Who is the last artist you saw in concert?

[Shadowraven]

For me that would have to be The Rippingtons. They were awesome. I know Roj knows who they are.

The one's I've liked best before that were Tom Petty, Jimmy Buffet (a blast that was), The Moody Blues, Styx, and Billy Joel.

I'd like to see Alan Parsons or Delerium, but neither one is likely to tour again.

Who did you guys last see? Who have you seen that you like the best? Who would you like to see?

[rorythedog]

The last band my wife and I actually paid good money to see was The Proclaimers. They were superb. The best thing I've ever paid money to see was a performance of Carmina Burana at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (one of the best auditoriums in the world). It blew us away. It did have a choir numbering over 300! Awesome!

I wish I'd been old enough to have seen The Beach Boys in their hey-day. Also The Animals, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band and Creedence Clearwater Revival. I don't do reunions though.

The worst I've ever seen was at a Donnington Monsters Of Rock festival in, I think 1985. The Scorpions were on the bill and they made a complete ARSE of one of their songs. The solos were all wrong.

I also remember going to see Anthrax, all excited, and being blown away by their support act, a little known new band called... Metallica. I also seen Metallica on their "...and Justice For All" tour and they were magnificent. Of course, now they've turned into holier than thou, money-grabbing bastards I feel it's my duty to rip everything I can find by them. That's the kind of guy I am.

[acushla]

I'm going to answer this on Friday because on Thursday night I will be seeing King Sunny Ade and His African Beats for I think the fifth time in my life.

To say I am excited is not saying enough. King Sunny is the fourth richest man in Niageria...he is from royal linage and the family owns oil. So you KNOW he isn't doing it for the money. He does it because he loves it...and it shows. There are usually over 20 musicians on stage with him including 6 guitarists and about 10 percussionists (drums, congas, other types of drums and then more drums). It is two hours of pure joy coming from the stage. An absolutely amazing experience. Nah na na na na...I'm going to see him and your not...nah na na na na! (hehehe) (Can you tell I'm excited?)

[dm1030]

My wife and I got to go see Heart last summer at an outdoor concert. I was suprised at how many songs by them I knew. Ann Wilson doesn't look quite as good as she used to, but damn can she sing.

[rorythedog]

My wife and I got to go see Heart last summer at an outdoor concert. I was suprised at how many songs by them I knew. Ann Wilson doesn't look quite as good as she used to, but damn can she sing.

And she did look good, didn't she? ;)

[thetribe]

I saw AC/DC at Hammersmith in 2003. 2004 was a bad year for gigs for me, I had to miss all the ones I wanted :(

Previous to that was ZZ Top, Geordie II (Brian Johnson of AC/DC teaming up with members of his band pre-AC/DC, they were local club gigs and so much fun) Also AC/DC, Megadeth, The Offspring and Queens Of The Stone Age at Milton Keynes Bowl back in 2001.

Still a lot more I want to see and hopefully better luck will come my way when the chances come around. :)

[Willow of Oz]

Angra, the second most well-known brazillian metal band. I have to keep pointing this part out because no-one seems to have heard of them.
That was last thursday, so six days ago.
Support was aussie 80s metal band Dungeon and some new band, Jennifer ... something or other, prog metal band. Remember, you heard about them here first.

edit: addendum.
Wasn't a bad gig...and only 3 days more recent than the nightwish gig I went to at the same joint.

The best? Hmmm, dunno.

Who do I want to see? About a gazillion BM bands from Europe who are never going to come out, because Australia just isn't worth it. Sigh. I had tickets to a gig that included Marduk, Sodom, Cryptopsy ... and it was cancelled. If I'd gotten my money back I'd still be bitter. But not as much.

One of the things that keeps me gigging is every time I hear about a good band disbanding ... that's another band I'll never see.

[cudelleirbag]

Last show was Opeth with Moonspell supporting.
Or was it Ministry...

But my very best show was, about ten years ago, the famous trio Paco De Lucia/Al Di Meola/John McLaughlin. No eye candy, just awesome musicians playing awesome music.

CL

[acushla]

But my very best show was, about ten years ago, the famous trio Paco De Lucia/Al Di Meola/John McLaughlin. No eye candy, just awesome musicians playing awesome music.

Hey...I saw that tour...I think it was a lot more than 10 years ago though...unless they toured again. I saw it at the O'Keefe Center (now the Hummingbird Centre) and it was standing room only. It was an amazing show.

[Roj]

For me that would have to be The Rippingtons. They were awesome. I know Roj knows who they are.

I would KILL to see those guys!

The last I saw was Tina Turner on her farewell tour.

Who would I like to see? U2. Just missed getting tickets. Santana is also on that list. I would have loved to have seen Queen when Freddie was with us.

I've seen the Eagles, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, A Flock Of Seagulls, Genesis...

I guess The Eagles concert was likely the one that did it for me the most...

[dm1030]

I would KILL to see those guys!

I've seen the Eagles, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, A Flock Of Seagulls, Genesis...



Duran Duran just played in Detroit last weekend, but I missed them :cry: Everytime they are on tour, I seem to miss hearing about it or have things going on that I just can't get out of doing. Hoping Depeche Mode will tour this year or next. I've seen them 3 times and now my daughter really wants to go. Damn that makes me feel old :ermm:

[Roj]

Duran Duran just played in Detroit last weekend, but I missed them :cry: Everytime they are on tour, I seem to miss hearing about it or have things going on that I just can't get out of doing. Hoping Depeche Mode will tour this year or next. I've seen them 3 times and now my daughter really wants to go. Damn that makes me feel old :ermm:

I missed 'em in Toronto recently and really would have liked to have gone. The first time I saw them they were doing the University circuit because they had just started out. I later saw them after Seven And The Ragged Tiger. Never seen Depeche Mode but always wanted to.

[acushla]

I would KILL to see those guys!

The last I saw was Tina Turner on her farewell tour.

Who would I like to see? U2. Just missed getting tickets. Santana is also on that list. I would have loved to have seen Queen when Freddie was with us.

I've seen the Eagles, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, A Flock Of Seagulls, Genesis...

I guess The Eagles concert was likely the one that did it for me the most...

All right Roj...opening the door for 'bragging rights'!

OK...Cream...first North American tour
Doors and Jefferson Airplane at my High School Graduation in L.a.
The Seeds, The Association, Iron Butterfly, Canned Heat, Love, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention at the Shrine Auditorium. It was so loud you could not hear yourself think...my ears rang for three days!
The Monkees (took my younger cousin to the Hollywood Bowl for her Birthday)
Again..The Jefferson Airplane...Santanna.

Yes, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Black Sabbath all on one bill!

Stevie Wonder at the Civic Centre in Ottawa. Because I was working at a Record Store (The Treble Clef) who were handling the tickets for this event I sat front roll center and took a date. I cried somewhere in the middle of his set...he was that good and it was that beautiful. My date seemed to think that was a very sensitive thing for me to do and ended up spending the night and having breakfast with me the next morning. There's a moral there somewhere.

Led Zepplin...first North American Tour...more Jefferson Starship, Duke Ellington on what proved to be his final tour. That is a night I will never, ever forget. Simon and Garfunkel, Joni Mitchel, Dr. John (the night tripper) whom I introduced on stage at a little coffee house in Ottawa called Le Hibou. Emerson, Lake and Palmer, King Crimson, The Everly Brothers, Patti Smith, Marvin Gaye in Buffalo with a 98% Black audience and Marvin Gaye in Toronto with a 98% White audience. What a difference. Had I known before hand I would have skipped the show in Toronto. How an audience responds to the artist seems to make a big difference as to how the artist responds to the audience. Did in his case. Earth, Wind and Fire (amazing show), Rick James!, Luther Vandross, The Manhattans, The Isley Brothers, The Tower of Power, Patti Labelle, Sister Sledge, Pointer Sisters, Ronnie Spectre, Aretha Franklin, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Johnny Winter (sharp left turn there), (this is fun), Buddy Guy, B.B. King, B.B. King, Chris Issak Peter Tosh, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Third World, Third World,
King Sunny Ade 3 times, Pharaoh Saunders (whew!!!), Wynton Marsalis 3 times...one classical and two jazz, Jimmy Cliff, Burning Spear, Burning Spear, David Bowie, David Bowie, Chukka Khan, The Clash, Bruce Springsteen, Journey, George Thoroughgood, Bob Seeger, Rolling Stones, Rolling Stones, Rolling Stones (the greatest Rock and Roll Band In The World...thanks Keith) I know I'm going to be waking up all night long shouting another name...(I'm saving the best for last.) Is anybody still reading this? Why? Lionel Hampton, Buena Vista Social Club, and a man whom I think of as 'god'...a man who is music...a man who wasn't with the times but who was the time...Miles Davis.

[Roj]

All right Roj...opening the door for 'bragging rights'!

Are you EVER home? :)

I do SO envy you the R&B, funk and soul acts and of course...

...Miles.

[Young Twig]

I think the last show I went to was The Working Title, Lovedrug, Copeland. Good show. :)

[hedge]

Shadows Fall with As I Lay Dying as support. Wasn't a bad gig, wicked mix at the venue, which was thankfully not heaven where most other metal gigs are held.
And I would dearly love to have seen Nightwish, but the bastards didn't come to Adelaide. :cry: I was trying to get a roadtrip happening to see em with some mates, but then i realised just how little money i had in the kitty :nervous:

[Shadowraven]

dm1030 said:
Duran Duran just played in Detroit last weekend, but I missed them. Everytime they are on tour, I seem to miss hearing about it or have things going on that I just can't get out of doing. Hoping Depeche Mode will tour this year or next. I've seen them 3 times and now my daughter really wants to go. Damn that makes me feel old.
I'd love would like to see Duran Duran, but I never seem to have any money when they are close.

Like Roj said, I really would like to see Depeche Mode live. They are one of the best of the 80's bands there is, besides, of course, New Order.

And dm1030, you ain't that old yet!:ermm:

Then Roj said:
Are you EVER home?
I'm with Roj on this one acushla, how do find time to do anything else? Much less post here. And you said I never sleep with all the music I listen to!;)

[acushla]

Then Roj said: Are you EVER home?
I'm with Roj on this one acushla, how do find time to do anything else?;)

Really.There are other things to do? Nobody told me that.

Music has always been an important part of my life...going as far back as I can remember. My mother once told me that living in England when I was four, she could put me in the front yard with a wind up Gramophone and 2 records...'Teddy Bears Picnic' and '16 Tons' by Tennessee Ernie Ford...(my introduction to the blues...'...another day older and deeper in debt...I owe my soul to the company store.') leave for the day...return in the evening...and I would be right where she left me listening to the same records over and over. Trust me...it is in me.

I don't understand the fuss about how much time spent in concert halls. Really...I'm now 55 and my first concert was Cream in 1967. There's a lot of years between then and now. I think if you truly appreciate music it is imperative that you see as much live music as you can.

Oh ...remember the waking up and shouting out another name part? OK...Jethro Tull.

[rorythedog]

Ahh, Tull. Now you're talking. I've seen Tull 5 times and every show but one was superb! Has there ever been a better frontman than Iain Anderson? Come to think of it, has there ever been a greater flautist? He hasn't lost it either. Although his conversion to Christianity in the nineties was a low point.

Still, he appears to have gotten over that phase. LOL.

While I''m here, you know who I really really wish I'd seen? Uriah Heep. They were the most under-rated band. Such a shame.

[acushla]

While I''m here, you know who I really really wish I'd seen? Uriah Heep. They were the most under-rated band. Such a shame.

It may not be too late. I was in Budapest last September and there were banners and posters everywhere advertising an upcoming gig.

I bet you liked Atomic Rooster as well (they do the definitive version of 'I Put A Spell On You'...nobody else need apply).

[Willow of Oz]

Shadows Fall with As I Lay Dying as support. Wasn't a bad gig, wicked mix at the venue, which was thankfully not heaven where most other metal gigs are held.
And I would dearly love to have seen Nightwish, but the bastards didn't come to Adelaide. :cry: I was trying to get a roadtrip happening to see em with some mates, but then i realised just how little money i had in the kitty :nervous:

Ah, but you are located at the home of Chalice, one of Australia's top bands. Only seen them once (supporting Vanishing Point) but damn they were good.
I remember one other time there was a large assortment of bands playing Adelaide (but not Melbourne - I know, odd, huh?) but I passed on that.

[hedge]

Ah, but you are located at the home of Chalice, one of Australia's top bands. Only seen them once (supporting Vanishing Point) but damn they were good.
I remember one other time there was a large assortment of bands playing Adelaide (but not Melbourne - I know, odd, huh?) but I passed on that.
Thats true enough, we had quite a hardcore scene going too (Emodiment ROCK), but the prob with that is the damn emo moshers... angry bastards.

[dm1030]

As this has turned into more of a "what bands have you seen" thread, I thought I would make my own list...

