Sunday night here in Madrid was the 2010 MTV European Music Awards. I heard about it a couple of weeks ago, and I tried to get tickets, but it turned out that tickets weren't being sold to the general public. By invitation only.
However, we were able to go to a place in Madrid called Puerta de Alcalá, where a stage was set up for different artists to perform for the public, and for absolutely free.
I went with two of my friends from AFS, Mary Beth from Minnesota, and Catherine from Auckland, New Zealand. I would also like to say a HUGE thank you to Catherine, because she got to the stage like six hours early so we could have a good spot, and that we did. More or less we were where I put the yellow dot in the picture below.
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| From left to right: Me, Mary Beth, & Catherine. |
For just under 5 hours that night, we watched Thirty Seconds to Mars, Katy Perry, and Linkin Park. We also got a surprise act.
Thirty Seconds to Mars started the show, and one of the songs they sang was aired live at the red carpet for the event. When they came out, the first thing they said was that they wanted everybody to come close to the stage. Bad idea. Everyone all of a sudden felt enormous pressure coming from behind, and soon we were so close together that I've never felt so claustrophobic in my life. And not to mention closer to random strangers than I ever wanted to be. But what the heck? It was actually kind of fun.
At one point, the band was half way through a song when they got interupted. By?
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But no, it was definitely planned. And it was a cool surprise for all of us because no one knew that he'd be there.
After Kanye sang one song, and Thirty Seconds to Mars resumed and then finished, it was Katy Perry's turn.
She sang a bunch of her songs, but the best one by far was her performance of her new song Firework, which is the one that aired live. She's doesn't sing particularly good live, but when fireworks started going off every which direction, it made it one of the most memorable songs of the night for me.
Here's the video clip of the song from the show:
MTV saved the best for last with Linkin Park. I don't know what it is, but people here seem to be completely obsessed with Linkin Park, and when they came on the crowd went absolutely insane.
Linkin Park's performance was also the longest, lasting over an hour. It was like it was their own concert since they played so many songs. Just song after song after song.
And actually it was more than that two, because since we were waiting for so long before the concert, we actually saw their practice session and soundcheck, and it was funny since all of the artists only speak English, and the majority of the crowd doesn't really understand it, not many people knew what they were saying in between songs.
After the sound check, Linkin Park's lead singer said "Wow guys, thank you all so much. I think that's the most cheering, and the biggest crowd I've ever experienced for just a soundcheck." Mary Beth, Catherine, and I were the only ones near us that thought it was funny. And then we thought it was even funnier because that's when we realized that no one understood anything. I think it'd be so annoying to always be listening to music that you can't understand the meaning to, but that's what it's like for almost everyone here.
Linkin Park was definitely my favorite. They were the best performers live, and they're my favorite out of the four people that we got the chance to see. I'm actually surprised that I have my voice today because we definitely sang along to everything, and cheered a lot in between.
Here's the video of Linkin Park's Waiting for the End, which is the one that got aired for them:
The whole night was one of the most fun days I've had since I've been here, and definitely one of the coolest concerts I've ever been too, especially since we were so close and right in the middle of it all!
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Anonymous says:
JEALOUS!!!!