most attractive crowd
battles I don't know how to explain this really, this is basically based on my personal opinion and well....
most fun crowd
art vs scienceit's amazing how they could make the whole room dance and kneel. Literally they made the crowd kneel, everyone, and those who didn't comply got pointed out and got told to kneel down. The lighting in the Boiler room made the art vs science fans 300% more crazy, from strobes to laser lights the light guy must also be an art vs science fan or knows their song very well as the timing was just so dead on.
most sucky sound
my chemical romance they themselves was good but, the sound system. Did not expect a huge festival like BDO would allow such a big letdown.
the energetic frontman
cage the elephant Matt jumped to the crowd for the second time, came back on stage with a flower bandana, put it on and said "thank you for this, i'm pretty now"
most amusing sight
man and tween girl having a somersault battle in front of HOT PRODUCE stage, man ended up winning as he kept doing cartwheels and falling down and doing it again, occasionally revealing his buttocks and big belly.
the downside
weakest signal ever, don't bother trying to call or text anyone while that person or you are in the orange/blue arena, your text would be received 10-30 minutes after you send it and your calls would just fail.
most dedicated fans
notable fangirls/fanboys
a tie between my chemical romance/kasabian, I've taken this one into a lot of consideration (by a lot I mean, I thought about it more than once), I also considered Soundgarden but looking back, MCR's and Kasabian's fans touched my puny little heart most, especially when kasabian started playing 'Fire'.
notable fangirls/fanboys
in battles guy in the front row wearing a battles tshirt from their last album and was not sold in the festival happily caught half of john's drumstick (literally, half of a drumstick). As the guy next to him got the other end of the drumstick, they both share a smile and exchanged their happy comments about the show. Another man chimed into the conversation and state that he got John's other drumstick. First man said: "WHOA MAN you should sell that I mean I would buy it!" The two other men laughed and the first man laughed along. He then suddenly stopped laughing and in a serious voice said to the third man "no seriously i'll give you 50 bucks for it"
NOTE: this is all totally bias since it is my blog and I am free to express what I thought of the festival, and unfortunately i did not get to see all of the acts. The acts I did see is written below.
ACTS SEEN: Abbe May, Papa Vs Pretty (one song), Nantes, Cage The Elephant, Boy and Bear (half set), The Jezabels (only the beginning), OFWGKTA (2-3 songs), Battles, Kimbra (half set), My Chemical Romance, Architecture in Helsinki (half set), Kasabian (half set), Girl Talk (half set), Soundgarden (3/4 set), Art Vs Science, Kanye West (one song), Nero (1/4 set).
biggest wtf ever
An Australian tween boy wearing a Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Jusuf Kala campaign shirt circa 2003/2004. Being Indonesian, I find this extremely weird, and I hope I didn't creep him out by staring at him with a 'wtf' face as he passed in front of me.
douchebag of the day
Kimbra was playing on stage and in between breaks when the singer ends the song and communicate with the audience, one drunk douchebag would keep on yelling "HEY KIMBRA YOU'RE A SLUT" and "I WOULD FUCK YOU KIMBRA" and other obscene and sexual comments on the amazing singer who either did not hear the douche's shouts or decided to do the smart thing and ignore him. He would then push away the white haired 20-something petite lady in the front which would of course piss anyone off. Things became heated and the girl shouted at the douche while trying to push him away, the douche slapped the girl across the face and pushed her on the face so hard she almost fell back but was lucky enough to be caught by a friend behind her. A series of "dude get the fuck out" and "fuck off" emerges from other concert goers that were there to see kimbra but the mood was ruined by the douche. My friend politely asked the guy and his friend to leave as they are disturbing the concert, and their reply? "We're not doing anything mate, we're not doing anything at all."
notable douchebag
Guy went up to my friend who was wearing a Beatles t-shirt and slurred "The beatles aren't playing here mate" which was quite funny at the time so we all laughed. My friend replied, "haha I wish" and the douche replied back "they're all DEAD". Dickhead fuck off one they're not all dead get your fucking fact straight and get the fuck out. Dick [getting too emotional over the beatles].
shoutouts
to sydney surfer boy Johnny, newcastle party girl Kim and her cousin for keeping me company as my friends are busy watching Kanye West. Thank you Kim for sharing me your personal relationship story and Johnny for the interesting 'kanye is a twat' conversation.NOTE: this is all totally bias since it is my blog and I am free to express what I thought of the festival, and unfortunately i did not get to see all of the acts. The acts I did see is written below.
ACTS SEEN: Abbe May, Papa Vs Pretty (one song), Nantes, Cage The Elephant, Boy and Bear (half set), The Jezabels (only the beginning), OFWGKTA (2-3 songs), Battles, Kimbra (half set), My Chemical Romance, Architecture in Helsinki (half set), Kasabian (half set), Girl Talk (half set), Soundgarden (3/4 set), Art Vs Science, Kanye West (one song), Nero (1/4 set).
