07 October 2010
Most of the crowd were stuck in the ridiculously long line outside of Sydney’s Big Top at Luna Park for Michael Paynter’s support act. Those who did make it in could have easily mistaken the high-pitched Paynter for a female soprano before seeing the Aussie up-and-comer. Paynter finished with his radio release Love The Fall followed by an amicable rendition of Michael Jackson’s The Way You Make Me Feel and his ballad Let Go.
Girlfriends sipped on their Barcardi Breezer’s with one hand and dragged their reluctant partners close to the stage with the other. Opening with You Won’t Feel A Thing and Talk You Down this was The Script’s last show on their Australian Tour.
O’Donoghue’s hip hop monologue in their track We Cry seemed slightly juxtaposed against his soft choral counterpart but showed his vocal flexibility nonetheless. The Dublin frontman crouched down at the front of the stage and extended his mic toward a screeching fan, for us back-standers it sounded like a cat had just been pummelled with the mic.
"We have to put that into perspective, that's a brand new song," stated O’Donoghue after playing an aurally perfect If You Ever Come Back.
O’Donoghue switched back to the Roland and Sheehan switched to acoustic guitar for crowd favourite Before The Worst. By this time the Coke-sipping designated drivers had stopped pretending they didn’t know the words and had begun to sway along gaily.
The bands track about losing Sheehan’s mother The End Where I Begin was a highlight for the raw emotion apparent on the guitarists face. For an album written “in a very crappy shed” the Dublin boys drew a devout crowd, some even proved their loyalty by waving Irish flags.
Other stand-out tracks were I’m Yours written “pissed” at 4am and Nothing, about the pains of drunk-dialling.
"The moral to that story is, don't drink and use your fucking phone," said Sheehan.
Encore tracks For The First Time and Break Even, the bands most known songs at the Big Top were a worthy farewell, and the promise they would be back made it easier for some fans to leave.
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