Big Day .... of something

Got off to an early checkout of the Y Hotel which had served us well, in retrospect writing this from the $400 Novetel which has been pathetic from hour one. more on that later.

once again catching the train system was a breeze and we departed on the selected Olympic Park direct line. arriving at the olympic site was fantastic, you can clearly see why Sydney got the olympics back in the day. would love to have explored a bit more, but time was of the essence and we made way for the hotel. checking in fine, leaving our bags we headed into the showgrounds for BDO.

all up a great site to stage the event, basically double the size of the perth equivalent. 50 - 70K people, lots of food, rides, and stages. if you want some personal time and space this is going to be the wrong place for it. our setlist was pretty easy as the day went on, grabbing lunch we then caught "The Butterfly Effect", numerous toilet breaks, then "My Chemical Romance", "The Vines", "Kasabian", "Jet", "Muse", and rounding out the night with TOOL.

all up is was good, a nice experience to say you've been there and done that. i wont be doing it again. the Big Day Out is still not worth its money in my opinion, and completely didnt suit TOOL playing live. cant begin to say how thankful we are to have seen them at the Entertainment Center the night before.

Novetel .....
ahhh yeh. who said staying in a $400 night hotel room was gonna be easy and painless. lets see ... no keys to the rooms before we left, so we we arrived back there was no proof for us to get in to reception and past the security on the doors. lucky i had my "baggage tags" then 12AM our bags arent even in our rooms. better yet they stuck us in a double room, and not a triple.... so no third bed. mark and i arrived at 12 and Rich decided to rock up at 1:30AM, with no baggage tags (which i offered to him earlier in the day) no proof of bookings, leaving us to wake up and go down and get him. even though we had left notice twice on the desk for his name and reservation.

glad to be coming home. two aces beats the three kings.
i'll leave you all with pics from the day. How good does Clint look rockin out from The Butterfly Effect :) most enjoyable act of the day.