Last Night
My hearing was totally shot, my voice was aching and I was really hot. The prognosis?
A FANTASTIC Nickelback concert!!!!
Yes! They were absolutely brilliant!
The opening act was a band I’d never heard before, ‘Staind’, and it turns out that they were pretty good. They played for about an hour, then there was a break. After about half an hour, most people were back in their places waiting for it to start again when there was a massive BANG! Scared the crap out of loads of people!
Nickelback really know how to put on a damn good show, and not just because of the music! After the explosion there was the sound of a heart beating faster and faster, really building up the excitement! Then as it was at its fastest, there was another BANG and the curtain was taken away to reveal Nickelback who positively EXPLODED into ‘Animals’. I had been thinking that it would be a brilliant opening song, and I was right! It was truly amazing!
Unlike most bands, Nickelback took short breaks in between each song with Chad Kroeger talking to the crowd. He’s a great entertainer as well as musician, really getting involved with the crowd and he obviously loves it too. I mean, who wouldn’t!?
They mixed things up lots! There was a guest member, Timmy, who Kroeger kept shouting about. There was a great drum solo. The lead guitarist sang vocals on one song. They shot free merchandise out of air cannons. They threw beer at the crowd and Kroeger told a couple of bad jokes!
But of course, the main reason you go to see any band live… the music.
It was fantastic! So much better than on the albums! Isn’t it always though, cause every time you listen to a CD, the songs are always exactly the same as the last time you heard it. Live however, your favourite songs are so much better, and even the ones you didn’t like that much before sound great! ‘If Everyone Cared’ was especially great I thought. I love the song to begin with, but they played it soooooo much better on stage!
Even ‘Rockstar’, a song that had started to irritate me lately for being massively overplayed was brilliant on stage! But it’s also interesting that you always know so many more song lyrics when you are at a live gig, cause I swear I didn’t remember knowing all of ‘Animals’ before I went… I don’t even know it all now!
Well, that’s all for now. I’ll keep posted on all shows/gigs I go to.
Bye for now!
Song: ‘Nickelback – Rockstar’
