Once upon a time, the midget and I saw a YouTube video. This YouTube video. After being thoroughly impressed we did what any modern girls would do and found a used copy of the cd on Amazon and ordered it. And promptly tried to shove it out of our minds knowing it would be almost a week before we received our new cd (We wanted a real cd! Not just an iTunes download.). Instead, less than twenty-four hours after placing our order, the cd arrived in the mail!

Back to 2009, Laura told me how Imogen Heap was going to be performing in Hollywood this November and informed me how she was going to be there, and asked if I wanted to come. This question did not require much thought. It did require the first time either of us had used ticketmaster online. We found out afterwards that the concert had sold out in two hours.

Laura, her friend and I made very good timing down to Hollywood and in a line that wrapped around the Music Box Theatre we found ourselves near the front of it. Security to get in was pretty serious, they checked our tickets at three different places before we could enter the theatre.

I went to a concert once before. I think I was in junior high. It hadn't really hit me until we were there that we would be standing the whole time. For a person prone to claustrophobia, normally this would not be a good thing. This was the first time since I was a kid that not once did I feel claustrophobic while we were standing in the crowd. There was a girl standing behind us who did pass out, I wasn't too surprised as it was very crowded and got warm near the end.

See how close we were! Even for those of us vertically challenged we could still see the stage clearly, even when people had their arms up with cameras, we could still more than less see.

Imogen Heap had canceled her Santa Barbara show due to illness, our show was to be the day after that one, we were so grateful that it was not canceled.

How was the show? Amazing. It is hard to believe she was sick as she never really stopped moving. She was constantly dancing between instruments, or just dancing across the stage. The concert started a half hour late, but went over an hour over time. I lost track of how many times she said 'this is the last song.' What was so neat is that it was clear she loved what she was doing and that she loved sharing it with the audience. One person yelled 'We love you Immi!' when she walked on stage and she just laughed and said 'We'll see what you think at the end.' She is as eccentric as her music sounds and it was great to hear her thoughts behind each of her songs. The songs didn't sound the same live as on her cds, but that just made them different. Some of the time it seemed like she was making things up as she was going. It was fascinating to see all the stuff (that weren't instruments) she used to accompany her songs, and the set perfectly complimented her songs with the unique lighting for many of the songs.

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