I was sitting in the line with two of my best friends, Alana and brii. Alana had flown down from QLD to stay with me for two months, conveniantly the short stack tour fell in place when she had come to stay. This was not our first short stack concert, but we were all bursting out screaming and giggling with excitment. We had already been sitting in the line for three hours but we still had another four to go. We were right up the very front of the line, dead set on being right in front of the stage.
I had always been keen on Andy, he always made me smile and he never failed to light up the worst of all days. Seven hours of giggling, laughing and talking had passed and the doors were finally set to open. When the doors finally, gently opened there was a tall kind of scary looking security guard next to a skimpy, young ticket collector. We got our tickets scanned and sprinted to the front. We knew we would have to wait at least another two hours before short stack came on but we were so exited to see the guys perform. As always, older style rock music like Queen was playing in the background through the speakers. The heat was unbearable inside and out but that wasn't going to stop us singing and dancing our hearts out. The first back up band came on, none of us liked them all that much, but then the For our Hero guys came on so already we were jumping around like maniacs. One hour and half or so had passed and finally short stack went on and the crowd went wild, bouncing around, screaming, singing the lyrics as loud as their bodies would let them. All too soon the time for the concert to finish had come. Most people had just left, but thirty or so of us stayed back for photos and hugs. We were all excited, bouncing around just near the back door of the building, waiting like everyone else and then everything went black.