Although they both played exceptional shows, opening acts Amber Calling and Closure In Moscow had to fight to be heard as the volume of the music was excessively loud. There appears to be an unfounded theory amongst sound engineers that the louder the music is the better. This is just not so, had the sound been turned down even just a fraction the music would have been more crystal clear and pleasurable for the audience.
Closure In Moscow’s lead singer Chris De Cinque did his best to overcome the volume difficulties prancing around the stage singing his absolute lungs out. They played many a song off of their new albumette The Penance and The Patience getting the crowd amped for the main act.
After leaving the audience waiting for what seemed like an eternity Melbournites The Getaway Plan finally donned the stage with the epic orchestral arrangement that is Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana boisterously playing in the background. Luckily enough by this stage all previous sound complications had been pretty much sorted out and the band where able to play to their best ability.
Lead vocalist Matthew Wright has an awesome voice that enables him to go from one extreme to the other, usually in the same song, case in point the track Shadows. However on some songs instead of bursting out in his characteristic death metal scream, Wright chose to drown the tracks in electronic music. Sleep Spindles was unfortunately one such song, with the usual – œWake up!’ shriek in the middle of the track substituted for artificial electro sounds, which did not match the overall energy of the song.
Typically at a gig all eyes are on the lead singer but at The Getaway Plan’s gig majority of eyes had to be on guitarist Clint Splattering who definitely rocked out the hardest. Wielding his guitar and thrashing his ratty hair around, Splattering did not stop from the beginning to the end showing true stamina.
New tracks off their debut album Other Voices, Other Rooms were predominately played with two older songs off of their EP Hold Conversation also thrown in to educate their new fans on their previous material. The crowds response to all the songs played was astronomical, with a constant flow of fans crowd surfing their way onto the stage only to be rather brutally thrown back into the mosh pit.
The forcefulness and gusto with which the band played rubbed off on the crowd with a fight breaking out during the concluding song, meaning that many off us completely missed the final few minutes of The Getaway’s performance.
The Getaway Plan’s popularity is growing by the second and if Saturday nights gig is anything to go by they also appeal to an extensive assortment of people, which makes them one of Australia’s most promising bands right now.
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