Abandoned

Hey. Well this is the promised ‘concert rave’ post.

 Okay, so we get to Centennial Park spot on 3 pm (when the gates open). Queue up to get our tickets, then get in the main line. Fifteen minutes later we are buying water and merch.

Ash Grunwald starts playing, we’re sitting on a picnic blanket, talking among ourselves, watching Ash play. It’s great.

Then we’re deciding whether to go to the loo/get something to eat now, or after the ‘Beautiful Girls’s’ set, when Blue King Brown starts up. THAT decided it for me. So, we stayed, we sang along, we clapped, and we wrote down the phone number for texting if you wanted to know more about nuclear energy and such things.

The Beautiful Girls come on, I stick around while they play one of my favourite songs, then dash off to get something to eat. More eating follows, then, ‘whoa. They’re starting now!’ I say, when I see Ollie McGill sitting at his keyboard. So we pack up the picnic blanket and move towards the front to join the dancing crowd. Well, 5 minutes later we sit down and start to talk again, THEN after a few more false alarms (the background music sounded VERY similar to one of their songs) the Cat Empire start to play.

I’ve got to say, it’s definitely one of the best concerts I’ve EVER been to!!!! They played all the favourite songs, had everyone jumping up and down and/or clapping or swaying their arms (except my little sister, who just clapped along or stood and watched. I think it might have been shock.). Then, at 9:12pm they say ‘this is our last song’. They play it, then after a few minutes of random callings of ‘encore’. The crowd manages to get into a rhythm of ‘encore, clap, clap, encore! clap, clap’ So the Cat Empire come out and play another two or three songs.

Ahhh. Definitely a highlight of my life!!!!