I've Lost My Fear Of Falling

Cap because this is an epic long blog : Lined up for ages and made lots of new friends, met old ones, as well as Nick from Aiden.

The show was incredible- extremely rough though. I loved The Used, Gallows, Rise Against, and Aiden's performances the most. which is basically all the bands that played but i dont care.

The Used were my favourite though. They played a lot of old songs as well as the best songs of Lies for the Liars. They were absolutely amazing <3

Show finished. Met more people until 1am when it was time to go.

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So, left Ulladulla by 9 o'clock. We were very, very excited. "Why? SHOW GODDAMNIT".

 

We went to Tracey's to get ready. I just wore my bones shirt and black ¾ pants and red makeup. Then did Kate's hair and makeup and made her choke on the litre of hairspray I used. And she wore her TBS shirt… "I taught you well little grasshopper" I thought. Then went through a sharpie session-

 

Me: VERY MUCH ALIVE (neck) S//C (hand) CAREFUL (inside arm) HALLOWEEN (knuckles)

Kate: DON'T GOOGLE YOURSELF (hand), ZOID (neck), !WAYMIKEY (knuckles),  MOTHER (inside arm)

Full of win. Anyway we left, and drove to the train station.

Got on the train, singing the 'Bert McCracken song'.

Train took forever, little over an hour. Mum thought I was gonna get mugged so I started make hand signs.   Ya know.. kill them with hand-signals.  

"The next stop is central…"

Kate: *yelling* How about shutting the hell up!

 

When we got there it was just after 2pm and there weren't as many people there as I expected.

Sat down with Kate, and looked around and holyshitwow, people had the Gerard-phrases like us on their arms and a S//C shirt. Haha so that was cool.

Then I met up with Kurt and his two friends Andy and Michael and chatted for a while.

Went back to line-up. Then decided to make friends lmfao. Talked to the group of kids behind us in the line. They were lovely and we stayed with them.

Also met another girl, Kacey and she was rad too. So we kind of kept each other sane while we kept waiting.

Thennnn, Kate says "look! *points*"

And it was Nick Wiggins from Aiden chatting to a small group of kids in the line.

So we walk over and I'm pushing Kate forward to meet him lol.

She got him to sign her notebook and I took photos of them. I was so proud she met someone haha.

Then I walked over.

Me: Hi!  Would you mind if I took a picture?

Nick: Sure :]

:*Nicks pulls me into him and put my hand around him *click*

Me: thank you!

Nick: no problem =]

Me: ohh do you think you could you please sign this?

Nick: yeah sure!

Me: awesome! (Edit: I promised myself I'd never say that to another person in a band and I failed) thank you so much.

*smiles*

*signs other girls thing*

*turns back to me*

Nick: ohh, sorry I used your sharpie.

Me: oh no its cool! Thank you!

*walks back to line* *fangirls like a mofo quietly*

 

And then the girls we were lining up with said CHANNEL [V] were filming down on the pavers so Kate and I go down with Kacey. Woo! We jump into the crowd they are filming. Cameras cut and the guys hang around.

Then we talked to Danny and Kurley from [V] . Got in headlocks, laughed, chatted, and took pics. It was funfunfun.

 

              

 

 

Then we went back to line up for the remaining hour and a bit.

Got some lunch, and Mum came over.

Doors open and we went in.

Surprisingly the security told everyone to sit down when we got in. So yeah. We sat. Kate was shitting herself with excitement bless her.

 

Couldn't see anyone I knew. Turned around and saw a girl with a S//C shirt so I told her it was cool. And 5 minutes later I realized I'd seen her at school. lmfao.

Then it all started. Everyone stood up. And the side act came on.

 

I think it was GUNS FOR GLORY. They were okay.

DROP DEAD, GORGEOUS were first on the main stage. I'd only heard a tiny, little bit of their stuff beforehand so I was still kinda new to them. But they didn't disappoint. They sounded better live than on there recorded songs in my opinion.

I really enjoyed listening to them.

 

 

Then THE BLED came on.

Dan from the Used actually introduced them which was very cool.

