Every Time I Die, Surrender, I Exist @ The Corner Hotel, Melbourne (20/10/2013)
I had the pleasure of catching Every Time I Die at Big Out Out this year and during their set frontman Keith Buckley stated that the band don't really like playing at festivals, and that they much prefer club shows. Just nine months later the band are back in the country doing exactly that.
Tonight's venue is the Corner Hotel in Melbourne and Surrender have the tough job of opening up the show to the early small crowd of about fifty people.
The former Perth lads who “came to Melbourne and loved it so much they decided to move here” work through a solid twenty five minute set of their catchy metal/hardcore style music including tracks from their album One Day.
Vocalist David Hickford spends most of the time in the small but enthusiastic crowd running back and forth screaming out the lyrics. A few people even scream out encore at the end of the band's short set, which puts big smiles on the young band's faces.
The lads in I Exist have flown down from Canberra to play tonight and whether it's because they have a much bigger following or because it's getting closer to the main attraction the crowd is a lot bigger.
Jake Willoughby's very heavy vocals remind me a bit of Mark Hunter of Chimaira but unfortunately, I just can't get into the band as they work their way through old songs and even a few from their forthcoming new album From Darkness, out on November 29th.
Even though the crowd was a lot bigger there was surprisingly little crowd involvement, which must have been disappointing for the band.
After almost half an hour (in which time the venue has basically completely filled up) the curtains across the stage sweep open and New York's own Every Time I Die walk out on stage.
In less than a moment, suddenly every man and their dog is rushing to the stage to mosh and crowd surf. The band race through their first three songs which includes Underwater Bimbos From Outer Space from their latest album Ex Lives before Buckley introduces the band.
Buckley encouraged people to jump on stage and stage dive, after telling us that they told security to remove the barriers because hardcore kids can look after each other better than security can, which gets a loud cheer.
The band work through tracks from their six album back catalogue including a massive circle pit around that pole (anyone who's been to the Corner knows the one I'm talking about!) The moshing, crowd surfing and stage diving barely let's up for a second throughout the whole first hour of the set which is brought to a close with We'rewolf from 2007's The Big Dirty album.
When the band return to the stage for an encore of Indian Giver from Ex Gives, Buckley welcomes as many people that can fit on the stage to join them which was a sight to behold. Guitarist Jordan Buckley crowd surfs off the side of the stage to end the track and the band's set.
It's not hard to see why Every Time I Die prefer club shows like this one to festival shows. I have never experienced a crowd go that crazy and have that much intensity for an entire set like that before and it certainly is something you have to experience for yourself when the band return. After the success of this tour, I don’t the wait will be too long!
Matt Barton
Tonight's venue is the Corner Hotel in Melbourne and Surrender have the tough job of opening up the show to the early small crowd of about fifty people.
The former Perth lads who “came to Melbourne and loved it so much they decided to move here” work through a solid twenty five minute set of their catchy metal/hardcore style music including tracks from their album One Day.
Vocalist David Hickford spends most of the time in the small but enthusiastic crowd running back and forth screaming out the lyrics. A few people even scream out encore at the end of the band's short set, which puts big smiles on the young band's faces.
The lads in I Exist have flown down from Canberra to play tonight and whether it's because they have a much bigger following or because it's getting closer to the main attraction the crowd is a lot bigger.
Jake Willoughby's very heavy vocals remind me a bit of Mark Hunter of Chimaira but unfortunately, I just can't get into the band as they work their way through old songs and even a few from their forthcoming new album From Darkness, out on November 29th.
Even though the crowd was a lot bigger there was surprisingly little crowd involvement, which must have been disappointing for the band.
After almost half an hour (in which time the venue has basically completely filled up) the curtains across the stage sweep open and New York's own Every Time I Die walk out on stage.
In less than a moment, suddenly every man and their dog is rushing to the stage to mosh and crowd surf. The band race through their first three songs which includes Underwater Bimbos From Outer Space from their latest album Ex Lives before Buckley introduces the band.
Buckley encouraged people to jump on stage and stage dive, after telling us that they told security to remove the barriers because hardcore kids can look after each other better than security can, which gets a loud cheer.
The band work through tracks from their six album back catalogue including a massive circle pit around that pole (anyone who's been to the Corner knows the one I'm talking about!) The moshing, crowd surfing and stage diving barely let's up for a second throughout the whole first hour of the set which is brought to a close with We'rewolf from 2007's The Big Dirty album.
When the band return to the stage for an encore of Indian Giver from Ex Gives, Buckley welcomes as many people that can fit on the stage to join them which was a sight to behold. Guitarist Jordan Buckley crowd surfs off the side of the stage to end the track and the band's set.
It's not hard to see why Every Time I Die prefer club shows like this one to festival shows. I have never experienced a crowd go that crazy and have that much intensity for an entire set like that before and it certainly is something you have to experience for yourself when the band return. After the success of this tour, I don’t the wait will be too long!
Matt Barton