Downunder
04-22-2008, 09:38 PM
Right here we go:
The night started with the Mrs. and I getting to the dome early so we could get something to eat and a few drinks, the fish and chips were fucking awful but the couple of pints of Heineken went down pretty good, anyway on to the venue. The first thing you do is give a security ape your ticket in exchange for a coloured wristband; we had fluro orange which meant FRONT OF THE STAGE BABY!!! Cool except you don't get to keep your tickets and I like to keep all my concert tickets. No matter. Anyway once the doors opened 30 minutes late there were people everywhere, but we were well positioned in the queue.
Ok in we go, as soon as we get through the doors my Mrs. decides she wants a tour shirt, are you fucking kidding there are a thousand other people with front of the stage wristbands FUCK!! She wouldn't let me go on ahead and save her spot so I had to stand with her while she bought the fucking shirt. RIGHT LETS GO!!! 5 meters from the front of the stage section and she wants to go to the ladies OH YOU HAVE TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME!!! I gave her one of those make it quick or there is going to be a divorce looks, she fired back one of "those" looks that only a woman can do and I waited patiently. She was back pretty quick. Anyway I guess everyone else was waiting for the wives to have a slash because when we got to the section we got a spot right at the barrier ROCK ON!!
Right so the opening act that played to the few thousand early people was Kaki King, if you have never seen this chick play guitar then do yourself a favour and do a YouTube search - wow this chick can play. But for me it's a bit of a novelty as I got a bit bored after a few songs, but you can't knock the chick’s talent.
Second act - The Mess Hall, I think they are Australian, but they suck and I was bored after half a song.
BOOM!
The Foo Fighters hit opening with Let It Die - I nearly fucking did, Dave Grhol is a fucking God, they ripped through The Pretender, Times Like These, Breakout (fucking scream) Learn to Fly, Cheer Up Boys, This is a Call and I didn't take a breath until Stacked Actors - I pretty sure the band didn't either. As a frontman Dave is the man, he worked the crowd into frenzy. Things slowed down a bit with the next few songs - Skin and Bones, Marigold, My Hero (big sing along moment for the crowd) then Dave introduced the band, everyone got a good pop and the triangle player did a solo - funny as shit. Then he introduced Taylor Hawkins on the drums. I don't know why but he got a HUGE pop - he is the man though. Taylor then sang Cold Day In The Sun - Was pretty fucking good.
Right, the show just fucking rocked along like a Foo Fighters show should, with Everlong, Monkey Wrench (one of my all time favourite Foos songs) and ended with all My Life.
Then Dave and Taylor did a little backstage skit that was shown on the big screens arguing over how many more songs to play, Taylor wanted to play 5 more and Dave wanted to play 1 more, they settled on 3 more. Big me, Long Road to Ruin and brought the fucking house down with Best Of You.
Fucking awesome show, fucking fucking awesome! FUCK!
Pics up in a bit.
The night started with the Mrs. and I getting to the dome early so we could get something to eat and a few drinks, the fish and chips were fucking awful but the couple of pints of Heineken went down pretty good, anyway on to the venue. The first thing you do is give a security ape your ticket in exchange for a coloured wristband; we had fluro orange which meant FRONT OF THE STAGE BABY!!! Cool except you don't get to keep your tickets and I like to keep all my concert tickets. No matter. Anyway once the doors opened 30 minutes late there were people everywhere, but we were well positioned in the queue.
Ok in we go, as soon as we get through the doors my Mrs. decides she wants a tour shirt, are you fucking kidding there are a thousand other people with front of the stage wristbands FUCK!! She wouldn't let me go on ahead and save her spot so I had to stand with her while she bought the fucking shirt. RIGHT LETS GO!!! 5 meters from the front of the stage section and she wants to go to the ladies OH YOU HAVE TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME!!! I gave her one of those make it quick or there is going to be a divorce looks, she fired back one of "those" looks that only a woman can do and I waited patiently. She was back pretty quick. Anyway I guess everyone else was waiting for the wives to have a slash because when we got to the section we got a spot right at the barrier ROCK ON!!
Right so the opening act that played to the few thousand early people was Kaki King, if you have never seen this chick play guitar then do yourself a favour and do a YouTube search - wow this chick can play. But for me it's a bit of a novelty as I got a bit bored after a few songs, but you can't knock the chick’s talent.
Second act - The Mess Hall, I think they are Australian, but they suck and I was bored after half a song.
BOOM!
The Foo Fighters hit opening with Let It Die - I nearly fucking did, Dave Grhol is a fucking God, they ripped through The Pretender, Times Like These, Breakout (fucking scream) Learn to Fly, Cheer Up Boys, This is a Call and I didn't take a breath until Stacked Actors - I pretty sure the band didn't either. As a frontman Dave is the man, he worked the crowd into frenzy. Things slowed down a bit with the next few songs - Skin and Bones, Marigold, My Hero (big sing along moment for the crowd) then Dave introduced the band, everyone got a good pop and the triangle player did a solo - funny as shit. Then he introduced Taylor Hawkins on the drums. I don't know why but he got a HUGE pop - he is the man though. Taylor then sang Cold Day In The Sun - Was pretty fucking good.
Right, the show just fucking rocked along like a Foo Fighters show should, with Everlong, Monkey Wrench (one of my all time favourite Foos songs) and ended with all My Life.
Then Dave and Taylor did a little backstage skit that was shown on the big screens arguing over how many more songs to play, Taylor wanted to play 5 more and Dave wanted to play 1 more, they settled on 3 more. Big me, Long Road to Ruin and brought the fucking house down with Best Of You.
Fucking awesome show, fucking fucking awesome! FUCK!
Pics up in a bit.