Ignorance is your new best friend.

Hayley, Taylor and Jeremy smiled at me. I can die happy now.

Anyway, first things first. Core Leaders' Retreat. Was pretty good I guess. The sessions were kinda cheem, but we did pick up a coupla points on how to be a good Christian Leader. The retreat as a whole was a good experience I guess, especially since due to school and stuff I've kinda been straying away. It was a good time to be recharged and get back to God. And we also bonded together a lot as a core team:D

Oh, and Bishop Cornelius Sim, who gave the main sessions, is super cool. He camwhored with us with his iPhone and uploaded the photos straight to Facebook. How awesome is that. Freakin' cute:D

Now, back to Paramore.

I was supposed to camp outside the Indoor Stadium with Geo and her friends at 9am, but since I had retreat I couldn't come in the morning. Ended up reaching at 4pm, and it was already super crowded. Chatted with some other Parafans in the queue while waiting, and they finally let us into the stadium like 30 minutes late.

When I first got into the stadium I was about the same distance away from the stage as at BNO, which was freakin' close, considering how long the queue was already when I reached. Here's a photo (not mine):

I'm the dude in green at the bottom right corner:D Anyway, I guess it was a good thing that I didn't join Geo in the morning, because I eventually managed to mosh my way to literally 2-3 rows from the stage barrier, while Geo was moshed backwards pretty far.

Monochrome was the opening band, and for a local band they are SUPER FREAKIN' GOOD. Best way to describe them is a cross between Muse, Paramore and Rise Against. They're like my wildest dreams come true. Super tight playing, and this was a live set, mind you. Damn sick basslines, some of which were even wilder than Chris Wolstenholme's. Guitarist was awesome, crazy riffing and epic shred solos. The female vocalist was pretty damn nice too. So yeah. Go check them out: Monochrome. They're doing another gig this Saturday, I'll see if I can go down:D

So Paramore was freakin' awesome. Jumped, pushed, screamed, and generally had bucketloads of fun. And they said we were their loudest crowd ever:D Hayley is seriously super pretty in person. And Hayley, Taylor and Jeremy are damn cute when they're jumping all over the stage. Their set was also awesome. Hayley's vocals are super awesome live, and so are the instruments. And all of them have awesome stage presence. The only issue I had was that their set was 10 hours too short:(

Words don't do them justice, so here are a coupla the nicer scenes from the concert. Video's are from youtube, none of them are mine.

Where The Lines Overlap

Taylor sat on the edge of the stage literally 2 meters away from me while playing towards the end of the song. Singing along to this song was just awesomesauce.

The Only Exception

IMO the best song from Brand New Eyes. Also had great fun singing along to it.

For A Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic

This one's pretty epic. 30 seconds into the video Taylor realizes his guitar is screwed. Oh, Taylor's on the left in the vid btw. He calls his roadie, and while he's getting a replacement Taylor runs around the stage swinging his guitar like crazy, and pretends to shred out a solo. Unfortunately you can't see him "solo" in the vid because he runs off to the right of the stage, but it was seriously awesome. Damn cute:D

Pressure

This one is also epic. You can't see it clearly in the video, but around 2:23 Jeremy does a backflip. And then at 2:34 he backflips again, jumping over Taylor. As a bassist myself I was totally in awe at his stage antics not just during this song but during the whole concert. Jumping around, throwing his bass around, etc... Respect.

Brick By Boring Brick

Well, this was the last song of their encore. And it was really epic. This is the best song to sing along to, especially the outro bit. Anyway at the start of this vid is the part where Hayley calls us their "loudest crowd we've ever had". Oh, and Taylor can actually play drums pretty well. You can hear him from 6:00 onwards. At 6:18, after Jeremy finished throwing his picks into the crowd, he attempts to throw Hayley too:P And then at 6:44, he dives off his amp. Epic.

So all in all, it was an awesome concert. Best night of my life. Paramore is ♥

Random Quote:"To err is human, but to really screw up takes a committee" - Colin

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"To err is human, but to really screw up takes a committee" - Colin