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Superjakes said:
Who went to the JHB show? Honest opinions?
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I went but left halfway through Greenday's show to miss traffic (FML did miss some of the classics)

Overall good experience loved Poliesiekar and Offspring but found the sound wasn't great or atleast from my angle could only hear words to certain songs.

Greenday was good but didn't really interact with the corwd although missed the last 30 minutes of the show so it might have changed.

Overall solid 8/10
 
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L-Dog said:
I went but left halfway through Greenday's show to miss traffic (FML did miss some of the classics)

Overall good experience loved Poliesiekar and Offspring but found the sound wasn't great or atleast from my angle could only hear words to certain songs.

Greenday was good but didn't really interact with the corwd although missed the last 30 minutes of the show so it might have changed.

Overla solid 8/10
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Is it worth missing a show for which you paid so much just to miss some traffic?
 
hellfire said:
Is it worth missing a show for which you paid so much just to miss some traffic?
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Got tickets for free and definately for me since I had an 8:00 am meeting I couldn't miss. (If it was on a Fri/Sat would have stayed) In the future I will try get the setlist and then leave when there is 2-3 songs left not 5-6.
 
My view (even though nobody asked for it, par for the course on this forum): We used Park 'n Ride, which was well organised apart from the fact that Centurion Mall was about the same distance from the stadium as the drop off point, but I suppose it it what it is.

Food/drink vendors were ridiculously pricey, but that would also not be a surprise.

We did not get the rain that Accuweather was threatening with, so well done to the organisers.

The bands were great, really enjoyed Offspring, as they were not there to convince me of their political views, but just to get paid and let me have a good time. FPK was very energetic and I can imagine that their fans must have loved it - the only problem was that sometimes the emotion/speed/whatever translated purely to noise and no longer music, in my unsolicited opinion. When Green Day decided to come on stage after playing me their mom's tape of Bohemian Rhapsody and some bullsh1t with a furry, they started off with a bang. Lots of theatrics and an egomaniacal suckfest. Frankly, I did not pay to get a guy pretend to be Freddie Mercury and get me to say "weeee-yooooo" in every song. I paid to see you perform. The first part of the set was great. The drummer does look like he just came home from a hard day at the mine and is waiting for somebody to bring his slippers, but he was precise - he really matched their recordings beat by beat, and that was superb. The latter part of the set, I suppose the newer stuff, I will admit that I am not that familiar with, but some of that also just became noise. Thank goodness for every song that I knew popping up. Green Day did not get an encore request (first time I ever saw that in an international act), due to a combination of 40+ year olds just wanting to go home and I suppose people getting tired of feeding BJA's ego.

FPK - 7/10
Offspring - 8/10
Green Day - 6.5/10

OK, tell me how wrong I was.
 
The good - A great experience overall. Awesome vibe and no aggressive idiots that I saw.
Offspring was awesome. Definitely the highlight of the concert for me.
Fokof was great although I would have enjoyed it more if I knew more of their songs. Sang along like a hooligan to Dagdronk and Fokofpolisiekar.
Green Day started off great but felt a bit tedious after a while. Enjoyed their hits but emo Billy got a bit much closer to the end.
Security was much better than it was with Guns n Roses. Visible policing seems to have worked.
Drinks jugs. Awesome idea.
Park & ride. We went from East Rand Mall and the vibe in the bus was great with people randomly singing fokof, fokof polisiekar.

The bad - Queues everywhere. Drinks/food/merch. I know there is nothing you can do about it but for the first time in my life the queue for the mens bathroom was just as long as the one for the ladies.
Drinks prices are outrageous. R60 for a 500ml beer/sletsappie
The walking. Again, nothing you can do about it but according to Samsung health I walked about 15km yesterday. I'm feeling it today.
 
Crowley said:
The good - A great experience overall. Awesome vibe and no aggressive idiots that I saw.
Offspring was awesome. Definitely the highlight of the concert for me.
Fokof was great although I would have enjoyed it more if I knew more of their songs. Sang along like a hooligan to Dagdronk and Fokofpolisiekar.
Green Day started off great but felt a bit tedious after a while. Enjoyed their hits but emo Billy got a bit much closer to the end.
Security was much better than it was with Guns n Roses. Visible policing seems to have worked.
Drinks jugs. Awesome idea.
Park & ride. We went from East Rand Mall and the vibe in the bus was great with people randomly singing fokof, fokof polisiekar.

