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Last night I won tickets to see Brooke Waggoner/The Scene Aesthetic/Owl City (thanks to The Scene Aesthetic). Since I'm having computer problems I only have cell phone pictures.

I learned I got tickets to the show that night at 10am that morning. After some frantic texts and suprisingly no begging I was allowed to go, and soon me and Katie were on our way. We got to the venue about an hour before the show with only a little problem with the tickets that was solved with in minutes. When me and Katie got in the venue we immediately got to the barricade.

First up was Brooke Waggoner. I had never heard of her before, but when the screen lifted and there was only two pianos uncovered, I quickly connected that to the other bands that were playing to get an idea of her sound. A small red-haired woman came out, said a quick hello to the crowd and started playing. I was quite impressed. It was a little hard hearing her sing over the piano but everything she played was beautiful. After the dull lull of the crowd kicked in I felt like I should be watching her perform in a little coffe shop a the end of the block. The only think that irked me was when she dedicated a song to the "boyfriends and girlfriends", but that is just because I'm bitter little girl.

Next was The Scene Aesthetic

With an extra hand on stage to help with piano and guitar (named Spencer, who we all said hello to) they played beautifully. Andrew's voice is always unique and Erick reminded me of Sean Van Vleet sans tambourine. There was only a few people singing along, which suprised me. Everything they played was perfect and even if the crowd didn't know who they were they, Andrew and Erick tried to connect with them, singing to them and making contact with possible. Also, I love when people in the band who aren't singing mouth the words, which is what Erick did almost every time. After the show a roadie handed us one of the two set lists. In between The Scene Aesthetic and Owl City me and Katie talked to Andrew a little while he cleaned up. He told me he is not addicted to The Brobecks (which is the song I used for the video) and then gave us the second set list.

Then it was Owl City.

I was expecting a lot of lights. There weren't. I wasn't expecting five people on stage. There were. None the less, they played with energy, Adam sweating crazily just two songs in. Everyone was singing along, the band feeding off the crowd and vice-versa. Adam had said he'd thrown up all day but you could honestly not tell. I didn't stay for a whole set ecause, even though I like Owl City, i think if you've heard one song, you've heard them all.

The whole night was great and I loved every second.