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- From: brian@mel.dit.csiro.au (Brian May)
- Subject: My Big Day Out part 1 (melb)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.080028.19698@mel.dit.csiro.au>
- Keywords: wet, windy, wonderful
- Sender: news@mel.dit.csiro.au
- Organization: CSIRO DIT (Melb.)
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 08:00:28 GMT
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- Rambling summary of my big day out follows:
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- 1PM:
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- wander down to the train station - find out you have to stop off
- at some weird station & catch a bus to the event. Bus is a private
- charter bus - another $2 for a (as we found out) 2km max walk.
- Starts to rain....oh well!
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- 2PM:
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- arrived, bag searched ( got food in & realised later that I shouldn't have
- - nice), wandered over to the big stage to see the closing stages of
- Carter USM. They were standing miles apart on the stage - good sound, large
- crowd..good atmosphere. They finished.....over to stage 2 to see helmet...
- have to climb this weird smooth wooden steep ramp to leave the main stage's
- field (mooo, baaaa etc). [what we didn't know is that this ramp turns into
- a super dooper mudslide later after 1000s of weary feet shuffle over it -
- oh what fun!]
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- 2somethingPM:
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- Helmet - never heard em before - liked the driving dirty/clean aggressive
- rawk done by clean-ish looking lads (as opposed to the long haired types
- like our nerve-ana friends). Got a bit samey afyter a while but could imagine
- driving the hume highway in a rather fast car with this on, quite happily.
- Steam is rising from the body surfers at the front of the stage. Many waves
- to catch.
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- who-caresPM:
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- caught the last 30 secs of the Underground Lovers in the big barn. Hmm.
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- just after who-caresPM:
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- even more rain and Mudhoney are late, so the meanies play their set on stage
- 1. Went for beer
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- where's me brolley PM:
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- got to beer hall - need tag to get in beer hall. got to tag dispensing place.
- queued for ?? in a gutter-cum-river.....went back to beer hall.....queued
- for vouchers for beer........queued for beer.......YOU RAN OUT OF CIDER????.
- Watched Mantissa and TISM on the screens in there. Wish I'd gone out to
- see TISM actually, they did have some weird headmasks this time - 4M nylon
- 'condom' like hood with 3 helium ballons in each.....you can use your
- imagination I guess. more beer..........hmmm, aren't Sonic Youth on the
- main stage???? Oh shit...let's go.....
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- PM:
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- Sonic Youth were, well, very good - sound, played all the 'faves' from
- "Goo", "Dirty", also teenage riot, schizophrenia.....etc. SY's latest "3 fun
- things you can do to break your guitar" include ramming drumsticks under the
- strings and hammering away at it with other sticks. Someone lost their wallet,
- had it thrown on stage, and the contents examined by ?Thurston? for the
- pleasure of the audience....
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- part 2 tomorrow....
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- brian
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