Arrow Hall
Mississauga, Ontario
April 25, 1997

Review:  Mike Forbes
Photos:  Mike Forbes & Declan Goodall

Fuck food.  It was probably the most comprehensible thing Daniel Johns said all night.  Fuck food.  Then we come to find out he's got anorexia.  A GUY with anorexia for fuck sake.  What is the world coming to?  I really hope he got over that whole thing.  Also heard he was right into the heroin too.  Fuckin WAY too young for a heroin addiction already.  I thought Silverchair was just gonna keep getting better and better but they put out 3 albums and then quit.

Considering how fucked up Master Johns was that night, they pulled off a pretty good show.  Despite the horrible sound in that venue, I found myself rockin out to some of my favourite Silverchair tunes.  The set was pretty cool looking but I was inexperienced with the camera and didn't really capture the essence of the night at all.

The crowd was nuts.  Very young and absolutely nuts.  At one point some little kid came sailing through the air crowd surfing. They dropped the kid and he landed directly on his melon on the cement floor.  He got up completely cross eyed wavering back n forth and then staggered off through the crowd.  I thought for sure his head woulda been split wide open.

On numerous occasions little girls grabbed on to me crying to help them get out of the pit so I ended up literally throwing them over my shoulder and carrying them out to safety, then wading back in.  I felt like a fire fighter impervious to the flames! 

Supposedly they'll get back together again but Daniel is off with another project called the Disassociates.  

I didn't shoot all these pics.  A good buddy of mine was there that nite too.  He got the bottom 3.  This was one of the first shows I shot in a long time.  Didn't know the equipment, was nervous as hell.  Fucked up.  Next.


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