Viva the Underdogs (2020) - full transcript

VIVA THE UNDERDOGS follows the self-managed Australian heavy metal band Parkway Drive on their 15 year underdog journey

The fighters. The survivors.

Against the grain
and against the odds.

It's a time-worn story,

but this one takes you
somewhere different.

Wacken Open Air.

In the world of heavy metal,

this is the pinnacle
of music festivals.

The road to the stage
cannot be bought.

It must be earned
through respect,

passion, and authenticity.

And this year it will be
headlined by a new breed;



self-managed,
self-made, self-defined.

The last band anyone saw coming.

The underdogs.

- ♪ Oh oh oh

- These are the
biggest festivals in the world.

It's fucking wild.

- If rock is dead,
somebody ain't looking.

- There's this
ongoing conversation

that's becoming,
kind of more and more vital

at the moment about who the
next headliners are gonna be.

- Obviously there's no
Black Sabbath anymore.

Aerosmith is saying
it's the last time round.

And as an industry,
you've gotta be looking at, you know,

who are the artists that
are gonna come through



and gonna be festival
headliners of the next few years?

- Yeah, hello.

My name is Jia O'Connor.

- I'm Luke Thomas Kilpatrick.

- In five years...

- Five years...

- ...in five years, hopefully,
I'll be hitting wood, still.

- If Parkway's over,

which it probably will be,
realistically.

- I could be an
electronics man. Awesome.

- An electrician.

- An electrician.

- He'll also fix pedals.
- That's it.

- Fix guitar pedals.
- I will fix guitar pedals.

- Maybe a baby on the way.

- I'll be in this band,
tour the world,

I'll have a good head still,
hopefully,

and that'll get me
somewhere in this world.

- I'm 23, a bit old. Then I'll be 28,
that's even older.

I've got not much, so,
I'm not going many places.

- My Australian mates,
Parkway Drive, in the house, yeah!

- They wanna be one of the
biggest metal bands in the world.

- The next generation,
it has to start now.

- Metal doesn't
need the mainstream.

We don't need
mainstream approval,

we don't need to be getting
high-charting albums to survive.

- Fuck the Top 100.
Fuck all that bullshit.

- You've gotta
put on great shows,

you've got to have
people coming to the gigs

and leaving thinking, "Wow".

Big shows does not come cheap.

But,
it is about investing in the future.

- We're the biggest
we've ever been by far,

and we're potentially
losing money on the tour,

- not making money.
- Yeah.

- And you've
just gotta say it's...

- No, we all know that.
- So this is fine, but...

- It's not even the issue.

- It's a hard thing.
- We all agreed to it.

- Yeah, it's the future
and that's all I care about.

We're at the level
where it's a rabbit hole

and where does it end?

- How expensive those
arenas are that we're going into,

like, it's gonna be really
hard to put on a good show,

of what we should be putting on,

and to make good money as well.

- Yeah, yeah,
yeah, so that's just,

in a sense always been,
you know, do this, get bigger.

- Get bigger always.
- Yeah, the investment stage.

I still think the investment
stage is great, I'm not...

- 'Cause I
don't think you realise

that we never made that
greater money on the headliners.

- We keep fucking
splitting hands

and getting winning
hands every time

- and still fucking splitting 'em,
- For sure.

- And doubling down over and over and over again.
- Yeah.

- And there definitely
is a point where,

like,
the risk keeps getting higher.

- If you go to
arenas and sorta fail,

then, it's a pretty bad look.

- If we're gonna aim for
those festival headlining slots,

which is what we've all said,
like that's where,

- That's the goal.
- That's the goal.

If we get to that status,

it doesn't matter what your
headlining club shows are,

we're there no matter what.

- Yeah, I know...
- But, to get there,

you've gotta put that show
on in that area. And that's it.

And you've gotta
do an arena gig.

- It kinda blows my mind
that you two are so worried about it.

- No one's that worried about it,
it's more of like, what's next?

Just knowing that, you know,

we're not gonna just
constantly change...

- This is all
communication because everything

you guys are saying
and concerned about

is everything that's
already been thought about,

- and also, on a similar path.
- Yeah, well, that's the thing.

- That's why it's important to
tell everyone, so everyone knows.

- Well,
it's important to have these things.

Every time, we think of an idea,

- or think of something, I can't bring up everything.
- Yeah, that's right.

- We just have to have these
regularly like we're gonna.

- Yeah,
that's all I expected, to be honest.

- We're about to get our
first look through these doors.

- Come and see
what we have here.

Welcome, welcome.

- We are here in
Berlin for day one of rehearsals.

It's pretty surreal,
to be honest.

This is where we get to
see all those little sketches,

and drawings, and plans we do on
napkins in hotel rooms every night

actually come to life
on stage. It's great.

- I haven't even thought
about playing songs, once, so.

- Yeah,
I've been changing nappies

pretty much the whole time so,

the idea of playing a guitar
and having fire going off,

and lights and shit in my eyes,
it's pretty foreign.

- Fuckin' hell!

