The venue: The Metro, Melbourne
The reason: The Butterfly Effect

Ok lets just get one thing out of the way now. I understand giving a support act your blessing in their quest to get as good as the main act and to get some exposure across our country. But seriously start getting bands that fit together. The Dukes of Windsor and The Butterfly Effect do not go together!

The Butterfly Effect (TBE) are one of Australia’s best hard rock bands to come out of the past 10 years. The Dukes Of Windsor are one of the worst, lame rock bands to come out of Australia ever! After last months diabolical night seeing Atreyu (see Issue #06 -Ed.), I didn’t think it could get any worse. Well it didn’t but it was very, very close.





With the 5 piece all wearing pants that were so tight that they all moved like Peter Garrett (they couldn’t bend their legs at all, just moving along the stage like rusty robots). They sounded terrible, looked terrible and just as their set was finishing the bar ran out of Carlton Draught and VB, so we were left to pay $9 a beer for Corona’s.

So suffice to say the night was panning out to be a shocker. Maybe I am being harsh on 'The Dukes', after all, about 10 people out of the sold out crowd at The Metro seemed to be enjoying it, the rest just continuing in conversations with each other.

Once the drab act had finished it was time for me to move upstairs to the viewing platform. I’d never seen a band from up there before so thought it would be a nice change. The music finished, the lights turned off and the crowd instantly cheered. I hadn’t heard the new material yet so I was interested to see how it came off live. I was not disappointed. Opening with new single Gone (which I’m not a huge fan of), it was obvious they were here for a massive show.





The crowd was instantly into the swing of things with front man Clint Boge showing to many why he can be regarded as one of the best singers in the country, throwing his voice into a strong harmony then instantly changing to a growl then dropping back into a new harmony. It just leaves you in awe. I was constantly having to give my girlfriend a nudge to get her out of the hypnotic state that she gets in listening to Clint’s voice. Lucky for me that he was on stage out of reach or I think I might’ve been going home alone that night.

Pulling out some crowd favourites like Slow Descent, One Second Of Insanity and Perception Twin it was quite evident that this band will soon be pushing their sounds across the world. I was interested to see how the new songs cam off for bass player Glenn Esmond, as previously he was just part of the furniture in the band; blink and you’d miss him. His bass lines were merely just bass lines, but upon a closer listening of their latest album Imago it struck me that Glen has become a Bass Player, with catch lines and solos that don’t just blend into the music but actually make the music.