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By phroghollow, January 6, 2011 11:09 pm

We went to see Bon Jovi on the 18th of December at the Sydney Football Stadium, we stayed with Gemma and Sam, who kindly volunteered to drive into the city. We had a Beer at the Bavarian Bier Cafe then headed into the grounds and had something to eat. Grabbed a Bon Jovi Program and headed to our seats.

Setlist for the night :

- We were lucky and got a 2nd Encore. All in all, Adele and Gemma enjoyed the show.

Yay Concert

Not bad seats

Next day it was off to Ballina for Christmas with the Family, Yaay. Aight, Bye.

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By phroghollow, November 4, 2010 6:52 am

Tuesday Night(02/11) we went and saw John Farnham in Concert at the AIS Arena, yes i`ve always enjoyed John Farnham as an entertainer since the Whispering Jack album and his concerts(the 2 i`ve been to) have been fun. The night started out with one of the worst support acts i`ve ever heard, Katie Noonan and the Captains, quite awful to my tastes, but they did seem to have some fans in the audience, I couldn`t understand a word she sang/screamed and quite frankly the best part of their act was when they left the stage.

Was a good show, there was even the Bagpipers for “You`re The Voice” :

Setlist for the night :

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By phroghollow, October 27, 2010 4:23 am

Since the “departure” of John Fogerty, Creedence Clearwater Revival is now Creedence Clearwater Revisited. We saw them in Sydney on the 17th of October, we stayed at the Holiday Inn in Haymarket right across the road from the Sydney Entertainment Centre again. Whilst John is missed, the new singer is quite decent actually. Adele and I enjoyed the show.

Set List
Born On The Bayou (from Bayou Country, 1969)
Green River (from Green River, 1969)
Lodi (from Green River, 1969)
Commotion (from Green River, 1969)
Who’ll Stop The Rain (from Cosmo’s Factory, 1970)
Suzie Q (from Creedence Clearwater Revival, 1968)
Hey Tonight (from Pendulum, 1970)
Long As I Can See The Light (from Cosmo’s Factory, 1970)
Down On The Corner (from Willy and the Poor Boys, 1969)
Lookin’ Out My Back Door (from Cosmo’s Factory, 1970)
I Heard It Through The Grapevine (from Cosmo’s Factory, 1970)
The Midnight Special (from Willy and the Poor Boys, 1969)
Bad Moon Rising (from Green River, 1969)
Fortunate Son (from Willy and the Poor Boys, 1969)
Encore 1
Have You Ever Seen The Rain (from Pendulum, 1970)
Travelin’ Band (from Cosmo’s Factory, 1970)
Encore 2
Good Golly Miss Molly (from Bayou Country, 1969)
Up Around The Bend (from Cosmo’s Factory, 1970)

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By phroghollow, October 16, 2010 5:03 am

This post is long overdue. We headed to Sydney on the 21st of June for the Cat Stevens(Yusuf Islam) concert, which was being held at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. We stayed at the Holiday Inn across the road which I can highly recommend if you`re going to a concert the 30 second walk to and from the Venue is just fantastic. Anyway despite a rude lady next to me asking if I was even alive when he was singing (I was but I was less than a year old when he stepped out of the spotlight), we  had a fantastic night, and both Adele and I eagerly await the Musical he is writing being released.

Set List
Lillywhite
The Wind
Midday (Avoid City After Dark)
Where Do The Children Play?
Medley: I Love My Dog/Here Comes By Baby/The First Cut Is The Deepest
Fill My Eyes
Boots and Sand
Miles From Nowhere

Moonshadow Musical Section :
World O’ Darkness
Maybe There’s a World
Matthew And Son
But I Might Die Tonight
(Remember The Days Of The) Old School Yard
In The End
On The Road To Find Out

Roadsinger Play Video
Don’t Be Shy

Band Members Introduced
Just Another Night
Waltzing Matilda
Bad Brakes
Be What You Must / Sitting
Morning Has Broken
Wild World (w/ Zulu verse)
Father and Son

Encore:
Rubylove Play Video
All Kinds of Roses
Moonshadow

Encore 2:
Tuesday’s Dead
Peace Train

The DVD of the concert will be out next year apparently and he recorded it at the Sydney concert we attended, so we`ll be getting that one. We are heading to the Holiday Inn tomorrow night for the Creedence Clearwater Revival concert( minus John Fogerty of course). Alright, Bye.

