While I was checking the sign with all the set times this guy walks over and goes “Damn, I shouldn’t have bought a beer” and I just look over and he goes, “I left to buy a beer and my friends leave me, do you have a light?” I was like what the fuck?!! Then told him I didn’t have a light. I went back to see There For Tomorrow, they were really good. After that I had a little more then 2 hours before I had anything I wanted to do so I walked around and checked out booths and hung out with Joel and Sean. I saw Steven from FUSE, he’s really chill, if you guys see him go say hi! The guy at the Photofinish booth gave me a signed Danger Radio booklet for guessing how old he was (18). I met Rachael and she is the nicest person ever! Oh My God she is just an amazing person! Eric and Nick went and hung around for a little bit and so I talked to them, Eric hit me in the head with the sign, twice .

At 230 I went to the Maine signing but the line was closed so I walked over to Max and chilled with him, and had him call Alex. I was just chilling there talking to Pat and Kennedy while they signed. After that I ran over to catch Breath Carolina’s set. Amazing, they are so great. This Century acoustic was right after so I went over to the tent and saw them play, they were great, as usual. Austin Gibbs was teching for them. I had to run right when it was over to catch the Maine’s set. Holy crap it was amazing, still don’t like the cover though. I ran into girls there that I’ve seen at other concerts and talked to them then headed over to the Maine’s tent and sat with Tatiana and Pamela until about 6 then I went to check out A Rocket to the Moon.

I went up and got second row and the girl next to me was wasted beyond belief. Halvo called her out cause she kept doing that thing where you put your middle and pointer fingers on either side of your mouth and stick your tongue out. He was like , “That’s inappropriate, you need to stop” at the end of the set she pulled her pants off and almost peed in the pit but one of the girls stopped her. (thank god) after that I spent the next about 2 hours just floating around the Maine and A Rocket to the Moon’s tent , cause they were right next to each other. By about 730 most of the people were gone and Rocket had gone back to their bus I went and watched a couple of 3OH!3’s songs before going back to the Maine, honestly then best part of the night was the 10 minute conversation I had with Kenny about soccer. He’s so nice! Trey was taking down the tent and the had GK posters that they had written on the back of so I asked him for them and got 6 flying pig posters and 1 with the Maine’s promo pics. Then this girl walks up to Kenny and goes “Can you si-oh my god” so I look behind me then the girl starts talking to me and I realize she a girl I used to play soccer with, but havn’t seen in years. At 9 about 5 people and John were all that was left and we were all standing around talking and security came over and yelled at everyone to leave. It was a great day to say the least!

Doors were at 7 but around 630 a huge car accident happened in front of the venue. 4 cars one was totaled and a lady had to be taken out a stretcher. It all happened in front of The Summer Sets van so Dylan and Stephen came running out and me and Sarah just go “they didn’t hit the van” and they both turn around and go back to sound check. 5 minutes before doors Brian and John show up (they had been at the studio) and the guy from The Secret Handshake walked through the line. We explained to him that there was a 2 drink minimum and he said it sucked but there was nothing he could do about it.

Doors opened and since there were inly 50 people with early entry plus the 4 people in front of me I was able to walk up to the stage and get front row, center with no fight. Anarbor was first and they KILLED it, amazing show, Slade stepped on my hand twice and got his sweat on me. They had the entire sold out room dancing. I got a lot of pictures of them.

Eye Alaska was next, they were really good, the lead singer bent down in front of me and sung like in my face, pretty incredible. Some girl tried to pull him into the crowd so me, Sarah and Chrissy pushed him back up and pulled her hand away. They also had a great show. The singer had great crowd interaction but the rest of the band was pretty stationary, still a great show. Brian from the Summer Set came out on their last song, it was pretty cool.

Next was the Summer Set. Ah-fucking-mazing! Oh my god. Stephen was pretty much in front of me the entire time. Brian killed it but didn’t really interact much which kind of made me sad. Josh was having a hard night because he had missed sound check but it’s ok. Jess lost her head phones at one point and the cord got rapped around her neck, but she recovered. When that happened Stephen was trying to play while not falling over laughing, it was fun to watch. All in all a great set, and I can’t wait to see them again.

The Secret Handshake. SUCKED!!!!! I hated the set, the huge light up speakers were flashing, and not even in time with the music, the music was terrible and I just couldn’t get into the set at all. One good thing did happen though. Kyle Burns and J-Cook showed up during their/his set.

The Mother Fucking Cab, as Slade put it, was amazing. The entire set was just full of energy the entire room was singing and dancing after about 7 songs everyone but Singer and Brian left and The y played Vegas Skies and part of High Hopes in Velvet Ropes acoustic. During Vegas Skies, Singer walked over to us when I reached up to touch him, he grabbed my hand looked down at me and sang “so lets make one more wrong turn tonight” making me melt. They played 3 more songs then left. They barley made us work for an encore and played Disturbia and Bounce. During Disturbia Marshall gave me a guitar pick and closed my hand around it, before I could more my arm a girl and 2 of her friends grabbed my arm and clawed me to get the pick out of my hand. Pretty insane, but Marshall saw so he gave me his towel after Bounce. I now have Marshall sweat : ).

I went and stood next to the Summer Set’s merch booth after the show and me and Josh were taking bets on how long until Dylan died because the booth was WAY crazier then he was used to. I bought the Summer Set’s new tank top that says “The Summer Set For Your Health” and put a 5 to free Taylor, Dylan gave me a poster as a thanks you and I had Jess sign it then told her she was a super hero for putting up with the guys cause Josh to yell “Hey, we’re not THAT bad” and me and Jess to laugh. I bough the Cab shirt that picks on the old Run DMC shirts and a tour shit and since it was cheeper then normal had enough money to get an Anarbor shirt and EP and an Eye Alaska EP. Out side I had Singer and Cash sign the towel and Stephen, Josh and John sign the poster.

Now the damage. My neck, throat and back hurt like heel. I have a 3inch but 3inch bruise on each thigh from being pushed into the stage (there was no barricade) and I’m still dehydrated. Possibly the best concert I’ve ever been to.

i will still listen to them and support them but i am letdown. the trailer is a minute thirty of John and the new Banner is John then maybe other peole. i understand that hes the lead singer and will get more attention but at least make it so we can see the other people!!! dont get me started on the new head shot thingy, too much make up, that just not them, i have a feeling it wasnt there idea to get a pound of make up dumped on them. YES i am proud of how far the have gotten and YES i do think they desrve everything they are geting, just i wonder is it worth what its costing them?

Brendan from Valencia posted this, he is a good friend of Ian, this story made me cry, the fact that this happened, and to such nice people.... http://www.valenciamusic.net/site/?p=373

Mercy Mercedes posted this. again really doesnt make sence as to why it excaladed, hope fully the 6 (or more) people who video taped this will use them to help make sure justace is surved. http://absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?p=41682262#post41682262

If you have other information, pictures, videos or eye whitnes accounts of the events please share, i would like to know how this could happen to suck great people.

~Canada

~Canada

ps sorry its so long!