To those of you I didn't catch up with this weekend - sorry. It wasn't meant as a catch up trip, so it wasn't a personal snub. This weekend was all about one thing, the Sarah McLachlan concert that we just got home from.

It was awesome, absolutely, positively divine. The songs this woman sings have been a big part of my life now for a long time (see next post - hopefully - about my Number One Most Influential Album), and to see her live in concert, and more importantly to be able to meet her (due to my amazing girlfriend's persistance and sucking up ability) has just made me feel pretty damn happy with life at the moment.

For those of you that care
Fallen
World on Fire
Adia
Hold On
Perfect Girl
Drifting
Push
Remember
TrainWreck
Wait
Fear
Elsewhere
Mystery
Black and White
Sweet Surrender
Possession

Encore#1
Ice Cream
Stupid
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

Encore #2
Angel



The concert was phenomenal, and meeting her, well she was just so human and personable. We hang around at the end, near the stage door, and she stayed for another 45 minutes signing autographs and having pictures taken etc, desite the fact that her husband (drummer Ashwin Sood) had gone back to the hotel roome with their 2 year old daughter India an hour before. She was just so giving.

The only two bad points, and these are only personal bad points, not actual bad points, were that they used the strobes during Sweet Surrender, which made my Sarah feel wretched, and that it was a full band verson of Possession, not the piano "secret song" version from the Fumbling Towards Ecstasy album.

We got heaps of stuff signed, cracked open glowsticks at the appropriate song (Sarah is on a mailing list of S.Mc. fans that do this every concert), and managed to salvage guitar picks (she threw one at my very feet!). Did I mention that my wonderful girlfriend even managed to get us centre stage, front row tickets?

Excellent seats. Absolutely superb.

The support act, local band Blanche Dubois, were great. Bought their CD's, and while everyone was looking at Sarah Mc when she first came out the stage exit, we (having seen her pre show) chased the girls from B.D. and got stuff signed. I think they liked that. We also asked them to come to Broome. Give my Sarah a few weeks and she'll have them staying with us. Unfortunately was unable to get backup singer Katherine Rose's CD signed.

Sarah Mc's stage presence was wonderful, she made you feel like it was a private little concert, even while the band belted out the music behind her. I could keep gushing for hours but, honestly, it's been a long day, it's currently 01:30, and we have to get up early this morning and get on a plane. And besides, this is disjointed enough already.

Thankyou again to Sarah McLachlan for her beautiful music and her sheer talent, and thankyou to my Sarah for working so hard to get the VIP treatment we enjoyed tonight.

David Clark