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Shirts have been selling out every night

 

Crowd was AWESOME for this.

 

It’s insane the demand for the posters and the shirts.

 

Can’t wait for tonight! Have they done the outside merch at every show so far? If so what time? I need that shirt but would rather wait before and get it done with.

 

Was definitely a bummer, but Don’t Leave Me is always a good time. Watched the Cynical performance from Chicago on YouTube after the show last night since I was holding off on hearing Tom perform the two Skiba songs until my show. I could see it being a highlight.

But either way it was far and away the best performance I’ve seen from the band over the past 21 years of seeing them.

Mark’s speech before Adam’s Song was the highlight of the night for me. So grateful that he’s healthy and happy.

 

Sounds like the outdoor merch starts at 4pm; there’s also apparently indoor merch on level 2 that opens at noon. Saw it posted on the TD Garden Facebook

 

If I see a cheap ticket pop up for tonight, I might not have the self-control to stop myself.

 

Whatever it is that these guys are doing to sound this good live (for them)....keep doing it. The guitar/bass tones are ON POINT. It's like JF is their guitar/bass tech AND sound guy haha. The playback tracks are also a tremendous help with vocal performance. Nothing wrong that that as long as its consistent!

 

Long Island show was nuts. Best I've ever heard them sound by a country mile.

Crowd was LOUD.

 

Curious how the sound was for the people sitting up top last night.
I went to My Chemical Romance at UBS last summer and the sound was atrocious in the 300 sections. I’ve been reluctant to go back ever since.

 

Beautiful day in Boston, looking forward to dinner/drinks and seeing the fellas.

 

Tonight!!!

 

I’m stoked

 

Cheapest ticket for tonight so far $182 …is that my sign?!

 

Just freakin do it

 

Some thoughts on UBS Arena last night:

For context, I'm 34 and this was my first time seeing Blink but I've been listening to them since Cheshire Cat/Dude Ranch because my older brother was a massive fan. I'd been on the fence but kept looking at Ticketmaster until I found tickets for my wife and I in section 113 for $120 during a release on Friday morning. Two rows and seats directly behind our three other friends too, go figure.

Having this show follow up borderline religious experiences at Barclays and Prudential MCR shows feels cosmically fitting. There's something profoundly surreal and fulfilling about shows like these when it comes to seeing older fans and younger generations all united in from-the-guts singing and screaming for our scene. When you get that energy and vibe buzz around you, you're playing with house money for every other element of the show.

Wonderful, wonderful crowd. This was the first show in forever where I didn't have to ask someone to stop talking at some point during the performance. Energy never really sagged and some of the singalongs felt like everyone put their whole ass, no matter how old they were in, into it. "Always" and "Don't Leave Me" in particular struck me as a god damn kind of moments where everyone was really letting it rip. I think that the band felt it too, chumming it up all night and busting out fun wrinkle tour debuts like the lasers during "Aliens Exist."

This was my first concert at UBS (I've seen St. John's basketball and Islanders hockey here) and it remains immaculate in terms of modern arenas outside of exiting via car; but that's very much classic Long Island traffic holding us back. A bounty of food, concessions, and bathrooms with spacious concourses and comfortable seats. I sat in the DIME Club for the second time last night at 113 and that's a really awesome setup. It's basically your own private concourse to hang out in right behind your seats and the view at your seats is really solid.

To answer @manoverboard365 I thought the sound was really lacking and pretty much only the only negative thing (that and no "Cycnical") I have to say about the show. Travis was turned up louder than any drummer I've ever heard in the mix which makes sense considering how many moments during the show are dedicated to letting him wig out—and those are sick. But for most of the night the instruments kind of dissolved into a formless puddle. Tom's guitar would go in and out of being high or appropriately leveled in the mix but it was never consistent. I found Mark to be almost entirely indistinguishable outside of a persistent bass thud over and over.

But that sound doesn't really matter when you have the crowd and energy I mentioned bouncing off the walls and ceiling. Mark's speech about cancer and doubt before going into "Adam's Song" hit me in the soul, and watching my wife who has lost friends to suicide and struggled with ideation herself turn to a puddle during it was a special and cathartic moment. But truthfully there were a lot of these really powerful segments during the show, song after song, minute after minute.

All in all, if you're on the fence like I was...just go. Do it.

 

had the same issue for MCR last year as well. deliberately looked for tickets in the center and was much much better than MCR but still not the greatest.

 

On my way to TD Garden woooo

 

Beautiful weather. trillium -> Sam Adams -> night shift before the garden. Let’s go!

 

Night Shift remains the best

 

At the Harp and it’s PACKED with blink fans. This is just so awesome to see the excitement.

 

I had floor seats and had a tough time hearing some of the banter.

It’s definitely not a venue I’d go back to. The parking lot was a nightmare to get out of. Felt more like a stadium show trying to get out of there.

 

Well it turned out they pushed our sail,so I going stuck at my work until 10.No blink for me,but hope all the Boston folks going to have a great night!!

 

This line is INSANE holy shit lol

edit: but very fast moving

Now it’s time for an overly long merch line

 

Had seats up in the 200s last night, sound was ok but you could hear everything bounce off the back of the arena. Now that i think about it that could have been cuz only half the seats being empty during turnstile. We walked down to the 100s before blink came on and stayed down there the whole show. No one bothered us. Sound was amazing down there.