The bad - Queues everywhere. Drinks/food/merch. I know there is nothing you can do about it but for the first time in my life the queue for the mens bathroom was just as long as the one for the ladies.
Drinks prices are outrageous. R60 for a 500ml beer/sletsappie
The walking. Again, nothing you can do about it but according to Samsung health I walked about 15km yesterday. I'm feeling it today.
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I feel you...

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Superjakes said:
My view (even though nobody asked for it, par for the course on this forum): We used Park 'n Ride, which was well organised apart from the fact that Centurion Mall was about the same distance from the stadium as the drop off point, but I suppose it it what it is.

Food/drink vendors were ridiculously pricey, but that would also not be a surprise.

We did not get the rain that Accuweather was threatening with, so well done to the organisers.

The bands were great, really enjoyed Offspring, as they were not there to convince me of their political views, but just to get paid and let me have a good time. FPK was very energetic and I can imagine that their fans must have loved it - the only problem was that sometimes the emotion/speed/whatever translated purely to noise and no longer music, in my unsolicited opinion. When Green Day decided to come on stage after playing me their mom's tape of Bohemian Rhapsody and some bullsh1t with a furry, they started off with a bang. Lots of theatrics and an egomaniacal suckfest. Frankly, I did not pay to get a guy pretend to be Freddie Mercury and get me to say "weeee-yooooo" in every song. I paid to see you perform. The first part of the set was great. The drummer does look like he just came home from a hard day at the mine and is waiting for somebody to bring his slippers, but he was precise - he really matched their recordings beat by beat, and that was superb. The latter part of the set, I suppose the newer stuff, I will admit that I am not that familiar with, but some of that also just became noise. Thank goodness for every song that I knew popping up. Green Day did not get an encore request (first time I ever saw that in an international act), due to a combination of 40+ year olds just wanting to go home and I suppose people getting tired of feeding BJA's ego.

FPK - 7/10
Offspring - 8/10
Green Day - 6.5/10

OK, tell me how wrong I was.
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100% agree with everything above.
The walk to and from the Park&Ride was crazy far (Clearwater). And it was bloody hot.
Also the gate H we stood at didn't open at 2pm like it was supposed to, so standing in the sun hurt.

Even though we were there early there was still a long queue for merch, but got some cool shirts and a cap.

Offspring were supurb.
Loved the classis from Greenday, didn't know some of there songs and didn't actually like much.
Was a nice ending with the 3 band members together, also surprised about no encore.

Also could not believe how many people were leaving early. We got home around 1am, body feels rough, but well worth it.

Was an awesome vibe amongst the crowd before the show.
 
Username: said:
FPK - 8.5/10
Offspring - 9/10
Green Day - 6/10
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Agree, im a huge Green day fan, but felt Offspring put on the better show , not saying Green day was bad, Offspring just had a much better energy
 
Tony76 said:
100% agree with everything above.
The walk to and from the Park&Ride was crazy far (Clearwater). And it was bloody hot.
Also the gate H we stood at didn't open at 2pm like it was supposed to, so standing in the sun hurt.

Even though we were there early there was still a long queue for merch, but got some cool shirts and a cap.

Offspring were supurb.
Loved the classis from Greenday, didn't know some of there songs and didn't actually like much.
Was a nice ending with the 3 band members together, also surprised about no encore.

Also could not believe how many people were leaving early. We got home around 1am, body feels rough, but well worth it.

Was an awesome vibe amongst the crowd before the show.
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I Mean, ending with Good riddance "i Hope you had the time of your life" was the perfect end (:
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Crowley said:
The good - A great experience overall. Awesome vibe and no aggressive idiots that I saw.
Offspring was awesome. Definitely the highlight of the concert for me.
Fokof was great although I would have enjoyed it more if I knew more of their songs. Sang along like a hooligan to Dagdronk and Fokofpolisiekar.
Green Day started off great but felt a bit tedious after a while. Enjoyed their hits but emo Billy got a bit much closer to the end.
Security was much better than it was with Guns n Roses. Visible policing seems to have worked.
Drinks jugs. Awesome idea.
Park & ride. We went from East Rand Mall and the vibe in the bus was great with people randomly singing fokof, fokof polisiekar.