- Whoa.

- It's too much, I think.

- Nah. That's fine.

Basically, we're making nothing,
like, straight up.

Pouring every cent
the shows make

back into putting the show on,
which,

that's kind of our strategy I guess,
our business strategy.

We think it makes a difference.

Oh, hang on, I gotta watch.

Huge.

This is the biggest
tour we've ever done.

It's the biggest shows,
the most people,

the biggest rooms,
biggest production.

Every single thing we have,
we are putting into this.

The goal is for everyone,
every night,

to leave with their
jaw on the floor,

and for us to prove
that we've earned

those headlining slots
at this summer's festivals.

I'm feeling all hyped
up and excited,

'cause that was basically
the best lights I've ever seen.

- Pretty fucking mental,
like pretty mental.

It's by far the psycho-ist
thing we've done.

First time we've ever
had to dial it back.

First time we set lights
on fire by accident.

Created a pressure
wave from too much pyro

and blew out the sound guy's ears,
which is pretty nuts.

It sucked all the
oxygen outta the room.

But, we're good to go.

- A lot of people didn't
really know what quite

to make of Parkway
when they first turned up.

- Parkway Drive is
a bunch of surf rats.

- They were like a bunch of
surf bums playing hardcore.

- They came out of
the van with slippers on.

- It always seems like they
came straight off like a boat in

flip-flops being like,
"hey guys, we're here!"

- Here we go, are you ready?

- ♪ You could never be my envy

♪ You could never
Be my jealousy ♪

♪ You could never be my envy

- Snow!

♪ You could never
Be my jealousy ♪

- Here we go!

- ♪ Oh

♪ No forgiveness

- Woo!

- You're Australian, man,
you guys are fucking weird.

I'm happy to have you guys here,

Parkway Drive in Southern California,
welcome.

I remember, back in the day,
you guys have been around

for 15-something years now.

Australia, you Byron Bay mates,
you bloody cunts.

You had to go from humble
beginnings in Byron Bay

to little shows in backyards,
but what was the smallest show

where you were like, "Wow,
there's one person here?"

- When we started this,
it was tiny.

- ♪ Go

- I've gotta funny story that I
don't think I've ever said before.

So this is how
small our town is,

that Jeff lives on
a certain street.

And used to play guitar there and I
didn't really know him at that point,

'cause he's a few years older,
and a bit of a nerd.

He was at school. My parents
moved into this house next door to him,

we used to hear this
metal guitar next door

and my dad used to just go,
"Fuckin', that noise next door".

"That guy just plays
all this shit music."

But then, yeah,
years later when we joined the band,

I was like, oh,
you're the guy that lived next door.

- Yeah, yeah. - Wow!

- Originally recording was
like a loan from my parents.

And then, it was like,
saving up merch money and that was it.

But once we got overseas,
the way we did it was

we bought a
round-the-world ticket

and we went to Europe, and then we went
to America, and then we came back around.

So,
that was the cheapest way of doing it,

but it meant we had to go away for
five or six months without going home.

- Let's go!

- Woo, woo-hoo hoo.

- A lot of you guys
don't know we're Parkway Drive

from the other side
of the fucking world.

- Carrion!

- ♪ In a moment I'm lost

♪ Dying from the inside

♪ Her eyes take me away

♪ Tear me apart
From the inside out ♪

- The essence of Parkway is that

they were just heavier
than everybody else.

- ♪ Dead eyes speaking volumes

- They were
definitely different,

especially compared to
a lot of American bands.

They were a lot more down-to-earth,
a lot more adventure-based.

- There was something about them,
you wanted them to win.

- ♪ Built upon sorrow

♪ We're walking

- They skipped the hotels and slept in
sleeping bags on the side of the highway.

Which, it was unheard of by that time,
and I loved it.

- We're in Africa looking for
a hotel. We found her, boys.

- 'Cause we actually really
enjoyed it 'cause it was all new and fun.

To us it was an adventure. We
were eating other people's food.

- We were stealing food off
like the headlining band's riders.

All of a sudden,
we're getting legit festival slots.

- The shows would go from 500,
to 1,000, to 5,000.

- ♪ My love I left

♪ My heart

- Parkway were like a drug
and everybody wanted it.

Everyone was talking about them.

- The band's just
getting bigger and bigger.

Fucking growing,
they're doubling their fans every year.

- ♪ A promise to return

♪ A promise

♪ To

♪ Return

- These guys have
had a huge rise,

but what's
interesting about them

is that they gave all the crew
time to grow with the band as well.

We were basically
thrown in the deep end

where we said that
production's gonna start

getting crazy now,
learn how to get it done.

This has remained the same camp,
pretty much untouched.

- Fucking movie
makers. Fucking dick bags.

♪ Fucking filmers

♪ I hope you can hear

Did you hear my little song?

How often do I make people cry?

Too often,

but probably not often enough.

- The make up of the band and where
they've come from, and everything involved,

I think is what makes
them so unique.

When they needed a bass
player they got a merch guy,

who couldn't play a bass,
as their bass player.

