24th July 2009

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My AMAZING Warped Date- EmAllTimeLow

Well this all time low date was different…because it was WARPED tour! This year was my first warped, and I wish I could go again and again. Warped tour is amazing. I cant believe I haven’t been before. I go to concerts all the time, and warped is concert heaven. Hot guys EVERYWHERE, music EVERYWHERE, ahhh it was great. I love it. I want to be there now.

So I walk into warped after waiting in the lines, and my sister goes, “look its Pat.” Well she has to repeat it a few times until it finally registers PAT KIRCH is right in front of me. I don’t know if everyone knows this fact about me, but Pat Kirch is the one person I will shake and can’t talk and get SOOOO shy around. It’s embarrassing really. I knew I had to get over my fear of approaching my biggest crush ever, so I walked up to him. I said hi and no one was around him. He was just walking around with a sign for The Maine. Well we talked about the set and where they were playing. I said I was very excited…probably sounded like a little girl haha but I cant help it. I can keep my cool with pretty much everyone except Pat Kirch.

After the little Pat Kirch fangirl moment my sister and I ran to see Breathe Carolina. They were amazing; I love them. The rest of the day we spent running around to see different bands. I saw pretty much everyone I wanted to see. I saw 20 or more bands that day, all amazing… but nothing compares to All Time Low.

I found out All Time Low was playing at 1:45, so my friends and I went up to the ATL tent to check things out at 1. I saw Vinny and I said hi. I talked to him for a little, but he was really busy. THEN I SAW EVAN. Now I love Evan so much. I’ve talked to him the most out of ATL’s crew, and so he knows exactly who I am.  My sis saw him and called his name cause he was sitting in ATL’s tent. It was kind of hard to hear because AntiFlag was playing in the background. Mallory and I talked to him for a little while about warped, food, tour, whats been up, ect. He calls us his NC best friends.

Well Evan was really hungry and hadn’t eaten, so he left to go get food. It worked out though cause as soon as he left I saw FLYZIK. I went around the tent and said hi. He laughed at me cause I was so excited to see him. He said good seeing me again. We took a picture, and I talked to him for awhile. He was telling me how warped was going, why he decided to shave his head, and some more stuff. Then I go oh by the way I’m going sidestage today, I’m on the list thingy for the hustler club. Matt got all happy and goes oh good. The other Matt (all time low’s assistant merch guy) checked us off the list and told us to come back in 15-20 minutes.

After we walked around a little we came back exactly 15 minutes later cause we couldn’t wait any longer. Flyzik saw us and said good let’s just leave now. Then Matt starts running through the crowd. It was so hard to keep up haha, but as we tried to get backstage security yelled and said we weren’t allowed. Flyzik was just like move over these girls are with me. He told like 5 other people we were with him…matt knows how to take charge, but it was great having him keep saying they’re with me. Next he told us to stand under the tents where all of all time low’s stuff is set up. We saw their mics, drums sticks, everything they need to set up.  It was really cool just being able to see everything.

Well we’re standing there looking around and I don’t know if this makes sense but you know when  you have your brain registering stuff you’ve said after you’ve already said it… well that’s what happen to me. I was just standing there and I said Alex and it took me a few seconds to even realize Alex had been standing RIGHT next to us. I said hi and he smiled and said hi, but then had to walk away to practice his vocal warm-ups. It was SOOOO hard not being able to talk to him with him being a foot or two away, but he was busy. Then I see Rian, Jack, and Zack all getting ready. I felt like such a creeper just having to watch them get ready to go onstage but not able to talk to them. They get really quiet and just pace around. Jack recognized me and I waved and smiled which was awesomeeee :) to know that he knows who I am. Luckily we didn’t scream any names or anything because security got mad and us for NOT doing anything. They probably would have thrown us out if we did say something.  Security was being really annoying and they said give them their space, this is their time, get away from the tent (which matt just told us to stand under?! We told him matt did and he said I don’t know who that is, move). We decided to move anyways so we wouldn’t get in trouble even though we weren’t bothering them.

