I went and saw the Datsuns last night in Melbourne. It was awesome!.

The support was some band called Fur Patrol, who were also good. They got a lot of mileage with the male segment of the crowd thanks to their rather gorgeous lead singer. But their songs were pretty good too, and they were tight.

The Datsuns blew me away, they put on the best show. It’s pure Rock theatre, lots of jumps, Pete Townshend windmills, crowd surfing and standing on risers. Awesome!

The crowd was weird, most of them were pretty sedate, although there were probably 200 or so at the front going completely mental. There were lots of crowd surfers landing on their heads, and knocking people over. I hit the deck at least twice, and one guy went down and lost his glasses, I must wear contacts next time.

The security were really shit, really agro and just complete wankers. At the end a guy reached up to the mic stand to grab one of Dolf’s picks and security came over and just threw him off the stage really violently. After the final encore a bunch of guys pulled the whole mic stand into the crowd and messed it all up, for a second I thought there was gonna be a brawl.

Within the crowd though it was a really good vibe, anyone who hit the deck was hauled up very quickly and everyone was trying to look after each other. Quite strange when you’re all jumping around like freaks and bashing into each other.

I took a few shots, it was a bit hairy for photography, but some came out.