They could've got any bass player
in the world and they chose Pie.

- Is this your first show, dude?

- You can kinda
gauge their personalities

from watching who
they are on stage.

Jeff loves talking shit.

- Aww,
that's not what I ordered.

- I think Ben's definitely the
biggest naturalist in this band.

Through the whole
touring circuit and

everything kinda
weighs down on him.

Ideally,
he would wanna be next to a river

shoving a pinecone up his ass.

- Winston is a
tour manager's wet dream.

So Winston needs
two things: a bus

and a video game console.

And he's gonna be on that
bus with that console 24/7.

- ♪ What comes next

♪ Blood, sweat, tears

♪ We're still here

- As a complete group,
an absolute pack of fucking weirdos.

- You guys are
a self-managed band.

- Yeah.
- And that's hard.

- Yeah.

- Because you
guys are a big band.

I know small bands
that have managers

and all these other
people working with them,

and I feel like they have a
hard time. How do you do it?

- As the band's evolved,
we've taken on the different roles

within the band and the
management side of things

has, like, gone to Luke.

- I don't know what I'm doing,
like honestly.

And I'll be the first to admit

I don't know how a
manager should do shit.

Hang on,
I gotta tell you something quickly.

- The funny part is that
he's not a very social person.

So it's kinda odd,
and I like to see

how uncomfortable it can get for him,
having to be that person.

And I fucking love seeing him
uncomfortable; that's a big joy for me.

But, actually,
I think he's doing a great job.

- I can't imagine another band that
could spend the money we're spending

because they've got managers

and other people
taking a piece of the pie.

Where those pieces of
the pie remain with us,

so we put it back into our
show and into our performance.

And it seems to
be setting us apart.

- We're on the official first
European run for the "Reverence" album.

It's the biggest production
crew they ever had.

Just Parkway Drive, without the supports,
we are 45 to 50 people.

There's a lot on the line. Like,
if this tour would fail,

it would be pretty
bad for the band.

- I've just got this weird,
anxiety feeling. I'm not that into it.

- Yeah,
I've had it the whole time.

- Just fighting the jet-lag,

having a full battle with it.

I think I'm winning.

- We going again?

The mental mountain
of this has been,

seems like it's been greater
than actually the physical one.

I can get my body to do things,
but

you can't trick your mind
into feeling a certain way.

And this feels like standing at
the bottom of Mount Everest.

- It's not about them, it's about them that
are out there, and blowing people's minds.

And that's why I
respect them so much,

'cause they
actually give a fuck.

- Look at all of 'em. That's bad,
Fishy.

There's 72 light fixtures,
that once they get moved,

they don't stop moving
and they just sway,

and it just looks
untidy and fucked.

I've been asking for two
days to see it fixed, though.

And I haven't seen it.

- We made a giant Parkway logo,
to throw a Molotov at and blow up.

- Molotov, take one.

I think there needs to be more
time of it. Like, that was quick.

We're looking at you for like 30 seconds,
it doesn't seem long enough.

I know we're pushing
the boundaries and

I'm fine with pushing
the boundaries,

but I just wanna
know what we're doing.

- Everything you see
on stage is designed by someone

within Parkway,
which is pretty mad.

You have to stand
on stage to figure out

where pyro is gonna go
around moving machinery,

around classically-trained
musicians

while we're tearing through this
music that we wrote in our basement.

- Have they practised yet?

- What's that?
- Have they even practised?

Or have they never
seen this before?

Have you given them
the music before?

- What they're playing is,
not even close.

- Is it all right?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But, does it have something at the end? Or,
that's it?

- There's that whole extended string chart.
- Yeah.

- She sent the wrong music.
- Fuck.

Are you gonna tell them?

- I know it's gonna work,
even if we fuck it up it's gonna work.

- When the fellas
walk to the stage.

- I open the door.
- Yeah, that's it.

- Boom! Follow, spot,
open the door, walk out.

- Let me know when you're ready,
Marko.

Fuck it, let's run it.

- ♪ The truth drops like a bomb

Whoa.

What the fuck? Nice.

Seriously,
that's fucking mental.

- I'm fried.

I'm actually fried.

Can I stop talking?

I actually didn't realise
how much work this was.

I thought you'd just come here,

make sure everything's sweet

and under control, but

micro-manager
has to do everything.

- Hamburg. First show of tour.

Yeah, it's sold out.

We finally got our shit together,
and

yeah, we're fucked.

- Day one of tour and
last night a bug came through

and half the crew are spewing and shitting,
including myself.

So I've got my spew
bucket for stage.

- So this is
the most vicious virus

I ever have dealt
with. It's insanity.

- Pie is hyped on
the sold-out show.

- You're fucked? - What?

- You okay?
- Ah, spewing my guts up.

And I can still taste
the spew in my mouth.

- I hope there's some projectile
vomiting and shitting during this show.

That could be a new effect
that we haven't tried before.

- Poor bastard. Oh,
you poor bastard.

