#Cage the Elephant Tour Dates

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oasis in america officially in my inbox

you have one last chance to prove you loved us all along

lmao noel gallagher you’re such a messy bitch. i’m literally in the middle of posting oasis at the whisky 1994 so i know for a fact it’s the 30th anniversary of you going missing and derailing the first american tour. but sure blame it on us we probably deserve it anyway.

metlife aug 31

did someone tell them the best time to drive in the new york city metro area is labor day weekend? the whole city leaves it’s a ghost town. it’s like the only time i’d consider it. and cage the elephant have you looked at my pandora account circa 2009 god this is so ideal for me personally i feel affronted.

fine fine i’ll do the presale ballot.

5 minutes later…

well that was painless enough.

schedule for this week for those who need it:

- signup for presale ballot and confirm before tuesday 8am et

- presale codes sent before wednesday 11:59pm

- presale thursday at 2 pm (local time?)

- general sale friday at 12 pm (local time?)

curious about the local time for sales: if this is by time zone the show is in, that’s be more staggered sales. so 12 pm est would be toronto and ny only.

been collecting tips for ticket madness to share soon. oasis reddit has a good guide. but the best tip is to not miss presale ballots. it’s the most painless process from what i saw.

general sale they’re saying no dynamic pricing. but apparently coldplay said the same a few days ago but ticketmaster still used it in the end. so who knows.

‘cuse me i’ll be playing be here now for the rest of the day.

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Oasis Live '25 - North America [Official Trailer]

Following the announcement that was felt around the world, the global cultural phenomenon continues with Oasis’ return. Today the band announce the North American dates of their OASIS LIVE ’25 world tour. The North American leg will kick off in Toronto on August 24th, and will see Oasis play stadiums in Chicago, East Rutherford, Los Angeles and Mexico City next summer with Cage The Elephant as the special guest across all dates.

The news comes 16 years since their last performance in North America.

Oasis commented:

“America.  Oasis is coming.  You have one last chance to prove that you loved us all along.”

Toronto, ON – Rogers Stadium 24th August

Chicago, IL – Soldier Field 28th August

East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium 31st August

Los Angeles, CA – Rose Bowl Stadium 6th September

Mexico City, MX – Estadio GNP Seguros 12th September

Special Guest:  Cage The Elephant

Registration for the presale is currently open until Tuesday, October 1st at 8am ET.  General ticket onsale will begin Friday, October 4th at 12pm local time and will be available from Ticketmaster.

Plans are underway for Oasis Live ’25 to go to other continents outside of Europe and North America later next year.  🚨🚨🚨

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cage the elephant is opening for oasis in the US dates spencer is about to lose his fucking mind holy shit he's gone he's quitting tour to line up at the first venue

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CAGE THE ELEPHANT’S NEW ALBUM, 'NEON PILL,' OUT NOW VIA RCA RECORDS

Today, Cage The Elephant, the GRAMMY® Award winning rock band release Neon Pill, their 6th studio album. Neon Pill finds the Kentucky-bred six piece—brothers Matthew Shultz [vocals] and Brad Shultz [guitar], Daniel Tichenor [bass], Jared Champion [drums], Nick Bockrath [lead guitar], and Matthan Minster [guitar, keys, backing vocals]— forging new musical ground, while maintaining their uncompromising creativity and wildly cathartic performances. “To me, Neon Pill is the first record where we were consistently uninfluenced, and I mean that in a positive way,” observes Matthew. “Everything is undoubtedly expressed through having settled into finding our own voice. We’ve always drawn inspiration from artists we love, and at times we’ve even emulated some of them to a certain degree. With this album, having gone through so much, life had almost forced us into becoming more and more comfortable with ourselves. We weren’t reaching for much outside of the pure experience of self expression, and simultaneously not necessarily settling either. We just found a uniqueness in simply existing.”

  Rolling Stone spoke with lead singer Matthew Shultz about the new album and upcoming tour and say the new music “sounds like a rich and matured version of Cage the Elephant.” Read the full interview here. The band also recently returned to Jimmy Kimmel Live! to perform the world debut of their song “Rainbow.”

The band recently shared “Metaverse,” the latest single off Neon Pill, which follows recent singles from the new album including “Good Time,” “Out Loud” and “Neon Pill,” which scored the band their 11th #1 song on Billboard’s Alternative Chart.

