I drove about 7 hours to Allentown, PA. to see Brian on his solo tour. That was the closest place he was performing a full set. So as we were driving there we were about 4 hours in I realized I forgot my camera, I obviously couldn't turn around to get it. So I just enjoyed the show and didn't take any pics. I "borrowed" them from friends. ;) LOL
Before the show:
I got to the venue about 9am, some of my friends were already waiting. We waited for what seemed like forever. (Even on his solo tour he was channeling that Backstreet time. ;) lol) Brandon Heath was one of the opening acts along with a female artist named Ana Laura(I think). We met Brandon before the show, he was a sweetheart. I tried to convince him to let me in to see Brian but that didn't work. Then the owner the club "Fabio"(that's just what we called him) decided to let the first 15-20 fans who were waiting in line go in and meet Brian. So we were all waiting in this little dining area for Brian to finish sound checking. We could hear him doing it. We heard the BSB medley and "My Answer Is You." He sounded fabulous.
So a little bit later he finally came into the room and was like "Wow. It's kinda quiet in here." We all laughed and said "They told us to behave." So we all got in line. When it was my turn to meet him I got a hug and asked him to sign my shirt. (I didn't know I was going to meet him so I wasn't prepared so I didn't bring anything for him to sign.) He said "Can I read it first?" (It said on the front: "I'm in Over My Head, I'm right where I wanna be..." and on the back: "So lost within Brian's love the love that always covers me.") So he read it and he had to move my hair out the way to read it all(I died a little LOL) and when he was reading the back he started singing "so lost within your love..." (I died a little there too) Then he signed it and he put his hand down my shirt a little to have an easier time signing it and was like "Sorry for the hand reach." And I laughed and said "It's alright." Then he just smiled and blushed a little. So then we went to take the picture and I told him how the first time we met(2 months before) he didn't smile in our picture and I was sad. So he was like "aww I'm sorry." So we took the picture. Hugged again and as we hugged he said "I promise, I smiled this time." (I think he did a god job. lol)
As I was about to leave I turned back to Brian and said "Psst...I really love Over My Head., It's my favorite." And he smiled and whispered back and said "Thank you."
The show:
I was pretty much 1st row. I had an amazing view. He started out with "My Answer Is You" and then "Wish followed that. (I'm not sure of the exact order but he did every song on "Welcome Home" except for "Jesus Loves You." He also did "In Christ Alone" and a BSB medley of "I want it that way" and "As long as you love me." He also did a small part of "That's what she said."
He was so cute during the whole show. Randomly doing silly dances and his famous "Alright!" and stuff.
Right before "In Christ Alone" he was introducing it and said "Did you know the next song reach #1 on Christian radio on July 4th of last year?" I was like the only one to yell or cheer or anything. And he looked over at me and said "Did you really know that?" And I laughed and said "yes!" (I really did lol) and he imitated me and was like "She's over here like "Woo hoo yeah I knew that!" (He didn't do a good job of imitating me by the way. LOL)
After the BSB medley he talked about the first time he met Leighanne and then he went into "Grace Of My Life." He dedicated it to her and said "She's not here but she sends her Hello and her love and if she was here she'd be like..." (Then he did his best Leighanne impression.)
He talked about going to church in a club. He mentioned BSB and how they had a tentative date to go back to the studio on June 26th.
He told the story about Leighanne and how she was supposed to be on the plane that hit into the World Trade Center. He then performed "Gone Without Goodbye." He started to tear up a little bit too. I cried like a baby as he performed it. So beautiful.
He show us the Welcome Home video for the first time. It wasn't even the final version, it was a rough cut. The video wasn't even out yet. He did it while he performed "Welcome Home" so it was kind of cool.
He closed the show with my favorite song "Over My Head." But before he did it he thanked us for coming and stuff and everyone kept yelling for him to do "That's what she said." So he did. Love that song. :)
So after the show we watched him leave. He was in the passenger seat of a van. Most fans were all on the opposite side I got smart and ran to the other side of the street where he was sitting and waved good-bye, he smiled and waved back while he was on the phone. :)
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