The Fray, quite possibly my FAVOURITE band ever, like competing with Anberlin for first place on my top 10 of all time list played a sold out show at First Avenue last night (8.jan.2009).
random fact: both of these bands have/will be playing First Avenue this month. Anberlin is on the 21st. and yes, i plan on being there!
it was a great day. i got to meet the gentlemen of the Fray, by using my higher brain functions and lucking out by knowing the guy that was working the loading door. i got to talk to dave, isaac, ben and joe for like an hour and a half, and they are WONDERFUL people. then they went off to their meet and greet, and i went off to sell some merch for them.
before the show even started, we sold about 2,700 dollars in merch. there were a lot of screaming girls. i believe one girl might have said "OMG, WHAT IF ISAAC TOUCHED THIS SHIRT?!?!" and proceeded to hold it up to her face and jump around.
as for the show-
Vedera opened and was AMAZING. they are a great band, i highly reccommend checking them out. they got great energy from the crowd, they started rocking out right away, even if they didn't know the words, and when they announced they were about to play their last song there was a chant of "one more song!" that broke out. it was a sight to behold.
the Fray's set up was chaotic beauty. lamps everywhichwhere in every imaginable shape and size. there was even a chandelier and 3 or 4 other hanging lights. and they all lit up. they played mostly songs from "how to save a life", plus the single "you found me" from the album due to release on 3.feb.2009. the songs i remember they played (being the dork i am knowing all the words) were:
she is
over my head (cable car)
all at once
look after you
hundred
vienna
and last, but not least
you found me
not to mention the 3 song encore. which i was (shamefully) strung out on hearing "you found me" live, and selling t-shirts crazily to notice.
Isaac announced that it was his dad's birthday, and asked if the crowd wanted to sing happy birthday to him. a girl in the front row even gave him her phone to call. he said "you're not going to stalk my dad now, are you?" and called his dad. they had a conversation that if i remember correctly went like this:
isaac: hi pops
mr.slade: isaac? how are you?
isaac: i'm good-- i'm at your birthday party!
mr.slade: (laughs) who's phone are you calling from, i didn't recognize the number.
isaac: oh... i borrowed one from a... friend. hey dad, hold on i want you to hear something...
and the audience proceeded in a beautiful chorus of "happy birthday, isaac's dad."
watching the crowd is so amazing. if you ever get the chance to just stand in the back of the room and take it all in, i'd do it. there are so many different people who are all doing the same thing in the same place because they have this one thing in common, and it's a life changing sight.
basically it was the best New Year's gift. ever.
i can't explain in words how much hearing the song "you found me" live meant to me. ever since i heard the song in November i thought "oh my god, these people have been reading my journal." that song is every single heartbreak and letdown you will ever experience in life, combined with struggling with what you believe in. because you can have such a solid foundation in faith, and yet when you need it to help pull you through the most, it's nowhere to be found-- and you are left thinking that terrible things happen to good people, at no claim of their own.
which is why last night, i found God on the corner of 1st and [7th Street].
I found God on the corner of first and Amistad
Where the west was all but won
All alone, smoking his last cigarette
I Said where you been, he said ask anything
Where were you?
When everything was falling apart
All my days were spent by the telephone
It never rang
And all I needed was a call
That never came
To the corner of first and Amistad
Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lying on the floor
Surrounded, surrounded
Why’d you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, you found me
In the end everyone ends up alone
Losing her, the only one who’s ever known
Who I am, who I’m not, who I want to be
No way to know how long she will be next to me
Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lying on the floor
Surrounded, surrounded
Why’d you have to wait?
Where were you, where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, you found me
Early morning, City breaks
I’ve been calling for years and years and years and years
And you never left me no messages
You never send me no letters
You got some kind of nerve, taking all I want
Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lying on the floor
Where were you where were you
Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lying on the floor
Surrounded, surrounded
Why’d you have to wait?
Where were you, where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, you found me
Why’d you have to wait?
To find me, to find me
[you found me | the fray]
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