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We get quite a few bands in Australia, but the problem is that they don't come here often enough. I've been to a few festivals and a few concerts. Most of the bands I've seen are at festivals.
Here's the list: I've divided them into festivals and concerts. There are some bands I've seen at both, though, and they're just listed under concerts.
FESTIVALS:
Marilyn Manson (pretty cool)
Hole (kind of crap)
Red Hot Chilli Peppers (cool show, crap sound quality)
Nine Inch Nails (mindblowing)
Soulfly (Damn good)
Queens of the Stone Age (not bad)
Foo Fighters (pretty cool)
Killing Heidi (good, but not great)
Blondie (Good. Really good)
Violent Femmes (arrogant pricks. Not bad musicians, though)
Tea Party (mindblowing)
Mudhoney (kind of cool)
Rammstein (awesome)
Deftones (mindblowing. I didn't really know their stuff well then, and I HAVE TO see them again)
Pennywise (okay, I guess. I waited ALL DAY at the FRONT of the mosh pit for the Deftones, but they changed it at the last minute and put Pennywise on first, and I screwed my neck when a crowd surfer landed on my head. I had to get out of the mosh so I was at the back when the 'Tones came on. Warped festival sucks)
Suicidal Tendancies (crap)
Korn (okay, but boring)
Blink 182 (unbelievably crap. but what do you expect?)
CONCERTS
Tool (beyond mindblowing. amazing. an experience to never forget)
Faith No More (absolutely awesome)
Sepultura (pretty cool)
Slipknot (okay, but too over aggressive. It gets really annoying after a while.)
Powderfinger (damn good band. good live show, too, but nothing super-special)
Metallica (pretty good. better than expected considering it was on the Reload tour)
Smashing Pumpkins (reeeally good. different, but really good.)
AND THE LITTLE AUSSIE BANDS THAT MOST OF YOU PROBABLY HAVEN'T HEARD OF BUT ARE KIND OF BIG DOWN HERE (some at concerts, some at festivals, some of them good, some of them crap):
Something for Kate (pretty good)
Testeagles (amazing. They suck now, but they were good 3yrs ago)
Ammonia (cool)
Superheist (cool)
Jebediah (good when I liked them, which I don't anymore)
The Whitlams (reeeally good)
George (awesome)
Cosmic Psychos (crap)
Mental As Anything (awesome. Remember that "hey there you with the sad face...." song from crocodile dundee? Yeah, that's them. Reeeeaaallly good.)
Spiderbait (pretty cool)
Machine Gun Fellatio (awesome)
SuperJesus (getting boring, now)
Ice Cream Hands (kind of boring)
You Am I (reeeeally good before they got boring)
4th Floor Collapse (reaaaallllly good, also.)
Alex Lloyd (pretty cool)
The Living End (not a bad live show. saw them before they went all popular and they were quite good)
Frenzal Rhomb (shit. reeeeallly shit)
There are more. Heaps more, but they're just little bands I've seen here and there. I made a list of bands that I'd seen a couple of years ago and it was at about 60, and I've seen even more since then.
And please don't ask me about the ska/punk scene in Australia. I can't stand that type of music.
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