Ready to go.

- All right!

- Go, Fish.
- Let's go in three, two,

- Anytime fellas.
- One. Rolling tracks.

- ♪ The truth drops like a bomb

♪ The truth

♪ Drops

♪ The truth

♪ Drops

♪ The truth

♪ The truth drops like a

♪ I spoke a vow today and asked
If God would come and play ♪

♪ I've dug a shallow
hole For him to sleep ♪

♪ But I swear He
just won't answer me ♪

♪ I call on out, is he afraid?

♪ I'll bury Him down
With the ones He keeps ♪

♪ And if the devil's listening
I'll come for him as well ♪

♪ If I suspect He
had a hand to play ♪

♪ And if I see
His face in town ♪

♪ There's room for two
Down underground ♪

♪ Nothing's gonna
stop me 'Til I'm done ♪

♪ Until I'm done

♪ Until I'm done

- At one point I fully
spewed in my mouth

and I was in the middle
of the stage. I was like,

couldn't see a
bucket or anything,

so sorta I swallowed it, like.

- ♪ Until I'm done

Leipzig, are you ready?

♪ 'Cause tonight
I'm killing gods ♪

♪ Killing gods

- As soon as the tour started it was like,
holy fuck,

this is actually the next level.

The trend is continuing
on all the other shows here.

- ♪ Yeah

♪ It's guilt and frustration
It's everything between ♪

♪ And the silence And
the absence hitting home ♪

♪ Peripheral glances And
the chasing of a sound ♪

♪ I never knew I'd
miss until it's gone ♪

♪ So ask me how I'm coping

- One of the fireworks,
I saw it coming at me. I was like, whoa.

- Whoa, fully burned.
- Yeah, fully burned.

- ♪ Fucking rain

♪ Because When
everything is empty ♪

♪ And your heart
Is set to cave ♪

♪ Sometimes all you wish for

♪ Is a place,
is a place To place the blame ♪

- Working with creative people,
artistes, we just live for it.

Is production office
open right now?

Did you unlock that
one? Thank you.

I'm gonna go in
there and hang myself.

- ♪ Face me

♪ Face me, none survive

♪ Face me

♪ Happy birthday, dear Fishy

- ♪ Face me, none survive, go

- Woo-hoo!

♪ None survive

♪ The devil and God
Have died inside me ♪

- UK's not an easy market.

The audience is there,
but they need to be impressed.

- Playing Ally Pally

is definitely their
biggest challenge yet.

- It's the biggest headline
show we've ever done.

- ♪ Oh oh oh oh

- ♪ Oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh

♪ Oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh

♪ Oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh

♪ Oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh

♪ Oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh

- Oh, that's it.

♪ Oh oh oh oh

♪ Oh oh oh

- Sing it loud!

- ♪ Oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh

♪ Oh oh oh

- Hello, London!

♪ Oh oh oh oh

- Sing!

♪ Oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh

♪ Oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh

♪ Oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh

♪ Oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh

♪ Yeah, sing it.

♪ Oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh

♪ Oh oh oh

♪ Everyone

♪ Get your hands up

♪ Oh oh oh

♪ And sing, do it

♪ Oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh

♪ Oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh

♪ Viva the underdogs

In-fucking-credible. Thank you.

Thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you.

Well done, boys, well done.

I'd say,
highest ratio of mosh pits,

to non-mosh pit we've ever
had at the Bottom Feeder part.

- It was literally -
That was insane.

- the entire fucking thing.

Psyched.

- Yeah,
you had to see the crowd.

- Good times.

- That's true.

- If we have a situation like
the one that we had today,

Pie, you cannot hold me back.

- There's no need to go
through it now. It's fine.

- and I was trying to
diffuse the situation.

- Talk about it later That's
not what I was trying to talk about.

- Yeah,
but I was gonna punched in the head.

- Let's address it later.

We just played a good show,
let's not talk about this now.

- All right, I'm sorry. I'll let you do your thing.
- All right.

- If someone's about to arc up and
punch ya, I'm gonna try to get them away.

- There's a lot of things that
are not going like they're supposed to go,

and there's a lot of
things that go great,

but the things that go wrong,
we need to learn how to deal with it.

- Yeah, I mean, we just played

the best show of our lives,

and we've taken the
smallest little incident,

blown it out of proportion,

and somehow made the
whole gig feel like a failure.

But, to be honest,
I think it's like, it's the pressure.

Like, we're putting too
much pressure on everyone,

on ourselves,
and right now I think everything,

it just feels like everything

is sitting right
on a knife's edge.

And,
if we don't get this sorted,

I'm pretty concerned about
where this could be heading.

- ♪ Lift it up, lift it up

♪ On your fuckin'
feet Let's go ♪

♪ A system of complete control

♪ The pressure builds

♪ It wraps its hands
Around your throat ♪

♪ A constant battle

♪ A silent war, are you ready

♪ One, two, three, sing it

♪ Get up,
get up - Sickest show ever.

- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

- What's exploded?

Fucking hell, are you serious?

We got nothing?

