Back again for another year, with many highs, many many lows and failures, and some good times had in the music scene.

2008 Gigs attended:

Jan 5 - Southbound Festival - Kings Of Leon, Regurgitator, Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club
Jan 16 - Rosemount - Karnivool
Feb 3 - Big Day Out 2008 - Rage Against The Machine, Gyroscope, Arcade Fire, Silverchair, Enter Shikari, Regurgitator
Feb 23 - Bakery - Eleventh He Reaches London
Mar 3 - Soundwave - Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, Jim Ward, Alexisonfire, Thursday, Eleventh He Reaches London, Divine Heresy, Fall of Troy, Break Even.
Mar 8 - Capitol - Cog
May 10 - Capitol - Gyroscope
May 16 - Rocket Room - Trident Winter
Jun 1 - Fly By Night - I Killed The Prom Queen
Jun 7 - Rosemount - Eleventh He Reaches London
Jun 8 - Capitol - Parkway Drive, Break Even
Jun 28th - Rosemount - Trident Winter EP Launch
Sept 2 - Metro City - Opeth
Oct 11th - Rocket Room - Trident Winter and Project: Bad
Oct 17th - Amplifier Bar - Claim The Throne
Oct 22nd - Metro Freo - Dragonforce
Oct 26th - The Bakery - Eleventh He Reaches London
Nov 2nd - Metros Freo - The Butterfly Effect
Dec 3rd - Rosemount Hotel - Die! Die! Die!

Gigs Attended: 19

Album of the year

Below are some of the albums I have had on regular rotaion during 2008

Austrian Death Machine - Total Brutal

Anberlin - New Surrender

The Buttefly Effect - Final Conversation of Kings

Cog - Sharing Space

Coldplay - Viva La Vida

Dragonforce - Ultra Beatdown

Gyroscope - Breed Obsession

Flight Of The Conchords - S/T

Kings of Leon - Only By The Night

Metallica - Death Magnetic

The Music - Strength in Numbers

Opeth - Watershed

Rise Against - Appeal To Reason

Scars on Broadway - S/T

Shihad - Beautiful Machine

Slipknot - All Hope is Gone

And the top 5....

5. Flight Of The Conchords - Flight Of The Conchords
A comedy album making the top 5......hmmm yes it definately must've been a pretty average year for music in Just Mike's books. But hey, Flight of the Conchords make awesome, hilarious music.

4.  Rise Against - Appeal To Reason
First impressions had me sceptical, but eventually I grew on the album, despite actually hating a couple of songs on the album, a first for any Rise Against release I've listened to.

3.  Austrian Death Machine - Total Brutal
As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis filling in on all band positions, accompanied by Arnie in an ultimate music tribute to the governator.....how could it not be good? The first single 'Get To The Choppa' is freakin insane, along with tracks like 'Screw You Benny' and 'Who Is Your Daddy and What Does He Do?'(with awesome breakdown) this is indeed, a totally brutal album.

2. The Music - Strength In Numbers
Unlucky to get the number 1 position, but yet another incredible release from The Music. Upon first listening to the album I was pretty dissapointed tbh, as the album takes on a very different, darker side to The Music's.....music (why did they call themselves that?), compared to their usual, pop rock dance style. But after a few listens I fell in love with this side of The Music, with tracks like 'Cold Blooded' and 'Drugs' sending shivers down my spine, and the instrumental hidden track 'No Danger' further prooving to me that if The Music released an album of just instrumentals, it would be sooooo amazing.

1. Opeth - Watershed.
To be honest, I had The Music lined up to take out album of the year, but totally forgot Watershed was released in 2008, and well, this album blew me away. I've always been a casual Opeth fan, but never really been able to listen to a whole album from start to finish. Watershed however changed that, with 7 killer tracks that had the skip button on my ipod collecting dust when listening to the album. A soothing intro with Coil, then out of nowhere your arse is kicked by the huge track Heir Apparent, and before you have a chance to breath The Lotus Eater comes to fuck you up with an amazing organ solo even Boom Gaspar would be jealous of. Fuck writing this makes me want to listen to this album yet again. Hessian Peel comes later in the album to yet again sooth your soul, but only for a few minutes until it kicks in and by now your brains are dripping out your ears after imploding on itself from insane awesomeness.  

