Remember that footage of Tame Impala performing to a sparse crowd at a Perth music festival back in 2008? It’s a pretty cool little internet artefact and a reminder that every band, no matter how big, has to start somewhere.
Well we were recently hipped to another cool piece of footage shot a couple years later thanks to an astute reader. On a fateful Saturday in May 2010 at Sydney’s Metro Theatre, Tame Impala fans got the encore of a lifetime.
The author of local music blog …andthemusic was at the gig and recounted how a particularly faithful portion of the crowd stuck around after the gig had concluded, even after the house lights were switched on.
According to …andthemusic, their determination was rewarded when Tame Impala returned to the stage with the members of The Silence — the evening’s support act — and none other than Craig Nicholls, frontman of The Vines.
This impromptu supergroup then launched into an absolutely blistering rendition of The Vines’ signature tune, ‘Get Free’. Kevin Parker reportedly summed up the feelings of everyone present by telling the crowd, “I can’t believe we just did that.”
(Special Thanks: Lachlan Murphy)
