Silverchair

Wow this was an awesome show! Id stood at the front since 3 to get my spot but it was worth it. I was right on the gate, directly in front of Daniel and by the time the chair came on it was so tightly packed you literally couldnt move. The atmosphere was awesome, so much excitement.

They started with a new song, I think it was sleep all day, but it was hard to tell, it started with a kind of funky drum and bass riff which was pretty cool, and the chorus was almost dissociatives like (think what you will) but it was a pretty cool song and the crowd went nuts! Just for the tech heads Daniel now plays through an Vox AC30 into a Marshall cab, he also had a soldano amp but it wasnt plugged in so perhaps this was just for show because he is (or at least was) sponsored by soldano, Chris was playing through two Ashwon combos I think and Chris had his less colourful Italian kit..

Next was Emotion Sickness which was incredible, listening to the 10000 or so crowd singing along was unbelievable. Next they launched into the Greatest view, another crowd favorite. The guys had so much energy it was just fun. Next up was world upon your shoulders, probably the weakest bit of the set, its a good song but it just didnt seem to take of on Friday, a shame but it was by no means bad. Next up was Sleep all day, and I got to say its an awesome song, kind of funky again but solid rock with an awesome chorus. It was weird watching the crowd that was going nuts in all the old songs suddenly shutting up and listening to the new songs, quite cool. Then they hit us with Annas song, once again the crowd helped.

The set slowed down after that and we got treated to stripped down versions of Luv your life and across the night. Paul Mac was handling the piano that night and it was interesting what he did with the generally cluttered and thick instrumentation of those songs. There were very little strings and it was nice to hear these songs in a different way, and for the record they sounded just as good if not better like this, much um, rockier I spose. It was weird actually, it seems that perhaps Daniel was a bit bemused by the Diorama thing, he started by saying 'this a song of our lesser known album' about luv your life and then before across the night he said 'this song may make you question us as a band.' At the end of both of them he was clearly pleased when the audience really liked them and he kept saying 'that wasn't to bad was it'. Perhaps his experience at Rock it festival were those songs weren't received very had made him a little unsure of how they would go down. But they were good! Next up was another rocky new song, it was cool and again had an almost march like chorus, I don't know the name but think a heavy intro, semi funky verse and march chorus.

Then we had without you. Daniel was quite talkative and decided to dedicate the song first to the boys then changed his mind and said it was more of a girly song, he also said thanks to all the men that like us, it doesn't usually happen. At the end of without you they went straight into Freak. Every person in the audience went crazy, no kidding it was insane, its not my favorite song but it was definitely the highlight of the set, the band don't treat it seriously anymore but its just a fun rock song and that's exactly how they played it. We had the usual feedback intro and screamo second verse and crowd sing a longs of 'im a freak' brilliant! Next another new song, a 'bon jovi' like song, actually it was more a dissociatives like song. Slower than the others I think it was called straight lines.

I cant remember exactly what happened then but I know there was another new song, the heaviest with an awesome bass line and finally the lever, which toatally went of. This was an awesome show, the new songs sound mostly good, I think perhaps theyre going to turn out quite raw and much more commercial than diorama, but anyone who thinks its going to be a diorama 2 I can assure you once again they've changed! The band are in high spirits, Daniel is funny, he made a joke about the audience being patient while he fiddled with his guitar and how we had more patience than a hospital, it wasn't exactly genius but everyone laughed. It was just fun, oh and Daniel skulled water, something else and vodka because we made him.