Honourable mentions: Metallica - Death Magnetic
After first hearing the album title, followed by the track names, many lol's were shared amongst friends, but my hats off the Metallica for drastically improving from their last, so called 'album'. Although taking a shit and recording it onto cd would sound better than St. Anger, Death Magnetic does deliver some awesome songs including Broken, Beat and Scarred, and The Unforgiven III.

Dishonourable mentions: The Butterfly Effect- Final Conversation Of Kings
Oh so dissapointing was Final Converstation of Kings. Listening to the first 2 tracks I was pumped, excited to hear some old glimpses from the Begins Here days, with 2 explosive tracks.....but then....failure. Track after track of boring, booooring songs, all the same song structure, terrible songs like 'The Window and The Watcher' which was the first single?!?! What? And while the first 2 songs are awesome.....they havn't released either of them to radio, stupid. Still a TBE fan, but this was a real kick to the teeth.

Songs of the Year: (released 2008)

5. Death And All His Friends - Coldplay
:O a Coldplay song??? I've never really been a huge Coldplay fan, but I actually quite enjoy their new album, and this song is just awesome.
4. Who Is Your Daddy, And What Does He Do? - Austrian Death Machine
One word, breakdown.
3. The Lotus Eater - Opeth
Perfectly described as 'fucked up' by Mikael Akerfeldt. Awesome riffage, amazing organ solos, listen to it.
2. Girt By Piss - Eleventh He Reaches London
Can this band stop being so fucking good, holy shit. Amazing lyrics, amazing song, amazing band.
1. No Danger (Hidden Track) - The Music
An incredible instrumental that really should've opened the album, but following tradition and ending with an instrumental is a The Music tradition (even though Too High wasn't an instrumental on the first album...it was close enough).

Honourable mentions:

- EPL(English Premier League) - Jon VDH

- Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody
Would've easily made top 5 if it wasn't so fucking over played. Ruined a great song.

Albums/EPs from a previous year...that I fell in love with this year

5. Comeback Kid - Broadcasting
4. Minus The Bear - Planet Of Ice 
3. Comeback Kid - Wake The Dead
2. The Red Paintings - Feed The Wolf
1. Arcade Fire - Funeral

Cutest band member of 2008:

5. Dalls Green - City and Colour
4. Jim Ward - Sparta (on solo tour)
3. Everyone from Arcade Fire
2. Phil Jordan - The Music
1. Mikael Akerfeldt - Opeth

Live band of the Year

5. As I Lay Dying - Soundwave 
4. Arcade Fire - BDO
3. Rage Against The Machine - BDO
2. Jim Ward - Soundwave
1. Opeth - Metro City

Most memerable live/crowd moments of 2005

5. Vorn, Pidge and I's screamo version of Run To The Hills during Trident Winter - Rocket Room
4. Luke eating shit in Parkway mosh while the rest of us laugh and point in comfort of V.I.P balcony
3. Jim Wards amazing performance of Collapse at Soundwave
2. RATM kicking into Bulls on Parade after sound failure during first song at BDO.
1. Mikael Akerfeldts Lol moments/All of Opeth in general

Band to look out for in 2009
Eleventh He Reaches London.......AGAIN

Yes in keeping with the pattern (PB, EHRL, PB, EHRL) I have chosen EHRL again, BUT never have I been more certain of a band having a huge impact next year.
The new album (to be released early 2009) will actually kill people, thats how amazing it will be.

Yes you've waited all year, and its back for another end of year review. I must say looking back on 2007 I noticed there wasn't very many stand out albums as previous years for me, but still some kick ass gigs. Check it out yo.

