A Let Down You Can Count On

I’ve been in Perth for about 5 days, flew here on Wednesday night from Sydney. We go back again this Wednesday so there’s only a couple of days left.

Went to No Sleep Til yesterday. It was pretty good, a long day though. I don’t think I will go to too many more festivals for quite some time, not in Australia anyway.

So things kicked off with Break Even, I think that’s 8 times I’ve seen them this year, mostly in different states/countries. The funny thing with most of those shows is that I just went to see them because I was already in that city anyway.

Let me think..

I saw them 2 x w/Polar Bear Club and The Gifthorse in Brisbane, saw them once in Sydney when they played in a park, saw them in Canberra with Miles Away on that tour, saw them when I was in London, saw them 2 x with Alexisonfire (Sydney, Melbourne) and now have seen them in Perth. If there was one band to look back upon 2010, I guess that would be the one for me.

So I stood in the front row, that was the only shade, suprisingly not that many people were singing along etc, they are a Perth band after all, but they were pretty good, they sounded alright for such a big stage.

House v Hurricane were on next, they were ok, I liked them heaps more than the last time I saw them…they suit that big stage because there’s a lot of them, and they’re very energetic.

Katatonia were on next, I was kind of surprised with their sound, it just sounds like the Opeth album Damnation (the soft one)…I thought they would be a lot heavier actually.

We went and found some shade somewhere else for a while, I saw a song of Suicide Silence, what a shithouse band. That entire “deathcore” genre is so crap.

Got a good spot for Frenzal, they were great, as per usual. They really are a classic festival band, so many festivals I went to many, many years ago had Frenzal Rhomb as a highlight, nothing has changed there. 

Watched August Burns Red, they were pretty good, but nothing exciting, NOFX were pretty good too, “sorry Megadeth fans, but our songs are better than all metal songs, ever”.

Watched GWAR…what a fucking weird, weird band. Woah.

Then I watched Megadeth for a while, and all I could think was “wow, I’m glad they kicked this guy out of Metallica”. So at the same time Parkway Drive were playing, and to note how far they’ve come, there were probably more people watching them than Megadeth.

We went into the bar area, Parkway have such a good control over the crowd. I didn’t really know a lot of the new stuff, and I kinda forgot a lot of the old stuff, I used to listen to them all the time.

So then once it was over we went to the hostel and back to bed. Going up to a place called Lancelin which is a little coastal village tonight, then back to Perth tomorrow, fly to Sydney the next day.

I also saw Eleventh He Reaches London with My Disco on Saturday night, they were really good. Wasn’t so into My Disco actually though.