Lamb Of God
Before I start ranting how awesome Lamb of God were, I’m just going to say that the gig was way better than the Slayer gig - hands down. I don’t care whether you think I’m right or wrong. Chances are I probably just had a way better time than you.
Lamb of God was a gig that I had been waiting for since they had announced they were coming to Perth. I love Lamb Of God. They’re in my top 5 bands and I love the fact that they’re just fucking METAL. So I was fucking excited to see them.
One of the problems I have been facing lately is having to go with my boyfriend to metal gigs lately. I don’t know if that’s really a problem.. it helps that we both love metal. Even my Mum made a comment about how awesome it was that we both liked metal, when about 6 months ago she was freaking out because I was obsessed with it. Now she was basically encouraging me.
So before every metal gig must come a metal piss up. I went with Roger to a friends house where I got loaded. It was the good old trick: you don’t know how pissed you are until you stand up, so I kept on drinking thinking I wasn’t getting drunk at all. I stood up and then BAM! I realised I ate too much food before hand. Too much food + too much booze = vom vom. Yuck. But you must remember to top up the alcohol once this happens. It’s metal rule #3.. or something like that.
The taxi driver we got this time was super awesome as compared to the last dude we got on Saturday night who didn’t say a word to us even though we weren’t being tools. Then he forced us to give him an extra two bucks for some reason that I can’t remember. Why the fuck is it me that always has to pay for fucking taxi’s? Damnit! Anyway, yeah, driver was awesome. He’s from Lebanon and called me an angel. He also said that Roger should spoil me and marry me after he comes back from his Europe trip. I was too drunk to fully register what he was saying, but I’m sure if I was sober I would have been really embarrassed and laughed my ass off at the same time. This dude asked for two dollars extra as well, but I gave him a 10 buck tip for being totally awesome and reminding me of my grandparents.
That is always extra points in my book.
Lamb of God were just fucking awesome. The sound was great compared to the sound at the Fear Factory show and they put on a fucking awesome show. There’s nothing much to say other than it kicked major ass. I went down near the pit for most of the night, but to go any closer than I did would have probably meant a kick in the face.
I’ve been pushed over at gigs, I’ve been kicked in the back, had beer spilled on my head, my ass slapped, my boob grabbed, being hit on the head.. the whole shebang. But I have never been grabbed by the throat to be moved out of the way. And that is exactly what happened to me when I was down near the pit.
It goes like this: I was on the left side near the pit and obviously in the way of an extremely obese blonde girl who wore clothes that showed off her tits as this would be the only reason why anyone would want to look at her in the first place. She might have had a pretty face, but it was obvious to me that her personality was that of a fucking pig and therefore she looked like one to me. I was obviously in her way, so instead of trying to move past me (I don’t think she could and this may have been her problem), brush past me, or even bash me over to get through, she grabbed me by my fucking throat and shoved me aside.
Now I’m not really a violent person and I don’t get violent when I’m angry. I’m not even one of those girls who threaten to bash the shit out of people. But something snapped in me when she did that and I got so fucking mad that I really did feel like turning around, grabbing her by her hair and punching her in the face. I don’t think I even have the strength to do that and she could have easily killed me but I got so angry that the only thing I really could do was walk past her and bash into her so much so that she lost her balance. I haven’t done anything like that since I was 18 and shoving people was the only way to let them know not to shove you over.
There’s something different between shoving people over and grabbing them by the throat to shove them aside. It’s even more different between someone grabbing you by the boob and shoving you over or something like that. The throat is a bit more serious - it’s almost threatening. I think that’s why I got so mad and felt like bashing her for about 30 seconds. Maybe more.
Either way, I didn’t let it get in the way of ruining my night. I had fun going nuts with everyone, being with mates and just having a great time. And FUCKING LAMB OF GOD!
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