2007 Gigs attended:

Jan 12 - HQ Leederville - Eleventh He Reaches London
Jan 12 - Amplifier Bar - The Meaning Of
Jan 19 - Bunbury - Prince of Wales - Eleventh He Reaches London
Jan 20 - Amplifier Bar - Eleventh He Reaches London
Feb 4 - Big Day Out - Tool, Muse, The Killers, The Butterfly Effect, Trivium, Birds of Tokyo, The Simian Line
Feb 8 - Amplifier - ISIS w/ Eleventh He Reaches London
Feb 23 - Amplifier Bar/Capitol - Gyroscope
Feb 24 - Amplifier Bar/Capitol - Heavy Weight Champ, Antistatic, Dyscord
Mar 3 - Soundwave - Deftones, Hatebreed
Apr 13 - HQ Leederville - Project: Bad
May 11 - Amplifier Bar - Eleventh He Reaches London
May 13 - Capitol - Dragonforce
May 19 - Amplifier Bar - Antistatic
May 26 - Rosemount Hotel - Heavy Weight Champ w/Dead Letter Circus
June 7 - Metros Fremantle - Cog w/Hope Here Gone
June 22 - Amplifier Bar - Eleventh He Reaches London
June 23 - Captiol - Karnivool w/Dead Letter Circus
June 24 - Newport - Trident Winter
July 10 - HQ "YMCA Happyfest" - Project: Bad
July 20 - Hi Fi Bar - Melbourne - Sparta w/ Responder
July 28 - Capitol - The Butterfly Effect
Aug 10 - Amplifier - The Simian Line
Oct 13 - HQ Leederville - Project: Bad
Oct 19 - Burswood Dome - Taste of Chaos - The Used, Rise Against
Oct 20 - Amplifier Bar - Parkway Drive
Oct 27 - Capitol - Gyroscope
Nov 10 - Supreme Court Gardens - Muse
Dec 14 - Amplifier - Heavy Weight Champ - FINAL GIG :(

Gigs Attended: 28

Albums/EPs of the year

5. Pearl Jam - Live at the Gorge
4. Responder - Complete Radio Silence
3 Parkway Drive - Horizons
2.As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
1. Kings Of Leon - Because of the Times

Songs of the Year: (released 2007)

5. Cog - Sharing Space
4. Foo Fighters - Let It Die
3. Parkway Drive - Boneyards
2. Gyroscope - Snakeskin
1. Kings Of Leon - McFearless

Honourable mentions:

- Eleventh He Reaches London - For The Commonwealth And The Queen (Only Demo released so not counted as proper song release)

- Chris Rowe - Interstate Love Song (Stone Temple Pilots Cover)

Albums from a previous year...that I fell in love with this year

5. The Music - Welcome to the North
4. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
3. Vast - A Complete Demonstration
2. Soundgarden - Superunkown
1. Parkway Drive - Killing With A Smile

Most listened to song on iTunes (song added in 2007)

5. Eleventh He Reaches London - For The Commonwealth... - 18 times
4. Kings Of Leon - Black Thumbnail - 18 times
3. Foo Fighters - The Pretender - 20 times
2. As I Lay Dying - Nothing Left - 21 times
1. Eleventh He Reaches London - We Were Never - 22 times

Cutest band member of 2007:

5. Keeley Davis - Sparta
4. Winston - Parkway Drive
3. Chris Rowe - Trident Winter
2. Matt Belamy - Muse
1. Jim Ward - Sparta

LIVE 2005

Band seen most live:
 
3. Project: Bad - 3
2. Heavyweight Champ - 3
1. Eleventh He Reaches London - 6

Gigs of the Year

5. Feb 8 - Amplifier - ISIS w/ Eleventh He Reaches London
4. Oct 20 - Amplifier Bar - Parkway Drive
3. Feb 4 - Big Day Out - Tool, Muse, The Killers, The Butterfly Effect, Trivium, Birds of Tokyo, The Simian Line
2. Nov 10 - Supreme Court Gardens - Muse
1. July 20 - Hi Fi Bar - Melbourne - Sparta w/ Responder