The bad - Queues everywhere. Drinks/food/merch. I know there is nothing you can do about it but for the first time in my life the queue for the mens bathroom was just as long as the one for the ladies.
Drinks prices are outrageous. R60 for a 500ml beer/sletsappie
The walking. Again, nothing you can do about it but according to Samsung health I walked about 15km yesterday. I'm feeling it today.
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I opted for the stadium management lounge tickets, which included a parking at the stadium itself, took a whole 5 minutes from our seat to the car. It included snacks, full ( very decent) meal, and all drinks. The seating was in a really good spot
 
Superjakes said:
My view (even though nobody asked for it, par for the course on this forum): We used Park 'n Ride, which was well organised apart from the fact that Centurion Mall was about the same distance from the stadium as the drop off point, but I suppose it it what it is.

Food/drink vendors were ridiculously pricey, but that would also not be a surprise.

We did not get the rain that Accuweather was threatening with, so well done to the organisers.

The bands were great, really enjoyed Offspring, as they were not there to convince me of their political views, but just to get paid and let me have a good time. FPK was very energetic and I can imagine that their fans must have loved it - the only problem was that sometimes the emotion/speed/whatever translated purely to noise and no longer music, in my unsolicited opinion. When Green Day decided to come on stage after playing me their mom's tape of Bohemian Rhapsody and some bullsh1t with a furry, they started off with a bang. Lots of theatrics and an egomaniacal suckfest. Frankly, I did not pay to get a guy pretend to be Freddie Mercury and get me to say "weeee-yooooo" in every song. I paid to see you perform. The first part of the set was great. The drummer does look like he just came home from a hard day at the mine and is waiting for somebody to bring his slippers, but he was precise - he really matched their recordings beat by beat, and that was superb. The latter part of the set, I suppose the newer stuff, I will admit that I am not that familiar with, but some of that also just became noise. Thank goodness for every song that I knew popping up. Green Day did not get an encore request (first time I ever saw that in an international act), due to a combination of 40+ year olds just wanting to go home and I suppose people getting tired of feeding BJA's ego.

FPK - 7/10
Offspring - 8/10
Green Day - 6.5/10

OK, tell me how wrong I was.
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Hit it on the head

I felt green day was trying too hard to get the crowd "going" where as Offspring didnt have to, might be that offspring was THAT good, and everyone was "done" after them , might have been the other way around if green day went first then offspring? Either way, it was still epic
 
it was a fun experience.

we had Expo parking, but getting to the expo parking was a disaster, and even with Expo parking it was a massive walk to the gates. we packed a cooler and left with the intention of having a few drinks at the car before going in, but when we got to the parking it was 15mins until FPK started, so we had a walking beer and started the great trek. got to our seats 3 songs into the FPK show.
seeing FPK play in front of a crowd that size was amazing. feels like just the other day I was drinking with them after shows in small pubs because that was just the normal thing to do. never mind that was more than 20 years ago, mind your business.

Offspring was fantastic. sound was on point, volume was perfect, mixing was great. they had great stage presence and really fed off each other and off the crowd.

Greenday was terrible. no other word for it. Mixing was all over the place, mids were set way too high, so speaking was completely inaudible, and that was not the case for the offspring or for FPK. lead Guitar was also set way too much louder compared to everything else, so it even drowned out drums, never mind vocals.
Greenday was also not feeding off the crowd, but rather trying to hype up a crowd, this lead to many times where the show basically stopped so billy could stroke his ego. and I found that annoying.

now if you compare the stopped songs from the offspring, like in bad habbit for example, song stopped, interacted with the crowd, got us more hyped, to a point where you forget that the part you were looking forward to the most in the song has not yet played, you are just having a good time, and then BAM were all screaming the final lyrics of the song liek crazy people.
when Greenday did the same thing, I was just waiting for him to get on with it and play the song some more, the interactions felt more artificial from Greenday.

I did look up the set list online, and we left with 2 songs to go. but all of us were happy wiht that, we heard the songs we wanted. my wife had Jesus of Suburbia that was her favourite of all time. Monkey heard Brain stew and that is his favourite. Mouse had 21 guns and I had Minority. there was nothing they could play that any of us would have felt was worth staying for.

I must say the Fan interaction where Billy had a girl on the stage was pretty cool.

highlight of the concert was either hearing the massive crowd sing along to Komma/Ek Skyn Heilig/ FPK or the Bad habbits by offspring. and its not even my favorite offspring song that was played (Want you bad)
 
Baxteen said:
it was a fun experience.

we had Expo parking, but getting to the expo parking was a disaster, and even with Expo parking it was a massive walk to the gates. we packed a cooler and left with the intention of having a few drinks at the car before going in, but when we got to the parking it was 15mins until FPK started, so we had a walking beer and started the great trek. got to our seats 3 songs into the FPK show.
seeing FPK play in front of a crowd that size was amazing. feels like just the other day I was drinking with them after shows in small pubs because that was just the normal thing to do. never mind that was more than 20 years ago, mind your business.

