My day at Vans Warped Tour01:21 Jul 19 2013
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It started when I got up at 6AM and showered so I'd be done long before my mom needed to, she worked the night before and wasn't enthusiastic as me and there was traffic so we were almost 2 hours late and ended up missing The Architects and The Cleopatra Complex :/
On the way one group of Warped Tour people's car randomly died in the middle of the highway in the middle of bumper to bumper traffic, we also saw a few other crashes from Warped goers getting a little too excited.
When we got in the gates my mom had to pee so we randomly stood there and put on sun screen which worked effectively because neither of us got burned.
I think my mom spent a lot of her day between the parent lounge, main stage, and random vendors, she didn't really like the pits or care to spend $2 on the schedule to see who plays when and where.
We looked at the schedule and saw that we had over an hour before bands we wanted to see started so we randomly roamed the grounds but were coincidentally passing through the main Amphitheater when it started raining so we sat there for about an hour and listened to RDGLDGRN (Red Gold Green) which they kind of sucked, lucky for them they had a captive audience, that place was filled being one of the few with shelter from the rain.
Just before 2pm we went to see Young London, the rain pretty much stopped so we were one of the few that didn't get wet, although that didn't stop the guy in the band from squirting me in the face with the super soaker.
I ran into a girl and her guy that didn't think I could make it there without her money and ride, she was pissed and soaked because of the rain, she just kind of bitched about it and angrily ran off. The guy might have crowd surfed during The Used but that was the only other time I noticed them.
After Young London, who were great we were back and forth between the Kia stages to see The Used, Reel Big Fish, and Chiodos. All of them were really good too and we just barely missed the uber crazy part of the pits, except for Chiodos, even the sides weren't safe and calm in their pit.
If you want someone to see live then I suggest Reel Big Fish, they definitely know how to entertain a crowd and have really good music too.
My friend was a Warped Virgin so I decided to be nice and took her to William Beckett at the Acoustic Basement instead of staying at the Kia stages for another half hour for Memphis May Fire.
The hour we spent in the Acoustic basement was great, William Beckett is super talented, we safely sat behind what pit he had and snacked.
After he was done it was time for Charlie Simpson who was joined by his friend Gabe Kubanda, we got up and stood for him, second row too. He's the full package as far as I'm concerned, hot, British, talented, and has a decent personality from what I could tell.
Me and my friend were waiting to buy his stuff and he comes up himself and sells it to us, at that point my eyes about popped out of my brain and he was nice enough to sign my shirt and my friend's CD when we asked.
Too bad there was a line of people that wanted his stuff too so we couldn't stay and chat with the few minutes we had before NeverShoutNever so there we went, back to the Kia stages for the next hour to see him and The Black Veil Brides.
For NeverShoutNever we were right in the middle of the pit but it was probably the calmest, safest pit there was considering the size of it, no issues there, the performance was awesome, I saw one of the guys that I pretty well idolize live and it was AWESOME!
Right after them was The Black Veil Brides, we got pretty close but we were stuck behind a few people that were about our height and really hard to see around so I only got one good picture of them but their performance was still great, I saw them live like I've always wanted to and they were great!
Then we went to the Monster stage and just kind of sat there, waited 20 minutes for The Black Dahlia Murder, I guess their buss broke down and they couldn't make it so we wandered the merchandise stands until we had to make it to the other side of the Venue for Crossfaith. We spit a cup of fries and by the time we did that they were getting ready to start.
Crossfaith and Blessthefall started 5 minutes apart from each other and were on opposite ends of the Venue so since it was the end of the day and my friend doesn't like the huge crazy pit we opted for the much smaller pit with less craziness that was close to the exit and went for the unique but great Electronic Metal rather than just Metal.
They are from Japan and only one of them made it known that he knew English, even then he had sort of a British Accent. There were only a few rows of people squished up against the barricade thing so I picked a spot right in the middle about 3 feet behind them. Got some really good pictures but we also got stuck in the middle of like a random mini Wall of Death then we moved back about 5 feet and from that point on people just left that area open.
Crossfaith can perform really well and sound great, their mix of Electronic Metal just works and it works great!
At that point there were only 2 or 3 performances left, we were tired and achey and didn't care strong enough for Sleeping With Sirens or Crown The empire so around 8:30 we headed home on a quiet ride and that pretty much ended the Best Day Ever, just like their theme said.
You know that smell when you've had your shoes on all day and take them off for the first time? That's what my entire body smelled like, I guess that's what you get when you combine various types of weed, cigarettes, alcohol, sun screen, and sweat and various smells of other people that are hot and sweaty.
This is a link to the pictures I took, the album is set to public so you should be able to see it, if not let me know.
https://www.facebook.com/KurlyQ4196/media_set?set=a.629178693758915.1073741825.100000003710944&type=3
COMMENTS
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verrewulf
00:23 Jul 31 2013
Buy them and order me a pair too?