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Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Title : NOISE TO THE WORLD!!!
Time : 10:27 pm Earworm: Battle of Life~~Good Charlotte stoked about the concert tonight.. I so didnt wanna go to school. having PE and double math S paper lecture does not maketh me an eager school-goer. Official reason: sick leave. i have the MC to prove it! was slightly drizzling when mar, yh and i set out to Singapore Indoor Stadium on foot at 7pm. realised that none of us knew the way but luckily the stadium was in a visible distance. passed a bunch of teens who looked like they were going for the concert, judging by the way they dressed. but we were going in the opposite direction! still, we walked on.. met a dead end with a lot of those construction metal barriers...gah.. hailed a cab, which took a route that passed the same group of teens who were heading in the right direction after all. less than 100m away was the stadium. we felt so stupid. snaking line of concert-goers outside the main entrance. noticed 90% wearing black. yes, the three of us too. seems like an unspoken dress code. joined the queue without really knowing where it was leading to. ours was north entrance, figured it was heading towards the correct direction. after half and hour in the queue, which i spotted free standing ticket holders that kinda unsettled me but thought its just my paranoia, yes, we were in the wrong queue! luckily the attendants just directed us to the stairs behind and take a right once we're up. we were met with no frikkin queue. dunno why they were handing out promotional flyers to The Bravery concert. Oddly, no Good Charlotte posters in sight. our bags were frisked, my camera discovered and asked to be deposited. naturally, that order fell on deaf ears since there was nobody checking bags at the actual entrance anyway. but mar surrendered her bag coz it was filled with harmless water bottles and umbrellas. what did they expect us to do? throw those things at GC from where we were sitting, like 50m from the stage? so gonna be dehydrated with all the screaming later. turnout wasn't as huge as expected. by the time the lights dimmed there were still empty seats around. read in the news that it was a 4000-strong crowd. The concert hall darkened, the crowd was all screams, the atmosphere was set, the instrumental Battle of Life started blasting from the speakers, in the midst of the song, the four GC members entered from stage left.(didnt notice whether the drummer was with them) everyone went wild! they kicked off with The Anthem, after which Joel was all serious and stuff asking the moshers in front to back up, safety first i suppose. Between songs they had some crowd interaction, like saying they should've come to singapore years ago. and Joel praised how Singapore is the cleanest city he's ever seen! um yeah, a bit pathetic that the highest compliment he paid was about cleanliness, and not food/culture/hot girls like what most other bands would say. But Benji did say he wanna move here and to become a PR, he'll have to marry a Singaporean, with shrieks from girls in response. later was mouthing off bout sharing the same bed, sleeping together so 'we might as well have SEX right?'Joel who introcuced the band said and that's my brother the idiot when it came to Benji. HAHAHAHA. went on bout how much they were in love with Singapore and said they wrote a love song for Singapore. It's We Believe...in Singapore.. (-_-)''' Benji also said he learnt some 'Singaporean' but didnt really catch what he learnt coz he went on to shout whoooaaa.. Singapore doesnt have a language of their own anyways. unlike artistes who come to Malaysia will muster a 'apa khabar' or 'terima kasih' at first we were feeling awkward in bobbing in our seats while people around us were sitting. but what the heck, just stand and rock along with the music! Singing was much improved from what i heard live from them on TV. Benji hit all the high notes in We Believe. And the band totally blew me away. Was enjoying myself so much that jumped over to half of this girls' territory next to me,oops.. YH pumping her hand in the air that her bracelet flew off and socked the guy on the head in front of her. he turned back to give her a glare while massaging his bruised head. hahahaha. but she didnt realise until the song ended. oh, and Daniel Ong was sitting in front of us. YH figured the guy she hit was also some famous person since sitting with daniel and all.when the perfect 10 DJ walked in late, i thought he looked mighty familiar, wearing a Parking Lot Pimp shirt. only later when he left earlier I was staring at him and the group of girls behind us waved to him which he responded so guess it really was him. I wonder did he leave early becos of a group of 3 girls singing/shouting tunelessly to all GC songs behind him? =p Later when Mar played back some recordings on her handphone, only We Believe turned out semi-ok, the rest was overpowered by our enthusiastic hollering. GC ended with their 'first hit' Lifestyles. Threw some towels to the crowd, Billy flung some score sheets too. and they were gone. with no encore. concert over in less than 1 1/2 hour... but totally a rawking great experience! Song list Battle of Life The Anthem Walk Away S.O.S Predictable Girls and Boys My Bloody Valentine The Young and Hopeless The World is Black We Believe Hold On The Chronicles of Life and Death Riot Girl Mountain Festival Song I Just Wanna Live Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous  trying to get a pic of the whole band  joel down with the moshers  joel n benji |
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