World of Weird Al Yankovic

Thanks for the review. Nice pics too, you had good seats. Sorry the picture with Al didn't come out, but at least you've got your memories (and hopefully your brand new Instamatic too).



New merchandise? I'll be in the drooling over merchandise topic if anyone needs me.



Dave

thanx for this in its own thread Elvis, i figured after i had posted it that i should have done that...



sorry



Aaron

You could have posted it in the Favorite Head? topic for all I cared. I was just happy to finally see a review from Down Under.



Dave

The crowd was probably thinking, "Well, he FINALLY made it, so we're just gonna sit back and enjoy!"

I hear that Al customized Complicated Song for australia in one of the recent concerts -- it's little touches like that that make it so fun!



-Shelley

Thanks for your review. Aaron! Sounds like you had a great time! You did get some nice concert pics. Sorry the one with Al didn't turn out. He's pretty cool, isn't he? I'm glad you posted a review. Great job!



Patti

Hang on hang on, i had a look through and how many here went to the adelaide concert and where were you sitting??

One of the best gigs he's been to since 2000.

Of course, if anyone had bombed that building then it would have taken the entire city months to train up new IT staff.

Hey, Spinal Tap made the list!

Hmm, was about to make mention - about 7 years too late - of having been to this gig, and then realised that someone's already linked to where I mentioned it on my blog!

Well, anyway, for completeness here's what I remember:

- there was a warmup comedian, a local bloke named Lehmo. I'm not entirely sure why they went with that format, as it doesn't seem to be the way Al usually does things. Lehmo was acceptable, nothing remarkable, but not too bad and acutely aware of the fact the crowd were all there for Al.
- for some reason the venue was reserved seating rather than general admission, so the fact it was all seated probably didn't help with crowd energy levels. My friends and I were in the third row and we were going crazy the whole time - couldn't tell you what was happening behind me.
- some of the people in the front 2 rows seemed slightly unmoved by the whole thing. At the time I remember wondering whether they'd been given freebie VIP tickets through work or something, or whether they'd just read "comedy" and it wasn't their cup of tea. Given the number of long-term Al die hard fanatics I ran into there, it seems odd to think that casual punters would have beaten them to it.
- the song that - 7 years on - stands out in the memory was "Your Horoscope For Today", which had us all creased up despite the fact we all knew it backwards. When it got to the "KILL THEM" bit, and the stage blacked out other than the red light on Al's face I genuinely thought my friend Doug was going to laugh himself into hospital.
- after the gig I was standing out the front talking with some friends, and then someone came running around from the back shouting "AL'S SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS!!!!". At this point, a single-file queue formed around the outside of the venue. I didn't get involved, but as I stood there chatting with friends I noticed that Al stayed in there signing and greeting until every single person in that line who wanted to meet him had been through. What a top bloke.

Carry on, etc.

Jason