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[Condobloke]

Kyle has a point. He doesnt need to see a 16 year old performing a 40 year olds song.

That 'dates' her.....

Her song choice will make or break her.

She has ability & talent by the shovelful.

 

[wizardfromoz]

Kyle has a point.

Kyle usually does, lol.

Love him or hate him, he is totally immersed in the business, and if you have talent, but don't make it to the finals because of voter fickleness, and don't keep in touch with him, you have rocks in your head, because he can get you jobs that will promote your skills.

 

[wizardfromoz]

My 15th concert remains one of my faves, and that was David Bowie.

I will explain here a couple of references made earlier in this thread, the first was where David G, commented

I'm kind of amazed that you remember all of these. I've been to a ton of concerts and can't remember the order in the slightest. I'm not sure that I remember them all.

... and my response was

I cheated, but remind me when I get to David Bowie, Elton John and Billy Joel, and tell you how it's done, and also what I learned.

When I embarked on this journey of cataloguing the concerts/artists I have seen, I knew I would not likely recall all of them, let alone the dates and venues. I did a little Googling and found a great site for Aussies

https://www.austourdbase.com/

From there, I have been able to cobble together most of my list.

On the bit

, and also what I learned.

it seems I have held a false memory, on Bowie, for over 40 years (blush).

I would have told it it was his "Serious Moonlight Tour" I saw.

It wasn't, it was his "ISolar II" tour, more commonly known as The Low / Heroes World Tour or The Stage Tour.

ISolar II tour was 21st November 1978 at Lang Park, Milton, Brisbane, Queensland.

Serious Moonlight tour was almost exactly 5 years (stuck on my eyes) later, on 16th November 1983.

I then searched for and found the setlist (playlist) for each concert and compared them, and recognised that I had seen only the earlier concert.

I also found a wonderful article from the Queensland State Library Archives, detailing the controversy over the Bowie concerts, under the then (draconian) Qld State Governement of Joe Bjelke-Petersen.

https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/david-bowie-russ-hinze-and-intolerable-brisbane-concert

Anyway, my secret is outed, I don't have an eidetic memory.

Here's a couple of Bowie numbers from the concert I really saw.

Our concert started, in darkness, with

and a couple of my faves, "Five Years" and "Suffragette City"

 

[KGIII]

https://www.austourdbase.com/

That works! I did keep a number of concert tickets but I did not keep all of them. I do have some that are more special than others, things like band passes, back stage passes, VIP passes, and that sort of stuff. Even then, I didn't keep all of those.

I found this, based on your link's name:

https://www.concertarchives.org/

If you don't get what you need from the site you linked, I made a link to some search results:

https://www.concertarchives.org/locations?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=australia

It's a lot to wade through, but the search function works well enough. It does lack search refinement features and I was able to find one concert that was not in the archives. Finding one not in the archives didn't take long. It was the 2nd one I looked up because I know the location, year, and band. The rest of what I looked up was archived. I just found one that was not.

 

[wizardfromoz]

Ta, David, glad you found that.

I still keep performing palm to forehead, thinking all these years that I had seen the Serious Moonlight Tour, when I hadn't.

Glad I found out before I draw my last breath, lol.

 

[KGIII]

Serious Moonlight Tour

Well, now you have (if you want):

It's even in Sydney.

The video can't be embedded.

 

[f33dm3bits]

 

[osprey]

Some of my most memorable concerts:

 

[wizardfromoz]

@osprey , wow, they look like they would have been great to see.

The late, great, Alan Rochester had two (2) threads here, one for jazz and one for classical.

Jazz

Anyone like classical music?

You should post some there.

Chris

Avagudweegend

 

[Condobloke]

I just played and listened to.....;

The intensity and the intelligence/knowledge that Phil Markowitz displays is awe inspiring

 

[wizardfromoz]

Quite extraordinary, I find... the level of experience, and the application of intuitive feeling, is something I do not believe AI can make inroads into.

 

[theLegionWithin]

not sure if these are real records or not - I grew up in the cassette tape/cd era. some are pretty funny

 

[KGIII]

@osprey , wow, they look like they would have been great to see.

The late, great, Alan Rochester had two (2) threads here, one for jazz and one for classical.

Jazz

Anyone like classical music?

You should post some there.

Chris

Avagudweegend

I have a silly idea...

I'm not sure how many of the music threads are stickied but I think one is. (I can go look.)

We could unsticky that thread and make a new sticky to existing threads. Then folks can read that thread to find a link to all the various music threads. That'd be a bit more tidy and yet it'd show people how to access those threads. We can point them there in the future when someone inevitably opens yet another music thread.

We should probably lock that thread, the thread with the links to the other music threads, just to keep things tidy.

That's my silly idea of the day. A thread at the top that says 'List of Music Threads' might even stop a percentage of people from opening a new thread. Unless they're familiar with our nomenclature, finding the existing threads may not be as straightforward as it looks like to you and I.

Hmm... We could also rethink the spiritual/satanic music threads, finding and locking them both. They're not used. Points were made. We can conclude that it just flies too close to the sun and content ourselves by knowing they had a good run at it.

 

[wizardfromoz]

David, I think that is one of the most unsilly ideas I have heard today.

I will take a look and come back to you.

Chris

BTW interesting that your last line refers to Icarus (mythology) and references religious items, but I won't go there.

 

[wizardfromoz]

Last night's Australian Idol has us down to The Top Six, with a just a week to go to the final.

It was a dedicate night, where the artists dedicated their performances to family and friends, a small number of whom (maybe 4 - 6) were allowed to occupy a couch at the edge of the stage (bottom right of screen) while they cheered on their idol and their idol could see them clearly.

The first five numbers were exceptional, but they left the best to last, and that was young Gisella Coletti from WA, who sang a Mariah Carey number.

This young lady is The Real McCoy, The Fully Monty, the complete package, and I do hope that she achieves even one-tenth of what I believe she is capable of.

Of interest was that the Judges Comments following the performance were twice as long as the number itself.

 

[Condobloke]

Dear Lord. She is beautiful. In every way.

That was my daughters fave song as she grew up. She would sing that to me when in the car with me.

Gobsmackingly incredible. She is the complete package.

 

[wizardfromoz]

She is the complete package.

Yeah, it is an overused phrase, but she really is, IMO.

I haven't seen someone as extraordinary on one of these shows since Dami Im won X Factor ... interestingly enough with the same number

 

[Condobloke]

I think Dami was around 24/25 at that time. Brilliant voice...misses a bit of the emotion.

Gisella is around 16.

Just think what she is capable of in the next ten or so years

I hope fervently, she is not spoiled in that time

Edit: spelling

 

[wizardfromoz]

Emotion? lol

 

[Condobloke]

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