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Pearl Jam Concert Setlist Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand 2009 | setlist.fm
- Daughter
- Severed Hand
- Corduroy
- Hail Hail
- Faithfull
- Hold On
- Even Flow
- Johnny Guitar
- Unthought Known
- Unemployable
- Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
- Black
- Given To Fly
- Amongst The Waves
- Got Some
- Grievance
- Wasted Reprise
- Better Man
- Encore:
- Just Breathe
- Red Mosquito (with Ben Harper)
- Love, Reign O'er Me (The Who cover)
- Do The Evolution
- Why Go
- Porch
- Encore 2:
- Not Given Lightly (Chris Knox cover) (with Neil & Liam Finn)
- The Fixer
- Rockin' in the Free World (Neil Young cover)
- Yellow Ledbetter
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so this was last nights setlist. i was stoked, they played my three fav PJ songs - black, why go and given to fly
but most importantly
THEY PLAYED BLACK!!! i almost cried. 11 years ago when i saw them play here last, they didnt play black and i did cry. BLACK is my most favourite song of all songs of all time. im very happy. unfortunately this clip is not from last night, but its still great!
Gig review: Pearl Jam in Auckland | Stuff.co.nz
It's taken them 11 years to perform in New Zealand again, but Pearl Jam's Auckland show felt like a homecoming celebration. Chris Schulz was there.
Pearl Jam
Where: Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland
When: Friday, November 27Long hair, flannel shirts, extreme guitar solos, a Neil Young cover, an appearance by at least two members of the Finn family and Eddie Vedder sculling wine straight from the bottle.
It might be 11 years since Pearl Jam last played in New Zealand and 18 years since their debut album Ten was released in grunge's heyday, but things haven't changed that much for Vedder and the boys.
Their shows still sell out, the angsty front man likes to bring his friends on stage, and Pearl Jam's hugely enthusiastic fans still know every single word of spine-tingling ballad Betterman and can sing it without assistance.
And, continuing the mayhem that marked both the band's shows in 1995 and 1998 at the Mt Smart Supertop, the moshpit at the front of Pearl Jam's shows still looks like one of the world's most dangerous places.
An obviously concerned Vedder was forced to issue the first of the night's many warnings at the band's sold out show at Mt Smart Stadium in Auckland after just the first two songs, pleading with the crowd to take "three steps back" and singling out a particular rowdy group of guys holding up proceedings.
"I've got my eye on you," he warned, waving his finger at them. "You keep your promise to behave and we'll pay you back - don't worry about that."
A wine-sculling Vedder kept his word as the band worked its way through a greatest hits set list that ran for more than two hours and included covers, B-sides, guest appearances and tracks from each of their nine albums.
They opened with Daughter, a song that soon had the stadium's 45,000 fans up on their feet rocking, swaying and singing in unison, before finding their stride with a stunning Faithful as Vedder punched the air for added effect.
Showing no signs of the cold that cut the band's show short in Sydney earlier in the week, Vedder was in fine form, whether he was stealing the spotlight for solo versions of Just Breathe, Life Wasted and Betterman, cooing seductively through a stunning Black, or tailoring Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town to make light of the band's 11 year absence.
"It won't be 11 years till the next time we come," he promised to cheers. "Maybe we'll come stay for 11 years."
The 44 year-old may have lightened up a little these days, but he still has the steely-eyed intensity that made him a hero to millions of teens in the early 90s. His trademarks - gripping the microphone with both hands, shaking his head when he's in the middle of a gravelly howl and pulling sweat-drenched hair out of his eyes - should be studied by all young rock stars.
Vedder was happy to take a back seat too, letting guitarist Mike McCready lead the way with a Guinness World Record-threatening guitar solo during Even Flow, inviting opening act Ben Harper on stage to play slide guitar on a squealy Red Mosquito, and singing back up vocals for Neil and Liam Finn as the father-and-son Kiwi duo dedicated a stirring rendition of Not Given Lightly to the song's creator Chris Knox.
Pearl Jam were at their best when they were giving that moshpit a reason to bounce, from an epic Corduroy and Matt Cameron drumming showcase Given To Fly, to fast-paced early tracks Porch and Why Go from Ten. And songs from this year's acclaimed comeback album Backspacer - Among The Waves, Johnny Guitar and current single The Fixer - stood up surprisingly well against their older material.It was a shame their second encore was cut short with brief versions of Neil Young's Rockin' In The Free World and Yellow Ledbetter played as the stadium's floodlights came on. Are there noise restrictions in South Auckland?
But despite that, and the 11 year wait, tonight's show - from Vedder's obvious affection for the country, to Hawaiian keyboardist Boom Gaspar's All Black top - felt somewhat like a homecoming celebration.
Yep, just like your favourite flannel shirt, Pearl Jam still seem to fit just right.
* Pearl Jam perform in Christchurch at AMI Stadium on Sunday night.
via stuff.co.nz
Arctic Monkeys in Paris - whoop!
