ok so.. Opeth was last night! \m/ - FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!! God damn, the best night of my life!!! I know that doesnt mean much for those of you who get to see metal bands all the time, but for me it was a huge deal.. the only thing that could ever top this is seeing Symphony X live.
Firstly, I get to the line up, and in my town you're 'lucky' to see someone in a bloody slipknot shirt
uke: thats as close to metal as we get.. so I'm really excited seeing Opeth shirts, Arch Enemy Shirts, DT shirts.. than I just start chatting away to random people and to my surprise not only am i finding people who have heard of SyX but who are serious fans! Already I'm thinking.. MUST MOVE TO BRISBANE!
then we get in, and I'm actually quite impressed, at least live, of this aussie band called Eternal.. had never heard of them before but they were quite good!
On top of all this I'm seeing wall to wall hot metal guys and feeling like a kid in a candy store! I'm thinking 'so THIS is where they hang out!!'
Then Opeth starts and I beeline for the front and end up getting squished next to this really cute guy and we're being pushed and shoved around as you do so we just grab onto each other for dear life and hold our own as best as we could (cool way to meet people!).
Opeth is phenomenal as I imagined they would be (and as my Lamentations DVD told me they would) - they do their set, which to me is like a 2 hour long orgasm (not to be dirty, but thats how it feels.. it was just the best thing ever!). Then they come back for encore and Mikhael sings 'Soldier of Fortune' by Deep Purple, and he just belts it out, and I'm in love all over again.. and then they finish off with D.E.L.I.V.E.R.A.N.C.E.
My pics all turned out blurry (bloody camera) but heres the 'best' one I could get of Mikhael (and the orange thing in the security guards ear):
So after this, I'm head to toe in mosh sweat.. my hair which was once straight and nice is now all curly and wet and raggedy looking lol.. BUT it was SO worth it!!!!
So this is me (looking atrocious by this point lol) with the guy who I was holding on with:
I wanted to get good pics with Cameron (Eternal Dragon) and Richard (Taliwakker), but they both turned out blurry
(bloody camera!!) - I can post them too if you want to see, but theyre pretty out of focus.
Anyway we didnt get to meet the band
so that sucked too, but its ok.. in all it was still the best experience ever!
Haha on top of that, then Richard and his mate and I went to this topless bar to play pool (it was the only place we could find that wasnt a yuppy 'doof-doof' bar or a strip club) - and I had an Aboriginal guy challenge Rich to a pool game, winner gets ME! - yeah no that wasnt happening
So yes, this was my night in Brisbane!
