Sweat fest
December 20th 2008
- Parkway drive
- Suicide silence
- A day to remember (lol)
- The acacia strain
- Confession
Footage from the Sydney show (I went to the one in Melbourne) It was my first gig.
Was a 38 degree day.
I bought a shirt at the gig because the one I had on was soaked in sweat and I did not want to go home in it.
I lost a shoe as well.
Went back to a mates place and got in the pool and had beers.
To good.
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Chris wants me to post my first live music experience, but i cant remember it.. The oldest one I can clearly remember (at least at the start) was the Big Day Out in Perth in 2002. I remember watching Garbage (the reason I went and the reason I made it through my teenage years) and Kosheen (before they got big), The Prodigy, and I remember watching the White Stripes and not knowing who the fuck I was watching despite them playing some of their big hits, because I had been sunburnt to a crisp and was suffering from dehydration.
Full lineup is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Day...s_by_year#2002
I know this wasnt the first time I had seen live music, because one does not simply go to the big day you.. You have to work up to it.
< Jolin> you're prety too LanaTorrinOriginally Posted by lubica
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I think it was nine inch nails in 1995 or 6. It was that or Green day, Tori Amos, or some other band I can't remember. This is of course discounting street festivals or else this was my first live music experience some time late 80's or maybe early 90's with this gem of a musician. http://www.wallypleasant.com/
Edit: wait wait, my first live concert ever was even earlier in my youth. My dad took me to see the Blackwatch at the Breslin center. Forever endearing me to bagpipes, and forever making me sad because it rarely ever lives up to my first experience.
Last edited by Tellenta; May 30 2012 at 06:49:04 AM.
Mhhhm first concert was probably Goldfinger on the Donauinselfest in 2000.
First proper festival was Forestglade 2001
why did they draw you on the poster chris?
do ho ho
Ill post about downs first gig.
It was a battle of the bands that I dragged him to
He got hit on by a gay guy and didn't realize.
and then after the gig we were going to go sit at a play ground and wait for my old man to come and pick us up and there was 2 people fucking on the slide.
Then we went and found a supermarket but it was shut.
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My first was Boney M about 20 years ago.
SHUT UP
so thats why you wouldnt let me play on the swings. i thought it was just some druggies shooting up or somethingdo ho ho
Ill post about downs first gig.
It was a battle of the bands that I dragged him to
He got hit on by a gay guy and didn't realize.
and then after the gig we were going to go sit at a play ground and wait for my old man to come and pick us up and there was 2 people fucking on the slide.
Then we went and found a supermarket but it was shut.
Alice Cooper at the Sydney Entertainment Centre, he was touring after the release of the Poison album. Think I was nine and jumped up and down about it enough that dad relented and took me to the show.
Had to watch the moshpit from all the way up the back.
Flogging Molly. Graceland, Seattle.
13 years old getting dropped off in Seattle, big boy shoes.
I have been to every show they held in the area since(until I moved), awesome live performers.
chris ur a cool bro and all but that shit looks fucking disgusting
DEADICATION TO A BITTER SIGHT
First gig I went to was The Vandals playing at the Highbury Garage in 1999. It had been oversold and the frontman knocked himself out on one of the ceiling beams and later got naked on stage.
It was Turisas in 2006 in Birmingham, I didn't really care all that much about music until I was about 15 and I decided that the first gig I went to had to be really awesome. It lived up to expectations and I hit someone with a rubber battleaxe. doog times
Incubus in 2001 in Florida, followed shortly by RHCP at Wembley. was a good year.
Goldie lookin chain in brecon, november 2005
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Sooo...it was 1973 and I was a dorky 14 year old (nbs) into David Bowie, New York Dolls, and other glam rock music-wise. My friend's brother was a DJ at a local radio station and got a bunch of free tickets to a big concert at Cleveland Stadium headlining the Stones and also featuring Tower of Power, Joe Vitale, and a couple of other bands I knew nothing about. He gave us each a ticket. Free tickets, concert. We didn't care who it was, we were going TO A CONCERT.
Conned my mom into driving us to Cleveland from where we lived in Akron the evening before so we could get in line early. Concert was scheduled to start at like 2 p.m. the next day. We fully expected a huge long line and indeed that started to happen around 2 in the morning. In those days, big events still sold tickets at the door and it was open seating more like a festival situation in the stadium. Also conned her into making my "outfit" for the concert: a black satin pantsuit lined in red satin. White t-shirt with sparkly design I made myself (*shakes head in dismayed embarrassment at this memory*), 5" cork-soled black platforms. I thought I was THE SHIT but in fact looked totally ridiculous and can only thank the powers of the universe that no photos survive of this fashion nightmare. Not only did this outfit look ridiculous, the concert was in the middle of summer so it was hot and humid as fuck. Not exactly appropriate attire for the weather, by far.
By the time the doors actually opened, we'd been standing around for many, many hours, or walking around the stadium to kill time. There was no place to buy any food or something to drink and besides that I think I had a whole $20 on me plus some small amount of cash to ride the midnight bus back to Akron where my mom was scheduled to pick us up at the bus station. I remember being so hot, sweaty, hungry, and thirsty. Then when the doors opened, it was like a cattle stampede to the infield where the stage was set up. Me and my friend were right in the thick of it. How I didn't break a leg in those ridiculous shoes running down steps, jumping off the short wall from the bleachers into the field, or running and shoving my way through the crowd to get close to the stage I do not know. We ended up about 10 people from the stage, though, so VICTORY!
It was sooo packed with people. However, once the music started (a couple of hours later), people were comfortably stoned and starting to sit down/lay down/relax so the crowd loosened up. It was still a trick to find the portapotties and I remember some big fat fucker behind me kept bumping into me with his belly so finally I just jabbed backward as hard as I could with my elbow and never looked around, but it didn't happen again. After making my way back to my friend, we started to chill with the adults around us who proceeded to share joints with us and something in a jug that tasted like orange juice and was probably well mixed with vodka. We had no experience of either thing but hey, we were COOL so we partook. And got utterly wasted. The rest of the concert passed by in a buzzy fog, although I do remember that when the Stones came on the first thing they did was spray the crowd with this big ass firehose because it was so bloody hot. I had long since taken off my stylin' satin jacket and lost track of it. Notasinglefuckwasgiven.
Eventually the concert ended and we somehow made our way to the bus. I feel so sorry for whoever was sitting near us. We must have smelled and looked just awful. When we got to my mom's car at the other end and fell into it with great relief, the first words out of my mouth were, "God, I stink." My mom and my brother just cracked up (and to this day, tease me about that). Then I fell asleep and don't even remember getting home or into bed.
I think that experience cured me of festival type events cuz I had zero desire to go to another one ever again. Assigned seating in smaller venues seemed like a dream come true when I went to my next concert which was The Tubes a couple of years later (White Punks on Dope! \o/).
Thank you FHC for dredging up yet another memory of my youth.
Last edited by Mynxee; May 30 2012 at 01:04:16 PM. Reason: added some details
I have never been to a gig that had seats.
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- Krans 26/7/12
The Darkness at Wembley Arena when I was 13.
Not gonna lie; it was a good show
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< Jolin> you're prety too LanaTorrin
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I saw Jethro Tull in Bristol. That had seats and it was a really good gig.
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