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[Oct. 16th, 2006|06:03 am] |
It was Taste of Chaos last night and I've already said this heaps of times in the past um 12 hours but it fucking went off and that's the truth.
I came home bruised, battered, smelling like sweat and without a shoe. But it was worth it, because the battle wounds show it all or maybe that's just my delirious mind saying so. I had 2 hours sleep last night well this morning really, because my stupid brain woke up at like 4:30ish and I thought it was 5:30ish because the birds were making noise, bout half an hour later I look at my iPod and it says 5:11am. I only went to sleep at around 3am. Then I had to get up at about 6:30 for school. So I've had a bloody glorious day and I'm only being a tad sarcastic.
Me and Tenneal came halfway through Parkway Drive, from my recollection they played Gimme AD, Smoke Em If Ya Got Em, Mutiny and Romance is dead. The singer of Parkway Drive is an awesome throat singer, a lot of throat singer crouch down and scream but he didn't and it was a deep growl.
After Parkway was a local act and then Senses Fail. It went off from then I was stuck between a group of guys that were going crazy and started pushing each other, and kept stepping on the back of my shoe. I couldn't get out or put my shoes on properly. During the pushing and swaying I lost my balance and fell on the floor along with 5 - 10 others sitting on me. One shoe managed to stay on and the other well it flew away and was never to be seen again. So from then on I was moshing with one foot with a shoe and one foot covered with a stocking. I can't really remember what songs they played because my brain got all frazzled and they started sounding the same, but I remember One Eight Seven, Rum Is For Drinking Not for Burning, Bite to Break Skin, Irony of Dying on Your Birthday and I think You're Cute When You Scream. And it was funny when Buddy told the security guards to fuck off.
After Senses Fail was another local act then UnderOATH. Now I'm prefer Dallas Taylor to Spencer Chamberlain so my opinions are slightly biased. I thought UnderOATH were ok, I was originally in the middle of the pit but it started getting crazy and I didn't want to loose my other shoe so I escaped to a slightly quieter place. They played A Boy Brushed in Red Living In Black and White, Writings On the Walls, Reinventing Your Exit, There Could Be Nothing After This; songs that every so called UnderOATH fan knows. I wish they played songs off The Changing of Times, Act of Depression but Spencer can't scream like Dallas so that's why they didn't do them.
Another local act and then Anti-Flag, they were the fucking best in my opinion. It wasn't crazy mosh pit where if you fall you'll get crushed kinda of pit. They really interacted with the crowd and got us going. It was heaps of fun moshing to them and singing along and they got us to start a circle pit. Anti-Flag aren't just great musicians they just seem like fucking great people. They did You've Got to Die For Government, Turncoat, This Is the End (For You My Friend), The Press Corpse and A New Kind of Army, my memory is bad but all I know they fucking owned.
Then intermission found Tenneal as I got lost from her during UnderOATH, went outside for air, tried to look for my shoe found other people who also lost shoes. Then as we came in Thursday were already playing, which I am kinda pissed about because we didn't end up being right in the midst of it all. All I cared is that they played Understanding a Car Crash, I wish they played Paris In Flames and Cross Out the Eyes. Geoff said he doesn't care if we downloaded their music as long as we listened to it, what a fucking legend. I think he needs new jeans he had a massive hole in the crotch area. He got us to do some barrier run thing.
Then it was Saosin which I didn't even realise until I started realising the lyrics and then them saying this is Saosin. They did I Wanna Hear Another Fast Song, Bury Your Head, Seven Years, Voices, Lost Symphonies and others. They seemed to play for ages and Cove Reeber was trying to cool like Geoff and saying we could download their music as well.
And then finally Taking Back Sunday came on. I was immediately crushed between Tenneal and some random behind me. I could barely breathe or move so I moved away to where I could mosh still in the middle of the pit except safely. Adam Larazza sounded like a gay hick the way he talked, he interacted with the crowd but it wasn't like the guys from Anti-Flag. It was cool watching him choke himself with the mike and people tried throwing shit at him and he got kinda angry and was eventually hit, bahahahaha. Anyways Taking Back Sundays set ended up being shorter then scheduled because Saosin went for fucking ages. So they played You're So Last Summer, Spin, Twenty Twenty Surgery, Liar (It Takes One to Know One), MakeDamnSure, A Decade Under the Influence, Cute Without the 'E' (Cut From the Team), Timberwolves of New Jersey, Set Phasers To Stun. It was good but for me Anti-Flag blew them away plus Adam tried getting us to sing, it just sounded strange.
But yes it was a fucking awesome night even though I lost my shoe. But through my missing shoe I made a friend, well I didn't learn his name but he lost his shoe too. I think I'll got Taste of Chaos next year just to mosh even if the lineup is iffy and next time I'll come back with 2 shoes. And on the way back we stopped at the 24 hour Maccas in Springwood, took us 30 minutes to get our food. I have to buy new Chucks but I needed new Chucks soon anyways. Oh and I got a haircut, it's prettyful. So that's the end of my blog on my night at Taste of Chaos. |
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