Quinn was video-ing their performance the crowd.

Iero has been screaming praises about their live shows so I was definitely excited to see them .But I really liked them too.

The lead singer, James was particularly amazing, he got a lot of crowd interaction when he jumped off the stage and started singing near the barrier. Plus he had cool hai so it was winwin all around. Radradrad.

 

 

 

GALLOWS came on next. Ah dude, not many people like/liked them. I thought they were totally awesome; I don't know why. They put on a fucking amazing live show in my opinion. Frank Carter is a bastard; but I love him. It was the most intense part of taste of chaos pit-wise for me. Absolutely brutal.  There punched in the face, stepped on, my chest my elbowed so much I thought id broken something. That's when I lost one of my shoes. *flashbacks to heychris' video of girl who lost her shoe at an MCR concert*.  Found it a few minutes later, it got very sore.

 

THEN!

So I was standing at the edge of this huge pit, pushing the people who ran into Kate and I, when I heard the opening guitar for Black Flag's Nervous Breakdown. I start yelling at Kate who eventually heard it too...

 Gallows were covering Black Flag. hoylshitwow. Impulse. I remember looking around and no one was singing. No one looked like they had any idea what song was on - which I thought was hilarious. You have all these people claiming to be so 'punk' and 'hardcore' that they can't recognize a Black Flag, who revolutionized American hardcore, song. hahaha. Anyway.

Then I grabbed Kate's hand and dragged her through the circle pit. Came out closer to the front. Got very close as everyone was too preoccupied with the pit in that area. And Me and Kate went off and starting screaming the lyrics like a crazy mofo. And I pulled Kate closer, and Frank Carter walked over to the part of the stage we were at and he smiled at our part while the guitar solo bit was going. It was awesome. And yeah. Because of that, I found a new love for the Gallows. I must say, I didn't mind there cover either.

Anyway. Frank Carter. Kept talking about fucking everyones mum and being a wanker. "Adelaide are better than you pussies". LOL I thought he was hilarious, probably because I'm amused by anything with the phrase' your mum' in it.

Yeah, I loved them.

 

 

Then AIDEN came on. WiL came out looking lovely as usual. I may have had a fangirl moment but shh.

WE had totally switched positions from the gallows set but it was good thing.

haha. I loved it.

wiL swinging his mic like I heard he does, reminded me of that Adam Lazarra shirt "proudly swinging since 1999"

The songs that stuck out the most for me were Teenage Queen, One Love, Die Romantic, The Last Sunrise, The Last Sunset

"FuckYour Mom" midsong made my heart burn.

And there was this part where nick did this bass swing over the head catch. haha I thought it was so cool.

Lots of crowd surfers too. Oh it's cool, I totally didn't need that arm.

Overall it was fucking awesome.

 

 

Then CARPATHIAN came on. They don't really rock my boat at all. I started to feel ill and my shoe had come off again. SO after a few songs Kate and I went out. Brought a tonne of coke and water and took a breathe as I tied up my shoe rofl. Looked around for a signing tent, couldn't find one so we were like "eh fuck it lets go back".

Saw the last few songs of Carpathian

 

 

Then RISE AGAINST came on!! Woo! I was totally psyched to see them. The crowd seemed crazy for them too.

I really liked them, not knowing all of the songs they played - I still really enjoyed it.

The little pits were incredibly rough again too.

I really loved Ready To Fall. That was probably my favourite song they played.

Woo. And then some guy screwed up my jaw. Ouch.

And they finished with Prayer of a Refugee I believe which was also rad.

Ah they were so good. I'd love to see them again.

 

 

 

THE USED were last and everyone was pretty excited.

Ooo, now everything stopped. The T.O.C banner was taken down and a new one was put up.

It was a picture of an American flag with a naked woman on it looking scared.

It said something along the lines of "I woke up from the American Dream".

 I really didn't understand what I had to do with The Used. My first thought was Greenday. But yeah...odd banner.

 

So a while later… The stage crew starts putting out all these cut out figures.

I'd also met up with Kurt and Andy again and had an awesome chat to them. haha we started naming the cutouts.

