The Butterfly Effect @Metropolis Fremantle(24-04-11)

Fri 29th Apr, 2011 in Gig Reviews

Brisbane-based band The Butterfly Effect played Metropolis Fremantle last Sunday alongside The Siren Tower. With copious amounts of alcohol offered by the many bars inside the venue and the promise of one of Australia’s most prestigious rock outfits headlining, the night was set to be a success.

Local quintet The Siren Tower opened the night to an eager crowd. Due to release their debut album this year, the band provided the audience with a taster and perhaps enticed a few newly conquered fans to buy their single Floods. The band played a set full of hard-hitting, modern Australian rock that complimented the Butterfly Effect’s sound exquisitely. Front man Grant McCulloch coaxed the initially hesitant crowd into the pit, exclaiming, “Push up a bit; grab a drink; get into it; I don’t want to see floor.” Soon the Metropolis was writhing with inebriated punters. A most successful opening act, Siren Tower were able to get the crowd pumped and enjoying themselves.

With the audience thoroughly warmed up, the Butterfly Effect’s entrance sparked paroxysms of ecstasy. Exploding into Take, front man Clint Boge played with an effortless confidence that bordered on arrogance. A natural showman, the connection between Boge and the audience was palpable, they fed off each other in a symbiotic circle of hysteria. The crazier the crowd went the more reason Boge gave them to go crazy. The confidence of Boge’s on stage antics may have originated from his trip to Little Creatures Brewery earlier that day. Boge stated, “I sat over at Little Creatures and had more than one, more than two, more than three or four, I think I had six pints. It was very good.” Despite the clear intoxication of the front man, the Butterfly Effect boys played an incredibly tight set.

With a strong start that included crowd favourites such as One Second of Insanity, Always and Crave the Butterfly rocked out, maintaining a high-energy performance from start to finish. Their grandiose, almost operatic-scale sound sat somewhere between contemporary rock and metal with a touch of hardcore; the insatiable crowd devoured everything the Butterfly Effect had to offer. Finishing with Window and the Watcher and Worlds on Fire the band had the crowd baying for more. However, the implacable bouncers quickly forced the crowd out into the cool autumn air, though loiterers managed a meeting with the Butterfly Effect at the merchandise table after the concert.