#wavernot4love gets 2 the gig

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made a handful of keychains/bracelets 4 idkhow rochester & buffalo tonight & monday :D hope to find some folks to trade with!

i will be in a black death cab shirt, b&w flannel, baggy black jeans, white converse w the razzmatazz colors on one side, and they will be on a carabiner on my fanny pack :) come find me!!

#idkhow #i dont know how but they found me #dallon weekes #gloomtown tour #wavernot4love gets 2 the gig #idkhowposting

[wavernot4love]

wanted 2 make a post about some positive things that happened at iDKHOW Buffalo last night, because there certainly was good in there, for everyone involved, and i want to highlight/talk about that stuff!

i make these posts a lot for shows, mostly for myself so i don't forget, but others seem 2 enjoy them too, and i don't think last night's show should be any exception.

- first of all, OPENING BAND in the crowd!!! something i have never heard of dallon doing for that one before, and all things considered, i fully see why he chose to do it here as it fit the clear vibe of just wanting to be close with and sort of revel in the connection with the crowd - and the ability of that to make everything better.

there were no flamboyant theatrics like with visitation, just all of us singing together (it was also just anthony playing onstage), and homie stayed out with us for a long time - most of the song. i was also right up there which was nice.

(i'm just gonna put a keep reading thingy here you can click so this doesn't clog tags/folks' dash due to being long)

was just super sentimental. dallon even brought the "gives me.... and ____ a purpose" thing back, mentioning/gesturing towards anthony, & also the thing where when we're all doing the last "band" he like, leans back and yells it with his hands around his mouth. just kinda got me & made me smile since he didn't do either of those things on saturday, and i always do them out of habit when singing the song because of past shows.

definitely the best moment of the night & the embodiment of everything i love about idkhow. he truly made the best out of everything.

i didn't film all of it, & also my camera angles are bad since i didn't want to shove my phone in dallon (or anyone's) face. this is the only video i really feel comfortable posting from last night since it just felt like everything was alright in that moment, 100%. not that i took many in the first place for that reason, but you get the idea.

- dallon strutting around with a pride flag from someone for half a song!! let me tell you, bro was showing that thing OFF. sadly i just had my film camera in hand in the moment so i just grabbed maybe five shots on that aka i don't have em yet, but i'll have em eventually, and it sure did happen, and it was great. did see a few posts in idkhow's tagged on instagram if ya wanna peep.

- back to what i said in regards to opening band about making a rough situation more positive, dallon brought up this exact point (even moreso than usual, including just on saturday in rochester) earlier in the show while talking about a letter - he went really in depth about turning negative stuff into something beautiful. and was talking about how when he wrote the song, he could only hear what we were doing now (you know the parts, in the chorus) in his head, and now he gets to actually experience it, and so he never stops playing this song even 20 years after he wrote it. i love dallon's love for a letter, man, and hope he never does stop.

- downside has truly become one of my favorite live songs. holy moly dude it had even the otherwise seemingly casual fans going wild, possibly even more than rochester actually. that is a song to freakin JUMP to if there ever was one!!!

- did mention this in my post from last night, but a while after the show (there were only maybe a dozen of us around at this point), on his way out to the bus, dallon kind of smiled & waved at us/said thank you, first to the larger group closer to the venue and then to the few of us a bit further down, too.

can't really word it right, but just the fact that despite seeming quite down, still, bro took care to make sure we all felt appreciated/not ignored was sweet. i think maybe he could tell we were concerned, i don't know, dude, all i do know is there's a lot of kindness in that dude's eyes.

had honestly never really interacted with dallon all these years prior to these shows (besides theatrical visitation crowd stuff), so i hadn't fully realized until these past few days - really given me a different perspective i hadn't fully caught onto before amidst the dramatic aspects of idkhow/dallon & their shows, i guess.

point is, dallon's a kind dude. be good to him. just wanted to say that.

