So last night was pretty eventful, went for My Chemical Romance's concert. Haven't been to a rock gig since what, Linkin Park 4 years ago? Well My Chemical Romance isn't exactly the band of my dreams to watch, but just for the heck of it rite its still rock gig with crazy people jumping about, or so I thought it would be.
Got there one and half hour early , there was already quite a horde of Mcr deranged kids there, whats the best part? It was raining , or rather it was drizzling, truthfully the scene looked alot more like a pasar malam then anything, there was stores all over selling drinks and food like burgers and fishballs on sticks, and pirated Tees, stickers, posters. The most annoying part is that there was like a celcom booth there and they thought it was cool to play Mcr songs real loud there, NO IT'S NOT! Dumb asses, i heard the songs so many times during the hour wait I was already almost sick of Mcr before the gig even started, whats better when they weren't playing Mcr songs? They played Simple Plan! and Good Charlotte brilliant guys totally professional I bet Mcr would have appreciated that. So after an hour of standing around being bombarded with looped Mcr songs we were finally let in to the stadium. Whats funny was that the opening act One Buck Short played right away, we were the first few ones in and they were already playing even before the stadium was barely filled up, and it was filling at a pretty slow rate, even after One Buck Short finished their act the place was just barely half filled.
One Buck Short was pretty good live, then Pop Shuvit played next which amazingly actually sounds better live then when I've heard them on radio they bring a lot of energy live, loud and hard hitting bass and fast tempo the only downer was that the crowd wasn't behind them enough and their songs were a lil draggy looping same melodies over too many times that gets tired fast, but pretty good over all their dj works were pretty cool mixed everything pretty well very Lp if you like really in many ways they are like Lp only without the screaming but if you listened to Lp lately there aren't much from them either.
By the time Pop Shuvit finished the placed was fairly filled up , oh i forgot to mention that it was pretty disappointing the moment i got in cause i can see that they only barricaded one section of the field for the show unlike when Lp came where the whole field was used, so i already knew the crowd wasnt goin to be nearly as big, if you went for the Lp one then it was about 1/3 of what Lp's crowd was like. So after pop shuvit finished the mood was pretty much set as was the sun, you could see all the exited teenage girl's faces , all of them screamed like mad every time the crew members step out to set up the equipments it was pretty laughable cause they got so many false alarms i think half of them lost their voice even before the gig started scream every time they see a crew member scream for every light test scream for every sound check, eventually it took Mcr like 45 mins to come out all the while playing us what sounds like what would be Gerrard's Ipod's songs, from The Strokes to Smashing Pumpkins and Greenday, at least it's a lot better then looping Mcr songs when we're just about to hear it anyways .
I'm not a Mcr fan so pardon me when i say i dint know half the songs they played, what was funny was Gerrard after playing the opening song goin " I'm sorry that My Chemical Romance couldn't make it tonight but you can call use the American Sex Boys if you like" all and all the performance was pretty good they sound the same live as they sound on record which is good but it's just the nature of their song it just not that energetic, once again i'll refer to Lp's gig, people only went really crazy on thier last song Famous Last Words wheres people went that crazy on Lp's opening song thats how much the night contrasted comparing to Lp's gig. All and all it was pretty fun to watch Gerrard live he's very very animated and is very dramatic with lots of gestures and facial expression (in case you're wondering we can see his face on the big screen), quite funny guy too i liked at some point in the middle of the show he went " Omg i'm drowning in sweat, that's good thought, don't you just hate it when you see bands that play and they're just not sweating? its like did you come to play or did you come to just hang out? Well we're not here to hang out! you guys wanna hang out or you guys wanna drown with us?"
In the end it was pretty worth while I guess, not a life changing thing but doesn't hurt to say i was there, whats sad was that i think half of the ppl there were like me, so a lot of the non 'single 'songs ppl there dint know the words to it, but kudos to Mcr for playing their hearts out despite the small and sometimes not so responsive crowd, best song of the night for me would be Cancer, it was the one song that everyone knew and since the back ground was only piano you can really hear the crowd sing this one =] which is actually one of the few songs i like from them too, bummer of the night ? They dint play Ghost of you.
