Paolo Nutini rocked Madison, Wisconsin

Wow! What a weekend we've had! The fun kept on coming. Here's my story, and I hope you all enjoy it!

Thursday -- picked up my Aunt from her place and I went to the airport to pick up Sherry. It was great seeing her again. Just opted to stay home that night so we could have the energy for Friday. :hello2: We warmed up by watching videos and pics of Paolo at his concert in Chicago 10 days before that.... :icon_thumright:

Friday --- Concert day. Excitement was in the air. I was very busy that day, it was a school day and the kids had to be picked up from school. But we all managed to get ready quickly. We left my home about 3:15 pm, made it to Madison about 5:45, plenty of time to do whatever. It's important to mention that this is one of the concerts in a long time that we were not running to avoid being late. Wooo! :toothy9:

Ready for Paolo, baby!!

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The venue looked small from the outside, we even thought that it was an intimate bar scene, but we were wrong. It was much bigger in the inside. We went around the theatre, in the back of it, were the buses. It was very exciting to see them. Of course, we had to take pics of the buses. Paolo and the boys were in there, Jim came out and we just said "Hi!" He was on the phone. We talked to Mick for a minute to ask him what he was eating, he said, "burger!" We left him alone after that. :toothy10:

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The Magnificent 6 by the buses!

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After that, we were looking for a place to grab a grub and maybe something to drink, but we did not want to go far either because the line was forming already. So, the only place that had alcohol and food in one place was this Indian-Tibetan restaurant right next door to Barrymore Theatre. When we walked in it smelled like turbine, yuck!!!! The food was okay, the drinks were excellent! That's more important! I had a promegranate martini, it was yummy! Our orders were pretty much messed up, but I was too excited to get mad...hehheh! :laughing5:

The Mag 6 having dinner at a Tibetan restaurant! Brave people! :evil6:

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We jumped right in line to get inside the theatre, the crowd was a mixture of people. Young and old, men and women, all equally psyched up to see Paolo!

The Mag 6 on our way to get in the theatre, ready to get whomped by Paolo Nutini, sorry Taylor! :evil6: :p

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Inside, excitement was building up, we knew that there were two opening acts like in Chicago. Liza and I grabbed the best 2nd and third row standing spot in the theatre. I think we must have left everyone else behind, just because we wanted to secure the best spots! We were able to inch our way into the very front of the stage but I had to leave to go potty!!!! Darn it~!!!!!!!!!!! :disbelief: :BangHead: :BangHead: :BangHead: I asked Jen and Sherry to save my spot so I could go to the bathroom, but I looked back and they were not there! Liza tried to save the spot for me, even had an argument with some chick because she was pushing to get into my spot, but hey, whatever! :rolleyes:

I did not go back to that spot, the rest of us found seats in the front row and we had a great spot, only that it was not close to the stage, but good enough! Liza stood on that same spot all night, and I felt tired for her! She said, she was too excited to feel tired, especially that Paolo was in front of her! I can't blame her! :love10:

Anyway, the whole night was just rockin! Paolo sang a mixture of his slower songs, new songs, old covers songs. The highlight of the night for me was Bang, Bang! OMG! He rocked it. The other song that I loved was the newer, You Can't Judge A Book..... the lyrics are amazing.

Gotcha Paolo, with your eyes wide open! :icon_thumright:

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Hot pics, yes!

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The whole night was magical, everyone was jumping. My vids were great, the pics were okay, but meeting Paolo by the buses afterwards was just amazing. He was such a wee little boy that we did not even know that he was already standing there. He was so small, and yet big! He commanded attention, that's how gorgeous this wee boy is!

Thanks to Sherry, we got a profile of his beautiful face! :thud:

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He was so friendly with us, happy to be taking pictures with us, and signing autographs. As a matter of fact, he took his sweet time while he was with me and Liza. We took a bunch of pics, there were several cameras taking pics and an incident of a camera malfunction and he patiently stood there with us. He had his arms around our waist, while we had our arms around his waist. He smelled fresh and for the first time, you can actually see his face in all these pics, his hair was out of his face.

He smells good and we held him so tight and so long...ohhh baby :love10: :love10: :love10: :p :kiss: !!!!! :thud: :thud: :thud:

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He found it funny that there were too many cameras on us, we were not sure which camera to look at, plus the flashes were very bright!! :laughing7:

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Paolo Sandwhich, anyone???? Ummm, yummy!!! :laughing7: :love10: :evil:

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"One more!" Paolo said....so here's one more!

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I got an autographed face towel that Paolo used to wipe his[s] snot [/s] sweat on stage... :evil6: :sick: :sad11: :icon_tongue:

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We kinda' felt bad that we were Paolo hoggers, we had to let him go for others to have time with him. But he said, "One more!" Meaning he wanted one more pic taken of us to make sure, how very SWEET! :love10: I said that I thought that he was so magnificent in Chicago that I came back to Madison to see him again. But before we let him go, he signed Sherry's shirt, signed Liza's shirt, and then Liza said, "Paolo, that was our LAST REQUEST!" And I started singing it for him!!!! He smiled and he signed a couple more autographs and he went running back into the theatre.

Here he is running back in:

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That was it, our trip back home was so quick, everyone was so sleepy, thank God for my co-pilot, Jorie, she kept me company and I delivered them home safe and sound.... that's my story and I'm stickin to it!!!!! :D