8th July – Sydney, Australia (2nd show)

[bomber2007]

8th JULY – SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (2ND SHOW)

Almost Ready
Budge
Been there all the Time
Back to your Heart
Little Furry Things
This is All I Came to Do
Out There
Feel the Pain
Pick Me Up
In a Jar
Freak Scene
Mountain Man
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The Wagon
Just Like Heaven

(from another forum)

Way better crowd. Few hundred people less by the end but no dickheads and barely anyone was talking during Lou’s set.
Regular John were pretty rad.
More interaction with the crowd and Lou than last night.
Set list was changed up a bit so that was good. Mountain Man, In A Jar, The Wagon and Just Like Heaven were all in there. Each set was pretty even but I think they played better tonight.

[malkmus]

Yep, great show. Massive solo in Pick Me Up was perfection.

[bomber2007]

(from another forum)

Then Regular John start, they were awesome and loud and fun. And really tight jeans and big sideys.
Then Lou Barlow starts. Fucking great great man. Very down to earth and he has a beautiful voice.
Songs I remember him playing: Skull, Home, The Kitty Song and quite a few others, he played for 45 minutes and pretty much every song was a request from the audience.
So we only need to waite for 20 minutes and then there Dino Jr come out!
The earplugs were needed and I’m glad I was packing heat.
J Mascis kicked out many great solos and all. Though J pretty much kept quiet the whole set and didn’t say a word. Lou was the speaker, and he did it well.
The setlist was pretty great, All added up the set went for about an hour and 10 minutes. Could have been longer, but great show none the less and glad I have seen the might Dino.

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Another fan wrote :
…it was mind-blowingly-fucking brilliant.
Earplugs definitely weren’t needed, though.

[bomber2007]

setlist updated in first post.

[malkmus]

"bomber2007 " wrote:

Songs I remember him playing: Skull, Home, The Kitty Song and quite a few others, he played for 45 minutes and pretty much every song was a request from the audience.

That was way awesome, yelled out On Fire, and he played it
Loved it. Two kick ass acts for the price of one.

[bomber2007]

(from another forum)

The first band, Regular John, was already thrashing about on stage. These guys were pretty rad, playing a very loud set of thrashy punk tunes. The most eye-catching element of their set was their outfits. Long sideburns with equally long on unkempt hair, topped off by tattered flannelette shirts, it was like being taken back to 1989, which was quite fitting considering the headlining band.

The next act was a complete change in tempo with Lou Barlow playing a solo set of acoustic musings. I’m not familiar with his work, but by the end of it I was well and truly smitten. What one man could do with only the help of an acoustic guitar was beautiful.

Then came the amps, a literal wall of Marshalls backed the band as they walked on stage. With a simple 1,2,3 by Murph the band kicked straight into the title track off Beyond, Almost Ready. All the new songs were killer, especially the 6 minute plus Pick Me Up, that ended with J shredding out one of the most breathtaking solo’s I have ever seen. The audience stood awestruck as he attacked his Jazzmaster, eyes closed, swaying back and forward as if in a rock ‘n roll trance.

The classics garnered the biggest reaction by the fans, with hits such as Little Furry Things, Freak Scene and Feel the Pain making even the most conservative punter nod their heads in recognition. After an hour on the Metro they left the stage, only to come back for a triumphant encore including the smash hit "The Wagon", and ending the show with there cover of the Cure’s Just like Heaven.

And then it was all over, leaving me buzzing as I walked out into the cold Sydney night.

In a time where prices are rising exponentially, it was great to see a night of true rock ‘n roll value. $45, 3 great acts and a first-rate time had by all.

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