Black Rose @ V Festival 2009 - Sydney and Melbourne
Concerts, Festivals, Music, Photography, V Festival
This post is a part of a series: V Festival 2009 Australian Tour. Plenty of photos of all the bands from all the shows!
One of the first surprises of the Australian V Festival Tour was the opening act Black Rose, fronted by Rosso (from Merrick and Rosso). I can’t remember if they were a part of Virgin Mobile’s Right Music Wrongs campaign, but I guess after seeing these guys perform, they’re a hilarious parody of anything that the campaign stood for. I don’t think you can go wrong with a cock-rock band like Black Rose though!
Black Rose stands up for all those blokes and what it means to be “Australian”. Who else can sing about crashing Holdens and Peter Brock in the same song? Bring on the booze! The Sydney performance (I think) was recorded for Merrick and Rosso’s show on the Comedy Channel.Â
It was actually quite pleasant to see so many people in the crowd for an opening band. Though, it is Black Rose after all…
With such great support from fans, Rosso asked if they could do it again. Though the Gold Coast V Festival was the day after the Sydney one, Virgin Mobile penned them in for opening the Melbourne show. Hilarity ensued!
Can you see what I mean when I say “cock-rock”? If you can’t, look closer…
Not pictured in these Louder Lounge photos is Vanilla Ice who was totally lapping up the attention from fans. I think he was meant to be interviewed in this area, but the seats were never really used. Rosso and his band just decided they’d lounge about here for a while. Friendly blokes, they were!
And so, where to from here? Maybe we’ll see more of them on the TV. I don’t have Foxtel so I don’t know if the footage has been shown yet. They were freakin’ awesome though and were a great start to the V Festivals.
There are more photos in my Flickr V Festival photo set.
Stay tuned for more updates from the Australian V Festival tour!
April 16th, 2009 at 8:37 am
haha nice Ant, did any other togs bother to show up for his set??
went to a filming of their new season before I came up to qld for the first ep, pity I don’t have foxtel coz the show is pretty good
can’t believe your still editing stuff from this haha…crazy
April 16th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Heya Dan,
Yeah, it’s like going through travel photos- you just keep trawling through them all until you find the gems. You don’t want to, but you should because it’s worth it in the end.
I was going to say something about that actually… The Sydney one had very few photogs. I don’t think any of them were media except for a girl who worked for the Comedy Channel. She was mainly taking happy snaps. The Melbourne one I was the only photog for. So, I should really jump on and get these photos out there.
Cheers for the comment.