Third Day Concert

So, yesterday was the Third Day concert with Brandon Heath and Revive.......it was all the way down at Abbotsford tho, so driving there and back again was quite the experience XD (it's definitely the furthest I've ever driven without parental supervision =P......and i managed to clock 130km/h on the way back, which i believe is the fastest the car has gone.....yet XD)


but i must say, third day really isnt my style......they are too rock-and-roll for my liking (they actually had electric guitar solos and all that during the concert) and they don't have enough praise songs that we can sing along to.....(it was really different from Passion back in Octorber......but then they had David Crowder with them and their music is very.....alternative....).......but third day does have a couple of really good songs, so i didnt mind going =P..........(and plus, Jenn really likes Brandon Heath and she wanted to go =P)

now, the concert started at 7, and i must say the beginning 2 hours was rather painful to sit through.......I've never heard of Revive before, and then number of Brandon Heath songs I know can be counted using one hand......and to make it all worse, there was sooo much talking/introductions, and the transitioning between bands took forever......AND!.....the thing that got me really annoyed was how they were completely trying to shove World Vision in our faces (ok, fine, I'm slightly biased against them becuase of the stories I've heard about the way they spend the money).....but third day's road pastor was basically trying to guilt us all into sponsoring a child (a tactic I'm definitely not overly fond of).........so a bit of songs, a whole lot of talking and a whole lot more of waiting around took us to around 9.....when it was finaly third day's turn

THEY WERE AWESOME!!!......true, I'm not a huge fan of their style.......but they were just THAT GOOD that it didnt matter XD......they did two things that took me by surprise =P

The first was the fact that midway through the performance they relocated themselves to the back of the stadium!......they were playing a couple of songs and the lead singer disappeared for some reason. When the song was done, he was all of a sudden on this mini stage at the back of the stadium, and started the next song (at which point the rest of the band relocated too =P)


that I thought was really cool =P (and please excuse the poor quality.....it was taken from my phone).....they even did a song and made the drummer sing XD.......and to top it all off, they played the song that I went to the concert for on that ministage......(tho i think the dude forgot the lyrics or something, coz he only sang one verse of it and then sort of repeated the last line a couple of times and ended it there =P)



and the other thing that they did that I thought was really cool was the fact that they gave an encore! XD........Hillsongs never did it, and Chris Tomlin with Passion didnt do it either!......(and I dont know about Starfield coz it was Jenn's grad that night.....yes, we are both very disappointed we had to miss it XD).......so they bascially played three more songs for us after they officially ended the concert, and for one of them they got Brandon Heath and Revive to come back and sing bits and pieces of it as well =P


So I'm just generally very happy about this concert =P......true the beginning could have been better =P......but oh well, Third Day was good enough to more than make up for it =P.......but with all the encore and stuff the concert ended slightly after 10:30 XD........and by the time we were back on the highway it was already 11 =P

Micahel W. Smith and Steven Curtis Chapman.....same place (and now we know where to park XD......we were right outside the building =P....tho we did have to pay $10)......July 26th!!! VERY VERY excited about that!.....getting my pre-sale tickets on Wednesday =P