By Courtney (coco242@hotmail.com)
On April 26 1997 I went to my frist really good concert(the only other concert I had been to was NKOTB) I went with my dad and 4 of my friends, we arrived at the club around 5:45, I had a teeny moment when we drove past the club! the night we had all been waiting for was finally here! We met up with some friends that haf gone down early. We waited while listening to some of the soundcheck and we made fun of all the teenyboppers some of witch were wearing these tight ass bell bottoms how they planed on jumping was a mystere. the crowd was let in around 6:30, as soon as we got in we sent my dad to buy shirts and posters,while we headed for the mosh pit we were about ten rows back. They were playing music by 'KoRn','311','Beastie Boys and lots of other cool stuff! We were almost killed when one of the roadies came out to throw Local H stickers. Before Handsome even came on the mosh pit was crazy so we opted for the side of the pit, where we could see better and were even closer but we were right next to the speakers but it was a small price to pay for something we had waited for, for such a long time! When Handsome came on around 8:00 the crowd wasn't very responsive. My ears were killing me they were so loud, so I sat on the floor with one of my friends( we weren't afraid of getting hurt cause no one was really jumping at all). After a painful set, thanks to Handsome, I couldn't hear anything. Local H was up next, I had heard some of their songs on the radio and I thought they were pretty good. When they started playing 'Fritz corner', everyone was going crazy jumping around and having a good time, Local H played an amazing set I was on a mission to buy the CD A.S.A.P! we waited what felt like forever for silverchair to come on, finally at 10:07 the circus music played and people started screaming, they played Slave perfectly and went into 'Roses'. Daniel said 'thank you' in french and then counted to ten. they began 'abuse me' it was played really well but there was this big guy standind in front of us that had the worst B.O ever he didn't get that when my friends and I started pushing him away that we weren't moshing we were trying to get some clean air but the club smelt like pot! They played a wicked setfor the encore they played Minor Threat by Minor Threat,( Jeremy from Handsome came to sing with silverchair, while Scott and one of the roadies danced around the stage, witch got some laughs from the ' chair'). They went into 'israel's son' witch was played flawlessly. It was the perfect song to end a night I'll never forget. A silverchair concert is something everyone should see!
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