I know this post is almost two months overdue, and I'm extremely sorry for that, but I'm finding it harder to focus on my blog as this school year comes to an end. I've been trying to get as much school stuff as I can, and it seems that music and my blog have taken the back seat to that. I'm taking this part of today to catch up on my writing, so that way I just won't have to keep putting it off and I will be able to stop thinking about how horrible I am for not keeping up with my blog. Enough with explanations, here is my opinion of the GK tour:
Since this is way past due, and the only important part of this is the actual concert and the bands that played, I'm not going to go into all the detail about how I prepared for the concert and the wait in line. I will tell you, though, that the concert was at Slim's, one of my absolute favorite places to see concerts, and I took my friend Vanessa who had been to one other concert with me. We ended up right in front of the stage, (by my friend Carly, who we ran into while waiting in line) with about six or seven twelve year old girls behind us. So, there was a group of annoying girls behind us and they were trying to kill us to get to the stage, but who cares, we could see perfectly!!! The first band to come on was a band called, We Are the In Crowd. My first impression was they were going to be really good, but they ended up coming off as very fake. Tay Jardine, who is the female lead singer, had two different personalities (in a not-crazy-person way). On stage she would say crazy things and cuss up a storm, and it seemed like a very forced personality. Then, after the show Vanessa and I talked her and I couldn't believe how genuinely nice she was. So after that, and meeting a couple other members of the band, I had a completely different opinion of them. I actually really enjoyed their music and performance, but I was just a little put off by their excessive use of bad language.
The next band to perform, and possibly my favorite, was The Downtown Fiction. Like I had said in one of my other posts, I didn't really like The Downtown Fiction very much before I saw them perform live. They were fantastic and pretty much stole the whole show and they were super nice. If you are looking for a really good Alt. pop/rock band I would highly recommend checking out The Downtown Fiction; they're a need-to-know band.
After The Downtown Fiction, was Allstar Weekend. I had no clue who they were, other than the fact they were a Disney Channel band and that Vanessa was in love with them. We actually didn't even know they were part of the tour, but they were surprisingly not that bad. They performed a cover of Bowling for Soup's, "1985," which was fantastic, and the lead singer sang to me a couple times which was fun! They were good performers, and their bass player looked like a slightly less attractive Nick Jonas, which was a plus! All in all, they completely surpassed my expectations.
And, of course, last but certainly not least, was The Ready Set! First of all, Jordan Witzigreuter is one of the most attractive people I have ever seen (second only to the beautiful Brendon Urie)! Now that I've gotten that out of the way, let me tell you what I thought about the actual music and performance. It was definitely an incredible performance, with a light show and everything. Being in front, right in front of the lights, was a little bit painful at times, but still very much worth it. Jordan was amazing; he sang old and new songs, and he did it incredibly well. His music would fall under Alternative, and a bit techno at times which means he uses some auto tuning to make the songs sound all techno-y (wow, I sound professional) so I wasn't sure how he was going sound live. At the concert, there was no auto tune in his voice at all and he sounded even better than he does on the CD; I was insanely impressed and really happy!
After the show was over Vanessa and I met all the bands, except for The Ready Set, as he stayed backstage, and got stuff signed and took pictures with them. All in all, it was a great concert, and a great night. If you ever have the chance to see any of these bands, I would say definitely do it and take me with you!!
