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Big Day Out '08 - the verdict?

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ViolentDove:
Sounds like you had a much better day than I did!


--- Quote from: Inlander ---in particular there was some kind of weird circular table thing, which was a screen, and which had a whole bunch of blocks with different symbols on them arrayed around the edge, and he'd pick off blocks with great eagerness and place them on the screen and the blocks would start communicating with each other, or something, and then he'd turn the blocks and . . . I don't know, it's impossible to describe and I don't even know what if anything it had to do with the music, but it was fascinating to watch and he certainly seemed very dedicated to it!
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That device is called the ReacTable, and is definitely my New Favourite Instrument after I saw it used at the Opera House. It's pretty much the most innovative interface for a synth I've ever seen.

ReacTable demo video

FireAarro:
I wanted to get into the D to watch Arcade Fire and Bjork, but I didn't get there early enough. I lined up for about 45 minutes, during 30 minutes of Grinspoon's set and 15 minutes of the Arcade Fire's set. I got totally crushed. I was right at the front of the queue by the end of my time in it, and there was literally no freedom of movement because we were crushed so tightly by dickheads at the back pushing forward the whole time. These two girls were trying to get out, they were one person away from the barrier out of the queue and were still stuck for 10 minutes. I got right under the green lights to go in but because of the way the crowd moved, I got stuck between the fence, the stairs for people to climb out of the queue and a giant impenetrable wall of people moving in, so I couldn't get back into the moving part of the queue. At this point I decided I had enough so I jumped out and got ready to watch Battles play. I was really disappointed at how they handled this. They didn't seem to have any security managing the queues at all, just in the barrier around the D. It probably would've been easier to get in by jumping the fences than lining up. Two years ago, there was none of these dangerous crowd density problems in the queue. Did anybody get in the D to see these bands? How long did you have to line up? I'm super jealous of my friends who went in 3 hours earlier and was right at the front for both of them. He rates Arcade Fire as by far the most amazing show he's seen.

Anyway, highlights of my day were Mountains In The Sky, Gameboy/Gamegirl, Battles and LCD Soundsystem.

Mountains In The Sky were early on, and a real lucky guess to watch. They were pretty much amazing. I can't wait to see them again in a more intimate setting, where the crowd is there to see them. They had two members, a drummer and a guy playing Moog synth and a MIDI Controller. Their music- sample loops/noise and warm synths layering shoegaze-esque textures with loud and heavy hip hop beats. What's there not to like? The textures and dynamics they built were awesome, I think there was a lot of improv/jamming and the drummer had sweet skills for it.

Gameboy/Gamegirl are perhaps one of my favourite Melbourne live bands. funfunfunfunfunfunfunfun

Battles were pretty good, but I couldn't hear some of the guitar lines very well. I'm not all that much into them. Also I was kinda worn out from the D line, which was a much more intense experience.

LCD Soundsystem! I was feeling pretty crap by this point of the night after missing the Arcade Fire (who were the band I most wanted to see) but LCD fixed it, sort of. Anyway, they had an amazing band. I'm not going to remember any of the songs really (I hadn't really heard him much before BDO) but the energy was overflowing, infectious. Songs I'd heard before but didn't like (Daft Punk is playing at my house) were very enjoyable live. Also the Boiler Room has pretty lights.

Inlander:

--- Quote from: ViolentDove on 28 Jan 2008, 14:31 ---ReacTable links

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Awesome, thanks for sharing!

For some reason I forgot L.C.D. Soundsystem were playing. Oh well, I'm not familiar with any of their music anyway.

Ishotdanieljohnston:
I actually had a really good time cause I'd never been to one before and everyone always says how terrible it is so my expectations were low. The crowd were really good, no people who I wanted to smash in the face. I missed out on LCD and Battles, which was disappointing, cause no one I was with wanted to go to them but I still had a really good time. Rage were surprisingly fun, even though I'm not a fan. Arcade Fire were great- so much energy, and they bagged out Australian TV which is always a good thing. Bjork stole the day though, she made me an instant fan of her music.

So in conclusion I had alot of fun. It was too hot and the dick head security guards kept hosing us down to excess but it was still a fun day.

Gridgm:

--- Quote from: Inlander on 28 Jan 2008, 14:19 ---One mystery, though: they had a large set of organ pipes at the back of the stage, and a keyboard that somebody played and which produced an impressive noise during "Intervention", but from the glimpses I got it didn't seem that the two were actually connected. Were the pipes just decorative? Was the impressive sound just sampled and synthesized?

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if you look in the pictures just below i'm fairly sure the organ pipes behind the keyboard is disconnected to this but the thing i've circled in red in teh second picture is what was actually making the organ sounds and then just amplified

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l249/gridgm/Copyof105_0076.jpg
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l249/gridgm/CopyofCopyof105_0076.jpg


--- Quote from: Inlander on 28 Jan 2008, 14:19 ---Machine over on the main stage, but it stopped shortly even though Rage continued and I'm now convinced that it was an extremely minor earth tremor, of the kind that happens from time to time in Australia.

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as someone who was watching rage instead of paul kelly i can say the earth shaking coincided pretty much with the first song only when everyone was jumping and only started again when everyone started jumping again as they closed with killing in the name of


i'm not sure whether this is true but it seems that we get better sound quality in the "D" than outside it because some of my friends (outside) said that arcade fire sounded bad while those inside thought it was joyous

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