David Bowie
Depeche Mode x3
Erasure
Midnight Oil
B-52's
Information Society
Weird Al
Blessid Union of Souls x2
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD) - opening act for Depeche Mode
Nitzer Ebb
Quiet Riot
U2
REM
Prince
Heart
Culture Club

And probably a few others that I can't remember right now.

The Depeche Mode ones were probably the best, followed by Erasure (plus I got to meet Vince Clark and Andy Bell personally), and then David Bowie. That was an odd concert. The range in ages of my fellow concert goers was huge. From senior citizens to as young as 9 or 10.

[Willow of Oz]

Thats true enough, we had quite a hardcore scene going too (Emodiment ROCK), but the prob with that is the damn emo moshers... angry bastards.

Hey, that's not embodiment 12:14 or something?
Yep, seen them too, also quite good.

[acushla]

Listen up...especially all our Scottish members (you know who you are). I have an opportunity to go and see 'Scotland's Greatest Songmaker' and I'm wondering if you have any advice for me? His name? His NAME? He is 'Scotland's Greatest Songmaker'...surely that should be enough! No? All-right then...his name is Dougie Maclean. (Would be really funny if it was Amar Je Kahali.)

Never heard of him?

[rorythedog]

Listen up...especially all our Scottish members (you know who you are). I have an opportunity to go and see 'Scotland's Greatest Songmaker' and I'm wondering if you have any advice for me? His name? His NAME? He is 'Scotland's Greatest Songmaker'...surely that should be enough! No? All-right then...his name is Dougie Maclean. (Would be really funny if it was Amar Je Kahali.)

Never heard of him?

Hehe, never heard of him.

I'm sure he'll be fantastic though. We usually are. Seriously though, this highlights an interesting point. There are shitloads of Scots who've made outstanding contributions in many fields...abroad. Back home nobody's heard of them. I'm afraid this country is too wrapped up making money to appreciate the finer things in life like culture and national heritage.

Don't get me started.

[acushla]

... culture and national heritage.

My brother-in-law plays a variety of instruments (favorite artists are Dylan, Neil Young, Neville Brothers among others) including an accordion (or squeeze box). He found a particular beautiful one in a pawn shop, and although it was not performing as quite it should, bought it anyway.

Months later, as his birthday approached, my sister decided to surprise him by having it repaired. Finding somebody who repairs accordions was not quite as easy as she imagined it would be...but finally tracked down a gentleman in his middle 70's who told her to bring it to him so he could look at it. She went and his workshop was on the second floor of a very old building. He had tools of the trade strewn all about...yet knew precisely where each one was. He explained to my sister that it was not a major repair and invited her to stay and watch while he went about his work. Naturally they discussed this and that and at some point my sister allowed that she in fact was a very accomplished piano player. He stopped what he was doing, put down the accordion and turned to her and asked her if she knew what 'perfect pitch' was. My sister reflected on this for a moment and confessed she didn't.

Perfect pitch, he explained, was when you throw an accordion out of a second floor window and it hits a bagpipe player squarely on the head.

True story.

[rorythedog]

Excellent! Listen, if you like that kind of stuff I've got it by the shovel-load. You know where I am. Particularly the pipes, funnily enough.

[acushla]

Excellent! Listen, if you like that kind of stuff I've got it by the shovel-load. You know where I am. Particularly the pipes, funnily enough.

Bring it on...but only the funny ones!

Why aren't there any images in your 'photobucket?'

[rorythedog]

Bring it on...but only the funny ones!

Why aren't there any images in your 'photobucket?'

There are images in my bucket. Hope your not looking for titties. :silly:

[acushla]

There are images in my bucket. Hope your not looking for titties. :silly:

Unless all your images are essentially one black screen...then there aren't any images showing.

I'm ALWAYS looking for 'titties'. My only criteria is that I can actually touch them.

[Shadowraven]

Unless all your images are essentially one black screen...then there aren't any images showing.

I'm ALWAYS looking for 'titties'. My only criteria is that I can actually touch them.

Are you pressing the 4 links he has at the top? From what I've seen he has quite a few images in his photobucket.

They look like this:


Cars (http://photobucket.com/albums/v724/rorythedog/Cars/)

Desktops (http://photobucket.com/albums/v724/rorythedog/Desktops/)

Home (http://photobucket.com/albums/v724/rorythedog/Home/)

Space (http://photobucket.com/albums/v724/rorythedog/Space/)

[acushla]

Are you pressing the 4 links he has at the top? From what I've seen he has quite a few images in his photobucket.

They look like this:


Cars (http://photobucket.com/albums/v724/rorythedog/Cars/)

Desktops (http://photobucket.com/albums/v724/rorythedog/Desktops/)

Home (http://photobucket.com/albums/v724/rorythedog/Home/)

Space (http://photobucket.com/albums/v724/rorythedog/Space/)

Nobody told me I had to think. Given the 'tired' ad immediately above I simply assumed that these headings refereed to more advertising. Silly me. I will say that, as nice as the majority of desktop images are (you can see a great many more at www.deviantart.com (http://www.deviantart.com)) they are not photographs in the sense of look at these photographs I have taken...which is what I expected to see. Etc.

[Shadowraven]

Well you are a professional photographer after all. We can't all be. I've dabbled in it and have been told I've done some good work, but I don't do it for a living.

BTW, some good work (photos) on your website.

[rorythedog]

Well you are a professional photographer after all. We can't all be. I've dabbled in it and have been told I've done some good work, but I don't do it for a living.

BTW, some good work (photos) on your website.

And even if one was a professional photographer, one might not want one's work too widely available. ;)

[Shadowraven]

And even if one was a professional photographer, one might not want one's work too widely available. ;)

Too true. Especially if you're trying to make a living doing it.

Edit: Whoo Hoo look at that. I cracked 100 posts here and didn't even notice it.

[Willow of Oz]

Hate Eternal, out from the US.

Saw them last friday night with 4 supports, from across Australia (Tassie in the south, Perth in the West, and some Melbourne/East coast).

Quite good, went from about 8pm to 1am, so I was pretty buggered at the end of that. Props to the chick who decided to cavort on stage, beginning between songs, and then continuing during the first half of the next song. Yes, I think she'd been drinking. Actually, from her 'dancing' you'd think that she could 'see' the music.

[Shewolf]

Well, my list is in the gigs/fests thread....who was the last gig?
Hmm..
I think it was Prodigy.

[acushla]

I recently had the pleasure of seeing 'Santana' for what must be the sixth or seventh time.

The venue is an open air amphitheatre close to Lake Ontario and my seats were exactly the seats I would have chosen if the theater was empty and somebody asked 'Where would you like to seat?'

They were approximately 12 rows in from the front with the sound board behind me by about another 10 rows. I like being in front of the sound board because it means you are hearing the sound the mixer hears.

This was not the Santana show I had come to know and love. For one thing the band was smaller with only half of the faces being familiar. The biggest change involved the singer. Two years ago and two years before that I saw Santana in the same venue and each time there were 3 singers who shared lead vocals.

On this night there was only one lead singer. What this translates to is a basic sameness over the course of an evening which degrades the show. Especially by comparrison.

Carlos himself has lost weight and there was little of the joy in his playing as displayed in the past. He appeared troubled and pre-occupied. Perhaps it is true that somebody seeing the show for the first time might not be aware of this, after all, he is nothing if not Professional...and I am not suggesting that his playing was without merit...only that the element of joy was lacking.

I was conscious of the fact that this tour was not promoting a new album...so I was careful to listen for new songs. There were 3...all of which sounded like throw aways for the last two albums.

The magic of the evening came to me in a unexpected manner. Each year I see him there comes a point during the show that he makes a brief acknowledgement to Jazz...usually by mentioning John Coltrane's name and then bringing out a soprano saxophonist who plays for about 5 minutes.

This night was different. It began in the same way but instead of playing for 5 minutes it was more like twenty. This time Carlos turned to the group and acted as a conductor . What developed was one of the most amazing pieces of music I have had the pleasure to hear live. A marriage of Miles Davis and his 'Jack Johnson' period and Frank Zappa's 'QuAUDIOPHILIAc' masterpiece.

It was during this piece that I understood this would be the last time I would see 'Santana'...the one exception being if he announced a 'Jazz' tour which would feature an evening of the music I have just described.

When the piece was finished and the usual Latin/Rock sound began again...I realized it was time to leave.

I now understand that, for whatever reason, Carlos continues to milk a genre that musically I believe he has left behind. I suppose the truth is you don't fill stadiums with 21st century jazz.

A shame.

[BALTY]

I'm thinking...
You should switch over careers..
as music critic~
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[acushla]

I'm thinking...
You should switch over careers..
as music critic~
http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/character/character0293.gif

I will accept that as a compliment. Thank you...and congratulations. Your name has just been entered in my 'People Whom I Respect' book. :silly:

Or was your name already there? ;)

[BALTY]

Whitesnake is coming to http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/party/party0007.gif Toledo (at a Harley-Davidson shop parking lot). David Coverdale isn't still in the band is he?
It's been so dry here all Summeer, I know it's gonna rain for it! he he he
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Would I look good in the shirt?
http://www.fanfire.com/images/product/detail/WHI36635.jpg

http://whitesnake.com/new/images/rh-3.jpg

Gotta go and crank up the radio... They're playin' Bad Motorscooter by.. Montrose!
late dudes~

[acushla]

Would I look good in the shirt?

BALTY...there are people in this forum who have told me that you'd look good in anything! :knocked-o :silly:

[BALTY]

BALTY...there are people in this forum who have told me that you'd look good in anything! :knocked-o :silly:
Except for my birthday suit... Right?
http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/sick/sick0019.gif

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

The 22nd of October i hope to go to a live concert of Ozric Tentacles, the legends of the UK underground. Woo hoo! Their music style varies from prog rock to psychedelic rock to trance so that's going to be one hell of a show. Of course ill let you guys know how it was afterwards.

http://www.fruitpiemusic.com/artists/signed/ozrics/logo.gif

http://www.pinkmoonrecords.com/extract/box/ozric.jpg

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

Oh Yeah! I went to Ozric tentacles last night. It was f*cking awesome! They played some real good psychedelic rock / trance. They're indeed justifiably called the legends of the United Kingdom underground. The light effects and visualisations were stunning and the sweet sound effects sure hit the spot. Anyone who is looking for some alternative rock music should check them out.

Oh and this one is for Toe :) :

http://www.tnt-audio.com/jpeg/erpland.jpg

Go Ozrics! W00t!

www.ozrics.com

[Lich]

Katatonia and Forest Stream.
Next month I'll see Judas Priest;)

[fatal error]

system of a down, sept 29 joe louis arena, detroit mi.

they kicked ass

[bmc152003]

system of a down, sept 29 joe louis arena, detroit mi.

they kicked ass

damn wish i was there lol

[Todd The Kiwi]

Katatonia and Forest Stream.
Next month I'll see Judas Priest;)Judas Priest? really?
painkiller is their best album.
even dad likes it, which is cool :P

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

This early December two prog rock bands will perform in The Netherlands. These are Porcupine Tree and Saga. Problem is, they perform the same day! So which one will it be...? Saga is closer by, but i equally like both bands. So lets have a vote. To which concert should i go? :biggrin:

[Shewolf]

The Ozrics that good eh? I had to chose between Ozrics and another band this summer gone. I didn't see the Ozrics.

Last artist i saw..hmm...
I *think* it was Steve harley and the cockney rebels.

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

The Ozrics that good eh? I had to chose between Ozrics and another band this summer gone. I didn't see the Ozrics.


The Ozrics have a little side project called Nodens Ictus. You may want to check that out if you've never heard of it. It's good. :apple:

[rorythedog]

This early December two prog rock bands will perform in The Netherlands. These are Porcupine Tree and Saga. Problem is, they perform the same day! So which one will it be...? Saga is closer by, but i equally like both bands. So lets have a vote. To which concert should i go? :biggrin:


Don't know anything about Saga (aren't they for old folks?) but Porcupine Tree are right up my street. that's who I'd go and see. If I lived in The Netherlands that is.

[hedge]

This early December two prog rock bands will perform in The Netherlands. These are Porcupine Tree and Saga. Problem is, they perform the same day! So which one will it be...? Saga is closer by, but i equally like both bands. So lets have a vote. To which concert should i go? :biggrin:
omg porcupine tree :D
(if it wouldn't be too much to ask, could ya abduct em and bring em to adelaide whilst ya there? ;))

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

omg porcupine tree :D
(if it wouldn't be too much to ask, could ya abduct em and bring em to adelaide whilst ya there? ;))

Both bands do gigs here quite regularly. One of the virtues living next door ;)

Saga (http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_BAND.asp?band_id=306)

Porcupine Tree (http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_BAND.asp?band_id=290)

[Willow of Oz]

I Saw You Am I earlier this week, sold out.
Quite good - very energetic show.
Finished off with Berlin Chair, which I was hanging for, since they weren't going to play any of the other songs I was waiting for (slower numbers).

[MrMuscle34]

Allister

[Neo]

Last artist I saw in concert...

