Meatload Auckland Review and Set List 2011

Following a fun but flawed Wellington gig and a 'postponed' Tauranga show - Meat Loaf and the Neverland Express arrived at the Vector Arena in Auckland to deliver the hits and perhaps show how good the great guy can actually be.


When: 29 October 2011
Where: Vector Arena, Auckland, New Zealand

The reviews are in and they are kind of kind:

Auckland Now's review was quite friendly:

"After opening with Rocky Horror's Hot Patootie - Bless My Soul, the singer swaggered around the stage doing his best to rock out, his age and health obviously restricting his performance.

Meat Loaf's voice isn't what it used to be and he's certainly aware of it. The singer didn't let that get in the way of giving his all, however it was hard to hear the singer during almost the entire show - a combination of age and the band's overpowering instruments no doubt.

After half an hour the show hit a road block with an awkward lull. Taking a few minutes to chat and share a few career anecdotes, Meat soon had the audience back on side and threw himself into some of his biggest hits with You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth and Bat Out of Hell, accompanied by a gigantic blow-up bat of course."

"The audience said it all, really: Hundreds of seats were empty well before the encore even began. Many punters, it seems, were put out over the singer's inability to replicate his golden years. But all that really shows is the lack of appreciation some folk have for an entertainer who has worked for almost 45 years."

Meat Loaf Auckland Set List

Hot Patootie/Time Warp (from Rocky Horror Picture Show with accompanying film footage)

If It Ain't Broke, Break It

Bat Out Of Hell

Peace On Earth

Living On The Outside

Los Angeloser

You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)

Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through

Stand in the Storm

I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad

Paradise By The Dashboard Light

Set List Encore One:

Let it Roll (The Doors cover) / Free Bird instrumental

All Revved Up With No Place To Go

Set List Encore Two:
Mercury Blues

Noel Gallagher Solo Set List Scotland

Noel Gallagher's Solo Setlist

Noel at the High Flying Birds performed their second ever show at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland on October 27, 2011 following their debut gig in Ireland earlier in the week. 

The set featured songs from Noel's solo album and of course some classic Oasis tracks. 

Set List

(It's Good) To Be Free

Mucky Fingers

Everybody's on the Run

Dream On

If I Had a Gun...

The Good Rebel

The Death of You and Me

Freaky Teeth

Wonderwall

Supersonic

(I Wanna Live in a Dream in My) Record Machine

AKA... What a Life!

Talk Tonight

Soldier Boys and Jesus Freaks

AKA... Broken Arrow

Half The World Away

(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach

Set Encore:

Don't Look Back In Anger

The Importance of Being Idle

Little By Little

Eddie Vedder Bridge School Benefit Set List

Eddie Vedder Bridge School Benefit Set List

Date: 10/23/2011

Venue: Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, CA, USA

Set: Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town, Last Kiss, I Am A Patriot, Society, Tonight You Belong To Me, Sleepless Nights, Don’t Cry No Tears

Points of interest: Neil Young turned up cos Eddie mucked up the prior night

Source: Two Feet Think

Meat Loaf Review and Set List Wellington New Zealand

Glory Days

Meat Loaf Review and Set List Wellington New Zealand

26 October

TSB Arena, Queens Wharf

Opening act: Luga Boa


Fresh from a stint in Australia where Meat Loaf learned aussie rules fans just don't fucking get him, Meat Loaf and his band of truly talented players hit Wellington for a one night only show.

Meat is 64 years old and in ill health with a voice that's had better days. And he knows it so he plays with that and makes it a part of his set to good effect with fun humour - his band thus has to carry him a fair way but the Neverland Express is a great ride.

Patti Russo shines as his foil for so many of the vocals - and as when I saw Meat Loaf in the same venue in 1997 (?) the highlight was her efforts during Paradise By The Dashboard Light. For some strange reason I liked it when she kicked Meat in the balls.

Generally speaking, fans go to see Meat Loaf play classics from Bat Out of Hell and the odd hit from his comback years in the late 90s. So we got a rocking Bat out of Hell that featured some absolutely dire vocals, an excellent Rock and Roll Dreams and a pretty damn good Too Out Of Three Aint Bad.

Three songs from Hang Cool Teddy Bear were played all in a row to good effect - and as they were recently recorded Meat Loaf's live vocals filled those songs well.

To counter Meat's fragile health, the band plays loud and does plenty of musical interludes to let the big fella rest up a little (kind of reminds of what Axl Rose does these days!) - the violin and piano duel during Aint Bad was a great example and a fine piece of musician ship.

Meat Loaf was brilliant as he played up to the crowd, cracking jokes and rambling through a story about acid and teletubbies which made no sense until the end of the show when we were visited by actual Teletubbies and Alice in Wonderland characters. It only makes sense if you don't want peace on Earth and were actually there.

