Yesterday I went down to Richmond street west and John street for an INSANE block party. The party was sponsered by GM and was basicly a way to show thier line of cars to the "youth" of Toronto. By youth of toronto, i didnt think they expected most of them to be between the ages of 14-17.
We got thier around 2:30pm, just in time to hear "Attack in Black"( aka some lame band Tiffany likes, aka the Band me and Yodie call "Back in black") play at 3:00. I guess im being too mean to them, they were ok… semi molodic… During this time we got to take pics with Dallas Green from alexisonfire and my sis Tiffany took a pic with George P from alexisonfire… INSANE!
After Attack in Black played, we all went up to play "PLINKO". You know, that game from The Price is Right? There are 2 wild things about this version of the game.
1.COOL GUY, who used to be on YTV was the host of the game!
2. If you got your disk in the middle of the board you would win an XM satillite radio!
When it was my turn, I got the disk in the middle of the board, but they ran out of radios (damn that 3 in a row winning streak!) an all i got was a pair of lame sunglasses… which i ended up giving to my dad today. Thats the bad thing about having glasses, you are excluded from wearing rad Kanye West style sun glasses….
^ COOL GUY! Tiff kept on yelling "COOL GUY!" to him… one time he just looked at her and shruged when she said it. Al asked him to and he said "No, deffinitely not…" but he "had a look on his face" says Al.
After that, The Stills played thier set… i cant remember the exact list of songs, but they played all my favourites (The Destroyer, In the Beggining, and Love and Death for thier last song!). I got some great photos, and Mel yelled to the singer "I LOVE YOUR HAT" when they were setting up and he gave her the thumbs up! After in the middle of his set he took off his hat and said "Do you guys wanna talk about something?" and Tiff yelled "Wheres your your hat? i love your hat!" and he said "I thought I looked stupid with that hat.." and the other guy said "you were a fool to think so" and the hat dude said "Yeah, I got that hat when I was touring down south! We had a f**king hootenanny!".
^the stills dude, having a f***ing hootenanny!
After The Stills played, we went to a Subways for dinner, and came back just in time to see The Trews take the stage. I first of all have to say, I absolutely love the Trews, and Ive heard great things about thier live shows. My expectations were so high, and they still blew me away. They sang all the great songs from the new album, like "Yearning", "Poor Ol’ Broken Hearted Me" and "So shes leaving". They also sang "Not Ready To Go" and "Tired of Waiting" which was EXTREMELY rad! … a bunch more songs as well… it was great.
^they were INSANE!
^ the dude that tiff told rocke… he smiled an akward smile…
Tired from rock’n out to the Trews, we decided to find a nice quiet place to sit before Candence Weapon went on. We decided to sit near this fence, and in the middle of moaning about how freakin hot it was, i see John-Angus MacDonalds (the guitarist dude, with the sunglasses in the pics) head peaking out of a trailer on the cell phone! We waved hello, and when he was done on the phone, we got him to sign this Trews sticker that Yodie had. We could only find a pen so he yelled " This is crap! I need a sharpie!". He signed it anyways, and when Mel found her marker, he re-signed it! We also got it signed by the drummer Sean Dalton and the bassest Jack Syperek. BLARGE Colin MacDonald , the dude who sings lead vocals, was 10 cms away from me, but since I was taking a picture of Jack and Tiff, he just left…. sadness… he will sign it one day!
Next, Candence Weapon played… hes some rap dudie that I once saw on going costal. Tiff was heckling him by say in "NOOO!" when he asked if any one liked rap, and by saying "GO CANES!" when he said "GO EDMONTON!"… this poriton of the concert was pretty lame…
Wait! the lamest thing came next… They call themselves "Circus Orange" and they are like Cirque De Solie with Fire… seems cool on paper… but like many things that seem good on paper, this failed miserably. I used this time to yell at the half naked middle aged dude preformer "PUT SOME PANTS ON!" and "WE DONT WANNA SEE THAT!"….
After that, some dude named Richard Lassick won a car… therefore I now hate some dude named Richard Lassick…
Next was the grand finale! ALEXISONFIRE BABY! We were in the front, and this girl with a kid on her shoulders came up behind us. The security guards told her that it would be dangerous for that kid to be there since the crowd would get crazy and start moshing… that scared me… i told my sis’ we sould go, but as usually they didnt listen to me… and guess what happened!
I SURVIVED MY FIRST (AND MOST LIKELY, LAST) MOSH PIT!!!
it was scarrry.. i was scared for my sisters…i was behind my sister, and i was trying to shield her from the 1000 kiddies behind me… i pushed a crowed surfer off of my sisters head… AND HE WAS HEAVY!!!
GAH!!! I ONLY MOSHED FOR ONE SONG! BUT AT LEAST WHEN I DIE, I CAN SAY "I MOSHED"!!!
thats right… i couldnt handle the mosh pit, and with my sisters there, after the first song we fought our way out of the pit… it was INSANE.
After that, we spent the rest of the Alexisonfire set, a good distance away from the front, But Mel, Tiff and Al (who endded up a couple of meters away from me) stil ended up with a kick to the shin (Al) a headbutt (Mel) and pulled hair (Tiff) and a bunch of scratches.
Alexisonfire played a bunch of songs includeing "No Transitory", "Hey its your Funeral Mama" and "Accidents", which got the whole crowd singing. It was a great 1hr and 5 min set.
^George from Alexisonfire, rock’n the crowd AND the shorts… dont blame him, it was HOT there.
We had insane coolio time! it was great. and a bunch of other more elequent sayings for how awesome it was…
We also ended up with alot of free swag, together we got around : 4 tshirts, 4 hats, about 10 packs of trident gum, a yo yo, 2 sets of wrist bands, a ball, 2 snap xbox bracelet, 2 xbox lanyards and about 8 of those key chain thingies that MADD gives away with 50cents in it for drunk people to call for a cab with… ITS ALL ABOUT THE FREE STUFF BABY!!
Thanks for reading to my LOOOOONNG Block storm blogio… it was a great time and ill post some pictures on the side to prove it. Me, Mel, Al and Tiff took these photos… they are all kinds of cool
Byies for now!
Fel awesome blog, about an awesome day. BILLY TALENT ON WED! We will have a f***ing hootanany!