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« on: 26 Jan 2006, 22:41 »
Anyway so yesterday I went to the Sydney Big Day Out and had a blast of a time. I was just wondering what other Aussies and Kiwi's went to the BDO on this board, and what their best and most disappointing acts were.

My favourite act was The Subways, I knew the first time that I heard them on the radio that I was going to love them live and they did a really good show in sydney. The lead singer got off the stage, and crowd surfed and jumped on the speakers, when security decided to try and kick him out. Then his agent or promoter or something decided to fight the security guard so that he could finish the song. The guy got let go, he finished the song, kicked over his mike stand whilst the drummer trashed his drums. Best set I've seen in a long time.

Franz disappointed me, frankly because 1 I was too far out to see shit, and the set, apart from Michael was pretty boring and predicatable. Had fun dancing though.

This thread may be pretty limited. If it dies in the arse, we could turn it into a general festival thread, but only if it dies in the arse.
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« Reply #1 on: 27 Jan 2006, 00:20 »
I didn't go cause A) AFI pulled out and B) Iggy and The Stooges and The Mars Volta were playing at the same time.
Also it was too expensive.
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« Reply #2 on: 27 Jan 2006, 07:30 »
see, AFI pulling out would increase my desire to go. man, i wish i'd flown over there - beautiful city, wonderful country, amazing line-up. i'll definitely try and get to it in the next few years, man.
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« Reply #3 on: 27 Jan 2006, 16:31 »
I was pretty impressed with Sleater-Kinney and The Go! Team - they were probably my favourites.  Franz I thought were ok - at least they looked like they were enjoying themselves.  Iggy was pretty good too - did anyone else think that Mike Watt (Stooges bassist) looked like Ray from Achewood when he was playing?

My biggest dissapointment was that I didn't get to see Soulwax or Mars Volta because of clashes
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« Reply #4 on: 27 Jan 2006, 18:24 »
I didn't go to the one in Sydney, but I've got my ticket for Adelaide next Friday. I can't wait, Youth Group and The Subways are the two acts that I want to see the most. Youth Group have a really amazing album, but I have never seen them live so it will be good to see how they perform.
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« Reply #5 on: 28 Jan 2006, 00:58 »
not me the price was too high for the amount of bands i wanted to see
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« Reply #6 on: 28 Jan 2006, 01:24 »
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My biggest dissapointment was that I didn't get to see Soulwax or Mars Volta because of clashes


Mars Volta were really good, they sounded fantastic, and it wasn't that packed so we got a really good place.

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I didn't go to the one in Sydney, but I've got my ticket for Adelaide next Friday. I can't wait, Youth Group and The Subways are the two acts that I want to see the most. Youth Group have a really amazing album, but I have never seen them live so it will be good to see how they perform.


Youth group sounds really really good live, I didn't get to see them cause I was camping out for a good place for the Subways, but they sounded awesome.
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« Reply #7 on: 28 Jan 2006, 03:05 »
the line up this year wasnt good enough to warrant a road trip and all but i had several mates who still went and loved it (even if the bands are crap festivals are still awesome right?)
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« Reply #8 on: 28 Jan 2006, 17:32 »
I can actually hear it from my house right now - it's only a few blocks away.  But the line-up just isn't that exciting this year: I don't like Franz Ferdinand, I wouldn't have minded seeing Iggy & the Stooges but I can live without it, and I'm seeing the Go! Team do a stand-alone gig in a few days' time.

Youth Group are great live, but I've only seen them in a fairly small venue.  I'm not sure how well they'd translate to a festival stage.
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« Reply #9 on: 28 Jan 2006, 19:12 »
I loved Sleater-Kinney best of all. After listening to The Woods loads over the last couple of months it was awesome to see practically the whole thing done live.

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Bands who also rocked my world were the Greenhornes, The Go! Team, The Magic Numbers and the White Stripes (of course). Iggy was cool just 'cause he was Iggy, but I was a bit disappointed that The Stooges didn't play anything off Raw Power.

Franz was pretty good but a bit lacking in energy (I admit that this could also have been because I was miles away from the stage).
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« Reply #10 on: 28 Jan 2006, 19:53 »
None of the big bands I like ever headline the BDO (despite the persistant rumour every goddamned year that Maiden will be playing) so I never bother the trip down the coast and the huge price tag, to see the smaller bands I'm interested in play in a goddamned hot, uncomfortable setting, on a Sunday.

From what I can tell, the last few BDO's have been pretty weak. Chris Cheney seems to do that thing with the slide guitar beer bottle every year, and I heard Iggy was looking pretty old and raggard on stage.

Public Liability concerns are making music festivals a less enjoyable experience as a whole in the last few years. Hell, even Market Day was pretty expensive this year. I would like to go to Homebake and the Falls Festival at some point in my life though, they always have interesting lineups, and it's not hard to lure me to Splendour in the Grass year after year, so I'm not dumping on the whole festival experience, but the BDO just doesn't appeal to me as much as it did six years ago
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« Reply #11 on: 29 Jan 2006, 03:12 »
My mate has gone to see it in melbs, I opted out, don't like the line up. Last years line up was way better.
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« Reply #12 on: 29 Jan 2006, 13:49 »
I went on thursday. It was an absolutely fantastic line up - I mean, its iggy! He was absolutely amazing. I also saw Wolf and Cub, The Presets, Sleater-Kinney (who were great), The Magic Numbers, Sarah Blasko, Henry Rollins (spoken word), The Living End, Franz Ferdinand And The White Stripes. Totally worth the ticket price.
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« Reply #13 on: 29 Jan 2006, 20:21 »
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Henry Rollins (spoken word),
I fell asleep during the go team and woke up listening to Henry Rollins talk about some band and then he goes "cause it's fucking nirvana man" and the crowd goes ape shit. I didn't get it.
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« Reply #14 on: 29 Jan 2006, 21:17 »
Maybe 'cause you were asleep?

Rollins was a cool little diversion. I enjoyed his ranting.

Also, how do you fall asleep during the Go! Team? Seriously!
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« Reply #15 on: 29 Jan 2006, 22:48 »
That story was about how the Beasts of Bourbon showed up Nirvana.

I liked his iggy and ramones stories. He's an interesting guy.
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« Reply #16 on: 30 Jan 2006, 01:04 »
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I can actually hear it from my house right now - it's only a few blocks away.  But the line-up just isn't that exciting this year: I don't like Franz Ferdinand, I wouldn't have minded seeing Iggy & the Stooges but I can live without it, and I'm seeing the Go! Team do a stand-alone gig in a few days' time.

Youth Group are great live, but I've only seen them in a fairly small venue.  I'm not sure how well they'd translate to a festival stage.



You are doing a great thing by seeing Go! Team. est and I saw them last week and they put on one of the best shows I've seen in a while. :D
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« Reply #17 on: 30 Jan 2006, 01:08 »
also, we missed out on going to the Big Day Out because all the decent bands showed up in the last announcement.  the initial lineup wasn't all that impressive.  i kept waiting and waiting and waiting, then suddenly there were a bunch of cool bands on board and Sydney was already sold out.

and apparently every one of the thursday night releases sold in like, 5mins.  however, neither myself nor a friend could ever even get into the site during those times.  no freaking idea what really happened with that shit.

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« Reply #18 on: 30 Jan 2006, 03:13 »
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Also, how do you fall asleep during the Go! Team? Seriously!

Seriously, after Sarah Blasko, I was spent. I had been on my feet forever and I'd seen set after set and then I just zonked out, i found a bit of shade next to a Kebab stand and dozed off whilst my friends watched The go Team.
Like I heard them and shit, but I was off in another world.
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