The Black Seeds were playing at the City Stage, which was in Frank Kitts Park all the way on the other side of the festival space. Would it be Mitch James or The Black Seeds? We ended up splitting into two smaller groups and I headed to The Black Seeds. With so many iconic acts playing at Homegrown - often at the same time - it was hard to choose where to go. Picking what act we would go to see next caused a bit of contention amongst my group. I was pleased to find that the crowds throughout the day were respectful, and people gave each other space to move because there is nothing worse than a pushy mosh pit.īlue skies over the City Stage at Homegrown Photo: RNZ / Jemima Huston The space with packed with fans dancing and singing along to "Get Away" and "Working". The queue for security moved quickly and my group was able to get into the centre of the mosh pit. The day started for me with roots reggae favourite Katchafire at the Park Stage in Waitangi Park. A clearly labelled festival map and setlist found on the Jim Beam Homegrown website and phone app made it easy to navigate the site. Pedestrian access along the waterfront was kept open with ticket holders able to enter and exit each stage via a security check. The festival was set up with five massive stages spread out from Waitangi Park next to Te Papa to Frank Kitts Park near TSB Arena. Sparkly makeup, funky sunglasses, mesh, tank tops and glitter dresses could be seen everywhere I looked. Concerns about rain dampening the day were forgotten and despite a not-so-warm high of 20 degrees people dressed in their best summer festival outfits. Wellington was aglow yesterday afternoon with blue skies, bright sunshine and big smiles as festivalgoers descended on the waterfront. But it was back in force this year with more than 20,000 partygoers and more than 40 bands and DJs including, Shapeshifter, Shihad, Gin Wigmore, Sir Dave Dobbyn, Drax Project and Kora. Pandemic restrictions have caused uncertainty for Homegrown over the last few years with cancellations in 20. Homegrown - the festival celebrating the best in New Zealand music - returned to Wellington's waterfront yesterday. That’s the hardest band to open for, but by our second song, we had a mosh pit.Gin Wigmore playing at the City Stage. Then we got asked to play some other clubs around the size of L’Amours on the East Coast opening for Slayer. It was the most people who’d ever seen us.
Our third or fourth show there was opening for Pantera on their first “Cowboys from Hell” tour, and there was a huge crowd. L’Amours was probably six times the size of CBGB, at least. We did the same show we did at CBGB in front of these metalheads, and instead of a bunch of hipsters looking down at their shoes or making snide remarks, we had a huge mosh pit going. Biohazard and the Cro-Mags had seen us at CBGB and invited us to open for them at this metal club in Brooklyn called L’Amours, and that was our big break. What was happening at the same time - this is probably ’88, ’89 - was hardcore bands like the Cro-Mags and Biohazard in New York and Corrosion of Conformity in Raleigh, North Carolina, where I’m from, were crossing over into metal. We were just listening to hardcore and punk, and he was listening to Slayer and Megadeth and Metallica. He had a cut-off Ramones shirt and a boombox blasting Slayer, and he ended up being a great influence on the band.
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He came to meet us in the city and had no idea what Washington Square was or how to get around. “Our drummer, Ivan de Prume, was still in high school, and was a Brooklyn metalhead. Sean was asked by the Village Voice abou t the stylistic shift in an interview surrounding the release of her book: A fascinating element that she addresses is just how White Zombie’s sound morphed from acerbic rock and roll into some of the catchiest heavy metal ever written. It’s an endlessly entertaining and enlightening testimony about the band’s early days, their supernova jettison into fame, and unceremonious breakup. In 2010, White Zombie bassist Sean Yseult released her remarkable memoir I’m in the Band: Backstage Notes from the Chick in White Zombie.
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