McDonald’s to make a pit stop and to eat (well, I ate because I was starving). Then we headed to the School of Rock. We sat in the parking lot for awhile and watched as girls began to form a line. It began to rain again and a guy walked out (everyone was actually standing at a secondary door), looked at everyone and asked why they weren’t home, since there was a…… tornado warning!!!!!
That explains why the sky was so green. Anyway, after this guy told the girls that there was a tornado warning, the girls were allowed to go inside through the other door (the real entrance) in School of Rock.
Honor Society was the first band to perform. We got to see the guys set up, do a soundcheck and of course rock out!

The set list for the show was as follows:
This Bed Is An Ocean
Kiss Me Like You Mean It
Why Didn’t I?
No Win Situation
Two Rebels
Nobody Has To Know
The Takeover
See U In The Dark

Honor Society July 10

Katie July 10, 2008 0 Comments

Lauren and I went down to Westport to a teen center to see Honor Society! While the show was in CT we did still have to travel about a half an hour from my house.

We paid our lovely $6 admission (over the weekend it was $12 to see them. love it.) and went in and grabbed a seat.

After the first bands set Micheal came over to us to say hi and that we could go shopping and then come back to see them because they were supposed to be on at 9:30, but it might have been sooner. But we hung around to check out the other bands.

A couple of other bands played (The Suns, Fourth World Nation, The Blue Pages) and then it was time for Honor Society!

For their set, we moved to a table because all the girls went up close so we were taller than them on the stools. They had a ton of technical issues so the guy from Blue Pages was getting everyone to sign up for the Blue Pages email list. He asked if we were from CT and he didn’t believe us when we said yes! I asked if he wanted to check our IDs, and he said “I might!” haha but all the other girls were from NY/NJ and follow the band, he told us. (Little did he know, we do too! It just happened to be that the show was in Connecticut!)

The guys played a short set of:
In This Club (Intro)
This Bed Is An Ocean
Kiss Me Like You Mean It
Why Didn’t I?
No Win Situation
Nobody Has To Know
The Takeover
See U In The Dark

After the show we talked with Jason, Andrew and Alex and got pictures! (We had already gotten pics with Michael earlier) We didn’t know when we’d be seeing them again, but hoped it would be soon!

Honor Society July 5

Katie July 5, 2008 0 Comments

I listened to their EP on Lauren’s iPod on the way to the show and it wasn’t half bad. But I still wasn’t sure if I was even going to count it as a concert – if I did, it would be my 100th show and that was a, well, honor… not for just anyone.

About halfway through the set, I fell in love. This band seemed to be everything I was looking for in that moment. I’m not sure if I even told Lauren “I love them” after the show, but if I didn’t say it out loud, I certainly was thinking it.

Usually I am really good about keeping a setlist (because I am a scrapbooker and need to include them in my layouts), but since I went into this show thinking I was just going to erase it from memory after it was over, I was totally unprepared. They played nearly an hour set though – so I would imagine it was most, if not all, of their songs. Look for setlists from here on out though, especially now since I know the names of most of the songs! ha.

Afterwards, we hung around a bit to try and say hi to the guys. Unfortunately, when it comes to shows in the city we are forced to plan the evening around the trains back home. While we could have taken a train an hour later – it would have put us back in CT really late (or really early, depending on how you look at it) and we decided we just weren’t up for that. But before we left we decided that we would absolutely be going to the show in CT the next week!

And with that… our journey officially began. And my first Honor Society show became my 100th concert ever.