Gold Coast rules, full of great air, great looking girls and great fun time… read on..

Gold Coast Big Day Out was so hot.

It was joyous to be back on my home turf and DAMN I love Queensland. Here’s some things that I learned..

1: Don’t ever wear thongs to a big day out.. Knee Deep in Mud in thongs = icky dirt spore infections. Yuck.

2: I love the Gold Coast so much.

3: Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas is So Frikkin Hot!!

And that’s about it. Oh yeah and Metallica are amazing. I was thirteen years old dropping the needle on ‘Justice’ all over again..

Some other things?

My Dear friend Luke Heggie launched his first book last night. Go and find out what’s so Excellent about Excellent Man.

More after the Sydney Big Day Out. Enjoy yourself!!

x g

Water, Marker Pen, Earplugs, Condoms, Plan, CHECK! What about your big day out? Read on….

Big Day Out is apon us again, I leave after What u Want on Saturday to go to the Goldy to kick it off iwth MIke and Yumi, can’t wait.

Here’s a few things about the Big Day Out that I thought I’d tell you…

1: Pace yourself. The last thing that you want is to be too trashed to see your favourite band at the end of the day. I found one method that works so well for me I’ve stuck to it for a few years now. Take a marker pen. It’s handy for writing your mobile number on people’s arms anyway, but make a tally on your forearm. Keep count of how many beers you’ve had with tally marks (because I always stop counting after about five..). That way, you can see when it’s time for a water, when it’s time for a pee, more suncream, more food and also how much money you’ve spent. I like to start strong and move slowly through the day like this.. B=Beer and W=Water..

Get through the gates at 11am, B, B, B, B, W, B, B, W, B, B, W, W, W – (in the boiler room here), B, W, B, W, B, B, W, W, W, W (until the after party when it’s onto the J=Jagermeister) J ,B, J, B, W, W, W BED 3am.

Also take lots of vitamin B before and after the event.

2: Charge your mobile phone

3: Take earplugs, and wear them. Please listen to me when I say to you that I am not yet 30 and rather hard of hearing. The ’s’ sound that you hear? I can’t hear it. Britney Spear’s ‘Sometimes’ sounds like this to me -”Thometimeth I run, thometimeth I hide, Thometimeth I’m thcared of you etc etc.” They cost you 50c and save your hearing which is priceless.

4: Take condoms and use them properly if you find the right person/place/inspiration. I got and email today from a 14 year old girl who’s six months preggers. Crikey! If you’re going to shag do it safely!!

5: Plan your day and be prepared to throw the plans out the window.

6: See a band that you’d otherwise never ever see.

7 and most important: Enjoy your day, but not at the expense of others. Dance, but don’t dance on people’s heads. Girls are not footstools to stand on so that you can see the band better. If you’re going off to a band, and those around you are getting hurt from your flailing, move to a part of the crowd where you can be with other flailers who are into that kind of thing. Everyone has a right to see the band, guys, girls, everyone. Don’t give me the excuse ‘if they didin’t want to be squashed they shouldn’t be up here’. Sometimes people get trapped at the front unawares. Help those around you. Jump up and down, and be aware that every move of your icky sweaty body affects about ten people around you, so be compassionate to others and you’ll all have fun. Be aware of where you are in the crowd, and be aware of how crowds move and behave. 

Unless you’re under 50kg ie: a girl trying to get out of the pit – don’t body surf. No one likes your sweaty arse and flailing feet in their face while trying to play air guitar to ’seek and  destroy’.  

If a girl is body surfing, it DOES NOT MEAN you can grope them. No. Not at all. No way. Don’t. Uncool.

8: Take photos, flirt and chat up people, skip and frolic, dance and have fun and keep a few bucks for a safe trip home..

WHat’s on the iPod?

Fishbone: Super proto funk metal. Fish now plays drums for Justin TImberlake. Sunless Saturday and Bonin’ in the Boneyard are two epic examples of this punk/metal/funk/theremin/horn section extravaganza

Neil Young – Harvest: Well what can I say? I’ve been a miner for a heart of gold..

Thicker than Water OST: Jack JOhnson and G-Love collaborate for some super acoustic lovin’ music..

Sned me an email if you like, I’m out of town for a while, but do read every one of them, I’ll reply if I can..

x g zilla