Ok I did the bdo double - Sydney and Melbourne
Firstly Sydney
A good 70,000 people there yet again. and before anyone says anything thats 55000 + 15000 fence jumpers.
RATM - OMG OMG OMG they annilated the showgrounds! I was going to save them for Melbourne with my friends (I volunteered half the sydney bdo) but was glad I had a change of mind and went running for the nearest bar instead, brought alcohol with my own money and ran with two bourbons in my hands for the most packed mainstage I've ever seen at the sydney bdo for the headlining act!
other highlight of the day - Dizzee Rascal. After hearing my mates back in AKL say good things about this guy when I was on my break I made sure I caught him in the boiler room
Melbourne bdo
Ok the first thing I noticed about the Melbourne leg of the tour (I've been to Adelaides and Aucklands before) was just how much smaller than the sydney one it is. thats not a bad thing. the lines for everything where shorter (believe it or not the lines for beer in Akl are as long as Syd and the lines for the loos in adelaide rival sydney). For some reason I always thought Melbournes was the next biggest. Apparently that goes to the gold coast.
secondly - wtf is the go with the drinking ticketing system and worse the segregated drinking areas? I assume the flemmington race course is fully licenced like Sydney and Adelaide showgrounds. We caught absolutly no one (well a bit of Unkle, bjork, ratm, hill top hoods and lcd sound system) but my liver is not thanking me for the binge drinking session at the back of the mainstage.
thirdly - what the melb bdo did have going for it other than the shorter lines - eye candy. the melb folk are certainly the best looking bunch on the tour so far