Throwback Thursday: Kris Allen Band Plays Anthology in San Diego, July 24, 2010

Every Thursday we take a look back at Kris' career via video.

I had a blast covering Kris' two California shows with Andy Grammer last week. San Diego is always one of his best cities and always gives good list, which is appreciated. This morning, I saw Kris fan @damitman take a little ride via TimeHop to this San Diego Kris show and this memorable moment from it. I realized the show took place exactly four years ago, and a #ThrowbackThursday blog post was born.



The San Diego gig was actually two sold-out shows at the San Diego venue Anthology, which is known as a great place to see live gigs.

Anthology was kind enough to make a professional recording of Kris' cover of Paranoid Android. Since they took down the video, and I don't want to reveal its current whereabouts ;), here's an excellent substitute from our good friend @summerdaze_



And a nice mp3 made from the professional recording.

You can view more videos of this show on this awesome playlist compiled by @maryet34. Also check out the set lists for the first show (amazing set list by the way) and the second show.

Enjoy!

p.s. Don't forget to look forward too! We've got Horizons coming out on August 12 (pre-order on iTunes!) and a whole bunch of new and rumored shows this fall! Check out my calendar at the bottom of this page (click agenda) to see the upcoming dates! And please let me know @KrisAllenLists if you are going to any of them!

Throwback Thursday: Kris Allen and Andy Grammer

Every Thursday we take a look back at Kris' career via video.

As most Kris fans probably know, the first show of the summer for us is tomorrow in Anaheim, CA, as Kris opens for Andy Grammer, and they have a second show together on Saturday in San Diego. Get your tickets now!

Photo courtesy of @summerdaze_

But this is not Kris' first interaction with Andy Grammer; in fact, the two have performed in a few shows together and share quite a few fans. So a retrospective seemed in order for this week's #TBT post.

Many Kris fans, including me, first heard of Andy Grammer when we spent October 2010 desperately spamming useless radio station polls in an effort to get Alright With Me played. I can't remember which station it was, but one of them put Alright With Me head to head in a poll with Andy's eventual big hit, Keep Your Head Up. Alright With Me won but it was a very narrow victory and I recall those of us who clicked on Andy's clip liked it a lot.

A few weeks later, Kris and Andy met for the first time while doing a radio station's 2010 Christmas show together in Portland, OR (along with season 9 winner, Lee DeWyze). Here's a picture of their meeting from Andy's Facebook:

Kris fan @mylifeback remembers that both guys were entertaining and fun in the show. Here's KrisTogether's thread for the show (thanks @ISBinLA!) Andy posted this nice comment on Facebook.

Here's a video of Alright With Me taken by @elemental1025 from that show:



Flash forward a few more months into 2011, and Keep Your Head Up had become a big hit! My friend @subeeDC won a radio station contest to meet Andy at a lunchtime concert/meet and greet event, and took me. It was a lot of fun and we did ask Andy about meeting Kris (and @mylifeback) - he was very effusive in his praise of Kris and how much he had enjoyed doing that Portland concert. Here's a video of Andy from that event.



The following year, Kris and Andy met up again when they performed at a Buffalo radio station's Starry Night in the Garden summer concert. Sadly the station has taken down its video of that show, but @altrus01 has some excellent videos of both Kris and Andy on her YouTube channel.

No duets or collabs from Kris and Andy yet, but hopefully they will collaborate in the future! Meanwhile, let's look forward to the shows this week! The Anaheim list and post will be available later tonight. Be sure to let me know (@KrisAllenLists on Twitter) to add you to the lists if I haven't done so!

Enjoy!

Throwback Thursday: June 12, 2010: Kris Allen Band performs in Cherokee, NC

Every Thursday we take a look back at Kris Allen's career via video.

So four years ago, Kris and his band spent the month of June 2010 on his first headlining tour. The tour took them across the country and provided some of our fondest memories of the Kris Allen Band live. While touring can take place anytime of the year, there is just something special about a summer tour. So I have to admit, I am disappointed it isn't happening this year.

