Ashley Perry Photography: AAR CONCERT!

HOLY EFF!!! The All-American Rejects were so amazing last night! It was absolutely thrilling!! I think every time I see them I fall even more in love with them. It was my fourth time seeing them…. And you know what.. I already miss seeing them!! DANG! Hello AAR Concert withdrawl. Not a good feeling haha.

So the day was anything but usual. I woke up probably 3 times in the night, each couldnt fall back to sleep… I gave up once i awoke at 7 AM. I took a shower, got all pretty, went on twitter and tweeted a bunch hehe. I got all my stuff ready and then by 10:15 I was out the door. I got to the venue at 10:30 and I was pretty saddened that there was no one there yet. So I wandered around a bit. I didn’t see anyone from AAR or their crew. So I went back home for an hour.

I went back to the venue at 12:00 and there was 3 groups of people already there. I met a bunch of Blink 182 fans and they were all so nice!!! Ten minutes waiting in line I saw Toad! YES TOAD! I saw him running up the stairs so I went up to him. “Are you Toad” I said. He looks way different in person… the computer screen does him no justice. I introduced myself, “Hey! I’m Ashley Perry.” And he immediately got it. His mouth kind of hung open haha. I’m glad he remembered me. We kinda ‘argued’ how he thought he met me before and I kept telling him “No we never met except for the internet” HAHA. Anyways. The whole time I was talking with him I was shaking, I completely felt the nerves. WHICH IS WEIRD! Because I never feel like that. I normally meet these type of rock band people and we always click! But Toad… we clicked but I was just too nervous. I screamed afterwards, and tweeted and facebooked. I found Toad really easy to talk to, really awesome guy! I definitely went a little teeny after he left.

Uhhh I met Mark Hoppus. He liked my camera. That’s about it.

Well I got front row for the concert!! My seven hours of waiting paid off very well. Except I bruised my uh… hoo hoos. HAHAH Yes. too much information. But jeeze-louise! Everyone was pushing extra hard at this concert. When AAR got on… OMG. I freaked the eff out like I never freaked out before. Tyson was all glittery and that made me laugh. They started with Real World. Fantastic! The new album “When The World Comes Down” sounds soooo great live. I was very bummed when they ended. If it weren’t bad for their health, I’d love for AAR to play forever. I wish their set was an hour and a half instead of Blink’s.

The whole concert I was watching either Toad or Tyson. I’ve got photos of Ty staring at me haha. Poor Toad and Chris were barely visible from where I stood. But! It’s ok. My photos aren’t super good but they’re hot. Hahaha! I’ve never used that word as an adjective like that! HAHA!

Well I waited patiently for Blink 182 to end. The only song I wanted to hear was “I miss you” and lucky Tom’s vocals didn’t eff up that song. WOO! Travis and Mark are freggin amazing btw. Tom’s much better at guitar than he was in the 90s. Really great!

They were good… but I wasn’t interested. I wandered around mostly trying to find Mike C. I ran into some AAR fans who knew I was Ashley Perry while I was up there. Cool eh! I didn’t find Mike C though. He was backstage chillin.

Uhhh…. What next? I met AAR’s guitarist Mike Kennerty and AAR’s tour manager, Kyle, after the show. Freggin’ sweet!!!! They were really cool. Obvs.

I showed Mike & Kyle my tattoo!! Did you know Mike and I have it on the same spot?? I didn’t know that. That’s crazy man! Mike took a picture of it with his iPhone. So cool.

My friend, Marie, in Newfoundland couldn’t make it to the show because she couldn’t get work off the whole week. So I got Mike to make a video msg for her. She flipped out! YAY! Happy! But ya big thanks to Mike and Kyle for making the end of the night perfect and big thanks to Toad for making me the happiest girl alive!

And overall the whole day was awesome! I met a bunch of amazing people that kept me company for those long 7 hours hehe.