Foxy Foxy.

February 7th 2012.

My friend and I saw The Darkness live!

It was super amazing.

I had been feeling stressed about making the trip since I am such a nervous person but I am sooo glad we went.

Okay, on Monday we went to Syr after school. From there we took a bus to Philadelphia. Initially I was going to drive there but I was worried about the weather. I am not used to driving in the snow yet and my car doesn't have snow tires so we decided to take a bus. As it would turn out, the weather was beautiful. There was no snow and it was even warm. (Weird for February..)

We arrived in Philly around 10 something I think..maybe closer to 11..and we went immediately to the hotel. We had to catch a cab, and the driver was nice enough to take us the long way so our fare would be 20$. (When we took another cab to the same destination, different route, only like 12 bucks. Thanks first guy!) The clerk at the hotel seemed like a lovely fella. He greated us by telling us that he didn't 'fill' like working. It was a bit like this,

Clerk: Maaan I'm ready to go home.
Friend: Oh have you been here all day?

Clerk: Naw, I just don't fill like it. You know what I'm saying? You ever just not fill like doing anything?

Friend: Oh yeah, haha. Are you out soon?

Clerk: Yeah Im affenda get up outta here. Ya'll from New York? I love New York!

It was very precious.

The room was pretty goood. I slept well both nights. I lost 100$ but it made a triumphant return by the end so that was prettyyy chillll.

We woke up early to go to the venue to get our tickets. The guy told us that we had to wait till 7 so we walked around a bit then ended up going back to the hotel and sleeping a few hours lolol.

BUT when we finally went back to the venue, maybe around 4 or so.. there was a little crowd starting. It was a gaggle of teeny boppers. We they were all annoying and bratty to one of their mothers.. Then some weirdo comes over and they all freak out and take pics with him. My friends and I are looking at each other like, "What?!" We felt left out and lost since we had no idea who he was.

A few people later and we find out that the concert has two opening bands. We are not so pumped about it. We made chit chat with some people in line (till they started flirting with the teenyboppers), a friend got us some asprin for our achey heads, and before we knew it we were allowed in!

I had a will call ticket so we had to wait a minute to get in but we surprisingly got an awesome spot in the front thanks to one of the pals we made in line. It was right up front and amazingggg.

The first band kinda sucked balls, the second one was flipping amazing. And! Low and behold, the weirdo with the hair that the boppers were going gaga for was the bassist of the second band. We shoulda gotten up on that when we had the chance, lemme tell ya..

My friend ended up recording most of their performance and I can honestly say that we are probably new fans of them. They did an awesome show. I dont really want to write a big long thinggg but I dont want to forget this night so I am going to make a potentially incomprehensible list.

• Foxy Shazam singer spit all over the floor. He said a lot of cute things like, "If shooting people was legal I would be dead!" and, "I don't know what I'm saying.." It was lovely.
• Roadies after FS performance cleaned up his spit with a rag. A girl in the audience begged for it, and roadie threw it at her. Some other girl stole it from her, shoved it in her purse, gave her a loook, and ran off.
• FS singer ate cigarettes and drank drool out of a shoe. I think drool.
• The Darkness opened with Black Shuck and ended with Love on the Rocks. Recorded a lot of this.
• Justin was an awesome front man, interacting with the fans and all. I loved it.
  
• Daniel looked so happy and cuteeeeee playing his guitar. He bowed down to the fans at one point. Made me feel good man. We caught one of his picks! Later, we caught a towel he rubbed on his sweaty face. Score.
• Justin got on the shoulders of one of the bouncers and went around the crowd. He then climbed up the wall to the balcony and stage dove into the crowd. My friend ran over to him as he did this, and copped a feeeel. Then I touched his leg a liiiittle tiny bit when he floated over my head on the hands of happy happy people.
• Some chick jumped on stage (or attempted) while Justin was going around the crowd. Daniel laughed. It was glorious.
• Some chick threw her bra on the stage.

Justin:..*looks at it* There's not even a phone number on it! What will happen if I type in "Pink Leopard Print Bra on facebook? It better pop up with a picture of you wearing it. ;)"

It was soosososososo wonderful. I would love to see them again. They are coming out with a new album soon so perhaps it will be possible! It was just crazy and surreal to see another band that I've idolized since I was little one. Im glad I had good friends to go with and I can't wait for the next time.

I hope this memory stays fresh forever.