Why no summer tour? Probably because the album release is looking more likely for August? Not to mention, Big Daddy has gotten himself a summer job with another band playing the Warped tour (which wraps up August 3). And there are those weekly emails with new show announcements from my local music venues. They are all up to announcing Fall shows now and are pretty much the most depressing emails I get. Plus a look at the calendar at the bottom of this page will show you one gig in June, nothing in July, but a number of college gigs in late August and early September. Plus of course Lentil Fest. (Tip for the calendar, click the Agenda setting.)

So don't despair even though I've penned this depressing post. I truly believe there will be a tour. Soon. Hopefully not the Kris Allen version of soon. And we do have a show coming up in June on Kris' birthday, June 21. You can read more about it here, and also learn about all the different birthday plans for Kris being put together by fans. If you are in Ohio or Michigan, you should go to his show if you can!

But oh yeah - this was a Throwback Thursday post. Well, it feels like a lifetime waiting for REAL news about this upcoming album and tour from Kris, so let's go with Lifetime from Cherokee, NC, June 12, 2010:


Enjoy!

Throwback Thursday: June 4, 2010: Kris Allen Band performs Maybe in Milwaukee, WI

Every Thursday we take a look back at Kris Allen's career via video.

This week, I only have a limited time to bang out this post, but I didn't want to skip it during this lull in activity while we await the new album and hopefully some tour dates to be announced soon.

So I was very grateful that a few videos for Maybe came up in my search for what Kris did in the past in early June. His cover of Allison Krauss' song is absolutely gorgeous and definitely one of my favorite covers done by Kris. I also had forgotten that the KAB had that little thing they did with a seated acoustic mini-set in the middle of their full band shows. I always liked that!

So here is transplant42's video of Maybe from the June 4, 2010 show at Turner Hall in Milwaukee, WI.



Enjoy and maybe we will (hopefully!) hear some concrete album and tour news from Kris soon!

Throwback Thursday: May 29, 2010: Saline Summer Daze, Benton, AR

Every Thursday we take a look back at Kris Allen's career via video.

Today, I was feeling a little down about doing this post. There were plenty of things to throwback to - apparently May 29 is usually a busy day for Kris - but nothing really jumped out at me, because I am not feeling nostalgic; I'm feeling anxious. That's when it hit me that I really hate the down time when the album is in the final preparation stage, there's nothing (yet) to promote, and the tour dates are not finalized and not able to be revealed. And on top of it, most of the few live dates we do know about are college shows, which have their role and are great, but aren't something the majority of Kris fans can attend. Every day while doing searches for the list, I see the tweets of Kris fans hungry for news, real concert dates, anything they can listen to, look at and enjoy! (Except snake photographs.) Like you, I am ready to bring back a busy schedule of Kris music, concerts and live tweet lists!

So when I saw that the live debut of the song Bring It Back from KATA happened on this day back in 2010, well, the choice for today's post became obvious.


Bring it back, indeed, Kris. We're more than ready.

Throwback Thursday: Sweet Sixteen Edition

Every Thursday when we don't have a show, we take a look back at Kris' career via video.

Well, this week I got very excited because my alma mater, the University of Virginia, made the sweet sixteen in the NCAA Basketball tournament! So excited that I promised you guys a special celebratory post.

Sadly, Kris has yet to play Charlottesville, the lovely city where UVA is located. I do not understand that at all because his sound is PERFECT for the lively C-ville music scene, there are awesome venues there that regularly book other Fleming Artists and there are some great college radio stations there that his music would fit perfectly on. But he hasn't, so I don't have any handy videos for TBT from there.

