I love Morrissey! I've spent most of my life on his trail. Unfortunately I wasn't hardcore enough to attend his Hollywood High gig. A few of my friends went; I had to stay behind; I wonder if they saw the jealousy in my eyes.
I envy the crowd of Moz Angelenos that were at that historical show. For the rest of us fans, we can stop our crying because the concert was filmed and will soon be available for viewing. My friend Melissa sent me an email with a Spin Magazine link showing a clip of Everyday Is Like Sunday....and she's in it!
Now, I'm even more excited for the concert film! I hope to see more of her, other friends and familiar faces.
I scored tickets to the Petty Fest, a celebration of Tom Petty music, thanks to L.A. Weekly. I attended the second night of the PettyFest West (L.A.'s debut); Jameson sponsored the event that raised money for Sweet Relief. By the end of the night, I was Free Fallin' down with all that Jameson I drank.
Great rendition of the songs throughout the night but my favorite was Landon Pigg's version of LEARNING TO FLY, with the beautiful & talented Mae Whitman on back vocals. If my eyes were closed, I would've thought Mr. Petty was singing it himself.
I've always loved Mae Whitman and I'm a big fan Parenthood, so when I saw that she was standing behind me, I had to give her a gift. I only had a lollipop but she was surprised and gave me a hug! At the end of the night, I saw her again and took a photo with her. She was super sweet! Even cooler, she retweeted my picture!!
It was exciting seeing so many artist collaborate for such an awesome event.
Check out my PHOTOS!
I'm a such a dork because I got excited when I saw Ben Savage!
With the success of their first season, a tour was set up with the 8 semi-finalists of NBC's The Voice. The contestants kicked off their tour in Hollywood at The Gibson Amphitheatre.
Beverly McClellan
Casey Weston
Dia Frampton
Frenchie Davis
Javier Colon
Nakia
Vicci Martinez
Xenia
I really loved how all the contestants collaborated & joined one another on stage. It was like a big family; a big talented rockin' family. They performed their hit performances from the tv series and the final 4 performed their original songs.
Only in L.A.? There was a surprise guest...Blake Shelton joined Dia on stage and sang Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down" with an exchange of friendly push/shove.
Thank you so much to Socialite Life! I won tickets to the show, via twitter. My Brother & I had an amazing time!
The last day of March I went to Hollywood with some friends to Club Booby Trap. We saw ZE!, an electro-pop artist from Malaysia perform.
I kept hearing about her but I didn't really know to expect. We got there and she was tearing up the dance floor. She grabbed several people from the audience to dance with her during her song BOYS I LIKE. It was a blast!
I scored with a ZE! badge for dancing and I also bought her CD =). I've been listening to her album and I really like it! It makes me wanna dance. It's club material, so I hope the DJs around the world gets a copy of this.
Everybody's favorite glee teacher, Mr. Schue, made his first solo appearance at The Grove on January 29th. Matthew Morrison has been working on a solo album and He and his "M and M" band decided to give Los Angeles a preview of what to expect on the upcoming tour. It was a free all ages show presented by Oscar Mayer. Props to O.M. for giving out free lunches.
The Grove was crowded and I couldn't find a spot. I went around the back stage and found a spot next to the theater where Matthew ended up coming out at. I was so excited!! Check out the few seconds of MM on my twit vid.
Matthew & Co. rocked out The Grove! He performed Mrs. Robinson, All Night Long, a great mash up of Great Balls of Fire & I Saw Her Standing There, glee faves: (Gold Digger, Don't Stand So Close To Me, Sway, Somewhere Over The Rainbow), and debuted a new solo song My Name.
There is still time to RSVP for School Night with Peter, Bjorn & John for next Monday, January 31, 2011 at Bardot in Hollywood. The show is 18+ and it's only $5 but it's free with RSVP if you're 21+. They are playing the day before in Eagle Rock at The Center For The Arts. It's a sold out show, so hurry up and try to get a spot at the Bardot.
The last time I saw Peter Bjorn & John was when they played at The Roxy, with special guest VictoriaBergman. That was almost 4 years ago, so I'm totally looking forward to this show. Make sure to RSVP for SCHOOL NIGHT before it's too late and subscribe to their mailing list to be in the loop for upcoming shows.
I am in love with Marina Lambrini Diamandis! She is beautiful, adorable, creative, unique, & an amazing singer! Thanks to a cool friend for introducing her music to me and inviting me to her L.A. show. She started the set with my favorite song:
The concert was very entertaining! Marina & The Diamonds gave a great performance! I didn't want the night to end. The "security staff workers" were really rude! I can go on about details but they're not worth it and after waiting outside for an hour, I was able to meet Marina and she was so sweet. I'm such a nerd when I'm an obsessed fan, I gave her my cheesy blinking red light ring the tie I made.
For more photos from the concert, check out my flickr set and in the near future check out youtube.com/TGIblog for more clips from the show.
