Gig 20030411 Journal

Source: Shihad.com (circa 03)

Date Published: Unsure

Who: Shihad.

Where: Hard Rock Live Orlando, FL, USA

When: 11 April 2003

Reviewed by: Shihad (Jon Toogood)

Was a good day today. spent it running around the Universal City theme park (where the Hard Rock Live venue is) taking photos of our name in lights on the marquee out front and pretending to be at Disneyland. Quckily discovered that New Zealand had been left off the huge Universal logo globe that greets you at the front gates so when I got back to the gig I pretended to be deeply mortified in front of all the American bands on tour with us which was good for a laugh (personally, I think the longer we keep NZ a secret the better). The Hard Rock must have some serious money to burn as the venue is absolutely beautiful and MASSIVE. our dressing room is the size of some of the gigs we played in Texas, has real gold and platinum records all over the walls and a signed Angus poster in the toilet. I'm looking forward to doing the Arena Rock Thing all day. they've also got a huge collection of Rock'n'Roll memorabilia spread around the building which included the 'Magical Mystery Tour' bus and John Lennon's couch from his NY apartment (which I got Karl to take a photo of me on - oh yeah.) the show rrrocks. Tom gets his first huge drum riser since the Big Day Out and the rest of us get to run around a stage that's almost as big as a soccer field so we're all happy. completely fucked afterwards. have a bruise the size of an egg coming up on my shin from who knows where but feel pretty good about life. Revolution Smile rocked. James from Trust Co. had his Birthday today and got pummeled by all sorts of shit at the end of their show. he's a good lad. watched 'Donnie Darko" on the bus. I like scary movies when they're different.

-Jon.X