SAGA at Hard Rock Cafe in Toronto (several months ago)

http://myspace-053.vo.llnwd.net/00279/35/05/279705053_l.jpg

Always put on a great show, top rate musicianship.

[etaku1]

mmm, not really a concert...

a couple years ago i visited a local club to see performances, once in a while.

last one was Paul Van Dyk. overcroweded. tiny place. speakers way too loud(well, i'm not used to standing right next to one...)

but hearing "Nothing But You" live was awesome and made it all worth it.

[moose]

omg, a paul van dyk concert!!!! i wanna go!

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

omg, a paul van dyk concert!!!! i wanna go!

He's German, isnt he? I love his 'nothing but you' mix :heart:

[Willow of Oz]

Ok, was meaning to write this one up earlier but I mustn't have gotten around to it.
I saw Arch Enemy at their Melbourne gig in November; man, what a wicked concert. Was quite enthused about seeing them (especially since I'd missed the Children of Bodom gig a month before) so made sure to arrive about half an hour before the doors opened.
Interesting factoid - by request of the band it was a smoke free gig.
Once I was in I shot straight for the stage and secured second row. Funnily enough, I was unable to get front row but had I wandered off to the bar for the next two hours I could easily have regained my spot.
First support was an okay but somewhat generic death metal band. The sound mix was poor to bad.
The second support was a little more interesting, but the sound mixing was still bad.
But then AE came on and it was perfect. They opened with Nemesis off their just released album and played a set that was mostly off the last 3 albums, with only a couple of songs from their early releases.
Vocalist Angela looked hot as always, and the crowd was right into it, though I heard it wasn't sold out.
All the new songs went over really well and they closed with the AoR single We Will Rise.
Killer gig - one of the best I've been to.

Though I've got high hopes for Behemoth :skull::grimreape

[matty28carter]

Ok, was meaning to write this one up earlier but I mustn't have gotten around to it.
I saw Arch Enemy at their Melbourne gig in November; man, what a wicked concert. Was quite enthused about seeing them (especially since I'd missed the Children of Bodom gig a month before) so made sure to arrive about half an hour before the doors opened.
Interesting factoid - by request of the band it was a smoke free gig.
Once I was in I shot straight for the stage and secured second row. Funnily enough, I was unable to get front row but had I wandered off to the bar for the next two hours I could easily have regained my spot.
First support was an okay but somewhat generic death metal band. The sound mix was poor to bad.
The second support was a little more interesting, but the sound mixing was still bad.
But then AE came on and it was perfect. They opened with Nemesis off their just released album and played a set that was mostly off the last 3 albums, with only a couple of songs from their early releases.
Vocalist Angela looked hot as always, and the crowd was right into it, though I heard it wasn't sold out.
All the new songs went over really well and they closed with the AoR single We Will Rise.
Killer gig - one of the best I've been to.

Though I've got high hopes for Behemoth :skull::grimreape

Last gig I went to was Sham69, great gig.

[WHAT?]

Did you catch the Cream concert on the boob tube?

[Todd The Kiwi]

ooh behemoth you say, i wonder if we can twist their rubber arms to come over here.
man i want to see VADER live, actually i'd sacrifice my firstborn to see them live :skull:

[Willow of Oz]

ooh behemoth you say, i wonder if we can twist their rubber arms to come over here.
man i want to see VADER live, actually i'd sacrifice my firstborn to see them live :skull:

Heh, last I saw it was just a few shows in Oz. Turns out I might be around Adelaide when they arrive so it's possible I'll see them there. Still have to organise a few things (annual leave), but man they've got a lot of good stuff so I'll be catching them wherever.

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

I'm off to see Oceansize and Porcupine Tree live, this evening. This is going to be one night to remember :P

[Todd The Kiwi]

good luck mate, watch out for those hippies... http://www.quinnware.com/forum/images/emots/grin.gif

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

good luck mate, watch out for those hippies... http://www.quinnware.com/forum/images/emots/grin.gif

Thanks man. The show was really awesome. PT did some HQ performing last night. Of course they did quite a number of songs from the deadwing album and with great visuals and short movies as well! They also played some older tunes like a tune from the album stupid dream and the tune called 'radioactive toy'. I bet there were about 1500 people present. At any rate, every last ticket must have been bought. Steven Wilson (http://www.swhq.co.uk/index.cfm) is da man! And lol my ears are still ringing. I hope i can make sense of the chemistry course i'll have in an hours time heh heh :cross-eye :cheeky:

[WHAT?]

Judas Priest? really?
painkiller is their best album.
even dad likes it, which is cool :P
Better than Stained Class, and Hell Bent?

[Lich]

Better than Stained Class, and Hell Bent? Sure.

[Todd The Kiwi]

Sure.yes man, i actually reckon it's their only good one heh heh

leather rebellllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!

the more buckethead i listen to/find the more i wonder why he isn't more popular?
the dude rules man.

[Todd The Kiwi]

rex - saga feedback ? ;)

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

Yesterday evening i have been to a classical concert where musical pieces were played from classical to modern classical music. One interesting piece was called Fearful symmetries by John Adams. Music was played by various student organisations here in utrecht like USKO and USConcert and for the first time in history all musicians played together a piece which was written in only 3 months time! It was written by Carlos Micháns, winner of the TRINAC-PRICE, 2006. The musical composition is called Sinfonia Trajectina with special themes related to the University Utrecht and the city Utrecht. The concert was at Vredenburg (http://www.vredenburg.nl/). Maybe some of you have heard of it or been there. The spectacle was truely awesome and i got to see some people play whom i know.

Oh i forgot to say that this was organised because the Utrecht University exists for 370 years now. Not bad huh? :cheeky:

[Todd The Kiwi]

Psychedelic Furs are playing a one off gig in Auckland tonight (http://www.viewauckland.co.nz/info_whats_on_118239.html) :biggrin:

'love my way' is cool, i've not heard any of their other tunes though.

[rorythedog]

Psychedelic Furs are playing a one off gig in Auckland tonight (http://www.viewauckland.co.nz/info_whats_on_118239.html) :biggrin:

'love my way' is cool, i've not heard any of their other tunes though.

You need to listen to 'President Gas' then.

[jkrzok]

I saw Blondie last night. Surprisingly good; I was expecting an oldies act cashing in on their history but they were anything but. They put on a great show and proved they are still rockin and relevant. I especially liked their cover of "More than This." And Debbie is still one sexy broad.

[Antman]

Saw a local DC band last night. Crackinbush. Had to explain to the wife that Crackinbush = pikpik. Pikpik = ?, anyone?

The band sucked. Labored progession through the chords, workmanlike approach to the bass line. I think the sound man was deaf.

Introduced the wife to Sex On The Beach.

[acushla]

A week or so ago I went to see Frank Zappa’s son, Dweezil, lead a fine group of musicians through two sets of this fathers music.

I first saw Frank (after meeting him on the Sunset Strip) at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Other than the great music the one thing I recall about the concert was there were moments it was so loud ‘I could not hear myself think.’ My ears were ringing for 3 days.

Some things never change. Upon entering the darkened hall my spirits were immediately lifted…sometimes you can just look at a stage and know ‘this is going to be great.’ Meanwhile a film of Frank in concert was playing on a screen along the back of the stage. At one point the film showed Frank at the center mike tuning his guitar and almost imperceptibly Dweezil appeared at his center mike…tuning up. What a lovely sequoia. (?) When the audience realized the band had appeared they immediately rose in their seats and gave him a prolonged standing ovation. It was obvious that he was somewhat taken aback and humbled by the experience…and allowed that this was the first time they had ever received a standing ovation before the show. Personally ,I am suspect about standing ovations at the beginning of a show and always compare it to what happens at the end of the concert. I once saw the Opera singer Marie Callas receive a wildly enthusiastic 10 minute ovation when she appeared on stage…but a very subdued ovation at the end. Never forgot that.

If you like Frank Zappa ‘s music then this show not only lived up to your exceptions…it exceeded them. I would imagine the sheer complexity of the music makes playing it in a way that completely captures (and moves beyond) the original is a daunting challenge. Yet meet it they did….and with one member absent due to a ’family matter’. Dweezil explained how we were all going to be treated to a very different show …which included several tracks they had never played on stage and one composition they hadn’t even rehearsed.

After intermission the ‘show’ changed somewhat with the bringing onstage of drummer Terry Bozzio who backed Zappa in the 70’s. I think it safe to say that, in his own way, he very nearly stole the show.

Later, legendary guitarist and musical innovator Steve Vai appeared on stage and treated us to a few solos and one ‘dueling’ session with Dweezil.

For those interested here is the song list for the night:

"Imaginary Diseases"
"Stinkfoot"
"King Kong"
"Don't Eat the Yellow Snow"
"St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast"
"Father O'Blivion"
"Inca Roads"

"I'm So Cute"
"Tryin' To Grow a Chin"
"Pound For a Brown"
"Punky's Whips"
"The Black Page #1"
"The Black Page #2"
"Peaches En Regalia"
"Montana"
"Village of the Sun"
"Echidna's Arf (Of You)"
"More Trouble Every Day”

I said earlier that ‘some things never change’. In this case it was the playing of great music. What did change was the degree of loudness…a very comfortable volume.

Oh yes…that standing ovation at the beginning…twice as loud at the end.

I’m hoping he’ll be back.

[Antman]

What a lovely sequoia. (?)

I am quite certain it was, but I am curious how the roadies were able to fit such a large object into the venue. Reminds of the time I had tickets to Bloodrock, with Queen as the opening act. The show was cancelled because the Rice Hotel Grand Ballroom (Houston) could not hold the stage.

Sequoia - a seven letter word containing all five vowels.

Can you provide the answer - A five letter word whose pronunciation is identical to the pronunciation of the first letter in the word.

How about six letters? OK, that's a hard one, so I will give it to you - Haitch, meaning 'shaped like an h.

[rorythedog]

Queue.

[Antman]

Queue.
I should have held the hard one. Wait, that doesn't sound right...

Can you spell a ten letter word using only the top row of letters on your keyboard?

[rorythedog]

In what language?

[rorythedog]

Perpetuity?

For 'h' over here we would say 'aitch'.

[Antman]

In what language?
Je ne parle pas Francais.
No habla Espanol.
Ich nicht spreche Deutsch.

Let us limit our challenges to English. You know, where most of our members find their language challenged. :cheeky:

[Antman]

Perpetuity?
In twenty years I have never found that one. F'n A! Keep looking.

[rorythedog]

Proprietor, Repertoire...

It's really not that difficult. I do have a "brain the size of a planet, you know".

[Antman]

... I do have a "brain the size of a planet, you know"...

Must be Mercury. Keep trying! :o

[rorythedog]

Must be Mercury. Keep trying! :o

You don't know the book then?

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

Typewriter... but i use dvorak for keyboard layout which is far more superior!

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog = all letters in the alphabet.

Im planning to see IQ (http://www.gep.co.uk/iq/index.html) early september. It's going to be a blast!

[Todd The Kiwi]

google is a wonderful thing... ;)

[acushla]

seque

[acushla]

Typewriter... far more...


...far more...?

[Antman]

seque
The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary. Click on a spelling suggestion below or try again using the search box to the right.

Suggestions for seque:
1. seqq (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=seqq) 2. seek (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=seek) 3. Zech (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=Zech) 4. seq (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=seq) 5. psec (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=psec) 6. sec (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=sec) 7. sac (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=sac) 8. sack (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=sack) 9. sake (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=sake) 10. Salk (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=Salk) 11. segue (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=segue) 12. sequel (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=sequel)

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

...far more...?

Fart more then...:cross-eye

Anyone agree that we need a silly thread?

[rorythedog]

Fart more then...:cross-eye

Anyone agree that we need a silly thread?

I thought we had enough already.

And I still don't understand why the hullabaloo over 'typewriter'. Of course, I'm stupid.

[madjo]

Ich nicht spreche Deutsch.
euhm, you mean "Ich spreche kein Deutsch"? :) (the other two seem okay to me)

[Antman]

I thought we had enough already.

And I still don't understand why the hullabaloo over 'typewriter'. Of course, I'm stupid.
What is the emoticon for chuckling?

I am somewhat surprised that having a brain the size of a planet makes one stupid. Unless increased glial mass compensates for something lacking in the neural substrate. I would propose that no such reference is warranted.

Maybe it is 'ghost in the machine', after all.

[rorythedog]

I meant to say "I'm WITH stupid'.

[Antman]

I meant to say "I'm WITH stupid'.
Consider this a missed opportunity. Notice how I am not providing a retort of "Well, birds of a feather..."

That would not be appropriate.:nervous:

[acushla]

The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary. Click on a spelling suggestion below or try again using the search box to the right.

The 'q' should have been a 'g'.

I was tired.:confused:

[Willow of Oz]

The drought is broken; rejoice. Been too long since I've been out to see a band.

