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Hanson at the Wilmington Flower Market

Katie May 15, 2013 0 Comments

Saturday, Hanson would be returning to the Wilmington Flower Market in Wilmington, DE. I had been planning to go for quite some time but as the date got closer, thunderstorms were in the forecast. I figured I’d give it a go – even though I’d be driving roughly 6+ hours to see maybe a 1 hour set that might end up being canceled due to weather. As time got closer we also found out they’d be doing a meet and greet after the show so I figured I’d still make the trek.

I got there around 3pm and was told by my friend who had been there for a while that Hanson had just arrived as well. When I made it to the stage, they hopped on stage to do a quick soundcheck – what perfect timing! And the weather was beautiful, maybe even a little bit too hot and it looked like the storms had moved on.

Then everything got delayed by about a half an hour moving forward. Me & This Army who were supposed to hit the stage at 4, ended up starting at 4:30. Free Energy were supposed to start at 5, ended up starting around 5:30 and the rain began a little bit into their set. I threw my phone and camera in a plastic bag to try and keep it safe and put on my raincoat. Fortunately, it wasn’t a heavy rain and there was no sign of thunder or lightning.

Before Hanson took the stage, the radio personalities called up a girl and her boyfriend to the stage (this can only mean one thing) he asked her about her Hanson tattoo and she said how a lot of fans had tattoos. Then it was time for her boyfriend to take the mic – and of course – he asked her to marry him. She said yes! And then they got congratulations from Hanson and the radio personality yelled “WHERES THE LOVE?” and so Hanson started their set with Where’s the Love. The setlist was an interesting mix – but seemed to be more focused on songs from 2004. (Interestingly enough, that was when they had last appeared at the Flower Market.) They did a few new songs – I’ve Got Soul, Cut Right Through Me, Get The Girl Back and Fired Up and of course the singles – in addition to Where’s The Love they also did Thinking Bout Something, Penny and Me, This Time Around and of course, MMMBop. And for some extra filler, Been There Before which they had us sing along on and Get Up And Go.

Even though we were getting rained on the show was a lot of fun! Afterwards we got in line for the meet and greet. We knew it would be getting cut off – either when they ran out of photos to sign or when the park closed. The park was supposed to close at 8pm because it would be dark. 8 o’clock came and went and they were still going so we thought we had a chance, but at 8:15 they shut everything down because the park was closing. It was frustrating that it wasn’t more organized and many left without getting to see the guys. They were signing AND doing photos and I think if they just signed things would have moved much quicker and they could have got through more people that way. (And everyone looked like drowned rats anyway so the pictures probably aren’t too glamorous)

We did all end up in Taylor’s photo that was used as the final photo of the photo a day in celebration of their 20th year. The band is now 21 years old! (Taylor also was taking pics of me through a car window which was kind of funny because I am sure I have done that to them many times!)

Overall I am glad I got to go, it was a lot of fun and I got to see some friends I haven’t seen in a while 🙂 (Though more of them were supposed to come and ended up not due to various reasons!) Hanson show #79 was a (soggy) success!

Wheres The Love
Ive Got Soul
Thinking Bout Somethin
Been There Before
Crazy Beautiful
Get Up and Go
Cut Right Through Me
Penny and Me
This Time Around
MMMBop
Get The Girl Back
Fired Up

Concert Hanson

Hanson Tulsa Members Only Event

Katie May 8, 2013 0 Comments

Over the weekend I made my yearly trip to Tulsa, OK for the Hanson Members Only Event weekend. More details on some of the other weekend activities will come in the next few days, but for now I will just focus on the event planning of the weekend – the Members Only Event concert!

Due to the popularity of the event and Hanson’s wanting to keep things a bit more intimate, they did 2 sessions. One at 2pm and one at 7pm. We were in the 7pm session. Typically what happens is we receive our new Members Kit (a yearly EP given out to only fan club members) and then they premiere the songs live. Except this year they have been busy working on their new album ANTHEM and the promotion that comes with that so the EP was not ready – but we found out that we were in for a treat! They would be recording the EP live and each of the 5 songs had a part for us to sing or repeat so that we would all be on the EP too.

