The Soundwave Week festivities kicked off early Wednesday morning, when Ellie, Matt and I ventured to the airport to meet some band members. Here are photos of everyone that I had the privilege of meeting:
Andy Biersack-Black Veil Brides
I used to reaaaaally like BVB and then I was kinda put off them for ages, coz I thought Andy was a bit of a butt. But when I met him he was actually so nice. I was the first person to go up and say hi to him and he let us follow him to baggage claim and posed for selfies.
Jade Puget- AFI
This was one of the most intense encounters. The bands were flying in by two different airlines, so that meant that they were landing at two different terminals. When we heard whispers that AFI were about to leave the Virgin Airlines terminal, about six of us legged it from Qantas to go see AFI. I got to take a photo with Jade and then there was this masterpiece:
I tried to take a sneaky selfie of me and Davey Havok and this was the final result. Worth running from terminal to terminal-heck yeah!
Ricky Horror and Chris Motionless-Motionless In White
MIW were in the same terminal as AFI, and not gonna lie they're pretty easy to pick out from a crowd of people-or Chris is anyway... I met Chris first and he's really tall I didn't know people could be so tall. But he was really sweet both he and Ricky signed my copy of Infamous which is now proudly displayed in my room. Then we met Ricky, after much hesitation as we weren't sure if it was Ricky or not. But yes it was, and he has really perfect eyebrows (the eyebrow game is so strong in our photo it's perfect)
Danny Worsnop and Ben Bruce-Asking Alexandria
The boys of AA were probably the nicest dudes I've ever met. Danny was extremely down to earth and engaged in conversation with us and thanked us for coming by. And Ben and I had a lovely conversation about the sideshow (which was on that night that I was going to) and said he hoped to see us. God damn, he could read me a chemistry text book and my face would go into the love heart eyes emoji in an instant.
Jeremy McKinnon-A Day To Remember
Meeting Jeremy was pretty funny. Matt left straight after we met the AA boys and he was like "I don't mind if I miss ADTR if they arrive a while after I leave" and they seriously arrived two minutes after he left and he was really upset. But Jeremy was a really rad dude and he signed my copy of Common Courtesy!
Adam Elmakias
Adam seriously takes some of the best live music photography I've ever seen. I've looked up to him and his work for a while now, and have had some rather interesting twitter interactions. I asked him to sign my camera case which he willingly did for me, so I feel like my camera has been blessed by one of my favourite photographer's ever!
M Shadows and Arin Ilejay (there's one more member I met but that's a saga in itself)-Avenged Sevenfold
I was so excited to meet M Shadows, he is definitely one of my favourite vocalists who's ever graced my ears, and he was one of the most lovely musicians I met that day. I say one of because then this fucker Arin Ilejay came along. He has done such a phenomenal job stepping into the Rev's shoes, and he was so exceptionally sweet, I mean seriously his smile could end world hunger.
AND THEN THE MOST DRAMATIC STORY OF THE DAY:
After we met Arin, we saw Johnny and Syn walking away so we we're like okay whatever, but there's still someone we haven't met. It registered with Nisa and I that we hadn't met Zacky Vengeance and we both yelled "WHERE'S ZACKY??" we asked Arin if he had seen him and he said he hadn't, but then Annie said that he was outside already meeting some people. Nisa and I legged it to the doors and subsequently smashed into them, and straight after they opened we ran outside and kept on yelling "WHERE'S ZACKY?". Little did we know that we had actually run the wrong way, and realised that he saw the whole saga unfold much to our embarrassment. But we managed to get selfies with him while we were internally laughing:
And that's the story of how I met all these amazing people!
