last night was the culmination of my fall music bender here in sydney and the setting could not of been scripted any better. i had to run through campus after my international security class to meet up with 'glush' (note: this is glush's 1st blog appearance, but he will be a reoccurring character on here so get to know him). i was weaving through packs of students trying to hand me communist newspapers, get me to protest, or take a pamphlet on how america has ruined the world. i was on cloud 9 after getting my 1st project back in class and receiving my 1st 'd' - d for distinction baby - so i burst through the packs of socialist yelling, 'out of my way hippies!'
made record time getting across campus, meeting 'glush', hopping in a cab, and jetting across town
all the while speeding to modest mouse at luna park. now you could not of picked a more bizzare place to have a concert, but it seemed fitting that a trend setter and genre shattering band like modest mouse would perform under a ferris wheel behind harbor bridge amongst a carousel, funny mirrors, and clown paintings everywhere. now i am not a huge modest mouse fan by any means at all. i wouldnt say that they ever have cracked my top 10 favorite bands list, but i have had good news for people who love bad news and we were dead before the ship even sank on 'ivan' the ipod for a while and i have always been surrounded by much more serious modest mouse fans through out college and even pretty recently, all of whom had legit music tastes, so i knew i was in for an awesome time!
i didnt know it was going to be as much fun as it was. wouldnt be able to do it justice being a novice compared to all
the 'mouseheads' that were there last night, but i am going to give it a crack anyway. it was a very 'we were dead' heavy show which made it possible for me to get down with the get down. the band came out firing and they welcomed sydney with an epic version of 'dashboard' that made me think i was on the phone for a second but in reality got the whole place straight up dancing. the place got grooving during a funky version of 'we got everything'. and as a side note - when the band says they've got everything down to a science they mean it! there were more instrument changes, more musical shifts, and more energy passed between members then i have ever witnessed. then something interesting happened when the band played 'fire it up' - i felt like and it smelled like i was back in greensboro, nc and it was 2003 and it phish's welcome back tour closer. i have never seen so many aussies 'fire it up' like that before. hillarious. the flow of the concert kept going and was perfect down to a science. further highlights were the crowd sing-a-long during 'float on' and a personal favorite of mine, 'the good times are killing me'
then came the encore. i went into the show looking to hear just one song and they didnt play it during the show, so i was hanging on for 'spitting venom' as an encore only to be disappointed at the 1st 2 encores but then almost hit the roof when that 1st note of 'spitting venom' dropped. i would suggest this song for anyone looking to get into the band or to see what modest mouse is all about. its a band in 8 minutes and 29 seconds. i was smiling, headbanging, jumping, sweating, high fiving everyone around me ... and i was tame by the crowd standards!
'spitting venom' was the prefect finish to a most extra-un-ordinary concert experience, and the perfect end to the 3 best concert weeks of my life.
its over. game over!
*my 1st attempt at a follow up piece to my '2/3rds of the way there' story from last week.
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