it's the sun

Well the big day out is over! How about that. The Polyphonic Spree were just incredible. 25 people on stage, and all of them getting into it so much. Such a massive sound. Here's the drummer going fucking nuts. This is from Auckland though:



I also managed to snare one of the setlists they had onstage. A brilliant catch it was. So it joins my list of special concert moments, which are:

• Getting hit in the head with an ice-cube from a cup kicked by Lars of Metallica
• Giving Les Miserables of TISM a noogie
• Getting a Polyphonic Spree setlist of their first ever show in Australia. (I can talk it up)

Also saw Monster Zoku Onsomb! on the tiniest stage. They didn't have an angle grinder though. Apparently Eliza got up on stage with them and asked the guy in the gorilla suit if he liked TISM. He said "oh yeah". Also, Stackey managed to touch The Hives singer. Which is quite a feat when you're at the main stage.

Spiderbait were rather fun to watch. After them i dashed off to the main stages and saw Grinspoon as I tried to get into the front barricade for Slipknot. I couldn't get in. So many psycho Slipknot fans painted in black and red wearing black shirts tried to get in. So i watched Slipknot from a rather shite position. Their stage looked great, lots of pentagrams. And that clown guy had a baseball bat, hehe.

For System of a Down I didn't have the best view either. But that guy can sure sing, as well as crap on about the prison system in the US. Geez, John Butler has played already.

After my terrible ordeal on the main stages I went to the smaller stage and sat down and saw Regurgitator. But I couldn't care less, I was just waiting for Polyphonic Spree.

So yes, I had a great day and I didn't get sunburnt very much. Huzzah. And I took a day off work. I'll have to go tomorrow, which I'm not looking forward to, or uni this year really. It's my last year and I've got a big thesis to do, and it makes me quite apprehensive and I question whether I really like what I do at uni and gee what a big sentence I'll end it. I've gotta stay positive, but it's so hard. So hard. Just hang in there.