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By phroghollow, October 15, 2010 11:11 am

Adele and I went to the Powderfinger concert at Universtiy of Canberra the other night(Tuesday 12th October) we rocked up in time to catch the last 45mins of Jet as the support act and then it was on with Powderfinger :

Set List :

Love Your Way

Lost and Running

Burn Your Name

Sunsets

Sail the Wildest

Stretch

Thrilloilogy

Already Gone

The Metre

Like A Dog

Jewel

Nobody Sees

Private Man

My Happiness

Passenger

Encore:

Capoicity

Pick You Up

(Baby I’ve Got You) On My Mind

Encore 2:

These Days

Awesome Show we both enjoyed it immensely, should have taken the SLR but only had the point and shoot, so here is as good as we got :

Bye.

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By phroghollow, March 2, 2010 5:22 am

The Concert i`ve been waiting years for. ACDC February 18, ANZ Stadium. Tickets went on sale at 9am on the 25th of May 2009. After refreshing the webpage for an hour I finally got 2 tickets at $150 a piece :
in General Admission, Arena C :
We rocked into Sydney from Ballina at around 2:30. By the time we picked up our car and got to the Marriot Courtyard Hotel in Parramatta, (this hotel should be in Adele and I`s credits : Adele and Daniel choose to stay at the Marriott Courtyard Parramatta, LOL) it was about 5 o’clock thanks to having to navigate Parramatta Road in peak hour.

Adele had worked out from the net that ACDC weren’t onstage till 8:55pm so we headed over the road to P.J Gallaghers Irish Pub across the road, where we enjoyed a relaxing pizza (Adele discovered that fresh tomato is included on a traditional Margarita pizza). Then we headed back to our room, picked up our trusty little point and shoot camera and headed to the train station, we caught the train to Lidcombe station(I have caught a number of trains here thanks to my grandparents living in Livinstone Road Lidcombe), then switched over for the train to Homebush.

Once we hit Homebush it`s the busiest I have ever seen this place. People everywhere, probably not well demonstrated by this shot but :
So we lined up to get to the Merchandising tent :
An hour later after much discussion about if they would have EFTPOS facilities(they did) we finally got away $80 poorer but richer by one ACDC T-Shirt and an official Program :
I have since ordered the ACDC Tie which I didn`t see but it should be delivered shortly.

Next we searched for an ATM and finally found one, then we found some flashing devil horns for Adele, which everyone was wearing :
The guy selling these things at$20 a pop must have been making a fortune cause they were Everywhere.

We then entered the stadium and watched the end of Wolfmothers set. Overall, Wolfmother didn`t have the sound mixed correctly so came out a bit distorted. But they ended around 8:20pm so we then waited for half an hour for the main show.
Boy did they not disappoint
They came out with Runaway Train from their current album, the middle screen split and a Huge train came through the middle :
Anyway here`s the setlist for the Concert :

Concert finished at around 11pm with a fireworks show. We were back in our hotel room by 11:30 which we thought was extremely impressive.

Unfortunately not too many good shots with the camera, should have read the manual for it before we left for the concert. But we had an AWESOME time. Well I did anyway, even after standing for 3 and half hours . Adele had her horns knocked off by an exuberant concert goer who was apologising profusely and then proceeded to nearly sh*t himself when I turned around and asked what was going on. I have video but I don`t think I should upload them for legal reasons anyway.

So that was our ACDC outing :
Bye.