Venue:
Accor Stadium, Olympic Park, Sydney
Date: 16/03/2024
Not exactly a featured artist on this forum, and not someone I particularly listen to. “I’d rather see P!nk” was my comment when my daughter, who doesn’t really listen to Taylor Swift, said she was tagging along to see her with a Swifty friend of hers. A few weeks later, my wife and I are driving near the venue where she’s playing that night, she gets on the phone and finds there’s tickets available. Half an our later we’d booked a couple of the cheapest tickets, and although they said ‘restricted view’, anywhere past half way in an 80,000 seat stadium where the performers are largely moving dots on a stage is restricted, so a small portion of the stage not being visible wasn’t really a problem.
I knew two of her songs pretty well, and the rest I either didn’t know or only had heard in passing. She started the show with Get the Party Started (I knew that one) and finished with So What (and that one!). In between I heard a bunch of well written songs, none of which I disliked, and sung by someone who had clearly » Continue Reading.