So it was finally the night 30 seconds to mars were to perform at Festival Hall. To me the place was quite a stinkhole, looks crappy but meh…it does the job quite well. I pity those who only get to see the band from seats, I think the view down at the mosh pit was great. Although it was kinda packed, there were minors and gals who couldn’t take the heat. I don’t feel sorry for some of them, mostly were so FAT (and weak, but most were just FAT ones) Many got carried away by the security guards….they had so much trouble trying to get them out. Crowd was fantastic and the atmosphere was great.
30 Seconds To Mars took their own sweet time coming on stage. It was worth it, their set this time was more of a chinese themed set with red lanterns, and chinese wordings (and some jade stuff on the microphone). The opener was great, they played some intro song and everyone was hyped before entering into ‘A Beautiful Lie’ followed on by ‘Battle of One’. I thought the openers were the best I’ve seen so far. Leto’s voice was quite impressive and I prefer it live rather than the album version. They played most of the songs from A Beautiful Lie but there were quite a few from the 1st album. Buddha For Mary, The Mission and two or more songs which I’ve forgotten. During ‘The Kill’, Jared went into the crowd but quickly went back up on stage. Brilliant song.
Jared played ‘A Modern Myth‘ on the guitar and another one acoustic piece, ‘Capricorn’ before the rest of the band came back on for the last two songs. They kept ‘Attack’ until the end and ended with an explosion of red mini-paper stuff from the ceiling. It felt so Chinese New Year to me. xD
They promised to sign everyone’s merchandise and lucky me that I brought the album with me. Got them to sign on the album cover. Great band and I’m looking forward to see them again but too bad no photos with them. Awww…..
oh, I was bored and I made a wallpaper from one of the AVMA pics, contributed by members of the Australian Echelon team!
widescreen version: here
