| | I have a friend...I'll call him Greg because that is his name. I've known Greg for 15-16 years now. He's known me through my plethora of phases and he still hangs out with me. Miracle, I know.
Long story short...rrrr, short story boring....
I L to the O to the V to the E Sigur Ros. They are the most beautiful sounding artist of all time. Their song, Glosoli is what I hope to walk down the isle to if I get married. It is the most beautiful, most intense song my ears have heard. They are EPIC.
Sigur Ros is from Iceland and they don't tour North America all that often. When they do, it is usually places costal i.e. NYC and LA. Even though Chicago is MUCH better than both, they never come. :( Sad, I know.
Imagine my surprise when Greg called me roughly 47 days ago at 11pm to let me know that Sigur Ros was indeed coming to Chicago! My heart leapt. (BTW, Greg loves Sigur Ros too and is on their mailing list, so he gets the updates before others.)
Conversation went something like this
Greg: Guess who is coming to Chicago!
Jamie: Um Bekah? (You see it was 11pm and I was in bed for an hour by this point, and Bekah is one of our mutual best friends coming home from Europe)
Greg: No, think Band.
Jamie: OH MY GOSH. When do tickets go on sale?
Greg: Tomorrow morning.
Jamie: Best seats, I'll pay up to $100.
Greg: It is a presell, so only people who are on the mailing list will know they are preselling. There is a good chance we'll get them if I get on the web site at 8am when it opens.
Jamie: Sweet keep me posted.
When 9am rolled around after repeated tries, you can imagine my disappointment when the website boasted, "SOLD OUT."
NOOOOOOOOO!
But you know this story has a happy ending don't you? :)
So I asked Greg, what other cities are they playing in? Any chance they still have tix. He said Detroit, Toronto...
I laughed, "I was kinda hoping you'd say Milwaukee."
Then quickly he said, "Oh, Detroit is now sold out. They also have one in Denver. You wanna?"
"Yeah right"
"No seriously"..."We have to decide quickly before they sell out."
"Um...OKAY! We are soooo crazy."
"Okay...Just got 'em. Looks like we are going to Denver!"
We kinda were quietly in shock over it for a few minutes.
Before I knew it Greg booked our plane tickets and we are on our way... in 45 days from now!
After all is said and done with the concert tix, the plane fare, the rental car, the hotel and the food, its gonna be about 200. Not too shabby for the best band of all time.
Then I learned where were we seeing them in Denver. It really can't get any better! I'm sorta glad chicago was sold out. http://www.redrocksonline.com/
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