The last 2 days have been CRAZY!!!!! I have been in Vancouver since Saturday in anticipation of the Rock Witchu Tour, and have been hanging out outside General Motors Place a LOT.

Monday: 10am-3am

We arrived to the venue at 10 a.m., and met up with a few other fans. We scouted the locations, counted 14 tour trucks (red cab with white trailer) and watched several of the trucks unload. We noted some cool plush red and purple couches which were similar to the couch from the MTV VMA ad in '99. We were told that Janet arrived very early to the venue, probably to oversee stage setup. We met Kelly Konno, who was dropping off flowers for Janet. She looks fantastic and spoke with us outside the venue. The first rehearsal did not start until 11:15 p.m. We were able to hear muffled sound through the venue's doors, and we noted the full setlist. At 2:00 a.m., rehearsal concluded. They ran through the whole show with no breaks. We met Lil' John outside the venue, and said hi to a few dancers. Janet left the venue at around 2:50 a.m.

Tuesday: 11:30am-2:00am

We met up at the venue and Janet waved to us when she arrived. We started to make the heart symbol and Janet made it back to us. Throughout the day, we met up with various fans.

Janet's rehearsal started in the afternoon. The band rehearsed the second half of the setlist. Janet then did two complete runthroughs of the setlist. The setlist did not change whatsoever from the previous day. Jermaine arrived at the venue later in the day. At 10:00 p.m., we had left for dinner but returned as we heard some music coming from the venue. Shortly after 1:00 a.m., rehearsal concluded and Janet left. We had two dozen red roses and a card for her. She waved at us through the car window and made the heart symbol against the glass to make sure that we saw it. Her car drove off and we started to walk away from the venue. A few minutes later, as we were about to get into our cars, Janet's vehicle pulled up next to us with Janet's window rolled down. She called us over, and said "Hey guys - I've been looking for you." She was in full tour makeup with a red Adidas jacket. She looked AMAZING! We gave her the roses and card. My boyfriend and I thanked her for bringing us together as a couple, and we all thanked her for her music and wished her luck on the tour. We told her that we knew it would be amazing. She told us to "get some rest, you guys!" (so sweet!). The whole encounter was videotaped by Jermaine. You can see video here:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...PTHWXkC-hc

THE SETLIST, which we know in full, is 37 songs. The show is at least 2.5 hours in length. She does three pre-Control tracks! Janet asked us not to give a lot of details.

Day 3 starts now. Who knows what it will bring?
[Edited 9/10/08 8:10am]

cool story have fun tonight!

that's so cool.

is that you being covered by her head all the way on the rt?

Pre-Control songs!? I'd go for that if she ever takes her show outside the US.

Okay, so much for Janet playing 90 mins, like someone assumed!

So I guess below songs are part of the correct setlist:

Luv
COM
So Much Betta
Control
What have u done for me lately
Pleasure Principle
Feedback
You want this
Come back to me
Let's wait a while
Never Letchu go
Again
So excited
Nasty
All Night
Young Love
Say you do
Rock With U
You Don't Stand Another Chance
Doesn't Really Matter
Together Again
Escapade
When I think of you
All for you (SuperBowl Version)
Love Will Never Do
Got til its Gone (Real Funky Jazzy Version)
That's the way love goes
I get Lonely
Funny How time flies


@VoicesCarry
You talked to Kelly? Awesome! I miss her... 2bad she's not doing the tour!
As for talking to Janet, cool! I hope I can do that too soon!

Reading this, I kinda whished I went to Vancouver too... 7 years ago I was standing outside that venue waiting! Even though we saw her that whole thing was rather disappointing though!
[Edited 9/10/08 8:29am]

badujunkie said:

Yep! LOL

That's cool... I had already saw the video and had no idea that was you

Very Cool. Now, I'm jealous.

Wonderful, VC. I hope you have a great time at the show. Is tonight the opener?

JackieBlue said:

Yes

VoicesCarry said:

I am living for your review. I can't believe it's finally going down.

VoicesCarry said:

I suffered and endured watching that leprechaun babbling his smurfness to eternity JUST to get a glimpse at your cute self in motion see how much I like you?

Knowing how you love this dame, I know you'll raise hell in that show
[Edited 9/10/08 9:30am]

Harlepolis said:

vainandy will be pleased to know that his favourite Janet song is being performed.

VoicesCarry said:

Andrea listens to JANET? Saaaaay it isn't so

Harlepolis said:

I wasn't being sarcastic, either. Her "funkiest jam" from 1984 is on the setlist.

Why no Come Give Your Love (To Me)?

VC is that you with the Blue jacket ?

Young Love is going to be performed?!

Damn, since I can't go, one of you muthafucka better bootleg that damn show!

Seeing other people excited makes me feel excited. Reminds me of when I was a young'un and used to wait for Janet after shows. Quite sentimental really.

JackieBlue said:

I'm really excited about the show now too

Congrats VC!

I hope in the near future to met madonna...

JackieBlue said:

yeah it reminds me of myself begging my mom for tickets to see the RN and Janet tours.

Great news!

Well, Ticketmaster still has floor tickets... so I guess it shouldn't be a problem to get any ticket!

PatrickS77 said:

Scalpers ALWAYS have the best tickets. I've seen Janet twice in Vancouver. The first time, I paid in advance and got "okay" seats. The second time, I went on a whim, last minute - bought scaplers' tickets and got GREAT seats at a decent price. I usually only go the scapler route at huge shows (like this one) when its that last minute or if I don't know anyone in the artist's camp. I'll pay a little extra for good seats to a show.
[Edited 9/10/08 12:08pm]

Yeah, either way... if you go there you're definitely going to see the show!

You Don't Stand Another chance! YES!