Can you guys hear me?

Oh,
the front-of-house has gone down!

- Headlining show in Hollywood,
we're sold out.

And, it's the first time,
almost ever,

we've probably gotta bar
it. The PA just exploded.

- Not good.

- Fuck!

- The last thing we ever
want to do as a band is cancel a show.

We will play tired,
we will play sick,

we will play with broken
bones. It's what we love to do.

So when something goes
wrong that's beyond our control,

it's just crushing.

At the end of the day,
all we want to do

is give people something
that is worth their time.

Worth the connection
that we have.

It just leaves you
feeling helpless

and that is a daunting feeling
heading into European festival season.

This is our first
headline set of 2019.

Summer festivals, like,
it's a pretty big responsibility

and we've got a mental show,
and it's the biggest thing like,

look at the crap
they're putting up there,

Fishy's in charge
of all this stuff.

- Fishy has quite a challenge ahead
of him with the summer festivals.

- We're all learning every single tour,
like

'cause,
we've never done a production

as big as it,
that we're currently working on.

- Yeah, you know you
can get to the top of that crane?

If you wanna put a 50-footer
up there they have pyro boxes,

you can see boxes and
shit up there already.

- If we can have 11 50-foot flames
go off at the same time I get excited.

- Fishy, he has literally
come just as far as we have.

We took our friends from Byron on
tour with us, on an Australian tour.

Right before we went on to play,
our amps blew up.

It was enough for us to go, "Right,
the whole show is fucked".

Little Fishy runs out to the light switch
on the wall, rips the light switch off,

and just starts pulling
wires and shit out of the wall.

Rewired the cabs from this shit he
found in the wall and got it going again.

We're like,
"What the fuck did you just do?"

and he's like, "Nah, it's fine,
training to be a sparky".

We got him on tour and he got
put through the wringer as a kid.

But every time there's
been like a break point

where we've needed someone to step up,
Fishy stepped up.

He's literally gone
from that 11-year-old kid

sitting behind Gaz
at our first-ever show,

to running this
entire operation.

- They're lucky to have me,

after 10 years,
they're lucky I'm still here.

- You know where we're walking on from?
- Up there.

Oh, right.

- Straight under there.
- Oh, I had a different visual.

- I was thinking it was back up, that's perfect.
- Yeah.

This gets blocked off and
they're getting tarps here

so no-one can see in,
so we can light the entire fucker up.

Kick the gate open and walk
down and stop at the top here,

with the cameraman.

Get to the edge there and
that's when I do the Moses.

- Yeah, yeah,
"excuse me I'm coming through".

- And try and get the whole festival to part.
- Really good.

- Moses of the mosh.

- Does Fishy know about this?

- No, but he's on stage,
so it doesn't matter.

You walk up onto a big stage
with a massive barrier, but

you get there
through the people.

It's what the whole thing's
about in the first place.

Keep it coming.

You keep pushing that level up!

Here's a heavy one.

We good?

Let's lift that
fucking bar higher.

Holy shit!

Oh, my God,
that's too much cardio for me.

12 years!

12 fucking years!

I fought for this.

This song here,

this one's called "Dedicated".

♪ 12 years I fought for this

♪ 12 years My
heart still beats ♪

♪ For the ones Who've
stood beside me ♪

♪ Still strong,
You can't break me ♪

♪ 12 years, I fought for this

♪ 12 years My
heart still beats ♪

♪ For the ones Who
have stood beside me ♪

♪ Through the values
That define me ♪

♪ No compromise, no surrender

♪ These beliefs They
make me whole ♪

♪ Never the breaker
Promise keeper ♪

♪ Remains the
ethic Instilled in me ♪

♪ Life pushes hard
You push back ♪

♪ Time makes its mark
You gotta stand the test ♪

♪ Every dog has its day

♪ We make it count
We find our own way ♪

- Woo-hoo!

- Southside,
get your fucking fists up!

♪ You can't

♪ You can't break me

♪ You can't

♪ You can't break me

- Oh my God, someone's feeding back,
George get onto it, get onto it,

and it's just never happened.

- Almost out, L.A. round two.
- L.A. round two.

- Apart from that,
the show was good... ish.

- ♪ 12 years I fought for this

♪ 12 years My
heart still beats ♪

♪ For the ones Who've
stood beside me ♪

♪ Still strong,
motherfucker So step back ♪

♪ 'Cause you should
know By now ♪

♪ What comes next through Blood,
sweat, tears ♪

♪ We're still here

♪ Unbreakable

♪ Bring this shit down

- Oh, thank you,
thank you, thank you, fuck yes. Yes!

- You're awesome,
thank you, Parkway Drive.

- Parkway Drive!
- Thank you, Parkway Drive!

- Thank you,
for being dedicated 12 years.

Thank you for hardcore,
thank you for metal.

Thank you for helping us out. Thank you,
guys.

- Let's go have a look.
Keep looking up here,

'cause this is where
the shit's going down.

I don't know,
right now I've got no idea

what's going on with
the Resurrection Fest.