Longest distance travelled for a gig

2. Bunbury - Eleventh He Reaches London
1. Melbourne - Sparta

Most memerable live moments of 2005

5. Our group pwning in Gyrocope Mosh @ Capitol - HASH for lyfe
4. Dragonforce's shenanigans on stage @ Capitol
3. Citizen Erased - Muse @ Supreme Court Gardens
2. Assemble the Empire - Sparta @ Hi Fi Bar Melbourne
1. Ian dislocating his knee cap at Wami fest in the Bakery 30 seconds into EHRL's set 

Band to look out for in 2007

Project: Bad.......AGAIN

Back by popular demand after the success of the 2005 edition, comes the 2006 edition of Mike's year in music.

2006 Gigs Attended:

Jan 1 - G Spot - Joondalup - Project: Bad Debut Gig :o
Jan 7 - Lookout - Scarborough - Halfsmile w/ Antistatic, The Meaning Of, Hope Here Gone and Mochief
Jan 15 - HQ Leederville (Emo Central) - Birds of Tokyo, Antistatic
Feb 4 - Rosemount Rumble II - Rosemount Hotel - Heavyweight Champ, Antistatic + wrestling! yeow!
Feb 5 - Big Day Out - The Mars Volta, Mudvayne, Shihad, Wolfmother, The Living End
Feb 25 - Rosemount - Antistatic
Feb 26 - Vic Park - Gyroscope
Mar 5 - Lookout - Scarborough - Karnivool
Mar 10 - The Bog - Northbridge - Battle of the Bands - Project: Bad
Mar 19 - Rock It - Silverchair, Shihad, Cog, After The Fall
Apr 1 - The Stadium - Project: Bad
Apr 8 - The Castle - Project: Bad
Apr 9 - Arena Joondalup - Birds of Tokyo
Apr 13 - Amplifier - Perth - Birds of Tokyo
Apr 22 - Amplifier - Perth - Hope Here Gone CD Launch w/ Antistatic and Alleged
May 5 - Amplifier - Perth - Heavyweight Champ Album launch w/ Themata(Karnivool)
May 13 - Amplifier - Perth - As I Lay Dying w/ Alleged and Dyscord
May 19 - The Bog - Northbridge - Project: Bad
May 20 - HQ - Leederville - Project: Bad
June 16 - Kwinana - All Ages Shitfest - Antistatic
June 24 - The Bog - Northbridge - Project: Bad CD Launch w/ Claim The Throne, Ashura and Trident Winter
Jul 8 - Amplifier - Perth - Antistatic EP Launch
Jul 15 - Amplifier - Perth - Birds of Tokyo w/ The Simian Line
Jul 20 - Heat Nightclub - Perth - Heavyweight Champ, Bullethead, The Meaning Of
Jul 28 - Capitol - Perth - Gyroscope
Aug 11 - Amplifier - Perth - Heavyweight Champ, Antistatic, Choas Divine
Aug 16 - The Foundry - Cannington - The Butterfly Effect
Aug 17 - Prince Of Wales - Bunbury - The Butterfly Effect
Aug 18 - 3 Bears Bar - Dunsborough - The Butterfly Effect
Aug 19 - Heat Nightclub - Perth - The Butterfly Effect
Aug 20 - Newport Hotel - Fremantle - The Butterfly Effect
Sep 14 - Breakwater Tavern - Karnivool
Sep 15 - HQ - Project: Bad
Oct 19 - Hyde Park Hotel - Project: Bad
Oct 20 - Capitol - Killswitch Engage and Unearth
Oct 21 - Amplifier - Eleventh He Reaches London
Oct 22 - Rosemount - Birds of Tokyo
Nov 2 - Hyde Park Hotel - Project: Bad
Nov 10 - HQ Leederville - Project: Bad
Nov 13 - Rod Laver Arena - Melbourne - Pearl Jam w/ Kings Of Leon
Nov 14 - Rod Laver Arena - Melbourne - Pearl Jam w/ Kings of Leon
Nov 16 - Rod Laver Arena - Melbourne - Pearl Jam w/ Kings of Leon
Nov 25 - Subiaco Oval - Pearl Jam w/ The Kings Of Leon
Nov 26 - HQ Leederville - Project: Bad, Antistatic
Dec 5 - Capitol - Rise Against
Dec 13 - Rosemount Hotel - Eleventh He Reaches London
Dec 22 - Amplifier Bar - DIE!DIE!DIE!
Dec 23 - Rosemount Hotel - Eleventh He Reaches London
Dec 26 - Mandurah - Rollercoaster - The Butterfly Effect, Grinspoon, Gyroscope, Frenzal Rhomb

