First things first, I feel I must get this comment out of the way. When not otherwise distracted(*Cough Cough* Panic. *Cough Cough* Cobra Starship. *Cough Cough* Etcetera.) I know music. I am a trained singer and was semi-professional for four years. I play five instruments, none of which would help me much in a band but whatever. Therefore, I have opinions about what I saw, and will not hold back with them. Sorry if you disagree.

The City Lives
I liked these guys, no matter what else I'm gonna say. They had some really interesting guitar lines(Though admittedly they had three guitarists and a bassist on stage so...) and admittedly good vocalists. Yes, plural. I appreciate multiple vocalists as part of a band. They were also extremely nice guys when I chatted with them after the concert. However, as I jokingly said to my beloved partner in crime, they looked like they had five different eras of music on stage(both in looks and attitude towards what you do on stage) and it was a little disconcerting. Particularly the guitarist who looked like he could have been happy in a hair band. Don't get me wrong, I'm buying their CD online as we speak, but I could maybe do without seeing them live again for a few more years. Possibly after I figure out if their lyrics really were about Jesus and earthquakes.

Jet Lag Gemini
Once again I preface this with the fact that I liked this band. They had good music, a possibly edibly adorable guitarist who was also extremely good at what he did. Their singer was rather awesomely intense. But at the same time, they had a little rhythm problems, or perhaps that's how they meant it, I couldn't tell you. The bass, drums and guitars would follow one rhythm, the vocals would follow a completely different and indecipherable one. It made it really hard to dance to. However, that could possibly just be their style. I didn't have a chance to get my hands on their music before the concert, and am hoping to now get it after to hear what I was supposed to be hearing.

Funny story about this band, though. While Jet Lag Gemini was playing, I was three people from the stage and right in the center, and every time the singer looked out at the crowd he would meet my eyes and smile, so I'd always smile back because he was obviously looking for reassurance that he was doing a good job, since no one could sing along and the only people other than me who were dancing were obviously very drunk. This led the girl next to me to question, out loud, what made me so special, something I really wanted to answer with "I looked like I was enjoying it. What about you?" But I didn't. *Sighs* Waste of a good comeback

Now ignoring pit politics and fights that broke out, lets skip to the main event.

All American Rejects
This was pretty much my first time seeing these guys live and it was a lot of fun. Not much more that I can say about that, since as I've mentioned before I have a horrible memory and couldn't tell what all they played if I was being tortured. I do know they played at least Mona Lisa off the new CD, but I couldn't tell you much else.

The band was holding this thing where if you preordered their new CD at the show, they'd give you a wristband for an autograph session after the show. I'd been planning on doing this anyways, so got a wristband quite happily. After the lining up, being handed out things and so forth, we were ushered around to get the band to sign things. Rather hilariously(for me), Tyson was apparently not quite conscious or something, as he spent most of the signing with his head down, groping for whatever was placed before him before giving an extremely half-hearted high five or thumbs up to the person across the table. As I apparently have no mind-to-mouth barrier when I'm tired, this instantly led to me mumbling rather vehemently about zombies to Nick. He found it funny and elbowed Tyson in response, but to no avail.

All in all, fun times were had. I have three new CDs and a hoodie on the way to me from the internet. It's all good.