CO.YH. North American Tour
Well guys, I'm back with another flor post. We all knew it was coming.
On February 17th at 4am, I got on a flight to New York City (ok Newark, but it's close and NYC just sounds so much better so let me live), to surprise my favorite band at the biggest show of their first headlining tour and follow along to Philadelphia.
Toward the end of last year, thanks to the magical world of twitter, I found a home in a small group of flor fans that live too far away from me. After months of late night phone calls, pep talks that we all needed to motivate us to work longer hours to be able to afford the trip, and about a million "ASDHFGADFG CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING" messages (stan culture, amirite?), we finally got the chance to meet in person.
Up until NYC and Philadelphia, I had attended every single flor show I'd ever been to alone. To finally have people with me that loved these guys just as much as I did and to laugh and dance and sing with was what I could imagine my version of heaven would be, I'm devastated that we could only go to two shows together, but excited that we will have the opportunity to plan more.
And then flor came to Texas
Ok ok, I know they've been to Texas before, but this time it wasn't for a way too short set at SXSW, or as an opener, it was all them.
Seeing my favorite band in my favorite venue in my favorite city is something that I will never forget as long as I live. Everything about the Austin show was absolutely perfect (even with the little technical difficulties), the fact that it sold out just made it that much more special. My first time seeing flor in Austin was during SXSW 2 years ago, in a tiny bar right across the street from Stubb's, with an audience of less than 10 people and very few actually knowing who flor was, so to hear so many people singing their songs back to them had me on the verge of tears all night.
Austin was absolutely my favorite flor show, but Dallas is now a close second. For my last show on this run, I was an emotional mess all day (sorry to everyone I interacted with- haley, sarah, soul, thank you for relocating my chill), and made a point to savor every last second of every song. By the end of the night, I was teary-eyed, exhausted, but so full of love for these guys that it outweighed everything else.
This whole post is kind of a jumbled mess, and I'm sorry, but my brain is sort of mashed potatoes after this week... in the best possible way.
P.S. their openers, Handsome Ghost, are great and the sweetest humans, go listen to them and thank me later.
flor,
You have changed my life in so many ways, I love getting to watch the world fall in love with you the way I have.
This is only the beginning.
The Weedz (Joanna, Tiffany, Miranda, Nicole),
Thank you for crying with me (only one minute, set a timer), laughing with me, and for holding up boxes of raisins with me during No More Time because we all know the real lyrics are "hold me heart raisin".
love you guys.
Sorry that was messy, but here's some not messy pictures of flor to make up for it!
Let me know what you think!