TOTAL: 49 gigs

Albums of the year

5. Incubus - Light Grenades
4. Rise Againt - The Sufferer and The Witness
3. The Butterfly Effect - Imago
2. Sparta - Threes
1. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam

Songs of the Year: (released 2006)

5. Pearl Jam - Comatose
4. Rise Against - Drones
3. Incubus - A Kiss To Send Us Off
2. Sparta - Taking Back Control
1. The Butterfly Effect - In A Memory

Albums from a previous year...that I fell in love with this year

5. Gyroscope - Sound Shattering Sound
4. Sparta - Porcelain
3. Silverchair - Frogstomp
2. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
1. Eleventh He Reaches London - The Good Fight For Harmony

Most listened to song on iTunes

5. Heavyweight Champ - This Revolution: 41 times
4. Pearl Jam - World Wide Suicide: 42 times 
3. Pearl Jam - Leash: 43 times
2. Pearl Jam - Comatose: 48 times
1. Pearl Jam - Don't Gimme No Lip: 49 times

Cutest band member:

5. Jim Ward - Sparta
4. Vorn in Thomas The Tank hood - Project: Bad
3. Adam - Ashura
2. Omar - The Mars Volta
1. Craig - Eleventh He Reaches London

LIVE 2005

Band seen most live:

5. Pearl Jam and Heavyweight Champ - 4 times
4. The Meaning Of and Birds of Tokyo - 5 times
3. The Butterfly Effect - 6 times
2. Antistatic - 9 times
1. Project: Bad - 12 times

Gigs of the Year

5. Eleventh He Reaches London - Rosemount Dec 23rd
4. Rise Against - Capitol
3. The Butterfly Effect - Foundry
2. Killswitch Engage - Capitol w/ Unearth
1. Pearl Jam - Melbourne #2 and Perth #1

Longest distance travelled for a gig

2. Dunsborough - The Butterfly Effect
1. Melbourne - Pearl Jam x 3

Most memerable live moments of 2005

Honourable mention: Wall of Death @ Project: Bad gigs
5. Eleventh He Reaches London - Long Grows The List Of The Live And Dead Pretenders live @ Rosemount Dec 23rd
4. Adam D's onstage antics - KSE @ Capitol
3. Omar's chicken dance - The Mars Volta live @ Big Day Out
2. Black - Pearl Jam live @ Melbourne #1
1. Eddie Vedder looking at me, Karl and 2 guys next to us going NUTS during Leash - Melbourne #2 

Band to look out for in 2007

Eleventh He Reaches London

Yes 2005 was quite the year, music/gig/concert/festitval wise. Many a gig was attended thanks to turning 18 :) And for those who havnt seen, this is my proud list of gigs.

