I guess this is a good place to write about seeing AFI in Birmingham last Thursday before I forget every detail of it. I didn't even think I was going to write an extensive post regarding it, but this show was so amazing and it really made me fall in love with AFI again. 

So, Wednesday night I stayed the night with my friend Casey and his boyfriend who lives in Trusseville which is like fifteen minutes from Birmingham so that was kinda perfect. I got a total of 3 hours of sleep, wouldn't say it was because I was excited.. More just I've been going to bed around one every night and having to get up at four was kinda terrible, but wasn't as hard to get up knowing I would be seeing AFI that night.

Got up and started getting ready feeling hella nauseous as ever. I have anxiety issues or something. Of course I'm also in a panic because I just knew Casey wasn't going to get up in time, but he did. Although getting on facebook at 4:30 and seeing that people are already in line definitely sent me into a rage of  "oh my god if you do not hurry up I will probably explode". 

Got to the venue around 5, and there were 8 people already there! I was shocked but then again not really? Is getting to the venue this early just a southeastern thing or??? I'd really like to know. Everyone in line are always super cool, we developed a number system so we wouldn't have to stay in a complete line the whole time. This was mostly for like the first 20 people, after that you were kinda on your own. 

When I saw them the last time in Nashville I saw the band walking around all over the place, but I didn't see them once this time. So nothing too exciting for the line other than hearing people whisper about "Jessi Slaughter". Yeah I didn't expect to see her at this show, but I am not going to discuss that anymore than this. 

I feel like I am everywhere with this post but I'm just gonna go with it. 

OKAY SO the tickets for this show went on sale like four months ago and the despair faction had a presale. Of course I was waiting on that presale because cool df perks RIGHT? Well no, actually this ended up costing me too much money because the only option was will call. The venue would not do anything about this other than sell us a hard ticket. Which I bought because I was not about to stand in a completely different line while some asshole fumbles through some papers looking for my name while the whole ticket line runs in. Like I don't get in line at 5 am to not be on the barricade. So yeah THANKS DF.

I had a headache before doors so I took a mystery pill from some afi fan that I can't remember the name of and I didn't even think twice about it you know. Basically you go to afi shows and forget everything you learned about strangers in elementary school. 

I guess I could talk about the actual show now. SO the opener !!!!!! Nostalghia!!!! at first I was like what is going on!!! then i was like she is so magical!!! then see came over to my side and looked me dead in the eye and i had a moment of fear because how can such an angel even be that close to me??? THEY WERE GREAT.  Sunshiny Milk is such a jam please listen to it!

AFI... oh where do I even begin? They opened with The Leaving Song pt. II and that just sets the energy for the entire set. That was the first AFI song I ever heard and I love it so much. I wish I could go into detail with everything funny that happened. Davey apparently forgot the words to File 13 and threw the mic to some dudes, then he jerked it back really fast. I don't know. It was stinkin cute though. 

I just want to brag about the setlist. I mean we got some GREAT songs. Veronica Sawyer Smokes was great. I can't remember if I've seen it before though. 

Oh my main brag guys.. after they came back for an encore they dedicated Greater Than 84 to Nostalghia. THEN! THEN! Davey was like "What do you guys want us to play off Burials??!! We know how to play a few of those." this was a magical moment because I was practically screeching "A DEEP SLOW PANIC" and I think he pointed at someone and they requested it and they played it. It was beautiful, (also did you know that i'm in that video A LOT) Davey then asked us if we wanted to hear The Conductor LIKE OF COURSE. and then he was like WELL WE'RE GONNA PLAY IT. also BEAUTIFUL. They ended with Silver and Cold and I was in disbelief that it was over. I mean it just went by so fast!

I got a picture with Adam after the show but I'm not going to post it anywhere because I look awful. I sat in ants shortly before this. Then the venue staff forced us to leave which was very rude but whatever. Probably a good thing they didn't come out for reasons I won't discuss.

