This Ain't Jersey Shore, ya'll!: Shippin' up to Boston....(AND I LOST MY LEG!)

This past weekend Kyle and I had our last "hoo-rah" in the northeast as we ventured four hours north to the awesome Irish-plentiful city of Boston for St. Patrick's Day weekend. The main reason for our trip was to see the Dropkick Murphys and Against Me at Tsonga's Arena (at the University of Mass.) We bought tickets for this show back in October. (And believe it or not, the entire arena sold out within an hour!)

This was truly a weekend of firsts - our first time driving through Connecticut, our first time in Massechusetts, our first time seeing Dropkick Murphys in concert.... so totally blog-worthy.

They played a lot of jams from their lastest album, Going Out in Style, including the hit single off that record which shares the same name as the album title. (See video below!)

But they also played some classics (and some of my personal favorites) like The Dirty Glass, Barroom Hero, Warrior's Code (for which they brought Mickey Ward out on stage!!!) and the classic Kiss Me I'm Shitfaced - to which the singer went down onto the floor of fans and sang with them and crowd-surfed back to the stage. They even played an encore performance of Shipping up to Boston, which had just about the entire arena dancing an Irish jig.

Click here to see photos from Dropkick's performance...

Against Me took the stage before Dropkick and put on an equally impressive show. They opened with my favorite song, Pints of Guiness Make You Stronger, and closed with the high-energy, makes-you-wanna-party-all-night song, Thrash Unreal.

The other opening bands included the Dropkick-inspired Barroom Heroes, consisting of three boys ages 11 and 14 who sure knew how to play some punk rock! Dropkick brought the boys out later during their set to play Barroom Heroes with them.

The first band to go on was a group of five sisters who play cello, violin and guitar. They kind of reminded me of a group I liked called Escala. These women also play with Dropkick on the tour.

All in all, the night was a blast. We even managed to catch some of the St. Patty's Parade the next day and walk around the downtown area. We came home Monday morning through a sudden snow storm - which was pretty trippy driving through. Now that we're back in New Jersey, and the movers are here packing stuff as I type... I'm thrilled that we got to spend our last weekend up North with Boston and with some awesome Irish/punk rock bands!