Matchbox 20. Common household name, right?
Well, in the lovely year of, well last year, my dear mother kindly bought myself and her VIP tickets to see Matchbox 20. The VIP tickets themselves were $500 each AND DID NOT include actual concert admission. Altogether my poor mum ended up spending over $1000 just to see her favourite band, but was it worth it? The show itself was most definitely worth it but I will get to the in a second. Although $500 each for VIP entry plus a 'goodies bag' was definitely not worth it.
We were told to arrive at the venue early so we could pick up our goodies bag. We got there when we were supposed to and we forced to wait another hour because the merch people hadn't even arrived yet. After the waiting we went up to collect our goodies bad only to go through and find out that half the merch we were promised we didn't even get. What we ended up taking home was a poster, a wristband/USB (which actually didn't work so we had to get the company to resend ours later), a VIP lanyard and their latest album, North. So after the poor excuse for a goodie bag we thought the meet and great would have to be spectacular! Well, guess what? It wasn't. There were about 15 of us that had actually bought the VIP tickets but we, rudely, got told that we had to wait for another half an hour to meet them because other people, who had won the tickets via the local radio station, got to go in first. Talk about uncool.
We eventually were in the line to meet them. I kid you not, we were pushed and pulled in and out of that room they were in so fast I barely remember it. We basically said "Hi", shook hands, got a photo and left. Biggest waste of money and the photo isn't even nice! Probably the worst photo of me ever...therefore, it will not be featured on this post!
The Support Support act was a pretty well-known Aussie band, Evermore. That was the second time I had seen them as I saw them a week beforehand at Maroon 5's concert (stay tuned!) They are extremely good live and know how to own the stage. Their music is definitely soulful and full of truth!
The 2nd support act was, you know, just a casual band, INXS...I wonder if you've heard of them, LOL. They pretty much speak for themselves. There's really not much more i can say about them apart from they really got us going and were so interactive with the crowd...literally!
Finally Matchbox 20 came on stage and boy can they put on a show. This was the 2nd time i had seen them in concert; I saw them about 6 years earlier and they were almost as amazing as they were this time around! They were beyond amazing. Rob was excellent at getting the crowd up, moving and singing their hearts out and you could tell he was enjoying himself from the huge sweat patches...or maybe they were just from the lights. Yeap, definitely the lights! They really owned the night. The encore was definitely the best part of the show and they came back on stage louder than ever and raring to go!
Encore time! "Goodnight Canberra, We Love You"
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