2005 Gigs attended:

Feb 6 - Big Day Out 2005 - Slipknot, System of a Down, Hatebreed
Mar 3 - Cosmonautical - Karnivool
JB Hi Fi Accoustic - Karnivool
Aug 7 -Hyper Winterfest - Antistatic, Karnivool, Frenzal Rhomb, Shihad
Aug 19 - Eat Cake: Karnivool
Sept 10 - Amplifier Perth - Karnivool
Sept 16 - Amplifier Perth - Sic2 Showcase: Antistatic, Heavy Weight Champ (replaced by Dyscord), Subtruck, Chaos Divine
Sept 23 - Black Betty's Northbridge - Seraphim Single Launch w/ Antistatic, Mochief and Dyscord
Sep 25 - Soundworks Joondalup: Antistatic, Dyscord, Hope Here Gone
Sep 29 - Claremont Showgrounds - The Royal Show: Antistatic, Mochief
October 21 - Rosemount Hotel - North Perth - Heavy Weight Champ, The Meaning Of, Tragic Delicate, Antistatic, Seraphim.
Oct 22 - Taste of Chaos: The Used, Killswitch Engage, Rise Against, Story of the Year, Funeral for a Friend
Nov 12 - Maylands Rec Centre - EPW Reawakening: Antistatic
Nov 18 - Rosemount Hotel - Birds of Tokyo, Heavyweight Champ, Seraphim, Dyscord
Nov 19 - Rosemount Hotel - Antistatic, Zeta Theory
Nov 25 - Fairbridge - Pitstop Music Festival - The Buttefly Effect, Gyroscope, Cog, Antistatic (Cancelled halfway through The Butterfly Effect)
Nov 26 - Scarborough - Lookout - The Butterfly Effect and Cog w/Behind Crimson Eyes
Nov 27 - Newport, Fremantle - The Butterfly Effect and Cog w/Antistatic
Dec 4 - Rock-It: Foo Fighters, Wolfmother, Gyroscope, Karnivool
Dec 9 - Joondalup - Scorcha Festival: End Of Fashion, Antistatic
Dec 26 - Rollercoaster - The Living End, Spiderbait, Gyroscope, Karnivool
Dec 31 - Gloucester Park NYE - Karnivool

And while this was technically 2006, I dont care, it was cool:
Jan 1 - G Spot - Joondalup - Project: Bad Debut Gig :o

Now for the best and worst of 2005. Feel free to fill out yourself, Im just incredibly bored and reflecting on great gigs, good times indeed.

Albums of the year

5. Wolfmother - Wolfmother
4. Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
3. System of a Down - Mezmerize
2. Cog - The New Normal
1. Karnivool - Themata

Songs of the Year:

5. Shihad - Shot in the Head
4. System of a Down - Old School Hollywood
3. Cog - The River Song
2. Karnivool - Themata
1. The Butterfly Effect - Phoenix

Albums from a previous year...that I fell in love with this year

5. At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
4. Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
3. System of a Down - System of a Down
2. Sparta - Wiretap Scars
1. Pearl Jam - Ten

Most listened to song on iTunes

5. Anarcy OK - Cog - 19 times
4. Jeremy - Pearl Jam, Cataract - Sparta, Vicinity of Obscenity - SOAD - 20 times each
3. The Spine - Cog, Black - Pearl Jam, Black Masks and Gasoline - Rise Against - 23 times each
2. Silence is Violence - Cog - 27 times
1. The Butterfly Effect - Phoenix - 49 times

LIVE 2005

Band seen most live:

2. Karnivool - 8 times
1. Antistatic - 11 times

Gigs of the Year

5. Rock It
4. Hyper Winterfest
3. Big Day Out 2005
2. Karnivool - Amplifier
1. The Butterfly Effect and Cog w/Antistatic - Newport

Live Bands of the Year

5. System of a Down
4. Antistatic
3. Cog
2. The Butterfly Effect
1. Karnivool

Longest distance travelled for a gig

2. Pinjarra - Pitstop Festival
1. Mandurah - Rollercoaster

Most memerable live moments of 2005

5. Joey drumming for one song with System of a Down - Big Day Out
4. Dave Grohl running through crowd to tower above me at Rock It
3. Seeing Antistatic for the first time at Hyper Winterfest
2. Slipknot coming on stage at Big Day Out (didnt put on best performance, but seeing them was awesome)
1. Clint singing Perception Twin head to head with me