Saw Fear Factory last night (first time, even though they are one of the few international acts to regularly grace Oz with their presence), with supports Dry Kill Logic and DevilDriver. Never got into the supports (or coal chamber for that matter), but the sets were fairly good and for once actually featured decent sound (before the main gig).
Haven't really been into FF since the Obsolete days, and I tried getting getting into Archetype recently - wasn't appreciative at first, but it does grow on you. Considering it was supposed to be the best of the last 3 albums, that doesn't bode well. Nevermind.
They opened with a few tracks I didn't know (let's assume the latest album, Transgression), but then quickly moved on to Demanufacture and Self Bias Resistor - as good as you'd expect them to be. Tracks from Soul of a New Machine followed (notably Martyr and Scapegoat), Obsolete (Edge Crusher, Shock), and Archetype (Slave Labor), along with presumably some Digimortal and Trannie stuff. Replica was the closer (of course), with an encore by Burton with pure synth for (a shortened) Timelessness.
Great gig, hell of a crush, and my hair was wrecked and ripped like all buggery. I hate row 3.
Oh, and since I actually drove there, I forgot I had glasses on until I was inside. Nearly had them knocked off my face at one point, so I had to take them off during the second support and hold them protectively in one hand. Trials and tribulations, my friends. :foureyes:

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

Great stuff Willow! I will go see IQ (http://www.gep.co.uk/iq/)Friday 29 September. Rock on!! :skull: :ninja:

[Todd The Kiwi]

i went to their remanufactured gig in Auckland [jesus, like 10 years ago omfg!]
man i had some wicked skunk that night :normal:


i heard a *rumour they had cancelled their upcoming gig here...



*the guy at the shop that sells the tickets.

[Willow of Oz]

i went to their remanufactured gig in Auckland [jesus, like 10 years ago omfg!]
man i had some wicked skunk that night :normal:


i heard a *rumour they had cancelled their upcoming gig here...



*the guy at the shop that sells the tickets. Off the official site.
FEAR FACTORY cancel New Zealand date

Due to band's busy schedule, the New Zealand date is cancelled As the band, being on tour were unable to appear for visa processing.

Also, ministry is cancelled for Aus at least.

[Todd The Kiwi]

yeah fuckin' gutted about MINISTRY :disappoin

[Willow of Oz]

Thank you Sweden!
One of the pioneers of Gothenburg, Dark Tranq have finally come to Australia after having released their first album over ten years ago. They say hi to Japan every 2 or 3, however, like all good metal bands.
Supports were Aussie bands Infernal Method and Alarum.
I managed to get there earlyish and got front row, dead centre, right against the stage which was just over bottom rib high (ow!).
Infernal Method opened a little messy and lacklustre, but a short way into the set they'd tightened up and had some good riffs going. Don't know any of their stuff however. Closing song was really good; nice harmonies on the guitar.
Alarum played their usual style of frenetic technical metal; difficult to get into live, but some insane bass work. There were calls for them to do the Atheist cover that they will actually be playing with said band overseas, but they refrained.
Dark Tranquillity hit the stage with a massive welcome from the crowd, as you could expect for a band with their history that's never been out before.
They started off playing from their latest album (as bands are wont to do) and slowly worked their way back. Awesome standouts included stuff like Therein, Undo Control, the Mind's Eye, Damage Done, Monochromatic Stains and The Wonders at your Feet.
Midway through the set the band gave us an "Aussie aussie aussie" to which we responded with the traditional "oy oy oy" to their delight. Our reward was a track off their upcoming 2007 release, which was not bad. Similar but different, as they say :cyclops:
Through the night there had been calls for Punish my Heaven, the opener from their first album The Gallery. In fact, there were so many repeated calls that the vocalist was forced to placate us with "all in good time". It was a given the song was getting played, and it wasn't going to be in the middle of the set. In fact, they closed the main set with Punish my Heaven, before coming back to a few tracks and closing ultimately with Final Resistance.
Stage diving was pretty much allowed, as long as you didn't overlinger on stage; though a few took a few seconds to shoulder rub a band member.
Also probably the first time I've seen simulated sex on stage (at a concert). One guy got up on the stage, but stumbled and fell. The vocalist, halfway through the song, squatted on top of him and went at it for a short bit before relenting and getting off the guy. Sigh. Why didn't I think to stage dive??
Great gig, finishing up just before midnight, enabling me to run run run to the train station and catch the last train out of the city rather than paying for a cab.
Top gig.

Next stop Norway/Germany (assuming I get a ticket)

ps, sorry about the length, must have gotten carried away.

[Todd The Kiwi]

aaah, teabagging is alive and well in the aussie metal scene ha ha ha :silly:

hey did FF stagedive? they did when they played here, but the music kept playing.
i saw the sound guys put the cd in :cross-eye

[Willow of Oz]

aaah, teabagging is alive and well in the aussie metal scene ha ha ha :silly:

hey did FF stagedive? they did when they played here, but the music kept playing.
i saw the sound guys put the cd in :cross-eye

No, they did not stage dive. The vocalist of one of the supports did a lean out over the audience, with audience support (and maybe security support - at least one guy was there, kinda looking like he was holding on).

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

Crowd surfing is fun I bet! When you exit our trains there is a sticker with a warning triangle where you see a guy crowd surfing and that it is not allowed. :cyclops:

(Actually it means that you have to be careful when descending the train as you might slip and fall).

[Willow of Oz]

Crowd surfing is fun I bet!

Depends if you are a chick, and if you like being felt up by random strangers as you get passed around :normal:

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

Depends if you are a chick, and if you like being felt up by random strangers as you get passed around :normal:

What about if you are a guy and the crowd is predominantly chicks? Oh wait...

[Willow of Oz]

What about if you are a guy and the crowd is predominantly chicks? Oh wait...

Uh huh, and then there's a problem with the holodeck and the transporter's acting up...

[jkrzok]

What about if you are a guy and the crowd is predominantly chicks? Oh wait...

Ah, that Lilith Faire concert. This brings back both fond memories and a lump to my...

[acushla]

Depends if you are a chick, and if you like being felt up by random strangers as you get passed around :normal:My girlfriend wants to know what time does it start?

[Willow of Oz]

Next stop Norway/Germany (assuming I get a ticket)


I was going to see Leaves' Eyes (with Atrocity and Adelaide's Chalice - go Chalice! -) but alas, I had a housemate moving in on the Sunday and decided that I should stay home and generally clean up. Since I started the cleanup some time after midnight on the Saturday, I'm pretty ticked off with myself for not going. :mad:

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

I was going to see Leaves' Eyes (with Atrocity and Adelaide's Chalice - go Chalice! -) but alas, I had a housemate moving in on the Sunday and decided that I should stay home and generally clean up. Since I started the cleanup some time after midnight on the Saturday, I'm pretty ticked off with myself for not going. :mad:

Your roommate just moved in and you are already told what to do? :biggrin:

[Todd The Kiwi]

Your roommate just moved in and you are already told what to do?owned :laugh:
dang, i hope 'tis a wench...


i'm still not sure if i'm going to the Cannibal Corpse gig
it'd be pretty wicked i'm sure of that.

[Protocol]

Since I started the cleanup some time after midnight on the Saturday, I'm pretty ticked off with myself for not going. :mad:
Sounds like an exciting Saturday night. :paranoid: :rolleyes:

[acushla]

Since I started the cleanup some time after midnight on the Saturday, I'm pretty ticked off with myself for not going. :mad:
Since you seem to have some experience with this 'clean up' thing I've heard so much about...perhaps you could come over to my studio and clean that up as well.

Thanks a million.:cheeky:

[Willow of Oz]

Since you seem to have some experience with this 'clean up' thing I've heard so much about...perhaps you could come over to my studio and clean that up as well.

Thanks a million.:cheeky:
If you saw the end result, you probably wouldn't be inviting me over so quick.:gasmask:

[acushla]

Just completed my Ring series at the newly built Opera House in Toronto.
A memorable and illuminating experience I shall not forget.

One thing I can tell you is this...I have attended a great many performances in as many halls all over the world and what I immediately realized as the opening notes from the orchestra enveloped me was that, although I thought I had heard an orchestra before, the fact was that I hadn't. The acoustics in this hall are superlative...and the first characteristic of that awareness is the fact that you are not listening to the music so much as you are in the music. An unexpected thrill.

The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts http://www.soundspacedesign.co.uk/project4seasons.htm

Makes a brand new case for SACD..

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

Been to IQ yesterday. It was totally awesome!! What a great performance! Besides playing some new tracks from their upcoming album, Silver Jubilee - prog save the queen, they played a number of tunes from older albums like dark matter, The seventh house, Subterranea, the Wake, Ever, and their oldest album tales from the lush attic. The performance for a song from the Wake was especially entertaining because Peter Nicholls, vocalist, dressed up as a doll during the song, with a white face and black eyes going completely nuts! ha ha. On the CD cover you can see him like that (remember this was 1985 ;)):
http://www.gep.co.uk/iq/discography/thewake.jpg

[Willow of Oz]

Man I'm buggered. Literally just back in the door after running home from the train station.

Okay, Cannibal Corpse's first show in Australia in about 10 years, and the first time I've seen them. Sold out, too.
Some WA band opened for them, followed by Tassie's Psycroptic, who weren't too bad - they have a bit of a following; I haven't really paid attention however.
The gig opened relatively early (doors at 7:30, CC on stage by 10:15 or so). I managed to grab second row and despite the intensity of the band, I didn't get half as crushed as expected, though by the third or fourth song, "I cum blood" there was a bit of a surge, being a crowd favourite.
There were quite a few tracks played from the Live Cannibalism release, as you'd expect, with a few newer tracks included since that release is dated 2000.
I was disappointed there's no sentenced to burn. It wasn't even on the live release, so I'll have to check up if they just don't like the song any more. It's definitely my favourite.
I Will Kill You was excellent, and somewhat further down the setlist.
When the band came back for the encore, promising one more song, it was always bound to be Hammer Smashed Face. Goddamn, that's a pretty good song. And then what do you know, they gave us another (which I'd been waiting for for most of the concert and then forgotten about by the end), which was Stripped Raped and Strangled. Classic lines in that, fun for all the family.
Corpsegrinder's voice was in great condition.
I was tempted to yell out 'go Nathan Explosion!' but lost my nerve.
Certainly it was a great concert. By halfway my fingers had pruned from the sweat and the water. Damn but it was a sweatshop in there.
This time they had a barrier and hence a gap between the front row and the stage. That said, most of the people who crowd surfed forward into the clearlane ended up escorted out except for one guy who managed to clamber up on stage, run around the back side of the singer and then leap off onto the crowd. Not a bad effort. Would have hit them with some force I'd imagine.

...next stop Australia (Qld I think)

[Todd The Kiwi]

wicked :laugh: only 2 days to go here...

[acushla]

...next stop Australia (Qld I think)I've thought to myself over the past year or two that concerts are getting earlier start times. I put it down that the artists have a busy schedule and making connections to planes is taking a lot longer than it used to. It might also have something to do with the fact that most people want to get home earlier as (if on a week night) they need to get up in reasonably good shape the day after.

I've expressed it poorly, and I'm sure there are other aspects that weigh in on earlier concerts...but I'm sure you know what I mean.

[Willow of Oz]

I've thought to myself over the past year or two that concerts are getting earlier start times. I put it down that the artists have a busy schedule and making connections to planes is taking a lot longer than it used to. It might also have something to do with the fact that most people want to get home earlier as (if on a week night) they need to get up in reasonably good shape the day after.

I've expressed it poorly, and I'm sure there are other aspects that weigh in on earlier concerts...but I'm sure you know what I mean.
One thought that I had was that here if it finishes before midnight then I can catch the last train home.
Not such a big deal on the weekend since we have Nightrider buses that continue all night (once per hour). Also, trains will soon be extended to run till 1am or 1:30am.
So weekends not so much, but on a weeknight it's nice to be able to catch some (easy/cheap) transport home.

Next two gigs are on a thursday and tuesday respectively. Catching a cab home is generally about the same price as gig entry :(

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

Next two gigs are on a thursday and tuesday respectively. Catching a cab home is generally about the same price as gig entry :(

Oh man, where do you get the money from? :bandit:

[acushla]

Oh man, where do you get the money from? :bandit:There's rumours he stands around cornors late, late, late at night.:silly:

[Willow of Oz]

Oh man, where do you get the money from? :bandit:

*a* thursday. *a* tuesday. Not the next ones coming up.
But now I'm getting suspicious looks from people since I'm having trouble sitting down....

[acushla]

*a* thursday. *a* tuesday. Not the next ones coming up.
But now I'm getting suspicious looks from people since I'm having trouble sitting down....I was thinking pockets full of Hash...but I like your reason better.:silly:

[duckie]

SLAYER! SLAYER! SLAYER!

Was really pumped up. Concert was helluva short though, just over an hour of playing time.

[Todd The Kiwi]

an hour? man they could play for 3 hours no sweat.
slayer fuckin' own

[duckie]

an hour? man they could play for 3 hours no sweat.
slayer fuckin' own

Yeah, there were technical problems, and other issues I'm guessing.

