#um sorry for this whole ass dissertation lmfao i am still trying to process last night

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HOW WAS THE SHOW?? :O

DUDE IT WAS SO SO GOOD I HAD THE TIME OF MY LIFE!!!!!

I spent like 30 hours at/around the venue total and I expected the camping experience to be kind of miserable tbh, but it really wasn't. I met a little group of people and we got to hang out the whole time and as someone who has always had trouble making friends, it was just such an amazing experience to find these people who I could immediately connect with :,). It's actually kind of crazy how much I came to trust them. I had one take my phone back to her hotel room to charge and then two of them gave me a ride back to my place afterwards, which is not normally stuff I would expect or accept from people I'd known for less than two days lmao.

I'm sure you saw the toddler/mom shit on twitter, and that put a bit of a dampener on the beginning of the show, but honestly as soon as the opener started I forgot all about it. Peter McPoland was really good, and even though I didn't know any of his songs his set was absolute fire.

As for the pilots themselves, I cannot understate how powerful it was to see them in person. I was second or third row from barricade, which was way closer than I ever expected to get. The transition into No Chances went crazy, Guns for Hands made me sob, the Mulberry Street lights were so beautiful, "for the 23rd time in a row I seem to have forgotten my ukulele", etc. etc. I could literally talk about this show forever. It was so meaningful and cathartic and heart-wrenching to hear Forest live. I can't even remember the number of times I've cried to that song by myself, and it meant the world to be able to cry to it with thousands of other people.

ALSO my phone died halfway through Choker, so I don't have any videos of it, but they put Tyler's platform directly over my head and I GOT TO HOLD UP HIS DRUM DURING TREES!!!!! It honestly didn't even feel real, and I hope desperately that the girl standing next to me remembers to send me the video she took lmao.

It was an all around amazing first show, and I miss it more than anything. <3