Tenth Avenue North's The Struggle Tour
So last night, my dad, Harry, Sarah Beth, and I went to Livermore to see them. Oh my gosh guys, that band is absolutely brilliant! If you have not listened to them before, you should do so now.
In addition to Tenth Ave, Audrey Assad and Rend Collective Experiment were playing.
Rend Collective went first. First off, a very important detail about this band. They're Irish. Yeah. Like legitly Irish. Accents and everything. "They could probably threaten you: 'I'm going to kill you', and all you would want to do is hug them!" -Mike Donehey (about their accents). But seriously, they're accents were so beautiful.... ^_^ Here's the link to their song Build Your Kingdom Here, or if you prefer the live version that's awesome too! Definitely more fun. ;) Afterwards we got to meet this band, and they really were quite nice. I gave them my owl notebook to sign, and one of them (who happened to have the thickest accent) kept talking about the owls on the cover... I'll never think the word 'owl' the same way again. Hehe. He ended up writing "twit twoo" on it too, because apparently Irish owls say that. Never again will my owls say "whoo whoo", it is now officially "twit twoo"!
Next was Audrey Assad. She has a BEAUTIFUL voice. It was so smooth and she has great range, her music is totally worth it! I had never even heard of her before this concert, and now I'm a huge fan. This is her song Sparrow, just one of the many great songs she has written. Check her out!
Finally........ Tenth Avenue North. I thought I was going to die all night. Mike Donehey actually just came out and talked for a while. He is an awesome man people! Definitely one of the most inspirational people I have ever come across and a huge influence on my life. But he is such a goofball sometimes. He was talking about the meaning of true love. "If he calls you instead of texts you.... that's love. *enter high squeaky voice* If Justin Bieber retweets me, it's LOOOOOOVE!!! No it's not." Then he went on to explain that true love was loving others, even those that aren't popular or just down and out, because we were down and out once and God loved us. There was so much more to it than that, but I'm not Mike and I can't possibly write down everything he said. All I can say is that it was incredible. They ended up playing my favorite song Times. Among several others. I'll just post some of them below. And Mike did his Gollum impression, just like he does every year. Without fail. "We hold on to so much in this world, just like Smeagol... My Preciousssss..... Dude, it's a ring. Let it go." I could write so many more things, but... that would take way too long.
All I'm going to say is that if you ever have a chance to see these people, DO IT. You won't ever regret it. Ever.
God Bless all of you!
Tenth Avenue North:
You Are More
The Struggle
Losing
By Your Side
