[marigold]

Some videos up here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/nzrockgigs

Really enjoyed the whole show, it was amazing to see the whole of Oceania LIVE, and then Space Oddity, and a mixture of hits and some favourites, like Luna - it was amazing to be singing along to it being played LIVE :happy:/>
One of the highlights:



also hoping there is a video of X.Y.U - Billy screaming... :drama:/>

[lpdmax]

How was the crowd?

[blanket_skies]

The crowd was actually quite enthused, I would say more so than the later couple of times they played New Zealand, probably because Billy had much more energy. I would guess this has something to do with the shows being at the beginning of the tour and not the end of it. The Crowd was particularly into it when they played the classics. This was definitely one of the best shows I've been to.

[Julian]

The audience was highly appreciative and the band was in high spirits. I'm really glad to have heard X.Y.U.

[cynamonhill]

Me 4. Nice to catch up Debbie.

I thought I saw you Marc, but it turned out to be another tall dude with long hair at an SP concert (shock!)

[frosty]

hehe.

what about guru girl? i forget the exact username. she must be about 16 now. hopefully she went.

[siamesedreams]

I was there, great show. Luna was a welcome addition after they played it in Melbourne. X.Y.U brought me back to the MCIS tour in 1996 at the supertop in Auckland.........awesome. I was 15 then and I still rate that as my best ever concert experience.

There are 2 vids on youtube now with the XYU performance :)/>

[smashp1979]

That performance of XYU is just incredible. Billy still has the energy and the scream to pull it off! Please keep it in the set for the US tour!

[blanket_skies]

frosty, on 06 August 2012 - 04:45 PM, said:

hehe.

what about guru girl? i forget the exact username. she must be about 16 now. hopefully she went.

She lives in Christchurch, and Auckland is quite a ways away, and because she's only 16 I doubt she went there just for a show, but you never know.

[frosty]

oh i see.

[marigold]

siamesedreams, on 06 August 2012 - 06:15 PM, said:

I was there, great show. Luna was a welcome addition after they played it in Melbourne. X.Y.U brought me back to the MCIS tour in 1996 at the supertop in Auckland.........awesome. I was 15 then and I still rate that as my best ever concert experience.

There are 2 vids on youtube now with the XYU performance :)/>

hell yeah - such a good performance, and similarly took me back to the MCIS tour (I saw in Wellington and was 21 :p/> )


I don't think anyone recorded Glissandra, the crowd were really getting into that, as well as some of the other Oceania songs, which was pretty cool to see.
I heard people commenting during the Oceania songs 'What is this?' and 'Play something we know!' :rolleyes:/>


Does anyone know if someone recorded the full audio of the show?

[Julian]

marigold, on 11 August 2012 - 12:31 PM, said:

hell yeah - such a good performance, and similarly took me back to the MCIS tour (I saw in Wellington and was 21 :p/> )

Luckyyy

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I heard people commenting during the Oceania songs 'What is this?' and 'Play something we know!' :rolleyes:/>

There were a couple of assholes standing right behind my friends and I, it might have been them. At one point near the start one of them shouted out "YOUR MOTHER'S DEAD!".

[blanket_skies]

marigold, on 11 August 2012 - 12:31 PM, said:

I heard people commenting during the Oceania songs 'What is this?' and 'Play something we know!' :rolleyes:/>

Some of this is to be expected, but I was actually quite surprised of how accepting the crowd was to the Oceania songs. Plus Billy sent out press releases in advance warning people what the set list would be like.

[marigold]

Julian, on 11 August 2012 - 01:10 PM, said:

There were a couple of assholes standing right behind my friends and I, it might have been them. At one point near the start one of them shouted out "YOUR MOTHER'S DEAD!".

wow :(/>

blanket_skies, on 11 August 2012 - 04:01 PM, said:

Some of this is to be expected, but I was actually quite surprised of how accepting the crowd was to the Oceania songs. Plus Billy sent out press releases in advance warning people what the set list would be like.

yeah it was just a few ignorant people who have only listened to the songs on the radio, and maybe have Siamese Dream or Mellon Collie in their CD collection. They just go to a show and expect the 'hits'. Oceania hasn't been that well promoted and NONE of the songs have been played on the radio (I asked Radio Hauraki - twice - and they said they'd have to check with their boss, and nothing happened :rolleyes:/> )

[Julian]

Radio Hauraki would never play anything that's not older than 15 years anyway. You'd have a much better chance on bFM, they're pretty open to requests of any kind. Also I heard them play Freak when they toured round this way in 2010

[.absof.]

According to SPUK this show was recorded.

[blanket_skies]

marigold, on 11 August 2012 - 05:12 PM, said:

wow :(/>



yeah it was just a few ignorant people who have only listened to the songs on the radio, and maybe have Siamese Dream or Mellon Collie in their CD collection. They just go to a show and expect the 'hits'. Oceania hasn't been that well promoted and NONE of the songs have been played on the radio (I asked Radio Hauraki - twice - and they said they'd have to check with their boss, and nothing happened :rolleyes:/> )

Actually I was at a bar that was playing the Rock before Oceania came out and it played a song for Oceania, I wasn't familiar with the album then so I don't know which song it was but it was definitely from Oceania.

And I don't really understand these people who complain about pumpkins shows because they want to see the hits, I've heard this since 2000 and I don't get it because THEY DO PLAY THE HITS, they always do at every show including this one. I guess maybe they want them to JUST play the hits and nothing else, have a half long concert with just the hits. Or maybe they only want to hear songs from Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie, none of the "new" stuff, (new: referring to anything as far back as Adore which came out 12 years ago)

[marigold]

audio is here:



Julian - bFM is only Auckland!

I tried listening to The Rock the week before the show, but didn't hear any Oceania songs, ah well.

[milo_milo2008]

Hello hello, The Auckland show was amazing. Had a great time. I got some video footage that I will try upload some time. tc

[marigold]

please do!

[marigold]

For all the New Zealand fans (and anyone else interested) - I wrote a little article/summary of all the concerts SP have played in New Zealand since their first visit in 1994:

http://pastelpaperst...kins-tours.html

[Julian]

Nice article!

There's an excellent sounding recording of this show up on the archive.

http://archive.org/d...-08-04.auckland

[marigold]

Cool! I should add that to the article - and thanks!