Matchbox 20 - VIP EXPERIENCE (2012)

Matchbox 20. Common household name, right?

Well, in the lovely year of, well last year, my dear mother kindly bought myself and her VIP tickets to see Matchbox 20. The VIP tickets themselves were $500 each AND DID NOT include actual concert admission. Altogether my poor mum ended up spending over $1000 just to see her favourite band, but was it worth it? The show itself was most definitely worth it but I will get to the in a second. Although $500 each for VIP entry plus a 'goodies bag' was definitely not worth it.

We were told to arrive at the venue early so we could pick up our goodies bag. We got there when we were supposed to and we forced to wait another hour because the merch people hadn't even arrived yet. After the waiting we went up to collect our goodies bad only to go through and find out that half the merch we were promised we didn't even get. What we ended up taking home was a poster, a wristband/USB (which actually didn't work so we had to get the company to resend ours later), a VIP lanyard and their latest album, North. So after the poor excuse for a goodie bag we thought the meet and great would have to be spectacular! Well, guess what? It wasn't. There were about 15 of us that had actually bought the VIP tickets but we, rudely, got told that we had to wait for another half an hour to meet them because other people, who had won the tickets via the local radio station, got to go in first. Talk about uncool.

We eventually were in the line to meet them. I kid you not, we were pushed and pulled in and out of that room they were in so fast I barely remember it. We basically said "Hi", shook hands, got a photo and left. Biggest waste of money and the photo isn't even nice! Probably the worst photo of me ever...therefore, it will not be featured on this post!

Anyways, on to the show!
The Support Support act was a pretty well-known Aussie band, Evermore. That was the second time I had seen them as I saw them a week beforehand at Maroon 5's concert (stay tuned!) They are extremely good live and know how to own the stage. Their music is definitely soulful and full of truth!

The 2nd support act was, you know, just a casual band, INXS...I wonder if you've heard of them, LOL. They pretty much speak for themselves. There's really not much more i can say about them apart from they really got us going and were so interactive with the crowd...literally!

Finally Matchbox 20 came on stage and boy can they put on a show. This was the 2nd time i had seen them in concert; I saw them about 6 years earlier and they were almost as amazing as they were this time around! They were beyond amazing. Rob was excellent at getting the crowd up, moving and singing their hearts out and you could tell he was enjoying himself from the huge sweat patches...or maybe they were just from the lights. Yeap, definitely the lights! They really owned the night. The encore was definitely the best part of the show and they came back on stage louder than ever and raring to go!

Rob is clearly enjoying himself whilst performing "She's So Mean"

Nothing beats a good mosh!

Encore time! "Goodnight Canberra, We Love You"

Hilary Duff: Canberra 2005 & Brisbane 2008 - THROWBACK!

Hilary Duff.....where to start?! When i was about 7, I fell in love with Hilary Duff, but not in a lesbian way, haha! She was pretty much my life up until I was 13 and i then discovered The Jonas Brothers! She is still currently my role model in life and I still have every single one of her albums/singles and the hundreds of posters I collected.

When i was 9 I went to her concert in my home town Canberra, Australia. It was at the National Convention Centre, which after seeing Hot Chelle Rae there last year (there will be a post on them too!), is quite a small venue, but when I was that age I thought it was huge. From memory, it was extremely loud from all the screaming girls...and yes I was one of them. I remember singing along to every song and getting looks from the girl sitting next to me because she didn't know all the words and I did. I would now just like to say "HAH! SUCKED IN" to that girl.

Now, this was before I even owned a camera, so I actually stole this photo from my best friend (If you're reading this: SOZ). I dug up this pic this afternoon and I couldn't scan it or anything so what better way to take a photo of a photo.

I definitely remember buying this shirt and I wore it everywhere. It was my favourite shirt for years and I still have it! (Sorry for the poor quality pic).

3 Years later I went to see her Dignity Tour in Brisbane. I was staying with my dad at the time and I was getting so excited because my step mum was supposed to take me and she's super cool and I was getting so hyped and then my little sister decides to get sick so my dad had to take me....HOW LAME! I was so upset and angry and i really didn't enjoy myself, all because i was there with my dad! Anyways, I had scored seated floor tickets and i was so close! I remember standing on my chair dancing the whole time. It turned out to be a hoot!

This has got to be the blog with the worst photos ever! I managed to dig this ticket up and take a photo but i had no clue how to flip it or whatever!

To this day i still love Hilary Duff, I still think she is amazing.

Stick around for my post later tonight on my time at the Lady Gaga concert (2010)!