They started the concert with 6 songs from the new album, ANTHEM. Most of these I had heard at the iHeartRadio concert last month – but one – Scream and Be Free – we all had stuck in our heads because our friend Erin decided to sing one part of it – over and over and over because it was all she knew. When they started playing it we turned around and laughed at her because – well, maybe that would have helped us get it unstuck from our heads. (No such luck though as I’ve now been humming/singing it for the last 3 days – just the same part over and over lol)

After the album songs they reset the stage and did the 5 songs from the EP and taught us our parts before each song. We had to sing “on and on” for the first song, appropriately titled On and On, with Taylor in response to Zac’s singing the chorus. I don’t remember all of our parts but for Roller Coaster Love Zac and Taylor BOTH played drums (2 drum sets!) and we had to yell “COASTER!” For I think it was Best of Times they told us to sing one part and then once the song started they sang a different word so that threw us off a bit…

After the songs they did a Q&A session and then Isaac said they’d be back to do some more. They ended up singing Sound of Light for a second time – I’m not sure why, I guess they wanted something to sound different. And then they did our FAVORITE – You Can’t Stop Us Now which was a great way to end the night!

Once the show was over we hung out and met up with all our friends and did pictures and then we waited for the guys to come out. We ended up missing a photo with Isaac but got one with Zac and Taylor so I’d say it was overall a successful 78th show 🙂

Fired Up
I’ve Got Soul
Cut Right Through Me
Scream And Be Free
Get The Girl Back
Already Home
On and On
Call Out My Name
Roller Coaster Love
Best Of Times
Sound Of Light
Sound Of Light
You Can’t Stop Us Now

American Idol Concert Kris Allen

Kris Allen at the Wolf’s Den

Katie April 29, 2013 0 Comments

Saturday night, Kris Allen was set to play the Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den. We got there around 6pm and there was quite a line already, so we jumped right in. I was nervous that we wouldn’t make it in to the Wolf’s Den, but it turned out that we made it in and were the first set of tables around the upper level so we would have had plenty of time to still make it inside. I think we had a great spot though, very close to the stage, considering.

At 8pm the show started with Jillette Johnson, who has now become the first opener I have ever seen in the Wolf’s Den! She did about a half an hour set – very similar to the last 2 times I had seen her (once with Kris and once with Honor Society). At 9pm Kris came out for his set.

Since it is the Out Alive tour, he off course started off the set with Out Alive. The set was a bit shaken up from the last time I saw him in January – we got 2 new songs one he had done the last couple times I have seen him – it still has no name (so my setlist book is sad) but he has said the working title is “Paul Simon” and he liked to play it to the different crowds to get a reaction. He did a call and response portion and then teased us because we did back all the crazy stuff he asked of us – but then thanked us for doing so because we didn’t make him look like an idiot. The other new song was called “Unique” about liking a crazy girl lol and he dedicated it to a couple in the audience.

He didn’t have time to do a request song (and last time he did a song for Newtown so I have now missed out on making a request both times!) but instead did one he thought we would enjoy which was an Everybody Wants To Rule the World / The Way You Make Me Feel mashup.

During one of the songs he kind of went off on a tangent and was singing about how we are all going to win a lot of money tonight, but maybe not and to not take his word for it and that we probably wouldn’t win… and then he stepped away to play just the guitar for a while but was cracking himself up. When he went back up to the mic to sing more he was still laughing and had to just play until he could calm down again. Too funny.

He also was joined by “not the one and not the only” Kris Allen – who plays the saxophone for a few songs. He said that when he had a myspace, he would always search for himself but instead found ANOTHER Kris Allen who played sax. He lives in the area so he finally got to meet him and invited him on stage to play during I think it was Rooftops. That was pretty neat for there to be TWO Kris Allen’s on stage at once! And Kris was definitely a great sax player as well.

