BDO 08

BDO 08

So, who else went?  

I was Thea But in my rage top 
HK_Keeper2008-01-19 20:22:03

Did you buy one of the 'Battle of New Zealand' tops? I was gonna but was short on cash.

all i can say is my neck hurts!

All i can say is f**k you i wont do what you tell me!!

The wife and I rocked out with our cocks out.

Rage totally cranked. The best experience of my short life. Shihad 2nd, Opshop next and The Checks after that. I love how the crowd abused the f**k out of B---jork. I mean WFT??!!??

To quote Zach on his song March of Death
"Without just cause or reason, without legal or moral justification, and without a thread of proof that iraq directly threatens the security of the United States, the Bush administration has headed to war. As i am writing this , bombs are raining upon the the defenseless civilians of bahgdad in a continuation of a policy that has already claimed the lives of over 1 million innocent iraqi people. People just like us who want democracy but find themselves cornered by a dictator on one side, naked U.S. agression on another, and the oil beneath theyre country; for which it appears they are to be massacred.

lies, sanctions, and cruise missles have never created a free and just society. only everyday people can do that. which is why im joining the millions world wide who have stood up to oppose the Bush administrations attempt to expand the U.S. empire at the expense of human rights at home and abroad. In this spirit im releasing this song for anyone who is willing to listen. i hope it not only makes us think, but also inspires us to act and raise our voices. - Zack de la Rocha, March 19th, 2003"
DrQuack322008-01-20 11:00:00

Nice
Agent 472008-01-20 10:58:59

what was up with bjork and her enchore  stupid woman  we didn't want to see you anyway

also was the timetable printed in error or did the knightwatchman(tom morello) and battles swap time slots  i'm gutted i missed battles but you really had to park up early to get a good spot for shihad and more importantly rage
did anyone see battles?? if so how were they
think they need to have a rethink on who plays the main stages next year most people ended up crammed into the boiler room or the essential stage
still once again had a blast

The timetable printed on the net was correct. The timetable in the booklet was wrong. Hence I got to see Tom. Some heavy stuff in his set including a re-worked song Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

that was rad , serj tankian was a cool surprise too   

lol it was,hes living in nz atm because of usa's politics

Yeah i was reading about that. In 2005 the NZ government under the guise of the Overseas Investment Commission refused Serj permission to buy about a 13 hectare block of land out in the Waitaks to build a home and a recording studio to help garner record deals for local acts that lacked exposure in the US. He intended to live in NZ in the medium term and become a citizen because he loves it here so much and is thankful that it is clean, a neutral policy government on war, oil etc and he is living a free man with no hassles of him, his beliefs or his privacy. Tom and Serj both run Axis of Justice, their combined activism group.

OIC blocked the sale on the grounds that there was no interest/benefit to New Zealand..... Go figure.

The biggest surprise for me and also quite delightful was how good The Checks were. They had a really good full sound and some good solid songs - reminded me a little of The Who. I would have thought they might have bought Supergroove over to one of the main stages. It was either Rage or Supergroove because you had no show of seeing both based on how slow people were moving up there and the limited room.
Agent 472008-01-20 13:07:51

best sound of any big day out i've been too,all sites.I think shihad we're the only band  slightly jiped on sound but generally pretty good,well much better than last year and the year q.o.t.s.a blew up the monitors, do we start the rumours of who's coming next year ?

My brother bootlegged shihad, supergroove and rage.  Will post link when he get rounds to uploading it if people are keen

Keen...bootleg away.

hes slack so might be awhile.  keep you eyes peeled

ohh still getting over the effects of all that marijuana smoke wafting around the ground huh

Was everywhere wasn't it?

Unlucky, I ran from the area before he started.  Most reviews I have heard made that a good call.

Unkle and LCD Soundsystem were my highlights, along with Arcade Fire.

Phoenix Foundation were good but had a disappointingly small crowd.

The sound mix on the Green/Essential stage was rubbish - it was all drums and bass. Hence Kate Nash was inaudible.

I got a few 'Go Phoenix' comments for my retro ricki; saw maybe 4 others including HN.

K lads...Shihad has been uploaded to Megaupload.  Bit rate is 128.  Reasonable quality. Can hear a bit of background noise but still very listenable.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XDOXRX70

 

Instructions:

1) Click on above link (obviously)

2) Once the page has loaded, enter the 3 digit code in the space provided (near the top of page) and hit enter.

3) Once the new page uploads, you have to wait 45 seconds for the counter to run down. Once the timer run downs, it changes to become "free download".  Hit that and you're away laughing.

 

Let me know if anyone has any problems.  Should also have Rage, liam finn and supergroove  (and maybe some more) sorted in the next few days.

Enjoy

2ndBest2008-01-22 10:42:27

nice message, pity the music's lame as

haha cheers...hence the eidt. I can hear people chanting to me "You don't know what you're doing"

lame as cosimo? are u havin a laff?

while the politically charged messages may not be everyones cup of tea, morellos guitars with Tim Cs Bass and Brads drums are an unbelievable mix - one to behold in this day of "new" bands playing "old music".

Rage 4 Life, Death to the Mint Chicks.

As promised...

i am having a chuckle at my own audacity

It took me 30 mins to move from the D area to where Supergroove were once Rage had finished. 30 MINUTES!!!

only took me 5 to go from the blue stage stadium

Meanwhile Rage fans buy the albums, tshirts and generally get sucked into the consumerism that is at the heart of the 'US Empire'? Except for 2nd best who prefers bootlegs HarryHotspur2008-01-23 21:58:49

I saw a yid there Harry. Wasn't you, was it?

You'd have to pay me to go there, mate! If there's more than 200 in the audience its probably a bit 'mainstream' for me! Glad that a Yid was flying thecolours though.

f**k me that pit was intense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[QUOTE=Mr twig]
although I was a wee bit annoyed with all the bopper wanna-be rage fans in the pit, people who didnt even know tire me or vietnow.....pathetic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
QUOTE]

The irony: while Rage tell us all about oppression by US superpower, some 'fan' suggest that the way to dance is by kicking lumps out of each other.

Violence: the last resort of the incompetent.

Give me the 'boppers' any day buddy.HarryHotspur2008-01-24 19:32:54

Mr twig2008-01-25 00:55:20

WTF?

Dead Kennedy's (Jello Biafra still going strong with many side projects)
Crass
Ripcord
Extreme Noise Terror (still around I think after wee over 20 yeras)
Doom
Sore Throat
Chumbawamba
Napalm Death (1st 2 releases)

and a gizzilion others predated Rage on that front. I would hope that political music has a permanent timeline that did not start and certainly better not stop with any band (or genre - as my list is clearly of limited variety).

Moshing not dancing? Hmmm, nor is the pogo, doce-doe (sp?) or Waltz I suppose? I am not overly concerned about the nature of moshing: it is the inherent contradiction that exists between the messages of the lyrics and the dancing, whoops, moshing.

Of course, matching moshing to the nature of the music (fast, agressive etc) is a far more comfortable fit....but don't RAGM position themselves about their message too?


HarryHotspur2008-01-25 12:28:31

Here is the next installment of BDO bootlegs

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