jamisonprawn.net

What a truly amazing night that was. The Cat Empire were just so incredibly full of energy, and they played for an astounding 2 and a half hours! Oh. My. Goodness.

We heard most of the songs we expected to hear, going by the voting happening on the pickRset website. The songs went something like this, in what I think is the right order:

• Fishies
• The Rhythm
• The Crowd (!! - yeah!)
• In My Pocket
• Two Shoes
• Darkness
• How To Explain?
• Hello
• The Chariot (with some L’Hotel de Califorie in the middle)
• The Car Song

They then brought out The Wine Song to finish up the pre-encore section… which was awesome to see live!

We cheered for what seemed like ages before Felix wandered back out on his own. He announced that they’d been filming bits for a video clip for So Many Nights all week so far, and they wanted to get the majority of it done tonight - we all cheered. So he told us what was going to happen: they were all gonna run out in costumes and perform the song live and the camera guy would focus a lot on us. They would then head off, and come back on again and play the song to the CD so they could sync it properly for the video. Quite cool! I think I’ll surely be able to spot myself in the clip… so I’ll be watching with anticipation. My guess is that they’ll be doing more stage filming during the days between shows when they can have camera’s wandering around on stage focusing on the guys. We’ll see when the clip gets released :)

After that was all over, they finished up with Sly, and one of the longest Ollie keyboard solo’s I’ve ever seen. It was tops.

I have very little voice left, and I’m exhausted. You just wanted to yell every song so loudly… it was an amazing night. It felt like the audience took two or three songs before they really got into it which was interesting. I also stood a bit further back, and a lot more centred than Monday night - literally right in front of the sound desk. And oh the difference it made to the sound! It was brilliant.

I’m hanging out for Saturday night now - I will have had a break to get me all psyched again :)

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 18th, 2007 at 1:22 am and is filed under music is the language of us all . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.