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Remember when you first felt old? I do. It was Thursday night, watching pop star Rihanna playing at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre.
What’s old? ‘Old’ is being astonished that people pay up to $150 a ticket to stand up all night. ‘Old’ is when the doof-doof of insanely loud music plays havoc with the chicken schnitzel that can’t seem to settle in your stomach. ‘Old’ is wishing that you could go back in time ... exactly three nights earlier when the same stage was commanded by 70-year-old singer Neil Diamond.
It would be unfair for a reasonably conservative woman of 41 (a simple country lass, no less, whose teenage pin-up was Cliff Richard) to compare and contrast Neil Diamond and Rihanna. But I’m going to do it anyway.
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The other week I went and saw Deep Sea Arcade at the Oxford Arts Factory in Sydney. The support band WIM blew everyone away.
Deep Sea Arcade really impressed me too. They were great. Well, until they did an encore.
You see, it was the launch of their single. On a Wednesday. And it cost $5.
Continue reading "Encores shouldn’t be written into set lists" »
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Pete says:
The dictionary states an Encore as; 1. Give or call for a repeated or additional performance of (an item) at the end of a concert. 2. Called out by an audience at the end of a concert to request such a performance. 3. A repeated or additional performance of an… Read more »
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notSue says:
Total agreement here too. Saw Newton Faulkner at the Palais last year and he said ” This is where I pretend this is my last song and go offstage, you clap and cheer and then I come back on again. However, since I don’t like all that nonsesnse, let’s just… Read more »
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