Hopefully we get to play.

I don't know what protocol
is with the lightning going off.

They might just
have to shut it down,

in case everything blows up,
but I don't know.

Right now we're
holed up in buses.

- As soon as you see a storm
come over while you're at a festival,

that's instantly in the back of your mind,
thinking what could happen.

- We thought we got it figured out
after two weeks, and that's the problem.

Every time you think and say,
"we, or, I got this,"

that's when shit goes wrong.

- So, Slayer was supposed
to go on stage half an hour ago.

You see that storm? We'll see.

We drove for three days to make
it down to Spain to play this show.

So, hopefully,
it's gonna happen. We'll find out.

Fish for Osie? Position?

I'm gonna come out there
and visit you real quick.

- Copy that.

- Fuck you, storm. - Fuck you.

- Fuck you, fuck this storm.
- Fuck you!

- How's it looking?
- Here we go.

- ♪ The truth

♪ Drops

♪ The truth

♪ Drops

♪ The truth

♪ The truth drops like a

Someone dropped the ball
somewhere with some pretty big shit.

And it's really fucking frustrating,
because

takes you a long time to get
here and you want it to be perfect.

Like,
I want everything we do to be on point.

Because why do it,
if it's not the best it can be?

We don't write a show,
hoping half of it works.

We write a show and drill
that shit so it's, like, perfect,

because we want the
experience to be amazing.

Stage clothes stolen,
security bails on us

halfway through the
pit in the walkthrough.

Stand on stage,
my monitors explode,

pyro jets start misfiring,
spray oil all over the stage.

So,
we now are hoping we don't go up in flames,

and also trying to stand
on an oil slick stage.

Oh, yeah, this is after the stage
got shut down from a lightning storm.

Walk back on for the Molotov,

and whoever the fuck was in
charge of the Molotov tonight

didn't fuel the fucker up,

so the whole thing
didn't catch alight.

Then the pyro
was still on safety

so when Fishy hit the pyro cues,
nothing fired off.

The end of the day,

Spain has the biggest
fucking heart there is

when it comes to singing along and
supporting this band, so that's great.

Everything else is
a fucking struggle.

- Parkway, as a group,
is always a step ahead of itself

and the whole operation seems
to be always one step behind.

- He's on the phone
right now. He's fucking furious.

We need to talk about
the future. He's done.

- It's not hard to ask for 100%,
like, it really isn't.

That's the thing.

I get there being little
mistakes here and there,

but there hasn't
been a 100% run yet,

and we're at the end of
the first leg of festivals.

And, when we're basically gonna have a reset
of three weeks and then everyone's gonna,

all these guys are gonna just go,
"Oh, it's start of tour again."

And reset,
and we're gonna have another run of shows

where it takes them three
weeks to get their shit together.

- I have a feeling we
just need to tighten it up

- Yeah, that's it.

We've spent the
last 15 years surviving together.

No-one saw this coming,
no-one planned any of this.

We just put our heads
down and we did it.

But we are burnt out.

The crew and the band,
we are just burnt out.

We need a break.
We need a reset,

because if we don't actually
enjoy what we're doing,

then what is the point?

- I'm not quite exhausted,
but I do enjoy the first sunrise back.

The sand under the feet, like, generally,
that's the sign of being home for me.

It's two completely different
worlds being at home

and being on tour,
and I love both of them so much.

They're two different adrenalines,
I guess. Two different kinds of focus.

Yes. Swell.

Offshore and pumping,
and no-one out.

Yes!

It's such a good feeling to be able
to wash the tour off straight away.

It's like the polar
opposite for me,

but I need it just as much,
and that's sitting in the ocean.

Ah, gee, thanks, Belle.

I just love being a dog-owner.

You could poo any... Oh, my God.

So you're on TV and you're
making me double hop.

Life.

Life.

Life used to be so simple.

Now it's complex.

Fuck.

Hey, Big Rig,
it's time for guitar practice.

Okay? All right, you ready?

That's it,
we'll start in C minor.

Yep, C, oh, very good.

You're very talented,
aren't you?

Come on, Big Rig, out you get.

Ah, you did very well, buddy.

11 months old and already
miles ahead of Luke, aren't you?

You're a much,
much better guitarist than him, aren't you?

- How's the Jeff Studios going?
- Oh, the usual.

- Still got the Belkin splitter,
sticky-taped down to the upside-down bucket?

- Professionalism.

- This is Jeff's pride and joy.

It's the only barrel he's ever gotten,
so it's on his wall.

- That was me when I was 10.

Before these guys ever know
what surfing was, I was in the tube.

- Yeah,
imagine just following that thing up.

- ♪ 'Cause
tonight I'm killing gods ♪

Let's fucking go.

- Woo,
that AC's struggling, aye?

- Yeah, it's fucking filthy.

No wonder you came
in and gave it up.

- What makes a headliner?

They have to be authentic.

- I mean, that's nothing you can fake,
you know,

you either have that,
or you don't have it.

