bastille concert

last night my best friend jennifer and i had a little treat... we got to see bastille live in concert at perth's challenge stadium. doug bought two tickets for me for christmas, but actually doesn't like them at all, so i was told that the tickets were for me and a friend (who he had already called and asked for me ahead of time). six months had passed, the band had actually arrived in perth... and woooo off we went!

i got to hear bastille's album a year ago when i was in melbourne for a wedding and a friend was kind enough to drive me and madeline from place to place whilst blasting it in his car. i loved it from the get go and was so excited to go to their concert...

when we arrived, the pre-show entertainment "foxes" had just started and oh were they incredible! their singer wrote the song "right here" which is on the rudimental album "home" and also features on the single "clarity" by zedd. she had an amazing voice and kept us more than happy during the wait for bastille. i will definitely be looking for her album, she was amazing! she even rocked out a mashup version of pharells happy mixed with massive attacks teardrop. so cool.

i was thrilled when they opened with my favourite song from their album "bad blood" with heaps of red lighting. awesome... their set was so good. they all do pretty much everything, each of the bad members were switching from singing, to guitar, to keyboards, to hitting a drum of some description... and they certainly were just as just on key live as they are on their album, which to me is always a good sign. they are certainly very talented.

doug bought us some awesome seats, in the front row of available seating, a few sections down, to one side of the stage. at one stage though, the lead singer came into the crowd with his mic and was wading (for want of a better explanation) through the crowd whilst singing. super cool. they finished and left the stage to much screaming from the crowd seeing as they hadn't even done pompeii (the song they are most well known for) but came back after we kept yelling to sing it with great gusto and the assistance of foxes and alice in wonderland, the girl that dj-ed between the two bands.

such an awesome night and i am so glad i went... what an awesome husband i have!