concert count

#30: Alexisonfire/Billy Talent (13-July-07) - Molson Ampitheatre

2 favourite bands + awesome venue + front row seats = one of the best concerts ever.

sandy came down for the concert b/c she loves billy talent, and i love alexisonfire, so this was pretty much our dream concert. we got front row seats, right behind the mosh pit, which was even more exciting. we got tickets on dallas's side, of course.

there were about 4 opening bands, and i would have liked to check out some of them, but by the time we got there, and squeezed our way through the crowd in front of the merchandise table, we only actually caught aof and billy talent.

aof came on first. and what can i say about their set. it was highly energetic, as to be expected. george was rocking his jean cut offs as usual. even though, technically, billy talent were the headliners, i was looking forward to seeing aof more. they played mainly songs from their new album, crisis, and threw in some old favourites like happiness by the kilowatt and .44 calibre love letter.

ian from billy talent came out to sing part of rough hands with aof, which was pretty cool. and that only meant someone from aof would probably come out and sing part of a billy talent song during their set. having front row seats were also amazing! i love the molson amphitheatre already, and having front row seats made it even better.

this is one is my favourite pictures i took of aof that night:

and here's one of dallas to end it off:

then it was billy talent's turn to end off the night. they started their set the same way they did at their last tour, with the screen, and ian, aaron, and jon slowly get revealed, then ben runs out in front of the screen before it drops.

we were sitting so close, check out this picture of ben in his signature singing position.

when billy talent were singing their new single, surrender, dallas came out to sing part of the song for them! i was so preoccupied to get a video, i didn't get a picture of it.

so all in all, a great show. i ended up buying two shirts from the merch table. one of aof and one of billy talent. the billy one i actually wanted to get at their last show, but they sold out by the time i got there. and i was lucky to get the aof shirt b/c it was the last one and they just started selling the ones off the wall. during the aof set, dallas said that it was when they were touring together in germany, that he and ben thought it would be a good idea to play a show together at the amphitheatre. i'm glad it actually happened!

it's too bad i didn't catch the other bands. i wanted to check out attack in black b/c they were just recording a new album, so they would have had some new songs. maybe next time.

upcoming shows: JT in aug, multiple city and colour shows in sept, maroon 5 in oct, and matt good in oct.