I left Wayne with my friend Nikki and her sister around 4:45 (concert starts at 8). First objective once we got to the Qwest Center (after the bathroom of course) buy myself a T-shirt! I was really surprised to see how many fans (wide variety of ages), wore old New Kids t-shirts. I even saw a couple girls with banana clips and their jeans tucked and rolled (oh god, did we really used to do that?!?!?). I waited in line for about 10 minutes to get my t-shirt and walked quickly to the gates (thank god they were allowing cameras!), ran into the bathroom to put on my new digs and found my seat -- Row 29 on the floor (I wouldn't have settled for anything further away!!). I had purchased tickets for my friends in Des Moines, so they were already there -- in their old school t-shirts!! AWESOME!!! Here we are before the show -- Karla, Kara & I.
Concert started right on time at 8 p.m. with the first opening act -- Lady Gaga. Wasn't too impressed with her, she was kinda weird, but whatever. The second act was Natasha Bedingfield who I was very familiar with and liked her music. She was even better live! She played until 8:45 and said that there would be a 20 minute intermission until the boys came on stage. At 9:05 the lights go down and the screaming begins....LOUD screaming....you could definitely tell the majority of the crowd were women!! They came on stage and they looked just like they used to, but a bit older of course. All still very good looking and they still can dance and sing the way I remember them.
They started off their show with a newer song from their new CD "The Block" (which I listen to a lot!) but the majority of the music was their old stuff, which I was surprised I still new the words. About half way through their show in between songs the lights went down and the next thing we knew they were on a round platform right behind us!! It just couldn't get any better!!
It's hard to pick just a couple pictures, I took about a hundred!! If you're interested in seeing all of them you can see them on my shutterfly. I also took 2 videos, one of them singing "The Right Stuff" and another singing "Tonight" when they were in the middle behind us -- that one is a little more fun because I got them talking before hand.I was sad when they finally had to end their show...they came out with a 2 song encore with "Hangin' Tough" being their last and final song. When the lights came on all 3 of us said that was one of the best concerts EVER!!! And we were talking about it all the way home and I STILL have their songs in my head!! I think I will always be a New Kids On The Block fan!!! Along with about a million other 30-something women!!