For the encore, he came out by himself and said that Reba (who was performing at the arena Saturday night) was the first concert he went to when he was 7 years old and he wore a silk shirt and cowboy boots and a cowboy hat. He also told us how a few years ago he got the chance to meet Reba and was trying to figure out what to say to her – and decided he’d tell her that she was his first concert. Instead, all that came out was “I love you”. So in honor of us not being at the Reba show and instead seeing him – he did one of her songs. Or, part of it. He didn’t seem to remember all the words and stopped after a minute or so to go into an Idol Medley. The medley was Falling Slowly (I gasped when he started it. LOVE him singing this song!), Heartless and Ain’t No Sunshine. The band joined him back on stage and then he did Shut That Door to close out the night.

He is just so, so good and I have been spoiled with him seeming to come to Connecticut every few months. I hope he keeps it up! He also mentioned that he is ready for his 3rd album so I hope that all gets underway soon as well 🙂

Out Alive
Better With You
Alright with Me
Vision of Love
Before We Come Undone
Faith / We Are Young
New Song (Paul Simon)
Leave You Alone
Everybody Wants To Rule the World / The Way You Make Me Feel
Monster
Unique
My Weakness
Rooftops
Live Like We’re Dying

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Reba song – Fancy
Falling Slowly / Heartless / Ain’t No Sunshine
Shut That Door

Concert Locksley

Locksley at the Wolf’s Den

Katie April 21, 2013 0 Comments

Friday night, Locksley was set to play their first show of the year at the Wolf’s Den at Mohegan Sun. I hadn’t seen them in several years (after seeing them multiple times on the Hanson tour as well as opening up for Taylor’s side project Tinted Windows) and I had no idea what their fanbase in Connecticut was. I also thought with it being a Friday night, the casino might be packed. But I was wrong. One of the waitresses said that due to the stuff going on in Boston, the whole casino was a bit slower that day.

When I arrived, hardly anyone was seated and no one was in line. I was asked if I wanted to be up close and was given a front row, center seat. The closest I had ever been at the Wolf’s Den. When the show started about an hour later, there was really only a handful of people there, but a crowd did gather around the outer perimeter here and there.

Since it had been so long since I had seen them last, there were a bunch of new songs that I didn’t recognize. And the ones I did recognize, they seemed to totally re-work! Overall though it was a really enjoyable show, though I wish that more people were there to witness it! They said that some of the new songs they had never done before and may never do again.

They played for about an hour and a half, and after the show I was able to get a setlist from the guy clearing the stage (good thing too because I had no idea any of these songs names!)

Open Up Your Arms
I’m So Glad
All Over Again
Rodeo
Black Ajax
A Ray
Sophie
Vilas Beach
Someone Our There
My Bones
Don’t Make Me Wait
Darling, It’s True
Touch & Go
Days of Youth
Lonely World
21st Century
Long Night In Heaven
She Does
The Whip
Away From Here
Let It Ride
New Sensation
Jealousy
On Fire
Nothing

Concert Hanson

Hanson at iHeartRadio Theater

Katie April 14, 2013 1 Comments

Last week, Hanson had announced they would be doing a private show in New York City for about 200 people and the only way to get in was to WIN. I knew that I had to find every contest that there was out there to enter, but it turned out that ClearChannel reached out to ME because I run a Hanson site (www.hansonstage.com) and asked if I would like to attend! Of course, I said yes.

The show was set to kick off at 7pm and stream live on iHeartRadio’s website. We got there a little before 6 and shortly after were let inside. Over the loud speakers they were playing Hanson’s new album – ANTHEM – which will not be out until June! As much as I wanted to pay attention to all of the songs, the place was loud and it wasn’t that easy to actually enjoy the album in it’s entirety but from what I did hear, it is going to be their best album yet.

