Snow Patrol

I had fallen in love with Snow Patrol a couple years ago when I heard Run from Final Straw. Subsequently, I, who rarely actually go out and buy new CDs since I'm stuck in my old love of 80s music, went out and got Final Straw and Songs for Polar Bears. Because I really like Gary Lightbody's style, I also got Reindeer Section, which was one of his side projects. And even though my poor Hubby has to compete with knitting, yarn, Gary, and my other hobbies, he ordered Eyes Open for me when it released. Furthermore, when he realized how disappointed I was when I missed them at their gig at the Wiltern last September, hubby got us concert tickets for this tour.
So, this past Friday, hubby and I went to the concert at the Gibson Amphitheater. Of course, I brought my knitting and knitted through the drive up and through the opening acts Silversun Pickups and OKGO. OKGO was okay -- I thought they'd be more fun and interesting, given their creative videos and high jinks at the Grammys.

Left: Gary Lightbody and Nathan Connolly (I think). Right: Gary

The band did not disappoint and gave a wonderful performance to a packed theater. The Gibson is many times larger that the Wiltern. I supposed, that the band's success and exposure on shows like Grey's Anatomy, and ER and movies The Last Kiss did not hurt their ticket sales at all! Hubby says they have a song on some video game too.

A wide variety of people and age range attended the concert. Lots of gay couples too. In fact, while I was in the long line to get my martini fix, there was a group of super fun gay men behind me having a grand ol' time. One of them told me he loved me and my name, and kept hugging me. Aww...they love me. People like that make concerts and the world more fun and colorful. The only bummer to the concert was this girl who sat in the row in front of us, a little to my left. There was now way I could *not* see her, since she was in front and definitely part of my peripheral view. The girl was gyrating to her own rhythm and shaking her ass in her bf's face. Now, I'm all about people expressing themselves and having a good time, but her movements did not go with the music and it was a little distracting since everyone else in my field of vision was moving in similar rhythm to the music. Her gyrations seemed more like she was trying to dance along to some sexy and fast beat Beyonce song in the privacy of one's budoir. I bet if the gay guys behind me saw that, they'd have more than something to say.


If I recall correctly, I took the two pictures above during Run.