Here's my entry for the latest 2 Things Challenge. My interpretation of many/few is made up of two photos from the Tegan and Sara concert I went to a few weeks ago.
The FEW on the stage
and the MANY watching.
Every concert is about this, and it's one reason I love live music as opposed to just listening to the CD. When a live show is going well, everything seems to align in the moment and there's a real connection between the artist/s and the fans.
I got another idea for this theme on Sunday night, but had no time to execute it. Very frustrating. If I can find the necessary setting to take the photos I have in mind I will post them later in the week.
20: minutes we spent going the wrong way down Princes Highway. :)
35: metres of sidewalk packed with people who got there and lined up before us.
3: bands playing.
2: bands that rocked.
21: songs on the set list (Dark Come Soon, You Wouldn't Like Me, I Bet It Stung, Walking With A Ghost, Hop A Plane, Living Room, So Jealous, Like O Like H, Give Chase, One Second, I Know I Know I Know, Burn Your Life Down, Knife Going In, Nineteen, Where Does The Good Go, Speak Slow, Call It Off, The Con, Relief, Dancing In The Dark (Springsteen cover), Back In Your Head
22: photos I took during the show
2: songs we were hoping to hear, but didn't.
8: (I think) scary, paranormal stories told on the way home.
20: minutes of the homeward journey I spent trying to figure out what I would do if a ghost appeared on the road while I was driving and deciding we would all probably just die.
I'm going to see Tegan & Sara in Sydney on Thursday night. I liked their music before (I have friends who've liked them for ages), but in the last month I've been looking a bit more carefully at their lyrics. I'm quite intrigued by their songwriting. This song, 'I Was Married' is from their 2007 album The Con. The lyrics are included over a slideshow of concert stills. There are so many live videos on Youtube, I'm starting to wonder if cameras will be allowed. Not that I plan to take bootleg video ~ the sound quality is always total crap ~ but it would be a cool to get a couple of photos.
I also really like the lyrics (added below the video) in this song, 'Relief Next to Me', from the same album. I think this will sound good live.
Relief Next to Me
I miss you now I guess like I should have missed you then My body moves Like curtains waving in and out of wind, In and out of windows I can't untangle, I can't untangle What I feel and what would matter most I can't get close and I, I can't get close And now there's just no point, In reaching out for me In the dark, I'm just no good at giving relief In the dark, It won't be easy to find relief And I'm not proud That nothing will seem easy about me But I promise this I won't go my whole life Telling you I don't need But I promise this I won't go my whole life Telling you I don't need
I'll tell you now I guess like I should have told you then The thunder moves Like damn drawers slamming in my frame Slamming in my framework I can't untangle, I can't untangle What I know and what should matter most I can't get close and I, I can't get close And now there's just no point, In reaching out for you In the dark, I'm just no good at giving relief In the dark, It won't be easy to find relief And I'm not proud That nothing will seem easy about me But I promise this I won't go my whole life Telling you I don't need
