I recently took my first road trip up to the Sunshine Coast for Parkway Drive at their Lake Kawana leg of the SickSummer Tour. This is their last regional tour of Australia before they head off on a tour of the United Kingdom and Europe then on to America for the Van’s Warped Tour.

Parkway Drive were supported by 3 bands Word Up!, Confessions and They also had a first support band but I can not find their name for the life of me.

I did manage to catch their set, here a few photos.

I got caught up outside and missed Word Up!’s whole set I was checking out the line up outside, the security were rather tight and needed to loosen up a touch.

I got back inside in time to catch Confession tearing the place apart

This kid in the middle was losing his shit

All the kids were there for Parkway Drive and Parkway Drive were there for the kids. These guys love what they do and smile the whole time.

Apparently the Sunshine Coast is a very sleepy town with sleepy bands. Enter Parkway Drive and the town goes crazy slamming the gig in the headlines and predicting a riot, way to scare the families into not letting their kids go to the show.

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