This Friday, the most wonderful thing of all time happened to me. I went to a Morrissey concert! That's what Lawrence got me for mother's day this year, So Friday we made our way to The Palladium Ballroom at 7:30, which is what the concert time was supposed to be. The doors opened at 8, so we got to stand in line in a downpour for half an hour. We shared our golf umbrella with a polite fella named Nick. When we finally got in there, we found out that there is no seating at this venue. How crap is that?!? So we stood around for another half hour, when we got treated to the screaming stylings of Kristen Young. It was not great. After a half an hour of that, they took about 20-30 minutes to revamp the stage while they played strange old movie stuff on the curtain. But finally! It happened! I was so excited that I didn't even noticed when my toes went numb one third of the way into the show due to the fact that I was wearing 2 1/2 inch heels. For some reason, all the tall people decided to stand in front of me, but I still managed to see for the most part. There was a guy standing near me that started yelling "HOW SOON IS NOW!!" after about 2 songs and I really wanted to turn to him and call him a poser, but I refrained. Morrissey changed his shirt 2 or 3 times during the show because he was sweating a lot, and once he even took his shirt off on stage. We dutifully screamed like teenagers, even though he's really old. Towards the end of the show, he said, "My ass is leaving town in ten minutes. . .be on it." I though that was pretty funny. The venue had posted all over the freaking place that we weren't aloud to bring in cameras or take pictures, but people still were with their phones. One person was right up near the stage and when they held their phone up Morrissey looked right at the person and they started to lower the phone, but he nodded his head and struck a pose. He kept shaking the hands of the people in front and cracking jokes. At the end, the band threw out paper airplanes, guitar picks, and the drum sticks, but I didn't get anything (other than the t-shirt Lawrence bought me of course). Morrissey is a really good showman, and I still had the time of my life despite the very sore feet, the tall drunk people, and the volume being so loud the music almost wasn't recognizable. Seriously, I never realized that Morrissey's music had screaming guitar music. Note to the sound person: when the music is distorting, you have it too loud. But it was still amazing. I can't believe how great this year is, Pet Shop Boys, Morrissey, and next month Erasure!! How great is my life!
Also: something cute. There's one part of a song where he says, "This is the last song I will ever sing." And on the cd you hear a crowd screaming, and then he says, "No wait, I changed my mind again," and the crown goes, "ahhh" in a disappointed way, and we did that! The screaming and the ahh and everything. It was AWESOME!! WOO HOO MORRISSEY!!
3 comments:
That's cool, I'm glad you had a great time. Sucks about the tall people though, but hey it could be worse, you could be as short as me, then you wouldn't have seen ANYTHING. ;) Three cool concerts in one year? You must be doing something right. :)
One day you will update...and I'll be there! ;)
being short does suck when you are at concerts. Glad I am 6'2 :P
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