hello Sinisterinies! Just writing to tell you about my day at the Big Day Out- the best (err actually practically the only!) festival in Australia. And this year had an unbeatable line-up (unbeatable that is for Aussie standards which most definitely do not compare to English festival ones): Beth Orton, Basement Jaxx, Chemicals, and Primal Scream. It was like THE most TRANSCENDENTAL, MIND-BLOWING just plain AMAZING time of my life. It was actually stultifyingly ROASTINGLY *HOT*- a whopping 37 degrees celsius!:( Beth Orton made a joke about "a little English roast-Beth on a spit!" which was an accurate description. The maddening heat threatened to spoil proceedings and since the first band we saw was Atari Teenage Riot- the self-proclaimed loudest band in the world (eat that Korn et al) who sounded like a cross between Rage Against the Machine and Bis (a frightful notion), the mood was not helped. The only words they seemed to know (they're German) were "FUCK" "REVOLUTION" and "Atari Teenage Riot!" all delivered in screaming tones- errgh. Lead singer was good-looking though. After that we retreated to shade for drinks etc The next act we saw was the ever lovely Beth Orton. She seemed to be a great mood despite the heat and was joking and goofing around a lot- such a relief from the other dour Atari. She was really great of course- with the dancier tracks like "Tangent" and "Stars seem to Weep" wonderfully complimenting the rock outs ("Stolen Car") and the devastatingly sad weepies like "Pass in Time". She was wearing a rilly cute hot orange bikini and hot pants combo with a cute blue star on her bottom, so I took a piccie of it!:) She played a remarkably short set-only half an hour but it was still really fantastic. My friend nearly passed out from the heat then- so early in the day. Primal Scream were next in the Boiler Room and boy did a place EVER live up to its name. The weather was 37 degrees but inside the Boiler Room it was at least in the fifties! So packed it was with writhing steaming bodies. Prior to the Primals, the security guards were in a strangely jolly mood and were dancing along to the music and exhorting the audience to do so too-hmmm! Primals were unequivocally the BEST act of the day despite very tough competition. They were evil and brilliant and their music suitably nasty metal machine futuristic punk, which frequently escalated into pure white noise. Mani was off-his-face on some drugs while Bobby G wore sunnies and didn't move much yet oozed deadly cool from every pore. All their tracks boasted subterranean bass levels that reverberated through yr entire body (well I was right up front so I really FELT it!) and sounded so AMAZING, that we all felt like disciples bowing down at the feet of Bobby G, preacher of our modern times. Which I know sounds kinda wanky, but heh! It was that mind-blowing:) We took another much-needed break during Goldie and went back in to see Basement Jaxx who were also excellent and made MASSIVE sounding party music that was just awesome. After ANOTHER break, we went to see the last band on the bill, Chemical Brothers who were yes, you guessed it-f**king brilliant. They had trippy visuals and more importantly sounded blisteringly great. I just kept thinking wow! This is the best 6 hour rave ever:) the best song was "Block Rocking Beats" but their last song "Private Psychedelic Reel" just stunned us with its transcendental majesty and everything was just so *right* about the whole experience. It was like, your feet were aching and it was swelteringly hot but the euphoria and ecstasy you experienced was so undeniable. And that brought to an end a nearly 12 hour day of intense heat and the great feeling that it was $73 very well spent. The next day woke up with a mild case of temporary tinnitus and sunburn but have now completely recovered-yah! What was also really good was that I was able to bring my tape recorder in and made a pretty good bootlegs of Beth Orton, Basement Jaxx and Chems, and a not bad one of Primal Scream. Double HOORAY! Especially considering the fact that they had metal detectors at the gate and was sure I would be caught:) oooh way long letter. ah well hope those who DID make it to the end didn't mind it TOO much! ok luvvies love ya and leave ya Kin Woo +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+