Hello!!! As you all know, I very rarely do much of anything that isn’t work related during the week days. My schedule is always crazy and I like to be well rested every day so I can do my best. However, sometimes exceptions need to be made because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy! This past Wednesday, I enjoyed the most amazing sister’s night out with Kristen to see AFI and 30 Seconds To Mars at Blossom Music Center. We scored fantastic seats in the pavilion, had a perfect view of the stage, and spent the evening living our best lives together. Check it out:












Kristen and I were not interested in seeing the two opening acts, KennyHoopla and Poppy because we never heard of them and frankly didn’t care. We arrived right when Poppy was finishing their set and they actually sounded really good so we are both going to be looking into that! Very shortly after we settled into our seats, AFI entered the stage and we were so happy to have gotten there right in the knick of time. We haven’t seen AFI in seven years since they played at the House of Blues and we didn’t want to miss a minute of it.
The show opened with Girls Not Grey and when I say Kristen and I lost our shit, I mean we literally lost our shit lol. We were going absolutely crazy singing our lungs out and dancing like no one was watching. We were both huffing and puffing after three songs and needed to take a breather and it turns out people were watching! The concertgoers sitting behind us apparently were deciding amongst themselves if we were sisters or not and one of the ladies was so triumphant because she called it. Kristen and I often get told we don’t look alike at all but that’s simply not true. Our style might be polar opposites but our faces are incredibly similar. The reasoning behind this gal’s educated guess was so sweet – she told us we were dancing exactly alike. ❤
AFI’s set included tons of crowd pleasers like Miss Murder, Love Like Winter, I Hope You Suffer, and Beautiful Thieves. Kristen and I were both elated that the show closed with our all time favorite of Silver And Cold! AFI sounded amazing from beginning to end and were just as good, if not better, than when we saw them almost a decade ago. Our only regret was that their set wasn’t longer. They played for roughly forty-five minutes or so with no encore and it just wasn’t enough. AFI was the reason we were going out to begin with and in my perfect world they would have played all night.
30 Seconds To Mars took the stage at nine o’clock and Kristen and I both agreed on leaving after thirty minutes to avoid traffic. We left after twenty minutes because they lightweight sucked lol. Neither of us are 30 Seconds fans but we were willing to see what the performance was going to be like and even stick around longer if we wanted to. It was cool to see Jared Leto in the flesh and I definitely made the joke of “Do a scene from Dallas Buyers Club” several times. However, their music was kind of lame, was basically just saying “woah” a ton, and we had no desire to stand there any longer. Jared did a lot of talking and in the twenty minutes that it took to walk back to our car, he was still talking. We were both so not mad about dipping out early!
Kristen and I were exhausted the following day but that is a small price to pay for a sister’s night on the town. I loved every minute of our time together with my best friend!
What was the last concert you saw? Who would you like to see live? I want to hear from all of you, so leave me a comment and let’s chat! Much love. -Sarah
Lpok at you two twining!!
Poppy, as in the odd-ish female singer who started on the internet?
I was supposed to see Which One’s Pink, a pink floyd tribute band, on Sat but it didn’t work out…. I had a ticket but there was no parking so I ended up driving home. I’ve hadbad concert juju this year!!
I’m glad you got out. It looks like it was fun!
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Thank you!! The resemblance really is uncanny in that picture! And I think so? We literally only heard like thirty seconds of whatever was being played and that was it but I like what I heard! And that is such a bummer – parking for events and honestly whenever stresses me out. One of our friends is the vocalist for Wish You Were Here which is a Pink Floyd tribute band in my neck of the woods!
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Poppy is reaaally strange (well, she was)… her gimmick was to seem like a robot. I used to watch some kids’ reaction show and she freaked them out! But her music got good. I considered seeing her at one point.
Cool that you know Wish YouvWere Here! My neighbors know one of the tribute bands too. I think it’s Australian Pink Floyd that’s been “blessed” by Roger Waters.
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Lol it has to be the same person then because the robot thing was the first to pop up when I looked up the band!
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Tgis is the Kids React vid (7 yrs old?) from Poppy’s start, pre music
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OMG… this one is great (bonus of seeing the kids older):
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