[Willow of Oz]

I heard the other day that slayer and machinehead came out to oz last year. It almost rings a bell. Why I didn't go I'll never know. I feel like listening to Gemini now.

[Todd The Kiwi]

whoah i found out today that suffocation and deicide will be touring here soon =)

and i'm sorry to say that i sacked out of the cannibal corpse gig.

[Willow of Oz]

Okay, aussie band the Butterfly Effect just played at the Metro in Melbourne. They've toured a bit recently and have two albums out, but I only got into them recently and this is the first time I've seen them. They often get compared to Tool, but they don't do the long progressives that Tool do now.
One of the supports sounded like prime mid 80s Duran Duran, then added a bit of Mr Bungle circus music in there. Not bad
Anyway, I managed to grab front and centre again. They started with Reach from Imago, then there were several others from the same album (aisles of white, gone, in a memory and before they knew), and some from Begins Here (perception twin, one second of insanity, crave, beautiful mine, always). They also did Everybody runs for some reason, which is unadulturated crap. It's probably the first time I've made it through the entire song, and that's only because I was squashed in and couldn't get away.
They didn't play Consequence.
They ended with (predictably) The End.
Perception Twin was the best, though Reach was also really good
There was a barrier and a gap to the stage, but there were also large boxes sitting out from the stage so Clint could step out within touching distance of his fans.
Due to me parking an excessive distance from the venue it took me 55 minutes afterward to walk back to my car. And then 20 to drive home.
Yes it's now 2:20am and I have work to go to soon. Night.

[Willow of Oz]

edit: whoops, might have gotten a little carried away typing here... sorry.

Okay, I've been a little slack and failed to post about gigantour australia, which was tuesday night.
Bands on show, in order of appearance:
Caliban, Arch Enemy, Soulfly, Megadeth.
Venue: Festival Hall.
Time: 6-11pm (bands start at 6:15)
Note that the band lineup is quite different from that of the United States, which has quite a few more bands.

It's the first time I've been to festival hall, and let me tell you, whilst it's big, and not bad inside, it was a sucky experience due to their ticket handling and entrance policy.
I bought my ticket online, which means that I'd normally wave a credit card and they'd check something and I'd go in. This time, it turns out I have to actually get the ticket physically. Which was only around the corner, but the place for that was not open when I got there, which was early, so I could be at the front of the line to get up the front. So I get there at 4:15 for doors at 6pm, and they say that I have to collect the ticket after 5:30. So in the meantime everyone files up and I have to stand around like a dildo waiting for this stupid place to open up. Gee I was fuming. Anyway, then since the line was rather disorganised, I kinda hung around on the sides and when the doors opened I just merged in. Smooth.
Oh, and on entrance I'm wearing some pants that are almost a size too small with wallet in one pocket and keys in the other. The door security was so strict they made me take out both the wallet and the keys to ensure I wasn't smuggling bad stuff in. And piroutte. I can't remember if they patted me down. Hardcore.
Tuesday night was a pretty hot night for us here in Melbourne, and I'd jumped out of work early and headed straight over, and since I wanted to attempt to get front row I forsook the bar. Right. In a place with no air conditioning. Where they cram 2^10 people into every square metre. Can you say sweat factory?

Okay, enough of the opening banter.
The bands.
Caliban opened, a crunchy metal band from Germany. I'd heard the name but none of their music. From the sounds of things, this was pretty much the case with most of the audience. They didn't sound bad - in fact, they had a good sound, a good vocalist, and all in all it wasn't bad, it just wasn't memorable. Maybe because I didn't know their stuff, but it just seemed a little bland. One guy heckled them to get off the stage, but that's just bad manners in my book.

Playtime was generally about 45 minutes for most bands, perhaps a little longer for Megadeth, since they organise the festival.

Arch Enemy came on next. I saw these guys last year and they were one of the big drawcards for me this time. In fact, it's the main band I wanted to see, with Megadeth themselves second.
The vocalist Angela was in fine form and audience really got into things a lot more, after being fairly quiet for Caliban. Songs like Nemesis, My Apocalypse, Dead Eyes all were played. Dead Bury their Dead was there too - man I love the way she growls that line!. Out for Blood and We will Rise ended the set. \m/ Interesting that Out for Blood doesn't get more attention.

Soulfly were up next, the band that formed out of Sepultura. I'm not so familiar or keen on their work so there's little to report here. It seemed as if the crowd was at least as much into this as Arch Enemy - in fact, the guy just behind me was begging to get to the frontline (yes, they played that, forgive the pun) because he was the biggest soulfly fan. Pity I couldn't accommodate him. They also played Babylon and the Prophecy, and a number of older Sepultura songs, such as Roots, which was quite good. There was a section where all the band members hauled out some drum toms (or whatever) and the whole lot of them did this awesome tribal beat. Vnice.

I should probably mention at this stage that it was absolutely jam packed at the front. People were getting hauled out left right and centre by security on request. There was another girl to my right and she was hauled out, some guy to my left, the person who replaced them, the person who replaced the chick on the right, the person to the left of the person on the left (no, I'm not just making all these up, and these are just the ones I noticed).

Megadeth finally came on some time around 10pm with massive greets from the crowd. The dude to my left at the time looked exactly like a 20 year old Dave Mustaine. That was freaky. It was perhaps more freaky that he kept calling out "Dave, look at me, you're my father!"
They opened with something from the System has Failed album and followed up with a number of their classics, such as Tornado of Souls, Trust, Shewolf, the reckoning day? Perhaps and Hanger 18. By the time of Peace Sells but Who's Buying, all the other bands came out for a singalong on the chorus, which was pretty fab, and then they ended (naturally) with Holy Wars.
Mustaine remarked they had a curfew which was why they had to finish up by around 11pm.

All in all a great show, but the following day I swear I considered seeing a doctor for fractured ribs, but it was probably just severe bruising. Haven't hacked up any blood yet...

[Todd The Kiwi]

i heard that Megadeth used to hand out earplugs at the gate for their gigs.

[Willow of Oz]

i heard that Megadeath used to hand out earplugs at the gate for their gigs.

When I saw megadeth the first time, 2001, a few of my mates bought earplugs at the venue. I certainly didn't find it overly loud. Never had a prob with ringing in my ears after concerts.

[Todd The Kiwi]

i learned my lesson from Morbid Angel - dude where's my hearing....
it lasted for a week aye, bad thing was i used to work in a "woodshop" so i wore earmuffs all day
i swear i was going maaaadd i tells you :normal: :nervous:

how's that Ray Keith ?

Sinister - Embodiment of Chaos

have you guys heard yattering (http://www.bnrmetal.com/groups/yatt.htm)?
wicked Polish death metal band, like Vader, funny that.

[Willow of Oz]

Held at the Espy in St Kilda, these guys had Black Majesty and some other local (interstate) band for support, both in the power / prog metal vein. Black Majesty were quite good, with excellent drumming and guest vocals from Vanishing Point and EyeFear. The other band was good if you like extended instrumental parts with cool offtime beats, though the vocalist was a bit shrill at time for my liking.
The Nevermore gig seemed pretty intense, but maybe that's only because I was somewhat further back than most gigs and pretty much in the mosh. Crowd surfing was pretty continuous, leading to much stage diving. Being the espy, the security was quite casual, just two guys at the side of the stage in case anyone lingered on stage too long.
Songs performed included Sentient #6, Inside Four Walls, Narcosynthesis, Enemies of Reality and Born. I, Voyager was great, as was This Heart Collector, but the best one could have been The River Dragon Has Come, which has grown on me a lot.
I wish they hadn't waited for like an hour or something to come on stage, that was getting ridiculous. And I wish after remembering that trains were running later (till 1am, and the gig finished around 12:40am) that when I hailed a cab to take me to the train station I didn't have some sort of mental breakdown, giving my home address instead, costing me a hell of a lot more (since the train station was way closer and I already had a valid ticket). On the plus side, I guess I got home quite a bit earlier.
Quite a good gig, even if I did get elbowed in the you-know-where early on.

[Todd The Kiwi]

r.e taxi/train - ha ha man i've done that shit, drove to the gig
and then 'scored' a ride all the way home at 11:30 pm
woke up @ 7:30 am went to drive to work... :o

[Willow of Oz]

Hey, New Zealand's Dawn of Azazel will be supporting Deicide when they tour Aus.
Nice to see NZ bands popping over here.
I'm more excited to go to this gig now, though I've yet to hear the new Deicide material.

[Todd The Kiwi]

the Hoffman brothers have left [omg!] still sounds good though
D.O.A are all good, man Skuldom 0wn if you can find any of their stuff :skull:

i think Deicide are worthy of my precence, hopefully they have a decent venue.

[Willow of Oz]

D.O.A are all good, man Skuldom 0wn if you can find any of their stuff :skull:


Yes, I have. hmmm, not sold on it though. Maybe I have a demo or something. It's pretty raw and only about 4-5 songs.

[Todd The Kiwi]

ha ha wicked Talvin Singh is coming to NZ (http://premier.ticketek.co.nz/shows/show.aspx?sh=TALVIN06&searchId=edddab3b-d494-46db-9810-0afa0b767cf4) [and OZ] :silly:

[Todd The Kiwi]

yeah wicked, DEICIDE (http://premier.ticketek.co.nz/shows/show.aspx?sh=DEICIDE06&searchId=bae3ec94-9126-45ba-bc7d-fb0029725a94) posters went up overnight :skull:

[Willow of Oz]

Saw these guys last night at the Hi Fi bar.
Ruins from Tasmania were the support band. They had a vnice black metal sound that reminded me of something, but I couldn't quite place it. Maybe Greece's Naer Mataron. Apparently they handed out free discs after their gig, but I missed out, alas.

Satyricon's set was very focussed on their more recent material. For those of you not familiar with them, they have progressed a lot in their style, from raw bleak beginnings to their more catchy, riffy sound of today. Judging from the audience reaction, they were right to focus on their last few albums. Songs such as Now Diabolical and KING were crowd favourites, and we heard filthgrinder, Fuel for hatred and material from Volcano. But by the end of the set it was their classic Mother North that the crowd called for. And the encore didn't include it. So with the crowd screaming for it, the band came out for a second encore of just Mother North, which totally rocked.
Maybe Frost will bring his other bands out here? We await you, 1349.

[Todd The Kiwi]

cool, i just got my deicide ticket! [pic]
i need to find something for them to sign... :beer:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v608/toddthekiwi/th_deicide2006.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v608/toddthekiwi/deicide2006.jpg)

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

cool, i just got my deicide ticket! [pic]
i need to find something for them to sign... :beer:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v608/toddthekiwi/th_deicide2006.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v608/toddthekiwi/deicide2006.jpg)

Have fun mate!

[Willow of Oz]

Saw Deicide last night with supports Terrorust and Dawn of Azazel (NZ).
DoA was the better of the two supports, though their bass was noticeably woofy, like a Justice For All album in free fall.
Deicide came on remarkably quickly after the second support, launching into one of their older songs. This was quickly followed up by Scars of the Crucifix.
Around this time it was apparent that the soloing was a little squeaky and sloppy.
The vocalist Glen Benton has quite a stage presence.
Quite a number of the songs off the new album were played, with Stench of Retribution, Death to Jesus, Desecration, Walk with the Devil in Dreams Where You Dwell and Homage For Satan all featured, and also all in album order (but with older songs such as Dead but Dreaming interspersed).
Homage For Satan was the closer of the main set, and I must say that it was played fantastically. Sometimes you don't realise how much you like a song until you hear it live.
Sacrificial Suicide was the closer of the encore, which was about 3 songs long and purely older tunes.

A great gig, and probably one of the least crushiest I've been to. Which was surprising.

Word has it that Aussie (Tasmanian) band Psycroptic will be touring with Deicide across Europe.

[Todd The Kiwi]

yay, that sounds cool willow man :silly:
i get to see them tonight.

my first gig no smoking/drinking or long hair eeeeek!!!! :skull:

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

yay, that sounds cool willow man :silly:
i get to see them tonight.

my first gig no smoking/drinking or long hair eeeeek!!!! :skull:

Hey man, take some pictures of the gig. :bulb:

[Todd The Kiwi]

Hey man, take some pictures of the gig. :bulb:you go to jail for that here... :bandit:
man just to think deicide are cruising around town tonight before the gig.
we could just bump into them walking down the street, that would rule.

[cudelleirbag]

Songs such as Now Diabolical and KING were crowd favourites, and we heard filthgrinder, Fuel for hatred and material from Volcano. But by the end of the set it was their classic Mother North that the crowd called for. And the encore didn't include it. So with the crowd screaming for it, the band came out for a second encore of just Mother North, which totally rocked.
Maybe Frost will bring his other bands out here? We await you, 1349.

I'm totally jealous. Last year, they were suppose to be in Montreal, but the tour was canceled :mad:

CL

[cudelleirbag]

you go to jail for that here... :bandit:
man just to think deicide are cruising around town tonight before the gig.
we could just bump into them walking down the street, that would rule.