  Cage The Elephant’s 47-date North American US tour, produced by Live Nation, will kick off on June 20 in Salt Lake City with shows in cities including Seattle, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto and New York City (full dates below), with support from Young The Giant & Bakar on most dates.  Tickets and VIP available for all dates are on sale now here.  

On Monday, May 6, iHeartMedia hosted the iHeartRadio Album Release Party with Cage the Elephant in celebration of the new album Neon Pill. The show will broadcast across iHeartRadio Alternative Stations nationwide on May 20 at 8 p.m. local time and in VR on Meta Horizon Worlds at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT. 

  From their humble beginnings in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Cage The Elephant have gone on to become one of the generation’s premier rock bands. They have earned dozens of Gold, Platinum, and Multiplatinum certifications, tallied over 5 billion streams, and notched eleven #1 records on Alternative Radio and 5 #1 records on Triple A Radio. Their previous two albums Tell Me I’m Pretty [2015] and Social Cues [2019] garnered consecutive Best Rock Album GRAMMY® Awards. They are maybe most celebrated for their live show. The stage is their home turf, where they are most comfortable, and their performances, ecstatic and unchained, as well as cathartic and soul bearing are what Neon Pill achieves in documenting.    Neon Pill, produced by John Hill,materialized during sessions at Sonic Ranch in El Paso, Electric Lady in New York, Sound Emporium in Nashville, Echo Mountain in North Carolina, and at Hill’s own studio in Los Angeles, and alchemized a season of tragedy and turbulence into the twelve tracks on their sixth full-length album. Nine months into the pandemic, Matthew and Brad lost their father. The band weathered the back-to-back deaths of friends, while Matthew experience depression and a mental breakdown, culminating in hospitalization. Coming out on the other side, he learned quite a bit about himself, and gained a whole lot of strength and wisdom. Neon Pill came to life in the eye of the storm. 

  Cage The Elephant Tour Dates  June 15 – Manchester, TN at Bonnaroo   June 20 – West Valley City, UT at Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre^  

June 22 – Seattle, WA at Climate Pledge Arena^ 

June 23 – Ridgefield, WA at RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater^ 

June 24 – Bend, OR at Hayden Homes Amphitheater^ 

June 26 – Vancouver, BC at Rogers Arena^ 

June 28 – Edmonton, AB at Rogers Place^ 

June 30 – Spokane, WA at BECU Live at Northern Quest^ 

July 2 – San Francisco, CA at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium* 

July 3 – Santa Barbara, CA at Santa Barbara Bowl^~ 

July 5 – Phoenix, AZ at Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre^ 

July 6 – San Diego, CA at Viejas Arena^ 

July 7 – Los Angeles, CA at Kia Forum^ 

July 9 – Albuquerque, NM at Isleta Amphitheater^ 

July 11 – Austin, TX at Moody Center^ 

July 12 – Houston, TX at  The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman^ 

July 13 – Fort Worth, TX at Dickies Arena^ 

July 15 – Rogers, AR at Walmart AMP^ 

Aug 2 – Alpharetta, GA at Ameris Bank Amphitheatre* 

Aug 3 – Raleigh, NC at Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek^ 

Aug 4 – Charlotte, NC at PNC Music Pavilion* 

Aug 7 – Noblesville, IN at Ruoff Music Center^ 

Aug 8 – Madison, WI at Breese Stevens Field^ 

Aug 10 – Winnipeg, MB at Canada Life Centre^ 

Aug 12 – Minneapolis, MN at Target Center^ 

Aug 14 – Chicago, IL at Credit Union 1 Arena at UIC^ 

Aug 16 – Grand Rapids, MI at Van Andel Arena^ 

Aug 18 – Saratoga Springs, NY at Broadview Stage at SPAC^ 

Aug 19 – Bridgeport, CT at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater^ 

Aug 21 – Gilford, NH at BankNH Pavilion^ 

Aug 22 – Mansfield, MA at Xfinity Center* 

Aug 24 – Holmdel, NJ at PNC Bank Arts Center^ 

Aug 26 – Montreal, QC at Centre Bell^ 

Aug 27 – Toronto, ON at Budweiser Stage^ 

Aug 29 – Burgettstown, PA at The Pavilion at Star Lake^ 

Aug 30 – Cincinnati, OH at Riverbend Music Center^ 

Sept 5 – New York, NY at Madison Square Garden^ 

Sept 6 – Philadelphia, PA at TD Pavilion at the Mann^ 

Sept 7 – Lewiston, NY at Artpark Mainstage Theater^ 

Sept 9 – Cleveland, OH at Blossom Music Center^ 

Sept 10 – Detroit, MI at Pine Knob Music Theatre^ 

Sept 12 – St. Louis, MO at Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre^ 