A fine night out was had by the crowd - their sing alongs showed it and despite the shortcomings, Meat Loaf proved once again he is a great showman and entertainer.

Hang Cool Teddy Bears.

Meat Loaf Wellington Set List:

Hot Patootie/Time Warp (from Rocky Horror Picture Show)

If It Ain't Broke, Break It

Bat Out Of Hell

Peace On Earth

Living On The Outside

Los Angeloser

You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)

Acoustic guitar solo (by Paul ‘Full Metal Jacket’ Crook)

Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through

Stand in the Storm

I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

Acoustic guitar solo (Randy ‘Nashville’ Flowers)

Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad

Paradise By The Dashboard Light

Set Encore 1

Let it Roll  (The Doors cover) / Free Bird instrumental

All Revved Up With No Place To Go

Set List Encore 2:

Mercury Blues

Meat Loaf heads to Tauranga next and then on to Auckland.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Set list Debut

Noel kicking it solo

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Set list Debut

Noel Gallagher played his first ever solo show with his group High Flying Birds at Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Ireland on October 2. Quite the historical night really - it was Noel's first set list since the demise of Oasis and it featured a wise selection of Oasis singles and b-sides mixed with his new songs from his debut album (which went number one in the UK and Irish charts this week - promptly outselling Liam's Beady Eye record).

I would imagine it was with a very deliberate action that Noel's song choice to open his set was (It's Good) To Be Free - a sure reference to the solo road he has taken. 

October 23rd 2011

Noel Gallagher's Set List 

(It's Good) To Be Free

Mucky Fingers

Everybody's on the Run

Dream On

If I Had a Gun...

The Good Rebel

The Death of You and Me

Freaky Teeth

Wonderwall

Supersonic

(I Wanna Live in a Dream in My) Record Machine

AKA... What a Life!

Talk Tonight

Soldier Boys and Jesus Freaks

AKA... Broken Arrow

Half The World Away

(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach

Noel's Set List Encore:

Don't Look Back In Anger

The Importance of Being Idle

Little By Little

Foo Fighters Setlist Oakland California

Chris Shiflett rocking out for the Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters Setlist Oakland, CA, USA

The Foos played their gig on  October 19, 2011 at the Oracle Arena as part of the Wasting Light Tour.

Foos Set List

Bridge Burning

Rope

The Pretender

My Hero

Learn to Fly

White Limo

Arlandria

Breakout

Cold Day in the Sun

Stacked Actors

Walk

Monkey Wrench

Let It Die

These Days

This is a Call

In the Flesh? (Pink Floyd cover)

All My Life

FF Set List Encore:

Long Road to Ruin (Dave Grohl solo acoustic)

Best of You (Dave Grohl solo acoustic)

Times Like These (DG solo acoustic leading into full band)

Dear Rosemary (with rock legend Bob Mould)

Breakdown (Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers cover performed again with Bob Mould)

Everlong

LULU song lyrics Metallica

Metallica and Lou Reed looking cool as fuck

Check out out lyrics from 'Loutellica's' album Lulu. Lou Reed and Metallica have teamed up to produce a collaborative effort that explores the work of Frank Wedekind. Lulu tells the story and drama of a young and nubile abused dancer’s life and relationships as found in Wedekind's plays “Earth Spirit” and “Pandora’s Box”

Lulu features the following songs. Click on the links will take you to the lyrics for the song.

Brandenburg Gate
Cheat on Me

Frustration
Dragon
Junior Dad
Little Dog
Mistress Dread
Iced Honey
Pumping Blood
The View

Stone Roses announce they are a band again

Stone Roses announce they are a band again.. how long will it last?

A reformed Stone Roses never seemed likely - they seemed to hate each other in  - and it took the death of Mani's mother to put it all in perspective. Not to mention the thought of all the cash a tour will rake in ;)

From Stuff

'The Stone Roses, one of the best-loved and most influential bands to emerge from Britain's 'Madchester' scene, announced Tuesday that they are reuniting and working on new material.

The band members, who split in 1996 after releasing two albums, said they will play two shows in their hometown of Manchester on June 29 and 30, followed by an international tour.

"Our plan is to take on the world," said singer Ian Brown as the band announced its reunion at a London news conference.

"It's not a trip down memory lane," he added. "We are doing new songs."

Formed by Brown and guitarist John Squire, the band's self-titled 1989 debut album was a huge British hit. But fans waited five years for the followup, Second Coming, and the group soon split up amid internal wrangling and legal disputes.

The band members insisted for years that they would not get back together, but Squire said he and Brown had met recently at the funeral of bass player Gary 'Mani' Mounfield's mother and "in some ways it felt like 15 years ago was yesterday."

