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Setlist: 1) Waiting For This (medley) 2) Make It Out Alive 3) Where's the Love 4) And I Waited 5) Speechless 6) Carry You There 7) Underneath 8) This Time Around 9) Penny & Me 10) Use Me Up 11) Great Divide 12) Voice in the Chorus 13) Can't Stop 14) A Minute Without You 15) Madeline 16) Thinking 'bout Somethin' 17) Oh Darlin (The Beatles) 18) MMMBop 19) Give A Little 20) If Only 21) Lost Without Each Other 22) Long Way To The Top (AC/DC) |
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I feel like I may have just seen my best Hanson concert to date. It is 2:45am and I kind of just want to go to bed but this will all be a blur in the morning! Northampton is a cute little town that we explored a little today. It was bizarre to go to the venue at 11am and see not a soul outside. Hooray for assigned seating! We spent an hour in Starbucks and then did some shopping. I found this awesome store called "Faces" where I got a matching mitten and toque set (and the toque has ear flaps!), purple tights, and a dressy pair of boots! FINALLY! I've been looking for 3 years :) I was soooo happy. We came back to the hotel to hang out for a bit and meet up with some friends who had arrived. 2pm or so Sarah & I went back to the venue as we were doing walk registration. The bus was there by then. Meetup time came and went and nobody came to get us. We got to talking to a man that works at the venue who was super nice. He went backstage and got their tour manager for us. We were told what to do, and I slipped Isaac's birthday card to him :) So then we sat outside in the cold for 2 hours cause we're that awesome! Fans began to gather and we got most of the walkers registered... The walk was shortly after 4. Unfortunately they started and ended the walk away from where we were, so we never saw Hanson at all. We didn't get to walk since we were doing registration. Once it was done more people came to register... in total there were 140 walkers! Sweet! |
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Once the walk was all wrapped up Sarah & I went to Friendly's for supper. Then it was only 6 and I was still cold so we went to Starbucks to warm up. Got back to the venue about 10min before doors. It was easy getting in... our seats were in 5th row center, pretty decent! As soon as we got our seats I went to get merch... t-shirt and sunglasses. There was only one opener, Jarrod Gorbel. I knew I was going to like him because I bought his album on iTunes the day it came out! It streamed on AP.net ahead of time and I really liked it. He was also pretty hilarious... called out a girl ahead of us for being on her phone for his entire set, haha. After Jarrod's set I got some snacks from the bar, and within no time Hanson were on! I definitely feel different at a Hanson show now compared to my first couple. I'm "used" to it. I still LOVE it; it's just different. They were all very happy and sounded spot on (even though apparently a couple of them have colds). 5th row was nice and close. This show brought back a lot of memories from 5 of 5, especially since most songs from Shout it Out I heard for the first time there :) Isaac was especially dancy and silly tonight. Taylor was wearing the Hanson tshirt I almost bought. Zac had the Elvis lip curl going all night long. In fact... I sort of wondered if he may have something happening that's making the right side of his mouth droop. But perhaps I'm over-sensitive and it is just his "face" for when he's concentrating. I just noticed it a lot more than in April. Setlist highlights... Madeline, Underneath acoustic, Give A Little... probably more. I'll get back to you on that haha. Everything was tight. I don't know how many songs they played but the show was actually 2 hours long! They went on right at 9:15 and when they were playing the last song it was 11:15. The encore was "It's a Long Way to the Top" with Stephen Kellogg and Goose. That was pretty fun. After the show Sarah & I went out to the buses and waited for 90min at least... Isaac came out and signed for people briefly. I got my Shout it Out CD signed. Shortly after the bus left. Sad we waited all that time and never got to see Zac or Taylor but I will survive. It was really cold anyway. Now we're all warm and cozy in our hotel, leaving here in about 5 hours to drive 9.5 hours back to NB! Oh man. I'm gonna need an extra shot of somethin in my Starbucks tomorrow. I do love driving though and am actually looking forward to the trip. Plus, in a few days I'll be at another show :) |