Worst concert EVER.

OK OK, that isn’t fair. I should clarify. Die Antwoord: Brilliant and exceeded expectations. They were funny, energetic, engaging, interesting. Brilliant. The started with Enter The Ninja, always a great sign of a bands confidence, and the show made you smile and feel giddy all at once.

MIA was shite.

It is such a shame that they were in the order they were, because it seemed like MIA was so concerned about outdoing Die Antwoord that she had the sound engineers turn up the sound not to 11, but 33. The result was a wall of sound that made hearing any nuance impossible, and required using your imagination to guess what song was playing. For someone who wasn’t an obsessive fan (e.g. me), that was an impossible challenge and, besides, who the fuck goes to a concert to use their imagination?

I left after MIA’s third “static” (I write “static” because songs would be giving a false impression), only the second time in my life I have ever left a concert (the other was when I was eight and saw Simple Minds with my dad, who hated it), and it was the best decision I think I have ever made.

Die Antwoord: 3.5/5 stars
MIA: -1,000,000/5 stars