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5-Mar-2009: Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia - Tickets, Meetups, Reviews/Photos


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I waited after the show to see if I could meet them but they actually held Chris' party at Rod Laver Arena. Saw Shane Warne again as well as Molly Meldrum. Waited for quite a while and one of the tour guys took my setlist in to get signed by the guys because he said they wouldn't be out for hours. It got signed by Chris and Guy - my 2 favourites yay! I did see them walking past the windows a few times - guy talking with shane warne and chris running like crazy like a kid haha. Just before I left, Jonnie left in the tarago and then when I left guy was talking to shane warne again next to the car :)

 

t-y-p-i-c-a-l :rolleyes::lol: I imagine he would be after last night's audience - loud and lively were they so bursting with energy he would be :laugh4:

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Yeah... I was bouncing around, cheering and singing so much :lol: Chris' presence also made my body sweat like twice as normal than usual, I swear. Not kidding. It was strange, like twice as fast than usual, but oh well :P

 

Ooh and photos and videos to come, my sister took them all so yah. She got ones of Chris and Guy mainly, none of Will because he was out of our sight. She might have gotten one of Jonny, not sure.

 

And I was so close to Chris I could smell him. That's right bitch :lol: he smells gooood too :wideeyed:

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Ok, so. ilovealias4ever already hath given you the setlist, so I don't need to do that. People in GA spotted Shane Warne being escorted to his seat. Also, I think I was right next to alias - or her lively copper-haired friend, at least. If she was wearing a light blue X&Y shirt and chatting to said friend about the roadies and setlist before the gig then yes for a large portion of the show I was next to her friend. Alias if that was you, I was the girl with straight brown hair and a black and gray striped V-neck shirt (don't think you would have seen the navy blue jeans but eh).

 

Show was great, I was about fourth row from the stage I think? On Guy's side. Probably. Support acts - I think Decoder Ring was okay, my sister thought they were a bit strange. Most of the crowd didn't really get what they were about, they were completely instrumental. Mecury Rev, well. If you're going to a show and thinking of skipping some supports, Mercury Rev are a DO NOT WANT. Their set went on for 45 minutes, tooooo long. Audience didn't like them either :P.

 

Soon enough JayZ and the Blue Danube started, everyone sort of sang and danced along to the Blue Danube, very funny? It was! Then the lights darkened and LiT began. I think a few people where I was freaked out realising how close they were :D. Nice big singalong for Violet Hill, same with Clocks and In My Place. And yes girls, the Ramp of Love was loving that night with Chris and Jonny playing around at the end on it.

 

Out came the balloons for Yellow, everyone had fun with those, great way to keep the crowd entertained because everyone loved them. Some guy near me had cheekily pulled out a pen and was popping them all though :lol:. Cemeteries next, pretty good damn performance of it, and Glass of Water. Only two others including myself knew the words (and I'm pretty sure that was ilovealias4ever and co). Everyone was dancing along to 42 by the middle section of the song. Fix You was a massive singalong like Yellow. Strawberry Swing everyone clapped the beat to at the start. Chris mentioned that it was written in Melbourne too :D

 

Then everyone noticed the boys were moving down Guy's runway. There they played GPASUYF and Talk. After those two Jonny, Guy and Will moved back up the runway while Chris stayed and started blabbering on about his birthday in Melbourne, everyone started singing Happy Birthday to him and he was so embarrassed :lol: It was very sweet. Then he went on about a musical they were going to make about some cricketer or something, can't remember the name, but "the fucking bastards stole our idea!" :lol: Thus he introduced The Hardest Part as one of the songs left over from the musical. Very lovely performance of it :kiss: Chrislovers, be jealous as I had a prime view of his back and all while he was performing it. Hah. After that was Postcards From Far Away, turned around, Jonny was playing a little piece to it but everyone was facing Chris. I think Jonny spotted me and I gave him a smile, heeee.

 

Next up, Viva La Vida. Crowd went nuts. Great great great performance of it. Then Lost! got a play. Afterwards, the boys disappeared off the stage and then reappeared in the crowd :D. Acoustics were Speed of Sound, I'm A Believer (which everyone clapped and sang along to, although it had a false start with Chris' shoddy keyboard not working when they started the song :lol:) and Death Will Never Conquer. Chris asked everyone to get their mobiles out at the end of DWNC and the Viva remix played. Be sure to look around when everyone's doing this, it's amaz-ing.

 

Politik came on, everyone bounced along to it. Lovers in Japan, everyone went nuts with the confetti :lol:. I got some along with Yellow confetti by the waye (even got a neon green one but lost a neon orange one, booo). Next was DAAHF... last song, I thought! Noo! But ALAS! The people wanted an encore. And an encore they got.

 

Chris bounded back on stage and The Scientist was played, full band, non-acoustic. Then Life in Technicolor. Unfortunately I realised I couldn't sing the start of it, and then midway through the song desperately needed a) water, b) air. This was a problem because I was in standing and security had actually confiscated one of our bottles of water, so we were forced to conserve the other one. Anyway had a sip of water, but then felt a bit sick as the boys were taking their final bow. Over to the ramp I go and was sick. Three times. Thank god the boys weren't on stage or Chris would have needed personal assurance I was going to be fine :lol:. Not nice. Few people asked if I was going to be okay, said I was, just stayed there for a bit drinking the water and getting fresh air. The fustrating thing I think about now is, if my bottle of water hadn't been obscured in my bag I could have been sick a lot earlier or a lot worse. Thanks a lot, security, your money-grabbing ways of getting us to buy your ridiculously over-priced drinks forced me to be sick. Congrats, morons. Have fun when the parents of several overly-dehydrated teeny-boppers get on your ass.

