Concert Review for Trivium

Trivium's Frontman, Matt Heafy, at SXSW 2012 at Waterloo Records
(Photo Taken By:  Mary Allen)

 Trivium is what I like to call a heeeaaavvvyyy show.


Blaring loud guitars, gut busting drums and growling vocals with sometimes screaming vocals made Trivium a definite crowd favorite Wednesday, March 14 at 4pm at Waterloo Records.


One of the reasons Trivium was such a crowd favorite was their interaction with the audience.  Frontman, Matt Heafy, stepped up to the mic and said, "There's a simple rule for a Trivium show.  Whatever we do up here, y'all do down there, because we only do that much better".


Trivium hasn't performed at SXSW since 2005 and their show March 14 at Waterloo made up for their long absence.


During the show Heafy asked the audience members to raise their hands if this was their first Trivium show.  My observation by the show of hands was that this was pretty much everyone's first time seeing Trivium.


I learned that its hard to find metal bands at SXSW or at least 'good' metal bands.  Like Heafy said up on stage, "Metal bands don't do this shit anymore."


I interviewed two audience members after the Trivium show who neither one had ever seen Trivium perform.  "It was fun.  They really got the crowd into it," said Kayleigh.  Another audience member also agreed that the band was fun and commented, "There are no hard rock shows at SXSW," said Josh.


So, finally a hard rock show and a heeeaaavvvyyy show at SXSW that was good or better yet great!


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Concert Review for fun.

fun. at Waterloo Records at SXSW 2012

The fun. show was jam-packed and wall-to-wall on Wednesday, March 14 at Waterloo Records.


Everyone in Austin wanted to be a part of the fun. (pun intended) The place was so overflown with people that Waterloo Records Security had to bring in two Austin City policemen to clear a pathway down the sidewalk by the stores.


And even though audience members were cramped on space that didn't stop them from having a good ol' fun. time.  And that didn't stop fun. either.

At least from what I could hear and barely see, because I'm only five foot tall and with the place so overcrowded with people it was hard for me to get a peek of the all the fun.  This was my first fun. show and I've never heard of the band until that day.  So, I didn't catch names with the faces. :(


fun.'s frontman started out singing a song solo on the keys.  Then on the second song the guitarist came out and fun.'s frontman encouraged the crowd on the mic by telling the sing along if they knew the words.

By the third song the whole band was out there giving a solid performance.  fun.'s frontman got on the mic to interact with the crowd.  "This is our second show at SXSW or third show...shit," said fun.'s frontman.

fun.'s performance was pretty solid.  They're definitely a band that interacts with the crowd and makes sure to get them involved into their performance.

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