This is awesome. I was the channel V director at the time but we didn't have anyone to direct this (there was lots other stuff going on) so the camps just shot it wild. They dragged me into the edit suite to cut it live because it was chaos. Nearly did my head in but now I see it it back it's totally fantastic... It's doing my head in again watching it. Thanks for posting.... I'm mental now. Hahahaha!

"It's not about perfection it's about heart and soul" wise words

"This is for Mark E Smith" >proceeds to cut the set short Yeah that's an actual tribute to The Fall alright

0:06 interview 2:17 Arcarsenal 6:32 Patern agaisnt User 10:49 Cosmonaut

theres nothing in this world cooler than omar dancing like that lmao

i watch this video at least once a year, and have done so for like 12+ years now. it's a tradition.

Legendary performance.

1:09 "If we get through the whole set, it would be like a wonder" FORESHADOWING

I really like the lighting of the stage for some reason. the blue haze makes it look epic

I was there. Mudvanye had just finished a set on the second stage in that tent and the crowd just moved over to where we were and brought that bogan energy across. Later That night though at the main stage a girl was crushed and died when limpbizkit was performing. That ATDI called it was prescient for the tragedy to follow where security and crowd measures were just not effective on a hot day.

4:20 that drum set hand stand was the biggest flex ever performed on stage. rofl

The best 3 song set of all time

"Later that same day, teenager Jessica Michalik was crushed to death in a mosh pit that took place at a Limp Bizkit set later on that day at the concert. Bixler-Zavala has not spoken of Big Day Out 2001 since then." "....She was revived and rushed to Concord Hospital, but died of a heart attack five days later" - Wikipedia FURTHER ARGUMENTS INVALID.

Wow. I was at this show many years ago and I remember the energy not only at this slot but at the entire festival. ATDI were right to call out the bros and to stop the show. I will never forget.

"You're a robot! You're a sheep! Hahahahahahahah!!"

The Fall shoutout and reference just made this already stellar performance that much more sweet.

I love this album so much its not even funny. Such a great band. Always deliver.

This is rock kids.... Amazing performance from one of the greatest bands of all time. Period.

Crazy to see the attention the band was receiving at this time. It's all over the start of this vid. They really were the band of that moment. Didn't last very long, sadly!

Please God let there be an HD version of this performance, for the good of music history, please let it be.

His speech at the end is still so true today, although it's now social media as well as TV

cedric's dance moves..... ive been tryna have that swag since 7th grade.

Remember watching this on limewire back in high school... holy shit these guys rocked

Omar and Cedric are two of the coolest people to ever live. Two absolutely punk rock individuals. This performance, and exit, is legendary.

Cedric in Mars Volta and Jim Ward in Sparta both continued the due diligence of creating a safe space for fans in the crowds to not "mosh" or "crowd surf" or "slam dance" and to take good care of one another...they consistently asked the crowd to dance if they desire so.

Also, look closely (esp at 11:11), you will see the stage is made out of old 'The Wiggles' stuff LOL

2:22 Arcarsenal 5:52 Pattern Against User 10:28 Cosmonaut Amazing set. Amazing band.

One of hands down the best live Post-hardcore performances ever put to tape. That Australian amphetamine INTENSITY, backstage chaos, the poor girl that would go on to pass that week from the moshing, mixed with the stimulant effects, passion in the vocals, i mean jesus christ Its perfect imperfection.

Ahahaha just realised they're playing on top of a stage that reads "the wiggles"

I listened to heavy metal for most of my teenage years. I know all about it, and that's a fact. I know where moshing started, I know how it started, I have moshed, I've seen it every second weekend for the past 8 years. It gets old. Punk gets old. This band was beyond punk rock, above it.

must I just say that later during the day one of the crowd members were crushed to death during the limp bizkit show so they had every right to say what they said!!

