Weekend Roundup
Tuesday, 22 January 2008 22:25![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rockfotzeI had a pretty rad weekend. Friday night Anthony played at Planet nightclub (he runs a monthly club night there and it's been getting bigger and better each month). It was a really good night and I barely even drank anything, which was an amazing feat unto itself. It was meant to be a quiet night due to having to be up at a reasonable time the next day, but I managed to only get to bed at 4am, as usual.
Saturday I went with Daz and Ash to the Gold Coast. They had a unit for the weekend for Big Day Out and I decided to stay there Saturday night with them. The trip there was hilarious, what should have been an hour trip ended up being over two hours because Daz just kept going the wrong way and getting lost. At one point I fell asleep (I had a migraine coming on and no pain killers with me) and when I woke up Daz had gone way past the exit to Surfers Paradise and had I not woken up we may have found ourself in Byron Bay (which is 2 hours away, in case you didn't know). But we got there eventually, and hung out in the hotel for a while before going out for dinner.
After dinner Daz and I went to an alternative club called The Party as I'd always wanted to check it out. It's you standard sort of place with emo's and goths in top hats and over-priced drinks. But something exciting did happen. Two emo guys were "dancing" which involved them running at and leaping onto each other. Well the smaller one leapt on the bigger guy who, playfully, pushed him off and onto the ground. But it ended badly and the guy hit his head on the ground pretty hard. It looked like he got knocked out for a bit, and I was all "Well serves him right or being stupid" but then I saw his female friends crying and the security were starting to panic. So I went to investigate and this poor guy had split his head open and there was a lot of blood gushing out. I thought he was dying and stared at him til all the blood made me feel sick and I had to go outside to calm down. But not 10 minutes later the very same guy walks out with his friends (including a sheepish looking mate who knocked him down in the first place) and a security guard, laughing, blood all over his face. I guess he was drunk enough to be OK, so I didn't feel so bad then. It was gross but also pretty exciting.
Anyway the next day was Big Day Out. For non-Aussies this is a massive (predominantly) rock music festival that tours Australia. I have only been once before and that was in 2000 when I was just 17 years old. I only went because I missed out last year and was determined to go this time to make up for it. I got there at 1pm and met up with Nikerz who I spent the whole day with. Then we met up with Daz and Stephan who we also hung out with most of the day. It was ok, nothing flash. There wasn't anyone playing who I was desperate to see (I admit it, I'm not that fussed about Rage Against the Machine) so we did a lot of wandering. Also had acid which made things interesting (I tripped out so nicely to the clouds during silverchair). I saw a bit of a whole bunch of bands but as I wasn't a fan of any artist in particular (except maybe Bjork) nothing held my attention for long. Poor Nikerz had to put up with me, Daz and Stephan running around like maniacs, unable to stay in one place for very long at all. Pnau were really good but I was too trashed to enjoy them properly. The bogans we were surrounded by during Rage Against the Machine prety much ruined that part of the night for me. God I hate the quintessential Aussie male, they're AWFUL. And their girlfriends aren't any better either. I got so angry at one bunch of them I had to walk away, especially after I argued with them about Bjork (they kept going on about how shit she was when in actual fact it was a pretty darn good show). Ah well it was an interesting day, and reminded me that Big Day Out is only really worth going to if you like a few of the bands (like BDO 2000 - awesome lineup and an awesome day).
I only took one photo, which was before we did anything naughty:
Stephan, me, Nikerz and Daz watching Dizzee Rascal, I believe.
Saturday I went with Daz and Ash to the Gold Coast. They had a unit for the weekend for Big Day Out and I decided to stay there Saturday night with them. The trip there was hilarious, what should have been an hour trip ended up being over two hours because Daz just kept going the wrong way and getting lost. At one point I fell asleep (I had a migraine coming on and no pain killers with me) and when I woke up Daz had gone way past the exit to Surfers Paradise and had I not woken up we may have found ourself in Byron Bay (which is 2 hours away, in case you didn't know). But we got there eventually, and hung out in the hotel for a while before going out for dinner.
After dinner Daz and I went to an alternative club called The Party as I'd always wanted to check it out. It's you standard sort of place with emo's and goths in top hats and over-priced drinks. But something exciting did happen. Two emo guys were "dancing" which involved them running at and leaping onto each other. Well the smaller one leapt on the bigger guy who, playfully, pushed him off and onto the ground. But it ended badly and the guy hit his head on the ground pretty hard. It looked like he got knocked out for a bit, and I was all "Well serves him right or being stupid" but then I saw his female friends crying and the security were starting to panic. So I went to investigate and this poor guy had split his head open and there was a lot of blood gushing out. I thought he was dying and stared at him til all the blood made me feel sick and I had to go outside to calm down. But not 10 minutes later the very same guy walks out with his friends (including a sheepish looking mate who knocked him down in the first place) and a security guard, laughing, blood all over his face. I guess he was drunk enough to be OK, so I didn't feel so bad then. It was gross but also pretty exciting.
Anyway the next day was Big Day Out. For non-Aussies this is a massive (predominantly) rock music festival that tours Australia. I have only been once before and that was in 2000 when I was just 17 years old. I only went because I missed out last year and was determined to go this time to make up for it. I got there at 1pm and met up with Nikerz who I spent the whole day with. Then we met up with Daz and Stephan who we also hung out with most of the day. It was ok, nothing flash. There wasn't anyone playing who I was desperate to see (I admit it, I'm not that fussed about Rage Against the Machine) so we did a lot of wandering. Also had acid which made things interesting (I tripped out so nicely to the clouds during silverchair). I saw a bit of a whole bunch of bands but as I wasn't a fan of any artist in particular (except maybe Bjork) nothing held my attention for long. Poor Nikerz had to put up with me, Daz and Stephan running around like maniacs, unable to stay in one place for very long at all. Pnau were really good but I was too trashed to enjoy them properly. The bogans we were surrounded by during Rage Against the Machine prety much ruined that part of the night for me. God I hate the quintessential Aussie male, they're AWFUL. And their girlfriends aren't any better either. I got so angry at one bunch of them I had to walk away, especially after I argued with them about Bjork (they kept going on about how shit she was when in actual fact it was a pretty darn good show). Ah well it was an interesting day, and reminded me that Big Day Out is only really worth going to if you like a few of the bands (like BDO 2000 - awesome lineup and an awesome day).
I only took one photo, which was before we did anything naughty:
Stephan, me, Nikerz and Daz watching Dizzee Rascal, I believe.
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Date: 23/1/08 01:21 (UTC)does it still have a dirty concrete floor and stink like stale beer and vomit?