Personal Narrative Analysis

Rewind to six months earlier, it was Valentine 's Day and my parents were getting ready to give my sister and I our gifts. We were handed a small, narrow wrapped box that contained tickets to the DCX MMXVI World Tour. My parents had bought tickets for them, my sister, and I. This tour was said to be the final tour that the Dixie Chicks would perform and we were going to the concert in Nashville. Since I had a love for the group from birth, I was ecstatic! It was just a waiting game after we received the tickets because the concert was six months

Concertgoers complain about the "convenience charges" as well as parking and facility fees that Ticketmaster tacks on, which can account for more than thirty per cent of the cost of a ticket. Promoters worry that, as the top-grossing touring acts - the Rolling Stones, the Eagles, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, U2, Madonna - get older, very few younger acts are popular enough to fill stadiums and arenas on the two-year-long tours that superstar rock bands undertake. (Forty per cent of the seats at all Live Nation concerts go unsold.) Most galling to the four stakeholders involved in putting on a concert - the artist, the promoter, the venue operator, and the ticket seller - is the loss of billions of dollars in revenue to the "secondary market": the Internet-driven business of ticket reselling, in which ticket brokers and scalpers profit, while the people who take the artistic and financial risks hardly participate at all. Bill Graham did not live to see "the future" become the live experience; he died in a helicopter crash after a Huey Lewis and the News concert in Concord, California, in 1991. But if you go back to that night on Howard Street and try to understand what Graham saw, it seems obvious that the success of rock shows will always be measured not in box-office revenues and beer sales but in the quality of the party. Records are commodities; concerts are social

The Haiti/MCC benefit concert and silent auction took place in the event center on the campus of Mott Community College on April 23, 2017. The Silent Auction began at 2:30, followed by the Benefit Concert at 3 p.m. All profits were used to support Haitian music students who associated with the Holy Trinity Music School in Haiti, and students participating in the MCC ensembles program. It was the first time that I was in a preparation team for a music concert. We were the second group in reception, so most of our time was serving at the food court and running to kitchen. I was so worry about accident might be happened during concert. However, everything was run smoothly and we had a successful and perfect

The concert I went to was called Bronco fusion. It was held after the first week of school, the ASI team wanted to start off the school year with a a concert so people can enjoy some good music. It was going to be my second time going to a concert, I didn’t know what to expect because the concert I’ve too wasn’t as heavily crowded as this one. I usually don’t like big crowd events, but I wanted to get out of my comfort zone and meet new people. From the phalet it says that there were going to be four performance by 2 DJ from our school, RL grimes the DJ, and Tinashe. Although there were four performance I will be discussing only the about the DJ, because they had the biggest impact throughout the performance and how Tinashe didn’t really fall

A few more bands performed their music, and the time in between sets you can calmly talk to the other people at the show. The best thing about starting a conversation with a random person is you get to learn so much about their history and cool interesting things they have learned along the way. All of the “scary” punk kids I saw before the show, after talking to them I realized they are the coolest and most down to earth people I have ever met. By the time the headliner band The Dead Kennedy’s came on, there were four separate mosh pits and lots of crazies going around. By that time I cut my lip, gotten punched in the nose and I had that feeling I would be in a world of pain the next morning. But it was one of the best nights I have ever had, and it was more than seeing one of my favorite bands it was a true experience.

September 4, 2014. I stood amongst the sweat, the heat, the pushing, and the shoving. It was close to 7 in the evening now. My friends and I hadn’t suffered in humid and over ninety-degree weather like the others. Somehow we managed to get to the front. The security guards came every so often to give us water and we passed it around to our family. We were a family; yet, before this moment I had only known nine people. Six of them stood on the stage. This was my second twenty one pilots concert. I suffered for music, for the feeling of not being alone.

