Crowded House @ Melbourne, Australia 2024-12-10

LIMITED TIME / LAST TIME


Crowded House
Rod Laver Arena
Melbourne, Australia
Tuesday 10 December 2024

Support: Vera Ellen

Recorded by eckythump, mastered by kiwichrisha (Chris Hartstonge)

Source: Nokia Lumia 930 (called Lumia Icon in North America) w/built-in HAAC mics > Audio Recorder Pro app > 16bit/44.1 KHz PCM/WAV
Encoding: MAGIX Audio Cleaning Lab > FLAC (Level 8)

Track List:

01 - Introduction
02 - Mean To Me
03 - Teenage Summer
04 - Fall At Your Feet
05 - Oh Hi
06 - When You Come
07 - To The Island
08 - Black and White Boy
09 - Either Side Of The World
10 - Love Is In The Air (snippet)
11 - Hole In The River
12 - Night Song
13 - Message To My Girl
14 - The Other (Elroy Finn song)
15 - Fingers Of Love
16 - Private Universe
17 - All That I Can Ever Own
18 - Four Seasons In One Day
19 - Weather With You
20 - The Howl
21 - Locked Out
22 - Don't Dream It's Over
23 - Distant Sun - encore break
24 - Something So Strong (w/ You Sexy Thing - Groove Is In The Heart)
25 - World Where You Live
26 - Chocolate Cake
27 - I Got You
28 - She Goes On
29 - Better Be Home Soon

Neil Finn - Vocals, guitar
Nick Seymour - Bass, vocals
Liam Finn - Guitar, vocals
Elroy Finn - Drums, vocals
Mitchell Froom - Keyboards
Paul Taylor - percussion

Notes: Somewhat unfairly Melbourne only got 1 show for the Gravity Stairs tour, after Sydney got 4 and even Perth had 3. Were Melbournians suffering from Finn fatigue, having been here 3 times (plus the rain affected A Day On The Green near Geelong) in 2022? Would a Tuesday night gig mean a lack of energy? The answer was a resounding no, with a completely full and enthusiastic audience in the much larger than Sydney and Perth venues Rod Laver Arena (ticket prices at over $200 each probably didn't help either, there's a cost of living crisis Live Nation!!). What we missed out in quantity, we certainly got in quality, with a jam packed show - early on Neil chastised himself for talking too much, then later proceeded to talk loads anyway! Then Neil complained at the end of the 11pm curfew for the venue - hey Neil, you know you could always come on earlier no one is forcing you to come on at 8:50pm!

But I digress. It was an excellent show, the band playing better than ever, and rocking out harder than I've ever seen a Crowded House ensemble rock out before. From a frenetic Black and White Boy, to the thrashiest version of Chocolate Cake I've ever seen them perform (with Neil going absolutely crazy running around on stage like a man possessed). But there were tender moments too, particularly the sublime Hole In The River which until recently was rarely played by this Crowded House version, and the crowd favourite Message To My Girl, and even a dedication for the rarely played She Goes On, introduced as a snippet because of time constraints, but we got the full version anyway, and they still finished right on 11pm! Also there was an excellent new song from Elroy called The Other, a song Neil said the band has adopted as their own. Just an excellent show. 2024 Crowded House is a very different beast to the old days, but with the quality of the show tonight, may they continue to jam  on for a long time yet.

Recording notes: This is an excellent sounding recording, one of my best yet. Expertly mastered by Chris, this is a really nice one to listen to. A few photos I took are also included. Enjoy!

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ty27kr5c

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