I'm just glad I can say I saw Cedric and Omar in the Mars Volta when I was 11. First gig I ever watched but goddamn I wish I could've caught them in ATDI

240p, audio coming out of laptop speakers.... Insane energy still somehow conveyed. Must've had people in the audience leaving their bodies!

Impossível não amar At The Drive-In!!!!!! sem duvida uma das melhores bandas do século

Kind of rock n rolls swan song

That last rant he has at the end of the video is too real.

I love a lot of bands that I never got the chance to see due to being born in the 90s, but these guys are one of the ones I wish I could have seen most

I remember downloading this video on Kazaa and wish I could see them live. Haven't yet but damn they shaped my musical outlook in my youth. Finding later two of the members forming side gig De Facto showed me more about dub and lead me to pick up King Tubby.

As far as the band's stand against crowd surfing goes - I mean, yeah, it's kind of difficult to control that kind of crowd energy when you're bringing insane amounts of purely awesome energy to the stage. But to their credit, they were used to playing smaller, more intimate, more "underground" shows in which the crowds were more receptive to looking out for each other. In most punk and underground scenes, there's this mutual understanding that everyone in the crowd wants to have fun and express themselves, but not to the detriment of others. (And in a smaller, local show, most of those people know each other to some degree.) I'm pretty sure that I saw in an interview that they take that stance against crowd surfing and moshing for everyone, but particularly because it tends to discourage their female fans from enjoying the show, and standing up front. - Not only because of the injury factor, but also because douchey dudes take advantage of the chaos of a pit and grope women.

This is how people should remember what early 2000's music was like . Is like.

Sing the fucking lyrics, Cedric.

loved his Mark E Smith shoutout

Fuck we need a rock revival like this again someday even for just a second.

IT'S NOT ABOUT PERFECTION IT'S ABOUT HEART & SOUL

cosmonaut is so damn good in this version!

i have so much respect for Cedric for actually taking a stand against the kind of bullshit that happens during shows

Crowd might have been acting douchy but Cedric was clearly in a bad mood here lol, was obvious from his previous couple of statements

Yup, I saw them at Coachella this year and they've definitely shifted gears compared to their earlier days,nevertheless still a spectacle to behold.

Gosh when they were being interviewed I could tell that they were so burnt out by then. All that friggin' work was on the edge of paying off and yet the gas ran out and only fumes were left. What a legacy for real...

"We do come from TEXAS and we are AT THE DRIVE-IN."

Finally, a great sounding show.

fun story. the big dude on the left was the bass player. you have to know that for this story to stick. There was this show in Lubbock TX at the Kitchen Club *before it was not is now* middle of a song some random dude ran up and grabbed Cedric's cowboy hat and ran out the door. song stopped and almost immediately the bass player runs after the kid who grabbed Cedrics cowboy hat. everyone wondering whats going on... bass player returns with the cowboy hat and they continue the song

They definitely brought hardcore rock to the mainstream. The live version here out did the album by a mile.

At 53 years young I still jam with m!!

Man they are amazing so glad I was able to see them live once in Houston back in the day🤘🔥💖

I listen to too much Hip Hop and Heavy Metal and The Mars Volta and Omar Rodriguez Lopez and Bosnian Rainbows and now ANTEMASQUE

Imagine children going to their first concert and hearing this: “The Wiggles were supposed to headline tonight, but unfortunately, they crashed their Big Red Car along the way and died. We found a replacement act that we hope you enjoy!”

how have i only just heard of these guys.... fuckin awesome, thanks for uploading

this is so raw. i love it

2:16 Dancing all day and all night!!!!

This may be the only video on YT with appropriately zero dislikes.

this is legendary

My respect always goes out to Hardcore bands that pump the breaks on moshing/violence. I fucking hate that shit and it’s such a relic at this point. I don’t want to go to a show and look like I was part of a mugging by the end of it. Exactly why I love Ian and Fugazi.

