Oh man is a giddy thing...

Saturday was the day I had been waiting for.
Saturday November 13, 2010.
The day that I would see Mumford & Sons in concert.

I heard Mumford & Sons for the very first time on a Saturday in June (the 26th if we want to get exact). I was getting ready to go out for the night, had FM96 on (yes I know, shocking - they at one point in time played Mumford & Sons on FM96... I think it was a one time thing) and "Little Lion Man" came on the radio. I made a mental note to look this band up later in my life and went along my evening.

Which involved a play, a bar and a tad bit of drinking (some friends may remember this night in particular as the night when they may have found me wondering around on Richmond Street muttering that "I wannnna go home.... I don't feel well"). Needless to say, I heard probably about 50 or so other songs that night.

The next day all I could remember was some band that was had a family word in it, but I was stuck on "Mom" or "Mother" being in it (perhaps due to "Mumford"). But I also had some song stuck in my head that I didn't really know, but just the one line ".... I really fucked it up this time, didn't I my dear?....". Where did that leave me?

Google.

I love Google.

Up popped "Mumford & Sons". A quick trip over to iTunes provided me the album and my love was born. No really, I love them. Like, a lot. Like, right up there with Pearl Jam and The Futureheads.

Anyways, fast foward two months and tickets are going on sale for their November 13, 2010 show at The Sound Academy in Toronto.

I scoop up two, not thinking much of it. While they're play on 102.1 The Edge has increased, I didn't think they'd reach the popularity that they ended up reaching.

Fast forward another two month... tickets are going on Kijiji for $200+ each.

And finally, November 13, 2010.

Mumford & Sons.

While waiting in line to get in the concert (yes yes, I actually did this for the first time since I was about..... oh, 18), freezing my butt off but being kept slightly warmer by my 'always warmer than a normal human being' husband, we actually heard that tickets were going for about $600 a pop. Ouch.

This is starting to drag on, isn't it? Well, let me just say this. Mumford & Sons did not disappoint. I was slightly worried as I had been looking soooooo forward to the show and had been getting misty eyed on the way there listening to them, but they rocked it. Rocked it, rocked it, rocked it.

The Sound Academy was somewhat of a crap venue as the acoustics kind of sucked and you could reallllly hear the crowd over the band singing and then talking and making noise too, which kind of sucked. But I couldn't say one bad thing about Mumford & Sons.