I went to see Less Than Jake on Monday night. They were playing in Perth at the Rosemount the weekend before I left but I didn't see them. If you don't know, Less Than Jake are a 5-piece ska punk band. A tenor sax and trombone are added to the normal guitar, bass, & drums, and their songs often use a reggae style rhythm (though at about 140bpm).

I arrived just as the first support act, Rock n Roll Soldiers were dismantling their drumkit, and destroying it piecemeal. So I got a beer and waited for the next act to come on. A Wilhelm Scream were pretty standard punk rock except their songs incorporated the nu-metal style tempo changes which sort of annoy me. I don't really remember the final support act, Damone, except that it was quite soothing to listen to after the stresses of my day.

Less Than Jake were awesome. They played some songs which I know... All My Best Friends Are Metalheads, Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts, Automatic, a little bit of Dopeman, some older stuff, and some of their new(ish) material which I haven't listened to before. They played a song which will be on their new album, In With The Out Crowd. It's called Overrated. It sort of sounds like some well-known pop song, but not quite. That's poor songwriting in my opinion. That one failed to get everyone excited. But it was still a great set and by the time LTJ came back for their encore the crowd (mostly teenagers by the way) had gone stupid.