Let's see. This year I've been to:
Big Day Out (Melbourne) Absolute madness. I had planned to spend a lot of time in the Boiler Room, but ended up getting distracted by various metallic bands. RATM was definitely the highlight. The front (not even the mosh pit) was one hell of a place to be, I had to escape a crowd crush a few seconds into the first song. Too hardcore for me!
Nightwish in St. Kilda two nights later. Alas, they didn't play Over The Hills, which I was quite looking forward to, but it was still a very enjoyable show.
On Friday I was at the
Soundwave Festival in Melbourne. A bit too much generic emo music, and a couple of times there was nothing playing that I really wanted to hear. But that gave me some time to rest. One thing that pissed me off--Fall of Troy were meant to be on second at one of the stages, but they swapped places with the first band. I got to the stage after having lunch and caught the tail end of their final song, thinking, Fall of Troy doesn't sound half bad! Then ten minutes later some garg band rocks up and I'm like, this must be Fall of Troy--they suck, dammit!
But, it was worth the low points just to catch Killswitch Engage at the end. They know how to put on a show! As to Mindless Self-Indulgence, who I'd not heard of before but shall soon be in my playlist somewhere.
At the end of March I'll be seeing HIM in Melbourne with my brother and sister. I also caught them in 2006 when they were here last. One of our collective favourite bands, it seems.
A flier that was handed to me at Soundwave announced that Sum 41 will be in Melbourne in the middle of April, so it's possible I will attend that as well. They were here late last year, but I didn't find out until afterwards.
I'd really like to catch Three Days Grace and Breaking Benjamin, but neither of them are going to be leaving their cosy little states any time soon, so I'll have to travel to the US to see them. There are a lot of Euro and EBM bands I plan to see as well, but it's going to be a Eurotrip for those. Though I found out a few weeks ago to that Assemblage 23 was in Melbourne near the end of December. Hopefully he'll return sometime. It would make my year (moreso) to catch Wednesday 13 and Manowar somewhere.
I will hopefully also be attending some good rave parties sometime down the track, too. Turns out cTrix, who organised the demoscene
Beach Party I attended last weekend, is involved in operating such events on occasion.
Anyway, that's my very satisfying year so far.
I'm not the type that usually goes to see bands live, but today I'll be going to see Covenant to some club.
Sweet! Enjoy it for me!