Stars was amazing, as always! The set was great starting off with the new album, then throwing in a mixture of starsclassics. After the show, my friend Angel & I hung around, being dorky fans. I made a stars tie especially for the show but it was rushed and didn't come out as great as I hoped. I tried to fix the logo by adding white paint around it. The band still liked the tie and I ended up giving it to Torquil =). He's awesome!
Stars played a couple of nights in Los Angeles to promote their new album The Five Ghosts.They were AMAZING! I've been listening to the new album non-stop! It's wonderful. There's so much more that needs to be said about the show but I'm going to wait until I upload the photos & videos. The good news is that they are returning to L.A. in November at The Wiltern and I'm looking forward to that. This time around I hope more friends get to see them, since they didn't get tickets due to selling out.
Friday, 5/21/2010 in Hollywood, CAgLee Live @ Gibson AmphitheatreThe BEST concert I've ever been to!I had a single ticket in the orchestra, awesome seat actually, but I let my niece sit there and sat in the 2nd to last row of the balcony. Wow, I guess I'm kinda a cool aunt. I took some videos but I made them private because YOUTUBE was flagging recordings of the glee concert due to copyrights. ? I wonder if they're going to release a live DVD in the future...
Last Friday I got a text message stating, “the first 10 people to reply – ‘I want to go’ win tickets to see The Ting Tings tomorrow night.” I promptly replied. I had signed up on a couple of artists’ text messaging lists via mozes.com but I hadn’t really got updates until now. So I went to the website and saw that several people already replied but I was still within the 10 people. Shortly after, I received a text message congratulating me and giving me an email address to contact for more info. I emailed and didn’t hear anything.
Friday night I was at home and checked my email and still no response; I thought it was for the best because I was working on Saturday anyways. So, I went to work and decided to email again and still nothing. I started feeling sad because I saw how fun the Manchester gig was and wanted to be a part of it. I was looking at photos of people covered in paint. This was going to be their “round 2” of the Adidas Paint Party.
I emailed PR again with my phone and got a quick reply. She stated that she had emailed me twice. Maybe my email address was acting up, so I emailed her with my cell number and told her to please text me the info. It was 5pm and I was at work until midnight. It seemed like time wasn’t on my side. I got a text with the address, the starting time (7pm) and a message saying, “have fun!” I’m afraid of rejection and I was scared to ask my job if I could leave early. I told them we were caught up and luckily my request was granted.
I clocked out of work, went to pick up my niece Kristeenah – yes she was the lucky one, and went home to change. We got to the place at exactly 7:01pm. I left her there to wait in line while I roamed the streets of Hollywood looking for parking. I parked almost a mile away, because everything was 1 hour parking, and walked back to the spot as fast as I could, trying to ignore all the dumb text messages (hurry up x 10; Where are you? The line is moving) my niece was sending me. I got in line and we were just waiting. A few workers passed by saying, “you guys are going to have so much fun.” The anticipation was killing me…let’s go in!
They checked off my name on the guest list, gave us release forms to fill out and a ticket to get our Adidas gear. Unfortunately they ran out of my size for jacket but I got a cool Adidas shirt and track pants. There were changing rooms and clothes check. After we were ready, WE WALKed downstairs into this little club with neon lights. They had photos on the walls from the Manchester gig. The DJ was spinning music, people were dancing, refreshments were provided, and a 21+ section with free beer was designated. I ditched my niece and enjoyed a few adult beverages.
Per The Ting Tings website, “the art/paints are going to transformed into collectible covers of our ‘Great DJ’ single.” A curtain was opened where the band was going to perform and girls walked around with trays of bottles of paint. Paint was thrown everywhere, squirting neon colors throughout the crowd and on the black walls. That went on for about 15 minutes and then the band took the stage.
We Walk was the song they started out with. The crowd was jumping and singing along while neon splats shot out in every direction. Great DJ was next and just thinking about it takes me back to that party. That’s exactly what it was; a huge paint party. I kept thinking how lucky everybody in that room was to be experiencing such an awesome event. I didn’t want the night to ever end. I tried to take as many photos as possible without ruining my camera. Actually, I just wanted to enjoy the performance and wish I had brought another camera to record the show. I attempted to take a video with my iPhone and it came out a bit muffled but it still captures the energy of the show. Keep Your Head was my favorite song performed and of course, That’s Not My Name was the highlight of the evening. All in all, this was the most fun I’ve ever had and wish everybody the opportunity to experience this.
Thank you TING TINGS & ADIDAS and everybody else that helped put this event together. I look forward to seeing the CD covers.
This was my first time seeing the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I've missed them before and never got to see them in small venue, as I would've liked to. They were playing The Greek Theatre but I didn't get tickets. My friend, MEL, gave me the heads up about the Pomona show. I've never been to The Fox Theatre but I was excited to go because it was way smaller than the other venues. I got tickets during the fan presale.
I was scheduled, on the day of the concert, to get braces. During the procedure, I was feeling a little sore and tired and I actually thought about not attending the show. I ended up feeling a little better during the days and wasn't going to let this little set back stop me from going to the show. A lot of friends were going and I was sure it was going to be a blast...I mean BLITZ.
