Meeting Alexisonfire

I've been a fan of Alexisonfire since I was 14, so seven years ago and I got to meet most of them! Except Jordan/ratbeard the drummer who wasn't around. :'( 

First of all the thing I won from the radio station was a soundcheck package where we could see the band practice and get the kinks straightened out waaay before the concert. It was so rad. My sister and I were standing right in front of the stage and I was content with just watching them play. I never knew they would actually come down to meet us!

So when Wade came up to us first I was so in shock that my brain was not processing any coherent thoughts. I was just thinking "oh my goodness you are so cool!" So I couldn't figure out what to ask. I forgot I came prepared with a marker, my CD booklets and my camera to take pictures. Wade seemed really shy but he's so awesome.  I eventually tracked him down and got a picture with him.

My sister and I then turned around, and Dallas Green was right behind us with a group of three girls :O Never in my life did I think I would meet him! So instead of going to hog him we decided to turn around and talk about how cool the experience was.

In the softest, voice we hear 'Hey. I'm Dallas.' We turn around and shake his hand. My brain was like OMG OMG OMG OMG its Dallas Green, the best singer (in my opinion) in the world, and he fully secured that title last night with his bluesy version of The Northern. Fortunately I was able to form coherent sentences and sparked up a conversation about him getting kicked off early as City and Colour at Sonic Boom, and he replied, "I KNOW! What happened is the band before me played too late, and then Weezer and Rise Against were worried about playing on time so I got squished in. I had four songs left and I couldn't play them. Its weird because you guys in the audience don't know there's a guy trying to rush you off stage, and I wasn't pissed off because I couldn't play, I was mad because you guys paid money to see me and I couldn't play for very long."Such a sweetheart. I wanted to grab his arm and look at his tattoos because they are so colourful! My face is just pure joy meeting him.

Then I met George, and he was just as cool. You expect the guy to be crazy because his energy on stage is just insane, but he was really cool and asked us questions about school and if we were pumped for the show. He's just a big sweetheart. We didn't talk to him long though, but he was so cool and laid back.

Then we met Steele the bassist. His movember stache is probably the best ever. He was talked to Rayanne and I for a long time, which was really cool! Apparently the last time they were at the Edmonton Event Centre some douche security guard named DIESEL put Dallas in a full nelson because he jumped down to the barricade area to sign someone's shirt. Dallas said, "yeah that sucked! They kicked me out into the parking lot too."

Then we saw some girl holding an Alexisonfire Frisbee, so Steele started to talk about how he and a friend invented 8 ways to throw a Frisbee. I said I didn't believe him as a joke, but then he said "Lets play Frisbee!" And he grabbed one from the merch table and we played Frisbee. The throws were super crazy, I still can't figure them out. Then the SONiC employee told us it was time to go. :'( It was seriously the coolest day in my life. My favourite band ever, and I got to meet them!!

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