Before Lavinia went home two Mondays ago, she told me had a surprise for me so that I won't be grumpy anymore (well it was Mondays blues kicking in). My initial guess was that she won a laptop or some gadget (I predicted the time she won her iPad years back), or that she was quitting her job (I forgot that it was supposed to be a happy surprise); but I would never have imagined that one of my favorite bands of all time was going to have a concert here in Singapore.
It was one of my "shut up and take my money" moments so I immediately went online and bought the tickets. Luckily I remembered buying one for Lavinia or else she will smash my face on the screen while pressing "confirm".
The first time I discovered WTK was when I was trying (hard) to be hipster and looked for unknown/underground rock bands. I stumbled a lot of rockers while surfing in YouTube: Forever the Sickest Kids, The Maine, Mae, Relient K and lastly, We The Kings. At first I felt cool when people asked me about my jams in my uber cool (chic?) purple iPod shuffle and they will be left dumbfounded when I ecstatically mention the "underground" songs. I was proud of not having the same playlist as my friends; if only I can chest bump myself, I would have done it.
But then one February night in 2011, I went to a mall tour concert in Greenbelt, Makati as NeverSayNever, The Maine, and We the Kings were performing. That's 2 out of 3 bands in my hipster playlist! I thought that since it was only a mall tour, only a few people will go. Before that, I had never seen any jam-packed mall tour except Jabbawockeez. So after my work, I just casually went to the mall and walked like it was any normal day then I saw a huge crowd, mainly TEENS, awaiting for the band. Wow, I never thought they had a big fan base in Manila; I never did my research so I nervously squeezed myself and found myself a good spot. Luckily, a lot of people left after The Maine performed so I was able to move nearer to the stage when WTK performed.
I just laughed when I realized that in my desire to be different, by liking what I thought was an "underground" band, it turned out the opposite and it kicked me back in the shin.
Nevertheless, I was happy and stoked during the concert last week. I didn't care about the crowd this time. I just enjoyed listening to the songs I loved since then and luckily, my wife loves them too.
Note: Pictures below are too noisy since I am only using a Fuji X20 at 112mm max zoom, 2.8f and 3200 ISO.
P.S. Pictures below are so true and I HATE IT! BTW, as you may notice, I only took few pictures and snapped when most of the smartphones are down.
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