Concert Review:
I missed most of The Lovehammers set because I was at the INXS fan club meet and greet. It was cool to see them from backstage while we were waiting for the M&G to start though. I got a very close look at Bobby’s arms! Mmmmm. Those are some nice arms.
We got back out in time to hear ‘The Tunnel’, which is becoming my favourite Lovehammers song. They’ve rearranged their set list a bit. ‘Trees’ and ‘Ring of Fire’ weren’t the last songs. They added ‘This Town’ as the final number, and Jeremy came out and played with them.
The sound was great tonight, and I didn’t end up with any ringing in my ears. But it was really hot at the Warner Theatre. The ushers occasionally opened the side doors just to get some cool air. The stage at the Warner is small, so there were no side ramps for the show. But small stages mean more band interaction, so that was cool.
And I was finally treated to Garry in leather pants! Leather on the Sultan of Bass! Stretched taut across his lovely thighs and his ass-ets. I swooned, I hollered, I thanked TPTB for giving me this pleasure. And cursed the Incredible Hulk and his wife in front of me for obscuring the view. Garry was also wearing the reddish coloured cross T-shirt. Jon was wearing black jeans and a silver/grey morphine T-shirt. Kirk was in a striped dress shirt and blue jeans, and Andrew was wearing jeans too. Tim was rocking the brown leather pants as always, and he had on a khaki coloured shirt. JD was in the lace-up pants again, and started with the white long-sleeve shirt. Underneath it was a black T-shirt.
Tim told us at the meet and greet that Jon was really not well tonight, but he wanted to do the show. He looked really ashen and kept his sunglasses on the whole show. Throughout the set the guys were checking on him. Before ‘By My Side’ Garry went up behind Jon’s riser and squeezed his shoulder, as if to say “you alright?” and Jon nodded yes. Garry stayed close to him for a few songs. They dropped ‘Kick’ tonight, even though it was on the printed set list, I’m sure to help save Jon’s strength, because that’s a drum-heavy song. And there was no “whoo” on ‘Pretty Vegas.’ But he still had enough energy left to entertain us with a little wiggle at the end of that song though, and come back and busted his ass on the encore. Good on you Jon. I hope you get better soon.
Before ‘Taste It’ started, JD asked the audience “Is it hot in here or is it just you?” Lots of women squealed all around me. Early on during the gig a woman was wearing a white cowboy hat and it ended up on stage. JD wore it for a bit, and during ‘Taste It’ Garry put the hat on and wore it throughout the song. He looks really great in hats.
By ‘Hungry’ the whole band was dripping wet it was so hot in the theatre, and this is a song Garry works really hard on. Kirk took pity on him and came over and wiped Garry’s brow with his own shirt sleeve while Garry was playing.
On ‘What You Need’ Garry and Andrew were rocking out for a bit. And at one point Kirk was going around and around Garry saxing away.
Tim finally took off his sunglasses during ‘Devil Inside’, so we could get a good luck at his beautiful eyes. And he was going full tilt on ‘Pretty Vegas,’ and the crowd ate it up.
We got some man love during ‘New Sensation.’ I especially loved it when JD hugged Garry from behind and sang with him.
‘Don’t Change’ was the wildest spectacle I’ve ever seen at an INXS gig. It started off with JD hugging Tim, and trying to playing Tim’s guitar. Then Kirk brought a woman up on stage, and then JD encouraged a bunch of 448ers to come up on stage. Then a whole bunch of people got up there. One girl had Andrew’s maracas. One guy was rocking out playing an air guitar next to Tim. The look on Tim’s face as he watched this was f**king precious. By the end of the song there must have been 40-50 people on the stage. It was a truly wild scene, and a hell of a way to end the gig. The people who were up there on stage will be talking about that experience for a long time to come.
Set List:
Suicide Blonde
Devil’s Party
Mystify
Disappear
By My Side
Afterglow
Taste It
Original Sin
Hungry
Never Let You Go
Need You Tonight
What You Need
Devil Inside
Pretty Vegas
Encore
New Sensation
Never Tear Us Apart
Don’t Change
(Kick was left out of the regular setlist tonight).
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