So with the obvious thing out the window, I have decided to celebrate instead by creating a fun little Virginia Sweet 16-themed Kris YouTube playlist for you! The videos on the list are all performances I really enjoyed, and they were either a) shot by Virginians (who traveled to shows in Atlantic City or Washington DC) and/or b) shot in Virginia (mostly at the Jammin Java show, but I did work CNU in there) or c) best of all, shot by Virginians in Virginia. For fun, I tried to follow his more recent set list order, so that we here in Virginia can imagine what a Kris show would be like now should we ever get one again. Unfortunately, none of us who live here in Virginia have shot the new songs, and the one show he did them at in Virginia yielded very few videos (as it was for CNU students only), so I subbed in older ones shot by VA/in VA for all but End of the Show (which is in there!). So all of the videos are good stuff; enjoy!

p.s. I've been having fun with the NCAA pool that JakeVP set up. I'm in 3rd now!  The good news is that I have the most possible points left (in part thanks to my beloved Cavaliers). My (biased) bracket is here if you want to check it out.

Throwback Thursday: Something Warm for Kris Allen Fans

It's Throwback Thursday, our weekly date to take a look back at Kris' career via video.

Let's face it. I'm in Virginia. It snowed; heavily by our standards. It's cold. All of you on the east coast have it even worse. Many of you in the midwest as well. It is freezing and we need to warm up. We need something hot. So I went looking for some of my favorite "hot" videos for this week's TBT post.

I sadly discovered that my favorite one - a 2009 performance of Can't Stay Away in Charlotte - has been pulled off YouTube! (There's another one but it's shot from too far away for our purposes today.) But I did find another short excerpt from that same performance that will work...


OK, we'll go with Kris dancing in a hot setting! Here's one more (a classic):



So, in conclusion, for all my cold Kris fans, to keep warm, just dance, preferably while watching videos of Kris on a sunny day in a tank top.

Enjoy! And don't forget to tell me if you are going to one of his upcoming shows so I can add you to the list for it! Also, make sure to check out the Kralendar at the bottom of this page for some new college shows just listed!

Throwback Thursday: Everybody Wants to Rule the World, San Francisco, 11/21/2010

Every Thursday we take a look back at Kris' career via video.

Uploading a little early today as we have a family celebration tonight.

I was really happy to see this video come up when I plugged 11/21 into the YouTube search box. I've always loved Kris' cover of Tears for Fears' Everybody Wants to Rule the World, and he began mashing it up with Michael Jackson's The Way You Make Me Feel during the 2010 Lifehouse Fall tour. The mash-up was a lot of fun, and it turned into a sexy duet of Kris' falsetto with Andrew DeRoberts' guitar. Check it out in this awesome video from headonfire1105 from his November 21, 2010 concert in San Francisco!


Enjoy!

Throwback Thursday: Stuck in a Moment, L.A. Grove, November 17, 2010

Every Thursday we take a look back at Kris Allen's career via video.

This week, and really the past few weeks, I admit I have hit a little stumbling block creativity-wise. I've been kind of stuck.

Coincidentally, I happened to go to a David Cook concert this past Monday. He's always good, and I really enjoyed the energy and love his fans showed him. I firmly believe that musical acts really want that kind of energy from their audiences, especially those acts in the pop-rock genre. The vibe of the crowd and the night was fun and lively and I came away feeling energized about live music.

We could use a little of that energy in our particular fandom, and it was great to see news of two shows leak out - February 8 in Watseka, IL and February 14 in Natick, MA (near Boston). I think many Kris fans are starved for live shows, even though truthfully, it hasn't been that long since he toured and he does need the time to work on new music. But new shows are soon to come and the two we know of are now listed on the Kralendar on the bottom of this page. Let me know on Twitter (@KrisAllenLists) if you are going so I can add you to the lists!

For our throwback Thursday entry this week - I was similarly stuck again for an idea. Than I stumbled on this pretty video by jeck s of Kris singing U2's Stuck in a Moment at a 2010 appearance at the L.A. mall called the Grove. This has always been one of my favorite covers by him and it's a song with lyrics that call for one to get oneself together and get out of one's rut.


