Welcome Home Tour - November 4, 2006 Toronto, Ontario Canada

(Again this is an old blog/review just adding it from myspace/ect. to here since I missed Thursday we will call this a #FlashbackFriday blog. ;) lol)

So  I drove to Toronto...not too bad of a drive about 2 hours. I got to the venue super early, met up with friends who were waiting already. There were about 15 fans or so inside. (Apparently we were the smart ones since everyone else waited outside. LOL) We all waited for a while and chatted and hung out and found things to keep us amused. LOL

Fast forward a hundred hours and its about 6 pm. They decided to line us all up in some small room with no windows or anything and they closed the door.(Not so smart. LOL) So we are waiting for what seemed to be forever. I tried to convince the one security guy(Curtis) to let me go watch Brian Sound Check but he wouldn't so eventually I convinced the other security guy(Preston) that I had to go to the "bathroom." ;) That didn't totally work out so well because Brian's tour manager was blocking the door but I saw a little bit. I heard him while in the bathroom(I decided I actually had to go. Haha) singing "I want it that way" only he changed up the lyrics and was singing "I really don't want it that way." Would you really expect anything else from him? LOL

So we go in and sit down. I was in the front off to the side a little bit. Then the opening act came out. She was local girl apparently named Roshawna(or something close to that.) She was alright. I was really just ready for Brian at this point after waiting forever so I didn't pay that much attention. LOL

So while we are waiting for Brian to come on stage I see a few girls run to the stage so I decided to do the same. I ended up front row RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIS MIC! Literally touching the stage! Best view ever!!!  He came on stage and was like "It looks like a mosh pit up in here!" Then he welcomed everyone to the show and said "Do you mind if I take you to church for about an hour?" Of course everyone screamed and cheered. He started out with "My answer is you," then he did "Wish." He did all the songs off of Welcome Home except "Jesus Loves You." He also did "In Christ Alone," "Don't Take The Girl" and even a BSB medley(I want it that way and As long as you love me.)

He looked amazing. He wore jeans(not the "holy" ones-I was happy about that. lol) and a zip up hoodie with a striped shirt underneath that said "Handle with care" when he took off his hoodie you could see his arms and tattoo and he was just looking good. He waved to me during "Angels and Heroes" when he sang the line "we are the strange familiar faces." He reached out and grabbed my hand once too.

I started tearing up a little bit when he started talking about Leighanne before doing "Gone without Goodbye." It doesn't matter how many times I hear that story it breaks my heart every single time. He talked about his little dogs getting attacked my coyotes, so sad. Poor pups. :( He mentioned BSB and how they were recording and how the new CD should be out in the spring of 2007.(We know that didn't actually happen. Backstreet time. ;) lol) He said he talked to Kevin last week, and he spoke to Nick and Howie recently on the phone and played golf with AJ 4 days ago.  He was like "Yes the other Backstreet Boys live with me, they live in my house." LOL Fans yelled for Baylee to come out(so weird lol) and he said how he wasn't there but if he was he would probably steal his microphone.)

There was a birthday party. The one little girl was turning 9 so Brian brought them on stage during "I'm alive." They were cute, so shy. But it looked like they had fun. He was like "I met those eleven 9 year olds backstage and I walked in and they were like 'AHHH!' and I was like I was making music before you were born but that's cool Mom and Dad like me."

He talked about Leighanne before singing "Grace of my life" and then asked where she was and asked her to come on stage. So she did. They are cute. He told everyone who she was then he "kicked" her off stage literally. ;) A fan yelled out "I love Leighanne!" and Brian replied with "I love her too!"

Someone yelled out "Brian you are so perfect!" And he made a face and said "I'm far from perfect....You can tell Leighanne that." And the fan yelled out "Leighanne, Brian is perfect!" and Brian laughed. It was funny.

He ended with "Welcome Home." Then he left and came back a few minutes later and thanked everyone for coming and asking if he could do one more song. So I yelled out "Over my head" because I knew that was coming and he looked down at me and laughed and said "How did you know that?" and I said "Because I know everything?!?" And he laughed.

Then someone yelled out for him to do "Like a child" and he said "oooh Like a child nice."  Too bad he didn't do it. LOL

After the show he signed autographs from the stage. I couldn't go anywhere even if I wanted to so I hung out. He signed my shirt, at first my sharpie wouldn't work but eventually it did. LOL He kept my sharpie to use it to sign for other fans but he told me he'd give it back to me. So I was getting squished but I was keeping myself amused, playing with Brian's boots and stuff. At one point he looked down at me and said "are you alright?" and I laughed and said "Yeah I'm good just hanging out, I can't go anywhere and you have my sharpie." And he was like "I have your pen? I'll give it back." And I said "I know, I'm not really worried I just can't really go anywhere." LOL

After the show there was a meet-n-greet but about 6 people knew about it. Not very cool to have a meet-n-greet with an artist but not tell anyone. Those people were weird anyways. I didn't really care anyways I was happy with everything else that happened that day. LOL