When we think of nightclubs, we think insanely fast doosh doosh music, pumping full blast to the point our ears bleed. The type of music where peeps breakdance and twerk and do all sorts of crazy moves that have to be seen to be believed. So it’s quite bizarre when you hear fast, remixed versions of slow, sad songs made to become hardcore party songs.
Musicians make heaps of songs over the course of their careers, with only a handful of songs on each album becoming singles. But no matter how popular the band is, over time some of their less commercially successful singles just disappear into obscurity that only hardcore fans remember. It’s a real shame.
I had high hopes for Big Day Out this year for two reasons: the Red Hot Chili Peppers were headlining and it had been seven friggin’ years since my last BDO in 2006. The better part of a decade has gone by since that show, and since I enjoyed the previous one so much, you can imagine how angsty I was to go back.