My hopes? That our fandom can rejuvenate during this downtime and bring a renewed energy towards promoting and attending the upcoming shows! For my part, I have got some ideas for this blog that I am looking forward to putting forth in the new year to come. Let's get unstuck!

Flashback Friday: Constellation Room and Halloween Costumes

On Fridays, we try to catch up on tour media around here! We'll check out a video to catch up on the Out Alive Tour. Plus I'll try to give you a bonus video that is worth another look...

Out Alive Tour Video

Going back to work means that my catch-up has slowed down and I'm only up to the February 8, 2013 show at the Constellation Club in Santa Ana (Orange County), California! Luckily some of our best videoers were at this show, and there are no bad videos from what I can tell. I've updated the show post with tons of links to all these videos!

I decided to go with this one because ... only 12 views? OK, it's not coded great for search, but c'mon. It's a great video that shows how hot Kris was that night (not to mention a dancing machine), and how great the crowd was (if only all the crowds would let loose like this)! So let's give it some love - here's Shut That Door as filmed by jsalow2:


Video worth Another Look

Halloween is a week away, and I need your help! Going to showcase some Monster and Out Alive videos next week, and I am looking for the scariest, spookiest ones - y'know the ones with creepy lighting and dry ice all over the place. If you've got a nominee, let me know! I will not be doing a Thursday or Friday post next week; instead, we'll have a Halloween special!

To get you in the mood, here's Kris brainstorming last year with Austin, TX about costumes:


And here he is throwing out Twizzlers to his adoring fans in Atlantic City, 2010:


Enjoy!

Throwback Thursday: October 24, 2010: Kris opens for Lifehouse in Washington, DC

Every Thursday we take a look back at Kris' career via video.

This week, I'm going to be even more selfish than normal, because I realized that exactly three years ago today was the first time Kris played an actual concert in my hometown of Washington, DC (besides the Idol tour and as opposed to a radio or charity appearance), when he came here to open for Lifehouse in their 2010 tour. So we are doing quite the personal throwback tonight.

This was such a fun concert - got together with a bunch of Kris fan friends at one person's condo for dinner and drinks, then shuttled over to the venue, DAR Constitution Hall, a beautiful place with fantastic acoustics.

Funny anecdote: This was around the time Alright with Me had become KATA's 3rd single and we DC people had begged one of the local radio stations which will go nameless to play it without success. A few of us went up to the radio station's table at the show to plead our case and received the response of "well, ok, do you want a nail file with the station's name?"

But on to the show! It was great. Alyssa Bernal ("Cali, Cali, Cali," remember?) opened, followed by Kris. He was very impressed by DC, as shown in this video by kmt8871 of Alright With Me:



And as you can hear, DC was (and always is) quite responsive to him! It's one of his best cities to play in terms of a responsive audience.

This was also the night he dropped Man in the Mirror from the set list and replaced it with a cover of Everybody Rules the World by Tears for Fears, segueing into an awesome full band Is It Over: Here's a great video from Marilyn Yang:

This was just a great night, capped off with a great performance from Lifehouse and a fun conversation with Cale. Finally, the highlight came when my friend and I met Kris (for me it was the first time) after the show. He was tired and we look super goofy in our pictures with him, but I remember our drive to our friend's place afterwards; we were super giddy and thrilled to have met him.

So all in all, one of my favorite concerts ever! Here's some show info and additional links in case you want to see more! If you have some media to share from this show, please pass it along and I'll link it below!

The Show!

Full Band (Not sure who took this picture, but it was taken during CSA)

1.  Written All Over My Face
2.  Can’t Stay Away
3.  Red Guitar
4.  Alright With Me
5.  Everybody Wants To Rule The World (cover - Tears For Fears)
6.  Is It Over
7.  Live Like We’re Dying
8.  Come Together (cover - The Beatles)

Opening for Lifehouse. Other acts: Alyssa Bernal

Related Links

• Kris Allen Media - some great videos and tons of links to tons of pictures here
• My personal YouTube playlist from the show
• Kris Allen Set Lists

Flashback Friday: San Diego 2/2/13 and Kris Plays Electric Guitar in 2009 and 2010!