Just my friend Richard and I were going to go but at the last minute, my friend messaged me that she had tickets to sell for this sold out show. I contacted a few people and my friend Jow was able to go. So the 3 of us headed out to Pomona, drank a bit before, and met up with some friends. We had a good spot and towards the end of the show was let into the pit.
The show was awesome! The Yeah Yeah Yeahs rocked! The crowd was awesome! It was a great performance! I'm not much of a reviewer when it comes to live gigs. I'm not good using words to express the energy of the concert. I'm more of a visual person. I took some photos that can be viewed on my flickr page and hopefully within the next week or so, i'll upload a couple of clips on YouTube.
Ok, so I recently was "tagged" in a note on facebook and decided to take the challenge. You were supposed to list 50 artists you've seen and list the first concert you attended. I got a little too into it that I ended up listing all performances I've seen. So, below is a list of artists that I've seen so far.
BOLD = more than once & ITALIC = friend’s music
**The first concert I saw was a summer pop festival at Magic Mountain with The Jets, Dino & Stevie B. Over a decade later, I found out that Michelle was at that same concert! See, we were destined to be friends =).
Concerts, Gigs & Shows
Air Amy Millan Apostle of Hustle Arcade Fire Arctic Monkeys Ash Babes In Toyland Basement Jaxx Beck Belle & Sebastian Bernard Butler Better Than Ezra Betty Big City Rock Bis Bitch The Black Keys Black Velvet 3 Bloc Party The Bluetones Blur Bonnie Raitt Boy Least Likely To Broken Social Scene Bush Call & Response The Cardigans Catatonia The Charlatans Charlotte Charming Chemical Brothers Chicks on Speed Coldplay The Cover Girls The Cranberries The Creatures Crystal Waters The Cure Curve Cypress Hill Daft Punk The Dandy Warhols Dandi Wind David Byrne
Death Cab For Cutie Death of a Party The Decemberists Depeche Mode Dino Do-Gooder Doves Dream Theater Echo & The Bunnymen Echobelly Elastica The Elected Electrelane Electrifixion Elefant Elka Embrace Enrique Iglesias Explosions in the Sky Fannypack Fat Boy Slim Feist The Fiery Furnaces Fischer Spooner Flavor Flav Foo Fighters The Frank & Walters Franz Ferdinand Gene Ghostland Observatory
Girl in a Coma The Gossip Grand Buffet The Grates Helium Hole Hurricane #1 I Am The World Trade Center Imogen Heap India Arie Indy 500 Ingrid Michaelson Interpol Ivy Jay-Z Jay Brannan Jet The Jets Joan Jett
Joshua Radin Juliana Hatfield Juliet & The Licks Justice Kaiser Chiefs Kent The Killers Killola The Kooks Kula Shaker Lauren De Rose The Likely Lads Lightning Seeds Linda Ronstandt Linoleum Lisa Dewey Lisa Lisa Local H The Longpigs Los Campesinos Love Spit Love Lucy Loves Schroeder Lush Magnapop Mansun Manic Street Preachers Marilyn Manson Marion Meiko Menswear Mere Mortals Metric The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Mika Miko Minimum Moby Modest Mouse Mohave 3 Monaco Mono
Morrissey Mospeada The Mothership My Morning Jacket Nel’s Beam New Kids on the Block The New Pornographers Nine Inch Nails Nomo Oasis Ocean Blue Ocean Colour Scene Offspring Of Montreal Orbital Paul Oakenfold Pavement Peaches
Peter, Bjorn & John Petra Haden Phantom Planet Phoenix Pin Up Girls Placebo Possum Dixon Primus Pulp Purple Atoms Queen w/Paul Rogers Radiohead Radio Vago Rage Against The Machine Ramones Rancid Ready The Jet The Rentals Ridel High Rilo Kiley Rod Stewart Royksopp Sack Saint Etienne Save Ferris Schuyler Fisk The Seahorses She & Him Shields The Shins Shotgun Showdown Siouxsie & The Banshees Sleeper Smoking Popes Smashing Pumpkins Social Distortion Sonic Youth Soul Asylum Space Space Monkeys Spiritualized Sponge Stabbing Westward Starsailor The Start
Stars Stereophonics Stereo Total Stevie B The Strokes Subcircus Sublime Suede Sufjan Stevens Super Fury Animals Supergrass Super 31 The Sundays Sweet & Tender Hooligans Symposium Squirrel Nut Zippers Team Gina
Tegan & Sara Tenacious D Tender Box Tera Naomi That Dog The Day After Thee Midnighters Tiffany Third Eye Blind Those Dancing Days Tilly & the Wall Tori Amos Travis Uh Huh Her Ultra Violet Verve VHS or Beta Vinnie Peculiar Von Iva The Wall Flowers We Are Scientists Weezer Whale 2 Live Crew 60 ft Dolls 8-Bit
**I've seen a lot of these bands more than once but I've seen Morrissey the most =].