Sept 13 – Des Moines, IA at Wells Fargo Arena^ 

Sept 14 – Kansas City, MO at Starlight Theatre^ 

Sept 16 – Omaha, NE at CHI Health Center Omaha^ 

Sept 18 – Denver, CO at Red Rocks Amphitheatre* 

Sept 19 – Colorado Springs, CO at Sunset Amphitheatre  Sept 27 – Ocean City, MD at Oceans Calling Festival  ^with Young The Giant and Bakar 

* with Bakar 

~Non-Live Nation Date 

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Oasis Announce North American Leg Of Their Historic 2025 World Tour

Oasis Announce North American Leg Of Their Historic 2025 World Tour. #oasis @oasis

Following the announcement that was felt around the world, the global cultural phenomenon continues with Oasis’ return. Today the band announce the North American dates of their OASIS LIVE ’25 world tour. The North American leg, produced by Live Nation and SJM, will see Oasis play stadiums in Toronto, Chicago, East Rutherford, Los Angeles and Mexico City next summer with Cage The Elephant as the…

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GIRL TONES impress with punky debut offering 'Fade Away'

'Girl Tones' debut single 'Fade Away' is a blender of fuzzy guitars and hard pounding drums that punks, it rocks and they ain't getting burnt again anytime soon, or 'Fading Away' in a hurry.

Raucously making their debut release today, Girl Tones do not step softly onto the scene with “Fade Away.” Sister duo Kenzie and Laila have shed their classical training to creatively let out something more primordial and raw. Produced by Brad Shultz and recorded at the infamous Nashville studio Battle Tapes, the first single is fortified by fuzzy walls of guitar and a creeping synth line. Dynamically alternating between being sonically massive and pulling back for broken down palm muted parts, Girl Tones straddle their own line between punk and blues rock — Stream via Parallel Vision. 

Guitarist and vocalist Kenzie shared that, “‘Fade Away’ is about being vulnerable and slowly getting burned over and over again by someone you love, to the point you have to move on with your life. You’re hurt, you’re angry, you’re owed an apology.”

Currently underway, Girl Tones is out on the road supporting Cage The Elephant on their Neon Pill Tour. With upcoming performances in Nashville and at Red Rocks, the duo is making a loud entry to a sea of ravenous fans. In New York, Girl Tones will play the official Cage The Elephant afterparty with Gloom Girl MFG. See all upcoming tour dates below.

UPCOMING TOUR DATES

September 1 - Nashville, TN - Ascend Amphitheater* 

September 5 - New York, NY - The Cutting Room^

September 18 - Denver, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre* 

September 19 - Colorado Springs, CO - Ford Amphitheater* 

*supporting Cage The Elephant

^official Cage The Elephant afterparty with Gloom Girl MFG

Girl Tones, of planet Earth, are a high-energy rock duo brought to life by two sisters named Kenzie and Laila. Both classically trained musicians, Kenzie transitioned from cello to guitar and Laila from piano to drums in an effort to electrify sentient beings from this galaxy to the next. It’s working!

For fans of Nirvana, The White Stripes, Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill and more. 

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If anything regarding a late night talk show like Jimmy Kimmel is happening in LA, it would be an announcement tomorrow and would actually happen in October. Though I’ve never seen a band announce a studio performance that far in advance, as those are typically announced 2ish weeks in advance. I was starting to think when tour dates dropped that maybe a surprise Jimmy Fallon performance in NYC on Halloween would happen since that’s a free day and would be in town. The palm trees make me think whatever’s happening tomorrow is LA based

Talk show performances are free btw for 16+ for NYC/LA residents. Cage The Elephant just did it last week and Catfish did it in 2019 both with Jimmy Kimmel. Really hoping they do one again. Can’t see why they wouldn’t.

I’m convinced it’s a single teaser. Sardy’s liminal post, the timing between singles and TikTok have been cryptically hinting at it. Second wave of dates could also be coming though I don’t understand why the time would be important if it’s just more dates? I do think their album announcement is happening Friday

The show thing would be cool but I can’t see why it would be announced so early and at a specific time. Hope they do one though whilst they’re out there, sounds great.

