Written by: Carla Wright
Photos by: Carla Wright
Hundreds of middle and high school girls and boys filled the Mizner Ampetheater in Boca Raton July 31st. I have to admit I'm not a huge good charlotte fan and I haven't heard much of Boys like girls to form any type of technical opinion about the show, so I'll go on what I saw.
I'm usually amused at the type of crowd that Mizner attracts because (for me at least) I'm use to attending a concert where hairy, sweaty, drunk men are stumbling around screaming at each other; that is never the case at Mizner. I'm always surprised at how nicely dressed the crowd is in general. I never see fights happen there or mosh pits and for the most part everyone is well behaved. Very weird for someone who once camped in parking lots at FSU waiting two days for football tickets; extremely weird for someone who waited in the sun for 8 hours for Korn to show up at a Best Buy signing.
The average age of the crowd there was about 14 years old and spoiled. I say spoiled because of how the crowd huddled around the stage was treated; when they asked for water, they got it. Mizner security, along with Robert Stolpe (Mizner house photographer) and myself, were filling up plastic cups full of water and handing them to security. Security was taking the water and going up and down the crowd pouring water into their mouth. Do you know how many times people in general have passed out at a concert because it was too hot and no one would give you water, no matter how much you pleaded?
By 14: I was knocked unconscious and trampled by 12 men in a mosh pit.
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy that such a peaceful and safe environment exists, but it's surreal to me.
The Maine and MetroStation opened "The Soundtrack of your summer tour" for Good Charlotte and Boys like girls. The name for the tour came from a line in the Boys like Girls song, "Thunder".
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