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13/03/00 - PERTH ENTERTAINMENT
CENTRE, PERTH Review by Darren McHugh
Now firstly
I have to tell you that I wasn't a Bryan Adams fan till last Tuesday, I had bought
my wife tickets as a surprise Christmas Present, as she has been a fan for years.
We took our seats and totally enjoyed the opening act Marie Wilson and
her half hour or so wasn't enough for my liking, but then Bryan and the boys came
on stage and I was a fan. The crowd seemed a little reluctant to sing along at
first but everyone soon found their voices and it was a huge singalong. I not
being a fan was amazed at how many songs I actually new, my wife sang from beginning
to end.
I did find some of the hecklers in the crowd very annoying as
were the people a couple of rows back chatting away during the Ballads but over
all it was a great show. As seems to be the usual Bryan took a girl from the crowd
to sing a duet, she was a legal secretary, who sings at church, but with the way
she was dancing she must have been from" the church of love" as Bryan
pointed out. At first the engineer must have kept her mic level well down but
when her volume came up she did a fair job and I think my wife would have given
anything to have been up there shaking her booty.
All in all I am now
a converted fan! ********** Review
by Lloyd:
I've never been a huge Bryan Adams fan but obviously know most of
his singles. Now though i am fully converted, the
show he did at the Perth entertainment centre on March 13 totally blew me away,
wow can this man 'rock', he is totally awesome on stage. I've seen all the biggest
names in music over the past 23 years and the show last night surpasses the likes
of Mccartney, Bowie, and Kiss.!!!!!!! From the rockier tracks of the opener (Back
To You) through Summer Of ' 69, 18 Till I Die, Live Forever, Only Thing That Looks
Good On Me, When You're Gone, Run To You, etc etc,
his voice was so powerful-never
faultering once.to the ballads 'Have You Really, Everything I Do etc. his voice
like a choir of angels. This may have been the last show in OZ but the proffessionism
of putting on a great show really shone through and Bryan actually enjoyed himself
up there on stage, thus the audience responded with enthusiasm for the 2 1/2 hr
set which could have gone on for double that, all i can say now is that this was
the greatest performance by any artist that i have ever seen upon the stage-and
ive seen them all. My cd collection will be updated considerably now i have seen
him live.....i cant wait for the next time Bryan Adams tours Australia, had he
had another show in Perth on the 14th March i would have seen that as well whatever
the cost. ********** Review
by Linda and Michelle:
Another " Night To Remember". We must have
had the best seats in the house because from where we were we had a perfect view
of the man himself. We had second row, centre seats. The way he played with the
audience was the best. Everyone seemed to have a total ball. We sang every song
he threw our way. He attempted to fool the crowd with a song from the 80's off
his self titled album but of course we were on top of that. When Bryan sang Everything
I Do, I am sure almost every girl in the crowd felt as if he was singing it to
them. That's the way he performs. We loved the way he acknowledged the young girls
with the sunflowers, you could tell by the expression on their faces that he had
made their day. Keith's guitar playing was fantastic. You could see the effort
he put in through the expression on his face. It was unreal! We couldn't see much
of Mickey but he certainly made himself heard. These are the" Awesome Threesome".
This may have been their last performance of the Austrailian tour but it was like
they didn't want it to end and likewise i'm sure of everybody there, it was so
emotional. It will probably be weeks maybe months for us to come down. This was
our third concert but certainly never our last! ! The feeling is sensational!!!
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