Tue 14 Feb – Roxette - Charm School: The World Tour
Fittingly for a Valentine’s Day show, tonight’s completely sold out and my last-minute date and myself make a point of arriving to the venue early. The enormous Boondall arena is still filling up as we make it up the familiar stairs, with the opening act – ‘80s Antipodean hitmakers 1927, plucked to do the honours from the lucrative pub & RSL club circuit – already busy wooing the predominantly 35-plus crowd with their ever-slick oldies. Compulsory Hero and That’s When I Think Of You have the punters shimmying in the fast-growing bar, toilet and ATM lines, while FM radio staple If I Could has lost none of its ‘Aussie classic’ power.
Following a somewhat extended wait, Swedish pop-rock veterans Roxette emerge to the roar of 11,000 voices and immediately get everyone in the floor area on their feet with the guitar-heavy one-two of Dressed For Success and Sleeping In My Car. The mix is initially somewhat muddy and heavy on the low-end…
Fittingly for a Valentine’s Day show, tonight’s completely sold out and my last-minute date and myself make a point of arriving to the venue early. The enormous Boondall arena is still filling up as we make it up the familiar stairs, with the opening act – ‘80s Antipodean hitmakers 1927, plucked to do the honours from the lucrative pub & RSL club circuit – already busy wooing the predominantly 35-plus crowd with their ever-slick oldies. Compulsory Hero and That’s When I Think Of You have the punters shimmying in the fast-growing bar, toilet and ATM lines, while FM radio staple If I Could has lost none of its ‘Aussie classic’ power.
Following a somewhat extended wait, Swedish pop-rock veterans Roxette emerge to the roar of 11,000 voices and immediately get everyone in the floor area on their feet with the guitar-heavy one-two of Dressed For Success and Sleeping In My Car. The mix is initially somewhat muddy and heavy on the low-end…