Chadam came out!

And then they came on! Saw Bert and laughed. I don't know but he makes me laugh a lot. He said something about smelling 'ripe' and all of us being 'fucking sexy'. And I laughed some more.

 

Pretty sure the set list was:

Bird And The Worm

Take It Away

Liar, Liar (Burn in Hell)

Paralyzed

Taste of Ink/ All That I've Got/ Buried Myself Alive/ All That I've Got

Another One Bites The Dust (Queen cover)

Pretty Handsome Awkward

Hospital

Box Of Sharp Objects ( w/ wiL Francis)

 

No idea on order.

Liar, Liar. Woah. Things got hefty and intense and wow. It felt good.

And before Paralyzed he starting going on about doing this dance... It started with the hands, moved down to the shoulders and then the ass. And haha he made me laugh with his dancing skills. I  love Paralyzed.

 

Then! Bert says "Yeah lets see how many of you motherfuckers are hardcore fans, who wants some old shit'.

Then basically I died. It was incredible. Kate got to do her back up singing xD and I did my Gerard - hand dance. It was so amazing. Those songs mean the world to me.

In between songs he introduced the band.

And got everyone to sing stuff like "Hey Dan! Hey Dan! Danny boy! Danny boy! Take your shirt off Dan. Take your shirt off Dan".

Then he started singing about his "wiener" he kissed Quinn at some point.

Someone through a bra up on stage which he started doing sexual things with. XD it was hilarious.

He was all "*lifts up shirts to show off chest* ohhh bert, sign my tits bert.ohhhhhhh". hahahaha.

He's such a horndog. <333

 

Then...I don't know why...he started playing 'Another One Bites The Dust' by Queen. It was good, just really unexpected and weird.

Pretty Handsome was another set highlight "I hope you choke and die" that felt good to scream out. I swear going to a used show is like anger release therapy rofl. And there was this part where i looked at Jeph and he was doing the same part he did in the video -which is my favourite part. haha.

And then they played Hospital *dies* Ah, that song was breath-taking, especially the part where its all "Three cheers you fooled them all, hip hip horray".

 

And then! wiL comes out and does a duet for Box of Sharp Objects! yeah...freaked out.

Mmm. A duet with another lead sing of a band from taste of chaos who he likes to kiss a lot. Familiar?

So...yeah. Bert decides this is the time for a full crowd death wall and we need to split and 'back the fuck back 10 more steps'.

I grab Kate's hand and we are 3-ish people from the front row of "death-ness" ROFL.. And when Bert yells 'go'.

 It was so damn fun yet so incredibly,

excruciatingly  painful.  About 10 seconds into it, it was getting way to dangerous so I grabbed Kate and we went back.

 

 

Bert, Bert was like...weirder than usual. Weird and sexual and odd. lmfao. He involved the crowd a lot too. He thanked us all for our support.

Jeph kept playing with the cut outs which made me laugh.

Quinn & Dan played fantastically. Flawlessly.

Haha and I ended up with getting some random bandana put on my head by someone. I think it was Kurt...I hope it was or someone felt the need to start putting things on me. >.>

The Used was definitely my favourite band there.

Then after we met the girls we lined up with, and grabbed our tickets. we ended up having to go around the back where the cars exit to wait for bands.

After a while we realized we were on the wrong side to were the bands were coming out but we waited anyway.

 

And then we met 3 girls. Emma, Nicky and Stacy. We ended up hanging with them for about an hour. Hahahah they were hilarious. We were having the weirdest conversations. We made a special brick.  And we signed each others autograph books and T.O.C books. I was cool and signed one of them with  'Bert McCracken xoxo'. lmfao.

Didn't expect to really meet any bands because. But The Bled guys stopped so I just waved.

Then it got past 1am we had to go back to the hotel. Got in.  Took pictures of 'the damage' (bruises and scratches and whatnot). Had a shower. Realized that big coloured patch on my legs weren't dirt, they were bruises.

And then I fell asleep thinking about what's going on in China Town next door.

 

And that was the Taste of Chaos Experience for 2007.

xoep.