2010 Australian shows

Re: 2010 Australian shows

feeds@yuku.com (Spirit March) — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:52:38 PST

I saw them at Notes Live in Sydney (2 times in one day!), the Thornbury Theatre in Melbourne twice and the gig at the Geelong Drama Theatre. I am one very lucky girl.

The first Notes Live gig in the daytime was a private xmas gig for family, friends and crew and that was so awesome as they were relaxed, having fun and stirring up the audience who were a little more reserved than a general church audience. Though Sydney audiences I must say are a lot quieter than in Melbourne anyway. The guys joked around a fair bit. The evening gig took on a different atmosphere again having all fans there. SK was really tired by then but I doubt anyone would've realized, the band were on fire. The Thornbury Theatre gigs were again fantastic, I enjoyed the 2nd one more as the sound seemed to improve where I was sitting (same place both nights) and it made a huge difference. I dont think I've ever seen Steve firing off jokes as much as he did this final night of the tour. Geelong was a...

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feeds@yuku.com (captain mission) — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:17:04 PST

wow great stuff, i wish i had seen the second night

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feeds@yuku.com (DPR36) — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:27:35 PST

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feeds@yuku.com (captain mission) — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:03:25 PST

managed to catch the notes sydney show and the lizottes central coast first night and wow!!!!!!

yeah 30 songs plucked from 30 albums, it's kinda random save for utmw and unguarded moment, and we are on track from the moment the band walk on, yeah this is no ordianary rock and roll band, these guys have the magick and they sculpt the music of songs outwards, into the receptive folk.

both shows were exceptionally brilliant and this is a band who are at their peak, effortlessly demonstrating why they have lasted 30 years, the songs are perfect, pangea, fly, 10000 miles, tear it all away, metropolis, iona song, space saviour, mistress, space needle, louisiana, appalachia, comedown, almost with you, an incredible version of grind and so many others but the highlight for me was invisible, with a snippet of heroin and steve's first song, skyscraper carnivore.

totally brilliant performance, from a brilliant band, who are constantly generous to their fans. the...

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feeds@yuku.com (DPR36) — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:57:42 PST

It's the next morning after a couple of brilliant church shows at Lizotte's Newcastle -which is such a great venue a lovely intimate old theatre. The band is just riding a wave of perfection at the moment , both shows were incredible , The only downer last night was a rowdy table of dinners who eventually toned down the volume of there conversation , or did the band just get louder ? .

Anyway wow last night a SK pulled one of our more famous local residents John Paul Young (JPY) out of the audience to sing UTMW. JPY and SK have recently done Rockwiz and the Van Park musical together. JPY added some amaizing personal touches to his UTMW TONIGHT towards the end really letting his vocal chords rip.

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feeds@yuku.com (mistablake) — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:58:03 PST

davem2 wrote:
From the official site:

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE APRIL 10TH 2011 .:: 29/10/2010 ::. by Moderator.
The Church will celebrate the 30th Anniversary with a 'best of set' (one show only) at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall with Orchestra
on Sunday April 10th, 2011.

Stay tuned for full announcement with on sale info.

Let's hope this is a warm-up for some Euro/blighty dates later in April!!! I can dream.......

The "with Orchestra" sounds rather groovy.

Let's hope this is a warm-up for some Euro/blighty dates later in April!!! I can dream.......

thats dreamin

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feeds@yuku.com (Jason) — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 07:41:59 PST

chrome3D wrote:
There will be a huge glamorous live CD/DVD experience called "THE CHURCH at the Sydney Opera House with Orchestra." It will be filmed and recorded...only to be left hidden in the vaults forever. Hopefully at least some of it will surface in Youtube.

It does seem to cry out for documenting, doesn't it? I would think at very least a CD of the gig would be viable for the band to produce. It'd be a shame if the 30th anniversary was only immortalized with that US tour booklet (although I had something in that, so I'm not complaining!).

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feeds@yuku.com (JackFrost) — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:49:28 PST

Exact same set as performed in America earlier this year.

Very good show and extremely humourous. Steve has taken his comedy to new levels.
Make sure you catch a gig if you can.

Danny

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feeds@yuku.com (lotus) — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:10:59 PST

has anyone been making note of the setlists? are they playing the same set they played in the states earlier this year....?

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feeds@yuku.com (Whitewatersky) — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:45:07 PST

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(as our fearless bearded guitartarzan loves to say)

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feeds@yuku.com (fandorin) — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:05:30 PST

hehe chrome....in 5.1!!

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feeds@yuku.com (chrome3D) — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 06:31:17 PST

There will be a huge glamorous live CD/DVD experience called "THE CHURCH at the Sydney Opera House with Orchestra." It will be filmed and recorded...only to be left hidden in the vaults forever. Hopefully at least some of it will surface in Youtube.

Re: 2010 Australian shows

feeds@yuku.com (davem2) — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:13:22 PST

From the official site:

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE APRIL 10TH 2011 .:: 29/10/2010 ::. by Moderator.
The Church will celebrate the 30th Anniversary with a 'best of set' (one show only) at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall with Orchestra
on Sunday April 10th, 2011.

Stay tuned for full announcement with on sale info.

Let's hope this is a warm-up for some Euro/blighty dates later in April!!! I can dream.......

The "with Orchestra" sounds rather groovy.

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feeds@yuku.com (the vapour) — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:38:10 PST

Hello all,

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feeds@yuku.com (Rup) — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:15:17 PST
If (I mean when!) the boys come back to Britain, then i will almost certainly go and see a couple of their shows, as i did back in 2007. Although that depends largely on finances!

However, if they were into swapping their set around every night, and re-introducing old songs, I would probably follow them right around the world!!
As much as i adore UTMW and Reptile and Grind and Myrrh and Tantalized and Metropolis, etc, it would be amazing to hear more variation in their sets...

If, for example, they were to play songs like Telepath, Tranquility, Feel, Lost, Dead Man's Dream, Paradox, Loveblind, Film, Antenna and So Love May Find Us, i would probably sell everything i owned in order to see every show!!!

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feeds@yuku.com (davem2) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:30:46 PST
If they play in Scotland I will happily attend. I'm no fan of London myself but recent history (Leeds 2002/Brighton 2007 - I like many of the good folk here was at both) would show that they'll only pull 300 - 500 at the best outside of the smoke. In London the crowds are significantly larger for the band.
As a fan the more dates they have in the uk the better, but I fear the numbers wouldn't be there and at this stage of the game I don't suppose they can afford to lose ££££'s?

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feeds@yuku.com (Spirit March) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:00:06 PST
Here we go. From the Faster Louder website :

Australia -
http://www.fasterlouder.c...ch-30th-anniversary-tour

Steve Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Powles and Marty Willson-Piper celebrate the 30 years and 23 albums of The Church with a tour that promises top be a “journey from the past to the present”.

The band will be performing one song from each album over the last 30 years in reverse chronological order. Starting with a track from their critically acclaimed most recent album untitled #23, and working back to the first album Of Skins And Heart.

Every punter at the shows will receive a 28 page colour programme with discographies and reviews as well as short overviews of each album written by Marty Willson-Piperand a copy of the...

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feeds@yuku.com (simon) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:20:48 PST
saw steve play twice this weekend - hearing the news about the 30th anniversary show coming back home to aust is great news

2010 Australian shows

feeds@yuku.com (miloguidosmom) — Tue, 04 May 2010 23:58:22 PST
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