It is interesting to note when comparing, say, an audience at the Ding Dong Loungue to the audience at Rod Laver Arena, that Melbourne’s infamous so-what-that-doesn’t-impress-me attitude differs not at jot. To their credit no one can fault them for their real music fan attentiveness: they just listen harder.
Soundcheck at Rod Laver:
There were three shows in Melbourne. Youth Group played, as usual, at 8:15pm and then Coldplay played and everyone went crazy, blah, blah, blah, I’m boring myself …. interesting anecdotes …. hmmm …if you want to read tour-diary genius here is the Tucker B’s: http://www.messandnoise.com/articles/244851
it’s very similar to our experience, minus the worst gutter drugs imaginable of course.
Shane Warne was at the first Coldplay show, the Saturday night, with Aaron Hamill the St Kilda footballer. I saw him in catering, making a stage door betty entrance. Unfortunately for that shrinking violet he had his cover sprung in a Chris Martin song intro. It was all covered in the Herald Sun the next day. He watched the encore from the side of stage, right next to where Cameron and Toby were standing, he seemed genuinely embarassed by the Warney-chant that had erupted and was heard muttering “I can’t believe it” to himself. This wasn’t the last we’d hear of Warne.
It was Cameron’s 30th birthday on Tuesday the 4th. We did a pub lunch at the Vine Hotel in Collingwood to celebrate. Stuffed ourselves with parmas we did. Vicki was there and was fielding texts from one Shane Warne. We had to see them. I know what you’re thinking. We were thinking it too. But Warne’s full of surprises. All he wanted was to know was whether Coldplay liked chicken or fish, beer or wine for the BBQ he was throwing for them that day. He actually seemed really sweet in text format.
Tuesday afternoon I went over to Hot House Studios in St.Kilda to visit the Red Sun Band as they were making their second LP with the bass player from Kids In The Kitchen. Everyone else went to JB Hi Fi in Bourke Street to see the Sleepy Jackson do an instore.
Night fell and we all hopped in the Tarago, out to Nunawading to appear on Rove Live. We were expected to mingle in the green room with the other guests: Ronan Keating (top lad), Russell Peters (Canadian comedian who sold out the Enmore Theatre on the back of internet fame) and Gaelan (that week’s Big Brother evictee). Between Russell talking about porn movie sequencing and Gaelen informing me that his in-House girlfriend Crystal “had great big tits” I started thinking that the green room was a bloke’s club. Danny discovered we all had one degree of separation: Gaelen went to school with Jet, Russell lived in Jet’s street in LA.
Rove Live went very well I thought. We played Forever Young.
Youth Group on Rove Live (photo: ROVE LIVE)
