This was quite a treat on many levels... I happen to stumble upon this event through a work email about local activities. The day was great with WA providing a moment of good weather too boot. The kids loved being out and playing with all the other kids that came to the event, though this was a very interesting event as a lot of it was geared toward dog owners and dog awareness. Along with many treats for our four legged friends, an the possibility to adopt sheltered animals if you did not have one and was looking for a companion. The Main street in Puyallup leading to meridian had many stores involved,
especially with all the coffee shots serving Irish cream drinks and many other delectable treats. One music store along the way had a fabulous local player laying down some great talent on a Harp, the sound was just hypnotizing and capturing of the soul. The Leprechaun was most friend, and gave the kids each a piece of Lucky Gold coin; however they were still not going to give in a at first to Dad *myself* wanting pictures of them. That lasted only until we found the fishes. We traveled the whole strip to see what all was going on, looking for all other activities taking places during th
is event. We got to sit and watch as the local Sounder Train went by, and the kids screamed with delight and a bit of fear as that train was a movin' and was mighty loud. Took a picture of a train for the kids so they could remember were we had been that day and another shot of the festivities with the dogs and Leprechaun.
Grandma ended up buying the kids Cotton candy after and they were super happy. In all the getting up early and out of the house on time was most worth every moment I got to spend with my kids. Its days like this after I do not get to see them everyday when I wake that makes me thank God that their is always a Rainbow out there to shine down when I most need it. L8R that night, my day really kicked in.... Me, Al, Michael, Jess, Rose & Tim headed for SEATTLE!
It was AYRIA -
THE BREAKup
& Dead When I Found Her
Live all ages for $10.00 show at
EL Corazon.
I have to say, for the several times I've come here this night seem to be the quiets of them all, not sure who makes the decision on the noise volume but I do recall the first time I saw
Ayria and
the BREAKup with
Project Pitchfork it was much much more louder. Not that it was a bad thing that that this night was quieter, it just almost seem to have a different vibe and feel I guess. None the less the performances were awesome,
Dead When I Found Her did a phenomenal cover of
Phil Collins "
IN THE AIR TONIGHT" wow that was awesome. I think we may have gotten footage of that, I'll have to look.
The BREAKup our local home town goth heroes where just as great as the two times I saw them before. They played a set of new material that they had just put together, although it was very distinctly different from there first material it was re ally good. An their stage presence was much cheered by the crowd of followers like myself that really enjoy not only there on stage performance but the music itself. Now on to my favorite. As like the first time I saw
Ayria, front woman Jennifer Parkins continues to steal my Gothic soul with her vocals, performance and very personal attitude toward the fans.
Ayria is truly about the music and bringing a radical live performance that can only be witnessed by the masses, a must see any chance
Ayria comes to town. Not only did the set include a great selection of material, but they even performed an edited version of
"
Lovely Day" ..Now, I must say this song out of the whole set, this touched me the most as I saw her draw tears while singing this song. I don't know about you but, that is the true embodiment of music at its most powerful. I too could feel the emotion, and I doubt for myself I will ever see or feel something as powerful in such a setting.
A lot of request apparently were taken through Facebook. Gotta love social media right, although the song I wanted to hear was not an actual
Ayria song, Jen did respond to my request letting me know that it was a cover track on the bonus CD. Oh well, its an awesome cover none the less. I'll update my playlist so you all can hear some of these killer tracks. The rest of the night rocked, as I was close to the stage and got to see another fan of
Ayria lay down some vocals to one of the songs as the microphone was put to her lips. The woman did an awesome job, an obviously like many others there knew the song quite well.
Hearts for Bullets &
Blue Alice 
another set of songs that just got the crowd jumping. Of course my other favorite "
INVISIBLE" wow just so great to hear live since the first time I heard it.
Switchblade Symphony may be dead, but that is where
Ayria picks up the corpse and brings the most melodic bewitching of a dead soul back to life. Overall, I could not be more then overjoyed when I left last night with the music still playing in my ears, Michael too enjoyed it and said yes they were all good but
Ayria was to be the main talk on the car ride home.
I will leave with one humorous note, as I sat in the bar before DWFH took to the stage, I saw Jennifer Parkins enter the bar through security. Now not only did I find it funny that the door man obviously didn't know who she was as he asked for her ID, but I would have to say if I had no clue who she was either it would be like passing her on the street you would have no clues. Without the gear, Jen is a very attractive woman and would leave you unknowing to what she really does for a living when the moon does rise!
One of the pics of a place called the Luxor in Las Vegas. Wednesday of last week. Nikki's mom and her wanted to do something fun while I was visiting, and they suggested we go over to Vegas. So we drove over, took just a little over 3 hours from her house in Rosamond. Only ran me half a tank of gas, which is totally cool. We stayed just the one night at Circus Circus at opposite end of the Vegas strip from the Luxor. Vegas is not all that its cracked up to be, but the open container law is wild. Just to see people walking up and down the street with drinks, beer and what ever other type of alcoholic beverage you can think of.
