Sacred Ceremony Tour- July 19, 2010

 This is my first concert. It's, again, long. Sorry. I love how I can write a bunch about this but I can't even write a half page for an English essay.
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Oh My Max, the concert was freaking amazing! I had so much fun! I’ll start from the beginning though.

We drove south to Worcester, Massachusetts from Maine, leaving around nine in the morning. Which is wayyy to early for me. About an hour into the ride, I realized I forgot the camera! So after a few hours of reading magazines, talking, and snacking we stopped at a target. We bought two disposable cameras, and a pack of white shirts for the band members to sign.

A couple hours after that quick stop, we arrived at our hotel. We saw little eight year old kids fighting, haha. Our hotel was about two block from the Palladium and we drove passed it and some people flipped us off because they thought we where staring and laughing at them when we weren’t. I was fangirling.

At around 4:30, two hours before the concert, we decided to head down. We did our hair and makeup (including Andy Six’s classic scar). When we got in line we saw a bunch of other band members getting their stuff together, but Kierra and I were both kinda shy to talk to them, so Kierra just tried to get pics of them! We got there two hours early and met these awesome girls! They were our new friends for the night. We hung out with them the whole time. They were really nice too! Their names were Giules and Gianna.  We gave the security gaurds pizza, so they helped us out throughout the nigh, too. Also, Giules’ aunt got buddy buddy with Get Scareds tour manager We got a few connections, now, haha. While waiting, Kierra wrote my name along with her’s on the wall behind us. She added little hearts because everything else on the wall was swears and 4/20, haha. An hour before the concert Kierra and I got pics with the lead singer from MDE and Get Scared. They’re super nice!!

We pre-bought tickets, so we got in easily when the concert started. We still stuck with the girls we had met in line. We had front row, you could say. We ended up being pushed into being next to the speakers so by the end up of the night my ears killed and I couldn’t hear a thing. On top on that, I couldn’t hear any of the songs so it made it hard to sing along. All it was was loud noise. I was still fun.

Get Scared:
They were the first band to play and they are SO good live. One of my favorites. Johnny B, one of the guitarists, decided it would be fun to jump off the balcony at the end of their set. He ended up jumping on top of a bunch of girls who had only shown up because of Andy. My mom was so worried about Johnny that after the show she awkwardly dragged me over to talk to him. He’s super nice and the only reason it was awkward was because I looked horrible. My perfectly straight hair had become something like a troll dolls hair style.

Vampires Everywhere:
At first, I wasn’t too fond of them. I had never really heard of them and wasn’t really into their music when I looked them up, but after seeing them live and meeting them my opinion completely changed. This being my first concert, I really didn’t know what to do with my hands. I reached up for a high-five from the keyboardist and he reached down to hold my hand. It was awkward because when I pulled my hand away after a second he awkward had to play it off, like “yeah..”. Ended up having a killer show and someone ended splitting their forehead open.
Modern Day Escape:
Again, another amazing band live. James Vegas, the vocalist, sounds exactly like Ronnie Radke. It’s great! Shep, the bass player, was wearing the same shirt he wore in the Maybe Holding Hands Wasn’t Such A Good Idea video. He ended up taking it off and Oh My Max does he have a great body.

Black Veil Brides:
At last the moment I had been waiting for at arrived. They came on and immediately I could feel all of the girls push forward trying to get as close as possible to Andy Hello, world, Andy isn’t the only member of BVB and Kierra and I got separated a bit. By the end of their set I was literally sitting on stage with the band in between the amps and my mom said I looked like a little kid in a candy store. It was wonderful. They played songs from the new album that was set to drop the next day, so most song no one knew but for ones that we did know we all shouting in full force.  You haven’t heard a song until you’ve heard it sung by 500+ people. About half way through their set Jinxx pulled out his violin and they played “Mortician’s Daughter”. It was beautiful. Now whenever I listen to the song on my Ipod I think of Andy standing in front of me saying “If you got a cellphone or a lighter pull them out!! I want to see this place light up like a mother fu**in’ Christmas tree” ANDY HELD MY HAND!! During the line “ I love you more than I could ever scream” I’m fangirling over the memory so badly right now it’s almost embarrassing. It was short but the best moment of my life. He also did his sexy infamous half-smile. If I had died right then and there I would have died the happiest I’d ever been in my whole life.

After the show:
Before BVB ended their set, Giana and Kierra ran up with my mom and Giules aunt so we could get first in line for the meet & greet. BVB had us waiting for 20 minutes. My mom made an awkward joke to the people standing in front of us who were looking for their friend named Kaitlyn, too. “Oh, she’s right here!” They looked back and were like “uhh” and I was like “I’m sorry. You know how parents are” I ended up talked to the people in front of up while waited and Giules aunt thought that Kierra and I had known each other since we were little even though we had only known each other for a little over a year at the time.

When BVB finally came out for the signing everyone went crazy. Oh my Max I hugged them and actually talked to them! I got all of the signatures twice plus the members of other bands on a white tshirt I bought. One of the members of VE! thought I was asking him to sign my arm at first and I was like “Why would I want to you sign my arm? That’ll wash off” To give you an example of how nice the bands were. Nick, the vocalist of Get Scared, was sitting in with a group of fans just talked when we left the venue. Outside everyone was just chilling. James Vegas hit on my mom and so did the drummer of VE. To this day I still don’t know about how I’m supposed to feel about that.

Kierra got 11 signatures on to butt of her jeans. It was silly. Two people wouldn’t do it because she’s a minor, but it wasn’t like it was meant in a creepy way. Just a silly way, haha. I got hugs from everyone was confessed my love for Shep cause he’s a bass player. He loves me too, haha. Overall, I got 20+ signatures that night and it was lovely. I got over my shyness and ran right up to the Get Scared van were Lloyd was hanging out and got his signature. I’m pretty sure I got a roadies signature, but I would have felt rude if I didn’t ask everyone else who was in the van to sign the shirt. I mean I don’t know actually who was who because it was dark.

Once we got back to the hotel we tried to go to sleep but that didn’t work. The next morning on the way home we stopped in Portland to pick of the BVB album that had dropped that morning.

*Kierra was grounded because she’s “out of control” because she got the butt of her jeans signed. :/