It was smoky and very dusty but damn we had a good time at Good Things Festival on Saturday in Sydney’s Centennial Park. Poppy on the main stage brought her mix of chaos and beats to the masses early, then Reel Big Fish brought the groove playing a few new tunes mixed in with the fan favourites, Ice Nine Kills had probably one of the biggest crowds for that early in the day and the Boston boys made the first dust cloud whipping the fans into a frenzy.
Over on stage 5 Gravemind and Windwaker both had sizeable crowds and brought the noise that Melbourne bands always seem to do! The Veronicas seemed to fit the bill nicely with a mix of fan faves and covers of Blink 182 and Tracy Bonham with Bert McCracken from The Used jumping on stage to perform The Taste of Ink. And yes, the Wall of Death during Untouched their closing song happened.
The rise of Melbourne’s Slowly Slowly was evident with a massive crowd singing along to all their tunes, then UK lads Enter Shikari created more dust clouds ripping through a fair wedge of their back catalogue in their alotted 45 minutes.
The Beautiful Monument made plenty of noise and probably won even more fans who went and checked them out, the Sydney lads Thy Art is Murder ripped up stage 3 for an hour set that had dust clouds during every song and the biggest wall of death I’ve ever witnessed.
Then Karnivool eased into their hour long set with a heap of tracks off ‘Sound Awake’ and ‘Themata’ along with an unreleased tune titled ‘All it Takes’ that could be on album number 4. A Day to Remember dropped one hell of a set running through their back catalogue complete with flame throwers, beach balls and flying dunny rolls.
Then Parkway Drive stepped up on stage (They were led through the crowd to get there) and performed a true headlining set with songs from ‘Horizons’, ‘Deep Blue’ ‘Atlas’, ‘Ire’ and plenty of their latest album ‘Reverence’ getting plenty of reaction from the crowd.
Their set was full of awesome lighting, plenty of flames, a rotating drumkit and even a Quartet. It was great to see an Aussie band headlining a big festival in their homeland, and a great way to end the day.
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