Z100’s Eric America introduced the band and shortly after there were Isaac, Taylor and Zac on stage – in suits! They never have really “matched” on stage before and they looked sharp! I’m not sure if this is going to make its way to the tour though because Taylor was absolutely dripping in sweat and even commented that this is why he never wears suits on stage. They did a set of 11 songs, 6 of which were new songs from ANTHEM (although only 2 were new to me because they did premiere a couple for us in Jamaica in January.)

They kicked off the concert with the new song “Fired Up” and I think it was a great start to the show, even though most of us didn’t know all the words yet. (I say yet because they did a live stream a couple of nights ago where they performed the song, so we weren’t all completely unaware of it.) The second song was I’ve Got Soul which was new for everyone, I don’t remember anything specifically about it – but it was good. Then they did the new single, Get The Girl Back and Taylor made a comment about how we know it now. (Get The Girl Back is available on iTunes for $1.29 – which includes the song AND the video which features cameos by Nikki Reed, Kat Dennings, Drew Seeley and Drake Bell…)

Get The Girl Back had been stuck in my head since the video premiered and this performance did nothing to help that as I cannot stop singing the “it’s about tiiiiime…” part, constantly. The next new song they did was Cut Right Through Me which they premiered acoustically on AXS Live earlier in the week. (They were on TV or streaming almost every day last week and it was far too much for me to keep up with – but I do have it all on my DVR waiting for me to find some down time!)

Then they went through a few of their older songs – starting with Penny and Me, Thinking Bout Somethin, Give a Little, If Only and MMMBop. The band is now 21 years old and MMMBop was released 16 years ago!

They ended the night with 2 more new songs – You Can’t Stop Us Now – which was our favorite in Jamaica and still our favorite after hearing it again and ended the night with Already Home which was a great song to end the night with and everyone who watched the stream has been raving about it online!

iHeartRadio will be posting some highlights from the show some time soon at http://www.iheartradio.com/hanson so keep an eye out for that! The ANTHEM World Tour kicks off June 17 in New York City and will be hitting up South America and then North America so be sure to check out the dates for that (I have a link to them in my sidebar!) and ANTHEM will be released on June 18th in the US and you can preorder it in a number of different packages on Hanson.net

Concert Honor Society

Honor Society – Serendipity the Tour

Katie March 31, 2013 0 Comments

Friday night, Honor Society played a free show at iPlay Live in Freehold, NJ. I had never been there before, but my friend Kim lives nearby so we decided we’d pick up some VIP tickets and check it out. VIP entitled us to early entry, a photo with the band, a poster and a 4hour play card for iPlay’s rides. The guys had been promoting a Serendipity poster, so when we got there and we got a different 11×17 poster from the box office, I was bit bummed because I LOVE the Serendipity tour artwork!

We were let in and watching some of what I guess was considered soundcheck. They played a couple of songs that they intended to play, attempted a couple of songs that they couldn’t remember how to play… and even sang the new remix of Happy Birthday – Happy HALF Birthday.

After the performance / Q&A / whatever… we all lined up to say hi to the guys and get solo pics with them. I had been stressing over who to stand near now that there was only 3 of them – but Andy pulled me between him and Mike so that pretty much solved that issue! 🙂 Then we found out that we’d ALSO get the poster that I had wanted – Andy said they didn’t know anything about the ones that the venue had done up and that he had wanted one. After the group pics the guys mingled and signed the posters so I told Andy to go to the Box Office and tell them he was in the band and that he wanted the poster and he said “PLEASE” lmao because I had left that out of my instructions. Such manners. Kim had been talking to Alex on Twitter about going to White Castle after the show and when I said I had never been, he gave me a history of the burgers and how they are square and have wholes in them because of WWII.

Then it was time for everyone else to be let in and shortly after that This Is All Now took the stage. I remember not liking them in Boston last summer, but they were not as bad as I remembered (and re-reading my old reviews, I came to the conclusion he was sick in Boston so I should probably stop basing my opinion of them off of that performance!) They did a cover of Michelle Branch’s “Everywhere” which I thought was really weird. But pretty cool too – I mean, I’d prefer that over a Katy Perry or Ke$ha or whoever else.