Can’t get my head around the time thing, other than they want everyone to be sure to be tuned in. I’m leaning more towards a single and/or album announcement too. Maybe we’ll get a little snippet of new music like we did with Showtime 🤞

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ICYMI: Cage The Elephant share new single 'Metaverse' + tour dates and tickets - #cagetheelephant @CageTheElephant http://dlvr.it/T6SxWk

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ICYMI: Cage The Elephant share new single 'Metaverse' + tour dates and tickets - #cagetheelephant @CageTheElephant http://dlvr.it/T6SxWq

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WellBad is back with a huge bang on Rock Single Bad Habits

WellBad - Bad Habits

Release date: Jan 13, 2023

Released by: Blue Central Records

Genre: Alternative Rock

Similar artists: The Black Keys, Paul Cauthen, Tom Waits, Cage the Elephant

WellBad is back with a huge bang on Rock Single Bad Habits

WellBad is back with a huge bang! In their brand-new studio album Bad Habits, these musical game changers playfully combine retro-enamored songwriting with unusual sound compositions, creating their own unique New Blues Sound which has brought them acclaim both in Europe and North America.  

https://youtu.be/uiGrYQkSD3E

“This album saved my life and nearly destroyed it at the same time,” singer/songwriter Daniel Welbat says about his fifth studio album. Like many other artists, the pandemic and its lockdowns brought the Hamburg native to his knees, mentally speaking. Isolated from the rest of the world, Welbat took an unfiltered look at what is commonly referred to as “bad habits.”

Album is coming on March 3!!!

Featured on Indie Rock Vibes Playlist;

WellBad is back with a huge bang! In their brand-new studio album Bad Habits, these musical game changers playfully combine retro-enamored songwriting with unusual sound compositions, creating their own unique New Blues Sound which has brought them acclaim both in Europe and North America.  

“This album saved my life and nearly destroyed it at the same time,” singer/songwriter Daniel Welbat says about his fifth studio album. Like many other artists, the pandemic and its lockdowns brought the Hamburg native to his knees, mentally speaking. Isolated from the rest of the world, Welbat took an unfiltered look at what is commonly referred to as “bad habits.”

“It hurts like hell,” Welbat says, “but these bad habits, those little everyday sins, ultimately make us who we are – human beings! And that’s a good thing.” Armed with a crate of whiskey and a suitcase full of cigars, the songwriter set off on a musical meditation of sorts. The result was Bad Habits – surely his most personal album to date.

To experience the outcome of this transformation live is going to be sensational! Daniel Welbat’s powerful, sonorous voice bobs and weaves between smoky jazz bar and electrifying rock concert in an unbridled fashion. He screams, grunts, hums, whispers, sings and raps – a voice that seems to hold a hundred lives.

Made up of 14 gripping new tracks, the new WellBad opus will be released in March of 2023, followed by a Germany tour of several weeks. Later that year, the five-member combo will be heading to Canada once more. 

Stage animal Daniel Welbat and his electrifying Hamburg band put on a wildly dynamic live show in a class of its own, sending their audiences into raptures between heaven and hell. 

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Foals: “Our new music is ready for you to party to”

Now a three piece, Foals have stripped away the excess and, as they tell Rolling Stone UK, are making their most accessible, danceable music in a decade

by Will Richards | for Rolling Stone UK

Like many seemingly prophetic songwriters, Foals wrote their apocalyptic album even before the pandemic hit. Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – a two-part album released across 2019 – saw the band stretch their ambitions as far as possible, adding more and more layers to their palette and making their most widescreen music to date while singing of the end times and environmental ruin. It wasn’t a surprise when earlier this year, the track ‘Neptune’ was revamped by Hans Zimmer’s production company to soundtrack a new BBC nature documentary.

With the backdrop of a global pandemic, the departure of founding keyboardist Edwin Congreave and a looming climate crisis, the band – now a three-piece after bassist Walter Gervers also left the band in 2018 – decided to shun the darkness around them and make music of escapist fantasy for their next move. “In the depths of winter, we wrote a summer record,” frontman Yannis Philippakis tells us.

This new approach is exemplified on their massive latest single ‘Wake Me Up’, the most immediate and bright pop song Foals have put to tape in years. “It was self-administered medicine to us, writing this joyous music,” Yannis says, with plenty more promised on their seventh album, due later this year. 