Omar Rodríguez lopez mi guitarrista favorito

This show was a conduit overvolted (I'm not an electrician, forgive the shaky metaphor). Cedric being wired out of his mind, the crowd just being overbearingly jammed, ATDI playing the music that they do. Cedric was very aware that they weren't being marketed with the right ideas in mind. I've been to shows with idiots slam dancing and crowdsurfing without a care for whom they may hurt, and then shows where people dance, express themselves, and pick you up if you get knocked down. There was simply no room for safety, and it's difficult to place blame on a festival crowd in a remote area of the world when the wait for their favorite bands is over. It's difficult to place blame on ATDI for cutting the show short. I'm glad the end result was a legendary performance and a lesson taught.

I saw them live on Lollapalooza this summer...I was in the front. Fucking awesome.

I remember when I was 18 I had tickets to see them play a free show at Tower Records LA. I'd always been into metal, but I remember my fellow musician metalhead friends told me that ATDI was awesome so I wanted to give them a shot after only hearing One Armed Scissor. Well lo and behold they broke up before that free show, and that was that. I moved to SF for college and continued getting deeper into extreme metal (death, black, tech prog) . I have no problem recognizing good music in any genre, and I always kept At The Drive In in my back pocket, so to speak, but I can't help wondering how I would have been different had I been to that show!

"because i'd really like to meet him"

This was the festival where a chick got crushed in the pit infront of Limp Bizkit. A> Dieing at a Limp Bizkit show is either lame or hilarious, im not sure, and B> This set was about 5 hours before. Maybe if Fred 'minister for solid waste' Durst had taken a leaf out of ATDI's book, some chick would be regretting her life choices instead of being dead.

Paul just looking at the mic contemplating life

The one interview where they chose to interview NOT omar and cedric lol

this is probably the most badass performance i've ever seen.

haha "any surprises in your set today?" behhhhhhhhh, beeeehhhhhhh

Best band live ever! Absolutely awesome!

there baaaaaaaaaack.so fucking pumped to see atdi in melbourne 2007.

At 5:37 "I'm too wired" That's an understatement.

Was lucky enough to be there 😎

I just saw them at Coachella, I didn't know anything about them until then - a great performance! I was surprised though that there wasn't any moshing, then I read up on the Big Day Out story in 2001 and how a girl died in a mosh pit and they didn't like moshing when they were performing. With the type of music they play it is tough to expect the crowd to not mosh - circle pit moshing is fine, I just don't like hardcore dancing.

There's an a Big Iggy pop influence on Cédric's stage performance...

i've been watching this same performance since i downloaded it on Kazaa back in the day talkin like 2002 lol

I love the mention of The Fall. Does anyone have an idea what album by The Fall had the most influence on At The Drive-in?

They were so fucking amazing miss em

I remember this well, but had never seen footage of it...thanks for posting :) it was insane!

Absolutely amazing performance...!

“If we could get through the whole set, it would be like a wonder...”

I've never understood why so many people have a problem with the "no moshing" policies of certain bands. It's just bands trying to look out, man, and if the songs amp you up to the point that you just HAVE to be aggressive, punch yourself in the face repeatedly. You can do this without effecting anyone else (and it will absolutely release the aggression).

i loved how they were so anti mosh pit and crowd surfing. even if it did make them stop a show easrly it made me think id b alot safer goin to an atdi show...iwould love to see them this year

Omar has God level ACLs

Thank you for posting this. Thanks.

energy .. there is nothing like this in our days

Best cosmonaut version ever

this is history.

it only lasted 3 songs and it was so full of energy my god

That's definitely a great way to put it. I'm gonna remember that..

he's actually talking to Sparta

Goosebumps

ahaha i love atdi so much but seriously guys. to ask people to stop acting crazy and crowdsurfing during your set is almost insane. i mean. your music makes me want to break the sound barrier. i know this was over a decade ago lmaoooo but i stand by my comment

crowd surfing doesn't risk being crushed to death...you're above the crowd, you physically can't be crushed.

legendary!

Jesus that was an insane performance