Midweek, musical, mini-mosh

We saw another Canadian sight tonight. Not a moose. Not a bear or a beaver. Tonight we saw Avril Lavigne in concert. Before the concert, I hadn’t realised that Avril’s target audience is pre- and early teenagers. Sarah and I were the oldest people there not chaperoning their kids. I found out I am completely out of touch with the latest trends. I saw all the kids buying sealed plastic test-tubes of illuminous liquids. “They’re no fun”, I thought, “They don’t do anything”. The kids knew better though because once the lights gone down, the arena filled with specks of florescent light. It was the safety conscious, child friendly answer to waving a cigarette lighter at a rock concert, though the green colour of the lights made it look like we were under attack from giant glow-worms.

The kids need to learn a thing or two about rock concerts as there was no pushing and shoving at the front by the stage. Everyone just listened attentively, waved their test-tubes and screamed hysterically when a song finished. We showed our rock ‘n’ roll side by sitting in the third level seating and tapping our feet to the beat.