The Riverstage was briming, and for now the meanacing clouds above did little but growl back at proceedings. Solid supports including heavyweights in their own right, The Devil Wears Prada had the crowd was in a frenzied stage when theme music started floating over the crowd. With lights dropping out Byron Bay locals Parkway Drive erupted into Sleepwalker, from their carrer defining fourth long player Deep Blue. The performance was tight with razor sharp licks crying above the subsonic breakdowns which Parkway have now set as the benchmark for all challengers in this genre. As the set ascended in to new heights with favourites from earlier works such as Its Hard to Speak (without a tounge), and Smoke if you got em' the techical issues and mix that often accompanies these outdoor mini-festivals were corrected and as the opening chords of seminal track Carrion cracked like cannons through the willing and faithful colliding in the moshpit a mighty cheer arose.
Not many bands can fill a venue the size of the Riverstage, and many more in this genre struggle to translate their live show in this scale. Judging from the spooky quiet of the sweaty punters streaming out onto the night with only smiles strapped to their teeth you can assume that the Byron Bay natives had not only succeeded but slapped everyone in the face as their live show steams full ahead to becoming an international juggernaught not to be taken lightly.