Edmonton - April 24th 2003 by Luke - Try To Shut Me Up Tour

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Try To Shut Me Up Tour Review

Concert: Edmonton

Reviewer: Luke

Date: April 24th 2003



Ok so first of all... it was like me april and 3 of my buddies who went to this show. We get there around four and their is like no line up.....nothing.....no one knows like anything about where to line up. It was SOOOOO dis organized i wanted to fuckin snap. Secondly....i felt like i was the only real fan there.... people would be like staring at me cos i had an avril toque...its like... yes people i am a REAL fan. So neways....i heard them soundchecking metallica again....so awesome....i also heard them soundchecking a hole song. It was so easy to hear soundchecks i couldnt believe it.
Anyways...me and my friends are standing in a room with like 100 avril wannabe's....like none of them knew nething important about her it was so sad i wanted to murder them all. I also got asked twice if i was in a band when me and my friends were walking around. So my friends all decide to put there shit in my backpack right. Neways they open the doors, and i fuckin get grabbed by security and this laddy is like "i need you to come over here to check ur bag" and at this point i am absolutely freaking out becos i wanted to get in one of the first 300 people for the baracade...so these securty people are fuckin dragging me to this god damn like check in place... and im yelling at my friends to go get wristbands and save me a spot....so i goto this asshole checkin place and i throw my bag at them and im like "IM LEAVING TAKE IT"....and the chicks like.. "I cant let you leave, u hafta fill this out.. " so i start swearing at them....fill this thing out and start running for the door. Well i see all my friends in the front baracade's and im standing in this huge line up waiting for wristbands... so I finally get a wristband and just boot it to the baracade enterence when security starts yelling at me to stop running...and when i get there the baracade shuts and wouldnt let me in...so i had to run to the other side and get in that way.... only to fucking realize all my cameras are in my back pack at the fucking coat check.....and they didnt even tell neone they were taking bags. So i was EXTREMELY pissed about that.
Neways...the concert starts and me and my friends are like in the fuckin family zone it seemed. There were two 9 year olds in front of me (me and april were second row and my friends were behind us kinda) and then someone decided to bring their 3 year old to stand front row....and then theres this fuckin lesbian and her two really smelly friends beside me....I mean long story short....kids with their parents need to die..and 29 year old lesbians shouldnt be allowed front row either. Neways the crowed sucked more tonight...but Avril was way more into it. Once avril came on i just shut everything out and like sang all the lyrics..i didnt even care.
I was like right in front of evan again haha...and i swear to god he looked at me a lot lol..like so much that i had to like direct my eyes else ware when he was looking at me. But um...he did recognize april and i becos he said something to april during the show...i think it was like "ROCK ON" or something....but it was directly to her and she was doing the rock on sign...And um Jesse pointed at me once again and came over by me when avril sang "i went to a whore" during basketcase and he looked at me and i started laughing.... i swear to god that was so gnarly haha...And during tomorrow....the security guards gave the two little fuckin 9 year olds in front of me with their parents who didnt even seem like they were enjoying the concert.. two guitar picks.. and i was SOOOO FUCKING MAD....and i looked up at avril and she was like looking down at me and smiling at me again... like she saw what happened and that i was super pissed off or something....that was really cool...like she noticed me being mad and it made her smile at me like in sympathy.
Anyways stuff about the show....avril was way more into it tonight. she smiled a lot more and interacted.... they passed around these beach balls with avril stars on them and avril was explaining how people like to hold them and we shouldnt do that..it was really funny...And she came down to the floor this time and i tried to touch her but i was too late which sucked..During complicated she got this little girl with a tie to come on and theo from gob again and that was it...Theo made her laugh so hard tho that she couldnt even sing...she just kept laughing...and she got on his shoulders again and was singing.And another thingi noticed was evan lost his guitar pick right when he was suppose to do his guitar solo on naked...and he had to do it with no pick and avril started laughing at him. During Dont Give a Damn....she went up to jesse when she sang "im not gonna cry about some stupid guy" and jesse and her started laughing... like i could totally tell something was going on there. She wore a white tank top and green pants... and damnit shes so tiny. I forgot to say this in my other post about when i met her but she honestly must weigh like 85 pounds. she came right in front of me a lot and i was just like damn shes so small. Her hair was also kinky like she had it ina pony tail or something before. Im tryna think of other cool shit that happened.... There was a few times where she stopped singing cos she was laughing.
One really gnarly thing that you can really tell is when avril is like touched that the audience is singing her lyrics. I forget what song...but she held her mic out to the audience and we were singing and she just started smiling so big...its so cute. Oh yeah one time it was kinda quietter between songs and i yelled "YEAH AVRIL WOOOO" and she started smiling after...not at me but i know thats why she started smiling haha. Stuff like that she likes. Its so awesome to see her smile after someone starts cheering her name...so thats why i did it when i had the chance...
I mean other then the fights between the parents and young people (those are the only people who faught at both the shows i went to) and the chick grabbing my ass deliberately before avrils set....The concert rocked...I was just really pissed cos i met alot of people after the show who had like matts drumsticks and water bottle's and shit and they werent even big fans. Like this one chick had matts drum stick and im like "do u know his name?" and shes like "i dknow...hes the hot one right?" and im like "his names matt" and i walked away. And this asshole dad that was in front of me and the old lesbian got guitar picks...it wouldve meant so much to me to get another guitar pick becos i took the one tiffani sent me yesterdauy for good luck... and i lost it on the way home (how ironic)