I have a sore back today because I spent most of the concert last night leaning way forward to lean on the balustrading.
Nick Cave was awesome. He's much skinnier and older than I had imagined him (images based purely on the video for "Where the Wild Roses Grow" which is what? 10 years out of date?). He was very active and rock-star-ish, his band were likewise enthusiastic. I saw the guy on keyboards headbutt his microphone no less than three times in his passioned state of playing. The drummer sent a microphone stand flying during a solo and Nick himself should no be allowed to have a mic stand at all. He kept knocking his over and getting the mic cord tangled in it and everything. If he has to have one then I suggest a Weeble type one that comes back up when it's knocked down.
He played all my favourite songs except for Wild Roses which I can forgive due to the absence of Kylie and Into My Arms. My favourite stand-out moments were the end of the God is in the House song, which is unexpectedly hilarious, Red Right Hand which had everyone moving, The Ship Song in the second encore and the song where we all went "Hey! Ho!" and he sang about Supernatural....I don't know the song title.
I was really pleased that he sang the Weeping Song but he got the words wrong in the first verse, which is OK since it's his song and everything, but meant I didn't enjoy it quite as much. Obviously that kind of trip-up is going to happen at a concert, but it was quite jarring to me since I know the song so well and love it.
I was able to resist buying a concert tshirt and I don't regret it much at all. $40 saved!
The crowd at the concert was older than I'd expected it to be. All middle aged people and me and Evie in the Town Hall upstairs circle. Lots of Gothy young people came in later and I felt just as out of place as I'd expected to. It was fun critiqueing people's fashion choices. Evie and I may pitch a new TV series "Blokey Girl Eye for the Fashion Challenged" Ok, so it doesn't have the same ring to it as Queer Eye, but it's true to what we'd do. We just need another blokey girl to do the home decorating side of things and we've got a team I think.
We got the caterer we wanted for the wedding!
Very happy. We're meeting with them at the Castle in June sometime. Huzzah!
One more thing to tick off the list.