What's Wong?: Foo Fighters!

First off, before I say anything about the INCREDIBLE concert that Dave Grohl and his Foo Fighters put on last night, I must thank my EVEN MORE INCREDIBLE flatmates who surprised me with concert tickets. I admit I was genuinely surprised - they presented it to me less than 24 hours before the concert was supposed to start. It helped that my actual birthday is still more than a month away but hey, I'm not complaining ^_^

I came real close to missing the Foo as I ran into problems with transit on my way to the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. I hopped on a train to Shorncliff at Toowong station. Everything was going along alright until the train stopped at Northgate station - 4 stops away from Boondall where the concert was. They told us that the train line ahead was not working, that we had to get off the train, and that they would send buses to take us the rest of the way. This was at around 7pm. There were hundreds of us waiting outside before the first bus came at maybe 7:45pm. I think I was able to get on the 4th bus they sent and by this time it was 8:20pm. The concert had started with the couple of opening bands at 7:30pm and the Foo Fighters were scheduled to take the stage at 8:30pm. Luckily I did make it there maybe 5 minutes before they started...

I was sitting pretty far back and pretty high up so the acoustics weren't the best. Both concerts sold out of standing room tickets last year - that's definitely where you have to be. They lowered a stage from the roof down to the centre of the arena and did an acoustic set from the middle circular stage. The great thing about the Foo Fighters is that they have so many hit songs. Their set included most of the stuff from their latest album "Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace" as well as songs like Breakout, Learn to Fly (one of my favs), Stacked Actors, Generator, All My Life, Times Like These, Monkeywrench, My Hero, Everlong, Best of You... They threw in a few drums solos and guitar solos between Dave and Chris Shiflett, the lead guitarist. For a few songs they added percussion instruments, keyboards, a cello (for The Pretender) and a violin for some of their acoustic stuff. Snapped a few pics with my crappy phone cam...