Band to look out for in 2006

Project: Bad

About a year and a half ago I downloaded a song off Kazaa, that song was Crave by The Butterfly Effect, thus began a new sense of musical taste for myself. Since then The Butterfly Effect have been my favourite band. I really wanted to see them tour, but it just so happened I got into them just after a tour in Perth, in which was very close to the end of their album tour. So Mike waited, preyed for them to come back to Perth, mainly for the fact that Vorn would keep going on about him seeing them live before and such, in his attempt to make me jealous....and succeed. So various TBE shows and tours would pass, Filling Silence tour....every state but WA, Phoenix tour....every state but WA. It wasnt untill one late Sunday night at the end of September would I get the news I was after. After waiting one year and a half, it was announced The Butterfly Effect would finally return to Perth, on the Bread and Circusses tour with another awesome Australian band (that I didn't like that much at the time) Cog. Tickets were purchased early, and my EFFECTED tshirt was layed out ready to go.

Pitstop Festival, 25th November, Pinjarra/Fairbridge

The first show was this past Friday in Pinjarra. A longer trip than expected saw us also picking up the bassist from Antistatic who had made a little 'Pitstop' of his own ha-ha (Vorns joke). Luckily Vorn spotted him broken down on his way back from Bunbury, so myself and Claire went and picked them up from....the end of the freeway or wherever it was. So yes, if it wasnt for us, there wouldve been no Antistatic at Pitstop, and if they didnt play there wouldve been some pretty pissed off 'punters' (you'll know why by the end of the Pinjarra chapter ;) ). So yeah we get to Pinjarra and deliver static bassist, and join the HUGE crowd of people. By huge I mean....20 or 30. Tangled Thoughts of Leaving were on, and I lost all interest when all their songs were ruined by horrible, unecessary screams. Some of their music wasnt bad, but the screams just ruined it all. The Flairz were next and well....yeah....theyre little kids, LOL funneh!!11 I mean really, they couldnt of been more lame. And they were so reading off a script between songs. Cute? No. suffered through their set untill Antistatic. This was Static show number 9 since August, yeow! Didnt fail to impress again, although Drew taunted the crowd which was a bad idea, and was pelted with stress balls most of the set, resulting in unplugging's of guitars and missed chords. Poor guy. Anyways the next bands were of no interest (The Fuzz and Red Jezebel) so that called for food/bouncy castle/sitting down time. Arriving back at the end of The Fuzz we got a good spot for TBE whom I had waited to see for over a year. Oh I also had made a TBE flag...

which I had out and people had spotted and praised and were saying how awesome I am, too true. Anyways it was getting really windy, and I was getting worried and knew something would happen to stop me from seeing TBE. But moments later, TBE were on stage, I was SEEING TBE LIVE. Opening with Phoenix is so awesome, such an awesome song. The crowd (of maybe 100 or so people) then got really into with One Second of Insanity and Always, too awesome for words. I think it was at the start of Perception Twin....actually maybe not...anyways at the start of one song Clint (TBE singer) saw my flag to which he smiled, noded, and did the whole fingers to heart/point to my direction. Such an awesome moment. TBE bassist had also seen in at the start and was hell happy about it. Back to Perception Twin (current favourite TBE song), in which Clint sings a line of the song TO ME. Not just any line, the line 'Im raped and molested, touched by you'. Fuck yeah. A few songs later they get to Take It Away, they go into the whole melody/cover song of sending out an S.O.S mix song thingy, when it gets hell windy. Next thing you know a pole falls from the roof of the stage, almost hitting Kurt (TBE guitarist). They continue playing anyway, but another huge gust of wind hits, at which point its thought to be too dangerous and TBE are sent off stage :o! Halfway through one of the best moments of my life...and its called off? Im front row centre...and it just ends? The whole festival was called off, so no Gyroscope or Cog either. So dissapointing, but atleast I got to see TBE and Cog the next 2 nights, and Gyroscope at Rock It.

