Sonic Boom!

Because I didn’t get home until “Sunday” on Saturday, this post will count as last week’s post, to finish my quota of 2 posts a week.

So ‘Sonic Boom Fest’ was super great this year, I was up on the rails (almost) for all of it except Billy Talent. I got to see Dallas Green sing and play guitar. That was probably one of the most memorable moments about it. Another thing I got to do was crowd surf, in which I needed 3 attempts to get across the rail. I think it was during Surrender by Billy Talent. The first attempt I asked random people to lift me up and throw me around, in which they kindly responded to it by just throwing me up. Luckily, some people caught me before I was dropped (I think I moved 3 metres, only 3 metres). Then as soon as I fell, I asked the closest male to lift me. He didn’t since he really thought I was injured, so I asked another guy. He did it, but didn’t throw me up, he lifted me up instead, and I got about 2 metres this time before getting dropped. I was getting pretty pissed. After I fell, I was helped up by a fellow schoolmate who really never thought I was somebody to do that kind of stuff. So I asked him to throw me up one last time. This time I actually made it, but only because there were SO MANY PEOPLE that I couldn’t even fall even if nobody was trying to carry me. It was pretty great actually, I kicked 20 or so people in the head, they looked PISSED. I almost lost a shoe.

Another thing mentionable that happened to me today was that during Alexisonfire and Franz Ferdinand, I realized PEOPLE ARE ASSHOLES. The whole time, during both of the concerts, I was trying to not lose my spot in the second row. Eventually I lost it in Franz because of some fat prick. Literally. He was probably 350 pounds, and he was pushing me, a mere 130 pounds. That’s like using a semi, pulling a herd of cattle, to push a Honda Civic into the other lane. It’s just unfair. Eventually, I got back into the second row behind a small Asian. It made watching the concert easier after that, all I had to do was just hold onto her.

Going to this concert made me realize that people are assholes and that John Locke is retarded when he said that all people are reasonable, rational, and intelligent. The concert totally proved him wrong since so many people just wanted to be at the front themselves, and pushed through crowds and crowds of people just go get there. They even pushed an old lady with a walker down (although, I don’t know why there would even be an old person with a walker watching the concert anyways. I didn’t know Grandma listens to Alexisonfire or Franz Ferdinand) just to get there. They even pushed and pulled a 3 foot kid from the railings away from it, just so they can be there. Honestly, you can see over that kid just fine you fat, tall prick. So John Locke, you were wrong! People are definitely not reasonable, intelligent, and not at all rational. Only some.
For the music portion of the concert, I’d have to say the best bands today were ‘The Wet Secrets’, ‘Ill Scarlet’, ‘Franz Ferdinand’, ‘Billy Talent’. I’ll tell you why in the next paragraph. Metric was okay in my opinion, just cause. Their set was really good, they played their hits in a good order, and mixed in the other songs in the middle. But I wasn’t really a fan of them, so it’s a little biased. But I can tell you why I don’t like them. The lead singer’s voice is really airy, gives a really vintage record feel. The guitarist had way too many guitars for the set, and the bassist was quite useless throughout. Alexisonfire was great, but not amazing. They played their best songs, but George Pettit (lead vocals) sounded pretty bad today. He didn’t hit the correct pitches throughout the entire set. I wasn’t impressed. Dallas (as usual) was amazing.

Since the post is getting a little long, I’ll just say that the other bands were phenomenal, and that Wet Secrets impressed the hell out of me. The only thing the band needs to work on is get their marching in sync, since one of them turned the wrong way from the rest of the band. I think I’m the only one who noticed it. Also, the lead singer of the band needs to learn how to look at the audience, since all he did was just sing DOWN into the mic.

Anyways, thats my two sense on things.

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