I went to see Savage Garden at GM place on July 5th at 7:30 with my mom
and friend Rachel. We got there early though and the local radio
station van was outside GM place and they were giving out prizes for
having their sticker on your car and my mom had one on her car that I
convinced her to put on the day before so we won 2 day passes to the
water slides. After waiting around a while they finally opened the
doors. When we got inside our seats were really far from the stage so
we were kind of disappointed but at least we were there.
The opening
band was Zuckerbaby a band I didn't really like but they did a good job.
After they finished playing they talked a bit about Savage Garden and
what great guys they are and how lucky they were to be touring with them
then they left. My mom hadn't been paying attention to the concert and
had been looking around and spotted 4 empty seats in the front row so we
thought "lets not let them go to waste" and we took them. After waiting
what seemed like forever in our new seats there was a figure leaning
into the big black curtain so we could only see their outline as soon as
people saw this everyone started screaming really loud and then like 2
minutes later we heard the beginning of Tears of Pearls it sounded like
it does on the remix found on the double album. Then Savage Garden came
out and the lights were still dark so we could just barely see them and
then we heard Darren start to sing. Darren was wearing a blue track
suit with a black t shirt underneath his coat and blue sunglasses and
Daniel was wearing a black and silver shirt and black pants which he
never changed throughout the concert. For the verses the lights were
colourful and then when they did the chorus the lights went black and
white and the same happened for Break Me Shake Me. After Tears of
Pearls they went straight into Love Can Move You and then they paused
for a few seconds before singing To the Moon and Back during which he
was handed a coat that reminds me of an armadillo from someone in the
front row which he took off at the end of TTM&B. The next song they
performed was I can't make you love me (by Bonnie Raitt) the lights were
blue, purple and pink and it was a duet with Anna Maria and Darren at a
couple places they touched hands and in one part they made it look like
they kissed but I don't think they really did. After that Darren
changed into a tight white shirt and he and Daniel went to the end of
the catwalk and sang Promises and the spotlight was just on the two of
them. In the middle of Promises though Darren went off and started
singing another song before returning to finish the end of Promises.
After Promises (D & D still together at the edge of the catwalk) they
sang Fire Inside The Man which Darren dedicated to "his best friend in
the whole world who has always been there for him" he changed the
beginning of the second verse just a little though... instead of saying
"there's never been a boy who's luckier there's never been a more
grateful man" he said "there's never been a man who's luckier there's
never been a more grateful soul". Santa Monica sounded a lot like it
does on the album but instead of "or they'll knock you down" it was "or
they'll knock your fat ass down" after that Dan and Daz left the
catwalk and performed Carry on Dancing followed by Mine and then Break Me Shake Me which had some added lines right before "it's not free baby
you'll have to pay" after BMSM Darren, Anna and Nicole went backstage
for quite a long costume change. When they returned Darren was wearing
a long silver coat and sparkly yellow sunglasses and Anna was wearing a
short tank top, blond wig, silver mini skirt, and a big blue coat and
Nicole was wearing the same only her coat was pink. They started to
sing All Around Me and they did a little dance (and Darren kept grabbing
his crotch throughout the song). then Anna and Nicole took off their
big coats and started going in front of Darren and he responded by kind
of wining "this is my show get out of the way" this went on for a
while and then suddenly Darren ripped of the girls wigs and they gave
him surprised looks. They sang for a while but the rap hadn't come and
just when I thought they weren't' going to do it the lights turned off
and then they did it which was really effective. Then they sang the
chorus again and then Karl started doing his own thing on the drums and
Darren went over and started yelling at him "this is my show stop it"
after this Darren went backstage and took off his silver coat and came
out with a chair. While Darren was backstage Daniel and Ben had been
doing their own guitar thing. When Daz came out he took his chair to
the end of the catwalk and sat down backwards on the chair to face the
audience. Then he started singing I'll Bet He Was Cool and he started
doing stuff with the chair kind of like the backstreet boys do in the
video for as long as you love me and when he got to "lord I need your
protection..." he went to the right side of the catwalk and put his arms
out and spread apart his legs and looked at the roof. It sounds kind of
weird but it looked good. Then he sang Universe and he picked up the
chair and walked around with it a bit. After Universe Darren went
backstage for another costume change and while he did Anna and Nicole
sang a song that I didn't recognize. When Darren returned they sang I Want You and it sounded a lot like it does on the album and then they
sang it again only it was like it is on the first remix on the FOED
remix cd. Then Darren said to the audience something like "ok we want
to finish the song but we need your help i need you guys to sing chica
cherry cola" then he pointed to one section of the audience and got
them to sing chica cherry cola and he did that to all the sections and
then they sang IWY again and when it was time the audience screamed out
chica cherry cola. Then they said good night and walked off and the
lights went out. But since they hadn't sung TMD the whole audience got
up and started screaming. After like 5 minutes they came back on and
sang This Side Of Me and the first time Darren said This Side Of Me he
turned his left side to the audience and kind of made a gesture to show
"this side of him" and Daniel started laughing. (Daniel had been singing
for every song but didn't have mic so we couldn't hear him) also
instead of saying I want to move in time with you I want to breathe in
rhyme with you he said I want to breathe in rhyme with you twice. Then
he said building a mystery 2 times and then sang Joan Osborne's one of
us then they announced that they were going to play their last song
which was TMD. Which I didn't get to hear because Rachel grabbed my arm
and dragged me out of there and of course my mom followed.
After the concert was over we waited outside for the band to leave.
There was a tour bus and a truck outside and we waited for a while and
then Darren got in the back of the truck and it passed like two feet
away from us on it's way out of the parking lot and Darren smiled and
flashed us a peace sign. We waited around for a while more and then we
saw the backup band leave in this order Anna Maria, Ben (who waited and
talked to the bus driver who was leaning against the bus for a while
before finally getting in) then Lee and Karl came out together, followed
by Nicole and a girl with long blond hair (possibly Laurie?) after a
while Dan came out and got into the bus and then me and Rachel ran
around to the other side of the bus where no one else was and we saw
Daniel and Ben and we waved and Dan waved back and Ben gave us a big
smile. Well that's the end of my story of the greatest 2 hours of my
life.
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