It wasn’t until he got offstage that Winston McCall realised the police had been called. It was 2007, and his band, Parkway Drive, had just played the gig of their lives; the release show for their second album, Horizons, at now-defunct Brisbane venue The Arena. The singer can still recall the incandescent energy and steam rising from the windmilling, circle-pitting, crowd-surfing mass. And then…
“I get a message from my sister going, ‘Hey, I’m getting chased down the street by the riot patrol. They have the K9 unit. They’re clearing the entire district of Brisbane out,” the singer remembers, laughing.