- and finally, last night was my eighth (!) idkhow show, & what's crazy is i have never traveled more than an hour & a half for one all this time. i can't say that goes for any other band, and that fact doesn't go lost on me. western ny loves and shows up for idkhow, & idkhow loves and shows up for western ny always. <3

i just have so much love for all this, dude. i miss the shows already.

this project & dallon's music & the live shows have all been in my life for so long. both of these shows have been special in some way or another, last night being a reminder of how powerful everything idkhow has going is to the point of being able to make something good out of, well, whatever might be going on.

truly hope to catch another show back around here sometime soon. please get out 2 a gig if you can - chances are, like me and everyone i've encountered, really, at their shows, you'll never want to stop going, either, if you do. :p

#idkhow #i dont know how but they found me #gloomtown tour #dallon weekes #idkhowposting #wavernot4love gets 2 the gig

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hi y'all, have 30 seconds of dunes being dudes (pittsburgh edition) from when they walked back out for the encore and pre-sleep cult decided 2 choose goofiness w anthony trying to sabotage tucker and then tim trying to sabotage anthony

(all feat. one of the infamous tim chants of the night)

#ls dunes millvale #ls dunes pittsburgh #ls dunes #dunesposting #wavernot4love gets 2 the gig

[wavernot4love]

hello fun 2ourdust albany things (note i typed this at like 4:30 am last night when i simply couldn't sleep but then passed out before i could post it so it may not be the most coherent)

- pete talking about upstate being special 2 him due to memories of taking a bus to a tattoo parlor in syracuse and feeling inspired by all these cool achc dudes... god i love hardcore scene lore fob stuff ESPECIALLY when upstate gets brought into it

- reinventing the wheel for the first time in apparently seventeen YEARS (i take full responsibility for making this happen due to my showing up in my tttyg crewneck /s)

- andy waved to us!! long story short about 30 of us were waiting by the wrong buses sadly & just barely missed pete & patrick meeting folks by the right ones. we were pretty heartbroken when we came over & found out, but a combination of the andy thing & meeting/trading bracelets/caroling along to folie songs (if ya know ya know) with cool folks turned waiting after the show into a fond memory regardless. i love the fob community, dude. t/2ourdust has changed everything for me.

and still i just find it worth noting how sick it is that this tour pete & patrick have been taking the time to come out & talk w folks. you don't see that much with bands playing arena shows and it makes me happy to see.

- lots of celebration for the smfs anniversary!

muse live (shit is INCREDIBLE live dude), kintsugi & what a time to be alive for medley, lil pete speech about the record.

- ginasfs instead of sixteen candles as a wild card again!!! i cannot believe i have heard her three times now when if you asked me two years ago i never would have thought i'd hear her once!

- smfs is definitely a worthy replacememt for srar in every sense. i appreciate both similarly, and i love that they recall tourdust's srar performance in the sense of it serving as a great medley transition, also in regard a to collaboration (everyone joining in to sing at the end, in this case joe especially)

- that reminds me, it seemed like pete did a lot of backing vox tonight which was nice

- i may only really know a handful of jimmy songs well but great band and jim adkins is one of those people that just seems nice. i like watching the dude do his thing.

- seeing hot mully in an arena was crazy. was pretty sad they cut featuring mark hoppus but still was nice 2 see them

- i remain wholly not a fan of seated shows, at least not for this kinda music, that did get me down at a couple points as i just can't move the way i wanna (not being able to mosh to cbts etc like at tourdust sucked, as well as just being confined to my seat/row all night) & also it seems to keep the crowd in general way more stagnant.

but at least i could see well + no one around me was particularly disrespectful!!

i also respect fob's ability to make a concert at an arena like this still feel like a SHOW (in the scene sense)

- and finally, have nightmare quality pete randomly crawling inside the inflatable dog (i am currently forgetting dude's name)

#fall out boy #fob #2ourdust #so much for 2ourdust #so much for (2our) dust #pete wentz #patrick stump #andy hurley #joe trohman #am i sat here contemplating if i should try to swing pittsburgh wednesday? perhaps #regardless i am just glad to be here/have fob in my life #grateful to have this music & community #wavernot4love gets 2 the gig #2ourdust albany

[wavernot4love]

have just had the revelation that today has marked one year since icy cleveland (???? !) and i am devastated methinks

have some memories from this show, documented by yours truly </3

#wavernot4love gets 2 the gig #icy tour #scaled and icy #pilotsposting #twenty one pilots #tyler joseph #josh dun

[wavernot4love]

back with a bunch more bracelets/keychains for idkhow buffalo 2nite since saturday's were a hit and i ran completely out :p i am wearing a thought reform baggy black hoodie & they are once again on a carabiner on my fanny pack, come say what's up!!

