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February 3, 2007
One Big Day Out
A nice little coincidence with the timing of our trip was that we were able to hit up the Big Day Out. It's a giant music festival that tours Australia with a ton of stages and pretty much a range of artists to satisfy even the most eclectic of musical tastes.
We started partying at one of Nat's friends' places around 11am and headed to the showgrounds for 1pm. The first act we caught was the Herds, an urban funk/hip hop (maybe, I'm not too good with all the definitions of style in today's music....damn, I'm getting old) band that I'd heard of (pun intended, add a rimshot if you have your own drumset handy) on occasion. They do a cover of a song called "I was only 19", which was done originally by Redgum and is a brilliantly written song about the tragedies of war and stemmed from Vietnam I believe... Anyways, we were lucky enough to see the Herds cover it along with the writer and lead-singer of Redgum. It was pretty powerful.
After that, we headed down to the larger outdoor stages to catch My Chemical Romance, Eskimo Joe, and the Killers. From there it was back to the Boilerroom for the Streets, and back to the main stages to catch the final acts of Jet, Muse and Tool. All I can say is that Tool rocks. Any band that has a giant flaming hand shooting 20-40m fireballs from the fingertips, knows how to put on a fucking rock show.
They ended at 10pm so we moved on to the Green stage where Violent Femmes were finishing up. They may look like a bunch of old men on stage, but they rock just as much as when they were 80's icons. Missed Blister in the Sun, but heard Add it Up and Gone Daddy Gone. They finished at 10:30pm so obviously we moved on again, back to the Boilerroom for the last couple tracks spun by the Crystal Method DJs.
At the end of it all, we sat around mobile phones ablaze with text messages and intermittent calls trying to round up everyone outside the gates of a venue emptying 35,000 people. Let's just say that took a few minutes.
A little after party til the wee hours of the morn and that was ONE BIG DAY OUT!
Posted by Dr.Unk at February 3, 2007 2:17 AM
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