The band's blend of rock, pop, psychedelia and dance influences made it one of the biggest acts to emerge from the 'Madchester' scene in the late '80s and early '90s in and around the northwest England city of Manchester.'

From the Guardian

'The Manchester foursome sang beautiful songs about infatuation, insurrection and the monarchy, inspired bands from Oasis to the Beta Band and changed the lives of ordinary fans. When they granted this unknown kid an interview that produced the Best Band On The Planet cover story of my Avanti! fanzine, it sold thousands around the world and gave me a major break in journalism. At their second Leeds gig of 1989 I met a girl who was with me for 17 years, but the band themselves began a very public crumble. A career-damaging hiatus ended in 1994 with the flawed but still powerful Second Coming, but band members gradually decided they weren't feeling it any more, and it felt wrong to pretend otherwise. Behind the Manchester ruffian image, they were conscientious people.

And now? None of them can need the money that much for them to risk the enduring love they inspire by blowing it again. With the Squire-Brown friendship rekindled and Reni back on drums and backing vocals, they have a point to prove: that a Third Coming can be done with dignity, and that the once-mighty Stone Roses can be The Best Band On The Planet once again.'

Guns N' Roses Argentina Setlist

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Guns N' Roses Argentina  Setlist 

Venue: Estadio Ciudad de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina 

Date: October 8, 2011

Chinese Democracy

Welcome To The Jungle

It's So Easy

Mr. Brownstone

Sorry

Richard Fortus Guitar Solo (James Bond Theme)

Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney & Wings cover)

Instrumental Jam

This I Love

Better

Rocket Queen

Instrumental Jam

Estranged (with Gunners band presentation)

Dizzy Reed Piano Solo

(Baba O' Riley by The Who)

Street Of Dreams

You Could Be Mine

DJ Ashba Guitar Solo (Mi Amor)

Sweet Child O' Mine

Instrumental Jam

(Maybe I'm Amazed / Another … more)

November Rain

Bumblefoot Guitar Solo

(Pink Panther Theme)

Riff Raff

(AC/DC cover)

Knockin' On Heaven's Door

(Bob Dylan cover)

Nightrain

Set Encore:

Instrumental Jam

Don't Cry

Madagascar

Paradise City

Check out GNR's Rock In Rio set list

GNR Rock in Rio Set List 2011

Guns N' Roses Rock In Rio Set list

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

October 2 2011.

Axl and his hired guns got back into the touring with a set for Rock in Rio. Media reported concerns about Axl’s vocals - he missed a queue in Patience. I say big deal. 

‘Cidade do Rock’ Set List

Chinese Democracy

Welcome To The Jungle

It's So Easy

Mr. Brownstone

Sorry

Richard Fortus Guitar Solo (James Bond Theme)

Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney & Wings cover)

Rocket Queen

Instrumental Jam

This I Love

DJ Ashba Guitar Solo (Mi Amor)

Sweet Child O' Mine

Estranged (Played for the first time since 1993)

Better

Dizzy Reed Piano Solo (Baba O'Riley by The Who)

Street Of Dreams

You Could Be Mine

Instrumental Jam (Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2)

November Rain

Bumblefoot Guitar Solo (Pink Panther Theme)

Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan cover)

Nightrain

Rock In Rio Set List Encore:

Patience

Paradise City

Chris Cornell Auckland Set List NZ

What: Chris Cornell Set List
Where: ASB Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand
When: Tuesday, October, 2011

This was the first of two show's in Auckland, following a popular set in Wellington. 

Here's some notes on Cornell's solo set as reported by Chris Schulz from the Herald

"He sure looked lonely up there, but the fans packed into the ASB Theatre gave Cornell a rapturous welcome as he launched into a set full of hits, B-sides, soundtrack singles and covers that showed off his influences.

There was also room for the Beatles' Ticket to Ride, his single for the Bond film Casino Royal, newbie 'Cleaning the Gun' and even a couple of Mother Love Bone and Temple of the Dog songs.

But Cornell was in an accommodating mood, taking requests like a grunge jukebox and even performing Outshined acoustically for the first time."

Chris' Auckland Set List - Not sure where, but the Chris's first ever acoustic version of Outshined was played somewhere.... this list is from a photo of the actual set - he may have changed it up. It's a very different set list from the Wellington show.


Cornell Auckland Set List:

Scar on the Sky

Ground Zero

All Night Thing

Be Yourself

As Hope and Promise Fade

Fell on Black Days

Man of Golden Words

Say Hello 2 Heaven

Black Hole Sun

When I’m Down

Can’t Change Me

Cleaning My Gun

I am The Highway

You Know My Name (from James Bond)

Like a Stone

Doesn’t Remind Me

Ticket to Ride (Beatles cover)

Photo from NZ Herald.