On Fridays, we try to catch up on tour media around here! We'll check out a video to catch up on the Out Alive Tour. Plus I'll try to give you a bonus video - Out Alive Tour!

Out Alive Tour Video
I'm up to San Diego and wow, was that an epic show on February 2, 2013 at the Soda Bar. There's no shortage of media to choose from; so I've updated the post for that show with all of the videos and yes, mp3s! Special shout-outs go to Ocamy21, SnapCracklyPop, Kradamantium and TheRealConcertKing who all went the extra mile and made you YouTube playlists (linked on the show post), and to Summerdaze_, coming through once again with the mp3s.

I couldn't decide between these two videos to feature here so you get them both:

Kradamantium's sexy video of Kris being sexy and ad-libbing during Leave You Alone


Ocamy21's awesome video of Seven Nation Army/Shut That Door


But also be sure to hit up the show post and check out Torres singing lead on California Dreaming and the band just doing another great job on Breakdown. Plus if you are West Coast, don't miss the banter before Better With You.

Bonus Video

We also try each week to take a look back at a fun or great (or both) video that maybe got overlooked or maybe just deserves a second look! I put out a request on Twitter and Summerdaze_ asked for something featuring Kris on electric guitar. (Perhaps inspired by this picture he tweeted.) Sounds good to me and it's the least I can do to thank her for the mp3s. But what to choose?

There's the first video that comes up in search on YouTube when you input "Kris Allen Electric Guitar"


Ah his Bright Lights solo during the 2009 Idol Tour, Charlotte version. He did great on that. Here's another fun video of it from the Portland 2009 Idol Tour



Then thinking through his own songs, the ones that have always stood out to me for electric guitar were Can't Stay Away and Is It Over, but Is It Over was always more of an Andrew DeRoberts tour de force. So we will go with Can't Stay Away, back to the Fall 2010 Lifehouse tour, where the KAB had evolved the song into a big guitar jam at the end. I found 3 pretty videos for you of Kris and his red electric guitar.

Here's Westbury, NY (k21886):


Here's Washington, DC (mamaygr - disclaimer - that's my personal account so this is actually my video)


Here's Kansas City (Debbi Ronnebaum) with bonus Red Guitar (for which he puts the red guitar down and picks up a brown one, LOL.)


Enjoy!

Throwback Thursday: Is It Over, Dayton, OH 9/1/10

Every Thursday during the in-between times, we take a look back at a fun Kris video of yore.

Summer is drawing to an end. As a self-professed summer girl, I have to ask "Is It Over" (Cheesetown, I know.) This time of year, I'm in the mood for a sultry summer evening, with plenty of guitar and a good crowd.

So here's kmt8871's video of Is It Over from Labor Day weekend 2010 in Dayton, Ohio. This was the tour with Maroon 5. Lots of Andrew for the Andrewberts!

Enjoy! And if you are going to see either of Kris's shows this September (see Kralendar below for dates and places), please let me know to add you to our Twitter lists!

Flashback Friday: Sweet Carolina and Sweet Hershey

On Fridays, we try to catch up on tour media around here! We'll check out a video to catch up on the Out Alive Tour. Plus I'll try to give you a bonus video - maybe one that got overlooked or one that is just worth watching again.

For the Out Alive tour video this week, since we are looking at a show in Hershey, Pennsylvania this week, I thought I should give you something sweet to enjoy! Here's Kradmantium's video of Ryan Adams' Oh My Sweet Carolina as performed by Kris and Jillette Johnson at the Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles (Show #1 of 2).


For the bonus video, of course we are going to return to Hershey! Everyone seems excited for this concert on Sunday. Many saw him before opening for Daughtry in Hershey - including me! I'll never forget these two HUGE football player types sitting in front of us - clearly there for Daughtry but they did get up and dance to Live Like We're Dying and Come Together. I thought you'd all get a kick out of me flailing over Daughtry coming on stage to sing Send Me All Your Angels, so here's this video shot by the person I was with, kmt8871!