- Nobody can copy Lemmy or,
nobody can copy Angus Young.

- It's nothing that a
million-euro production can buy,

so you have to grow as a
person in order to present yourself

to 100,000 people.

- A lot of the festivals realised
what part we can deliver

and I think a lot of the old
guard and the old bands

also realised that there's
something new around the corner.

I don't know if it's a competition,
but,

it kinda is, right?

People were
supposed to take it easy

and relax a little
bit in two weeks,

and Jia had the great idea
to play minor league soccer

in Byron Bay and get his
leg fucked up pretty bad.

- I'm not surprised, just,
typical Parkway shit.

- So we don't know how we're gonna
play this, if we're gonna play it down

or are we gonna give him
the ultimate bass moment.

It all comes down to what he can do,
really, because he's pretty fucked.

- Look, look, I'm totally fine.

Like, look,
this is me getting around. It's fine.

- That does not look fine,
that looks fucking hilarious.

- Oh, my poor baby.

- Welcome to the bus.

- I like the fluoro blue.

I think I had the idea that coming
on tour would be smelly, farty boys.

- Jodi wanted
the full tour experience.

- Sorry, Jodi,
but this is how it is.

- And it was like you could
see just the family camaraderie.

- Composure!

- As a mum,
it made me really happy.

- Winston's mum came
to a festival last year

and had, like, an epic time,
she was like up on stage.

- Come one, come on.

Say hello to my mother.

What's this song
called? Let 'em know.

- "Bottom Feeder!"

- ♪ One, two, three, go

So when we got home from tour

all the band mums
were pretty jealous.

Jia's mum, I've seen every
single day at the coffee shop,

and she's just been going on and on about
how this year she's gonna one-up my mum.

- Yeah, she's pretty excited about it, cause
I gave her the thumbs-up to come to Wacken.

- Jodi's up for anything.

Jodi literally said
she's up for anything.

So, yeah,
we're in for something.

- This is it. This is the
big one. We are rolling into Wacken.

And, oh, my God.

This thing is huge.

- Hey, mate. How are ya?

- This is almost I'd say,
the pinnacle of our career,

it seems like,
headlining this festival.

This is basically the biggest festival,
metal festival in the world.

The Wacken circle pit.

- Yee-haa!

- This is the moment. This
is what we're all here for.

It's amazing. It's
finally happened.

- Here you go, sir.
- Thank you.

- I'm fucking psyched.

- Fuckin' psyched?
- I can't wait.

- You psyched? - Yeah!

- I'm Jeff Ling,
and we're seconds away

from the biggest show
of our fucking lives.

- Oh, my God!

- Everyone's losing their
fucking minds. Losing their minds.

- Are they the underdogs
in the music industry?

- That's kind of
a stupid question;

they wouldn't be here this
year if they haven't proved it.

They're right in
there on top of the list.

They will prove it tonight,
I'm sure.

- Prey for the sorrow.

It's alive, can you feel it?

Prey for the sorrow

Move.

Hail my

All

Hail my.

It's alive, can you feel it?

- 30 seconds!

♪ The truth drops like a bomb

♪ All hail

♪ My

♪ All hail

♪ My

♪ The truth

♪ Drops

♪ The truth drops

♪ The truth

♪ The truth drops like a

♪ Up

♪ Up

♪ Jump. Jump.

♪ Jump, jump, jump, jump

♪ Prey,
we are all Prey for the sorrow ♪

♪ Prey,
we are all Prey for the sorrow ♪

♪ Our sorrow

♪ Prey

♪ Prey for the sorrow

♪ The sorrow

♪ Let's go

♪ Prey

♪ Prey

♪ We prey for the sorrow

♪ Prey

♪ Prey

♪ Prey for the sorrow

Get your hands in the air,
Wacken!

Wacken army,
we're Parkway Drive, holy shit!

Oh, yes.

Okay, let's have some fun.

♪ Our new gods are empty
Like the holes in our heads ♪

♪ We dance upon the
alter Of envy and hubris ♪

♪ A scourge of narcissism
reaps Depression in black waves ♪

♪ If this is your salvation
You better pray ♪

♪ Oh, you better fucking pray

♪ You better pray

♪ You better pray

♪ Yes, yes

♪ Up, up

♪ One, two, three, go

♪ Prey,
we are all Prey for the sorrow ♪

♪ Prey,
we are all Prey for the sorrow ♪

♪ Our sorrow

♪ Prey

♪ Prey

♪ Prey for the sorrow

♪ Prey

♪ Prey

♪ Prey for the sorrow

Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho

Wacken 2019, how are you?

Holy shit.

Oh, okay, that's a lotta people.

Fuck yeah, keep 'em coming.

All right,
in case you haven't noticed,

we have no bass guitar
up here at the moment.

Five days ago our bass
player broke his knee.

And we almost had to cancel.

But instead, tonight, Wacken,

I give you the new and
improved bass player,

in a wheelchair. Give it
up for Jia and his mum!

Oh, fuck, it's a family affair.

We're so fucking happy to be here,
thank you for having us.

