Ed Sheeran is coming to town!!! Like I mentioned in my previous post, this year is definitely a year of a concert for me. I don't know why they are all decided to come down here, making my mission to save money failed miserably! Yes, I'm broke.. well, that's old news isn't it? I like music, I'm more to a universal listener, I do not have specific artistes I like listening to all the time, if they're talented, music is good, I'm enjoying them, what more to hear/watch them live. Ed Sheeran came in 2017 and I didn't managed to buy the tickets; online and offline. So, this time I already prepared myself to battle buying online (which I'm pretty good at). Of course they have to release the tickets sale during office hour...so I excused myself in the toilets to buy.. After an hour trying and putting in the queue, I didn't succeed. In fact I already accepted my fate. But miracle does happen to those who are Sabr, indeed maybe I'm the chosen one, later that day, I managed to secure them!! These days, throughout my experience, you can no longer choose the preferred seat, the system will automatically select the next available seats for you, that's explain why my seat were on top of the stadium , far far far away from the stage. Even the screen looks like a bean from afar. After the success of Ed's last concert here, the organizer chose much bigger venue to accommodate more spectators (even that the tickets were sold out!). This time at Stadium Nasional Bukit Jalil. Last time was at Axiata Arena, the indoor stadium.
Few days before the event, I received an email from the organizer saying that they are selling the pre-sale tickets for the parking, what!!!! The parking ticket costs were RM30 and RM50 respectively! Man, they really effortlessly making money! The due reason because this is a highly anticipated event, the turn up crowd going to be huge and they wanted to encourage people to come by public transport. Jeeeeeeez. So my husband and I decided to go there by Grab which also a good idea at first because we beat the parking problem although the traffic were terrible. Even the Grab driver refused to drop us in front of the stadium and we have to walk a bit from the roadside. (Well, obviously you're not getting a 5 stars from me, duh).
We arrived about 7pm-ish and this concert like a festival going on! There are so many food vendors inside the stadiums, we are spoilt for choices! A different experience from before, well maybe because this time the venue is bigger and crowd is huger, or simply because Malaysians take their food really serious. Our seat is way up high, at the top of the stadium roof (well, better than nothing lol!). The opening performance is from One Ok Rock from Japan (but their songs are in English), well I gotta say they are not bad! We pretty much enjoyed it, they're like a young Hoobastank.
Ed Sheeran came out at about 9.00pm and we were blown away with his performance. We really enjoyed ourselves. I really like the design of the stage, different and unlike from the stages I've seen before. I checked after that, it's the same set up for all his tour. He is one hell of talented guy, guysssss. He is so funny and really good interacting with his fan! As usual, the concert took 2 hours and what I adored most was, after the encore, he came back on stage wearing the team Malaysia jersey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH MY GODDDDD, WHY IS HE SO FREAKING CUTE I CRIEDDDDDD! Turn out, after checking his Instagram page, he's wearing the jersey to every country he performed at. What a humble sweet nice kind lovable gesture.
And ohhh by the way, like his last concert here, somebody proposed to somebody yada yada stealing the limelight, yada yada but Ed couldn't care less yada yada.. yeah yeah, we get it Ed's song is romantic and such, but... well, I lost for words here, pretty safe to say I'm such a bitter person HAHAHHA.
So.. after the concert ended, now the real issue here is, how are we going to go back?! This time the organizer sucks big time! The only mode of transportation here is the LRT, and they are cramped, packed and jammed with people, like another concert held here to be honest. To take Grab is impossible because the traffic is also madness and they might took an hour to reach, what a waste of time and it's going to be difficult to determine the pick up point as well. The organizer should really follow like Singapore when we went to Maroon 5 concert the previous month. We took a train to airport and to fasten the process, they given us a paper pass with stamp (like a temporary ticket) without paying for it first and only to pay manually at the destination station by presenting the pass at the counter. It really help clearing the crowd and as result, everybody is happy. I truly amazed by that, a simple gesture but the consequences is difference. It is so so so much efficient.
We waited for an hour to wait for the crowd to be clearer but it did not happen. Plus, to worsen the situation, they announced that the station going to be closed in half an hour and the last train going to arrive in 15 minutes or so! *slapping forehead*. I mean, if you insist everybody to have paid for their tickets, at least add another pop-up booth for tickets, or at least extend the operating hours when there are a big event held here. I think the organizer forgotten about this or simply did not cooperate with the LRT people. So.. we squeezed ourselves and managed to buy tickets and catch the last train at the Bandar Puteri Station. We were lucky enough that Kak Ngah (my husband's sister) offered herself to pick us up from the station. Ohh, we even bumped to my son's paed doctor at the station though. She asked about the right train schedule/direction and pretty sure we gave them a wrong one...
If you have read about my previous post on Maroon 5 concert, I've mentioned that I don't really like concerts in Malaysia because those so-called high society, rich people or even local celebrities whom befriended with organizer yada yada would get access to meet the artist (some don't even buy the concert tickets though for that matter!!) and then bragged and showing off on their social medias? It really disgust me. Well, and yet you talked about "kroni" and "kabel" getting the privileges *eyes rolling*.
Anyhow, Ed, it was indeed a great performances, you are such a great performer!!!!!!!!!! I had a best night. Now I'm streaming Ed Sheeran on my spotify for the next 1 month definitely.
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