My sister and niece Taliah had tickets to see Taylor Swift in her first ever\u00a0Australian concert, in Brisbane 2009. They surprised me with a ticket to join them as my Chrissy present….<\/p>\n
Taylor (15.3.2009)<\/strong><\/p>\n I went to Taylor’s first Australian concert, at the Tivoli in Brisbane. I’d never been to the venue before and relied on TomTom to get me there. We rounded the corner and there were atleast a thousand people lined up, three abreast down the street, around the corner and around the next corner! I was astounded – there were punters of all ages, though predominantly teenage-early 20’s girls.<\/p>\n The place was a sellout, no alcohol, no smoking and the room was absolutley buzzing with excitement. I mused to myself how Taylor could not mistake where she was, with the repeated chant of “TAYLA, TAYLA, TAYLA!” as opposed to the American accented pronunciation of her name.<\/p>\n For a young girl, she rocked the place very professionally but still showed signs of the teenage girlie when she spoke of her new love of Koalas – it was great to see she hasn’t lost that. She played the crowd like a veteran and it was the loudest crowd I have ever experienced at any venue for any artist! It was truley deafening – much thanks to the chick behind me with the psycho-death squeal which ripped through my skull every minute or so and nearly caused me to pass out where I stood!<\/p>\n Taylor had some interesting tricks and surprises and put on a great performance. Her vocals were sometimes drowned out by the crowd – most of whom knew every lyric to every song and sung them back with great gusto.<\/p>\n I have heard some people suggest that Taylor can’t sing – but if you were game enough to utter such a leaning among the crowd that night, I doubt you’d get out alive. The crowd went absolutely berserk and loved not only every word but every movement and especially some of Taylor’s posed looks of attitude. She’s a remarkably beautiful girl and seems to be in complete command of her powers.<\/p>\n Having said that, I have declared this concert to be the last of the standing room only, mosh-pit concerts for old Stevie. After lining up outside and standing inside for hours on end – I have seldom been so glad to finally sit down as when I made it back to the car that night. But then, I’m prone to laziness and hadn’t worn shoes for four months. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n Great show though – I like Taylor even more now than I did before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My sister and niece Taliah had tickets to see Taylor Swift in her first ever\u00a0Australian concert, in Brisbane 2009. They surprised me with a ticket to join them as my Chrissy present…. Taylor (15.3.2009) I went to Taylor’s first Australian concert, at the Tivoli in Brisbane. I’d never been to the venue before and relied … Continue reading Taylor Swift’s First Aussie Concert<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5K3B8-4n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}