Joel O'Keeffe, the singer of Airbourne: “As long as we[the band] are alive and as long as you[the crowd] are
alive, rock is not going to die.”
The best way to spend the
weekend after an exam is to go to a concert because it distracts from
everyday life at university. I was at the Airbourne Concert in Vienna
last Saturday and do not regret it. This hard-rock band knows how to
entertain people who have to sweat in a crowd with hurting feet and
backs. Despite this uncomfortable and crowded situation, the concert audience has the typical, indescribable
concert-feeling and the band, especially the lead-singer, does a great
job with many guitar-solos and little “acts”. The latter are for
example the singer smashing a beer can against his head until it
breaks and then throwing it into the crowd or drinking a bottle of
wine in one go*, whereas the guitar-solos are extraordinary because
some of them take place above or behind the crowd, on speakers and on
the scaffolding of the stage. The concert took four hours all in all,
two supporting acts included, and I think one can imagine that this
leisure time activity diverts the thoughts from the studies. Finally,
I am back in Graz again, studying and doing homework, writing blogs
and running a household, but I am looking forward to seeing another band at the next concert.
*It is a hard-rock concert. That means as soon as you enter the hall the only valid political system is anarchy. The band members do what they feel like doing and so does the crowd. (Most of) The concertgoers are aware of the fact that this is not a lifestyle to aim for.
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