Crowded House

The Crowded House concert was fucking good. I mean fucking good.

I wrapped up my studies around 4.30, and headed off to town to meet the olds and brother/his girlfriend. Organised a quick dinner of take away indian, and then I got to watch as they drunk wine. Yay for me.

Nah wasn’t that bad. Had a glass… then made myself stop. Anyone who knows me knows that that first drink decides it all.

Anyway, we headed off to the concert, arriving around 7.10 or something. Doors opened at 6.30, with support band Pluto on at 7.30. There was a queue. I know, that’s not surprising. But I mean, a queue which seemed to stretch along the length of the quay entirely. Just wasn’t really expecting that, been to a few concerts at the venue and never had that before.

But it was fine, moved along quickly.

We found our seats, which were fucking awesome. Yup. awesome. They’re difficult to explain. They were near the back of the venue, at the front of one of the sides upstairs. Which means, we had only one row of people in front of us and a basically clear view of the band the entire time. The venue’s small enough for it to feel like you’re right up close anyways.

Here I took this photo…

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…which portrays exactly the opposite of what I was trying to say. Camera phones. Don’t they rule? :p

Anyway, we sat down just as Pluto began to play. Yeah, they’re alright. Didn’t really know who they are. Until they said “And here’s one you might know.” Hey… so they did have stuff on the radio. Not overly bad either. But the rest of it was a little repetitive. Live music though, always good.

There was a quick intermission- quick grab a bottle of water before the next band come on - followed by Supergroove.

They live up to their name.

Seriously - they were on form. Never been a real fan, but I’m tempted to go out and buy a CD now. They put on an amazing performance, working the crowd up with an incredibly energetic version of ‘Can’t Get Enough.’ Even my parents were having a good time, though I couldn’t help but laugh when Mum leant over to say “This is my first Rap concert!”.

Still, entertaining as they were, Surpergroove, for me, were just holding back what we’d really come for.

9 o’clock they left the stage. Another intermission. Finally, the lights dimmed again about twenty minutes later. The atmosphere became charged again, filled with clapping, stomping, and cheering. Finally, when the band came out, the entire crowd went crazy, a true welcome back for the band.

They opened with an amazing version of ‘Private Universe’ - minus the island drummers. Heaven :D

Here, proper photo, stolen from Flickr.

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They played a mix of old and new songs, which was to be expected. That didn’t stop one person done the front yelling out “play some old shit!”

They got there with the old shit, resulting in many singalongs, and many extended singalongs, such as for Fall at Your Feet, where Neil sat down at a keyboard and played the second half of the song all over again for everyone to sing a long to.

Good song.

Near the end of the concert, I think in one of the two (yeah, two) encores, a guy and a girl jumped up on stage and hugged Neil. Security was there in a flash… and took the girl away. Even Neil was perplexed. How did he think the girl was the bigger threat? He never came back for the guy… Neil played along for a while but eventually asked for a spotlight - and the guy jumped back off the stage. Weird.

But yeah. The concert kept going. Crowd kept screaming for more, they came back twice to play more. The encores contained the “old shit” the crowd had been waiting for, ending on a massive version of ‘Better Be Home Soon.’

Amazing concert. Totally Amazing.

So yeah, home soon I was. Around 12.30.

Good thing I didn’t have an exam in the morning or anything.

Ah, shit.

November 1, 2007 | Filed Under Music 

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3 Responses to “Crowded House”

  1. Shannon on November 2nd, 2007 1:43 pm
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    Sounds freaking awesome.

  2. WendySkeleton on November 2nd, 2007 11:39 pm
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    Glad you enjoyed it. I remember seeing the Red Hot Chili Peppers. We were on the side but we were so close and there were only a few people in front of us. Plus we were at seats so I could see everything and if I ever got tired I could just sit down! The advantages of having seats… Poor fools on the floor!

  3. Clovenhoof on November 16th, 2007 3:24 pm
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    Nice read, and a fun little blog you have here.
    Oh and that second photo is really nice, I bet whoever took that is really cool ;)

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