Next up was Deleasa – who is Kevin Jonas’ brother in law. He hurt his foot playing soccer while on tour opening for the Jonas Brothers recently, so he sat for his set and played some songs on his guitars. The crowd seemed to love him. There were some girls in the back with light up “WELCOME HOME” signs too. I only caught the tail end of his set when he opened for Nick Jonas and the Administration, so it was nice to see a full set from him. He was really funny chatting with the crowd throughout his set.

Then it was time for Simple as Surgery. They had two guys on stage in masks with signs trying to get us hyped up. Kind of weird. I actually really liked SAS to the point where I considered making my way over to their merch table to pick up an EP but ultimately was too lazy. They had a keytar which was awesome, I mean, can a keytar be anything other than awesome?

Then it was time for Honor Society! Since the last time I had seen them, Jay has left the band. Their set up on the stage was a little bit different and I have to say there were a couple of times where I really felt Jay’s absence but over all they sounded just as great as ever and while it will be weird without Jay, I’ll eventually get used to it and hopefully his new project does well. (The Smoke Season – check them out.)

The show was a ton of fun (I expected nothing less) and I think I went a little over the top singing along at the top of my lungs (and for the last song Mike asked if we did know the words to sing along at the top of our lungs. Obviously that challenge was accepted by my very early on) They added a little Timberlake to the 99 Problems / Nobody Has to Know mashup. They did a variety of songs, some of which I hadn’t heard in a while (Gentleman After Dark) and then of course ones I’ve heard probably every show like See U In The Dark 🙂

After the show we got solo pics w/ all 3 and I was prepared this time when Alex didn’t have a sharpie and he was impressed! I told him how last time he asked me I didn’t have one and that I’d gone out and bought a pack the next day so I’d be prepared for the next time lol. (Shortly after he was brought one from the merch table so I got mine back)

The venue was in an arcade which was open until midnight, so we checked the place out a bit and hopefully when the guys come back it’ll be a Saturday so we can have the day to play around before the show!

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P!nk Truth About Love Tour

Katie March 30, 2013 0 Comments

Wednesday night P!nk brought her Truth About Love tour to the arena at Mohegan Sun. Tickets were almost impossible to get for this show – I wanted to get my mom tickets for her birthday and I ended up getting 2 tickets in the same row but 4 seats separating us. We probably could have asked everyone to scoot over one way or the other, but didn’t bother asking so we weren’t together except for between the opener and the main event when I sat in an open seat until it was claimed.

I hadn’t seen P!nk live since 2002, when I had 2nd row so the fact that she was now selling out an arena was pretty neat. (And I’m not sure she’s been back to CT since 2002, but I may be wrong) Before that I had seen her open up twice for NSYNC on the No Strings Attached tour and it was kind of funny because that tour kind of revolved over the whole free puppets theme, and the opening act for this tour was The Hives who had a backdrop of a puppeteer. It was kind of like the No Strings Attached tour backwards – started with puppets and ended with P!nk when the other tour started with P!nk and ended with puppets. (I just needed to mention some NSYNC in this review. I miss them.)

Back to The Hives – honestly I was not impressed with them in the slightest. I am hoping it was all just an act – but they seemed really full of themselves. The lead singer also had a mic on a huge wire that he would drag all around the stage and down the catwalk. He would swing it around too, which is why I guess he opted to do that instead of using a wireless mic. But then they had this guy dressed in all black (even wearing a ski mask) acting like a “ninja” to try and hold the wire without having us see him. (We saw him.) And the guitarist was also wired and was walking around and had to have a guy holding his wires up so it wouldn’t knock all the crowd in the GA Pit in the head. Very strange. (Although I guess it gave those 2 ninja dudes a job.) The lead singer also wanted everyone in the GA area to “sit” (or squat) and then “pop up” at a certain point in the song. He took what seemed like 20 minutes to yell at people to sit. One woman gave him the finger so he said “F*** you too lady” back to her. And said P!nk wouldn’t be coming out until everyone was sitting. (Dude, if people don’t want to do it, move on with the few who do.) The best (or worst) part of this whole thing was that when he finally had everyone “explode” the LIGHTS WERE OFF. It might have looked cool – if we could have actually seen it. He also took a girls phone and was recording video but when he realized it wasn’t, he did it all over again. Their set just seemed to drag on and on.

