The lifehouse reviews

[magnetronnie]

I suck at remembering things so I'm sure Judith and Esther have plenty of more details and a setlist, but here's my experience.

Me and lievejuf arrived at the venue around 5 I think and there was about 30 people already waiting at the doors. We met Judith and Esther (and Koen), talked a bit and went to Mac Donalds to get some dinner. When we got back we waited till they were all in and then we walked to the balcony (I hate crowds). About an hour later when the opening act (a Dutch band called Daybroke, who had some pretty good songs of their own mixed with okay-ish covers) started playing, the venue wasn't even half filled and there was like 10-15 people at the balcony, so I was a bit worried it wouldn't fill up. But when Lifehouse made it's appearance it was an (almost) sold-out show after all.

They started with an intro and All In right after that. The voice sounded a bit distorted during the intro but that was fixed before All In started. They played a bunch of their other hits, I suck at names so wait for the setlist to read more about that.
I've been listening to Lifehouse for about a year now I think, but just every now and then, I'm not a big fan or anything. However I must say the performance was very good and I really enjoyed all the songs. If my mp3s sound as good as the band did last night, I would definitely listen to it more often. I mostly enjoyed the louder instrumental bits.. guitars and drums.. very very good! When Jon Jason started playing an acoustic medley of a few songs, he also played a bit of Everything so I was really afraid they wouldn't play that one, but they did as the final song of the encore so I couldn't be more happy.









Afterwards I talked to Judith and Esther again for a few minutes and took the picture, before they had to catch their train again.



Summary: Had a great night!

[12565]

Thank you Ronnie! That's a historic pic, too bad lievejuf wasn't in it too, but I guess someone had to take it.

[magnetronnie]

Esther brought a friend, she took the pic, but lievejuf's a bit shy which is a shame because she's pretty!

[Esther]

actually, Chantal took the picture And I don't think she's shy! (oh and you said Jon instead of Jason Jon <3 = Switchfoot)

Okay so here's my story:

Around 1:30 I went to The Hague, where Judith lives, to pick her up at the station. We took the 2:21 train to Tilburg and I met up with my friend Annelieke (Judith has met her a few times before: Train & a festival). We arrived at the venue around 3:45 I guess and there were already like 15 people. One of them (he calls himself the Lifehouse daddy) is a friend of mine and Judith's (that's actually quite a funny story, but I won't bug you with that right now. Oh and he's also the one who wrote that awesome Goo review I posted a few days back) so we talked to him every now and then. - He's one of the biggest lifehouse fans in Holland and he had his own group of LH fans there (about 10 people I guess, from Holland, Germany, Portugal and other countries).

Anyhoo, like Ronnie said, around 5 he and his girlfriend, Chantal, showed up and said hi. We talked for a little and then they went out for dinner. When they came back, everyone was already standing so it was impossible for them to wait with us. Once we were inside, me, Judith and Annelieke made our way to the front to stand with Koen and his "flock". He was sweet enough to let me and Judith stand in front of him 'cause he's taller than us. So there we were, second row in front of Jason! You can actually see us in some of Ronnie's pictures. or well.. it's more like: I think that's me..

I didn't really like the support act.. It just didn't really sound right. They weren't a big enough band for that venue, which is pretty big. The vocals weren't loud enough and they were all a bit creepy (their eyes were really big and they looked at us sometimes.. I thought that was scary, to the amusement of Koen)

I'm gonna guess it was 9PM when Lifehouse started playing. We wanted to sing Happy Birthday to Ricky, but they couldn't hear it because they immediately started playing. We had two more attempts a little later though and I think he heard the third one ;D
I didn't really know what the intro was, but I don't think anyone knew (it was hard to hear because again the vocals were a little soft), but then: All In. We'd made a plan with Koen and his flock to throw pokerchips on stage during the chorus. So when they played the second chorus, about 10 people threw pokerchips on stage, which landed basically everywhere. It looked really awesome! But after a few songs the roadies or people who worked at the venue removed most of 'm. I think I heard Jason say "We're gonna take a picture of that later", but I didn't see them take one. Anyway, we're gonna do that again tonight and the people who are going tomorrow will do it again then.

This was the setlist:
intro
all in
htgt
nerve dam
y&m
medley: storm/everything/fwya/scc/the end
wash
spin (new version)
wit
wrecking ball
falling in
hbam
first time
broken
halfway gone
everything

Pretty cool setlist, but I thought it was a bit short. (that might have been because my Josh Ritter and Peter Gabriel concerts last week each had about 20-25 songs) and I really wish they'd played Smoke and Mirrors, In Your Skin and Simon.. but I'm happy they did a part of Storm

All in all *starts singing the rest of the song*, it was a great night. I laughed a lot and heard fantastic music.