#idkhow #gloomtown tour #dallon weekes #wavernot4love gets 2 the gig #idkhowposting

[wavernot4love]

hi y'all i just got home and i'll post more in the morning but for now.... have a video of a moment very special 2 me

get busy living or get busy dying (do your part to save the scene and stop going to shows) - live debut (acoustic)

#so much for tour dust #so much for (tour) dust #fob darien #fall out boy #fob #fobposting #wavernot4love gets 2 the gig

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hi just phone pics (do plan on bringing my point & shoot in the crowd w me for pittsburgh though yippee!!!), but i just realized i never posted em here, so have my favorite shots from toronto <3333

(the first, of course, being from the great sleep cult disco ball event of the century)

#ls dunes #ls dunes toronto #dunesposting #wavernot4love gets 2 the gig #photo stuff

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still in the process of editing my actual camera pics from pittsburgh thursday, so in the meantime have some of my favorite lil phone shots :] (ls dunes - millvale, pa - mr. smalls - 7.20.23)

#ls dunes pittsburgh #ls dunes millvale #shot of anthony rolling his eyes is my favorite. i am a lil bit angry it's a phone pic because otherwise #honestly i find it really cool #still dig it though #these are primarily anthony since i was right in front of him and my phone camera is not the best regarding shooting anyone not right there #ls dunes #anthony green #tim payne #dunesposting #photo stuff #wavernot4love gets 2 the gig

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important update in the vic/ptv x dunes saga: here's vic once again onstage giving dunes their flowers, but this time it is filmed by yours truly at the reading show last night

"every single member of that band has inspired me, inspired our band, in some way throughout the course of our lives, from coheed and cambria, circa survive/saosin, my chemical romance, & one of my favorite bands on the planet, called thursday... so i wanna thank those guys for the inspiration they've given us, we would not be a band without those guys... let's give it up for ls dunes"

#when homie was shouting out the bands i had my camera READY for the moment he got to dunes #i was not missing this #2000s dad with camcorder moment #but actually moments like this are awesome man do i love seeing my favorite bands be inspired by each other #did you hear that!!! #ptv would not be ptv the way we know them without these dudes #everything in the scene is connected i love all of it so very much #going on ten years in i am just as much/the most in love with it all as i ever have been #dunesposting #ptvposting #wavernot4love gets 2 the gig #wavernot4lovetalksmusic #post hardcore #pierce the veil #ls dunes #vic fuentes #ptv #also i almost forgot!!! not sure if you can tell here but loni was wearing dunes merch #shoutout there

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well guys i am currently a few songs into my first ever actual listen through of boom done and holy crap dude i am ascending. once again, over yet another project, ag autism goes crazy

#i joke but i am genuinely in such a good mood right now dude i love this record already i needed this #of course i did hear probably most of these songs live at that fest i always bring up i worked in july '22 but yknow that's different #man i see why that day made me wanna get into all of homie's music and sparked all of this #uhhh it is three am i am feeling so good about and truly excited about life right now #while listening i've been making plans in google maps 2 get to buffalo early & walk around near the venue tomorrow #w my film point & shoot and get some shots & maybe grab a coffee!!! #idk dude it is supposed to be like 70 and pleasant tomorrow wow what a great day 4 the wavernot4love ag show adventure #wavernot4love gets 2 the gig #wavernot4love talks ag tunes #wavernot4lovetalksmusic #i love feeling like this dude i love music i want to stay in this headspace forever #anyways please take this as your sign 2 listen to this album if ya haven't yet #anthony green

[wavernot4love]

hi guys before i crash have a little recap of my tourdust toronto experience because i will Never forget tonight, my first time seeing fob since my first concert ever nine years ago (!!)