Then this guy… that I can’t really describe, walked through the crowd and was teasing people in the seats. He was up on the screens so we figured it was all part of the show. Then he ended up on stage and was introing the night. He said “for the next 2 hours” – oh man, it was going to be a late night since it was nearing 9pm (or maybe it was 9 by then I don’t know). Then a video of him singing the truth about love – as triplets – came up on the screen. Very weird.

Finally the curtain dropped and it was time for the show to begin! This was seriously one of the best shows I have EVER been to. Pink came out from the stage and was hanging from cords, and sang Raise Your Glass. The show was so amazing with all the dancing and stunts and acrobatics it was like cirque de soleil (Maybe. Ive never actually seen one of their shows except for one little bit when we went to see America’s Got Talent) And the best part of all was that she was singing LIVE the whole time. In the beginning, she couldn’t hear and was asking for help with her in-ears and joked about how next time if she lip syncs the show she won’t have that problem. And you could totally hear her breathing while singing during one of the songs (which my History of Rock professor in college said is the way to tell if they are really singing!). When she went out to the end of the catwalk with just her guitarist for Who Knew (I think this was the song) she said that she couldn’t hear the guitar so she didn’t know what key to sing in, so she asked for us to sing with her without the music so then she knew she would be in the right key and just busted out the rest of the song acapella with the crowd backing her. She also made a comment that she had never had so many sound problems, ever and apologized. She talked a bit about how she changed Perect to have FBombs because people said it was too much of a mom song which she liked because being a mom is the best thing she’s done, but it’s also a diss. She said it got to the point where she couldn’t be saying swears when she knew there’d be little kids there. (I noticed she kind of censored herself during some of the other songs too by holding the mic away a bit on the bad words!)

I have to say that I think that the best performance was of Sober – “I’m safe, up high” was taken a bit literally when she went in to an egg shaped cage which was raised above the stage and then she got out and walked around it, at points she was joined by her 3 male dancers and 2 female and they did all sorts of stunts and tricks on this egg – all while Pink was STILL SINGING. It was amazing and see if you can find it on youtube. (I didn’t take any videos because most of the time I was just sitting there in complete awe of everything that was going on)

When she was doing the medley of her older songs (which I still managed to know every word to) she stopped because her pants were coming apart and yelled I DID IT AGAIN and then tried to fix them while everything else was still going on around her with the dancing.

The finale was also absolutely amazing! Pink came out with a ring around her waist and her dancers hooked her up to 4 wires and then she flew and bounced alllll the way to the back and the sides. It was amazing. Again – all while still singing. There were also a couple of poles in the back that she stood on and even did a handstand on.

Seriously, so blown away and it will be a while (if ever) that I think anyone can ever top that performance. I know she just added a second leg – so if she is coming anywhere remotely near you – you absolutely must go!

Raise Your Glass
Walk of Shame
Just Like a Pill
U + UR Hand
Leave Me Alone
Try
Wicked Games
Just Give Me A Reason
Trouble
Are We All We Are
How Come You’re Not Here
Sober
Who Knew
Perfect
Most Girls / There You Go / You Make Me Sick
Slut Like You
Blow Me One Last Kiss
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So What
Glitter in the Air

Concert Meet and Greet Photos

Tyrone Wells at Stage One

Katie March 23, 2013 0 Comments

Thursday night Tyrone Wells returned to my favorite venue – StageOne Fairfield Theater. I had opted to purchase a VIP ticket package through Tyrone’s website, so we were let in about 30 minutes before doors and treated to a private 2 song performance from Tyrone of songs that he wouldn’t be doing during his set that night. There were 10 of us there and it was a really neat experience. We also got a gift bag which included an 8×10 (that Tyrone signed for all of us!) and a pick card. We also got a photo w/ him without having to wait in the M&G line after the show. Definitely worth it and really cool. (And Tyrone said he liked my bag!)

