THIEVERY CORPORATION – AUSTRALIA 2008
Stone’s Tour Diary…
Tour date: Feb.09.2008 – Melbourne - Update 1
We left DC on Tuesday, February 5th. Our original flight was canned so we were bumped to another airline resulting in a missed flight to Melbourne. After a night in the LA airport hotel, and another long day of lines in the airport, we finally boarded the flight to Australia. Fourteen hours of economy class hell later and were on the ground. Its Friday the 8th now and we have skipped Thursday completely; Thursdays are overrated anyway.
Upon arrival we were shuttled to the Good Vibrations site in Melbourne, a 12,000-18,000 capacity venue made of steel and concrete. It has a covered indoor area and awesome open lawn seating (similar to Merriweather Post or Wolf Trap back home)- should make for a great sounding and fun show for all.
After hanging out all night with Cypress Hill and nursing hangovers/jet lag, we set up the gear around 11AM OZ time for a 2:10 performance, only to be whisked away right after the show to fly into Brisbane for tomorrow’s show.
We will post some photos of the Melbourne and Brisbane shows ASAP, until then keep the Good Vibrations going!
Stone
Tour date - Feb.12.2008 - Brisbane - Update 2
Lets start by saying that this is an amazing country; diversity is the ruler here with biodiversity on the board of directors. Australia is a very young culture, having only been settled in 1788 by a band of petty thieves and other undesirables cast away by the British Empire.
They have done very well for themselves. Everyone here greets you with a big smile and and inexorable desire to show you the best corners of everything. The band is happy, the herbs are fluffy, and the food is amazing.
The Brisbane show is where I left off last time, so I'll pick it up there. Brisbane is a meandering city of 1.8 million, a little smaller than Thievery Corporation's home in Washington D.C., (with a muddy river running through it also) This is where the comparisons end. Strangely, no one in Brisbane seems to be over the age of 25.
Needless to say, Thievery made a big splash in Brisbane. With a huge open festival site again, and a standing room only crowd, Zeebo was easily crowd surfed out and back again by the massive audience during Warning Shots. We keep changing the set around to keep things spicy (and to keep the band perpetually confused) but for Sydney we are going to unload the clip!
Stone
