A massive weekend in the Christchurch party calendar with Lesbo Mould on Friday and the Eastern on Saturday.

Friday’s metal crowd clocked in a solid night of bourbon, BO and long, brown hair. These dudes must have to keep their hair tied up all week, because they let loose when they bring it out, flicking sweat all over one another and seriously getting into the music. Bouncer Ben and I stood watching the mosh-pit and we couldn’t tell if they were fighting or having fun. Metal fans are my new favourite customers.

Saturday night saw Christchurch behaving surprisingly well on an international rugby night. Maybe Steve of the Month’s pearl of wisdom rings true in that “If you set your expectations of people very low Johnny, you will find you’re hardly ever disappointed in them…”

But behave they did. We had a really nice night, with a bunch of great people coming in to see an excellent band who jammed for over three hours. Highlight of the evening came when Eastern frontman Adam Mcgrath said “Anybody here watch the rugby tonight?”and a stony silence was only interrupted by a solitary dude shouting “yeah”.