TBE & Cog w/Behind Crimson Eyes @ Lookout, Scarborough

Take 2 at seeing a FULL TBE set. Behind Crimson Eyes opened, and well, they're a hardcore band, enough said. They got owned by the PA during first 2 songs, so not as much screamo at the start, but it picked up towards the end. Myself and Karl tried to get front for TBE, but there were too many assholes at the front. I had a 7 foot guy in front of me, and there were 2 fucking annoying wogs who wouldve never heard of TBE and most probably listen to RNB at the front, costing us out front positions. Them aside the crowd was awesome. HUUUGE pop for TBE, sooo good. Again I must say Phoenix is such an awesome opener. Same setlist as Newport (which Ill post below) and just pure ownage. Clint also got a cheap pop for mentioning Karnivool (vool are so popular here) and possibly touring here with them for the album release (fucking yay). Also mentioned he'll be doing guest vocals on upcoming Heavy Weight Champ album (fucking yay).Man I love TBE. Cog were next, whom I had been dying to see after buying their album like a week before, I was already hooked. Cog put on an AWESOME live show. Although some of Flynn's (Singer) speeches are lame. Tonights speech was on politics and such, I dunno, I dont care about that shite. But yeah, being new to Cog I'd now rank them up with the likes of TBE and Karnivool, pwnage.

TBE and Cog w/ (P)Antistatic @ Newport, Fremantle

Last show of the tour .....but the best . Sunday gigs in Freo start earlier for some reason :S...so yeah there was the festival type atmosphere happening around the streets, lame. Got in just after doors had opened, and the stage room thingy doors wernt open yet, but saw Clint from TBE and Cog bassist in the room. I held up my TBE banner to the window, and Clint waved :D. He then came out and said Hi shook our hands and such, and we got pics with him, awesome guy, best moment ever. PICS!

Antistatic opened (static viewing number 10). The PA at Newport sounded awesome, so Antistatic sounded good for once...:p. Haha nah they owned as per usual, cranked out a new song which pwnd. Anchored onto front position for TBE, had my banner hanging on the barrier which TBE bassist would chuckle at again (such a happy guy). TBE would provide me with the best live performance Ive ever witnessed. I was SO CLOSE to the band. The best moment would again come during Perception Twin when Clint came right up to me at the front, leant over and sang Perception Twin with me as MY head was touching HIS head, HIS sweat on MY head. I think he mainly did it because he forgot the lyrics again (he did at Pitstop, silly billy), and came looking for help, too bad I forgot aswell. Another great moment was during Crave when he was singing right in front of my face, like......SO CLOSE. It was insane. They seemed to be having a great time so fun was had by all. Best set ever. Setlist as promised!

Cog closed again, and succeeded in impressing myself again. Their music is so inspirational and heeeell catchy. Charades was cut :( so no 'glasses of homemade lemonnaaaaade (lemon-ay-hayde)' but still an awesome set. Better than Lookout gig. Flynn's speech was awesome this time around, he was talking about bands like Cog, TBE, Karnivool, Sunk Loto and such creating their own genre of music, not metal/emo/punk and such. Another huge pop for Karnivool, awesome. Such an awesome gig, but dissapointing that there wernt enough posters to steal of the gig (Ill have to eBay for one). In conclusion, if you havn't see The Butterfly Effect live, you havn't lived. Here's some pics for your viewing.

More pics at http://photobucket.com/albums/v223/Sharkboy/TBE%20-%20Newport/

Love Mike :)

Oh yeah I also got this at Pitstop from Trav. I won it on TBE forums but the lazy cunt never sent it, so he bought it down.

Not available in stores :)

So Sarah thought she'd post a pink picture of myself, seems innocent enough sure....but I wasn't gonna let her get away with it. Enjoy!

*photo taken down due to special request*

I'm so lame, apologies for the bad cut out jobs, and apologies to Shagan, Heather and Linzy for replacing their sexy heads with that of Hanson, what was I thinking?

<3 Mike