Everyone I went to that show with is going to be there this time too, except for me (Boo!) - so you can expect some more awesome videos (but maybe not as much flail? I don't know, they'll have to bring it to top my screaming)! Click here for the set list as well as tons and tons of media from the August 6, 2010 Hershey concert!

Throwback Thursday: August 14/15, A Day for Epic Apparently

On every (well, most) Thursdays we take a look back at Kris Allen's past performances to remember the good times! Since I've been a little remiss lately about this, thought I'd load you up with a few videos.

Usually I start this by searching the date and Kris' name in YouTube. When I did this with August 15, so many goodies came up! So - in reverse chronological order, here's August 15 in Kris Allen World (excluding 2012 and 2013 - nothing to report for these years).

First, August 15, 2011, Clarkston, MI: Kris debuts You Got a Way during a concert opening for Lifehouse! Here's Altrus01's awesome video! (Click here for the setlist and more media.)



Then, August 15, 2010, (well technically August 14 but the videos were uploaded on the 15th!), at the Indiana State Fair, we got this little piece of Kreith goodness from supox30!


This was the first time they performed Jack and Diane together. The Indiana audience did a great job of singing along! And of course at the beginning we get Kris telling Keith he's hot (:DDDDD) and at the end, a big old epic Kreith hug! (Lots more media and the full setlist for Kris here.)

And August 15, 2009? Kris was still touring with the Season 8 Idols, in Hamilton, Ontario! Here's a awesome but terrifying video (when you think about the giant cavernous hole that opens up behind him) from Lupin788 of Kris performing the Killers' All These Things That I've Done!


Enjoy!

Throwback Thursday: July 28, 2010, California Mid-State Fair, Paso Robles, CA

Well, we Kris fans are in #babywatch mode, or in my case, #vacationwatch. I'll be away next week, so there won't be any blog posts then. So I realized I needed to do a proper #ThrowbackThursday post to help fill the live concert void!

Then I saw a tweet on my personal twitter feed - a picture of Tim McGraw performing at this year's MidState Fair in Paso Robles, California. Suddenly, wonderful memories of Kris performing there in 2010 to an appreciative crowd returned. And of course, that was a Kreith show (a show where Kris opened for Keith Urban), which means we got an awesome hug at the end of an awesome duet! So it was easy to choose to go revisit the 2010 Paso Robles show for this week's Throwback post.

So without further ado, here's an awesome duet on The Boys of Summer, filmed by Kris' tour manager at the time:

While looking for this, I stumbled on a video shot from way back in the crowd - love this big crowd!

And for another bonus, I found this lovely snippet of Maybe shot by a Keith Urban fan known for her great videos! One of my all time favorite covers by Kris.

Happy trip down Kreith in Paso Robles memory lane!

Throwback & Flashback Friday! Kris Allen Weekend Dance Party!

I've been slacking a little, but normally on Friday, we flashback to catch up on the Out Alive Tour media, and on Thursday, we throwback to see what Kris did in past years! So this is a catch up post, but it's also a celebration post!

Kris had his third surgery today and reports are that it went very well!

I think a celebration is in order, plus it's Friday! No better time for a Kris Allen Weekend Dance Party!

First, a little Friday flashback to January 19, Charleston, South Carolina for for headonfire1105's video of Seven Nation Army and Shut That Door. Dance Kris dance!

Then let's throwback to the days of Alright With Me dance parties! Here's a great one from June 28, 2010 in Fresno from Danielle Starr.

Do what Kris says, everyone dance!

Happy 28th Kris!

So it's Kris Allen's birthday! His 28th birthday! This will be our fourth birthday we've celebrated with him as fans, and every year the party gets bigger.

In case you haven't seen all the fan efforts out there for his birthday, here's what Kris fans have done!