I'm sure Judith has more to say though

[12565]

Oh, lovely review! Thank you so much Esther

[heather35]

Thanks for the review and great pics. ;D

[magnetronnie]

Great review Esther!

I think you were standing here..

[HereIsGone]

Heehee. The picture with the arrows amuses me for some reason. Anyway, great review(s) guys!

[stoptheworld]

Where's the Dutch group picture? It was here 12 hours agoooo.

Seriously, I'm glad you guys had such a great time.

[BulletProof]

Just got back from the second show! I'll post a review (or reviews) tomorrow or saturday.
Uhh, Ronnie, did Daybroke play covers? I didn't know that. :-p

[hazelbug]

So pleased you guys had a great time! I loved following your excitement on twitter yesterday

And how cute are you guys in that photo? ;D

<3

[magnetronnie]

Sept 23, 2010 19:58:44 GMT -5 BulletProof said:

Just got back from the second show! I'll post a review (or reviews) tomorrow or saturday.
Uhh, Ronnie, did Daybroke play covers? I didn't know that. :-p

Yes, although I don't know any names But I don't know any songs by daybroke and I recognised song and sang along with one other, so it must have been covers.

[magnetronnie]

Sept 23, 2010 19:21:01 GMT -5 stoptheworld said:

Where's the Dutch group picture? It was here 12 hours agoooo.

Seriously, I'm glad you guys had such a great time.

Tinypic.com isn't always showing them for some reason.. anyone got another host?

[Esther]

I'm sooooooo exhausted. But my god, it was amazing!! and yes, Ronnie, you got it right on the picture The people around us were all with Koen, and the girl behind me (someone's hands are in front of her) is Annelieke

[BulletProof]

Sooo, I'm going to try to write a review now.

I'll just make one of the second concert, cause Ronnie and Esther told about everything from the first concert.

After school, I went to Amsterdam and met Esther and a friend of her at the station. Then we went to pick up some of her other friends and after that we walked to the venue. When we arrived there was already a group of people. (Koen also, the guy who Esther talked about )
So we waited, and suddenly I see Winnie! (the roadie) So I said: "hee, there's Winnie!" Then I saw Ricky and Ben too. They were going to eat somewhere. We wanted to go to them, but that didn't really work. Cars blocking us, and the guys kept walking. (I guess they were hungry. )
We went back to our place, and after about half an hour, we saw Bryce and Jason going back to the venue.
At 7 pm, the doors opened. They first opened one small door on the left side. (we were standing on the right side) But then they also opened a door on the right, and I immediately went through it. Thanks to that, I was standing front row! And Esther and her friends right behind me.

The support started after half an hour, they were not great, but also not bad. The bassplayer was really funny, at some point the guitarplayer said: "this song is one you can dance on." So the bassplayer put his bassguitar on his back and started dancing. XD Weiiiird.

After a while, Lifehouse started. The setlist was laying right in front of me, so I knew exactly what they were going to play. The new intro is pretty cool, it's a song from Cheap Trick, but I didn't know it.
Then they started playing All In, we didn't throw the pokerchips again, cause the roadie didn't really like it, so we put them above Jason's setlist.
The setlist was pretty much the same as the day before, they only played a part of Simon instead of Storm. (which was awesome!)

Hello There (intro)
all in
here tomorrow gone today
nerve damage
you & me
medley: simon/everything/fwya/scc/the end
wash
spin (new version)
whatever it takes
wrecking ball
falling in
hanging by a moment
first time
broken
halfway gone
Everything

During Nerve Damage, Jason grabbed my hand. At some point, Bryce also came over, and I grabbed his hand too. I had a lot of eye-contact with them all, that was pretty awesome.
The concert was amazing, it was even better than the day before!
After the concert, you could go backstage if you bought the cd. We already knew that from the day before, so Esther and I both had our own cd with us.
We were standing in line, and I was so nervous! At one point, we could see them sitting. After a while we were let in. There was a small line there too. So we waited a few minutes and then I gave them the booklets of Smoke and Mirrors and No Name Face, and they all signed them. I talked to Ricky, and he said: "hee, I remember you. You were standing front row, right?" (I was standing right in front of him during the concert, so he must have seen me the whole time. Jason asked if we liked the show, and I obviously said yes. I also told him that we were there the day before too. So he asked if we would go to Groningen too, and I explained that it was too far for me. We talked a bit about how far it was from Amsterdam.
After that, I took a picture with them. (there was no time anymore for Esther to do that, but she was okay with it xD)
After that, I bought an other t-shirt (I already bought one the day before) and I just couldn't stop smiling. We tried to wait for them to come out, but they didn't come anymore. Oh well, I was okay with it.
When I was home, I was exhausted, I slept about 4 hours, 3 nights long. But it was so worth it!

Sorry for the wall of text. xD

Here's my picture with Lifehouse: