All the people sitting around us wearing cowboy hats were French Canadians. Every one of them. "mtlfan" is of course from Montreal, and she was talking to them all en francais.
These people were not especially Kris fans but I noticed by the middle of his set they were clapping along, then later they were dancing to LLWD and CT (the only two songs most of the audience stood up for). I thought it was cool how he got a lot of them into it.
Kris is brilliant. You guy need to see him live. He sounds phenomenal. The place had great sound. I was so impressed by the band's sound. I loved Jack and Diane live. (Surprise!) Kris flubbed something - it was funny. Keith covered it. Keith mentioned Kris's name several times, once when Kris wasn't even on. He just gave him a plug in the middle of his (Keith's set).
Keith was awesome. I loved seeing him - even though his music is not totally my type. He's a great showman. More about that another time.
I've never seen Kris with the band - plugged (in). Wow. They sound great. He sounds out of this world - his voice is so powerful and he does such cool things singing off the beat, improvising different things. Whatever the heck he does.
The crowd was not as into his set as I've seen at other shows where he's opened for Keith - they were kind of a tough crowd, in a way, though I noticed they were attentive and not wandering all over or talking - once he got into his set. His applause was really good at the end of his set. You could feel the audience come to him. (The grandstands were, overall, much more appreciate, I thought.) jmatt from MJ's was there. She felt the crowd was cooler to him than I did. They were actaully very into him for an opening act they weren't there to see.
Down where we were, with the Quebec contingent, guess who I saw? That Landry guy who won Nouvelle Star! Before the show, he was standing in the aisle near us having his picture taken with people in the audience. I took his picture. I'll post it on twitter eventually. (He looked familiar - then mtlfan told me who he was, and I thought - I can't wait to tell
missaddicted!)
I'm writing this from the hotel lobby.
Let's see, what else - the tickets were 77 dollars (ow!)...it rained during Keith's set. It was windy and pretty cold.
I knew the perfect time to "stalk" Kris and KAB was after Jack and Diane -- but I couldn't get mtlfan to go until much later, then she wanted to get some food, so when we finally got on the busses, they were getting ready to go. As soon as Keith got offstage, he went to his bus, and the bus left. We stood and watched all this. While talking to a security guard.
We saw Cale standing inside the bus, and Andrew. Cale was basically naked except for his undershorts. (Ha.) Torres came out of the bus and was running around - obviously in a hurry, since they were leaving - I have no idea what he was doing. Then they drove out. They had a couple of big screen TVs on, watching football. mtlfan remarked that Keith Urban was "mighty fine" as his bus drove by - he was sitting up with the driver.
It took me about five and half hours to get here today. Due to some traffic near where I live, I went about 20 miles in an hour. I got to the fair just as it was time to go in. I almost didn't make it.
I enjoyed it - it was worth it.
My mouth was hanging open at how good Kris and KAB was. And I was surprised at the hard rocking sound they have - and Kris has.
OKay, I have to go, I'll be intouch tomorrow night, or maybe tomorrow morning.
All the people sitting around us wearing cowboy hats were French Canadians. Every one of them. "mtlfan" is of course form Montreal, and she was talking to them all en francais.
These people were not especially Kris fans but I noticed by the middle of his set they were clapping along, then later they were dancing to LLWD and CT (the only two songs most of the audience stood up for). I thought it was cool how he got a lot of them into it.
Kris is brilliant. You guy need to see him live. He sounds phenomenal. The place had great sound. I was so impressed by the band's sound. I loved Jack and Diane live. (Surprise!) Kris flubbed something - it was funny. Keith covered it. Keith mentioned Kris's name several times, once when Kris wasn't even on. He just gave him a plug in the middle of his (Keith's set).
Keith was awesome. I loved seeing him - even though his music is not totally my type. He's a great showman. More about that another time.
I've never seen Kris with the band - plugged (in). Wow. They sound great. He sounds out of this world - his voice is so powerful and he does such cool things singing off the beat, improvising different things. Whatever the heck he does.
The crowwd was not as into his set as I've seen at other shows where he's opened - they were kind of a tough crowd, in a way, though I noticed they were attentive and not wandering all over or talking - once he got into his set. His applause was really good at the end of his set. You could feel the audience come to him. (The grandstands were, overall, much more appreciate, I thought.) jmatt from MJ's was there. She felt the crowd was cooler to him than I did. They were actaully very into him for an opening act they weren't there to see.
Down where we were, with the Quebec contingent, guess who I saw? That Landry guy who won Nouvelle Star! Before the show, he was standing in the aisle near us having his picture taken with people in the audience. I took his picture. (He looked familiar - then the woamn I was with told me who he was, and I thought - I can't wait to tell
missaddicted!)
I'm writing this from the hotel lobby.
Let's see, what else - the tickets were 77 dollars (ow!)...it rained during Keith's set. It was windy and pretty cold.
I knew the perfect time to "stalk" Kris and KAB was after Jack and Diane -- but I couldn't get mtlfan to go until much later, then she wanted to get some food, so when we finally got on the busses, they were getting ready to go. As soon as Keith got offstage, he went to his bus, and the bus left. We stood and watched all this. While talking to a security guard.
We saw Cale standing inside the bus, and Andrew. Cale was basically naked except for his undershorts. (Ha.) Torres came out of the bus and was running around - obviously in a hurry, since they were leaving - I have no idea what he was doing. Then they drove out. They had a couple of big screen TVs on, watching football. mtlfan remarked that Keith Urban was "mighty fine" as his bus drove by - he was sitting up with the driver.
It took me about five and half hours to get here today. Due to some traffic near where I live, I went about 20 miles in an hour. I got to the fair just as it was time to go in. I almost didn't make it.
I enjoyed it - it was worth it.
My mouth was hanging open at how good Kris and KAB was. And I was surprised at the hard rocking sound they have - and Kris has.
OKay, I have to go, I'll be in touch tomorrow night, or maybe tomorrow morning.
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