Kiss tour

[Spiff]

Yo

Interesting to see (on a post on the www.kissarmyaustralia.com forum) that the support acts for the Australian tour will be Vanessa Amorosi (Melbourne and Sydney) and Mammal (Brisbane).

Vanessa Amorosi?? And who the hell are Mammal? Never heard of them. Their website: http://www.mammaltheband.com (listening to a song on their myspace - oh dear).

 

[salty]

You need to get out more Spiffo.

 

[Icarus]

Yeah who are Mammal? haha

 

[Goreripper]

Haven't Mammal done like the Big Day Out and about fifteen national tours? The main guy used to be in Full Scale, if anyone remembers them.

 

[Spiff]

Riiiight... so I'm supposed to have heard of them then? Forgiveness please.

 

[Goreripper]

I haven't actually heard their music, but they haven't exactly just appeared out of nowhere.

 

[FerretallicA]

If it's any consolation, I haven't heard of Mammal either.
Vanessa Amorosi though... "LOL" doesn't even do it justice.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

I have heard of Mammal, but I didn't think they had been around that long. I heard they supported Cog for a few dates, and impressed Cog's management who in turn offered them their services.

 

[Spiff]

Great show. I was in the tenth row, (almost) dead centre, and didn't take my camera. Idiot. The shots would have been ten times better than my Maiden photos.

Mammal weren't bad I guess. Obviously not the right band to open for Kiss, but they tried their hardest to get the audience into it. The singer is one of the most energetic and charismatic frontmen I've seen in years. I didn't like them at first but they grew on me, damn it, purely because of how much they tried.

Kiss were great, of course. Sounds like it was the same setlist as Melbourne - no real surprise inclusions, except for Shock Me w/ Tommy on vocals. Pretty good. Gene's fly-up-to-the-platform thing for God of Thunder didn't work - he started to go up, got maybe a third of the way and then came back down. He was NOT happy. Paul couldn't do his flying fox Love Gun thing because of the reduced seating.

Great night. I've seen heaps of shows at the Entertainment Centre and this was by far the best crowd I've seen. Maybe it's again because of the reduced seating and so the crowd noise was more amplified.

So yeah.

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

Sounds like Brisbane was a good show then!

I went to the Grand Prix in Melbourne to see them, it was heaps of fun. Weird seeing them start the show in daylight! The pyro was taken up a step for the Grand Prix show as you'd expect, HEAPS of it. Plus being outdoors meant that on alot of the pyro cues the regular indoor style pyro was added to with outdoor fireworks shooting way up in the sky as well...

Thought Gene performed about the best I've seen in a while from him, Eric was on fire as usual, Tommy did a good solid job and it was cool to see him sing for the first time and actually get a solo (something the last tour didn't have, probably to detract attention from the fact that it wasn't Ace), and Paul was great as usual although I could tell that his voice wasn't in the best shape (unlike the solo tour last year where he sounded on FIRE!). When the vocals stayed in one range he was strong as usual but just the parts where it'd change between his mid range and high range you could hear it breaking up in the transition, struggling a bit.

Setlist was nowhere near as good as the last tour though. Wasn't sure if other cities would be the same or if Melbourne just got a crapper one because it was the Grand Prix so they'd play less of the "fan songs" and more of the anthems. But it was a pretty standard "Greatest Kiss" kinda setlist.

I remember it being (the order won't be accurate and I may miss a song or two):

Deuce
Shout It Out Loud
C'Mon & Love Me
Lick It Up
I Love It Loud
Calling Dr. Love
Firehouse
100,000 Years
Shock Me
Black Diamond (Weird for this to be mid-set!)
Let Me Go, Rock & Roll
God Of Thunder
Love Gun
Detroit Rock City
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Shandi
I Was Made For Lovin' You
Rock & Roll All Nite

All in all, a good show!! Very cool to see them outdoor with 50,000 or so people as well!

 

[Spiff]

Yeah, Paul really struggled during I Was Made For Lovin' You. The rest of the night he seemed fine.

 

[dreamwatch]

Sounds like it was the same setlist as Melbourne - no real surprise inclusions, except for Shock Me w/ Tommy on vocals.

I just threw up a little in my mouth.

 

[Spiff]

He was OK.

 

[Spiff]

A really bad recording of Tommy singing Shock Me in Melbourne:

 

[Spiff]

Gene's harness malfunction.

 

[Bucko]

oh poo its no longer available

 

[Spiff]

No, they've just disabled embedding. Click on the "YouTube" link and it'll take you to it.