Understanding Scene

Understanding Scene

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I recently went and saw Nine Inch Nails at the Riverstage. It was awesome. I don’t really know what else to say about it. The performance was pretty flawless. As soon as we walked in I thought the venue was pretty cool. It was much more intimate and no where near as crowded as what I was expecting. Hadn’t been there before, the hill kinda comes down to the stage and it looks like a natural amphitheatre. I think I enjoyed it way more than the Big Day Out simply because of the space and there wasn’t a ridiculous amount of people there. You look around and can’t get past the sea of black t-shirts most of which had nine inch nails on them or just one of the albums. Some chick had dressed up in some bright red fluoro shiny vinyl thing… I bet everyone there just wanted to slap her.

Oh yeah the support band Serena Maneesh sucked and it seemed like no really liked them. By the end of their session everyone was just chanting for NIN.

I didn’t really wanna get drunk and go to the mosh pit like I guess I normally do. Trying to get close just resulted in seeing a bunch of heads wave around and being stopped by a definitive wall of people; and if you got past that you just got sucked in. So I just stood right in the middle of the hill and just enjoyed the performance trying to take everything in. Afterwards you just try and remember as much of it as you can and couldn’t really get past the comment that it was just awesome.

Mostly everyone there looked like they were apart of a larger group or community and I just thought that it was a really obvious example which improved my understanding and realisation of scene.

http://www.ravemagazine.com.au/content/view/3634/82/

http://thedwarf.com.au/nd/livereviews/brisbane/nine_inch_nails_river_stage_city_botanic_gardens

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I went and saw Reel Big Fish at the Tivoli a while back and just wanted to comment on the weird fashion scene that I wasn’t expecting. I wasn’t a real big fan but went along anyways just to enjoy the performance. Heaps of people had chequered arm bands and socks and stuff and really retro shirts. It seemed like a weird blend that came from multiple sources. There was a pretty big difference between the support bands Guttermouth and Bagster and the main performance- Guttermouth was much more thrash and didn’t really seem to have the easy going almost friendly nature of the main performance- but everyone seemed to get into it anyway. Someone in the crowd had a massive spit on the lead singer which he held up for everyone to see then he tried to pick a fight with some fat guy… he just hugged him which was a bit of an anticlimax.

It was a pretty good performance but I guess I just don’t get Ska.

I pretty much totally agree with everything Chris says in this review:

http://www.ravemagazine.com.au/content/view/3131/82/