Yesterday my boyfriend’s band had another concert. This was their 3rd one in total and by far the biggest one. The performed in a local music café and had quite the crowd this time around.
Day started pretty normal. Boyfriend left for band practise a bit after noon and I decided to boot up a small stream while I was waiting. After he came back we just had to wait until we would be picked up by the drummer and head to the venue. I thought he said 8:45, but it was actually at 6:45 which meant that I had to cut my stream shorter than usual.
We arrived at the café at around 7 pm, then they boys started to slowly carry everything in while stayed by the car to make sure nothing got stolen since it was full of very expensive equipment. When the last piece was taken out I just followed them in. They started setting up the stage and I prepared my little setup for a test stream during their sound check, since I was planning on streaming their concert. The drummer told me about what he had brought for this concert in terms of camera equipment, since I was again signed to take photo’s of them. Besides the normal lens he had brought a giant flash to mount on the camera and a wide lens. He said I could be creative and used them as I saw fit. I was quite nervous, because I don’t have any experience with a big flash in a low light setting when it comes to photos, so this was uncharted territory for me, but I was determined to do my best and hopefully learn along the way.
The concert started at 9:30 pm and then I was off walking around talking photos. I also started up stream, but I had warned my community that since I would be taking photo’s I trusted my mod to give me feedback and keep the peace in chat. Funny enough during my concert a young woman realised what I was doing and while I was busy walking around on the floor, she nudged my tripod a bit to make sure everyone was in frame. So even I had some camera assistant without me knowing it. My friend noticed it and made a cute comment and thanked her for moving the cam. This was by far their BIGGEST concert both when it came to audience and play time. They got 1 whole hour to both play all of their songs and some a couple of covers and the floor was full of people enjoying their music. It was really nice to see. The two covers they did was the opening of the tv series FRIENDS and a song for the “The kids aren’t alright” from the Offsprings. Both of the covers was done in a an intentionally goofy way as an nice break in between their songs. They even included the opening of “Bad Guys” by Billie Eilish just for fun which ended with being a fan favourite from stream.
After they were playing we were just hanging around the café. A couple of people even came up to my boyfriend to congratulate him and even ask him some question either about him or the band in general. It was really fun to see him get some attention. We were there for quite some time because the drummer was still hanging out with his family for even longer than he himself had anticipated. I did also get to talk to a new girl who was a friend of the guitarist. We had some interesting chats where we talked about how we got to know the two boys aka my boyfriend and the guitarist. I must say I wasn’t too invested into the story personally, but I also understood that she defiantly was tipsy, so I just rode along with it. The girl also got to try out the camera and this might have been the booze, but she didn’t know which button to press to take the photos. I decided to make a funny regard saying “Hope I don’t need to worry about her taking my spot as the photographer” to which the drummer responded with “Oh no, you don’t have to worry, you REALLY don’t” to point out that I was more quipped than her. I did tell him that I felt that the photo’s wouldn’t turn out as nice this time around to which he said “without you we wouldn’t have any photo’s, better to have the option than to not” which in does make a lot of sense.
It wasn’t until it was past midnight that we finally got in the car, after disassembling the drums and other stuff too. We arrived at our place at around 1 am and just relaxed on the sofa until we eventually when to bed.
Overall it was very successful day. The stream still needs some work to improve, if it’s possible. Other than that, I enjoyed it a lot and it was really fun to take more photo’s of them and looking forward to doing it again.
Like last time, If you want to check them out or hear any of their music check them out for yourself – https://linktr.ee/weareonhold
The Anna behind Yannani 