Isn't the 16th already in your part of the world? :biggrin:
So how was the show?

CL

[Todd The Kiwi]

MATE! i witnessed some seriiiioooouuuusss shredding last night.
started @ 10:30 sharp, which is when i walked through the door... :ponder:
the little club, which Talvin Singh played at a couple of nights ago[!], was packed to walls.
tiny little stage, it'll be interesting seeing suffocation there in a few weeks, they have 5 dudes ha ha.
the older stuff got the best response, sacrificial suicide, dead but dreaming [!] etc
basically 2/3 tracks off each album by the sounds of it
i'm not too familiar with their newer stuff, sounded good though.

real problems with Glens gear man, he was pissed off.
one song he had no bass for most of it
that was some totally aggressive vocalizations for that one, very very harsh!

he [glen] talked to use heaps, which i really like it when bands do that
cracking jokes about us not having bones through our noses and cooking pigs on sticks etc ha ha

i saw about 4 people get booted off stage properly by glen too, full on hell stomp in the chest
one of them tried to grab glen, f*ck he got NAILED.
glen said he wasn't afraid to stop the gig to bash the shit out of someone ha ha ha, hard core!

at about 11:40 they left the stage for like 5 mins, we had to shout and wail for them to come back out
they were upset about the crappy rig.

but yeah, LUNATIC OF GODS CREATION!!!!!! their best f*ckin' tune ever, was the first encore track.

we got drum sticks, a towel, picks etc, quite good showmen considering.

rating - 7/10 because the rig ruined it
pungent stench had major sound issues too, different venue for them though.

:heart: hail satan :heart:

[Willow of Oz]

the older stuff got the best response, sacrificial suicide, dead but dreaming [!] etc


Interesting. I thought that the newer stuff had the best response at the oz gig, but I guess that's the stuff that I'm most familiar with.
With the Hoffman bros replaced many seem to find the new stuff too melodic.


i saw about 4 people get booted off stage properly by glen too, full on hell stomp in the chest


We had a metre gap with security in it, same as the Satyricon gig, which was the same venue. But Dark Tranq, also there, had no barrier and just went straight to the stage.

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

Any luck with the signature Todd? Post your little venture on our blog ;)

[Todd The Kiwi]

nah no sig mate.

i forgot to mention this up there so i'll say it here -

i've never seen so many shaved heads at a metal gig!
myself included, moshing/headbanging was totally out of the question
wouldn't want to look like i was trying to headbutt a mosquito... :paranoid:

[Willow of Oz]

i've never seen so many shaved heads at a metal gig!
myself included, moshing/headbanging was totally out of the question


I've noticed at most gigs there are a lot of guys who don't have long hair (either short or shaven) and a lot of chicks.

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

I've noticed at most gigs there are a lot of guys who don't have long hair (either short or shaven) and a lot of chicks.

I've been to a gig with lots of Rastafarians. That was interesting!

Todd, maybe you notice bald guys more now that you are bald yourself? This concept is not too uncommon.

Willow, what do you mean with 'most gigs'? Popular rock like U2, Queen? Girlie music like Britney Spears, Madonna, Beyonce? Or the hardcore metal gigs?

[Willow of Oz]

I've been to a gig with lots of Rastafarians. That was interesting!

Todd, maybe you notice bald guys more now that you are bald yourself? This concept is not too uncommon.

Willow, what do you mean with 'most gigs'? Popular rock like U2, Queen? Girlie music like Britney Spears, Madonna, Beyonce? Or the hardcore metal gigs?

Well, I saw butterfly effect a couple of months ago which is more an alt rock band, but that's the only gig I can recall paying to see that was not metal. Everything else: metal.
And if it's full on death or black metal, it doesn't matter, there's still the variation in hairstyles as well as a strong female showing.
The only gig that was noticeably low on women was the Yngwie Malmsteen gig, which was a not very heavy guitar-solo-fest.

[Todd The Kiwi]

dude, chicks? wtf? ha ha ha not here man, it's just us aye.
seriously i didn't even see one chick @ deicide.

[Willow of Oz]

This was Trivium's first time Down Under, and hence my first opportunity to see them.
The single support act was a local Melbourne band Drift Point. I'd never heard of them before. They had a somewhat unusual vocal style, very rapping. The vocalist was a reasonably charismatic fellow, but his clean vocal singing was fairly poor. His more hardcore yelling was passable, though generally speaking it improved during the set. The band sound was crunchy riffing: competent but not overly imaginative. Korn and Coal Chamber might be a basic reference point, but the vocals were reasonably unique, which at least makes them stand out.

Trivium opened with Entrance of the Conflagration and flew through a hell of a lot of songs in the hour and a half they played, including, of course, classics like Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation and To the Rats and the title track off the album Ember to Inferno. After the encore they followed up with Tread the Floods, (Metallica's) Master of Puppets (until the song's interlude) and ended with Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr.

Minor technical difficulties on the guitar almost went unnoticed.
The sound quality overall wasn't bad, but by the end it was starting to sound a little woofy. I don't know if something changed, or I just paid more attention, or I noticed it because I was in a different position (I was pushed off to the side somewhat without realising it).
Crowd surfing was frequent.
There was a gap between the audience and the stage with security so there was no stage diving.
There were actually two "aussie, aussie, aussie, oy, oy, oy" chants that went up - one before the gig and one (as per normal) during the gig (between songs).
I hooked up with some guy outside the venue in the queue - it was his first time going to a gig ever and he'd come all the way up from Tasmania for it. He had a pretty cool earpiece - a massive black curved plastic thing through his left ear. The guy ended up in the circle/ring/pit thing that US bands are wont to see and enjoyed it.
Chick presence was high - my left, right, and her right, for example.
It was also one of the sweatiest concerts I've been to. My fingers had pruned by the end of the concert.

All in all a great gig.
:beer:

[Todd The Kiwi]

be on the lookout for Weird Al (http://www.weirdal.com/touring.htm) :silly:

[Todd The Kiwi]

yay just over a week until Suffocation (http://premier.ticketek.co.nz/shows/show.aspx?sh=SUFFOCAT07) play here :skull:

[Willow of Oz]

yay just over a week until Suffocation (http://premier.ticketek.co.nz/shows/show.aspx?sh=SUFFOCAT07) play here :skull:

Some of us won free tickets for 6 days time :knocked-o:knocked-o:knocked-o:beer:
Life is good.
Blind Guardian a day or two after that, but I have to pay for that one *sigh*.
Goddamn - the smilies in the quote count towards the limit of 5. Pffft. Weak.

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

I've just been wondering right? Do you people down under only have Kylie Minogue and Metal gigs? :cheeky:

[Todd The Kiwi]

Some of us won free tickets for 6 days timei don't even want to know what you did :ponder: :paranoid:
it's going to cost this kiwi friggin' $48 + a"service fee" :sleeping:
i'm not sure if i like them that much aye
i mean they're cool but i could name about thirty DEATH METAL bands i like more aye.

yattering are wicked if anybody was wondering.

[Todd The Kiwi]

I've just been wondering right? Do you people down under only have Kylie Minogue and Metal gigs?yeah, we should be so lucky... :cheeky:

[Willow of Oz]

i don't even want to know what you did :ponder: :paranoid:
it's going to cost this kiwi friggin' $48 + a"service fee" :sleeping:
i'm not sure if i like them that much aye

Yeah well I just had the "service fee". :knocked-o:o
kidding. I'm not big into them and wasn't going to bother going at all - I should have scored free tickets to Isis damnit (I tried *cough*).

[Willow of Oz]

Okay, I got to this gig a little late, part way through the first support.
Second support was a grindcore band. Been awhile since I heard some of that.

Suffocation are a US death metal band that have been around for like 16 years but this is their first time down under. The vocalist looked really pleased to be here! (and told us so several times, which is fairly par for the course).

Grabbed a drink at the bar: Todd, for your info, starting from the left hand side I counted 7 people: 3 guys, 4 chicks (not including me). One of the most chick-friendly gigs I've been to.
Although we peaked over 30C during the day, it actually wasn't so hot inside, though I just stood on the sidelines for this one.
Plenty of moshing going on, especially during the older songs (they covered the span, so some old, some new). Tracks such as Catatonia, Effigy of the Forgotten and Breeding the Spawn (dedicated to all the mothers in the audience!) were well received, and the newer tracks also were welcome (Translucent Patters of Delirium, Entrails of You, Bind Torture Kill), though perhaps to not quite as enthusiastic a fanfare.
Closing to the encore were Souls to Deny and Pierced from Within
(the latter of which went off).

Was pretty good, though I'm not really into the band and standing on the sidelines is quite a different experience to being right up there in the thick of things.
Only one or two guys stage dived during the gig proper, but during the short two song encore there must have been about a dozen guys flying off that stage.

[Todd The Kiwi]

Okay, I got to this gig a little late, part way through the first support.
Second support was a grindcore band. Been awhile since I heard some of that.

Suffocation are a US death metal band that have been around for like 16 years but this is their first time down under. The vocalist looked really pleased to be here! (and told us so several times, which is fairly par for the course).

Grabbed a drink at the bar: Todd, for your info, starting from the left hand side I counted 7 people: 3 guys, 4 chicks (not including me). One of the most chick-friendly gigs I've been to.
Although we peaked over 30C during the day, it actually wasn't so hot inside, though I just stood on the sidelines for this one.
Plenty of moshing going on, especially during the older songs (they covered the span, so some old, some new). Tracks such as Catatonia, Effigy of the Forgotten and Breeding the Spawn (dedicated to all the mothers in the audience!) were well received, and the newer tracks also were welcome (Translucent Patters of Delirium, Entrails of You, Bind Torture Kill), though perhaps to not quite as enthusiastic a fanfare.
Closing to the encore were Souls to Deny and Pierced from Within
(the latter of which went off).

Was pretty good, though I'm not really into the band and standing on the sidelines is quite a different experience to being right up there in the thick of things.
Only one or two guys stage dived during the gig proper, but during the short two song encore there must have been about a dozen guys flying off that stage.shit yeah dude, sounds mad.
i'm going to flag it though aye, too expensive.
you'd be lucky to see ONE chick at a death metal gig over here ha ha
man i'd forgotten about moshing! i have no hair so it doesn't occur to me straight away.

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

Some upcoming gigs in Australia:

The Church, Sydney, 5 March
The Mars Volta, Sydney, 15 March
The Mars Volta, Melbourne, 17 March
Simple Minds, Canberra, 27 March

...
U2, Sydney, 1 January 2008

[Willow of Oz]

Yeah, I'm thinking of doing the Mars Volta, Arcturus, NIN, Dragonforce, Nile with Mastodon, the Evil Invaders 2 fest.
Will probably pass on Suicidal Tendencies, Helmet, Sick of it All, Lamb of God, Regurgitator and Lisa Gerrard.
Plenty happening. Of course, it's summer/autumn, and winter is always a slow time of year.

:beer:

Edit: how did I miss Vader, Secret Chiefs 3, a 'slayfest' (local, but known, metal talent) and a 'rock n metal' show. Hell, I might even go see the local rock band Dallas Crane next weekend!

[Todd The Kiwi]

nile and helmet aye, they are a couple of maybees.

[Willow of Oz]

I went and saw the Mars Volta a few weeks ago. I must say that I was a little disappointed.
I was also asked for ID for perhaps the first time ever and I'm pushing 30.
No support bands either.

[Willow of Oz]

Okay, got all psyched up for this one listening to a lot of their stuff recently.
It was down at the Espy in St Kilda, Melbourne with two local support bands.

The first support was Virgin Black, a really fantastic, almost gothic metal band, with a real variety that prevents them from being easily labelled. They had a new chick on (support) vocals, I think, who didn't look anything like a metal chick but had a nice pair of lungs.
I dunno whether the drummer is new ... perhaps not. But damn he was way impressive. And the venue is such that I was right at the front dead centre with the stage just over knee high and if I reached forward I could have touched the drum kit.
I think one of the things that makes him stand out is that, apart from the fact that he and the rest of the band are all quite talented, is the fact that he plays such a different style of drumming to most metal drummers. But that's part of the beauty of their songs.
The only one I recognised was Walk Without Limbs. I really have to listen to more of their stuff. I've seen them perhaps twice before live.
This is the first time I can recall hearing such annoying hecklers in the crowd, consistently calling out names of cannibal corpse songs and slagging off various members/the band.

Second support was Astriaal from up Queensland way. They have a much more traditional black metal sound. The guitars have a great sound. I've seen them once before, many years ago, but alas couldn't recall any of their material. They weren't bad.

