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@H. Blackrose
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Setlist with thanks to @H. Blackrose

Don't Drive On Ice
Crash And Burn
Ribbons
I Will Call You
First And Last And Always
But Genevieve
Alice
Giving Ground
Marian
More
Show Me
Doctor Jeep / Detonation Boulevard
Eyes Of Caligula
Something Fast
I Was Wrong
Here
Instrumental 86
There's A Door
Summer
When I'm On Fire
Lucretia, My Reflection
Temple Of Love
This Corrosion

I've been to the previous two Powerstation gigs, I hope this will be no exception

I wonder what attendance will be like considering that you won't have the people coming up from Wellington (or probably the South Island)

Last Powerstation gig was awesome - looking forward to the new songs

Ha ha, holy crap, this is the next gig

Will probably be drinking in Galbraith's across the road beforehand

Support for tonight, Wellington and East Coast AUS:

https://www.facebook.com/ElkoFields/
https://elkofields.bandcamp.com/

They're from Brisbane, so mates of Dylan?

Less than 12 hours for this, right?

Exactly 10 hours and 13 minutes until the support act comes on

H. Blackrose wrote: ↑24 Oct 2022, 22:17 Exactly 10 hours and 13 minutes until the support act comes on

Not that you're counting down or owt I'll be at work in the morning when they're on, have a top nite out mate

Have a great one tonight in the city of sails _ looking forward to Wellington tomorrow night

Hope you have a blast

Hope it's a good one

Hope it was a good one and had good time there!

SETLIST
Don't drive on ice
Crash and burn
Ribbons (the lyrics seemed to get messed up on this)
I will call you
: "Any nostalgists in the house?"
FALAA ( 's mike seemed to give out near the end)
But Genevieve
Alice
Giving ground
: "Shut up! I've got jet lag, you've got no excuse!"
Marian (no German verse)
More ( : "Stop the chitchat!")
: "All right creeps, this one's for you"
Show me
: "Yeah that shouldn't be fun"
Doktor Jeep/Detonation Blvd
Eyes of caligula: : 'Do not forget'
Something fast - false start. : "That is one beat out of whack! Let's try that again"
: "Thank you for your forbearance. Now you're gonna pay for it"
I was wrong
: "You'll like this eventually "
Here
Instrumental
There's a door
Summer
: "This is called..."
When I'm on fire
: "Thank you. I'm going for a cigarette now."
---
: "Dancing time"
Lucretia
Temple of Love
: "thank you for liking our good feels (?). We think they are very very good"
This corrosion

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Honestly believe that was the best I've ever seen them. Von's voice was really strong and up in the mix. The whole band was clearly having a great time - I don't think Von talked to the audience at all when I saw them in 2012. Dylan was climbing onto the monitors / edge of stage to do rock star poses - I yelled at him to stage dive, to no avail. Ben took his shades off for the encore and gave the audience the most disturbing stare/grin. They ended with a ridiculous hanging bow as the lights flashed off Von's shiny bald head.

Elko Fields were great, too. A gender-swapped White Stripes, only better than that sounds.

I hope the lads still have something in the tank for their inaugural Wellington gig! I have now heard "Giving Ground" live and can die happy.

Thanks so much for the update H. Blackrose
Sounds like a great night!

H. Blackrose wrote: ↑25 Oct 2022, 12:00 : "Any nostalgists in the house?"
: "Shut up! I've got jet lag, you've got no excuse!"
More ( : "Stop the chitchat!")
: "All right creeps, this one's for you"
: "Yeah that shouldn't be fun"
Eyes of caligula: : 'Do not forget'
Something fast - false start. : "That is one beat out of whack! Let's try that again"
: "Thank you for your forbearance. Now you're gonna pay for it"
: "You'll like this eventually "
: "This is called..."
: "Thank you. I'm going for a cigarette now."
---
: "Dancing time"
: "thank you for liking our good feels (?). We think they are very very good"

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... I don't think Von talked to the audience at all when I saw them in 2012. ....

This is about ( X4 times ) the average talk do usually in concerts!
Consider yourself lucky and blessed to witness it
Thank you for the nice review and the details about the lines
That's almost like reviewing a video ! Is there any video?

Must have been absolutely amazing. I‘m grinning from just reading your account.
Sounds like the old Von from 38 years ago.
Glad you had so much fun.
Astonishing that you can quote all the one-liners. Have you actually recorded the whole concert?

So to all you other guys and girls from Down Under: Have a blasting couple of nights out there. And let us other folks know what it was like. So we can at least dream.

Thank you H. Blackrose for the lovely review and everything ... ...

Seems it was a gig just as wonderful as we had them here a few months ago ... ...

I don't do videos or photos at concerts because it takes me out of the moment, but plenty of other people were filming, I'll link videos if I see them crop up. It didn't take any more effort to type Von's one-liners into my phone than it did to type the song titles!

Few further observations:
- Interesting that they pretty much did all of Vision Thing except the title track.
- Venue about 3/4 full, about the same as last time, which was better than I expected considering there's a Wellington gig as well this year.
- I might have been the only person in the venue who knew the new songs and could sing along, but the crowd was appreciative and rocking nonetheless. But of course the crowd went absolutely nutzo-gonzo for the encore.

Just found these:

Full encore:


There's a door:

And here's a review with lots of photos

https://www.ambientlightblog.com/the-si ... d-nz-2022/

Show me:

Gothicbiff wrote: ↑26 Oct 2022, 11:54 And here's a review with lots of photos

https://www.ambientlightblog.com/the-si ... d-nz-2022/

Was this review written by a HLer?

Sounds very excellent, thanks for the reviews and links and vids, all grand indeed

A character on the Facebook group seems to have recorded virtually the entire gig, I don't know how to link FB vids tho (and can't be bothered finding out)

Planet Dave wrote: ↑27 Oct 2022, 10:25

Gothicbiff wrote: ↑26 Oct 2022, 11:54 And here's a review with lots of photos

https://www.ambientlightblog.com/the-si ... d-nz-2022/

Was this review written by a HLer?

Sounds very excellent, thanks for the reviews and links and vids, all grand indeed

If they're not a HLer..they should be
And so should his colleague...who has written a similarly appreciative review of Wellington