Sunday, February 22, 2009

38 year old men dressed like 14 year olds

they played it, they played it, oh my god they played it! they played "Bringer Of Greater Things", so now I can die happy, or at least I can say I fell asleep happy last night.

the foolish crowd antics were still an hilarious romp, but the Melbourne version had a slightly different feel to the Brisbane version. How shall I put it? Let's see if this captures it just a little: "crowd heckling duties taken care of by vaguely-libertarian drunkenly-moronic shirtless pop-punk yobbos".

exhibit A: people hooting and hollering when the singer of Propagandhi (well I think it was the singer) mentioned it was Charles Darwin's birthday soon

exhibit B: old-mate beside me yelling out "marijuana is awesome!" when a Prop member member regaled the audience with a pot-related ancedote

but some things never change, despite standing to the side of the stage, I still got caught in a mosh (ha), got beer poured over me and got punched hard in the stomach by someone trying to start a circle pit. and I still thought it was an awesome show!