Well I thought I should let you know what happened at the Dec 20 1997 summer freak show in perth. My brother, myself and a friend arrived at the perth entertainment centre about an hour early (which is really amazing since the last two times i saw silverchair we were half an hour late). We went and got some pre gig munchies and returned to wait for the doors to open. Once we were inside, we entered the moshpit area, stood around for another half an hour for Magic dirt to start, then lost my brother when they did. We missed half of their set but what we heard was pretty good.
After another break Ammonia came on and rocked the house. They were well received by the native perth crowd. 'Drugs' and 'Your Not The Only One' were the best songs in that set.
Then, finally after more waiting and a bad case of pins and needles, the 'chair stormed the stage. They launched into the intro to Israel's Son, then into a rockn' version of Slave. Roses followed, much to the crowds delight, then Bailey was brougth out to play Abuse Me. Daniel, being the joker that he is, sang 'come on suck my dick I like it' instead of 'Abuse me more I like it'. Guess how the crowd reacted to that! After a hard hitting rendishion of Pure Massacre, Daniel said "I'm gonna sing this on by myself" and sang a beautiful version of Cemetery, could it be anything less than beautiful? With a mension of Triple J's youth suicide prevention appeal, they lanched into Suicidal Dream. Daniel introduced they next song by deicating it to his 'lovely prostitute' and played Pop Song Fir Us Rejects. my fav. frogstomp song, Faultline, was next then a thumping extended live version of Isreal's Son, with extra feed back and screaming.
They exited the stage but soon returned to play Freak, complete with heaters and peaople collesting sweat. Daniel walked off again leaving Ben and Chris to entertain us with a little bit of beats. He finally returned wearing loads of make-up, a dress (which was a digusting grey colour from where i was standing) and a lovely hot pink boa around his neck. He was going on about how its ok to be a faggot like him and dress like girls (I kid you not!) I think he was joking though. They played Lie To Me and then a absolutely butt kicking version of Spawn. That totally kicks arse live. Then Daniel got to jump around the stage with a guitar while they played the remix of Freak. Ben also got to play some weird little drums. During the remix, the guys for Magis Dirt decided it would be fun to try and dack the 'chair while they played. Ben and Chris managed to avoid being exposed, but Daniel was not so lucky. He got his dress ripped off and was left standing in his undies to finish the song(hehe). When they finished Daniel ran straight off stange while Ben Chris wandered of slowly. The lights came back on and crowd was still buzzing as they walked out. Not wanting to get more crushed than already was, I hung aruond trying to scab stuff off the roadies, didnt have any luck though (BUSTARDS). Still the night rocked and I had the best fun ever. They just keep getting better.