Then it was time for the show! Brett Young opened up the night with a short set. I really loved his voice! Actually, all of the voices at this show were phenomenal. Next up was Brendan James who felt like he was home being originally from New Hampshire. (Where Brett was from California and not digging on our not so Spring weather!) Brendan mentioned how he had traveled through Newtown on his way to the show and ended up singing a song that he didn’t think he originally was going to which seemed to have been inspired a bit by the December events there. I really enjoyed both of the openers, like I had said – great, great voices the whole night through!

Tyrone hit the stage at about 9pm and did a set of 14 songs and an encore. He was great, though I was a little bit disappointed that he did not yodel this time! He also did a great diva mashup consisting of Adele, Beyonce and a little bit of Taylor Swift. (And maybe some others I’m forgetting!) I don’t know, there’s something about Tyrone singing “I knew you were trouble” that actually makes the song bearable! When the band left for a few songs, Tyrone took a seat and talked a bit about the ankle surgery that he had earlier in the year. He mentioned how he needed cartilage in his ankle and that he had to get it from a cadaver. He talked a bit about an article he read where a man had received a woman’s heart and he went out and heard a song and started crying and had no idea why. Then it happened again and he was able to figure out that the song was Sade. His family went to the donor’s family and asked if the donor had any sort of connection to Sade and they said that she had gone to all of her concerts. He said he was impressed how music can stay with your heart like that and mentioned how if we unfortunately died but our hearts were given to someone else, that he hoped they’d cry when they heard his songs! He also spoke a bit about how they’ve been on the tour for a month and he’d already been involved with 7 or 8 proposals and how some how he had become the proposal guy and told a bit about a proposal he was involved in earlier in the tour before playing his song Seabreeze – which is apparently a lot of couples favorite song!

It was a great night and Tyrone’s new cd “This Love” came out recently so you should check it out if you get the chance!

Sink or Swim
Need
Head over Heels / Just a Friend
Running Around In My Dreams
For Who I Am
Happy As The Sun
All You Gotta Do Is Dream
Freedom
Baby Don’t You Change
Diva Mashup
A Beautiful Place To Be
Seabreeze
More
When All Is Said and Done

Remain

Action Item Concert

Macy’s 2013 Prom Fashion Show

Katie March 17, 2013 0 Comments

Yesterday afternoon we hit up the Macy’s at West Farms mall for their 2013 Prom fashion show. No, I haven’t gone back to high school, Action Item was going to be performing at the event. (Makes sense now, right? My prom was 11 years ago!)

We waited in line to make sure that we could get good seats for the fashion show and the performance. Our “good seats” ended up second row but right next to the underwear! The fashion show was hosted by Mandi Line, who is the stylist for my (current) favorite TV show – Pretty Little Liars! She was really cool and fun and some of the dresses and shoes she would mention would be something she could see Spencer wearing which put a nice touch on everything.

Then it was time for Action Item. They did 3 songs – Brave, Marching Band and Bad For You. During the last song the models came back out to the runway to show off the dresses on last time.