“I’m walking through a dream, the finest place I’ve ever seen,” you sing to open ‘Wake Me Up’ – how did you get into the headspace of escaping such a dark reality?

I wanted the songs to be capsules to transport people – and myself – out of the time that we were in. A lot of the new songs are set in far-flung places that are halcyon and idyllic. That’s part of the power of music, to act as a vessel for transport. It felt like postcards from the past for the future. I was taking shards of sun-drenched, joyous memories of being at a party somewhere, which felt so out of reach at that time, and trying to project it and manifest it into the future for when stuff reopened. We wanted to have music ready for the re-emergence of the world – here’s music ready for you to party to when things are right again.

And the new music is from your upcoming seventh album. How is it coming together, and who have you worked with on it?

We’re almost finished, and just have a few more bits of mixing to do. Not all of the songs are as disco or new-wave as ‘Wake Me Up’, but they’re all upbeat, joyous, catchy tunes. We wrote it in our tiny rehearsal room in Peckham and have worked with John Hill (Florence + The Machine, Cage The Elephant), Dan Carey (Speedy Wunderground, Black Midi, Fontaines D.C.) and A.K. Paul. There’s been an interesting pen-pal aspect to the record, sending messages out in bottles to producers and then them all coming back to us – like an exquisite corpse situation. Hopefully it’s made a much richer tapestry, and maybe we needed more voices in the room because the three of us are so well attuned to each other now.

The new material is your first as a three-piece after Edwin’s departure. Did you know he was leaving before you started work on the album?

We knew right at the start. It had been on the cards for a while, and we thought that we’d do one more tour together, but it had come to a point, particularly with Covid, where we said to him, ‘Do you really want to write another record with us as a four-piece or shall we leave it in a good place?’ Edwin had things he wanted to do, like studying and engaging with efforts against the climate crisis – very venerable things, which it’s hard to pick faults in. There’s no animosity, and I respect him a lot for leaving.

Edwin’s reasons for departure were heavily related to the impact of worldwide touring on climate change. Are there measures you as a band are putting in place to limit your own emissions in the future?

We’ve been making changes over the past few years. We carbon offset all our touring, don’t tour with disposable plastic anymore, and are trying to make incremental changes. It’s difficult when so much of the business and demand for the band is both abroad and in a live setting, because the remuneration for recorded music is so small, and it’s very difficult to say we’re not going to tour. For me as well, I need to be on stage – it’s a thing I wrestle with.

Do you see the impact of the new dynamics of you as a trio reflected in the forthcoming music?

If you have five people in the room, each devoted to their own instrument, they’re going to innately want to play it all the time on every song. Now there’s only three, you’ve got Jimmy moving between keys and guitars, and we gave a lot more space to the sound, because the last record was dense. It’s a triangular sound in a lot of ways. The joyousness within the new music is us getting back our sense of childlike wonder, and having ‘pinch me’ moments. There’s always been a big element of melancholy in what we do, but we want our live shows to be an ecstatic celebration, and we’ve written new music for that. This record, more than any record we’ve made since [2008 debut album] ‘Antidotes’, is good for the body. It’s physically energising and gratifying.

The new album feels tailored to the live environment – how were your first shows back post-Covid this summer, and what can we expect moving forwards?

The hopes and thoughts that we had when writing the album were saying, ‘Can you imagine how good it’s going to feel when we’re all back together and hugging and dancing?’ For us to feel like conductors and the lightning rods for those moments, it’s more than you can put into words. Being back on stage reaffirmed to us how right it is that we are where we are and are doing what we’re doing. To hear people sing the lyrics back, it made us realise that all of this is stronger than something like a pandemic can break.

Foals’ latest single ‘Wake Me Up’ is out now.