So here's my thing with the Arctic Monkeys.
I was slightly late to get in to them, hearing I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor first but not getting the album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not until the summer of 2006.
Coincidently, that's also the year I got married and then set off on a two week driving trip through Europe to Italy. That was a lot of driving hours, which added up to a lot of listening hours, and I would say probably about 75% of those hours were spent with the Arctic Monkeys. I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor became the song of the holiday and they shot straight to the top of the Bands We Want To See One Day list.
Somehow, though, we never got tickets for any of their tours and three years later they're now so big they're filling multiple nights at Wembley Arena. I never really imagined it would be that way, us and a million other people. So I kind of presumed it wasn't ever going to happen.
Then, celebrating out wedding anniversary in Paris this year, we spotted a poster on the Paris Metro. Arctic Monkeys at le Zenith in November. We joked - we should come back for it, that would be awesome. Then we got home and thought, hang on, we really should come back for it, it really would be awesome. So we bought cheap Eurostar tickets at £59 return, booked a couple of nights in the hotel we like but doesn't cost much more than £100 / night (even with the killer exchange rate) and book our tickets online at the Fnac. It was so crazily easy. Why hadn't we done this before? Ah, yes, the money. It is more expensive than a return to Wembley Arena, but if it's a band you love and you get to spend a couple of days in Paris too... Well. Worth it?
Totally. Le Zenith is a medium sized concert venue, not tiny and intimate but no where close to an arena and with killer acoustics. It's really easy to get to from central Paris and clears out at the end smoothly too. The venue is part seated, part standing, but, at this event at least, seating was non-reserved so we got there a bit early and took two seats in the middle on row two, so it was like standing but with a better view. I know. Seated is a cop out. But we're old and we'd been walking around Paris ALL DAY. OK?
The support act was a heavy metal band called Eagles of Death Metal. Unlike many in the audience who went completely crazy for them, I'd never heard of them. They were a fun support act though. Their over the top performance did feel like a parody of a heavy metal band, but they were so enthusiastic they went down really well with the crowd (a real mix of teenage girls, 20 - 30 something men and couples, in case you were wondering). Demonic fingers were flying all over the show. I was starting to hope we were in the right place.
45 minutes later, the lights dimmed again and this time the familiar strums of the Monkeys started to play. The crowd were up on their feet. A girl in front of me put in a pair of ear plugs. A mum accompanying her teenage sons took out her binoculars. And the Arctic Monkeys were there. On stage. In front of me!
They rocked through a 90 minute set, a mix of all three albums. The highlight of the night had to be IBYLGOTD but Still Take You Home, When The Sun Goes Down and Dancing Shoes all went down stormingly. The French crowd helped, singing along with pretty much every mumbled word. Although the biggest cheers of the night were saved for the first album, the encore of Fluorescent Adolescent and 505 was particularly strong and perhaps unexpected from an album that didn't sound like it had many anthems in it. And then there was Humbug. Probably the hardest album from the Arctic Monkeys to date, and that's the one they were promoting. Well. Yeah. But it turns out it's just meant to be heard live. I'd prepared for the concert as much as I could, listening to the album a lot to train my ear for favourites, picking out Cornerstone as my must hear for the night. And then they played pretty much every song and it turns out they're all awesome, but a flimsy MP3 file and my dodgy free-with-my-iPhone headphones just can't pick it up. Songs like Crying Lightening, My Propeller and Pretty Visitors are brilliantly rich and deep. And Cornerstone was beautiful, yes. The smoking French crowd pulled out their lighters - remember when we used to do that? It's not just about killer lyrics any more. Live these songs are incredible. And they really showed us that on Friday night.
The only regret? Where was Mardy Bum? Too obscure for a Parisian audience? We made up for it by singing it all the way back to out hotel. Rowdy Brits.
So now Arctic Monkeys are off the list, what's next? Eels please. Then I'll die a very happy bunny.
Becks x
Ahead by a Century!
Not sure about the sound quality bu this is a fucking amazing song!
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Rhythm in the Barrios Project :: Concert With Carlos Mejia Godoy | November 8 | Granada Nicaragua
Rhythms concert on Sunday, November 8, in Parque Central in front of Casa de los Tres Mundos. The enthusiastic young students will perform with Nicaragua's premier songwriter and vocalist,
Read on for the latest about Building New Hope's innovative Rhythm in the Barrios project! http://www.rhythminthebarriosnicaragua.blogspot.com/
Concerts 2.0
It's been years since I last attended a proper concert, and back then, even bringing a cell phone to the arena was not allowed. And a camera? Forget about it!
This Sunday, I saw MUSE in concert. Great show from a great band, but what struck me was how technology has changed the experience. A few
points:
- The arena, Oslo Spektrum, had an open wireless network, "muse", available for everyone.
- A few people, granted, not many, tweeted before, during and after the show, and posted pictures to their Facebook profiles, thus instantly spreading the word.
This photo was taken at the beginning of the show. How many cameras and iPhones do you see?
