Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast

It's been a few years since I've seen a band rock so hard that I'd use the term "they blew the roof off the place!". The last time was probably when I saw Rage Against The Machine play for nearly 100,000 people at the Coachella Music Festival a couple summers ago. Needless to say, it was a crazy sea of drunk/stoned party goers screaming the "F**K YOU! WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!" at the top of their lungs - and Rage Against The Machine absolutely nailed it.

As you can imagine it's not easy to top an epic show like that, especially living in a smaller town like Victoria where huge headliners don't often venture, but I'm happy to report that my long wait finally ended when Australia's newest export - Airbourne - landed in the Queen City last week.

Haven't heard of them yet? I recommend watching their promo video because it will do them far more justice than my words.




The show was on a Monday night playing for a half full bar; but that seemed to have zero effect on the boys from Melbourne. From the minute these guys hit the stage it was balls out rock n roll, never stopping for a breath even in between songs. The only breaks these guys ever took were a couple seconds as distorted marshall amps were ringing out to take a pull off the bottle of Jack Daniels or shotgun a beer. The singer had his shirt off from the get go and never spoke in his normal voice - only screamed to the crowd in his amazingly high falsetto. Mid way through the set the singer scaled up the 30 foot tall speaker stacks to lay down an epic solo and later on he made his way through the crowd and stood on the bar at the back of the room to shred another solo. Never missed a note.

If you want to know more about Airbourne check out their myspace...
www.myspace.com/airbourne