Pacific Fair Date:21 May 2000 Vanessa Wore:A black cap (with writing on the front, but I don't know what it said), a black shirt that said "Atari Junkie", jeans and boots. Ok, well I'm re-writing
this gig review and so if it sounds dodgy, it's just because I'm going
from memory and that's a scary thought all round. Ok well I got to Pacific
Fair at around 10:30am (and had to catch a bus mind you cause my mum wouldn't
drive you, but trying to get a bus is a story in it's self). Vanessa wasn't
on till 2 (I think or maybe 1) so I had a few hours to wait. I didn't know
anyone there because I didn't have anything to do with the Vanessa community
that was on the net at that point (when I got home it was the first thing
I looked up). So basically I just had to sit and wait. After a while I
actually saw a friend of mine who I hadn't seen in ages, and it was her
fault that I didn't end up in the front of the crowd. She had convinced
me that it would be better to wait were the line for the autographs began....so
I ended up behind a bunch of parents with little kids (omg how angry do
they get) and if there's one thing I hate is parents that get violent trying
to get there kids at the front, but the kids are that young that they wouldn't
even know who Vanessa was or remember that they met her when they were
four. Ok, sorry back to the review (you can see one thing I hate at this
point I'm sure)...so Vanessa performed only three songs (which is not surprising
as that is normal for an instore). The songs being Shine, Have A Look and
Abs Everybody. During Abs she got some people up (the first person she
told to come up, which at the time I didn't know who she was, was Sarah,
which she thought was Amber), naturally I got up on stage and she told
us to dance which I must say I don't do, cause I can't, so instead I jumped
(if all else fails, which it usually does, that's my back up plan). So
after that we all hoped down from the stage and everyone made a run for
the autograph line (and you know what, my friend ended up at the back anyway
cause everyone pushed infront of her). I followed the crowd and ended up
pretty much the front of them line. I remember this part very well and
I remember being nervous as hell. I finally got up there and and couldn't
get over how normal Vanessa was, but that didn't stop me being nervous.
Vanessa's sister, Melissa, was sitting with her when I was up there. The
only words I manage to say were, "Hi, how's your rat?" and her reply,
"I haven't been home in a month so I haven't seen her" (she looked sad
about that). I got my copy of The Power signed and asked if I could get
a picture with her, and she stood up straight away and said yes, so I got
a picture and hopped off the stage. I sat around until Vanessa left, but
as she was leaving I asked if I could have another picture, which she was
fine about (and she turned down the next guy that asked her, mind you).
I was curious to see were she was off to next so with a few other people
already following her, I thought there'd be no harm in seeing were she
was heading (no I wasn't stalking her, much lol "j/k"), so I followed and
she went into this little room. Everyone waited around for about 5mins
and then they started to leave, I was the last one to leave, but just as
I was, out came Vanessa, she was leaving now, and just as she was about
to go I yelled out "Bye Vanessa" and she turned around and smiled and waved
while drinking her fruit juice (and she didn't let go of the juice once).
So that was my first Vanessa encounter, and that was what got me hooked,
what made me so passionate to support Vanessa.....because I could relate
to her, because she was so normal and down-to-earth and of course her music
blew me away (and for anyone who hasn't seen her live, she sounds so much
better live and CD's do her no justice). Rock on V!