- GINASFS AND WEST COAST SMOKER!! we WON methinks

- four tttyg tracks???? this has probably Been a thing lately but regardless it was. a Great Time for me

- pete magic trick genuinely had me baffled

- SO MANY SURFERS YIPPEE!!!! AND THE PIT (like the actual mosh pit) WAS SUCH A GOOD TIME!!! we had it open for probably a solid two thirds of fob's set!!! during cbts (i've been dreaming about pitting to that song someday for so long!) me and like 20 random folks got arm in arm & did a random kickline thing which we then opened during the bit where it totally picks up w pete near the end! pit also went HARD during bmth (i had a gr8 time in there). all in all i was super pleasantly surprised and had the time of my life w how sceney my crowd experience was

- bmth were INSANELY good. one band i somehow have not seen until now in the nearly nine years i've been listening to them and they completely blew me away. great performance

- oli like, slyly going "i have a question for you" and me in my head just KNOWING he was gonna say can you feel my heart and then him, in fact, doing it was a highlight. also his drown crowd thing is fun. also i found him saying fob were one of the bands he grew up listening to interesting. it's always crazy to me when big bands i've listened to forever also look up to other big bands i've listened to forever.

- stardust project honestly looked beautiful during fake out! shoutout to them

- a fight breaking out and pete and patrick making fun of the prospect of a fight both at a fob show and in canada

- i heard my favorite song EVER (saturday) for the first time in nine years and my first time actually knowing it <3

- patrick rambling about what canada has brought to the world (notably, poutine) after sitting down at his piano

- the dudes all singing the end of srar together

- random list of my favorite performances tonight (besides cbts & saturday): heaven, iowa, srar, disloyal order, arms race, grudge, happy song, die4u, shadow moses, can you feel my heart

- tonight was yet another reminder of how absolutely boundless my love of live music is and i am so very excited i get to do this all over again on friday

#fall out boy #fob #so much for tour dust #fobtoronto #wavernot4love gets 2 the gig

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hello here is my clip of west coast smoker live, for the first time ever :]

#fobtoronto #so much for tour dust #fall out boy #fob #fobposting #wavernot4love gets 2 the gig

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alright full update from the show (incredible as always) to come in a bit but for now: CODE RED, GET OUT HAS OFFICIALLY SEEN THE LIGHT OF DAY, I JUST HEARD GET OUT LIVE????

#frozen creek & dyed in the wool also but i did expect those mostly #he kinda teased it & said he didn't know how this one was gonna turn out as he started fiddling around w his guitar before it #homie knew wavernot4love was present methinks #aka the person who got introduced to circa via get out (& then the rest of bsn in turn) by a kind circa fan outside a dunes show last summer #BEST SHOW EVER DUDE #i'll try 2 post a video but i'll have 2 see if i can salvage anything since i believe it contains some terror evoking wavernot4love live vox #wavernot4love gets 2 the gig #wavernot4lovetalksmusic #wavernot4love talks ag tunes #circa survive #anthony green

[wavernot4love]

hello in honor of today marking one year (??!!!) since my first mcr show EVER i'm just going to bring the little carousel thingy i made back then from my favorite (just phone pic) moments from that show over here

9.4.22 - toronto night one - "back in the cage"

#mcr toronto #wavernot4love gets 2 the gig #mcr posting #photo stuff #swarm tour #mcr #my chemical romance #gerard way #ray toro #frank iero #mikey way

[wavernot4love]

before i crash i just want to say: fob are finally so so real to me now and that is everything, somewhat like i said in a post earlier today, in regards to my perception of music. the closer i feel to it, the more it means to me. that's how i am, from growing up in the scene.

from patrick commenting endearingly on our lil pit to looking up at both him and pete constantly smiling in our direction (and in response to the crowd/show in general) to the band just existing happily and proudly in front of me (think the end of srar where they all sing along) to one specific moment where fake out started & me and someone near me pulled out our seashells and turned our flashlights on IMMEDIATELY before most folks really caught on and patrick kinda looked from one of us to the other & smiled to finally getting up close to pete for saturday (right under him pretty much!) & being able to fingerpoint right up at him to this song that means so much to me and to have him see it and understand.

for nine years i never had this experience. and even at that first show in july 2014, i didn't experience things in the way i have this past week. i didn't know the fob songs i do now, they didn't hold the meaning they do now, and also i was back aways, not in the pit where, frankly, i belong.

this band and these shows are very very special to me

#fob darien #so much for tour dust #fobposting #fall out boy #wavernot4love gets 2 the gig #wavernot4lovetalksmusic