Download Fest 2008 – The Full Report
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008Download Fest 2008 – The Full Report
August 2nd, 2008
Originally posted at http://jameshannon.com
Part 1 – Almost Didn’t Go
For those of you who don’t know, my beautiful wife Jackie is a HUGE fan of the band The Killers, and specifically their lead singer Brandon Flowers. If this Brandon guy and I were in a burning building, and Jackie could save only one of us, I would be quite worried who she would pick… Luckily, the Killers don’t play the New York/New Jersey area very often, and that scenario’s possibility is at a minimum…
Last night (August 2nd, 2008), the stars aligned for Jackie, and the Killers played the Susquehanna Bank Center just outside Philadelphia in Camden, NJ. (Yeah, I know, I was worried about Camden’s reputation as well – but the police were all over the place).
Personally, I think the band is pretty good, but I wouldn’t have gone to seen them on my own… But since it is Jackie’s favorite band, how could I not go? If you look thru all my pictures, she has ALWAYS gone to all my goofy things… So Jackie got the tickets about a month or two ago the day they went on sale (and I didn’t look at them closely until yesterday morning – you’ll see why that’s important to mention later)…
After Jackie ordered the tickets, I went online to see exactly where they were playing… And I found out they weren’t playing their own show, but were part of this thing called the Download Festival 2008… I thought, “Oh great – in the middle of a bunch of teeny-boppers watching bands like the Jonas Brothers and Hansen” until the Killers came on some time between 2pm and Midnight…