Broadbeach Mall Date: Few days after the last instore, 2000 Vanessa Wore:A bone zip jacket with a snake skin patterned top underneath and long pants with lil checkers on them and her boots. Then got changed into a green and white top with a green jacket around her waist and jeans. I was in such a panic
about getting to this instore on time because I was running late and I
was scared I would get some really crap seating (with little kids and parents
everywhere AH!). I don't remember when Vanessa was on, but I do remember
I got there about 30mins before she was due to come on stage (thankfully
in true Vanessa style she is almost always late). I finally got there,
but had no idea where Vanessa was so I was running around the Oasis for
ages trying to find the stage (and believe me I was running, which would
have looked weird seeing this chic running around like a mad women yelling
to people that worked there, were the stage???). I did eventually get directions
and my worst fear was realised, I was stuck at the back!!! Ok so after
sitting there being pissed off that I could barely see, I thought I had
to take matters into my own hands, I pushed and I shoved and I excused
my way till I got just before the barricades. On the other side of the
barricades was VIP seating (which I tried to get by entering a comp), I
was waiting there thinking how great it would be to be in them and then
some guy yelled out "Any kids who can't see come to the front in the VIP
area". I remember thinking in my head "I may not be a kid, but hell I can't
see".....so I jumped the barricade and sat down in one of the VIP seats,
though I wasn't at the front of the stage because there were heaps of little
kids sitting on the ground right infront. Vanessa came on about 10mins
later and during the first songIi decided to make a break for the front
(even with the little kids) and I ended up having to jump over about 5
rows of seats (I ended up tripping on the last row, and stacked it, very
embarrassing) and I made it to the front, to the very very front, so close
I was touching the stage. It was raining at the time and the ground was
wet as, but I couldn't stand up because I would have blocked the VIP seating
area, so i had to sit on the ground whilst getting my arse completely drenched,
but I didn't care, I mean Vanessa was worse it anyway. After a while Vanessa
said something along the lines of "Well the weathers a bit sh....oh I can't
say that, there's little kids around" then she told us to get up cause
we are all gonna get wet arses (too late Vanessa) and she continued on
with the show. She did a full set this time, which included "Dolphin's
Cry" by Live and "Take Another Little Piece Of My Heart" by Janis Joplin.
She invited people up on stage during "The Power" and "Abs Everybody".
I got up during "Abs" and once again did my jumping cause like usual my
dancing failed me.
Twintowns Date:Thursday 5th and Friday 6th of April 2001 Vanessa Wore:A no-selved top that has a turtle neck and it is sparkly. The belt that she wore at the NYE gig and long pants that were kinda puffy looking and had these pull things just below her knees. Thursday On Thursday Alecia and myself arrived at Twintowns at about 6:15pm. We waited in the lobby for Mel (who is a legend cause she got us in). When she arrived with her sister we headed up stairs to wait in line to enter the Showroom. When we eventually got in Alecia and myself went up and said hello to Christian from Invertigo who knows us from previous concerts. Then we went and sat down (well got up a few times and spoke to Amber and Sarah). Invertigo were really really great and half way through the gig we went to the front of the stage. When Invertigo had finished Alecia, Mel and me went looking for Christian cause he told us to go out to the carpark if we wanted to see him before he went, but we eventually found him signing autographs up outside the Showroom (thanks for telling us). So after we said goodbye to the guys we headed back inside to the front of the stage to wait for Vanessa to come on stage. The lights went dark and the stage lights went red and out ran Vanessa’s new band and then finally out came Ness. She went straight into singing “Pray For Love”. The songs she sang in order were: Pray For Love
During “The Power” Vanessa let people up on stage to dance with her. I was one of those lucky people along with Alecia, Mel, Amber and Sarah, though it was a bit of hard to get up on the stage and I think anyone behind me would have been pissing myself cos I kept falling down everytime I tried to get up, though I did eventually). I also got to sing with Vanessa. The microphone was in the middle between me and her and she was right infront of me. Then when The Power had finished she patted my arm and said thanks for coming up. Then during “Have A Look” she asked us to repeat what she sang into the microphone. She stared off with something really easy but then at the end made it difficult and laughed at us cause we couldn't do it (just cause we arn't as talented at you V :P). It was a really great night and I had an awesome time making a fool out of myself. Haha!!! Friday Friday night began at about 7:00pm. Alecia and myself got to see a lot of the fans that night like Sarah and Amber (again), Amanda, Catherine~Rose and Shenelle. This night though Invertigo sung 2 fewer songs because Christian had food poisoning and wasn’t feeling well. During Chances Are (I think) I stuffed up the words a lil bit and Christian saw and he laughed at me, so that was a little embarrassing. By the time Vanessa came on we were all at the front of the stage with our cameras armed and ready to fire. She did the same songs, but when she sung “The Power” she didn’t invite anyone up, I have a feeling she might have got told off for getting us up last time. The highlight of Friday night would have had to off been at during the Band Intro for Absolutely Everybody. Vanessa did 2 sorta hand stand flip things and when she landed with the second one she slipped a lil bit and some how ended up lying on her stomach on the ground, cracking herself laughing. I don't know how she managed to do it but she ended up lying there for a while. Sadly after Abs Vanessa left and everyone was running everywhere trying to track her down. I didn't end up running in to her again, but I think Amber and Sarah did. Those to nights were some of the best of my life, and totally blew me away, with the talent that Vanessa has. Southbank Date:Sunday, 9th September 2001 I arrived at Southbank
at 9:30am even though the concert didn't start till 4pm. It was probably
the most boring thing I've ever had to do and did I mention it was hot
and there was no shade and nobody was there for ages (oh don't wear black
if u know your going to be in the sun ok?), but Vanessa did come out and
do a bit of a sound check so that did keep me interested. When 4pm finally
came the crowd was huge and everyone was ready for the show to begin. The
annoying thing was we couldn't stand up as the people behind us would yell
at us everytime we went to. Vanessa did an hour long concert and it absolutely
rocked except for the fact that the stage was 40m off the shore of Southbank
and I could barely see Vanessa (the added pain in the arse being I have
dodgy vision), but I can promise you I had no trouble hearing her. I think
I probably could have heard her still without the microphone in hand. She
did all her usual songs and blew the crowd away. Then when she finished
with Absolutely Everybody she was waving her hand to signal for us to stand
up so we did, even though I was a little scared I was gonna get something
throw at me from the crowd behind. Apart from that and the fact that I
could barely see, it was an awesome show and Vanessa rocked as always.
