You can disagree with someone's music taste. Or even when you listen to the same music, you can just don't like this person for some reasons. But when you go to a concert of one of your favourite artists, you suddenly feel this connection between fans and the artist/band and everyone around you seem like your good friends.
If someone would ask you to wait for few hours in cold and crowd, you'd probably refuse. But what if there's an amazing artist that you listen to everytime you're having a bad or a good day, who's always there for you even if only in your earplugs, waits for you on the stage? Well, that's changing your whole perspective.
Probably, there are so many artists you listen to. I bet you'd go to the edge of the Earth just to see them and hear them live. I was very lucky that one of my favourite artist's was "only" 327 km away.
(because I love taking photos of my concert tickets)
Short plan: getting up at 5AM, waiting for my bus, three hours and I'm in Łódź, two more hours and I'm finally in Warsaw. Waiting for my friend to arrive, then going to eat pizza on the other side of the city. Then again going to her mom's workplace to leave my suitcase, so she can get it to her home. And finally, we're heading to Torwar Hall. It's so early, there's probably not so many people out there. How wrong we were.
There's already a big crowd. Luckily for us, there were my friend's girls waiting and they got us into a begining of the queue. I've met all of them and after a short time we started talking about everything and getting emotional about the concert. I've met my friend that I was about to stay over after the show also during waiting for a concert, but that's another story.
After few hours we're finally there. Golden Circle, near barriers. We managed to smuggle three bottles of water just to don't waste time and be one of the firsts at place.
The support is Ryan Keen - a young singer/songwriter from the UK. He's not very famous yet, but after his performance I don't understand why. He's amazing.
(two of my photos which aren't blurred)
But when he walks away, the tension grows. When we hear the first sounds of I'm A Mess, we're all starting to freak out. When he comes to the stage, we're not in the same world anymore. It's now his world. And we're so close to him!
His voice sounds even better live than in any recordings I've heard. He plays all of my favourite songs, and he does it with such a passion, all by himself. At the beginning he's a bit shy, but when he sees how his fans react, he gains courage.
Everyone sings with him at fast and more like rap songs, for example Don't, and is quiet and enjoys sad, slow songs like One.
The crowd rises lighters, phones and flashlights on The A Team, and for a moment I'm thinking they turned on the spotlights.
I was very tired, but I didn't want this concert to end. It obviously did, but after Ed went out of stage, fans sang his last song for over 15 minutes just to make this concert a little longer.
While buying a poster and wristband I've checked his Instagram and he immediately added crowd photo he took during the show with his iPhone. It quickly became my wallpaper.
(I'm somewhere on the left)
After we've got home, I looked through my photos. Some of them were of course blurred (it's really hard to take photo when everyone raises their hands or starts to jump) but there were a few photos that I loved. Also, my friend's photos turned out looking great. Of course our memories are more precious than any photos&videos, but they're also a good reminder of this amazing show.
So if Ed Sheeran will come back to Poland, I'll certainly be there too. And if you have any opportunity to see his performance - do it.