Offspring was fantastic. sound was on point, volume was perfect, mixing was great. they had great stage presence and really fed off each other and off the crowd.

Greenday was terrible. no other word for it. Mixing was all over the place, mids were set way too high, so speaking was completely inaudible, and that was not the case for the offspring or for FPK. lead Guitar was also set way too much louder compared to everything else, so it even drowned out drums, never mind vocals.
Greenday was also not feeding off the crowd, but rather trying to hype up a crowd, this lead to many times where the show basically stopped so billy could stroke his ego. and I found that annoying.

now if you compare the stopped songs from the offspring, like in bad habbit for example, song stopped, interacted with the crowd, got us more hyped, to a point where you forget that the part you were looking forward to the most in the song has not yet played, you are just having a good time, and then BAM were all screaming the final lyrics of the song liek crazy people.
when Greenday did the same thing, I was just waiting for him to get on with it and play the song some more, the interactions felt more artificial from Greenday.

I did look up the set list online, and we left with 2 songs to go. but all of us were happy wiht that, we heard the songs we wanted. my wife had Jesus of Suburbia that was her favourite of all time. Monkey heard Brain stew and that is his favourite. Mouse had 21 guns and I had Minority. there was nothing they could play that any of us would have felt was worth staying for.

I must say the Fan interaction where Billy had a girl on the stage was pretty cool.

highlight of the concert was either hearing the massive crowd sing along to Komma/Ek Skyn Heilig/ FPK or the Bad habbits by offspring. and its not even my favorite offspring song that was played (Want you bad)
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Komma was something else - really special, thanks for reminding me. Francois was so energetic, it translated well.
 
Baxteen said:
it was a fun experience.

we had Expo parking, but getting to the expo parking was a disaster, and even with Expo parking it was a massive walk to the gates. we packed a cooler and left with the intention of having a few drinks at the car before going in, but when we got to the parking it was 15mins until FPK started, so we had a walking beer and started the great trek. got to our seats 3 songs into the FPK show.
seeing FPK play in front of a crowd that size was amazing. feels like just the other day I was drinking with them after shows in small pubs because that was just the normal thing to do. never mind that was more than 20 years ago, mind your business.

Offspring was fantastic. sound was on point, volume was perfect, mixing was great. they had great stage presence and really fed off each other and off the crowd.

Greenday was terrible. no other word for it. Mixing was all over the place, mids were set way too high, so speaking was completely inaudible, and that was not the case for the offspring or for FPK. lead Guitar was also set way too much louder compared to everything else, so it even drowned out drums, never mind vocals.
Greenday was also not feeding off the crowd, but rather trying to hype up a crowd, this lead to many times where the show basically stopped so billy could stroke his ego. and I found that annoying.

now if you compare the stopped songs from the offspring, like in bad habbit for example, song stopped, interacted with the crowd, got us more hyped, to a point where you forget that the part you were looking forward to the most in the song has not yet played, you are just having a good time, and then BAM were all screaming the final lyrics of the song liek crazy people.
when Greenday did the same thing, I was just waiting for him to get on with it and play the song some more, the interactions felt more artificial from Greenday.

I did look up the set list online, and we left with 2 songs to go. but all of us were happy wiht that, we heard the songs we wanted. my wife had Jesus of Suburbia that was her favourite of all time. Monkey heard Brain stew and that is his favourite. Mouse had 21 guns and I had Minority. there was nothing they could play that any of us would have felt was worth staying for.

I must say the Fan interaction where Billy had a girl on the stage was pretty cool.

highlight of the concert was either hearing the massive crowd sing along to Komma/Ek Skyn Heilig/ FPK or the Bad habbits by offspring. and its not even my favorite offspring song that was played (Want you bad)
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That was cool, he was still trying to get her to sing along, and she just freaked out :ROFL:

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BouncyNinja said:
I opted for the stadium management lounge tickets, which included a parking at the stadium itself, took a whole 5 minutes from our seat to the car. It included snacks, full ( very decent) meal, and all drinks. The seating was in a really good spot
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Shoo. How much did that cost for a ticket?
 
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