Last night I went to the Missy Higgins concert at the Annandale Hotel in Sydney and it rocked so much.
She is such a lovely and nice girl.....
Heres what happened:
My friend Cathy and I arrived at the hotel at about 6:55pm, we went into the part of the hotel where Missy would be playing and there was hardly anyone there so I though 'you beauty" but it was filled up by about 7:20pm.
She had an opening act, Im not really sure what his full name was, it was Josh somebody and he was pretty good.
He played acoustic versions of about 6 of his songs I think.
Then Missy Higgins came on at about 8:10pm and opened the show with Falling then continuted on with All for believing.
I dont have the set list but she sang a whole lot of songs from her new cd along with a cover song called Moses which was pretty cool and also a few songs that I hadnt heard before.
There was a line in Moses that goes something like "with my best friend who is queer" when she sang that first everyone kinda giggled.
She explained that All for believing was the first song that she was proud to admit that she had written and it took 1 year to write They weren't there.
She said that thats far to long for anything to take
Her song Ten days was written when she was away from her family and she was feeling lonely.
On the stage she played the keyboard to my right and she played guitar right infront of me, I could of touched her she was that close but I didnt haha.
I didnt take many photos of her on guitar because I didnt want to blind her with my flash but I did get some pretty good photos and I took videos of Scar and also my other favorite Don't Ever.
When she came back from playing the guitar, she started to fiddle with the stool she was sitting on it and she said "sorry Im just afraid that im going to fall off this thing" so she was pulling on it and all of a sudden she pulled the top of it off and laughted "oh so thats why!!".
They didnt bring out a new one for her so she had to try and fix it. As she got back on it she kinda nearly fell back and went "oh I hope I dont fall off it but if I do it will look pretty funny".
She rocked so much and was funny, she started to play the piano for the start of Any day now and messed it up because she had it on the wrong setting on the keyboard and she went "oh bugger" and started to laugh then said sorry.
My favorite songs of the night was probably The Cactus that found the beat and Scar because everyone was really getting into it and had fun when she did it.
It was so small and there werent overly that many people there so I had a blast.
My friend Cathy and I were right up front so that was even cooler and we didnt have to deal with any screaming teenie boppers because it was over 18's.
Missy did an encore of about 4 songs I think and endind it with The Special two which was really nice.
She only had one other musician on stage with her for a few songs but was by herself for most of the concert.
He was from her brothers old band and she explained that she used to try and get into clubs to see them play with loads of make up on and clothes for a person about twice her age.
I loved this concert and it was probably the best one that I have been to because I went with a reat friend, it was small and Missy Higgins rocked.
My friend is bringing over all the bits and peices so I can get the photos and videos onto my computer from her digital camera so that might happen sometime over the weekend I hope.
I had a great time and cant wait to go to another one
Oh I also brought a cool Missy Higgins t-shirt, its grey and has a pink picture of missy sitting on a lounge with a guitar and Missy Higgins written on it <3
Well take care and I'll have my pictures and videos soon
