I would have liked to have seen Against Me! sadly they were lumped together with a lot of bands I had no real interest in. Sydney served as a good cautionary tale so the group I was with held off going until 3ish, wise decision too, even after missing 4 hours we were all pretty beat up.
Did hear good things about them, according to one mate they were the real festival starters.
As Joshie said, food stalls were in abundance on the GC and were still running well into RHCP set. From what I understand, the venue determines how those stalls are run and not the organisers so that might explain the difference.
Unfortunately future Queensland BDOs probably won't be anywhere near as good as Parklands is being converted into some athletes village in preparation for the Commonwealth games.
Speaking of RHCP, I'd been studying their set-lists heading into the BDO, so I knew what to expect and that I could pretty much drift off to Animal Collective after the first few songs. Their hits went off and the entire main stage was packed tighter than it had been for RATM, perhaps even more than Tool in 07. Sadly, they were few and far between and the Stadium Arcadium & Here With Me stuff fell a bit stale.
I'm glad I could tick them off but I've never been that big a fan outside of Blood Sugar Sex Magik & Californication.
IanG - I hadn't heard of a couple I had seen either until a few days prior. Half the fun for me is discovering new music.
