Future Music Festival sidewave 'Skrillex with special guest Porter Robinson'.

Skrillex - Internet Friends live at the Enmore Theatre, Sydney, Australia on the 07.03.12.

Say what you want about Skrillex, but the man sure knows how to pull a crowd. Playing a sold out all-ages show at the Enmore theatre, the crowd is exactly the kind of crowd you would imagine Future Music festival would pull, think short shorts and tops off, transplanted in the Inner West for one night.

Support act Porter Robinson, signee to Skrillex's label OWSLA, is a Skrillex in-training at 19 years of age. Prepping the crowd with some hard electro house and dubstep, Porter gets the crowd going, not that it's that hard with a crowd that is champing at the bit for the king of dubstep himself.

At a very punctual 9:30pm, Skrillex steps on the stage and starts off with a bang; confetti cannons spewing into the air as the Enmore theatre is transformed into a sweaty club for the next one and a half hours. It is amazing to see how minimal his live set up is: it's essentially his Macbook and a beat pad. Not that it matters as Skrillex dances and fist pumps with the crowd like a diminutive gothic-elf party commander and jumps off for a stage dive, all within the first 30 minutes.

The visuals of the show are great, the lights are blinding at times and the show should come with a warning for just how much strobe will be involved, but it is all impeccably coordinated. To fill in all the left over space on the stage, there's footage of Nyan cats and Skrillex hanging out with his famous pals like Diplo as he head bangs and occasionally yells out to the crowd at random intervals, "Wooooo", "Make some noise!", "Are you ready?" and my personal favourite "My name is Skrillex and I fucking love you!."

The music is like a greatest hits of Skrillex thus far, he chooses to stick with either his biggest songs, (First of the Year, Bangarang) or adding the dubstep touch to other people's songs, which generally get a bigger reaction than his originals. The lights go off and the projector switches to celestial before the interlude for his remix of Benny Benassi's club hit Cinema, which provides the largest circle pit moment of the night and then segues into Flo Rida's Good Feeling. The man could drop Miley Cyrus and the crowd would still love him.

The show is paused though when Skrillex announces that his next music video is being filmed right now in Australia and to get phones out and "make some history" as cameras circle the front and try to capture the chaos. The crowd shows a feeble attempt at getting their phones out, clearly too inebriated to be able to fulfill such instructions. For the closer, Skrillex instructs the crowd with something easier "You need to do me one more favour, you need to act like you've never heard this song before" and drops the Grammy award winning Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites. It goes off but the chivalrous Skrillex stops the entire show to check a girl in the front isn't being crushed to death and once confirmed she is okay, ends the show with My Name is Skrillex. I left with a deep respect for Skrillex, despite his music you have to respect the ability to sell out venues and his genuine concern for the personal safety of fans - and kind of hating myself for not hating Skrillex.

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