beckhamcrosses

Ok thanks for the patience. . I am posting these here BEFORE any of the U2 sites I frequent. . so feel special! Pics from the front of the stage are Saturday, from Adam's side are Sunday. I dont know what else to say. . . except thanks to all MELBOURNE. . what a cool city, what cool and generous people, so organised, venue was great, I can't say enough nice things about Melbourne....., and the rioting was a hoot . . . . . . . went looking for the U2 get together at some of the local pubs, ok, to be fair, it was at most of the local pubs. . . ended up at Hosiers (?) not many U2 fans there. . . (Chris 015, when you turn 18, I'll tell you about that place, no photos sorry, we would have got booted out. . . ) bad hang over Saturday. . . Kanye West was good on Saturday, he tried a lot harder with the crowd. . Concert highlights. . . Bono gets 3 people out of the crowd. . I Will Follow, and Mysterious Ways was cool . . . then onto Crown casino afterwards was a lot of fun. . . stumbled back to bed around 3am. . . . Sunday down to St Kildas to go to the famous Espys (?) for lunch that was great, and about 5 hours later (DOH!) rocked up to the second show!! I must say we arrived at both shows around 7pm, and I was amazed how close we got to the front both times. . . . anyway . . . Sunday highlights - should I list the whole set list? Nah, Best bit was Edge at the end saying "Thank You Sydney" and the whoe crowd goes silent. . ."I Mean thank you Sydney, Brisbane and MOST OF all Melbourne" shit what did Adelaide do not to get a mention! The Band played Bad/"40", First Time, and the most kick arse version of "Party Girl" . . . Bono's Brother and family were apparently at the show. . . as were 65000 other people I guess . . anyway. .. we went to China Town afterwards.. . . more amber liquor was consumed. . . alas. . . I flew back home in the morning What else do you want to know? Sorry for the crap spelling . . . .

OK. . . Thanks

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Patience my young ones. . . I took 300 photos! trying to cut out the crap, and crop the rest. . . then I'll have 20 odd quality ones. . . some coming VERY soon. . . . I hate body clocks! Oh and I was reminded they also Played First Time on Sunday. . . Another reason that was the best gig.

How do all. . . Another quick one, photos soon, reports soon. . . suffice to say. . Sunday was better that Saturday. . . . . three words . . . . Party Girl Bad

how do all. . . Sunday morning, and hangover is clearing . . . not home yet so no pics, just thought I'd drop a quick note to say "OH HELL YEAH!" What a show! . . got great pics, great set list, lot of jumping up and down, and shouting ill I cant speak!

Wots the weather like today Caz? I am on the plane in less than 12 hours!

We have yet to here from Caz. . she must have had a VERY good time! and she doesn't want to share it with us! ah well . . We'll keep spreading the U2 love around.............

Hey enjoy Pearl Jam tonight you lucky thing. . . . . WE WANNA SEE PHOTOS!. . . So. . . as a gesture of good faith, here a few more of mine. .. . . . Especially for the Aussies, I included the one with the guy playing the Didjeridoo . . . or how ever you spell it.... and appologies for the pics being so big. . . BTW . . . you can call me Andrew

Hey all, back from Outtaspace. . . . . . will upload some pics tommorrow. . need sleep. . . .. . crap seats . . so not the best pics. . . . but I have GA for the next 4 shows, so I live in hope....... it was a great gig by the way . . .

Bootleg of the show is up here: http://www.u2mp3s.com/forum/showthread.php?p=40940#post40940 It's where I'll be in 24 hours!!!!! Well Sydney at the show Saturday I mean. . . pointless going to Brisbane now I guess.

Kill her, and then thoughtfully dispose of her body. Non believers shall be punished.

Good luck to you lucky lucky coldplayers in Brisbane . . POST PICTURES!

Lost in translation?? By the way Happy Birthday Mr Mullen jnr.

A little activity underway in Brisbane today: Photos courtesy of Damien Taylor from the U2Australia mailing list.

Oh holy cow YES! . . . everytime you here the strains of the keyboard intro to ..Streets.... and the red back drop starts to come up, like in Rattle and Hum. . . . just takes me back to '89 when they opened with it here in Auckland. . . .it is such an uplifting song. . . . . goosebumps all right . . . . everytime without fail! . . . . Oh and less than three weeks to go!!! woo ha! (now where is my "Ban Kanye West" petition gone?)

Hey you can fly to NZ too. . . . Well today I got U2 by U2 . . . what did it cost in other countries? $69.95 here . . I also saw the ZooTV Sydney special edition DVD for $54.00 . . I left it. right where I saw it!. . . . anyway. . skipped thru the book looking at the pics, looking forward to reading about the early days . . .

Yeah we do the same for Sydney, from another country! . . . Melbourne will be good, I haven't been there for like 12 years, so looking forward to that . . last time I was in Sydney was for the '98 U2 concert!

That is cool Miss D. . . maybe I might do the sound check thing too, but then you risk losing the best seats up front, or at least a chance of getting close. . . . ..... going to buy the new book tomorrow. . . I think!, having just spent two grand repairing my car and this morning I have forked out for an ipod . . I spent all afternoon trying to set this thing up with my favorite songs, next time I am downloading whole albums onto it and not stuffing around!! with one from here, and one from there. . . (ohh. . . Travis . . cool)

Yeah, I did the hang outside the hotel thing in 1993, and met Bono and Paul Macguinness about 3am! so you have to be patient. At the Sydney 98, Edge bought his little baby out to meet the fans outside the stadium, alas, we were in town appreciating your fine Australian liquor. . . .the amber stuff. . . . .I May do the Stalker thing in Sydney. . but to be honest, at age 35, I need other hobbies, and the missus just doesn't appreciate this sort of enthuiasm! But hey, it's gotta be done once in your life right?

Chris, for you I will take my digital camera and take heaps of pics for you ok?! I mean heaps of U2 pics of course. . . . some of the places myself and the lads are off to after the gig, well I wont be able to post the pics here. . . .

Be kind to us! we have had to wait all year for this man! we deserve it!