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i am fookin fewmin

ok so im going to break the post off but i want to set the scene so u guys can decide if u wanna read all of it 

so this band i like, greta van fleet, announced tour dates the other day. one of the stops is literally my city, so obviously im going. but,,, as i go to speak to some old friends drama ensues........ oooohhhhh *ghost noises*

i have been to a greta concert before in november 2021. it was atlive in atlanta and they performed with cage the elephant and metallica. at the time i was on greta van fleet (GVF) twitter and had a lot of friends i was meeting up with at their concert. we were in group chats on twitter, and talked daily. this was at the peak of greta van fleet getting attention on tiktok and as someone who had been a fan of them for a while but never pursued like... their stan accounts,,, i was in for a big surprise okay like it was a lot!!!

a year or so prior i had left kpop twitter simply because i felt that the drama was too much for me, and i felt as if i was too old to be getting into these fucking high school level arguments. 

but for the first few months of gvf twitter and tiktok i had a blast getting to know everyone and make friends, and i met this girl on tiktok's named maggie  (fake names for privacy lol) when i posted about getting tickets to atlanta show. 

and so maggie put me into an iMessage group chat with her friends sadie and kendall (again, all names r fake) and we were going over where we were staying and all of that shit. so eventually we came to the conclusion that i would be riding to atlanta with kendall and maggie and staying in their airbnb. i was at one point supposed to stay with sadie, but plans just changed, so keep that in mind for later. 

so the time of the concert rolls around and by this point i was 3-4 months into a friendship with these girls, as well as the twitter group chats of 10 or so additional people we were meeting at the show. i had formed relationships with these people and had a pretty good idea of their characters. most of them were, admittedly, kinda snooty kendra scott girls. (i hope someone understands this) and i am just not.... that kind of person. like greta van fleet is a very rock n roll band, very led zeppelin sounding so its been said, so i never expected for their fans to be simply southern girls ok?? sue me. 

but i never said anything about it and i was always civil, even when they were borderline stalking this poor band. they just seemed so fake nice to the point of being kinda mean? if that makes sense (all except kendall , we to this day love kendall she's an angel.)

ok ok ok so i meet up with maggie and kendall and i drive to atlanta no biggie. i am kind of uncomfortable bc im on my period, with ppl ive never met irl, in an unfamiliar city, and this was my first time going out of state without my family so i was just on edge the whole time. 

the night before the concert we go out to eat with this person from the gc and their family which was so uncomfy, and eventually more people from the gc come rolling into the restaurant and i am so anxious and its so loud so me and kendall walk to the gift shop and wait for maggie to be done so we can leave. it takes over an hour for us to leave btw

so eventually we go back to the airbnb and sleep. blah blah then we go line up at fuvking 3 am... and sit there in the freezing cold on my period until 12 am the next night... no just no... i

anyways i meet the nicest bbys in line : kelly, terry, nicole, and ray (fake names r hard pls) who i basically hung out with the whole time since i had vip passes and maggie and kendall didnt. however, sadie did have vip. remember sadie? yeah she sat w me in line ,,,, allllll day. 

so the concert happens blah blah it was terrible btw the metallic fans were like punching teenage girls in the face it was... a nightmare....

afterwards i watch cage the elephant perform bc theyre my favorite band on the planet (which everyone in the gcs clowned me for bc somehow no one knew who cte were ??)

and then,,, we had all decided to leave before metallica the day before, and since i was on my period and the venue didnt allow me to bring in my tampons i wanted to fucking go home like we PLANNED. but no. they wouldn't leave. so i left alone in an uber and no one ever called to see if i made it back alright which i thought was crazy, bc id never let a woman wander out into the night in a new city. but they did. and they got to see gvf walk out and met the leader singer of cage, which no one facetimed me for even though they were aware of how much i loved him. they also talked so much shit art how weird cage’s performance was but then all but sucked his dick when he came out to meet them ok lol but i have photos of me crying alone in the airbnb after i found that out lol 

anyways the rest of the trip is pointless to explain so im gonna fast forward back to the current issue. 

about a week or so after the concert in november, gvf twitter erupted in fucking flames with drama, and i simply could not handle it. i was on the verge of a mental breakdown, which i did eventually end up going thru, and i just could handle the extra anxieties being out on me by fucking middle school drama 

so i delete twitter, i deactivate my account. i just leave. 

and so now, march of 2022, greta has released new tour dates, and theyre stopping in my hometown so i AM going. the only girls i talk to regularly are kelly terry nicole and ray. theyre the only ones i still follow on instagram besides kendall. there was no other reason i unfollowed the others besides cleaning up my following list bc we didnt interact at all. 

so me, kelly, terry, and ray all have tickets to the upcoming show in my city and tay told me that SADIE also had a ticket so i was like omg!!! sadie i haven't talked to her in forever lets make a gc, so i did. 

and this is the outcome of that

and so being confused and worried that sadie left for no reason i messaged and her and this is what happened

so…. as u can see she FUCKING LIED TO ME and then blocked me after my final message.

