Wed 22 Oct – 3 Doors Down, Three Days Grace, Redeem

Woah! What an AMAZING day! I feel like the happiest person on this whole planet cause I've experienced my first Three Days Grace concert!!! in Germany! xD
I'm going to write a review about my whole day, not just the concert. For me it was probably the greatest day in my life.

Our journey to Dortmund started at 1:15 PM and we arrived at the hall at 3:45pm.
There were only 4 people already waiting in front of the hall, and they all were just there for 3 Doors Down. *lol* They kinda looked strange at me, maybe cause I've worn my Three Days Grace stuff (cap and shirt, yeah) I don't wanna say anything bad about 3 Doors Down but, if Three Days Grace wasn't the support I would have never visited that concert.
So it was boring to wait with 4 strange 3 Doors Down fans in front of the hall, we both (my brother Bjo and me) started to look for the tourbus of Three Days Grace. We always wanted to see these guys live and that day has finally come so we HAD to meet them, just to tell them how much it means to us that they're playing a concert in Germany tonight...
Then we found 4 buses...3 were black and one was red. We were waiting... but no one came out. And we also didn't know which bus is the one of Three Days Grace. xD
But suddenly we saw someone going to the red tourbus...and it was Neil xDD
I was really shocked at first and I said "hey, hey Neil.."
That was so cool. He's so nice and we talked a bit, I got autographs and photos. We asked him where the other guys are but he didn't know.
After a little while Brad dropped out of the bus and we asked him where the others are. He said he has no idea, but they are about to do the soundcheck soon. And we asked him a really important question: Are you guys planning to do an own tour through Germany next year? His answer was YES so we're really looking forward to 2009.

Meeting them was already the best thing that could happen to us before we go to the concert. We realised that we've waited there until 5:10 pm and we decided to go back to the hall where already 12 fans were waiting. Okay, now it's time to stay there and wait until we get into the hall.
The admission should be (like it was said on the ticket) at 7pm... but we waited...and waited... and waited... It was already 7:20 pm when these stupid security people let us in.
We went upstairs where we had to wait AGAIN for 5 minutes.
Finally they opened the doors and we ran to the barriers. YES! Standing first row at a great rock concert again!! My brother and I were the only ones who already had a Three Days Grace Shirt, haha, almost everyone in the hall were just waiting for 3 Doors Down oO
But good for me, I knew Three Days Grace will notice me with my shirt.

At 8pm the first band, Redeem, started their show.
They are from Switzerland and they were pretty good for an Opener, but I didn't really care about their performance, I was just excited to finally see 3DG live for the first time.
Redeem played about 25 minutes, when they left the stage they said "Have fun with Three Days Grace and 3 Doors Down!" HELL YEAH!
I was getting more nervous with every minute I waited. And then... it was getting darker. We already heard some guitar riffs, and the drums! OMG, Three Days Grace finally entered the stage! They started their show with "Animal I have become" and we (my brother and my friend Kina) rocked like we've never did before. We sang every song along, including screaming in Adam's microphone when he came to us while performing "Never too late"
Adam "its not too late..." and we screeeaaamed ITS NEVER TOO LATE.
Wohooo! One of the greatest moments of my life!
Unfortunately 3DG didn't have much time to play, after 8 songs they left the stage.
Here's the playlist:

1. Animal I Have Become
2. Pain
3. Just Like You
4. I Hate Everything About You
5. Get Out Alive
6. Never Too Late
7. Riot
8. Home

They wished us a lot of fun with 3 Doors Down, but we didn't care and just leave the hall, because they said on their myspace page that there's gonna be a Meet and Greet after every performance!
We were sooo happy that we've experienced a Three Days Grace concert, and we're looking forward to the Meet and Greet. We waited..and waited and then a guy from Sony BMG came and told us the bad news... "I'm really sorry but Three Days Grace won't do the Meet & Greet." But why? "It was very stressful for the band..." What?? Come on, it was the first concert here in Germany, we just didn't understand why they cancelled the M&G...

I was crying so bad, I didn't even see the show of 3 Doors Down. Everything just sucked in this moment. Björn and Kina tried to cheer me up, saying "come on, we're gonna watch for their tourbus and then we meet them! We get it! We are the greatest bandstalkers, you know that!" Haha, yes, but finding the tourbus isn't always that easy...
So after I washed away the tears from my face, we went out of the hall. We need to meet them, that was the only thing I was thinking about. Otherwise the whole day would have been a big mistake -.-
We just got back to the place where the bus stand before the show, but it wasn't there anymore! WTF?! I was getting frustrated...so frustrated that Kina and me started to sing "Time of Dying" as loud as we could, there were some people walking by, looking at us like we are superfreaks or something. *lol*
Björn said "come on, we're gonna find the tourbus, don't give up!" So we searched at the place where many buses were standing... and there was a garagedoor, it was opened and what did we see? The red tourbus! Hell yeah!
There were already some crew members of 3DG and I asked them if the guys are already in the tourbus. He said we should just wait patiently, there are still in the hall and will come soon.
We waited... and after a while Barry came from the hall and I was sooo happy!
Damn, he's so cool. I got autographs on my little posters and we made 3 photos. Even one where we both make funny faces, hahaha Probably the funniest photo ever made.
So now we just wanted to see Adam... will he come? He wasn't in the tourbus so he must be in the hall. We waited almost half an hour... and then the real Adam Gontier came along, I saw him and I screamed ADAAAM. Damn, that was embarrassing xDDD
Adam is like the coolest person I've ever met, I got my autographs, photos ("can we make a super stupid photo like this.. *doing an awkward face*? - Of course ) and a HUG!

Yes, that was my day. Really, the greatest day of my entire life.
Thanks for reading. =)
I know my english isn't perfect, but I don't care.