Monday night I got home and thought, "My life is awesome!" Wednesday night I got home and thought, "My life is awesome!" Why so many awesome thoughts? GREAT CONCERTS! My dear friend Janelle introduces me to new music on a regular basis and I love it. A couple months ago she e-mailed me (yes, we e-mail all day even though her classroom is merely across the hall from the Counseling Center) and asked if I knew Brandon Flowers. No, I did not, why? Well, he's great and he's coming in concert. She got me a copy of his new album, Flamingo, and told me to listen to it. Brandon Flowers is the lead singer of The Killers and has now made this solo album. It's fantastic! As soon as I realized I loved the album we decided to buy concert tickets.
Wednesday had potential to be nuts. I have my ESL class on Wednesday nights and this Wednesday was our final. I rushed through my final (pretty sure I totally rocked it) and met up with Janelle. We met up with Janelle's roommate, Emily, at The Depot and waited for the awesomeness to begin. My one complaint about the evening... the concert was supposed to begin at 8:00 p.m. The opening act didn't take the stage until 8:40 p.m. He played until almost 9:15, and then Brandon Flowers didn't play until about 9:40. Long night.
I went a little crazy with the picture taking (which is nothing new) so I picked a few of my favorites.
Emily and Janelle
Janelle and me
Brandon Flowers... Isn't he gorgeous?! I guess I hadn't seen a picture of him before the concert. The first guy who walked on stage with the keyboard player and he's a heavy guy with long shaggy hair and a long shaggy beard. I thought, "I have to look at him all night?" But, then when the cheering got really loud I looked up and my heart melted.
Brandon has a very different sound, and I was worried that he wouldn't be very good live. I was SO wrong! He was fantastic! He is a great entertainer! He didn't chat with the audience very much and yet I felt like he was totally interacting with us and drawing us in.
Look how close we were! 
I would highly recommend this album (Brandon Flowers, Flamingo). What a fabulous night! What an awesome week!
2 comments:
Ooo I'm totally going to have to check that album out! Looks like you had an awesome time! :)
I love it! We really do live awesome lives!
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