Then I started feeling quite ill. Sweating profusely, nauseous. So shortly before Arcturus took the stage I fled the building, went outside onto the street and threw up. I won't go into the details, but after some long period of time and multiple sessions (and friendly offers of hugs from passer-bys) I ended up paying for a cab fare home since the tram/train journey would take too long and I'd probably feel the need to hurl again on the trip. Which I did. In the taxi. But I alerted him beforehand and I grabbed a plastic bag so I didn't spoil his vehicle. But he still probably doesn't like me :normal:

So there you go, the night I paid for a train ticket, an Arcturus ticket, and a taxi ride, in order to not see the band I paid for. Perhaps I should have just stayed and hurled on the stage every 5 minutes. Or the annoying dude next to me.

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

Gosh what a dirty trick did your body play on you just before seeing the actual band in action. Did you feel ill before the support acts started? As you said, food poisoning can be annoying from a stomach ache to throwing up. A dive to the restroom sometimes helps.

[Willow of Oz]

Gosh what a dirty trick did your body play on you just before seeing the actual band in action. Did you feel ill before the support acts started? As you said, food poisoning can be annoying from a stomach ache to throwing up. A dive to the restroom sometimes helps.

When I got to the venue I was okay.
I had a j-lo when I got there, and shortly after was feeling a little dehydrated. Other than that it came on pretty suddenly with me feeling a little unwell during the first support, but not much, and then feeling more unwell during the second. And by the end of the second I was feeling quite ill and suspected I was going to throw up.
Of course, I don't know that it was a food poisoning thing, but that's the conclusion I have come to.

[Todd The Kiwi]

you should've puked on the fag heckler, they get punched here.
anyway bummer dude, still there's always a next time...

[cudelleirbag]

I can't believe you missed Arcturus. :(

[B.E.L.B.H.D.]

And by the end of the second I was feeling quite ill and suspected I was going to throw up.

Isn't that feeling just magical? :silly:

[Todd The Kiwi]

cool peeping tom (http://www.ipecac.com/bio.php?id=44) are coming down June 16th (http://www.ipecac.com/calendar.php) yeah :biggrin:

[Todd The Kiwi]

hold the phone, NILE are coming to New Zealand!!!!!!
BLACK SEEDS OF VENGEANCE!!!!!!!!!
man this is going to be killer.

sat 19th May $65+ booking fee, ouch. (http://premier.ticketek.co.nz/shows/show.aspx?sh=NILE2007&searchId=643318a9-e018-4ba0-8c44-5880e3b7dce6)

[Willow of Oz]

hold the phone, NILE are coming to New Zealand!!!!!!
BLACK SEEDS OF VENGEANCE!!!!!!!!!
man this is going to be killer.

sat 19th May $65+ booking fee, ouch. (http://premier.ticketek.co.nz/shows/show.aspx?sh=NILE2007&searchId=643318a9-e018-4ba0-8c44-5880e3b7dce6)

hmmm, I've just gone through several albums. Now if only Orphaned Land came out...

[Todd The Kiwi]

here's a photo of the poster
which i automatically ripped off the meter box as soon as i saw it, YOINK! :bulb:

and "galatos" is on galatos street (http://www.smaps.co.nz/nz/auckland/newton/galatos+street/17/) which is like 1 mins walk from my house, yay!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v608/toddthekiwi/th_NilePoster.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v608/toddthekiwi/NilePoster.jpg)

[Todd The Kiwi]

i can't believe i piked out of nile, what a nana :disappoin
Napalm Death are coming out again at the end of the year, sweet as.
i'm finding it difficult to listen to the radio stations that update us on tours.
mostly the radio sucks arse, i wait 'til the posters go up ha ha.

[Willow of Oz]

I was also a nana, and piked. I had an early morning work teleconference though.
Also piked on drinking with work folks that night (for the same reason).

[Todd The Kiwi]

being a nana sucks, word.
it's partly because i have no hair, man that sounds gay as.
not much fun slinging around my scalp.
funny how many 'shine heads' are @ a metal gig now though.

if i buy my ticket months in advance and the band cancels i get NO REFUND
this puts me right off aye.
it would however be the ultimate motivator on gig night.
[having had the ticket for months and now it's time]

[Willow of Oz]

funny how many 'shine heads' are @ a metal gig now though.

if i buy my ticket months in advance and the band cancels i get NO REFUND
this puts me right off aye.
it would however be the ultimate motivator on gig night.
[having had the ticket for months and now it's time]

Yeah, there are a lot of bald guys at gigs these days, and even people with normal styled hair.

I don't get how you can get no refund? Isn't that illegal? Here, buy a car for $20,000. Oh, sorry. We aren't selling that car anymore. Sod off mate, and no, you can't have your 20k quid back. Anyone else after a car?

And yes, it is a big motivator. I have passed on gigs because I can't be stuffed on the night with no ticket, and I have gone to gigs that I can't be stuffed going to because, well, I've bought the ticket, haven't I?

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

being a nana sucks, word.
it's partly because i have no hair, man that sounds gay as.
not much fun slinging around my scalp.
funny how many 'shine heads' are @ a metal gig now though.

if i buy my ticket months in advance and the band cancels i get NO REFUND
this puts me right off aye.
it would however be the ultimate motivator on gig night.
[having had the ticket for months and now it's time]

Pssst... Get a WIG! :cheeky:

[rorythedog]

The last band we saw in concert was The Proclaimers but I just bought 2 tickets to see The National on the 23rd of July. Can't wait. Pity it's in Glasgow, which means a 2 hour drive but I'm sure we'll do the usual. I'll drive there, Val will drive back.

[Shewolf]

(from the other weekend)

Iron Maiden
Evanescence
Stone Sour
Lamb of God
Hayseed Dixie
Within Temptation
Devil Driver
Unearth
Linkin Park
Marylin Manson
Machine Head
Bowling For Soup
Shadows Fall
Hellyeah
Velvet Revolver
Wolfmother
Dragonforce
Megadeath
Buckcherry
Zico Chain

[Willow of Oz]

(from the other weekend)

Iron Maiden
Evanescence
Stone Sour
Lamb of God
Hayseed Dixie
Within Temptation
Devil Driver
Unearth
Linkin Park
Marylin Manson
Machine Head
Bowling For Soup
Shadows Fall
Hellyeah
Velvet Revolver
Wolfmother
Dragonforce
Megadeath
Buckcherry
Zico Chain

And now I'm depressed.

:coffee:

[Todd The Kiwi]

that's a pretty wicked line-up :scared:

[Shewolf]

Oh yes, it kicked arse. I'm pretty impressed that I got around to seeing so many bands in 3 days..go me :laugh:
(Go alcohol)

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

Oh yes, it kicked arse. I'm pretty impressed that I got around to seeing so many bands in 3 days..go me :laugh:
(Go alcohol)

Would you let me know when the DVD comes out? Many thanks!

[Todd The Kiwi]

i missed the f'ing blood duster gig!!!! :confused:
"june 22nd @ safari lounge" that is sooo gay

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

w00t! I'm going to see Alchemist live on 4 August in Canberra at the Uni Pub!!!! Sweeeet! A mate of mine might be able to get me in for free too. He's a good friend of one of the band members. :cool:

[Todd The Kiwi]

w00t! I'm going to see Alchemist live on 4 August in Canberra at the Uni Pub!!!! Sweeeet! A mate of mine might be able to get me in for free too. He's a good friend of one of the band members.dewd, that is the coolest thing out
get some sneaky pics ;)

[acushla]

Dweezil Zappa: Zappa Plays Zappa - Tour De Frank (http://www.zappaplayszappa.com/)

An excellent time was had by all.

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

dewd, that is the coolest thing out
get some sneaky pics ;)

Tonight's the night! I'll see if I can bring my camera along, but no promises :)

[Todd The Kiwi]

i'll listen to some LUNASPHERE in their honour :biggrin:

[Willow of Oz]

I was going to go and see them last night, but then I just couldn't be stuffed.
7pm here. Feels like 10pm.

[Todd The Kiwi]

I was going to go and see them last night, but then I just couldn't be stuffed.
7pm here. Feels like 10pm.good, i'm not the only one that happens to.
can't wait for Napalm Death w00 h00!

[Willow of Oz]

can't wait for Napalm Death w00 h00!

Yeah, theoretically I've also got Black Sabbath and Marduk before then, so it will be interesting whether or not I actually see 3 bands in the next 5 weeks ....

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

Woo hoo! Alchemist was wicked! My first metal gig in Oz!!! :P Bring it on!

I managed to get some sneak pics but it wasnt easy. I made a video too which shows Alchemist a lot better in action. It's pretty big so I'll have to do some editing.

Sneak pics @ picasa here (http://picasaweb.google.com/robertfarla).

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

Sneaky video here (http://geoverse.eu/stuff/Alchemist - live 2.avi) (32MB!) 2:40 min

[Willow of Oz]

This one was held at Rod Laver Arena, which is a tennis centre if I'm not mistaken. It sucks for a concert. Maybe just because I was miles away. First time I've been to a concert where I haven't been up close. Didn't have my glasses. Saw little blurs on the stage.
Down were the support, with Phil Anselmo and Pepper Keenan. They were okay.
Sabbath themselves were quite good, but I was not familiar with most of their material from that era.
Highlights would have been Mob Rules, Heaven and Hell, Neon Nights, Children of the Sea.

[Todd The Kiwi]

I'd go to the Sabbath gig to see Phil ha ha :)

[Willow of Oz]

Marduk played at Melbourne's Hifi bar on Friday night, a fairly small venue that allows you to get up close and in the thick of things.
Support one was Iciclan from Tassie. Black metal. The first track bred disinterest, with the playing a little sloppy, the vocalists more miss than hit, and little to enjoy. By the third track, however, the band really hit their stride, and things had tightened up (track 3 was allegedly their slowest, and for most of it they had this midtempo grinding groove going that was quite good). The rest of their set was quite good and I'd like to see them again. They've just released their debut album.
Second support was Perth's The Furor. I've seen them before. For the most part it lacks any subtlety and melody whatsoever, and they come across as pretty bland black metal.
Marduk came out blistering, with Mortuus the vocalist black-clad and looking like he'd been splattered in black blood as he fought his way here from hell itself. They played mostly their fast stuff (okay, that does cover the majority of their catalog) but also some of their slower tracks, which did prompt a few calls of "no more pop songs" and "no more rock beats". Bah, you can't bag good songs.
Baptism by Fire went off, Wolves was probably the most loved by the audience and The Black... closed the gig. The encore, interestingly, consisted of but a single song. Looks like they tried to cover their history fairly evenly, with perhaps 3 of the songs coming from their most recent release, Rom 5:12.
Many in the audience were disappointed by the omission of Throne of Rats, whilst I had been hoping (but not expecting) to hear Blooddawn, the track that introduced me to the band (and which I used as a morning alarm for some time).
I noticed no crowd surfing, though one guy did make it on stage (and them simply walked off) and another attempted to get on stage but security threw him back. So the crowd was relatively restrained, even in its crushing, though I admit to feeling bruised around the pectorals from the height of the stage. I was front row and centre as usual, with the vocalist's foot (on a monitor) often within headbanging distance.
There were a number of chicks there, but Willow's law of chick attendance, which states that the proportion of female attendees increases with the extremity of the band, predicted higher numbers. Perhaps there's a dropoff at a certain level.
Marduk played about a 70 minute set.
This was their first time in Australia, though they formed around 17 years ago.

Greets to Aaron and Jack, whom I met in line waiting for doors to open.

[Todd The Kiwi]

bah! the chicks just dig the leather and black nail polish [you're in mate!] ha ha ha

[markdentoffe]

Syncope.
A Belgian punk/metal/crap band that was playing on my little bro's birthday party.
Metal sucks.:dead:

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

Syncope.
A Belgian punk/metal/crap band that was playing on my little bro's birthday party.
Metal sucks.:dead:

I'd be careful saying things like that around this place mate ;)

:skull: :grimreape :skull:

[Todd The Kiwi]

*deep breaths, deeep breaths*
obviously he's out of his mind on free super strength Belgian beer and weed :ditsy:

[markdentoffe]

Don't go looking that far.
I've got 3 resits.:cry:
Of course I'm out of my mind.
I should be enjoying my holiday now instead of studying accountancy crap.:disappoin

[Todd The Kiwi]

"resits" what are these?
is that what you call weed over there?

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

"resits" what are these?
is that what you call weed over there?

Nah it means redoing exams having failed them the first go. Something that has been abolished in the Netherlands only a year ago or so. So consider yourself lucky Mark :)

In the Netherlands, if you just failed, you can do an assignment to pass or if you fail miserably, you have to resit the entire course or go do something else. Todd, you clearly should try out uni. Maybe you'll like it ;)

[markdentoffe]

"resits" what are these?
is that what you call weed over there?

You remind me of a fat, ever-eating guy in a comic book that says "An indigestion? What's that? Does it taste good?":silly:
Hope you know what an indigestion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigestion) is?

"Resit" should be a commonly used term for having to redo an exam.
My English teacher uses it anyway, and he's British (Scottish really).

