22 February 2009
Today we went to Soundwave, which is a big music festival, kind of like the Big Day Out, but cooler, because the bands are better. The main genres are punk, hardcore and metal. We went mainly for the punk bands since none of us like metal.
The start of the day was however, extremely dissapointing. We got up bright and early so that we would be there in time for the first band that we wanted to see, which was Medina Lake. We arrived at the venue at 10.00am, the venue was supposed to open at 11.00am. So we got there an hour early just in case. However, they didn’t start letting people in until 11.30am, and they were doing stringent bag checks. We didn’t make it in until almost 2.00pm. So we waited in line for over 3 hours. The most soul-destroying part was that we completely missed Medina Lake, which was one of the bands we had specifically gone to this to see. We were so incredibly dissapointed.
The rest of the day was good though. The highlights for me were definately Hellogoodbye and New Found Glory. I got t-shirts for both of them. Billy Talent also rocked SO hard, even though I didn’t know many of the songs it was still awesome. Hellogoodbye were so cute, they talked about nerdy things like the internet, and referenced Internet memes! It was so awesome. They are definately better live too!
All in all it was a good day, despite the dissapointment at the beginning.
Pictures will be posted when I get back!
