mmfan486
11-02-2005, 05:53 PM
Not sure which forum MCR would go in, so I'm falling back on The Pit.
Well now that was a gig.
The fun started on the Civic Centre car park; it's the general consensus amongst my friends that my parking is hilarious and this time was no exception. After trying for ten minutes to squeeze my car into a ridiculously small space (where, even if I did manage to park it without clipping anything, I'd never be able to get out the car,) whilst at the same time dodging all the poor souls trying to get past me, I gave up and by some miracle managed to reverse-park into a space on the next level.
Then after the usual wait for the doors, we found ourselves watching the supports. I don't remember who the first band were, the second was Every Time I Die, who in my opinion drove home the point that if you don't know the band, you need a bit more music and a bit less WWHHOOOAARRGGGHHH.
When MCR came on the Civic Hall practically breathed euphoria. People love this band. They opened with Thank You For The Venom, I think, and it got progressively better from there. I was exhausted after 4 songs, how the 5 guys on the stage kept going for an hour and a bit escaped me completely. It wasn't until Helena that it really started to heat up, and if I remember rightly at one point Gerard Way was trying to get the crowd to make a bigger circle pit than the one achieved for At The Drive-In. Me and Jenn suddenly found ourselves in the middle of it and... we got a bit battered. (I'm not used to circle pits.) Only a bit, mind. Right at the end, he announced that they only had 2 songs left, and one of them was brand new... (which was pretty good, by the way,) fair enough, but they hadn't played Prison or I'm Not Okay! So which would they play?
They finished with You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison. The last band I saw at the Civic were Lostprophets, who didn't do an encore. Not so MCR. It only took 1 round of chanting and stamping from the crowd to get them all back out there for 2 more songs and they ended the show with I'm Not Okay. That's the way to do it.
Even getting of the car park was fun, since loads of people were playing their MCR CDs really loud and engaging in "The Horn Chorus." A great night. I'll see them again. Definately.
Well now that was a gig.
The fun started on the Civic Centre car park; it's the general consensus amongst my friends that my parking is hilarious and this time was no exception. After trying for ten minutes to squeeze my car into a ridiculously small space (where, even if I did manage to park it without clipping anything, I'd never be able to get out the car,) whilst at the same time dodging all the poor souls trying to get past me, I gave up and by some miracle managed to reverse-park into a space on the next level.
Then after the usual wait for the doors, we found ourselves watching the supports. I don't remember who the first band were, the second was Every Time I Die, who in my opinion drove home the point that if you don't know the band, you need a bit more music and a bit less WWHHOOOAARRGGGHHH.
When MCR came on the Civic Hall practically breathed euphoria. People love this band. They opened with Thank You For The Venom, I think, and it got progressively better from there. I was exhausted after 4 songs, how the 5 guys on the stage kept going for an hour and a bit escaped me completely. It wasn't until Helena that it really started to heat up, and if I remember rightly at one point Gerard Way was trying to get the crowd to make a bigger circle pit than the one achieved for At The Drive-In. Me and Jenn suddenly found ourselves in the middle of it and... we got a bit battered. (I'm not used to circle pits.) Only a bit, mind. Right at the end, he announced that they only had 2 songs left, and one of them was brand new... (which was pretty good, by the way,) fair enough, but they hadn't played Prison or I'm Not Okay! So which would they play?
They finished with You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison. The last band I saw at the Civic were Lostprophets, who didn't do an encore. Not so MCR. It only took 1 round of chanting and stamping from the crowd to get them all back out there for 2 more songs and they ended the show with I'm Not Okay. That's the way to do it.
Even getting of the car park was fun, since loads of people were playing their MCR CDs really loud and engaging in "The Horn Chorus." A great night. I'll see them again. Definately.