Twintowns II Date:Wednesday, 12th September Vanessa Wore:A white shirt that had a V-neck and no sleeves. Over that she had a black top that went down to her elbows. She wore a pair of like blue jeans and black shoes with the NYE belt (black with silver tacks in it). She also had a black long sleeved shirt around her waist. I arrived at Twintowns at 4:30pm. I had a fairly long wait till the doors opened (which was 8pm), but luckily for me I was waiting with some of the funniest and most amusing people I have ever met (it's amazing the amusement you can get out of a stuffed chicken). I also got to see Ness twice while waiting out there as she did a sound check (she had ago at one of the fans for eating McDonalds when she was heading out from the soundcheck) and we snuck in during the soundchecks, but had to hide in the corner so nobody saw us, lol it was really funny. When the doors finally did open at 8pm I headed in and was at the front row. Vanessa kicked the show off with Pray For Love, at just past 8:30pm. She basically did most of the same songs she did at the last gig, but also added in another two. They were called "Free Your Mind" and "Lift It Up". Vanessa invited us all to jump up on stage when The Power came on. It was so fun. Then after The Power was finished and I was about to hop off the stage she came up to me and said. "Thanks for coming up" just like she did last time. It was abit strange that the same thing has happened twice in a row, but I guess it just goes to prove Vanessa is very good to her fans. Vanessa continued through her songs urging everyone to sing, dance and clap and during "Have A Look" she shoved the microphone in my face and everyone heard my really (and I mean really) bad voice, which went much worse once I realized that there was a microphone infront of me. So, Thanks alot Ness. LOL. Ness rapped the night up the usual way with Absolutely Everybody. During Abs some lady jumped up on the stage and then her kids did too. After a while I joined them cause everyone else had. After Ness had left the stage I hopped down and went around to the side. I spoke to the security guard and showed him my Club VA card and waited there for this other guy. After a while the guy came out and got some stuff and took it back for it to be signed by Ness. I got my Fox Hat personally signed. Then all the people who were not with Club VA had to leave and the rest of us waited there for Vanessa to come out. When she did come out I got to get a photo with her and all my cds signed. Vanessa was soooo nice and friendly even though she did say she was tired and wanted to get to bed soon. It seems everytime I see Vanessa perform it gives me even more reason to love her music. Maroochydore - Sunshine Plaza Date: 27th
October 2002
Well, it’s been over a year since I last saw Ms Amorosi and I must say the wait was defiantly worth it. I hopped on a train
to Brisbane at 10:15am and arrived in Brissie at 11:35am. Then I spent
the next 30 mins trying to find Amanda, whom I was grabbing a lift to Maroochydore
with. Oh my god…I was so confused, I couldn’t figure out where Amanda was
and I was like freaking out thinking she was gonna leave with out me. AHHHHHHHH!!!
So anyway I finally found her and we started our long journey to Maroochydore,
mind you it wasn’t a bad trip…I couldn’t call 2 hours of listening to V
anything but awesome.
Twintowns III Date: 22 March, 2003 I hadn't seen Vanessa
since the Maroochydore gig, and that was over 6mths ago, so I was extremely
excited to be seeing her again, and this time doing a proper gig, full
set!
