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December
7th, 2004 Setlist & Reviews
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| Concert Setlist |
1)  All Over You
2) They Stood Up For Love
3) Selling The Drama
4) Run Away
5) Shit Towne
6) We Deal In Dreams
7) The Distance (acoustic)
8) Running To Stand Still [U2]
9) Like I Do
10) Operation Spirit
11) Lakini's Juice
12) The Dolphin's Cry
13) Lightning Crashes
14) I Alone
ENCORE
15) Overcome
16) Dance With You
17) I Walk The Line [Johnny Cash]
18) Heaven
19) Run To The Water
20) White, Discussion |
| Review by Justin
Braine (JB)
of Perth, Australia |
UNBELIEVABLE!!!! They spoiled us last
night! I think it was only because they had to fly to
Holland that they stopped playing! They just played and played! Just when the crowd
thought they were done, Ed would rally the boys together for "just one more".
It seemed that "just one more" happened about 5 times!!! The sound was
great, the crowd was LOUD and the boys looked like they were having a ball! What
more can you ask for? Thank You LIVE! |
| Review by Mazarian of Perth, Australia |
| Ok just got back and I'm still pumped!
Iota and the LM were ok - took a while for the audience to respond but had a couple
of good last songs. But the next wait didn't seem like much at all. Had minor probs
to start with then all went well. Highlights were Overcome with ed by himself - good
singalong. Lakini's juice rocked!!! Bloody intense show - i was up at the front just
a few back - and found my own groove dancing along. Definitely a good aussie show
finisher! |
| Review by Elroy
of Australia |
Yep, twas a great show indeed. I've
been waiting to see White, Discussion played live for 7 long years, and finally got
to see it!!! I went off as soon as it started up.
Highlights of the show for me were The Distance (Love the bongo work Chad G!!!),
Lakini's, Dance With You, We Deal in Dreams, I Walk the Line, and WD of course!!!!!!
I was also really happy that Ed's voice was good, in fact it sounded fantastic!!!
I was worried after reading the Adelaide reviews, but he sang really well.
Maz, I reckon I would've seen you during the night. I was standing behind a group
of people, then someone in there tried to hold a banner up towards the end of the
show, I guess it was you!!! |
| Review by Delany
of Australia |
It was a fantastic show and being up
nice and close to see the stubble on Ed's chest/belly/nearly pubic region was great..
he was having sex with me all night i tells ya..
Pissed that I just missed out on a drumstick cos the guy in front of me caught 2
of them(!!!). But every song rocked! Was surprised that the crowd went off for the
early ones and Ed was putting on a great performance. It took a little while for
his voice to warm up and when he played Distance it was still a little shakey. But
after that he just rocked the house and hit those high notes like they were his last.
I reckon we would have got another encore if that dickhead of a guy didn't run onstage
but mneah, twas an excellent show! |
| Review by Dajan of Perth, Australia |
Metro City is a popular R&B nightclub
in Perth which I attend almost every week against my own will (all my friends are
R&B fans). I couldn't even convince one of them to come see LIVE with me last
night, even though I offered to pay for their ticket!!! Apparently rock is too old
school...but that's a debate for another day.
For once I felt like I was with my own last night, finally listening to my kind of
music. And what a show! It started a little slow, but with some coaxing from Ed it
picked up, then, when Ed took off his shirt and ripped through Like I Do (my personal
favourite BTW) it was non stop from there. Lakini's Juice ROCKED, Heaven had a great
crowd reaction, and even Operation Spirit seemed to really get everyone pumping.
I didn't expect that. Chad Taylor kept looking up at the crowd on the second and
third floors, whether it was because he's not used to playing in a nightclub where
people are directly above him, or they weren't getting into it enough, I don't know.
I was too busy rockin'.
To the guy who ran onto the stage after the band, I dont know what you were trying
to achieve...thanx for the entertainment tho, one of those bouncers gave u a pretty
good thumping from where I was standing. |
| Review by Purrplegrrl
of Australia |
| I thought this was the best LIVE concert
i have been to, probably because it was a reasonably small venue so therefore rather
intimate. Especially with all the sexy stuff Ed was teasing us girlies with. It got
off to a shaky start.... just some tech probs, nothing serious and went on to be
an explosion of light, colour, energy and the best music anyone could hope to hear.
