Concert Diary

All Time Low

Now, here's a mouthful for me to tell you. It'll be a bit jumpy, I apologize.

So, I surprised my friend Sam with All Time Low tickets for her birthday. She was so excited! We waited a month for the concert.

When we got there, we walked past Jack, Alex, Rian, and Zach behind the building by their tour bus. I got a picture of Alex throwing a football- score. We were waved off though my security, which I understand.

We waited in line for a good hour or so and mingled around. During it, an official photographer for All Time Low was coming around taking pictures of people's home-made Last Young Renegade jackets, and I made one, so he took a picture of mine! He said he really liked it, and a thank you from All Time Low for making my own jacket for the tour, he gave me an All Time Low symbol pin! I was really happy.

(Fun fact: I'm on All Time Low's Instagram page! The picture of my jacket and I was in a montage video of everyone else's jacket at the concert.)

I also met up with an internet friend of mine, Jess, from Twitter in person! She was so nice. She had gotten meet and greet tickets, so she met all of All Time Low! She said it was so fun and they were so nice. I was really happy for her!

So on we go into the venue, and it's a standing concert. We're in the way way back, so gradually Sam and I push up through the crowd, along with a girl we met in line, Hannah.

The first band to open was The Wrecks, and they were amazing! I had listened to them before the show and they played my favorite song by them- Favorite Liar. I really enjoyed them.

Next up was SWMRS. I haven't listened closely to this band very much before the concert, but as of right now they are one of my favorite bands and I wish I knew more at the time. They played one of my favorite songs- Miley. They were great, awesome stage presence.

Then the last opener was Waterparks. I was so excited to see them play, I had been wanting to see them forever. They are one of my top favorite bands as of right now. They played Plum Island, Stupid For You, Crave, and other songs. I was so happy. Awsten said he was Halsey, Geoff was wearing a cat shirt, and Otto was just cute.

Next up: All Time Low. By this point, I was getting really close to the front. I had already had two people fall on me from crowd-surfing, lost my portable charger, was at 70% battery, but I was living. I was so happy when I saw everyone walk on stage.

Through-out the show, I managed to make it the the second row, right behind the barricade- I was extremely close. I fought like hell to get there, don't think it was easy.

At one point, Alex said to get in someone's shoulders for the song, and a girl I met before the show in line, Molly, was like "Hey, wanna try it?" And I was like are you sure? and she was like yeah! Her dad helped me up on her shoulders, and let me tell you, she's pretty tall. I felt tall for once. But then, she wanted me to get off, which I was so okay with, but her dad was like "Come on my shoulders."

Let me tell you, Molly is tall, but her dad was the tallest person there in the crowd. I'm not even kidding you. I noticed him at the beginning of the show, even saying to Sam "Wow, he's probably the tallest person here." So I sat atop the tallest person's shoulders there for a song. I know Alex saw me, I was really close.

They threw beach balls out while I was on shoulders, and I accidentally hit one back at the stage towards Alex, and he hit it back! I felt a small connection. (:

I got down after the song was over and thanked him so much for letting me do it. I then made my way back to the second row again.

Soon enough, Jack leaned into the crowd. I reached as far as I could to him, and I grasped his hand.

I held Jacks hand for a solid thirty-seconds. I was so, so happy. I have a video of it. (:

During all of this, Sam crowd surfed with Hannah twice. We were also caught in a mosh out earlier too, which was a tad scary but we were okay.

So fast forward to the end of the concert, and we're hanging out around the merch table and entrance of the theatre, where the concert was held. A ton of people had left, and only about a hundred or so people were still around getting things.

All of a sudden, I see Otto's head bobbing a bit. I speed over there to see him talking to a fan, and I hear him say "I'd love to talk, but I have to go meet other fans. You can come outside and meet all of us though! I'm sorry to cut you short like this." And he was so nice and actually felt bad about it. The girl agreed, and Otto turned to follow his security guard towards a private exit they're only allowed to go out of.

Before he opens the door though, I yell "I love you Otto!" and wave in his direction, and he turned, smiled widely, and waved back and stepped out the door. I was beaming.

So we meet my mom in the merch line, pick out of shirts, and walk around a bit more. I suddenly see Max Becker, guitarist for SWMRS. I walk up and ask for a picture with him. He was really cool about it and really nice. I got a picture with him alone, same with Sam, then we got one together with him. I was hyped.

So now that Sam and I heard that Waterparks is outside meeting people, that's where we head after my mom met with us.

Out back behind the venue there was a line, and at the front was all of Waterparks. We got in line and I was so excited that I was actually going to meet them. During our wait in line, we see Joey Armstrong, drummer for SWMRS, come out. We hop out of line real quick and go over to get a picture with him. I asked him to sign my jacket, which he gladly did. He was really kind and actually talked a bit with us.

So we get back in line for Waterparks and wait. We chat with two girls in front of us who have been to so many concerts it's insane. They were really nice and helped us get good quality pictures when we were up for our meeting time.

Sam went up first to took a picture with them, and then I was my turn. I was so nervous. I sorta jogged up and was like "Group hug!" So I had a group hug with all three of them. As we were adjusting ourselves for the picture, I mentioned that I was trying to convince my band to cover one of their songs, and Awsten said "That's so cool!" and Otto said "Oh wow!" And I'm pretty sure Geoff said something like thank you. They were all so kind and I'm so happy I had the chance to meet all of them.

So there's that. This was by far one of my most favorite concerts. I had such a great time. It was such a fun night, and I spent it with my best friend too, which made it even better. It was amazing.

Date: July 26th, 2017