The set list was:
_______ACOUCTIC SET________ Back In Love
I Guess That’s Why
They Call It The Blues
SHORT INTERLUDE Shine
-----------------------------------ENCORE Lift It Up
------------------------------------------------ Vanessa blew everybody
in the room away, still made sure the crowd was involved in the show as
much as possible. Her gigs are very different to her earlier ones, with
a massive set list, a variety of styles and many covers that you'd swear
were the originals. She also includes an acoustic set, where just Vanessa
and Marcel preform, singing 'Back In Love' and 'Tent'. A classic Ness moment
happened when V began to sing 'Back In Love', she not only forgot the words,
but had to ask us what they were. Then she skipped to the chorus, but couldn't
stop laughing, because we were laughing at her and she decided to skip
the whole song, so we heard about 30 secs of 'Back In Love'. Haha! Also
during the acoustic set, Vanessa mentioned one of her old music teachers,
who was in the audience and V deticated 'Tent' to her.
Other Peoples Encounters Name: Catherine-Rose Date: Sometime in July 2000 Vanessa Wore:
White singlet with blue stripe and white stars, black pants, orange belt
Me and my friend
Lisa heard Vanessa was playing at an underage party which happens one sunday
once a month, I thought I couldn't go because I didn't have $20 and it
would be sooo packed, but I found out if I was to buy a ticket it would
have been ticket number 5, So I thought "what the hell".
Anyway when arrived at the concert at 12:30pm *it was opening at 1pm but Ness wasn't onstage til 4:30pm*. We got in and went the front of that stage, my friend Lisa went and got refreshments while I held our spot, then we saw Nessa come in the side dorr and scramble up the stairs at around 4pm the crowd screamed, she poked her head out, did a cheesy smile and ran up the stairs to get ready, then we heard that starting to 'Pray for love' the crowd thought it was another song they were playing to keep us happy, but I think I was the only Amorosi fan there! I screamed and cheered and people stared I sat on the front of the stage and Ness came out, I think then the crowd realised what I was doing, she sang the song and afterwards told me to get my butt of stage if I wasn't in the band I poked my toungue out at her and she laughed, I hopped off and she talked for awhile, then she goes "I don't know if anyone knows this song but here goes" and 'Absolutely Everybody' started and the crowd screamed and I was singing along with everyone else *The sad thing was though that the people only knew the words to Shine, Absolutely Everybody and parts of Have a look tsk tsk* she finished that and went into 'Dolphins cry' by Live of course I sang out loud to that to, after that she sat down and was telling everyone about her album, I jumped up and down showing off mine she said "yep yep thats it, calm down girl, I don't want to kill a fan" then she stood up and as soon as she said "This song is dedicated to Liana Sabec" I knew it was 'Shine' she did the version that she did on The Panel, then she sang 'The Power','U R Mine','I wanna be your everything' and she was saying how most of us wouldn't know the next song as the single was going to be realeased the next day *it was 'Shine'* and she sang 'Steam' but I had already visited Napster and saw 'Steam', I hadn't heard it downloaded it, learnt it, then deleted it..she saw me singing it, and when the rap was sposed to be one she asked how I knew the words, I said I had the internet, and she nodded and laughed and continued singing then she did one chorus acoustically of 'Absolutely Everybody' and then she said bye. I thought that was the end, but me being me, I went up to a security guard who standing infront of some stairs, I asked him where Vanessa was and he pointed to the top of the stairs and he said "You wanna see her aye" I was like yeah totally..and he told me she wasn't doing signings for another ten minutes as she was showering and getting changed I sighed and walked away having to wait and the guard said to me "That doesn't mean I aint gonna let you go up" he let me and my friend Lisa through without anyone seeing us, he closed off the stairs I went up and waited and Ness came out and was surprised we were there early, I talked to her for awhile and when people started coming in a backed away with my friend Lisa and watched everyone come and go, and she asked me if I wanted my album signed I got her to, I was so caught up in the moment i forgot to get he to sign my cd, and the inside cover, oh well, then I gave her a letter and told her I wanted to be a singer aswell, she asked me to sing ssomething I sang a peice of SHINE and she gave me a small round of applause and told me never give up, I said goodbye to her and got hug, my friend Lisa did take a phoyo of me and her and I did take a hoto of her and Lisa and of the concert but Kodak stuffed up my pics..so I havenothing but a memory and signiture, if I see her again I am sure to take my mums camera and a good roll of film and I wont forget all my singles and the power!!! If you have any Vanessa Encounters that you would like me to put up please send them to: w2h0i0t0@hotmail.com
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