The energy of these guys always amazes me, I love to watch the expressions on their
faces. The feeling that goes into their music isn't something you hear, it's something
you can feel deep down inside. But then you all know that right? My fiance, Ben and
I had an absolutely fantastic time and so did my purple feather boa as once again
Chad T took it from me to wear during White, Discussion. It kept falling off as he
was rocking sooo hard but he kept it all the way to the end of the song. My Mum told
me to always use my manners so when I asked Ed very nicely if I could have his setlist,
he picked it up and handed it to me at the end of the show before he disappeared
behind the stage. I know lots of other peeps got setlists too, I wonder how many
have realized there's a typo? ooops. I would have loved to have met them again, I
have once before and I feel very blessed to have had such an experience. I know all
you LIVE-ers understand what it is to love these guys, certainly something we have
in common! I'm still on cloud nine. |
| Review by Australia's
Xpress Magazine |
The following review was transcribed
by Daniel (dangum) of Perth, Australia...
Selling the Drama
by Brett Ladhams
Live
Metro City
Tuesday, December 7, 2004
Those that switched on the box an hour or so after Live's final Australian date for
2004 would have caught another entire set from the band direct from Vorst National,
which included brillian versions of The Beauty of Grey and Voodoo Lady - two songs
sadly missing from the Perth show. Good Work Channel 10.
It's been noted in many a context, no least within the liner notes of Live's best
of Awake, that the Pennsylvanian quartet lacks irony. Oh get over yourselves music
critics, if penning catchy as hell alternative rock songs about the spirituality
of everyday life is to lack irony then lack away Live. Sometimes it's nice to feel
the obviousness of music without having to second guess all the time, and while Live
do create music open to interpretation, intended meanings transmit easily. This combined
with the power of this band's performance makes for one captivating live show.
One of the first things you notice about a Live show is the fine line the band wanders
between losing themselves in the moment as artists and business-like performers -
singer Ed Kowalczyk espescially. Beginning the 20-song, double encore set reserved
and borderline standoff-ish with the massive Throwing Copper hit All Over You, Kowalczyk
could have been at rehersal. From the floor things were a lot different. The huge
Metro crowd soaked up the mystery of the frontman and squirmed at every hint on interaction.
The intense expectation held on through Stood Up for Love, Selling the Drama and
an acoustic Run Away, it wasn't until after Shit Towne that the band took a breather
and gave the audience some one-on-one for their money. "So to come from Perth,
what do you guys call yourself?" was Kowalczyk's query. "Perthanians?"
"Perthites?"
An acoustic and bongo version of '99's rocker The Distance led into an almost verbatim
version of U2's Running to Stand Still, which tested, but never threatened the frontman's
upper register. The new (Like I Do) met the old (Operation Spirit) as Kowalczyk lost
his shirt to a shrill scream from most men and women - and what a damn sexy man he
is! Probably the heaviest of Live's material, Lakini's Juice joined The Dolphin's
Cry before two more Throwing Copper monsters; Lightning Crashes and I Alone wound
out the first part of the set, with an encore obvious.
Encore time saw a tempo drop with the moody Overcome and Dance With You join their
now famous and respectful version of Johnny Cash's I Walk the Line. As the farewells
followed Heaven, with drumsticks hurled skyward, many reasonably expected that to
be the shootin' match. But with Chad Taylor's stack of Marshall amps still humming
in the background, more was planned and even if it wasn't, the crowd weren't about
to exit quietly. The band sauntered out once again and Kowalczyk joked about turning
up the PA up a bit louder for a couple more and you know what, they bloody well did!
White, Discussion is not a soft song and as a lesser known but much loved rocker
from Throwing Copper, it absolutely took the roof off with its massive outro. Closer
Run to the Water was a fitting anthem to slam home the message that this band can
bridge the soft-commercial, heavy alternative canyon that wiped out most other bands.
See, it is possible to have your cake and eat it too, as most of this crowd has known
for 13 years. |
| Review by Victoria
Office
of Australia |
| This was my 4th LIVE concert, and most
certainly THE BEST! The intimate nature of the venue, the pumping of my blood keeping
up with the thumping of the speakers, and the sweat dripping from my body leaving
puddles which was threatening to cause a dancing injury could not stop my enthusiasm.
I took a friend along for her "virgin LIVE live" experience and she now
understands where my obsession for Ed and the boys comes from! Ed could have been
singing the alphabet for what I believe most of the women in the crowd would have
cared. We all appreciated the shirtless effort he put in also. It's fantastic to
see a band stay together so long and enjoy what they do, and do so well. In fact
it's rare with the music biz these days to have a band sound better live than on
CD. It was a special treat to go home on a high and watch the special concert on
T.V. too! Come back boys, we miss you already! Snazzy Nazzy. |
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