i was admittedly kind of a bitch in my last messge but heres my reasoning.

you can say i was a bad friend, you can say i cut everyone off on social media… but the thing is ALL OF U HAVE MY NUMBER !!! NONE OF U ARE BLOCKED ON IG U COULD HAVE MESSAGED ME IF U FELT ANY KIND OF WAY

and ALSO U FUCKING BITCH!!!!!!! WHEN U DEACTIVATE TWITTER IT REMOVES U FROM ALL UR GCS!!! AND NONE OF U NEVER MESSAGED ME ABOUT IT!!! EVER !!!’

why is it, in her head, up to ME alone to support a friendship. all i did was delete twitter and explained it was for my own mental health and i got blocked… i just dont get it. i genuinely apologized that i made her feel that ways because im well aware i go mia for months at a time and most of my friends understand im just that way.. it’s healthiest for me to be that way…

idk if i even explained this completely or like… well??? i just need u guys to read it and tell me in not crazy and should t have just assumed anyone would be pissed at me when THEY havent reached out either like holy fuck

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Concert asks: 7, 11, 17, 23, 43, 54

@madamsnape921 Yay! Thank you for sending asks!

7. Which artists/bands would you love to see live?

So many! Panic! At The Disco, Halestorm, Garbage, Lady Gaga, Lizzo, Tegan and Sara, Adele, Florence and the Machine, The Arkells, The Cure, Weezer, Green Day (I was supposed to see Green Day and Weezer in Toronto on the Hella Mega Tour, but all the Canadian dates got canceled because Canada is still fighting to get out from under a 3rd covid wave. Fuck Covid!)

11. Have you met any bands/artists at a Concert?

Yes! The Fast Romantics! They're a Canadian indie rock band. I paid $10 to see them play at a gin distillery here in Buffalo, and they hung out after the gig to talk to everyone, take selfies, and they were selling their own merch. They were super nice!

17. Funniest Concert Memory?

My second time seeing Cage the Elephant (on the Night Running tour w/Beck), lead singer Matt Schultz stripped down to a pair of shorts and crowed surfed to lawn seats. The dude is super high energy and loves to do stuff like that.

Also, Weird Al Yankovic. The whole concert, every costume change, and the finale when he brought out some droids and members of the local 501st Legion for Yoda and The Saga Begins

The llama mascots on Fall Out Boy's Mania tour

23. Favorite Concert Venue?

Artpark Amphitheater and the Town Ballroom

43. What's the best part of a concert in your opinion?

When the whole audience is singing along to that song that everyone, and the band just pauses to listen to audience singing their song back to them.

54. Which artist would you refuse to see in concert?

For some reason Kid Rock is coming to mind (probably because he's a Trump supporter), but anyone who is openly racist, homophobic, sexist, and misogynist isn't going to get my time or money

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Eavesdropping

Matt Shultz x reader

(Y/n’s pov)

Me and the rest of the band entered the audition. We were all a little nervous but I think I was the most anxious. I mean we do need to ace this because if we do, we’ll be opening for Cage The Elephant! Which is obviously like our dream besides us actually making it as musicians of course.

So we walked in, I was walking with our drummer Arny who was whispering something in my ear about how nervous he is, but I stopped listening when I saw Matt Shultz.

“Hey guys!” He said sweetly, walking up to us.

“Oh um hi.” I replied along with everyone else.

To my surprise he was completely normal. Not full of himself or rude, just normal which is comforting.

“You guys are the last band of the night.” Brad said with a smile.

“So we’re ready whenever you are.” Matt said going back to sit down at the bar with the other guys.

We played our set and I’d like to say it was pretty great. We were all nervous and I could tell but I don’t think Jared, Brad, or Matt could.

“Wow that was great guys!” Matt told us, clapping his hands together. But, he was looking right at me.

“Yeah it really was!” Jared replied walking up on the stage to go to Arny.

“So how do we know if we got in or not?” I asked.

All the boys huddled together, it was weird but I figured it was for some strange reason. But I couldn’t wait. I was curious and just a little impatient.

“Sooo?”

“You guys are in.” Matt said happily.

“We’re in?” Arny asked.

“Yes?”

“WE’RE IN!!” I yelled.

“I JUST SAID YES!”

And with that they told us the details and when we’re leaving!

