#hearingyouinconcert

[intheabsenceofbliss]

Woke up bored extra early , doom scrolling my phone and a concert ad for Twenty One Pilots , my sons favourite band, caught my attention. On a random whim I decided to try get tickets and surprise my 15 yr old with his first concert experience.

Ticketek australia messed up so much , with only really bad seating left and kicking me out of the reservation payment process repeatedly, even so I persisted in trying to get 2 tickets. After 9 tries though I gave up and was x'ing myself for not letting on to him that I had even tried. At least i wouldn't have got him all worked up then disappointed him.

On another whim, Around two hours later when i was sure that no way anything would be left, I checked and they had just two tickets remaining, right beside the disability persons viewing box.

I Figured we'd probably have an obscured view but it would be worth it just so he could get to attend his favourite band live.

We drove out to the Brisbane Exhibition Centre, and he soon realised what concert we were seeing, growing excited he stopped to buy merch at the market before going in and just missed out on the last S size jacket , as someone else on another line asked for it at the exact same time. Such is Life! can't be bummed given he was actually going to see them live in just minutes, so he chose a black hoodie design instead. Next was the lines for drinks and food taking a gamble and hoping to god nothing was going to spike or trigger his allergies, given he has so many of them and a tendency to wind up in hospital with his throat swollen closed, food was great in the end and just as well :)

I will have to try see if the jacket is available online somewhere, perhaps as a 16th birthday surprise.

Having a mum who is so inclined to Spontaneity and RANDOM decisions, worked in his favour. He rocked out and sang along to almost the whole concert succeeding in blocking out the snide derision of some concert attendees intent on giving him " your weird" condescending stares, thankfully he paid them no mind, too busy being openly excited and happy to be experiencing the privalege of just being there .

Im glad he ignored them and got involved, We can't all sit through a concert still and silent and barely applauding without joining in , thats not what we paid to go see them for .

Singing remarkably in tune with the band, not bad for a boy who's half deaf and doesn't like to use his hearing aides or fm system in public. I find it inspiring that a boy who cannot hear as well as non hearing impaired people, can rise to the occasion with less self consciousness and be less afraid or intimidated from showing his love and enjoyment of a wonderful band and music experience.

He lost his voice on the way home, and we had to put up with a few too many pushy arrogant abusive drivers hogging the exits out from parking spaces to the main highway exits, patience got us out most of the way but my tiger came out at that point and we pushed back refusing to allow cars to continually close off the exit and not let others out. I let four cars out while blocking them in turn, before they tried speeding toward us as we were stationary to intimidate and bully😂. No issue my suv can mount curbs so we dodged their stupidity completely and drive the hour home in peace singing along to all the clips i recorded while there.

Despite being officially old, I have to admit to quite liking the band and their crowd involvement level concert experience myself.