Snow Patrol

Corbin and I went to the Snow Patrol concert on Saturday, and it was INCREDIBLE!!!
We got there about an hour before the doors opened, and played around with the camera.


Then we sat inside for about another hour before the Plain White Tee's got on stage.



The lead singer was sick, so they only did three songs. 1,2,3,4 (which Corbin and I sing together a lot, so it was sweet) a really cool song that I didn't know the title of, and Hey There Delilah. Even though there were only three songs, I felt very satisfied by the experience. The drummer was my favorite part. He's the big black guy, and he is totally not your stereotypical drummer dude. He's a bigger fellow, but he was wearing an almost skin tight all black outfit, with a delightful orange bow tie. He only got to play one song, so he was being really silly in the back for the other two. It was awesome.

Then, SNOW PATROL came on, and the party really got started!!!

I knew about 3/4 of all the songs they played, which I already loved, and the other ones that were new to me, I especially loved! Their lyrics are just so poetic and awesome, make me all gooey inside. And you know how some bands sound really weird when they're live? Snow Patrol sounded awesome! Just different enough to add some spice, but still pleasing to the ear.
The lead singer? Crazy! For about half the songs he didn't have his guitar, so he carried around a microphone, and ran around the stage doing weird things and manic movements with his hands. Crazy Irishmen. He said lots of pretty hilarious things too. Near the end of one song he laid belly down on top of the piano they had on stage. When the song was done, he climbed off it with a clang and said, "My dad always told me you can't dismount a piano without making some noise. I never knew what he meant until just now."
Then there was a particularly nice song, so people pulled out their cell phones and waved them around (like they would have done with lighters). He was singing, and in between lines he said,
"Your phones look really weird.
...Lyrics...
Like little aliens.
...Lyrics...
Hello little aliens."

During one song, the line "Shut your eyes and sing to me" repeats over and over, so he had the audience do it. After a couple tries, he stops us and says, "I must not have made myself clear, and I apologize for that. But I want you to sing as if your SHOES ARE ON FIRE!" Then he split the audience in half and we had a singing battle. It was so so so fun.
Other fun fact, the bassist plays his bass backwards, like Paul McCartney. And you know how bassists are usually pretty chill, and just stand there and play. Well, he did that for most of the concert, but the end song got so out of hand that he was like jumping around like a lead guitarist and was going crazy! It was pretty incredible.


For the encore, they came out and did three songs, and in the background they had some sweet animations going on. All three songs had like different stuff going all, but all of the stuff going on was like origami. The first song was a hundred million different origami suns like rushing around in a tornado-y thing. Then it was like landscapes made of paper, then it was like we were watching an origami Snow Patrol concert. It looked so cool, and the music to go along was fantastic.
By the end, I thought my ears were going to melt off because it was so loud, but it was totally worth it!!!