yeah i got some free tickets to the Chch summer jam, so I went along.
didnt really see many people over 20. lotsa wee kiddies (probably born in the 90's) they were screaming and having a ball.
Tadpole were let down in the first 1/3 of their set by bad sound, they seemed to recover and the crowd totally got into their songs from the radio.
Che fu - i agree with Jenni, lovely voice, but just not my kind of music.
The vocals for the first part of the feelers set were atrocious, they seemed to be trying to sing lots of harmonies, but it just didnt quite work for some reason.
I thought rubicon were interesting to watch, they had a lot of energy, and seemed to be really into it. Silverchair - daniel (vocals) has a kind of gravelly voice which I like. He challenged himself by singing way too high for one of the songs and sounded pretty good. They all played a very solid set, and it seemed to go down well with the crowd. I recognized about 4 songs, but I was disappointed they didnt play 'tomorrow'.
All in all Im glad my tickets were free, but i did enjoy the gig.

I went to the Welly one and i loved it...
Rubicon had to be the best band by far.. all their songs were awesome and they were all looking damn good, in those red Rubicon shirts, very very very good!
Silverchair were also very good they had good sound and stuff, i liked Ben's massive colourful drum kit, that was cool.
The Feelers were also good, they had a good set... and james had a little dance between songs.. and Matt made us sing happy b'day to his little brother which was cool..
che fu and the crates were really good. it was different to the rest, but different in a good way.
but tadpole werent that good i thought. no reason why...
yeah after the gig i saw daniel johns looking quite ill.....
the down point was the Video clips between sets... the music was all shit like Ja Rule..(no offence to those people who like him)...

yeah....

great night all together. :)

I went to the hamilton summer jam. I loved it.

my personal favourite was che fu and the crates. i thought that they just gave the crowd this whole new feeling and involved everyone. it was so awesome! rubicon were funny as, looked like they were having such a good time. tadpole aren't really my thing but they played a good set. the feelers were way better live than they are on the radio, the main guy had tons of energy and was really into it. lots of people seemed to go to summer jam just to see silverchair, and as my friend pointed out i probably wouldn't have gone if silverchair weren't going, but man, i loved che fu so much and i appreciate music like his so much more now. silverchair was kind of ruined for me because there was this guy next to us doing the fingers to daniel johns and calling him a fag, then turning around to all his mates and going "ah-haw-haw-haw!!!" which is also known as laughter in macho-man language. it was really lame because silverchair 1) wouldn't give a f*&% and 2) couldn't see him anyway.
but wanky guys aside, i really enjoyed it. does anyone know if they had it last year and what bands went?

"Unfortunately Daniel is pretty sick and left Queens Wharf Event Centre on crutches, and look pretty crappy, he could barely stand up."

Gee isn't he over that eating disorder yet? He sounds hungry.

i fully know what you're on about there Euphoria.....

I ended up going to the one in Hamilton cause my friends dragged me last minute with a free ticket, so i thought i'd go along and see how tadpole and che fu were.....and fuck they went off......i've never seen tadpole live so i thought they were gonna be just average but hell son, they were wicked, got the crowd going, same with che fu and p money, loving him.....feelers surprised me and they were actually pretty good, i didnt mind them, and the lead guy cracked me up, especially when he started doing an indian rain dance! he's so nuts.....rubicon.....dont even get me started, we were gonna make a huge sign "FUCK YOU RUBICON! MY NAME'S BRUCE!" and go up into the mosh pit (although you could hardly call the group of ten screaming girls a mosh pit) and i was so incredibly dissapointed and disgusted by silver chair i left. All he did was say 'fuck' and diss new zealand, and they're songs were crap so i left along with half the crowd......

And god! the amount of little girls running around in mini skirts and boob tubes was discussing, it was friggin cold as shit, i was wearing jeans a big jacket with sheepskin on the inside and a woolen scarf and i was still freezing my nuts off, and these girls were running round like it was the middle of fucken summer! some off the poeple i went with started telling them to put clothes on, it was pretty funny at the time.....and one girl was running around and just as she was running past us, she fell over on her arse and slid through the mud, at the same time losing her bob tube - lucky she had her bikini top on, considering she wasnt going swimming but you know! we laughed our arses off......

Its good to see them having a tight control on alcohol, but damn, the number of people smoking doobies there was disgusting! we almost got wasted off the amount in the air, i swear i was probably only breathing about 20% oxygen the whole time i was there......when my and a friend of mine were singing away to che fu, she started to admire a rather "hot" guy standing behind us, my friend was getting more and more excited every time she looked at him and then just when she managed to show him to me, he happened to be crouching down and lighting up his pipe.....hmmmm impressive.....

it was alot better in wgtn... i wounder why, daniel complemented the crowd & all, i agree all the boppers round, i got asked for smokes by the same girl 5 times. if i did smoke, i'd be selfish anyway, they cost so much i wouldn't share but thats a different topic...
yeah i thought tadpole & the feelers would be alrite, but they weren't!!!! i was so impressed, & i have to say silverchair rocked at wgtn mabey he used up all his energy there?

DAMN ALL U RUBICON TEENY BOPPERS!!! WHO LISTEN TO BRUCE & THINK ITS PUNK & "BAD"

Butterfly, i mite pick up on ur idea i'll get a banner it'll say

SHIHAD = PACIFIER
RUBICON = SHIT

I think i like it ;)