Faith No More
Ahhh… it’s good to go to a rock concert with a real rock crowd. 
I went to see Faith No More at the Hordern Pavilion (my favourite venue!) last night with James. The last time I saw them was 13 years ago at the same venue with Pete, Matt, Chris, (Spiro?) and some other 16/17 year olds.
Old.
I remember the concert in 1997 was really wild (might’ve been the first concert I crowd surfed at…?), and FNM have lost none of their rock. Neither have their fans.
It was the usual story down near the front where James and I were. Lots of guys mixed in with guys and their petite girlfriends taking up the space where you want the crowd to go crazy… I was ready for more disappointing crowd lameness… BUT! The lights went down. FNM played midnight cowboy (slow instrumental song) and built the anticipation. Then BOOM! First song, the crowd surged, the mosh pit went mental (pro. men-ull) and the girls and lady-boys came running out like squirrels from a bush fire.
It was great. No fear of treading on the precious and fragile, just free, crazy, uninhibited jumping, heading banging, and slamming! I was 17 again! Except now I’m bigger framed and 30kgs heavier, so the pit was not the intimidating “I might die here” place that I remembered.
I just let loose. It was great.
And at the end there was the nostalgic familiarity of being soaked with sweat and partially deaf. The sweat I can live with, but I do feel regret for not protecting my hearing better… I’ve come to realise that hearing is not only worth protecting just because you’ve got, but because I feel stupid when I have to ask people 3 times to repeat themselves or have my phone speaker set at 50 decibels above normal… next time.
I’d never heard of the support band “Eagles of Deathmetal” before but they put on a great show. I think they have the same drummer from Queens of the Stone Age… either way, they were much better than the Jesus Lizard who did support for the 97 show. If I remember correctly, their lead singer was wasted and he pulled out his old fella on stage…
February 23rd, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Pete has kindly pointed out that he wasn’t at the Faith No More concert in 97… AND that the Jesus Lizard were support for Rage Against the Machine in 96 not FNM in 97…
At least I got the venue right!
February 24th, 2010 at 9:22 pm
I should add, I’m not against females in the so called mosh pit. There were still some ladies in the pit during the concert and they hacked it just fine.
That’s my side note for all you girl power fembots out there.
February 26th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Love the Hordern. So many good memories.
February 26th, 2010 at 8:01 pm
Dude wasn’t that first gig in 95? Still fits! I remember you brought me the t-shirt to hospital. I really wish i went to this gig. I heard there weren’t any Soundwave sideshows. Never knew they went on sale either
Where the hits played or album tracks?
February 26th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
Post this one please
Dude wasn’t that first gig in 95? Still fits! I remember you brought me the t-shirt to hospital. I really wish i went to this gig. I heard there weren’t any Soundwave sideshows. Never knew they went on sale either
Were the hits played or did they throw in some album tracks?