Bon Jovi Rocked Socks Off Sydney! Post by: Pete & Friends 18 December, 2010 - 12:36 AM

As he strode onstage to a screaming, waving, cheering Sydney Football Stadium, Jon Bon Jovi told Sydney, "This ain't television! Get out of your seats... Stand up everyone!"

We obeyed, and we didn't stop dancing until the show was over.

The atmosphere was electric. We brought the party and Bon Jovi brought the music. Awesome.

He said thank you to Sydney for all the years of support and the fact they attracted such a big crowd.

"Not bad for a bunch of old blokes!" laughed Jon Bon Jovi.

There's something about songs that you've sung for twenty years, drunk, sad, really bloody happy ... that gives them a timelessness.

The great thing was the Bon Jovi boys seem frozen in time as well.

As soon as they strum that first riff, it's like you're back in the place you first heard the track.

Bon Jovi unanimously rocked the socks off Sydney Football Stadium on Friday night as thousands screamed for more.

By every measure of rockin' greatness, the concert was amazing, with every song a hit.

As Triple M listener/Facebook friend of Triple M Sydney's The Grill Team Michael said, "F***in' unreal best concert I've ever been to!"

Fellow listener/Facebook friend Victoria agreed. "Awesome Awesome Awesome!!!"

The only lacking was one Jov classic missing from the set list. "Gutted they didn't play "Always," Daniel, Triple M listener and Facebook friend of the Grill Team said.

Despite this oversight, Jon and the boys sure gave Sydney a show to remember.

Setlist:
Blood on Blood
We Weren't Born to Follow
You Give Love a Bad Name
Born to Be My Baby
Lost Highway
Whole Lot of Leavin'
In These Arms
It's My Life
No Apologies
We Got It Goin' On
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead / Start Me Up
Bad Medicine / Old Time Rock 'n' Roll
Lay Your Hands on Me [Richie vocal]
(You Want to) Make a Memory
I'll Be There For You
Something for the Pain
Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
Work for the Working Man
Have a Nice Day
Who Says You Can't Go Home
Keep the Faith
These Days
Wanted Dead or Alive
Livin' on a Prayer

Leave your comment

• Cindy Becroft` says

  I was at the show last night and I really enjoyed myself. They did a fabulous job. Bon Jovi are the best.

  Posted Saturday 18 December, 2010 8:44 AM
• Sally says

  Thanks guys! Another truly awesome show - Bon Jovi does it again! Great to see you back in Aus and in a stadium setting where you belong!!

  Posted Saturday 18 December, 2010 11:24 AM
• Mike Kavanagh says

  What a setlist, no wonder everyone was on their feet from start to finish.
  True class never goes out of fashion.
  Rock on Jon.

  http://www.theweathervanestory.com

  Posted Saturday 18 December, 2010 12:11 PM
• Kristie Walters says

  Bloody AWESOME! He's HOT HOT HOT.

  Posted Saturday 18 December, 2010 2:09 PM
• Rebecca Herning says

  Last night's show (17th) was the best show I have ever seen from Bon Jovi. In all my 17yrs of seeing them live, this concert left me wanting more... I only wish that i could go to the show on sunday night... I have never screamed or yelled that much in my life!!!

  Posted Saturday 18 December, 2010 5:02 PM
• Donna O'Brien says

  The concert was awesome! Two and a half hours of the best rock and roll band in the world. They rocked the stage better than guys half their age! Loved it and wish I was there again tonight, tomorrow night and every night!!!

  Posted Saturday 18 December, 2010 7:26 PM
• Carolina says

  Had such a great time last night. The boys put on an amazing show. If there had been a roof on the stadium, it would have been lifted into the stratosphere. The energy level was awesome.

  Tried so hard to win the VIP tickets for tomorrow night ... if you have any left over, I'd gladly take them off your hands.

  Security code = Softer... I don't think so!!!

  Posted Saturday 18 December, 2010 7:48 PM
• Andrew says

  I went to U2 on Tuesday and thought that was a great concert and would be hard to top.

  Boy was I wrong! Bon Jovi was so good that it made U2 look average!

  It was a surreal experance to see 40 thousand+ people standing and singing word for word living on a prayer if the place had a roof it would have blown off!

  10/10

  Posted Sunday 19 December, 2010 9:16 AM
• Vicki Tirendi says

  The Friday 17th Sydney show was another great night in history. Bon Jovi didn't disappoint, and my son and I stood and danced and sang the whole concert through.

  The guys are 'old enough' to have fans of two generations, a nice aspect for my Son and I. We also went to Brisbane on the 14th, and again, Jon Bon Jovi has the ability to make you feel like it's an intimate club setting, and everyone is standing within 20 meters of the band.

  Opening with 'Blood on Blood' on both nights we went was a great way to start the crowd going, and it didn't stop till the lights went out, and Jon, two shirt changes later, disappeared from the stage, a final wave to the thousands of fans who would have stood their all night to hear Bon Jovi perform. A great memory.

  Posted Sunday 19 December, 2010 2:26 PM
• Dez Sguras says

  I FINALLY GOT THERE!! BLOODY BRILLIANT. Saw Friday night show. Missed Lost Highway tour because of young babies. Last time I saw them was 1993. Can't wait for next tour and please make it soon!!!!
  LOVE YOU!!

  Posted Sunday 19 December, 2010 4:52 PM

• First
• Prev
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• Next
• Last