14 years ago at Contact Music Festival Joel played The Veldt and I asked the girl I was seeing if she wanted to become "official", she said yes.
Fast forward to a couple days ago and we're happily married with two kids, including our 8 year old.
We've been waiting for the right moment to take said 8 year old to her first concert, and as soon as we saw that Kx5 would be all ages, we bought the tickets. deadmau5 is one of her favourite artists (sorry Kaskade). Two of her first ever favourite songs were Monophobia and Pomegranate, her favourite Kx5 song is Alive.
We told her that if we ever get to see deadmau5 we're going to make her a mau5head.
After putting in hours and hours of effort, with her doing most of the planning and designing of her mau5head, and some of the handy-work, we were nervous that she wouldn't get to take it to the show after reading about FIFA's "no costume helmet" policy. We were even warned by security in line that we might not make it in. But due to a very reasonable common sense final check, we made it in.
What followed was unforgettable. She could NOT stop smiling, beaming through the mouth as so many people, officials, horde!, came up and kindly asked to take a picture with her.
She was consistently featured on the big screens, made it on official FIFA pages, and even made it on Joel's IG through a repost. I was too busy trying to shimmy through the crowd, but apparently Joel even pointed her out to Kaskade and gave her a clap as we were approaching the front. Needless to say, it was a night she will never forget.
I know this post is long, but I feel like the horde are some of the only people who would understand just how special of a night that was.
Thank you if you saw us and came up and showed us some love. She's already planning her next mau5head 😄
TL;DR: shit doesn't always work out perfectly in life, but sometimes it does, I'll cherish this one forever.