Little Pawns (@LittlePawns), his official street team, asked fans to tweet Kris birthday wishes with the hashtag #Happy28thKris and encouraged them to do this using Vine or Instagram videos. They've also been tweeting some fun happy birthday videos all day. The ones that have been posted so far have been pretty cute! Would love to see more of the fan videos!

Kris Fans Unite (@KrisFansUnite) has been running a charity drive this month encouraging fans to give a donation in Kris' honor to Fisher House Foundation, a charity which provides housing and support for military families while their wounded loved ones undergoes medical treatment. Find out more and donate here.

Raise Your Voices (@RaiseVoices) has begun the Born to be Fighters project: a drive to support Ronald McDonald House of Little Rock. Find out more here and then go to this link to purchase items from the Ronald McDonald House's Amazon wish list.

The Dirty Minds (@TheDirtyMinds) were awesome and RTed and supported everyone else's stuff, and were the ones who created and organized a great group card for Kris, which you can view here! (Kris has already received it.)

And me? I tried to RT stuff. And I've decided we need to end the day with a good old fashioned concert re-watch party starting at 9 PM eastern! BYOB and settle in - We're going to be watching Kris' concert from Tucson, Arizona, June 23, 2010. I realize that's not the show he did on June 21, but unfortunately that concert did not have the greatest videos nor did it have all the videos. So June 23 it is, and he's still celebrating his birthday in a few of the videos will watch!

The videos from this playlist are all posted by our friends at @Kris__signal and by Brandibunn1 (no idea on her Twitter). For those who prefer watching directly on YouTube, you can find the playlist here.

 Enjoy! (No cheating and starting this until 9 pm EDT though!)

Throwback Thursday: May 30, 2010: Darien Lakes, NY

Every Thursday during the slow periods, we take a look back at a video from Kris' past shows and career!

I felt like going back to the KATA era this year, so when I plugged "Kris Allen May 30" into YouTube search, I was very excited to see a bunch of videos from a May 30, 2010 show at an amusement park between Buffalo and Rochester, NY!

I was going to go with Lifetime (not!), but thought I'd see if anyone had any special requests. I also am desperately in search of a picture I recall taken around this period in May 2010 of the band with fresh buzz cuts, so if anyone has that, feel free to link it! You'll see in the video that the band is freshly shorn, and even Torres has his locks trimmed into a long bob.

I got a request for Written All Over My Face, so for @mylifeback, here's WAOMF from Darien Lakes, NY, May 2010! (Warning, video taker danced a little (which I personally love).)

Full set list for show here: http://krisallensetlists.tumblr.com/post/666818809/darien-lake-theme-park-darien-center-ny-may-30

More Darien Lake show videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/reader1148/videos

Flashback Friday: All We Need is this Love :)

On Fridays during down periods, we try to catch up on tour media around here! We'll check out a video to catch up on the Out Alive Tour. Plus I'll try to give you a bonus video - maybe one that got overlooked or one that is just worth watching again.


For the Out Alive Tour Catch-up Video - all you need to know is I had a bad day today until about 5 pm. A little errand running and retail therapy with the younger kid helped a lot. And to get rid of the residual stuff that irked me so much, I decided to listen to Kris' new song All We Need Is This Love. I just love this song so much - it's so positive and happy! In listening to it, I stumbled on this joyous video from sdshelleybean from the May 3 Hanover, Maryland show:

For the Bonus Video, I'm all inspired now, so here's Kris and the kids of the Blackbird Academy singing All You Need is Love by the Beatles at a charity benefit at the University of Central Arkansas in October 2010. Even better, this video is posted by a dad who was there to see his kid sing with Kris. And he had a pretty good view of Andrew DeRoberts.

So now that I'm all cheered up, I'm ready to celebrate Memorial Day. Tune in on Twitter @KrisAllenLists - I will tweet lots of Kris on Memorial Day stuff all weekend (in between enjoying it). In between, please feel free to vote for your favorite Idol winner of all time ;P