Big Day Out is one of those things that no one ever wants to go too, but somehow everyone ends up at. After the momentary thrill of planning out your day, you realise you have to endure the drunk, drugged and disorderly from all the subcultures and scenes you hate and some more you didn’t even know of.

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Fortunately, thanks to access to the VIP room, I thought this year was going to be less awful than the median of its predecessors. Unfortunately God decided what goes up, must come down and I came down with a terrible 24 hour virus which made me feel as perky as a Diabetic Dane holidaying in the Sahara. On particularly rocky ship. That just got struck by lightning.

Luckily Bjerk didn’t bother turning up, so I wasn’t filled with self-loathing for not enjoying the performance to its optimum. Although I did rally my organs for the true highlight of the night, the Arcade Fire. There’s really not a lot I can say without being sucked into excessive hyperbole, other than they seem to have taken everything good from everything else in the world and put it together. Just for us. The good bits from Sesame Street, Christianity, “The South”, The Beatles and at-least something from everything else you’ve ever heard of or thought about, then they arranged it in just the right way. Infact my Doctor had advised me I had contracted a devastatingly Terminal case of Maleria before the event, only for it to pass less than 6 hours after their performance.

Coincidence?

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