JEBEDIAH, AREA 7, & GET UP KIDS
Greenhouse Tavern, Coffs Harbour, NSW
Wednesday, 22 March 2000
by Chay Neal

Jebediah, Area 7, & Get Up Kids Wednesday, 22 March 2000 Greenhouse Tavern, Coffs Harbour, NSW by Chay Neal

I must say, it was a most fantastic night! Well worth the absolutely no money I paid to get in! haha, no, seriously, it was unreal! Not being of legal age I had to find an alternative way in, which thanks to some very kind-hearted people was easier than I thought. :-)

I was lucky enough to meet all of the Area 7 guys. They're all legends - really nice guys. Met Venessa from Jebediah too - one cool chick. And I had a brief encounter with the Get Up Kids and the a couple of the other Jeb guys. And I even got my CDs signed - something to take home with me...

I didn't see all of the Get Up Kids, but I'd just like to put in a plug for these guys saying they are way-underrated! You may hear their new single on triple j lately - 'Holiday' - I think it is called... Most people seem to have hardly even heard the Get Up Kids, but I think they're awesome....

But even more awesome, Area 7. I was there in the mosh pit for the whole A7 and Jeb shows... And I must comment on the mosh pit too - it was psycho! Much bigger than any non-festival mosh pit I've ever seen before... Lots of crowd surfing of which I'll tell you about later...

Area 7 played most of the songs off their album - all the songs you'd remember from triple j - No Logic, Start Making Sense, Second Class Citizen (with a bit of audience participation, of which my brother James is proud to be a part of yelling out "Second Class Citizen" into Stevo's mic.) They continued playing all their other great catchy songs and finished off with Bitter Words. Sorry I can't remember much of the setlist, but I'm writing this nearly two weeks after the show because I had exams last week. :-(

Next, the headlining act, Jebediah. They opened with their favourite opening number, Lino. Fantastic song. They played all their favourites including Animal, Teflon, Harpoon, Benedict, Star Machine, Feet Touch The Ground, Leaving Home, and I then came on for an encore which I'm pretty sure was Military Strongmen and then going into Invaders when some poor old sod had a bit of a mishap while crowd-surfing and hit his head pretty hard when he went over the top of the crowd into the stage, from what I can gather (I couldn't really see from where I was but heard a bit of a thud over the loud music). Jebediah stopped playing and went to see if they could aid the guy - seeming as I'm pretty sure that was their last song anyway, they decided to call it quits there before anybody else carcked it...

After the show, back outside to meet the band again :). I realised later that I shouldn't have done this, as I was literally dripping wet from the mosh-pit and it was a fairly cool night and spitting with rain a little so standing out there too long wasn't too good coz next week I had a cold all exam week - poo!

All three bands come highly recommended to anybody into ska and punk, and they all put on supremely good shows! Get out and see 'em - oh and Area 7's new album is of course out now! They definately enspired me to get that!