The concert I went to was on October 2, 1999 at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell, MA. I got there at about 3:00, four hours before the concert even started. I met up with some other CC'rs in the line and we just waited around for the doors to open. Finally, at like 6:30 they let us in. I rushed to security check place, and they didn't find my camera. I was about two rows back standing from the stage for Oleander's set, which was O.K. When OLP came on, they started with Automatic Flowers. Everyone from the back started pushing forward, and I didn't last through half of the song. Security had to pull me and one of my friends out. We saw the concert from around ten rows back. They put on an awesome show....their set went something like this: Automatic Flowers, Is Anybody Home, Waited, Blister, One Man Army, Stealing Babies, Lying Awake, Superman's Dead, Clumsy, and Starseed. They seemed really into it and it was a blast. After their set, we(me, Jen and Maia) went up to the merch. stand and met up with a few CC'rs. We went outside to the gate where we could see the tourbuses. The guys from Oleander came out and started talking to us. They brought us a bottle of water too. They were really cool. After that we saw Jamie walking by and we called him over....he was sooo nice!! He could only stay for a few minutes cause his fam was there. We waited around for a while longer, and then told the security dude that we were from the CC and to tell Mike that. About five mins. later, MIKE came out and talked to us for 1 hour and ten minutes! It was soo cool!!! He was the nicest guy, and he was really funny. He was bragging about his new computer too. When he went back to the tour bus, me and Maia went to call for a ride home. Then we got drinks. On our way out the door, we saw Jamie again. We got to talk to him for a half-hour. Jen showed up too, and it was just the four of us. We each got two hugs from him and then we all left. It's safe to say that was the best day of my life : )
~Kate~