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Saw the band's final Great Circle Tour show on Friday night. I knew they were good live but I was blown away by how tight they were and the presence they had on stage (particularly Peter who is ageless it seems). Jim was still seated with his injury - very amusing when they went off for the encore and he just sat there in the dark while we all chanted his name
A fantastic vibe in the crowd (was nice to be one of the younger fans in the audience for a change!) with many sing-a-longs. The setlist was as good as I could have hoped for as a casual fan, only song I didn't hear that I would have like to was Dreamworld.
Setlist:
Redneck Wonderland Read About It Lucky Country Warakurna Hercules Truganini Put Down That Weapon Stand in Line Short Memory When the Generals Talk Who Can Stand in the Way (with Charlie McMahon on didgeridoo) Treaty (Yothu Yindi cover) (with Yirrmal) US Forces Kosciusko Only the Strong The Dead Heart (with Charlie McMahon on didgeridoo) Beds Are Burning Don't Wanna Be the One Blue Sky Mine King of the Mountain
Encore: Wedding Cake Island Power and the Passion Forgotten Years
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Posted: Mon November 20, 2017 1:30 am
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Nice set! Glad you enjoyed.
These guys really bought it on this tour. Like 'sleep said back in one of the first posts in this thread, "The Oils are back and don't we need them now".
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Posted: Mon November 20, 2017 3:30 am
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I could do with perhaps a bit more Earth and Sun and Moon, which to my admittedly singular thinking is a stunning ecopop record. But I'm physically jealous nonetheless.
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Posted: Thu November 23, 2017 11:04 am
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Never get much press over here in the UK, and are sadly considered One Hit Wonders for Beds Are Burning. Criminal that their catalogue is so underappreciated.
Saw them in '93 on the Earth & Sun & Moon tour in Birmingham and was blown away - Rob Hirst still one of the great drummers.
Wish I'd seen them in 1990 when Hunters & Collectors supported them.
Didn't make either London show this time around due to post Vedder empty wallet syndrome. Gutted to miss out.
Hopefully there'll be a live album/dvd released.
On a side note - has anyone found a *cough* friendly download source for the Full Tank remastered albums anywhere?
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Posted: Thu February 22, 2018 6:07 pm
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I downloaded my Perth show off of Dime today.
I really appreciate that people go to the effort and trouble to tape, but seriously I'm not sure that you should bother uploading your iphone recording from you pocket.
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Posted: Thu February 22, 2018 8:39 pm
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Higgs wrote:
I downloaded my Perth show off of Dime today.
I really appreciate that people go to the effort and trouble to tape, but seriously I'm not sure that you should bother uploading your iphone recording from you pocket.
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Posted: Thu March 01, 2018 3:13 pm
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LetMeSleep wrote:
Higgs wrote:
I downloaded my Perth show off of Dime today.
I really appreciate that people go to the effort and trouble to tape, but seriously I'm not sure that you should bother uploading your iphone recording from you pocket.
Any sign of the Hunter Hope Estate show?
Not on Dime.
I should qualify my comment above too. The taper is a bloke named scmods who posts heaps of Oils stuff at Dime and, quite frankly, is a deadset legend. Pretty sure he's a Perth boy too. So if he wants to post his pocket phone recordings he bloody well can as far as I am concerned.
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Posted: Tue April 03, 2018 11:24 am
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Obviously something that should've been included with the (fairly) recent boxsets but still....
March 28, 2018
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