Everything I write just become embarrassing to me immediately, but I know in a few years I'd like to read this again and be like oH YEAH that happened. I love how I started out really trying to be proper and it just ended in lots of caps and exclamation marks. 

please don't steal my shitty iphone photos.. i mean i'm really good at editing but if you have vscocam & afterlight i can't really see how you can't be

Bright Eyes in Birmingham

So Friday morning we left around 11:00 am to get to the venue. We probably got there around 12. There was only one other person in line, which I ended up making friends with.

Bright Eyes's tour bus was right next to venue, so we were watching them walk in and out of it. I probably could have met them during that but I have this weird thing about bothering people. If they wanted to talk to us they would have came up to the line, and there wasn't but four of us so. Conor walked out and I think my heart skipped a beat. I just kinda stared at him as he walked by.

The people who worked the venue were SUPER GREAT. One of the guys that worked there asked us if we wanted anything to drink and brought us some free water and soda.

We lined up inside the venue at about 6 PM and waited in that line for an hour. Of course we had some people thinking they were going to jump in front of the line, but the awesome venue staff didn't allow that. I was facing the door and it started to open AND IT WAS NATE. He peeked out the door and quickly shut it. I laughed so hard. I don't remember what time it was when we got down to the stage, but it seemed like forever until The Great Book Of John came on. I couldn't understand anything the lead singer said. So I can't really say how I feel about them.

Then after they played forever, First Aid Kit came on. THEY ARE GREAT AND ADORABLE. I really enjoyed them despite my back and feet hurting so bad. They're from Sweden and they said Bright Eyes is their favorite band and they're so happy to tour with them.

Bright Eyes came on finally, They opened with Another Travelin' Song, followed by Old Soul Song. I was so excited. At one point Conor stepped down on whatever was in front of the barricade, and see okay, this barricade was the worst barricade EVER. Last time I checked, barricades aren't supposed to move, cause ya know that's kinda the point of a barricade... WELL they had moved it back after First Aid Kit's set and by the time Conor had stepped down on that thing, it was already pushed back up. AND MY CAMERA WAS BETWEEN THE BARRICADE AND THE THINGS CONOR WAS STANDING ON. I was about to cry, I didn't think I was going to get it out before it got squished, BUT I DID! Let's just say I didn't put it back down there again. Before that happened I held Conor's hand and it was lovely, although his hands were a bit sweaty, it was still awesome.

This is probably going to be all scattered around because I can't really remember the order of the awesome stuff that happened. They started playing Shell Games at one point, Conor was on the keyboard thing, and he started the song over and over, I'm pretty sure I heard "Took the fireworks and the vanity" at least 10 times.

They played Lua with First Aid Kit and it was so amazing.

Conor talked about the immigration law that's trying to be passed here in Alabama, everything he said I agreed with 100%. He said they don't play in Arizona because of the law they have up there, and he was a hypocrite for playing in AL, because this law was even worse than the one in AZ. He made so many good points and I'm just like WOW CONOR I JUST LOVE YOU.

They played Cartoon Blues and that's like one of my favorite songs, when Conor sings and he does hand motions and stuff that go along with the song like this picture "You start to smell that human smell"

He was also spitting everywhere, which was gross, and since i was front and center it got on me... He has acid spit. Literally, I'm not joking.

The last song they played was One For Me, One For You and he held my hand again and it was magical. He also slapped my hand which wasn't magical, I just was like the pokerface meme, and then the okay meme. He also crowd surfed, he did this the first time directly over my head. I just saw his body coming for my head and I ducked, I wasn't even tryin, thankfully there was this guy behind me, so.

SETLIST

Another Travelin' Song

Old Soul Song

Four Winds

Bowl Of Oranges

Take It Easy ( Love Nothing)

Jejune Stars

Shell Games

Approximate Sunlight 

Arc Of Time

Triple Spiral

If The Brakeman Turns My Way

Cartoon Blues

Poison Oak

I Believe In Symmetry

The Calendar Hung Itself

Ladder Song

One For Me, One For You