nothing lasts forever after all
The Cat Empire’s final Sydney show for this tour didn’t fail to disappoint last night. I guess I hadn’t expected it to be crap, but I definitely went in expecting it to be slightly less than the previous two shows I’d seen - for the simple fact that it was the 8th show in 7 days, and they don’t exactly take it easy on stage.
The setlist was fantastic - it was a combo of Monday (a lot of new songs and only two or three from previous albums) and Wednesday (majority old stuff, and only two songs off the new album) night’s sets. It was fantastic to hear Dumb Things as their first encore song again (we’d heard that on Monday night, but not Wednesday). They ripped through Hello and The Rhythm as well. But when How To Explain? came on, I was a very happy man.
The solos last night were actually probably the best I’d seen all week. They were extra long, but with a lot of meat in them too - not just repetitive stuff that they can do sometimes. Will (drummer) pulled an absolute beauty and went crazy for a solid 6 or 7 minutes or so without stopping. Amazing stuff.
Each of the three shows I’ve been to have been very different, and for that reason, I’m very glad that I sacrificed energy last week to go to three shows! Doing two nights in a row a couple of years ago was pretty special, but this week was definitely a stand out Cat Empire experience for me. It will go down in my memory for quite a while. I was trying to work out how many times I’ve seen them… I think in the end I decided that these three were the 8th, 9th and 10th shows for me. Sweet.
I’m hoping they continue to hang out at the Metro next time they come, and don’t go back to the Enmore :)
