#thank you Rex! (and Seiya haha)

[valeriianz]

concert ask game!! 12, 13, 20, 21 !! :D

woo!

12: Song that’s better live

i can not pick just one song lmao. you'd havta narrow it down by band/artist... most music is better live <3

but since they're the last band i saw, X Ambassadors does a wicked live show. Sam, the lead vocalist, is so full of energy and is so goofy. he likes to dance on stage and can really shred on the guitar (who knew!). and being able to actually see his blind brother, the keyboardist, play a set, is so cool. he kills it every time.

a couple random examples:

Renegades is amazing live. Sam will whip out an acoustic guitar and get the crowd to sing along acapella.

during a show in 2021, they performed one of their oldest songs, Litost(one of my personal favs from them) and totally remixed it, to the point where i didnt even recognize it until Sam started singing. it was sooo gorgeous and a fabulous reworking. i wish i had recorded it to show you haha.

13: Song you want to see most live

LIAR or NO SCARED by One OK Rock. I've seen them 3 times and they just. don't play their old/Japanese stuff in American tours. which i get? but i'm definitely not alone in wanting to hear their older/native language songs. and their older stuff just goes so much harder, i wanna hear it!

anything by Maneskin, omg. as soon as they're touring again i'm getting tickets (and dragging @delta-pavonis with me lmao). can't wait to rock out to HONEY, (ARE YOU COMING?)

Woman by Kesha

Jesus He Knows Me by Ghost (seriously i just wanna see them live some day lol)

and just as a quick blanket: literally anything circa the 80s by The Cure, Depeche Mode, R.E.M., Madonna, or Joan Jett

20: Best venue (also asked by @seiya-starsniper!)

i remember loving Theatre of the Living Arts in Philly. the venue itself is nothing spectacular, the acoustics are fine. but it's the location that gives it a special place in my heart. i have many fond memories of going to shows there and meeting up with random fans who also saw the show at one of my favorite bars just a couple blocks away and having post-show drinks together. and if you know Philly, you know south st is the place to be on a Friday night. it's just good times.

21: First concert

Panic! at the Disco, Vices and Virtues tour in 2011 haha. Patrick Stump opened for them while he was trying to go solo.

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