By the way, you're not saying there's anything wrong with Belgian beer, are you?
That's the best beer in the world, that is.
Well, you should've noticed me being proud of it by the look of my avatar. ;)
Fine Antwerp beer. Hmmm.:silly: :beer:

[Todd The Kiwi]

Napalm Death tomorrow night, and probably right now somewhere in OZ :globe:

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

Im planning to see Arch Enemy (http://www.archenemy.net/tourdates.php) Oct. 31 - Festival Hall - Melbourne, Australia OR Nov. 01 - Luna Park - Sydney, Australia depending on the people I will go with.

Support acts are: MACHINE HEAD, TRIVIUM, and SHADOWS FALL

Then I may see Megadeth in ~14 Nov but not sure yet. Depends with who im going and if I have the expenses.

[Willow of Oz]

Napalm Death tomorrow night, and probably right now somewhere in OZ :globe:

Melbourne was half a week ago (tuesday is now, thursday was then, I believe).

[Todd The Kiwi]

eeek! i still have to buy my ticket if i'm going.
i really should go, man the venue is really small
it'll be interesting...

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

IRON MAIDEN!! Whoo hoo!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/RMI/im.jpg

The venue im going to is the ACER arena in Sydney. This is going to be friggin' AWESOME!! :devil:

[badbite26]

IRON MAIDEN!! Whoo hoo!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/RMI/im.jpg

The venue im going to is the ACER arena in Sydney. This is going to be friggin' AWESOME!! :devil:

Bruce Dickinson does a radio show for BBC 6, Fridays at midnight GMT. I listen every week.

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

Black Crusade - Festival Hall, Melbourne. Bands played in reverse order for some reason: Arch Enemy, Trivium, Machinehead. I looooved Arch Enemy but I wished they played more songs. Trivium was awesome too. Machinehead was my least favourite in terms of my musical preference although the lead singer was wicked by interacting the most with the crowd. Tis was a good night out. Melbourne friggin rocks! :grimreape

[lillitnn92]

last big show was Anthrax opening for Irom Maiden.

last artist, but a small gig, Jeff Healey. awesome!!!

[Todd The Kiwi]

machine head aye? i saw a poster here advertising them.
i wonder if i missed it...

[cudelleirbag]

Van Halen next Saturday!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/Van_halen_logo.jpg

[Willow of Oz]

Festival of the Dead, split over 2 days at the Hi-fi bar in the Melbourne CBD.
First night featured about 5 bands, and concluded with Daysend, who played a number of hits off their first album and their current, though notably not their debut title track, Severance Day. Pity, I quite like that one. But they did do Born is the Enemy (check out the video if it's available) and Blood of Angels.

Day 2 I missed the first couple and caught the next 6, missing the final act.
I'm actually not familiar with most of the bands that played, though I thought they did a pretty good job. One chap wore a pirate's bandanna. They sounded rather Fear Factory-like.
They were followed by an avant-garde grindcore band that were quite good. Not normally my style of band, but the members were all quite talented, the vocalist was lively and Pattonesque, and their interludes of wackiness in amongst the grind, replete with little dances and quick, witty retorts to the odd audience member's jibes really made them stand out.
The Amenta, from Sydney (or Tassie, if you listen to odd people on the night), played. First time I saw them I wasn't particularly impressed. Second time I saw them (about 2 years ago now) I was more impressed. This time they managed to unimpress me.
Akercocke were up next, second last on the bill - I was surprised, as I expected the UK band to be headlining it. Certainly they were the main drawcard for me.
In prime position at the front I was able to appreciate the classics such as Verdelet, Eyes of Dawn and The Penance, as well as their newer material such as Summon the Antichrist and Man Without Face or Trust. There were also a number of older tracks from before the Words album.
I was damn drained after this one so I had to leave, rehydrate and sleep, meaning I missed the Berzerker, which would have been good to see. I haven't listened to their stuff in years, but their debut album was quite good.

[Todd The Kiwi]

heh heh you said "hit" and "debut" :biggrin:

wow man i need to get my sloth arse to gig i haven't seen one for ages :ponder:

[Willow of Oz]

The Black Crusade featured Machine Head, Trivium and Arch Enemy - none of which are black metal - at Melbourne's Festival Hall (as well as other locations). Contrary to initial reports, there was no Shadows Fall.
The bands had 'strict instructions to be off the stage by 11', as one of the organisers reported to the local police as I was entering.

I saw the gig with a fellow called Rex. If you're out there and reading this Rex, G'day!!

First up were Arch Enemy. This was a surprise to me, as I was expecting the order of the bands to be something along the lines of Machine Head, then Trivium, then Arch Enemy, since AE had an album release about a month ago. Trivium have been out here since their last release, but I'd somehow forgotten that the Blackening by Machine Head was actually released just this year, so they'd be touring on the back of that.

I was about third row for Arch Enemy, so had a pretty good view of what was going on, and I can say that vocalist Angela Gossow totally has washboard abs. Ahem.
I'd have to disagree with Rex's assessment of their performance and say that I thought it was great. Arch Enemy were probably the main drawcard for me, but I have seen them twice before (but only once as a standalone act - the other was with Gigantour).
The band burst on stage with the opening track from their current album Rise of the Tyrant, Blood On Your Hands before moving on to Dead Eyes See No Future.
Most of the tracks they played ended up being from the last three albums, with Nemesis also being played, We Will Rise (the closer), Ravenous, My Apocalypse and of course an instrumental guitar-focused interlude, a staple of any AE gig.
I was disappointed that there was no Out For Blood, but hey, it was a short set. I'd say 45 minutes or so, starting around 7:30. Sniff.

Trivium were up next and basically ripped through as many songs as they could: Pillars of Serpents, Ember to Inferno, Entrance of the Conflagration, Pull Harder, We are the Fire, To the Rats (this might have been the opener?), Becoming the Dragon. Pity there was no Light to the Flies. I was expecting that to be slotted in somewhere - maybe the band's a little tired of playing it, maybe it just was squeezed out by other tracks.
The band's performance was all quite fine and by the numbers, but I was a little less impressed by this set. Again, the set was about 45 minutes long. Maybe it's just because I'm not the world's biggest Trivium fan, but it wasn't the bee's knees. Note, though, that I was about row 6 at this point and struggling to stay on my feet, let alone get up front and actually be able to see anything. The first couple of rows actually stand on a small step, making them marginally higher and ruining the view of those behind.

Between the front row and the stage there's a gap of about a metre and a half with security guards who hauled off the crowd surfers who got all the way over the front.

The third and final act was Machine Head, who began with the behemoth of a track Clenching the Fists of Dissent, which opens their latest album The Blackening and clocks in at around 10 minutes.
Machine Head, as Rex mentioned, actually had a lot of down time to speak with the crowd between songs. We even gave them an "aussie aussie aussie", though it was probably the most disorganised attempt at one I've ever heard.
Also from the Blackening, they played Aesthetics of Hate, which goes off and has killer solos in it. The song was dedicated to Dimebag Darrell, killed three years ago next month: some of the guys in the crowd had commemorative t-shirts on. From the Ashes of Empire album they played Imperium (of course), and there were older tracks as well such as Old and Davidian. (insert moment of doubt - I remember waiting for Davidian, now I'm unsure as to whether they actually played it, or whether I'm recalling them playing Old ...).
Vocalist Rob Flynn was downing the bourbon and coke throughout the gig and tossed one off to the crowd, which I managed to catch a taste of. He also tossed three off to some guy in the front row who was actually trying to catch the cup - based on Rob's clapping after the third time I'm going to assume there was some success.
Since we're talking Halloween here, which, yes, is not that much of a tradition here in Australia, the band went to the effort of a bit of dressing up. We had a Steve Irwin and a school girl. And Rob Flynn with a bit of facial makeup, almost black metal, and a wig. Rob even hauled a couple of red devil-costumed guys out of the crowd along with a check in a black costume, congratulated the three of them and had the crowd cheer to vote for the best dressed. Original devil-guy with his horns and cape won. The three of them stage dived into the crowd - yes, over that metre and a half or so gap. The first guy gave about a half a second or so notice and might have flattened a few unsuspecting people.
The band closed with Halo.
I have to say that Machine Head really seem to have matured their sound and song structure these last two albums. They've really shown a decent bit of growth and it augurs well for their future. Initially I was not heavily into the Blackened - it's hard to grab something and hold it when most of the tracks are around 10 minutes. There's quite a bit of diversity and their lyrics, overall, are somewhere a little above average (by contrast I'd have to say that Arch Enemy's are a little below average). Interestingly, the crowd was heavily into Machine Head and knew quite a lot of the lyrics: quite a lot of the verse lyrics, mind you, not just the usual 2 lines of chorus lyrics.
Fortunately by the time that Machine Head hit the stage I'd managed to get to around 2nd row, giving me a much better view of proceedings, though the crush was insane. For some reason that just seems to be the signature of Festival Hall.

All in all it was a great night out. And Rex and I even managed to catch the last train with almost two minutes to spare, after I bungled things by failing to locate the station until querying two or three strangers on the street.

\m/

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

Thank you Will for that great summary of the gig. I see that I missed the first track that AE played as I was running back and forth outside the venue first being in the wrong queue, then for realising I needed to drop my backpack off at the cloakroom and then queuing back in the right queue. This may have clouded my judgment of AE performance somewhat. Blood on your hands is one of my favourite tracks btw :P Also I was somewhat further back in the crowd where it was a lil quieter with the pushing and shoving. Since im a tall bloke it didnt bother me one bit. I don't know about you Will, but the earplugs saved my ears that night. :beer:

[Willow of Oz]

I don't know about you Will, but the earplugs saved my ears that night. :beer:

Well, my right ear did a funny popping thing, the sort you get when you get water in your ear and it all sounds mushy. Only got that after the concert; dunno if you could tell but I was rubbing my ear most of the time that we were talking afterwards. It's very disconcerting. Hehe, no pun intended.
It only really cleared up around the time we boarded the train.

Blood on your hands is pretty good: it's grown on me a bit - at first I kinda liked it, but it came across as too rehashed "wages of sin" etc (taken from the title of a previous album). But like I said, lyrics have never been AE's strong point.

[Todd The Kiwi]

you guys went to the same gig, wicked! :laugh:

machine head ftw!
i've not heard the others, yet...

[Willow of Oz]

you guys went to the same gig, wicked! :laugh:

machine head ftw!
i've not heard the others, yet...
Oh dude, you gotta listen to Arch Enemy. Angela Gossow ftw!

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

you guys went to the same gig, wicked! :laugh:

Jealous? :grin: You better make sure there is a gig in kiwi-land when i come over :P

[Willow of Oz]

On a side note, we have Behemoth playing here in, oh, 6 weeks, and the support is Kiwiland's Dawn of Azazel. Wait, that might be the band with the cop in it. Better not wave around pirated copies of their album during the gig then. *
Vanishing point play a couple of weeks before that.
Gigantour is somewhere nowish, but I'm not going, because the lineup is just not that strong. Not that it would be bad to see Megadeth and Static X and Lacuna Coil ... but ... you gotta draw the line somewhere. And it's at Festy Hall again, I think. And you all know what I think of Festy Hall.

* at one gig I attended, Vanishing Point actually asked the crowd if anyone had pirated the current album.

[Willow of Oz]

machine head ftw!
i've not heard the others, yet...

I can't see you being overly into trivium: they're a kinda thrashy US metal band.
You'd like Dethklok though. Murmaider and Briefcase Full Of Guts, offhand.

[WHAT?]

But, did either of you get pictures inside the concert?:ermm:

Post 'em dudes!

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

Sorry no pics. Go here to see what the place looks like (http://melbourne.diarystar.com.au/the-black-crusade-melbourne-concert/) with ppl in it.

[Willow of Oz]

But, did either of you get pictures inside the concert?:ermm:

Post 'em dudes!
Er no.
I was frisked on the way in, and, er, I just didn't have a camera or camera phone on me.

[Todd The Kiwi]

Er no.
I was frisked on the way in, and, er, I just didn't have a camera or camera phone on me.was that worth the admission alone?
ha ha that reminds me i knew a chick who used to work as 'additional security' at a stadium near by part time, she'd get a bit drunk and basically fondle "hot guys" as they entered ha ha :ponder:

aaaaanyway.

[Willow of Oz]

was that worth the admission alone?
ha ha that reminds me i knew a chick who used to work as 'additional security' at a stadium near by part time, she'd get a bit drunk and basically fondle "hot guys" as they entered ha ha :ponder:

aaaaanyway.

This was similar, since I had long hair and painted nails and probably too much of my butt hanging out my pants, and I was being frisked by this hot guy....
:scared:

[Todd The Kiwi]

:shocked: duuuude?!
leave the nail polish at HOME man :silly:

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

:shocked: duuuude?!
leave the nail polish at HOME man :silly:

Actually, assuming that the nail polish colour used is not too pink-like, it's not too offensive. You should try it Todd. I didn't get frisked much but I went in I didn't realise that there was a second dude checking the tickets ha ha So he tapped on my shoulder and I was like "Oh yeah oops he he" Then I got in.