Not Crying on Thursday

Greetings, MPA fans. Today's posting duty has fallen to me, your guest blogger Christian, because your normal correspondent is knee-deep in another endeavor involving lots of sugar, flour and icing. Apparently, sticky fingers aren't conducive to effective keyboard and mouse action. While I can't hope to match the lyrical prose of our founder, I'll try not to muck up the place too much.

As mentioned in yesterday's post, we went to the Macklemore and Ryan Lewis show at Key Arena last night. Macklemore is the stage name of Ben Haggerty, a smart and talented rapper native to Seattle, who has gone on to world-wide fame and fortune. The show was the finale in a whirlwind tour of basically the entire US, where they performed 33 shows in 29 cities in 52 days.

The concert was opened by rappers Talib Kweli and Big K.R.I.T., who musically influenced Macklemore when he was a young man. We weren't really big fans of the warm up acts, so while they got the crowd going, we hung out on the concourse and did some people watching.

We have been listening to Macklemore's multi-platinum album, "The Heist" for many months now, and the kids know most of the lyrics by heart. They danced and rapped/sang along enthusiastically with the rest of the crowd (and so did I) when our favorite songs were up to bat.

There were pyrotechnics, plenty of confetti, and a metric ton of energy in the air.

Today, CJ and Annabelle wrote reviews of the show. First up, Miss B:

Macklemore at Key Arena
On December 12, 2013, we saw Macklemore and Ryan Lewis at Key arena, Seattle. The first word that comes to mind when thinking about that concert is "awesome"! What made this concert especially special is that it was the last night of his tour. During the concert he played many of his most famous songs, such as Thrift Shop, Ceiling Can't Hold Us, and White Walls. There were also effects like lights, confetti and even fire "fountains". Overall it was AMAZING, and I give it a 10/10!

And Mr. Ceej:

The Macklemore Concert

Yesterday, we went to see Macklemore, a rapper from Seattle, Washington. Macklemore's album he was doing a tour for was The Heist, which was released on October 9th, MMXII. The Heist was Macklemore's first album in 3 years, the last one being "The Unplanned Mixtape", which was released on September 7th, MMIX. (No pun intended.)

On topic of the concert, other rappers (really crappy ones) performed before Macklemore on the last night of The Heist tour. The only special thing they did (in my opinion) is perform a remix of Eleanor Rigby, a song by The Beatles featured in Revolver. During the actual Macklemore concert, the first time you could see him is when he jumped on to the main platform from the stage, with fireworks exploding.

I think the concert was a very great Disk-to-Stage adaption of The Heist. There were very great videos playing on some of the screens behind Macklemore. One of the songs focused on Ireland (Haggerty is an irish name, and at first, I thought the flag they were flying was an italian flag.)

All in all, I think that the concert was *AMAZING!*

We all highly enjoyed the show, got home way too late, and I had to drag myself out of bed at five this morning to go to work, but it was worth it. What fun.