(Time skip to the tour- y/n’s POV)

We just finished a show and I’m backstage with Jared and Matt. Jared is talking about some girl he met before the show and I’m laying on Matt’s lap tracing shapes on his jeans. No, we’re not dating, even though I would love that. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t think of me like that. I mean I’ve had a crush on him since our audition but, he doesn’t seem to look at me like I look at him.

(Matt’s POV)

Jared was going on about some girl, Sadie, we met before the show. And y/n, this girl is gonna kill me. She’s laying on my lap, tracing circles on my legs and I can’t help but enjoy it. I’ve liked her for awhile now, probably since the tour has started. But, I don’t think she feels the same. I'm probably more of a best friend than, well, a boyfriend.

“Hey Matt?” Jared asks, breaking me out of my thoughts.

“Yeah?”

“Can we talk for a minute?” He says his voice slightly whispering.

“Uh sure.” I replied and scoot y/n off my lap. She looked confused I felt bad.

He grabbed my arm and dragged me into a corner in our dressing room.

“Geez what do you want? Is this about Sadie again?” I asked, clearly annoyed he dragged me away.

“No, no this isn’t about Sadie this is about y/n!” He whisper yelled but grabbed my attention.

“What about her?” I tried to play it cool.

“You like her!”

“W-what?” I asked as if I didn’t already know.

“I know you do Matt and Brad knows too. It’s obvious!”

“Geez seriously it’s that obvious?” I asked, feeling totally deflated. He’s either going to tell me she doesn’t feel the same or, give me really bad advice. I don’t want either and most of all I don’t want y/n to know.

“You have to tell her man!!” Jared said poking my shoulder. I called it, bad advice.

“No”

“Why?”

“Because.”

“Because why?”

“Because I know she doesn’t like me, ok?” I yelled. Then the worst possible thing that could happen did.

(Y/n’s POV)

I heard yelling from the boys dressing room and got curious. We were in there before and I left my bag so I guess I’ll use that as an excuse to go in.

But, me being the snoopy person I am, had to put my ear to the door to know what they were yelling about.

“Matt I know she does!” Jared yelled at him. ‘Who does, does he like someone?’ I thought.

“No! Ok? Y/n doesn’t like me and I know it I just do.” I heard Matt say. Oh, that’s who they were talking about. Me?

I decided now would be the perfect time to walk in.

“Hey guys,” I said awkwardly walking in.

“Hey y/n/n!” Matt said quickly and obviously was nervous.

“I just left my bag in here, I'm sorry.” I said quietly almost a whisper.

“Matt,” Jared said in a warning tone and poked Matt's shoulder.

“Is everything ok?” I ask, trying to pretend I don’t know. I know Matt would be mad if he knew I was eavesdropping.

“Yeah” Matt sighed.

“No,” Jared said quietly.

“What were you guys talking about?”

“Umm,” they said in sync.

Then Jared said “you”

“Oh” I laughed hoping they couldn’t tell that I knew.

“Well I’m going to Arny you two have fun!” He said walking out the door and giving Matt a glare.

“So Matt I need to talk to you….” I started.

“You heard didn’t you?”

“Heard what?” I’m bad at this pretending not to know thing.

“Me talking about you?

“I- no I-, yeah I heard it. I'm sorry I heard you guys yelling and I eavesdropped I know it wasn’t any of my business but then I got so happy when I heard you say that I came in here and-“ I got cut off from my rambling by a kiss from Matt. It was slow but still passionate and sweet. Even though I could just barely taste smoke on his lips it was worth it.

(Matt’s POV)

Oh no. I just kissed her. I know I shouldn’t have but I could help it. She just said she was actually HAPPY that she heard that!!

I pulled away though, in case that’s not what she wants.

“I’m so sorry I wasn’t thinking I-“

“Shhh it’s ok it was… nice, really really nice.” She said with a huge grin on her face.

“Oh, well good!” I replied feeling awkward about what to do next.

“Yes, so uhm,”

“Y/n?”

“Yeah what’s up?”

“I really like you.”

“I really like you too.”

“Do you wanna like you know?” Man I’m blowing this.

“What?” She asked

“Date? Maybe?” She’s gonna say no isn’t she.

“I’d love to!” She exclaimed! Thank goodness because I thought I was about to get rejected by the love of my life.

“Well we should go back to the others right?”

“Yeah we should.” She replied and took my hand in hers.