Bar on the Hill, Newcastle Uni
Thursday August 2, 2012:
The massive line outside Newcastle Uni’s Bar on the Hill on a freezing Thursday night was testament to how far these boys from Adelaide have come in the last 10 years. Supported by popular hip-hop acts Briggs and Horrorshow, the Hilltop Hoods had a big and flashy show in store for us as part of their Drinking From The Sun Tour. The supports did a good job of getting the packed-out bar fired up for the main act. Big Briggs packs a punch when it comes to stage presence, attitude and heavy rhymes, while Sydney duo Horrowshow had us singing along to their popular tune ‘The Rain’.
When the Hilltop Hoods finally took to the stage, the bar went mental as they belted out ‘Still Standing’, followed by a mass clap-along to a start-stop version of ‘The Hard Road’. I was disappointed with the response to the intro for ‘Nosebleed Section’, but it probably had something to do with the way the Hoods interrupted it trying to get the crowd fired up. Of course, once they were off everyone was going pretty nuts and the Bar on the Hill became one big sweaty mosh pit.
Pumped up and jumping, the Hoods delivered new material from Drinking From The Sun, including the catchy ‘Love It’, and threw in a few more popular songs, including ‘Chase that Feeling’, for good measure. They messed around with Fatboy Slim’s ‘Praise You’ for extra theatricals before exiting the stage. Of course the Hoods were nowhere near finished, but they let us scream for a few minutes before they returned to belt out their encore which included new song ‘Drinking from the Sun’ and some clever rhymes to remind us why they are number one.
Reviewer: Stephanie De Vries
Photographer: Mitchell Jones
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