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BACK FROM SOUNDWAVE
13 years ago
THAT WAS THE MOST WALKING I'VE DONE IN MY LIFE.
Sydney Olympic Park is well... pretty freakin' huge. There were seven stages all playing at pretty much the same time, and 35,000 people lined up out the front for two blocks. Line moved quickly though, which was good. Shout-out to the guy behind us trying to get rid of his choc chip cookie. I don't like food from Subway either, man... just wondering wether or not you met up with the guy dressed as the Cookie Monster, lmao.
First off we rocked up to see Chimera and Gojira, there was a guy who climbed on top of a garbage bin to do a stripper routine. I can definitely say that within moments, he'd trashed the place where he was standing (no pun intended - there were beer cans everywhere). loxodrome and I were pretty much jam-packed with people, and we weren't even near the front of the stage either. Most people were pretty well behaved, out of 35k people only 20 were arrested.
So loxodrome and I went from Gojira to try and see Heaven Shall Burn and Kittie... we were pretty dissapointed with HSB, to be brutally honest. The indoor arenas had horrible EQ and the reverberation shook your feet even if you had them lifted off the ground. The guys doing the sound mixing were pretty terrible at their job and kept having a passive-aggressive argument; one guy got the EQ perfect and then another guy would come in and turn everything up to max volume, which was very fustrating. EQ were kind enough to give me an apple, though. "Hey, you want this apple?" So I dumbfoundedly mumble/yell-over-the-noise "Sure, thanks!" and that was that.
Kittie did a pretty neat performance though. Major ladyboners were had over the lead singer and guitarists, and I am proud to say they sure had girl power. Really pissed me off that they didn't have any merch though, so all that walking to stalls meant nothing...
We decided to head over to see Meshuggah after that, and OH MY GOD IT WAS AWESOME. Their set felt shorter than we had expected, and they played most of their well-known stuff, rather than album previews, but overall I was in mesh-heaven or something. A huge Mesh-head decided to high five loxodrome... in the stomach.... then proceeded to scream "MESHUGGAH SHIRT FUCK YEAH GIMMIE A HIGH FIVE MAN WHOOO", before running off to leave my boyfriend looking somewhat confused.
Oh and I got a Meshuggah shirt, which makes me happy. <3
When Meshuggah finished we decided to try our luck with Dillinger Escape Plan, and they had the same EQ problem as Heaven and Kittie. Within moments of them starting their first song, we shook our heads in dissapointment and made our way to see Unearth, who were playing in twenty minutes.
The band who played before, though... think it was Mastodon or someone, can't remember... FREAKIN' SIX MINUTE SOLO. They got to the point where they were just being show-y, so we had to wait. But around the same time, every single person had literally filled Arena 1, where Slipknot and Manson were playing. I was suprised by how empty Unearth's stage was... and how much junk there was lying around. You couldn't even sit down without moving five ciggarettes out of the way. Totally worth seeing Unearth though, their light show was epic and their general performance was fantastic.
By now it was late, and lox decided to be nice and let us see Enter Shikari instead of Devin Townsend... unfortunately, neither of us had heard much Shikari and felt completely and utterly ripped off because of the huge dubstep solo, and stupid scene kids running around with their reverse caps and shuttershades... DANCING. TO METAL.
Lox just facepalmed as we made our way out of the arena at the end of the night. Still got a shikari shirt, because we just blamed it on the arena/fanbase rather than the band themselves. I'll give them a bit more of a listen and see if I still like them, but I still feel like I wasted $40 on that shirt... and still feel kinda bad because lox really wanted to see Townsend.
But, overall, we had a good time. For a first major music festival, loxodrome and I enjoyed ourselves, walked the equivalent of a marathon, and spent pretty much all the money we had, driving home on a school week and missing out on craploads of college homework.
So I'll rate Soundwave a 4/5, maybe 3.5 for the terrible EQ and horrible amount of walking.
Sydney Olympic Park is well... pretty freakin' huge. There were seven stages all playing at pretty much the same time, and 35,000 people lined up out the front for two blocks. Line moved quickly though, which was good. Shout-out to the guy behind us trying to get rid of his choc chip cookie. I don't like food from Subway either, man... just wondering wether or not you met up with the guy dressed as the Cookie Monster, lmao.
First off we rocked up to see Chimera and Gojira, there was a guy who climbed on top of a garbage bin to do a stripper routine. I can definitely say that within moments, he'd trashed the place where he was standing (no pun intended - there were beer cans everywhere). loxodrome and I were pretty much jam-packed with people, and we weren't even near the front of the stage either. Most people were pretty well behaved, out of 35k people only 20 were arrested.
So loxodrome and I went from Gojira to try and see Heaven Shall Burn and Kittie... we were pretty dissapointed with HSB, to be brutally honest. The indoor arenas had horrible EQ and the reverberation shook your feet even if you had them lifted off the ground. The guys doing the sound mixing were pretty terrible at their job and kept having a passive-aggressive argument; one guy got the EQ perfect and then another guy would come in and turn everything up to max volume, which was very fustrating. EQ were kind enough to give me an apple, though. "Hey, you want this apple?" So I dumbfoundedly mumble/yell-over-the-noise "Sure, thanks!" and that was that.
Kittie did a pretty neat performance though. Major ladyboners were had over the lead singer and guitarists, and I am proud to say they sure had girl power. Really pissed me off that they didn't have any merch though, so all that walking to stalls meant nothing...
We decided to head over to see Meshuggah after that, and OH MY GOD IT WAS AWESOME. Their set felt shorter than we had expected, and they played most of their well-known stuff, rather than album previews, but overall I was in mesh-heaven or something. A huge Mesh-head decided to high five loxodrome... in the stomach.... then proceeded to scream "MESHUGGAH SHIRT FUCK YEAH GIMMIE A HIGH FIVE MAN WHOOO", before running off to leave my boyfriend looking somewhat confused.
Oh and I got a Meshuggah shirt, which makes me happy. <3
When Meshuggah finished we decided to try our luck with Dillinger Escape Plan, and they had the same EQ problem as Heaven and Kittie. Within moments of them starting their first song, we shook our heads in dissapointment and made our way to see Unearth, who were playing in twenty minutes.
The band who played before, though... think it was Mastodon or someone, can't remember... FREAKIN' SIX MINUTE SOLO. They got to the point where they were just being show-y, so we had to wait. But around the same time, every single person had literally filled Arena 1, where Slipknot and Manson were playing. I was suprised by how empty Unearth's stage was... and how much junk there was lying around. You couldn't even sit down without moving five ciggarettes out of the way. Totally worth seeing Unearth though, their light show was epic and their general performance was fantastic.
By now it was late, and lox decided to be nice and let us see Enter Shikari instead of Devin Townsend... unfortunately, neither of us had heard much Shikari and felt completely and utterly ripped off because of the huge dubstep solo, and stupid scene kids running around with their reverse caps and shuttershades... DANCING. TO METAL.
Lox just facepalmed as we made our way out of the arena at the end of the night. Still got a shikari shirt, because we just blamed it on the arena/fanbase rather than the band themselves. I'll give them a bit more of a listen and see if I still like them, but I still feel like I wasted $40 on that shirt... and still feel kinda bad because lox really wanted to see Townsend.
But, overall, we had a good time. For a first major music festival, loxodrome and I enjoyed ourselves, walked the equivalent of a marathon, and spent pretty much all the money we had, driving home on a school week and missing out on craploads of college homework.
So I'll rate Soundwave a 4/5, maybe 3.5 for the terrible EQ and horrible amount of walking.
[DANCING. TO METAL]
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