Bliss N Eso/Jebediah - V8 race gig @ ANZ Stadium 2/12/2012
December 13th 2011 09:35
With a little known rapper from the States playing across town(!), there was a pretty small turn out who stuck around after the races to watch tonight's concert. Perhaps there were also in my boat where kicking of a gig at 4 when I finish work at 5:30 was not a smart move by the organisers. It meant I missed Calling All Cars and got in for the last 30 seconds of The Herd.
It must be hard to play to a stadium that holds over 80 000 people seated when there is barely 300 people there. I think it may have had an impact on Jebediah’s set as they were a little bit like going through the motions and the effort was not quite to their normal standards. While they delivered the songs most people would know. (“Harpoon”, “Leaving Home” etc) The overall response was lacklustre. It probably didn’t help when Kevin questioned why Holden and Ford fans couldn’t get along because ‘both are nice colours!’. It’s like asking Israel and Palestine to get along because both have interesting headwear. Not going to go down well.
Bliss N Eso on the other hand came with a game plan. Make the best of the situation by doing what they do best and getting the crowd involved. When told jump, we jumped. When told to sing along, we sang. The boys were engaging and entertaining and dominated the stage. DJ Ism is still one of the countries best DJs and has amazing work behind the turntables. Bliss and Macca chris crossed the stage spiting rhymes and singing along to the vast majority of tracks off their “Running On Air” album of last year. They even threw in a couple of older tracks that long time fans knew and appreciated in “Get Ya Boof On”. (As my mate said, he would’ve paid them more money to hear that song again) plus the ones that any Triple J listener would know off by heart including “Fly Through The City” and “Down By The River”.
The lack of people in the stadium was disappointing but still worthwhile to see one of my fave hip hop acts in the country at the moment.
It must be hard to play to a stadium that holds over 80 000 people seated when there is barely 300 people there. I think it may have had an impact on Jebediah’s set as they were a little bit like going through the motions and the effort was not quite to their normal standards. While they delivered the songs most people would know. (“Harpoon”, “Leaving Home” etc) The overall response was lacklustre. It probably didn’t help when Kevin questioned why Holden and Ford fans couldn’t get along because ‘both are nice colours!’. It’s like asking Israel and Palestine to get along because both have interesting headwear. Not going to go down well.
Bliss N Eso on the other hand came with a game plan. Make the best of the situation by doing what they do best and getting the crowd involved. When told jump, we jumped. When told to sing along, we sang. The boys were engaging and entertaining and dominated the stage. DJ Ism is still one of the countries best DJs and has amazing work behind the turntables. Bliss and Macca chris crossed the stage spiting rhymes and singing along to the vast majority of tracks off their “Running On Air” album of last year. They even threw in a couple of older tracks that long time fans knew and appreciated in “Get Ya Boof On”. (As my mate said, he would’ve paid them more money to hear that song again) plus the ones that any Triple J listener would know off by heart including “Fly Through The City” and “Down By The River”.
The lack of people in the stadium was disappointing but still worthwhile to see one of my fave hip hop acts in the country at the moment.
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