I remember arriving at Vans Warped Tour in Shakopee, Minnesota at 9 o’clock in the morning. We pulled into a broad field to park our car. As we got out of the car, I saw how long the line was to get into the concert. We strolled our way down a massive hill to get our spot in line. Once we passed the peak of the

It has been a while since we had last talked. How have you been? I have been fantastic, although school is substantially more stressful, when compared to seventh grade. I am still participating in and enjoying soccer. The last couple of holidays in which the family came together have been amazing.

The news of the tour came in October, a time where I barely even talked to my parents; so the idea of asking them to take me across the state to a concert wasn’t even in question. After a month, while on better terms because we had just spent the weekend with my grandparents, I decided to toss the idea out there.

After we were done eating, we had to wait for three hours because the concert started at eight. While we were waiting, I was thinking about how silly this whole thing was and why our teacher said this concert would be the best one we would go to this year; we were thirsty, wasting time, and simply bored. I said to myself, “Mrs. Allen, this is not important. Mark Wood is not Justin Bieber, Michael Jackson, or Maroon 5.” The thing that made me the most furious was the fact that we had to fundraise $20,000 for this concert just to have such a bad

The first concert I went to was at the Aztec arena. They were on a world tour with Sleeping with Sirens and they had Pvris as an opening band. At first they were only in San Diego for one day and I was so sad that they sold out so I wouldn't be able to see them but then they added another day. I got tickets to the concert for Christmas and I went with my friend Kassandra. I’d never been to the Aztec arena because I usually go to SOMA. At the arena there is a pit and than seats all around it, I was expecting the pit to be crazy because it was closest to the stage. However, that was not how it was, the pit was really chill and most people were sitting down but in the seats almost everyone was standing up and dancing around. At one point of the concert it got really dark and everyone who was sitting in the stands had their phones out and they were lighting up the room. It was a good experience for my first time seeing them live. The second time I saw Pierce the Veil it was at Warped Tour 2015. I went with my friends Leighanna, Kassandra, Monique, and Matthew. We had all spent the night at my house and than we went to the Chargers stadium where warped tour was being held. Warped tour is a big gathering where a bunch of different types of bands come and play. It goes all around America and they play for thousands of people. I have been to warped tour twice and I love it, it is such an amazing

Sweat ran down my body as I waited in line in 90 degree heat. A drawstring bag full of necessities was slung on my back, my ticket in my hand, and my sunglasses on my face. I prepared for this moment, for this exact moment, weeks in advance. In half an hour, the line would lurch forward as two thousand other festival goers and I poured into the venue. We all gathered for Vans Warped Tour 2016. This was my first Warped Tour and I decided long before I arrived it was going to be the highlight of my summer.

The producer’s of the event, Jeff Monser and Dan Sheehan, offer fans an opportunity to trust in their abilities to continuously put together an unforgettable event by purchasing tickets at the event’s lowest price without knowing what artists will be performing. This year, the “Have a Little Faith” tickets sold out in record time indicating that word has spread on just how reliable the producers are in bringing together some of the best acts from around the world for all ages to

At the Disco run up onto stage. The crowd was roaring, singing along to the lyrics. Since I just finished my performance, I’ll go back into my dressing room and get changed. When I came back to backstage, they were already halfway done their setlist. I sat in a chair and admired how they played. From the band interaction, to their own individual way of playing their instrument. Before I knew it, the night was finished. I walked into Panic!’s tour bus. They told me to stay in their bus until morning every night, since that’s what they said they do every tour. I’d love to stay in their tour bus for this entire tour, but I have a better bed inside of my

I took voice lessons when I was ten; something I had always wanted to do, but had never tried. I wanted to be like Carrie Underwood, writing hit songs, making tons of money, and getting into all kinds of trouble with “cowboy casanovas”. Although singing was something I’d always wanted to do, I was afraid of being substandard, so I kept talking my parents out of it. Finally, my mom dragged me to the class and I was extremely nervous, I was shaking harder than Taylor Swift in her new music video. My mother’s assurance that I was a great singer and that the instructor would love me proved to be a poor buffer against my fears.