Melbourne, Rod Laver Arena 27/2/2004
Intro/Rebel Rebel/New Killer Star/Fashion/Cactus/I've Been Waiting For You/All The Young Dudes/China Girl/The Man Who Sold The World/Pablo Picasso/Sound And Vision/Always Crashing In The Same Car/Breaking Glass/Be My Wife/Let's Dance/Sunday/Heathen (The Rays)/Band Intro/Under Pressure/Life On Mars ?/Looking For Water/Changes/Ashes To Ashes/I'm Afraid Of Americans/"Heroes"/Encores : Never Get Old/Try Some Buy Some/Five Years/Hang On To Yourself/Ziggy Stardust
Audience Recording/Excellent
Bootleg : Adam's Own Twilight Zone
Extrait Vidéo Audience "China Girl" :
Audio Sample "Pablo Picasso"
Voici un compte-rendu de ce show trouvé sur le web sur le site de BowieNet. Je le mets ici en version originale puis essaierai de vous le traduire ensuite (gloups !)...
Thanks to Charly who let her review from the show in Bowienet for all the fans around the world...
"Fifteen Marsupials And A Sheep Dog!
I don't know what David Bowie had been sniffing before he came out on stage tonight, but whatever it was - I want some! To say he was in a chirpy, silly mood would be an understatement. He was hilarious and wouldn't shut up.
Breaking us in gently with the usual Rebel Rebel and New Killer Star, he was resplendent in the usual jeans and t-shirt declaring "Ah, Melbourne Darlings!" He announced "we've redecorated the set list so it's a bit different tonight. That's kept 30 of you happy".
Fashion followed which was good to hear again, seems like ages, no doubt a damn sight longer for the resident Aussies. David stood at the front, shaking his head a little so that his fringe flopped down, "I shall be doing the rest of tonight's show disguised as a sheep dog". Ha ha, excellent. He then called out, "let me hear you say COBBLERS!" I bet the Aussies wondered what the hell he was on about.
Cactus was cool tonight, an extra long intro as Bowie just let it carry on a while before starting to sing. "You know before you change your guitars let's think about doing Waiting For You. You see, I control the set list, they think they do but............"
After the Neil Young cover David said "I can see none of you are too grown up for a sing-a-long. I'm the only grown up here.... this side sing the chorus and this side sing the verse...... oh join in when you like".
All The Young Dudes was the result of this comical episode which always gets the crowd on their feet, if they're not already.
David, seemingly impressed said "that was too good. Well I suppose you'd better sing the next song on your own". Two lines of China Girl were played by the band, absent by Bowie other than him holding the microphone out over the audience. He signalled for the band to stop playing and the crowd kept singing. "Do you know, you're the first audience that knew how to sing that".
He then proceeded to tell us as about their trip to Healesville (the local wildlife park). He was apparently amused by grown ups cuddling wombats and such like (thoughts of me cuddling Koalas in Brisbane the other week sprang to mind). Two cuddly animals made it onto the stage, courtesy of the lovely Julie from Sydney (aka: iwishiwasiman2). David responded "I'm being rained on by Australasian animals". (in Aussie accent) "David Bowie was hit by 15 marsupials and lay unconscious on the stage for the rest of the show. Thankfully he had a very talented audience who would sing the rest of the songs for him."
Bowie announced that he was gonna do 4 songs from Low but said we shouldn't join in as this was supposed to be his moody and lonely period, it pretty much followed with the standard up to the band intro.
He then started telling us about his Zappy back in New York and how the wildlife in Australia had inspired him to think of this thing with a kangaroo suit on. He started going on about how kangaroos hop and Zappy's glide so that wouldn't work, but other kangaroos would get jealous so it would end up in a bloodbath. What???
The band intro lead them into Under Pressure and a couple of more familiar set songs before Bowie engaged in some amusing banter with Gerry. "You know, the other one that they know" which the two went round in circles over before Bowie declared "Oh fuck it, let's give it a go. He was right, we certainly did know Ashes to Ashes, only too well.
The set ended fairly normally but no White Light White Heat tonight. Five encores was a bit more like it.
Never Get Old was a welcome return to the set, been too long since he did that one. My personal favourite on the new album. Try Some Buy Some seems to be a regular one that he enjoys at the moment and the last three Ziggy songs.
What a great evening and way to end my tour of Australia. "
Charly
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