After their set, Mandi was doing a shopping spree with a lucky winner and hanging around for photos. We opted to just get in line for the Action Item signing, which went pretty quickly. It was nice to see all the guys again, even if it was really weird for them to be at Christine’s mall – which we go to every now and then (well, Christine is there much more often.) Although, it would be cooler if the next time there was a show at the mall it was at MY mall 5 minutes from my house. 😉

Concert Maroon 5 Photos

Maroon 5 Overexposed Tour

Katie February 24, 2013 0 Comments

Friday night Maroon 5 brought their Overexposed tour to the Mohegan Sun Arena. I had been owed tickets through the fan club due to a mix up with a contest I won last year so I had no idea where our seats would be until we picked them up and was excited to see they were 2nd row! The stage set up was an M and there was a general admission pit up by it. Those in the pit were split with different colored wristbands which allowed them to stand either on the left side or the right side of the point of the M. There was also a walkway about 4 seats away from us and then another stage further in the back. For a while I was convinced Adam was going to walk right by us, I was almost right… but I’ll explain more later (and if you’re going to a show and don’t want to be spoiled, you may not want to read that part.)

The first opening act was Owl City and they (he?) played from 8-8:30 I really wasn’t that impressed with his set and there were also a TON of strobe lights used during the set so I had my head down and eyes closed for a good majority of it because the flashing was bothering me.

Next up was Neon Trees who I was excited to see. Unfortunately it was difficult to get any photos because I didn’t want to stand up and the couple in front of me seemed to be like a brick wall with arms that they waved in the air like they just didn’t care and cameras up in the air recording pretty much everything, ever. (I’m not against taking videos but when you record nearly the WHOLE SHOW… you should maybe take time and enjoy the moment you are actually in.) Neon Trees played from 9-9:30 and I enjoyed their set much more.

At 10pm it was time for the main event – Maroon 5! There was a big screen set up and it played videos on it, but most of it I couldn’t make out. You heard someone dialing a phone and a sorry the number cannot be completed as dialed recording, so of course the first song they did was Payphone. The set was a 90 minute set and was high energy for nearly the entire show. They did quite a mix of songs from all the albums – almost an equal amount from each of the albums (by my count/memory). I also thought that Adam did a great job dividing his time on the sides of the Ms – obviously he was in the middle the most (which is what we were closest too) but I never had a feeling that he was neglecting to our right in order to be on the far left which I sometimes get at shows.

When Adam introduced the rest of the band, he grabbed the camera and was taking shots of the audience and then zoomed in waaaay in the back and said thanks to modern technology they were not very far away. His camera work pretty much made me sea-sick (and he even admitted he was not very good at it!) but he took the camera around to get close ups of the rest of the band when he introduced each of them, which was pretty funny.

For 2 of the songs (Wake Up Call and Moves Like Jagger) the band was joined by Rozzi Crane (www.rozzicrane.com). She was really good on the duets and also did great at getting the crowd to participate with some ‘yeah yeah yeah’ sing a longs.

Here is the encore details and if you don’t want to be spoiled stop reading right now! After 13 songs, the lights went out and I noticed there was a lot more security coming to the walk way that I thought Adam would be going down. I knew something was going to be happening soon. It turns out, there was a huge bridge up at the ceiling that came down from the sky and for the encore Adam walked across it (and sometimes sang on it) and made the 60th row the 1st row. He did 3 songs of the encore back there / on the bridge – Stereo Hearts, She Will Be Loved (when we got split in to groups to sing – it sounded awesome and I always love doing stuff like that) and Daylight. Then he came back to the main stage for Moves Like Jagger. The rest of the band was on the main stage but Jimmy V did join him for a little bit out on the end stage.

I have been going to Maroon 5 shows for 10 years now (it is CRAZY to think about that) the first time that I saw them was opening up for John Mayer in late 2002. No one really knew who John was and even less people knew who Maroon 5 was. I immediately fell in love and have seen them several more times through the years since then. (I think I’ve missed a couple of their tours). It is amazing to see how they have evolved through the years to now be this HUGE super star band. The show was absolutely amazing and the best part was at the end – Adam said they would be back in the summer! I can’t wait!

Payphone
Makes Me Wonder
Lucky Strike
Sunday Morning
If I Never See Your Face Again
Wipe Your Eyes
Won’t Go Home Without You
Love Somebody
Harder To Breathe
Wake Up Call
One More Night
Misery
This Love

Stereo Hearts
She Will Be Loved
Daylight
Moves Like Jagger