place: Sound Advice Music Amphitheater

year: 2007

shirt worn: Mindless Self Indulgence

type of show: official

bands: 

[LINKIN PARK]

my chemical romance

TAKING BACK SUNDAY

H. I. M.

PLACEBO

juLiEn-k

Mindless Self Indulgence

SAOSIN

THE BLED

STYLES OF BEYOND

Madina Lake

went with: Chris Golding, Sean Wasik, & Sara

show was: unbearably hot

entry:

It's 8/10/2007. Two days after my twentieth birthday. So, there's a couple bands here I like, but there's only one that I'm here to see. It's a band that I've seen three times including this one. It's a band that anyone can either only love or hate. It's a band called Mindless Self Indulgence. I've seen them twice on their headlining tour, but I just paid because wanted to see them play to someone else's audience. So, me anc Chris forget how to get to Sound Advice. I called Robbie and asked him and he was like "You're an idiot." Apparently we went really far in the wrong direction. Then we ate at this McDonald's that I had no idea existed. There was a motorcycle in there, and a train that moved around through the place. Satisfying healthy food. So, we get there. We go to the second stage. Madina Lake and STYLES OF BEYOND have already played, neither of which I have ever heard. I ran into Michelle Threman and Ron, and then  I ran into Joe Triana and Skyler. THE BLED got on. The singer asked "Is anyone having fun today?" and I yelled "I'M SURROUNDED BY DIPSHITS!" After they were done, Chris and I found Sean and Sara. It starts raining. How refreshing. SAOSIN plays. Sean and I are jumping in the mud and moshing in the pit. A bunch of MSI fans joined us in our retarded escapade of fun. Eventually it stopped raining. There was a part where they split the crown and called us the Scotts and the other side the Britts. It didn't work out to well. The two crowds collided and I lifted up legs and I was still moving because I was squished between people. Everyone was like "OH GOD! WHY!" and the band had to stop the song and make sure everyone was alright and then restart it. So, SAOSIN's done, the rain is gone, the sun is back, the heat is fucking miserable, and we're waiting for MSI. We and the other MSI fans started making bets on the set list. I say they open with Tornado," says one guy. So, I'm like, "No. They open with Shut Me up, then Tornado." MSI finally comes out, they open with "Tornado," the place goes NUTS! The second song was "Shut Me Up." I was wrong. Jimmy Urine was like "Why are there so many goths in Florida? From now on, we'll call you Flothics. You're right behind the Mexican goths, the Hexicans." So, Jimmy Urine is like "Do you guys want the rain back?" and everyone's like "YAH!" and he's like "Well, send me cigarettes so I can offer them to the rain gods!" Everyone starts throwing packs of cigarettes on stage. He's smoking them. He threw one back and said "THE RAIN GODS DO NOT WANT FUCKING MENTHOLS!" Between every song he made fun of the fans for worshipping them basically. So, it's unbarably hot, and half way through their set, Sean has a seizure and faints. So, I got two big guys to carry him up to the security guys in front of the barricade. So, I didn't pay attention to a good portion of their set because Sara and I went over to the side to watch Sean while he was getting hydrated and everything with the medics. Eventually Sean came back to us. During one song, Lyn-Z jumped into the crowd. After that song was over, Jimmy was like "Lyn-Z, what did I tell you about that! Why'd you feed them! Now they're gonna follow us home! Look at these animals! I am not cleaning up their poop!" After they finished they hung out with everyone. Sean got to meet Jimmy and Steve. We decided we would just chill and watch the rest of the show. We went up and sat in the lawn during juLiEn-k, the first main stage band, and half way through their set, we were like, ok, fuck this. It's too fucking hot. We left. Chris, Sean, Sara, and I fucking left and got slushies. I missed Dana.