Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Flashback Sep 2014: Live Forever Tour and Meet&Greet with Hollywood Ending

After dropping their first album last week, the guys from Hollywood Ending just started to hit the road with the Never Ending Summer Tour
The self titled album is great and looking forward to the upcoming concert, I reminisced a little bit about last September.
The following is just some personal memory!

Interviewing Sam from Paradise Fears and meeting Hollywood Ending will always be one of my favorite concert experiences. It was the first time I met someone I've been listening to on my iPod.
I already went into the background story of the Paradise Fears part of this evening before so I'm focusing on the Hollywood Ending part.


The little dork I am arrived at the venue over an hour before my interview with Sam but still there were already girls lining up. I decided to walk a block and go over all my interview preparations and make some nerve calming phone calls. Then I went back to Bottom of the Hill and called the Tour Manager of Paradise Fears.
When I was brought into the venue I walked into Chris Bourne and it was a very surreal moment. His look went through the room and he briefly glanced at me but there was no reaction, while I froze in my tracks. For a second I was actually confused. Then I realized of course there is no recognition! We never met. It is strange knowing someone without them knowing you (Him and me actually talked about that later..)
I was brought up to Sam and we started the interview. During the interview Dan and Cameron came in and we exchange a few words. When I left the venue I walked through Hollywood Ending's soundcheck and Tyler was giving me a strange look.
Was pretty awesome. 10 minutes later I officially got to meet them during the Meet&Greet. Since I've never done something like that, it felt very surreal. I would highly recommend it to everyone. If you like a band and they offer it, you should go for it!

Casually looking down the street and spotting one of your favorite bands. Oh sweet, sweet America!! (I think) I was not as crazy as this picture might suggest!














Awesome for me was that during the Paradise Fears set I was standing on the side of the stage and Dan started to dance with me to Lullaby. And after that Tyler came next to me and started chatting with me. When he was called to the back he told me he'll be back in 5 minutes. Well, I guess I would be still standing there, buddy... ^^
Well the two of them came by a few times later though.

The pictures from the show didn't turn out that good. I was using someone else's camera and let's say it was not a very good one... 

William Beckett - He is such a nice guy!













Thank you for the interview, Sam!

The Paradise Fears set was amazing too! Made me come back and do the Meet&Greet with them in Feb.
To describe how excited I was - this concert made me fly to Los Angeles three months later for some more.

I actually added Hollywood Ending into our artist data base. After meeting them I also wrote an
Artist Feature which got published, but they shortened it immensely... (No comment on that)

#hollywoodending #paradisefears #meetandgreet #liveforever

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