Oh yeah, we went to see Audioslave.

Going was pretty much an afterthought as well. We decided about 10am on the Saturday morning that we wanted to go, and got tickets. There were still people sitting behind us, though.

The band itself rocked about as much as you'd expect of such an outfit. What was amusing was observing that two thirds of the crowd was really here to see someone else. It was usually easy to pick which half of the band they were old-skool fans of, even without the "Soundgarden" and "Rage Against The Machine" t-shirts around the place. And then there were the metal teenies with their Audioslave t-shirts. At the very least, the Male noted, this might make them go back and listen to some quality music.

Anyway, Chris Cornell was fuzzy and he wailed. Totally.

The support band, though, were what really made my night. They were an Aussie band cast from the big-hair-metal mold, and basically, they just solo-ed until they fell over. They jumped off the stage, they moshed themselves silly, they arched over backwards, they strummed their crotches hard and made metal signs at the audience.

We made them right back. But we're weird like that.

I'm having no luck at all finding out what their name was, because the official Audioslave site refuses to even mention the Australian tour, so I refuse to even link it. Slight my country will you, you bastards. Ah, here we go: band called "Warped", which is who the Male thought it was. All I can say is: It's good to see three young men enjoying their work so much.

Winner of the 2003 biggest standpoint turnaround: Chris Cornell says: "It's great to be here, thanks to y'all for being here, and we're going to be here for a long time together making music as Audioslave." (This from the bunch who weren't even going to release their recordings before they got leaked to the internet. I think the only thing that's going to beat this is if, say, the student Socialists start supporting military action in the Middle East.)