Matt comes to find us next and takes us onstage… like literally ON stage. I was standing next to Rian and then the rest of the girls were on my right just lined up on stage. We felt like backup dancers or something. It was ridiculous how close they were and HOW MANY PEOPLE were in the audience. I had stage fright a little haha it was crazy. Some people cheered when we came on too. Matt just tells us to stay there and make sure there is space for Grieco and Dannyk to move pass us and then leaves. So we are on stage in front of thousands of people wondering what in the world we should do. There is this other girl there… I thought it was Lisa, but it wasn’t and she was friends with the band. I still don’t know who she was but she was alone and kept giving Matt her water during the set and talking to them. (Other than her though we were the only people on stage)

As soon as all time low came on I started shaking and smiling so much. It was definitely an experience I will NEVER forget. It was the most fun I have ever had, and I thank them so much for providing me with that opportunity. It was way different and kinda sad not being able to see their faces the whole show, but it was almost just as fun watching the audience’s faces and reactions. This girl flashed ATL probably for 5 minutes straight. Alex just says… oh there she goes again. Everyone including crew was cracking up and just turned their heads. During the set Alex, Jack, Rian, and Zack all smiled, stuck out their tongue, nodded, or waved at us. You could mainly hear the drums and a lot of back up singing, which is something I don’t hear as much in the audience. I could hear Flyzik a lot too :) and it was AWESOME seeing Rian drum. I watched him most of the time. We stayed on stage the entire time, but as SOON as dear maria ended (the last song obviously) we were rushed off stage.

We got off the stage and security kept saying move out of the way, so we waited for Matt. Mallory yelled for Rian when he walked by and he said he’d come back to take a picture. I called Jack and he knew who we were from past shows so as soon as he saw us he screamed HAI FRIENDSSSS :). Haha I love jack. We’re his buddies. I told him thank you and how awesome it was to see a concert from his point of view. I loved the circle pit and challenged him to do them at more shows cause they look SO cool. He said now you see why we’re always saying jump up and down or clap your hands cause it looks so cool. They’ve tried to do figure 8’s and stuff too.

Then we saw Zack about to leave and luckily since Jack came up because he recognized us Zack came over to talk to him. We asked Zack for a picture and talked to him for a little, but he had to go because “he only had one hour to go workout before signing” hahah that’s what he said no joke. He’s great.

(Somewhere in the hectic amazingness of backstage I got Jacks and Alexs guitar picks btw.)

Alex left AS SOON as the set ended. Flyzik came over to see if we knew where Alex was, but we ended up talking instead. He told us we were real cool to have back there and he was glad we were there because he said it was hard on Alex always having to stay true to himself when everyone is always all over him and stuff. I thanked him so many times for letting us be back there. I actually ended up talking to matt for awhile. I told him I could hear him almost as much as Alex in the back and he should just become lead vocals for the band joking around, but Matt said he’d never want all the stuff Alex goes through. Eventually he was like well actually I have to get you guys out of here you’re not supposed to be here still. Smart Mallory says Rian was coming back, so we asked if we could wait.

Matt went and got Rian for us and we talked to Rian while Matt went off. I told Rian it was amazing watching him drum and how into it he gets. We were having a deep convo about how he said we were really cool but how so many fans yell and scream and too many people get back stage when this girl gets carried over passed out shaking, not breathing, and it was so scary. Rian runs up to her and immediately started trying to find water to give her and got help for her and everything. He was the hero that day because the medics came right away and hopefully the girl was ok. After that Rian had to go too…

That means Flyzik left looking for Alex, Jack went to shower, Rian went to shower, Zack went to work out, and we are left backstage. Haha Matt forgot to come let us out but I guess he didn’t really care cause he knew we weren’t fan girls or anything and said we were cool backstage so we kinda just walked around a little minding to ourselves. Underoath was playing so we were backstage for that for a little bit which was pretty cool. One guy came up to us and asked who we were with and we just said Flyzik from All Time Low. After awhile though we wanted to leave and see more shows so we just walked out.

The rest of the day was amazing as well though. I went crowd surfing for the first time ever during Forever the Sickest Kids!!!! It was awesomeeee but scary. I dropped down but some people still had me and I went flying up again. Sing it loud was really good like always. I loved the maine, but I didn’t get to meet all of them which made me kinda sad… but I did meet Pat which is all that really really matters.

I walked by All Time Lows signing…twice. The first time I just went to see how long the line was. Rian told us earlier to go and then was like oh wait haha Im already talking to you right now. I probably would have gone anyways but there is so much going on at warped I really didn’t feel like using time standing in line. The second time I walked by it was almost over so we just waited to say bye to them. Jack spotted me and stuck out his tongue then laughed, so I did the same. Rian and Alex looked over every time there wasn’t a person in front of them which was a lot and smiled. Haha it was so cute and awesome to know they know us. When Alex got up people started following and calling his name… I kinda walked a little with him just because I REALLY wanted a picture since he was the only one I didn’t get one with that day, but I didn’t have the chance. Security was blocking anyone from getting close.

Oh and every time I walked by Vinny Vegas I would wave and sometimes stop to talk. He asked if we were from Richmond because he remembered us from the show two shows ago. Hahah woo officially they all know us crew included. That has been my goal in life pretty much and being known for being chill and someone they’d want to have backstage is just ahh wow. They are the greatest band hands-down, love them and LOVE warped tour.