Darwin under attack twice in 24 hours.

[Megan Spencer]

You might have heard - so in demand was last week's 'Northern Thrash Attack' at Happy Yess that the good folk at venue were forced to put on a second all ages gig to satisfy local demand for metal..!

By all accounts both gigs went off like a frog in a sock! (Friday night September 25 and Saturday arvo, September 26). Nico Liengme from Queensland band Shrapnel was kind enough to write a few words about the gig, and send a few photos though. Legend.

"The Shrapnel boys flew into Darwin on the red eye on Friday morning and after a few hours' sleep we spent the day at the Music NT rehearsal space catching up on 6 months of rehearsal absence. Turns out we were pretty good-to-go without too much work, so we took off to the Happy Yess to get things organised."


"Amagon - one of the local supporting bands - had to pull out on account of their singer being ill, but they managed to pull off a short set with the help of Steve from Vicious Apathy doing vocals. Supports from Abysm, Vicious Apathy and Twisted Sphincter went off without a hitch."

Above, Tom, Phoebe and Liam.

Shrapnel played to a capacity crowd on the Friday night with great feedback. Unfortunately, our professional photographer had his camera swiped at Discovery later that night, so all our photos of the performance were lost! But a bunch of photos were taken of other shenanigans throughout the night as well as the following at Squires Tavern, so there's ample captures memories of the events." Right, Dan from Shrapnel.

"The Saturday all-ages show had a lesser turnout but a solid crowd of enthusiastic kids went ballistic during the Shrapnel performance. Supports from Crassic Park and Vicious Apathy were solid, although Slaughtertorall (the new project from Death Wish/Surrender the Dead guys) were unable to play due to time constraints."

"Thanks again to Happy Yess and all of the bands we played with. Darwin should be able to look forward to more interstate metal shows from Top End Terror as of early next year, as well as a few local gigs in the meantime..."

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Thanks to Nico from Shrapnel for the words + pics. Catch Shrapnel on Myspace.

Below, Tom from Shrapnel.

All photos by Renee. Thanks!

[Jaiden.FK]

Nico is a legand I must say, no idea where the hell he came from (seems like he popped out of ne where to me). But he is doing every one good, and puts up with me, if i was him i would of punched me in the face because all the bullshit hahaha

[Nico Liengme]

Haha, you'll have to make it up to me on Halloween Jaiden. I expect brutality.

Also, thanks to Renee for the photos. I completely forgot about that.