Personal Narrative-The Northern Invasion

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Northern Invasion was the time of my life. I haven’t stopped thinking about how awesome it was even though it was a couple months ago in May. There were forty bands over the course of two days and of course I tried to see as many as I could. I still can’t believe I actually saw some of my most favorite bands. Here are some stories about what it was like during four of those bands. One of the first bands of the day that I loved was Asking Alexandria. They were playing at the third stage which was to the right of the main stage. When we walked over there after Payable On Death (P.O.D) there had to be at least 300 people waiting for the band to walk out on the stage. My mom and I tried to get closer to the stage but there were too many people and we didn’t want to be rude so we stopped. We were in an ok spot, but it would have been nice to be closer. The Asking Alexandria walked onto the stage about fifteen minutes later after we got there.
“Every breath you take, I watch you slip away! You’re slowly killing yourself! I WON’T GIVE IN!” We were all screaming, yelling, or singing the lyrics to “ I Won’t Give In” with Denis the lead singer. Later during “A Prophecy” I was singing along and all of a sudden a crowd surfer fell on me. On his way down he accidentally kicked me in the face right below my eye. I can tell you that really hurt but for some reason I was laughing. I have to say my favorite song Asking Alexandria played was “The Black.” Later that day around eight ten ish Shinedown was going to walk onto the stage and play the amazing show that is my favorite so far. It was almost twilight when Brent Smith and the band walked onto the stage. But before the band walked onto the stage “Let’s Go Crazy” was played over the speakers in honor of Prince. “Can I have a moment of your time? Just a single second so you see that indeed, we’ll be leaving you behind.Far across that line….” I was practically screaming the lyrics along with all the people around me. The next day around five in the afternoon Seether was going to play. My mom and I were down near the stage surrounded by hundreds of fans of Seether. “Gasoline” was the first song they played. I knew all the songs they played, which was awesome. “ Gasoline,” “Fine Again,” “Same D***n Life,” “Nobody Praying For Me,” “Broken” (my favorite Seether song), “Words As Weapons,” “Country Song,” “Fake It,” and “Remedy” were all the songs they played. At the end I turned to my mom and spoke
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Since there were openings in the crowd we got be about twenty feet from the stage. The stage had the drum set that belongs to Matt and the keyboard that Jordan plays. Behind those there were these poles that I later found out were like screens for lyrics and videos. Everyone was screaming with excitement as Oli, Matt, Jordan, Lee, and Matt all came out onstage. There was a lot of pushing and shoving because people were trying to push forward to closer the stage. My mom yelled into my ear from behind me,” The pushing and shoving is going to get worse, do you still want to stay

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