{ DD MSG 4/05

Subject Duran @ Madison Square Garden!
Posted Date: [14 Apr 2005 | Thursday] - 2:54 AM

Great show last night - in nyc :)
very energic and at times chaotic - i just wrote an entire blog and managed to some how lose it so i'll try to re write it now:

They looked amazing, sounded great - the whole experience was fun. Careless Memories ROCKED! Hold Back the Rain was great too - I love that John is Center Stage for that! Tiger Tiger/Chauffer is my favorite part of the show tho - really beautiful.

Excellent 8th row seats near Andy Faaakin' Taylor who nearly lost his sunglasses mulitple time from all the rockin' he did. God, so much eye candy to look at on stage you really dont know where to look sometimes. uh.. what else, lets see, SIMON was great, beautiful sexy, witty, charming.. and wow, what a dancer! NICK and those fabu glitter pants - i swear he's the only one who could pull those off and of course JOHN who is just the cutest thing ever. John, at one point said "do we really have to tell you how much we love you NYC, you already know - this is our second home... "

Toward the beginning of the show, Simon mentioned how it was great to be back at MSG with the OG line up after 21 years - saying "its really special for us and we knew we'd be back" it was really touching and i got a little misty :)

Sometimes when were down on the floor and they do a certain song like "Save a Prayer" I have to look around and back at the magnitude of the crowd and how just about everyone was singing along, holding up the lit up cell phones (instead of a lighter) and just be amazed by it all... its really mind blowing to me. You follow a band for over 22 years of your life and have this really special and personal connection, then you look around and realize, wow, look at all the lives they've touched... thats just fucking cool.

Props to Christian, who brought a Blow Up Doll to throw at Simon during "Bedroom Toys"! (In AC someone had handcuffs, but you cant' one-up the NYC durannie!) He must have spend the entire set during Juilet just blowing it up cos it was all ready to go by the time Bedroom Toys was being performed. LOL

Set List:

SUNRISE
HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF
PLANET EARTH
HOLD BACK THE RAIN
ASTRONAUT
I DON’T WANT YOUR LOVE
COME UNDONE
WHAT HAPPENS TOMORROW
REFLEX
TIGER TIGER
CHAUFFEUR
A VIEW TO A KILL
ORDINARY WORLD
SAVE A PRAYER
BEDROOM TOYS
NOTORIOUS
NICE
CARELESS MEMORIES
WILD BOYS

WHITE LINES
GIRLS ON FILM
RIO

no camera this time for me - sadly - i wish i brought it cos everyone in our section had one and we were so close i could have gotten great shots- oh well...

running a gamut of emotion: sad tired happy sick giddy and emotional. i can't believe our run of shows is over for now