- Mum, mum, mum!

- How are you doing now, Jodi?

You wanna go out?

- Mum, mum!

- You wanna go out?

Okay, this is Jia's mum.

She's never
crowd-surfed in her life.

She's gonna crowd-surf for the first time,
she needs to go back there.

You gonna carry her?

- Yeah!

- All right,
get down there, head down there.

I need you to chant "mum"!

Mum! Mum!

- Mum, mum, mum, mum, mum!

- Mum, mum, mum,
mum, mum, mum, mum, mum,

- mum, mum, mum, mum,
- Oh, my God.

- Yes. - mum, mum, mum!

- All right.
- Mum, mum, mum.

- Set her up.

You guys ready?

Let's end this night right.

This one's called
"Absolute Power".

You ready?

♪ It's alive,
can you feel it Taking hold again ♪

♪ In your mind,
all your demons Are rattling chains ♪

♪ Welcome to a world of pain

♪ It's alive, can you feel it

♪ Again, again Wacken,
let's go ♪

♪ Welcome to a world of pain

Oh, my fucking God,
thank you, thank you.

- Parkway Drive, Parkway!

- Parkway Drive, Parkway!
- Thank you.

Thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you.

Sorry, give me one second.

- Parkway Drive,
Parkway Drive, Parkway Drive,

Parkway Drive, Parkway Drive

♪ Parkway Drive, Parkway Drive

♪ Parkway Drive,
Parkway Drive Parkway Drive ♪

♪ Parkway Drive,
Parkway Drive, Parkway Drive ♪

- Thank you.

♪ Parkway Drive,
Parkway Drive Parkway Drive, Parkway ♪

This one's a fast one

Wacken,

I need,

I need your fucking circle pits.

Let's do this shit!

Oh, ho, ho,
this one's called Karma.

♪ Crashing to the surface

♪ My convictions lay
bare Before the tempest ♪

♪ As chaos explodes around me

♪ I find myself In the
jaws of destruction ♪

♪ Tested by the
force Of the tempest ♪

♪ Pushed to the
point Of no return ♪

♪ Losing ground Let
the steel of my resolve ♪

♪ Be not bested By
the sum of my fears ♪

- Yeah!

♪ Brothers

♪ My brothers

♪ Is this all that we are

♪ Sisters

♪ My sisters

♪ We've been

Wacken, are you fucking ready?

♪ Crushed by the fists of God

♪ Crushed by the fists of God

♪ Crushed by the fists of God

♪ Crushed

♪ Crushed

♪ Crushed

♪ Crushed

- Parkway Drive! Parkway Drive!

♪ Bounce

- Yes. Yes

Nicely played.

Wacken!

It's our privilege and our
honour to play for you tonight.

Thank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you, thank you.

This has been the best show I have
ever played in my whole fucking life.

All right. One little bit left.

One little bit left.

Are you with me?

Are you ready?

Okay, last time, together.

Give me your hands.
Give me your hands.

Give me your hands. Oh,
yes, you know.

♪ Up, up, up, bounce

♪ Everybody,
everybody Everybody, everybody ♪

Let's fucking do this,
Wacken, you ready?

♪ You can't escape,
now Snap your neck to this ♪

♪ Yes, yes, yes

♪ Jump, jump, jump, oh

♪ Now snap your neck to this

♪ Oh

♪ No mercy,
no peace You fucking bottom feeder ♪

♪ No mercy, no peace,
You fucking bottom feeder ♪

♪ Fuck

Thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you, thank you.

Insane.

Thank you, Wacken.

The pleasure is ours.

We're Parkway Drive.
We'll see you again!

Peace, be safe!

- You can never
predict the turns life will take,

and some destinations will be more than
anything you could ever have dreamed of.

All you can do is trust
the people next to you,

put your faith in those
who share your passion,

and have the courage
to step into the void.

Moments like these don't just happen,
they are born.

Through the trust of friends,
the sacrifice of our families,

the skill and unending
hard work of our crew,

and the support and
connection of every single fan

who has ever
given us their time.

Yeah,
it might be a time-worn story,

but this one is ours,
and we wouldn't want it any other way.

Against the grain
and against the odds

until the final song is sung.

Viva the underdogs.

- Well fucking done, brother.
- Yeah, Fish.

- Yeah, fucking Fish.
- That was bullshit.

- Fuck, that was a good show.

- Well done.
- It was massive fire.

- Oi, that walk-in was psycho.

- Everyone was grabbing
my hands and other places.

And I'm like, yeah, baby.

- Come on. - Get real.

- She's not my mum.

- Well, you've gotten better since
you were jamming at the house.

- See you, mum, love ya.

- A long time ago
we asked ourselves

what we'd be doing
in five years' time.

We were all wrong.
We were all wrong.

- Not me,
I was the only one that said.

- Did you say
we'd still be going

- I was the only one that said,
we'd still be going

and touring the world. - Fuck.

- Fuck, I get it.

- That is it. There it is.

Movie's done, and out.