My photos were shit. But, Hard Rain!
I managed to snaffle two picks and gave one to Libby.
She was embarrassed to be at the front but I think she realised the benefit at the end. Adam also talked to her in a song break which I thought was nice.
The band were jovial and seemed really happy to be in Australia. I've never checked, but I'm pretty sure they have a more than amicable relationship with Australia for some reason. Adam danced down into the crowd in the "Give love, give love, give love" section of Tonight I Have To Leave It and was always smiling, perhaps at how happy we all were to be there. There's something to be said for small acts in small venues. Everybody that is there REALLY wants to be there, and they all get a chance to be so close to the act. It's like a two way thing, too, because the band see that, and it's personal.
Adam seems a much more masculine guy than I'd imagined. I mean that in that he is physically and emotionally powerful. I just thought he'd be a guy who wrote music to express the things he couldn't say out loud and was really a quiet, sensitive guy who wrote pop music (if that seems a bridge too far to extrapolate that from music, you'll have to excuse me). It doesn't seem that way in person though, he's very forceful in his emotions and was throwing stuff around. Maybe that's just the way he is when he's on stage. I don't know. Maybe it's just the fact he has a beard now.
Furthermore, there were genuine Swedes in the crowd, who yelled out things in their tongue to the band, another German guy who had only arrived in Australia that day and was jetlagged badly but had put in the effort to come see them, a guy giving Adam requests for Blue Headlights on a scrap piece of paper, and another guy during Impossible holding up a sign saying "THIS IS THE PUBLIC LIBRARY" - add this all to the really intimate Annandale and the fact their songs are so very much about relationships and youth, and time passing, I thought it was perhaps the most touching show I've been to. It'll make me smile in times to come, just like their music has done for years now. Oh, and Hard Rain is the greatest pop song of all time.
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