On Friday I had an important experience, I went to my first concert. It was The Spill Canvas and special guests. (My ticket has already scored a sought after spot on my bulletin board.) But most importantly, Tyler Hilton was going to be playing. I've mentioned Tyler Hilton in posts in the past (almost as many times as I've mentioned Beverly Hills 90210, so you know it's love.) If you aren't yet acquainted with him though: he played Chris Keller on One Tree Hill, Elvis in Walk The Line, and Murphy in Charlie Bartlett. (If you still don't know who he is, and really you should do this either way, go look at his youtube channel.)
So, pretty much I was very excited for this concert. Me and my friend made shirts to wear to the concert. We put studs on them, put a lyric from one of his songs, etc. They turned out pretty well!
Anyway, we arrived at 6 and nobody actually started playing until 7. When we first walked in I looked at the merchandise table for a few moments but then my friend told me we should get a spot then before more people showed up. Anyway, I started to think about what merch to buy. I ended up tweeting about it and said:
A few minutes later I saw that Tyler had actually retweeted me and said:
It was a good start to the night. After much waiting, and what were probably two pretty good bands but that weren't really the kind of music I enjoy, it was finally time for Tyler. I took a bunch of pictures, but for some reason my camera was being stupid. My pictures kept turning out extremely blurry. I'm not really sure why, I know it's a nice enough camera that they shouldn't have turned out like that, but I didn't want to miss anything by messing with the settings. I tried to salvage some of them a little with a tiny bit of editing.
Tyler's set was really good, probably even better than I expected (which was a lot.) He took a picture of the crowd for twitter, and filmed everyone singing a line of I Believe In You for a music video he's making. He sang: 16th Summer, Missing You, Ain't A Thing, This World Will Turn Your Way, Sunset Blvd., When It Comes, You'll Ask For Me, I Believe In You, and Kiss On.
About half way through his last song, Kiss On, me and my friend pushed out of the crowd so that we could get to the merchandise table where Tyler was going to meet fans. We were probably only 4th in line to meet him. I ended up buying a t-shirt and a poster (of course!) When he came back to the table the line was a lot longer (and seemed to consistently stay pretty long), and there was a lot of screaming for a few seconds. I got him to sign the shirt that we made, the shirt I bought, and my poster. He was really nice and asked about our shirts.
I took a picture with him, of course I looked dreadful in it (hence the blacked out head.)
After meeting Tyler my friend took a photo with the lead singer from one of the other bands, AM Taxi and then we headed out. Towards the door there were promotional posters for bands that were going to be playing, and there was a Tyler Hilton poster that I definitely felt like I needed. So, we asked if we could take them and the staff said sure, so we took them down.
I was very pleasantly surprised to see that the poster was double-sided.
So, all I can say is: very successful first concert, and now I just can't wait til he goes on tour again.
