100th post! Woooh. Almost a year since I started blogging on blogger. Am I not blogging enough? Since there's 365 days a year and this is only my 100th post haha.
Anyway. Enough with the Math. Yesterday was the happiest day of my year so far.
Last night's AAR gig couldn't have been more perfect. Aaaah!!
Perfect setlist, perfect crowd, perfect weather, everything was just perfect la. Too bad the phonelines werent perfect or else I could have called Shulsy and Laursy while our Pants Anthem "The Last Song" was being played live!
Anyways! I got my pair of tickets from my sister's friend David, so many many many HUUGE kudos goes to him and my sister for being able to score a pair of tickets for me teehee.
I headed over to Vic's house at 4.30pm and we hopped into Alvin's car with Julia and Christine inside and headed off to Bukit Jalil Carpark A! I had burnt AAR CDs so we were listening to em in the car :D We reached there at about what.. 5.45pm? Doors konnonnya open at 6pm so we just walked to the venue slowly haha. Since when were gigs on time anyway? Ate some ramly burger nearby to store some energy in us, and lined up to enter the carpark! Camwhored while waiting in line of course :)The girls! Debbie, Julia and Christine :)
Pass or fail? I chose my guitar shirt just because its pretty 'rocker' lol.After lining up for what felt like 2 hours, WE FINALLY GOT IN.
The first 3 Malaysian bands performed like about 4 or 5 songs each. Disagree, Pop Shuvit and One Buck Short. I was really pumped for Disagree at first, because they're the Malaysian band i'm most familiar with, and, no offence intended, but once they were done I really just wanted AAR to come out. So you could imagine how un-pumped we all were when Pop Shuvit and One Buck Short came out, but still layan sikit la. Support your local music scene la kan? (attempts to sound malay haha)
After One Buck Short was done (their set was pretty cool cause they had guest stars from lotsa malaysian bands to perform with them, as their lead vocalist is in the hospital. But it was also a bit fail because i'm gonna assume they didnt rehearse much? They were out of sync a lot and just.. i dunno. Not much chemistry.), we had to wait for an hour for AAR to come out because they werent done sound-checking.
That hour. took. forever.
Seriously. The crowd was getting restless, and what made things worse was that they kept playing the same Universal Studios Ad on the big screens which got annoying after the 10th time watching it. Then they finally stopped playing that ad, and started playing music.
After one song, the music stopped. We thought they'd play another song, but instead, we heard the familliar drum beat to AAR's Move Along.
The crowd. Went. ECSTATIC.
Seriously, everyone (including myself) were shouting and screaming and jumping! I was just so happy! THEY FINALLY CAME OUT, firstly, and also I really wanted to hear Move Along live because they didnt play it when they were here a month and a half ago for MTV World Stage, and when they did last night, ohmygod, I was just so happy.
After that, Tyson kept greeting us and calling us sexy and awesome which was .. well, pretty awesome ahahah. I kept grinning :D They played Fallin' Apart and after that, he made us all shout "dirty, dirty little.... finish that sentence :D" and the whole crowd yelled "DIRTY LITTLE SECREEEEEET" and that familliar guitar riff came on and again, we all went wild! Screaming and singing along and dancing and jumping, it was a massive karaoke session haha.
After that, Julia and I heard that familiar keyboard tune and Julia just kept screaming! They were gonna play Swing Swing! Julia's favourite song haha, she wanted that song to be played so badly. We all did la ^_^
After Swing Swing, Tyson kept commenting about everyone's halloween costumes.
"Oh cool a Jason mask! Thats sweet"
"There, I see a witch. Owait... That's a wizard, not a witch! Sorry sir."
"You guys are fuc... crazy"
and then he goes back to his mic, and sings "please just dont PLAY WITH ME" *guitar*
Julia and I.. we just screamed. SCREAAAAAAAAAAMED.
It was My Paper Heart!! THE song I never thought I'd get to hear live ever! And they played it, oh God, I was seriously so close to tears of joy, and I'm not exaggerating this time. Seriously. I just sang my heart out, jumped, screamed with julia, sang to her "SO BOTTLE UP OLD LOVE, AND THROW IT OUT TO SEA" and just didnt care about what the other people in the crowd were doing. They were hating us, obviously, because we were the only ones singing loudly, acting like maniacs and screaming haha. But I honestly didnt care. I was so high on music.
Julia and I kept saying to each other "i cant believe they're playing my paper heart MY PAPER HEART!!!!" hahaha. Utter fangirls, we are. I tried giving Shu Ling and Lauranne a call but tak bleh, no idea why. Phone lines were probably jammed because there was an estimated 15k people there that day.
After that, they played a crowd favourite, I Wanna. We all sang and jumped but I was still pretty high from My Paper Heart aha.
After that, they tuned down a bit and played the lovely Mona Lisa, with Nick on acoustic and Tyson among the crowd, singing to the fans and rubbing his glitter on them. Not kidding.
This was when I realised that I have a VERY soft spot for a guy who can play the acoustic guitar well. Seriously. I was just so... drawn to him. Then again, the song is also pretty beautiful. You can sit beside me when the world comes down. Come on, thats just really sweet.
After that they played Real World, It Ends Tonight, and Damn Girl.
Then, Tyson was doing more stage banter and Julia said she thought she heard the intro to The Last Song, you know? The keyboardy part? But I'm like "heh? no lah where got." and then I heard Tyson say "the last..." and I lost my breath, and grabbed hold of Julia's arm, but instead of her arm I got her yellow clappy thing instead haha. BUT ANYWAY, my point was, I was just.. stunned. Could it be?
And then I heard it. The keyboardy bit. The Last Song.
I just lost myself.
Screaming, yelling and shouting "OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD THE LAST SONG THE LAST SONG AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I CANT BELIEVE THEY'RE PLAYING THIS SONG I CANT BELIEVE IT!!" with Julia! I even accidentally hit this girl's head with my elbow. I just lost myself la really.
Seriously, Julia, if you're reading this, Thank God you were there to scream with me ahhaha. Or more like, to initiate the screaming so that I wont feel so malu to scream by myself haha! This was the first time I've ever had a screaming fangirl fit. It felt good hahahaa. Once again I tried calling Shulsy and Laursy but still cannot :( this is our anthem.
After that it was the encore, and they played The Wind Blows and ended the night with Gives You Hell.
And it was over after that.
Here's the complete setlist:
1. Move Along
2. Fallin' Apart
3. Dirty Little Secret
4. Swing Swing
5. My Paper Heart
6. I Wanna
7. Mona Lisa
8. Real World
9. It Ends Tonight
10. Damn Girl
11. The Last Song
Encore
12. The Wind Blows
13. Gives You Hell
We all had some mamak at Williams after that with Zec and Yin Mun :) Christine mentioned downloading House Bunny, and then I remembered that our dear ol' Tyson Ritter was in House Bunny! ahaha so we all decided to watch that show at Vic's house. Just to perve on Tyson just a lil' bit more hahha. He was so cute.
Once the clock hit 3am we all went back home, because the only people left awake watching the show was Zec and I. The rest were already sleeping on the couch/floor :p
Sigh, I love live music la. Cant believe I've seen AAR twice in 3 months. That hardly ever happens when you're in Asia, watching a band more than once on the same tour haha. I'm so happy <3>









