#it's also a lot less dark which booooooooo

[hannibalussy]

watching the new season of bee and puppycat and I just realised the whole show feels off because they switched the focus of the show from the magical missions to a slice of life type thing and made almost every side character act even weirder but mellowed out Bee's autistic swag, thereby forcing her to play the straight man in the background which definitely dims the charm of the show ALSO WHERE'S MY BOYYYY DECKARD MY BOYYYYY

[mandssisters]

Good morning from Brisbane.

It’s 10.30 am and 31 degrees.

First show of #tour in Brisbane yesterday. The Brisbane Entertainment Centre is on the outskirts of the city. A park and lakeside setting with not very much around to entertain. The first glory spot of the day was the toilet facilities always a winner! The second less glory move was the sign that states “snakes active in this area, please flush before use” 😂😂😂😂

Well that’s a first! As I am sat here writing this now, you can no doubt work out I “survived the flush”

Queue life involved lots of bird watching, the Ibis birds stalking around the lake and the more friendly smaller black and white species which were more than happy to hoover up our cookie crumbs. “Please do not feed the birds”.

We meet in the queue some fellow Agorians, Alana and her family and Emily, who is also doing all Australian shows. Luckily although very warm, we could take shelter from the direct sun under the building itself. The queue was very well organised. Fixed lanes, electric fixed self scan ticket machines, wand security check (no bags over A4 size allowed inside) and helpful staff. Once through the gates, we were held in the venue until doors. The staff were all very chatty and pleasant.

Stage set up. Did I know that the good ship delta wasn’t docking in Australia? No I think I missed that email. The stage was as per GOTR. Ego ramp and small end stage.

It wasn’t long until Gretta Ray appeared she was clearly loving the opportunity to be supporting the chaps. She sung about lost loves and breakups written all before she turned 16 😍. It was her first arena show!

The tannoy announcement made us chuckle with the struggled pronunciation of Michael “Kiwanuka”. Michael was a good crowd pleaser.

Showtime! Opening with 💕42. Full on drumming Runway action from Marcus. Then LLM and Babel on the mini stage.

Back for Lover of the light. I should point out Ben was today wearing a black “crew black Denim wing jacket” and hoodie (Ben’s own).

The pyros are back! (In the hands of Howard & Sons for this show!) The first pyro blast was in ‘Believe’, and thank goodness darkness visible is back with full on pyros. Marcus on the front of the stage for the twiddly knob set up in DV.

Beloved, sounding so good. I was watching Winnie and his moves, all the way through the song. Such a Great song.

Banter; Marcus discusses the Australian cricket team and how they thought about wearing sandpaper in their pockets for the show. He reflected that he’d seen other artists mime before, that that was the equivalent of sandpaper in your pants. The crowd do the pantomime booooooooo! He gets away with it.

The Cave with less jump tonight. Not a runway leap in sight in rollaway just a jump from a small amp!

For the encore the chaps performed Timshel and loved it so much they thought they would add another acoustic song. Cold Arms, Banter: Marcus states what a good crew they have as he needs another guitar for cold arms and there it was already waiting for him. “He has such an efficient guitar tech ..... it’s just a shame he’s a “C@nt” 😍🤣.

Observed during Timshel two girls front row totally in the zone with one friend sobbing and the other friend handing out tissues, this is why I love live music.

At one point during the night, a fan got their personal bubble machine going (how did that get through security?!) and the bubbles drifted past the end of the runway, much to Ted’s surprise.

Back for a final encore of slip away, I will wait and Delta. With added confetti canons.

The photos are pretty poor, and for my safety and yours we had a security guard protecting us all night number 274, who bless him stood on his spot the entire evening, a proud 6ft 2 or even more.

Merch fail. I will get a Delta t shirt if it kills me! Sorry Madame we only have X large left! Pretty minimal offering. Hoodie, t shirt, baseball cap, magnet, guitar picks and box, key ring bottle opener. What no Turkish towel or wings socks.

A great evening. Thanks Brisbane.