New Fan
Just wanted to share my personal experience. I joined this thread a few months ago because I just so happened to be going to Vegas the final weekend of the sphere concert and decided to buy tickets. I did not know a single thing about ILLENIUM so I was going in blind. Thanks to a few amazing people on this thread I asked what to expect and what made him so special. I read up on his background and listened to his odyssey album before going with my new fiancée (I had proposed only two weeks prior). Despite listening to the album a few times I enjoyed it but it wasn’t anything where I was out of this world excited, for context I’m more of a dubstep excision guy.
Then the day came. Friday night with DJ diesel as the opener. Head-banged a bit had a good time and then the countdown appears. The atmosphere completely changes, you hear snippets of the different songs in the beginning, songs I listened to before coming but I start to feel a wave of emotions seeing and hearing it live for the first time. Phoenix egg appears and as soon as the phoenix appears a RUSH of emotions came through me. I knew this wasn’t going to be no ordinary concert. I went in with the expectation to take many videos (I vlog dates with my fiancée to keep as memories for our future kids). But I couldn’t help but be in awe. It was the first time I just wanted to be fully present and enjoy the moment. This concert changed me. It was the first time I didn’t feel stress from the two jobs. The first time I was taken away from all the problems I had in my life. For that hour and a half I felt alive. The concert changed me and coming back home all I can think about is the feeling I had during the concert. I don’t think there’s ever going to be a concert that makes me feel the same way that the production ILLENIUM provided that day did. It holds so much meaning especially since it was the first vacation me and my fiancée has ever taken and our first concert together after being engaged. Ever since that day I have been listening to all of ILLENIUMS discography. All I want to do now is go to his next new tour. If I had the money and time I would go to his new announced dates in July. I’m left without words, trying to explain the feeling and what I saw will never do justice of actually being there live. Safe to say I’m a huge new fan and now I listen to his music with new meaning. It was just beautiful.
But anyways thank you for reading and check out the picture of the framed vinyl I got of his album to have as a memorabilia of that day.