 

That's about all... was great though. Two meters from stage, perhaps less. Jonny was cute and shy with his hat on as usual, Will was banging away on the drums although I didn't really see him what with Chris' piano in the way. Berrygirls, I will admit Guy was quite attractive :P although my eyes were not averted from Chris. Bright blue eyes, pretty curls and a v. nice smile :D. He looked straight at me at one point, to which I responded with a smile, although I admit I was wearing a lowish-cut V-neck shirt so uh :uhoh: lol! But he was joking about during the night, you could tell he was very excited and happy to be on stage :nice:

 

Warning for merch fans, posters are $10, keychains $20 (you heard me right), shirts are $50 as well as the green hat and a hoodie is $120. Didn't find out how much programmes were, perhaps I should have got one but oh well.

 

All in all fun night for all :D (except Mercury Rev. My sister wanted to rather comically commit suicide from "torture by music". DO NOT WANT!)

 

Weeee great, thorough review :D

 

Can't believe you got sick though :( Stupid security.

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Ungh agree Mercury Rev were a disaster, the lead singer acted like a b-grade sopie actor and the all that came to mind when watching the guitarist was a hot potatoe with irritable bowel issues.

 

That was on the 3rd mind you......sorry to hear about your vomitus, at least it happened at the end and not half way through.

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Also, that reminds me! Chris changed a line in Violet Hill to "If you're Victorian, won't you let me know" which gained audience screams. He also at one point start singing "You're the voice try and understand it" and dancing around, which earned him a singalong back.

 

Oh and Chris looked at me :wacky: baha, take that Chris lovers :P

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Cobalt, what an awesome review! Seems like there was a bit more crowd interaction than the 2nd show which I saw... we got a bit of dialogue, but I can't believe you guys got to sing happy birthday, that would have been so much fun!

 

So did anyone actually buy any merch? I wanted to get a poster but they sold out, and so I got a 42 shirt cos I liked the colour and design.

 

And shit for getting sick!! Its crazy, and sad. I'm just surprised you weren't sick when the lead singer of Mercury rev started singing, cos thats when my eardrums started to bleed with PAIN!!! :P

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did anybody see them out and about around town at all?

 

Yer, I saw the concert on the night of the 3rd, I've already mentioned this elsewhere. But the next morning, I saw Jonny with his wife and baby go for a walk, just leaving the hotel. Naww.

 

ps. I got the setlist on the 3rd, and Speed of Sound was a possible Til Kingdom Come and Green Eyes was meant to be I'm A Believer. Wish I saw Glass of Water though!

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hey hey.. glad it was great.. im looking forward to their sydney shows next week sooo much. just wondering for those people that were in GA. how long do u reckon u need to get there before hand to try and get as close as to the front as possible?? thankss:)

 

 

Ah ok. Now this is the ultimate question.

We arrived at 10:30am - some a few hours earlier than that (we were 3rd or 4th there) and waited all day. However, some people who rocked up at 5 or 6pm made it to the front row.

So we toiled out in the wind and heat just to get our front row taken by some punkass kids who didn't even know the name of AROBTTH and said he only liked a couple of their songs. You try and figure out the justice in all that.

Hopefully Sydney's way of doing things is a little bit more organised than Melbourne. I'd say get there around 12-1, you'll still get front (if you're lucky).

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Ah ok. Now this is the ultimate question.

We arrived at 10:30am - some a few hours earlier than that (we were 3rd or 4th there) and waited all day. However, some people who rocked up at 5 or 6pm made it to the front row.

So we toiled out in the wind and heat just to get our front row taken by some punkass kids who didn't even know the name of AROBTTH and said he only liked a couple of their songs. You try and figure out the justice in all that.

Hopefully Sydney's way of doing things is a little bit more organised than Melbourne. I'd say get there around 12-1, you'll still get front (if you're lucky).

 

 

grrr.. stupid little kids. cool, well thanks.. me and my friend have uni that day so ill try and figure something out. if worse comes to worse, we can try squeeze our way to the front,..ill be shorter than most ppl anyways haha.:D do you know how much the programs were?? im thinking of buying them when i go on the saturday night when im sitting.. so i dont have to carry it

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Programs from memory were $25. I got one, they're awesome. But everytime I look at it, I get sad cos I think about the fact that I'm at home, they're probably on the way to Brisbane..and I have to wait another 2-3years before I see them again :(

 

 

thats quite cheap!>. i think i paid more for their twisted logic tour... and it got water spilt on it :( but its still good, sitting on my desk haha. yeah thats true, but just think of alllllll the people who didnt go to their concerts.. i hope they make a dvd

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I know its so sad!:cry: I wonder where they are now:inquisitive:

Just out of interest, now that they have gone, where were they staying? I looked at a couple of hotels and am just curious now to know which one it was!

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