Went to see The Living End’s last show in Melbourne last night. They are such a fun band. They really do understand exactly what their audience has come to see. So while we got a bit of their new stuff, most of the songs were the classics – I’ve never seen an audience quite as united as we were during “Prisoner of Soceity”. So much of The Living End’s stuff just reminds me of who I was growing up, I can’t listen to “we don’t need no-one like you, to tell us what to do” without thinking of being in year 9 and thinking that no-one understood you.
They pulled out all the usual tricks, mostly revolving around the double-bass – playing it upside down above his head, the lead singer standing on it, just generally going mental – and for a while you felt 15 again. Which sounds like an old person thing to say, but it was exactly the feeling. I haven’t had such a fun night in ages. And they finished up with “West-End Riot”, which was the perfect finish. They might have been around a while, but they certainly know how to put on a show!
I love The Living End – I saw them at the grand venue of the Mitcham oval at the “rockin the east” festival. The double bass is amazing. I mainly like the old ones – Prisoner of Society, Second Solution etc… and their great cover of an oldy from my youth – tainted love… suddenly feeling nostalgic.