Summer Shows: Aiden

This is the first post of five that will be recapping some of the awesome concerts and shows I went to this summer!

Aiden has always had a special place in my heart because it takes me back to my middle school days when I was trying to find my style and in turn, finding new music by watching music videos on Fuse and wearing waaaay too much black eyeliner. When me and my sister found out they were coming to town we were pretty excited. Die Romantic will always my favorite song of theirs because it was the first one I ever heard and really opened up their type of music to me.




I always loved We Sleep Forever too but the video still scares the bajesus outta me. Dolls=NOT OK.

I basically wanted to keep my outfit simple because it gets reeeally hot in the venue. (Jerry's Pizza in downtown Bakersfield is pretty much famous for it's basement, where countless of awesome bands have played, and for how FRICKIN HOT it gets down there.) I had to take these tights off within 5 minutes of being there, no joke.

 And to satisfy my 8th grade self, waaaay too much eye makeup :D

 The show itself was pretty iffy for me. I mean I LOVED the way Aiden puts on a show, seriously it was fantastic, but the audience was really off putting. I'm all for mosh pits and walls of death, that's pretty much routine, but when you have actual fistfights breaking out and grown men drunkenly kicking at group of girls to make them move, yea, that's pretty much not ok. None of that happened during Aiden, mostly during the opening bands, but once Aiden did finally come on, I had already moved to the back to escape claustrophobia and just let my sister do her thing. (She's pretty much the toughest little girl I know. She once got trampled in a Taking Back Sunday show and had the most insane bruises to prove it, but came out ALL SMILES. She can hold her own in ANY crowd, I never worry.)

By the time the show was over and all the fake fog had settled, I had a really great time enjoying the show despite having to watch it covered in sweat from the back of the basement. As the crowd parted for everyone to leave, I made my way to the front where I knew I'd find my sister.

As I walked forward through the crowd I noticed I was in someones way, who was walking in the opposite direction as me. I looked up, RIGHT into the face of the lead singer himself, William Control. Dripping in sweat and smeared eye makeup he gave me a half smile.
"Great show" is what my mouth said calmly, even though my 8th grade girly mind was saying "OH MY GOSH YOU ARE AMAZING AND OH MY GAWD STANDING SO CLOSE TO MY FACE"

He leaned in and whispered in my ear as he passed by, "Thank you." Never in my life will I forget how raspy and amazing his voice was and how I could feel his breath on my cheek. I'm usually not super star-struck anymore because I've seen so many bands and know a lot of musicians, but I TOTALLY geeked out when that happened.


My sister found me by then and was going on and on about how she was RIGHT in front of him and how he had grabbed and held her hand and hugged her because she was so close. We were both geeking out a bit, and agreed it was a show to be classified under the "great" column.