Incubus
Wellington Town Hall, Wellington, New Zealand March 22nd 2002
We thought that 7 would be a reasonable time to show, Especially after last year, going to powderfinger, who pretty much and no queue at all, and we ended up milling round for ages, then cause there seemed to be sweet fuck all people, we got in first, and wandered round inside for a while,
But that’s another story.
So we wandered around the side of the town hall, past the ugly but strange fountain (I swear this city is full of them!) And basically went “holy fuck”. there was a queue spanning the entire length of civic square,and bending round to go up the steps that lead down into the square. on top of that, lots more people where arriving, and there where various people milling round inn groups too. Lisa and I looked at each other and commented that we didn’t think incubus would have been this popular. ahh well I guess we where wrong.
We made it in the third group of people they let through the doors, but we where greeted with the surprise of metal detector checks, and pat downs, on top of the usual bag search… hahaha…
Lisa and I had trouble to refrain from fits of laughter during the experience. well i certainly had my hysterics watching lisas face while she got checked.
Once inside the town hall we found ourselves a moderately comfortable position second row from the front,
Behind 4 very eager looking Korean girls. after sitting through two of the worlds most boring hip hop DJ’s, i mean i didn’t think most support acts just sat down put on records and had a cigarette… hell i should have been their support act… 🙂 i could have done that, i did suggest to lis that we get on stage and shake our asses, and it would be more entertaining, but she declined.
The crowd went absolutely nuts when Incubus came on, I can’t say too much about the actual content of they show, lacking knowledge of their songs, except for a few things.
Whenever Brandon Boyd walked over our side of the stage, the Korean girls went nuts, and the fourteen year olds beside us, would start yelling for Brandon to “take it off” to which we laughed and smiled. After Brandon Boyd, did indeed “take it off” he sang part of Britney Spears “I’m a slave for you” very funny. The audience, minus myself and lisa knew the words to every song. which was nice.