Got the train to Sydney Olympic Park and walked past all the stadia for the 2000 Olympics and found the arena. It was huge!
Got to our amazing seats (right in the middle at the front of the second tier) and the show began.
Waters thrashed through 'In The Flesh?' with some fireworks and a plane crashing into the wall which was slowly being built up song by song.
He did 'Mother' whilst playing footage from the first time Floyd did The Wall live at Earls Court which was pretty cool.
The visuals were amazing and the wall got higher and higher with projections on to it changing as the show progressed. He did a nice little extra bit to honour Jean Charles de Menezes and his untimely death saying that in the eyes of the government he was just another brick in the wall.
First part finished with the wall complete and it was enormous. The final brionk went in with the 'goodbye' lyric and we went for a drink.
Second half started with 'Hey You' (as you would expect) and there was just a small room cut out of the wall with Roger in it and a TV. The show went on through, 'Nobody Home', 'Vera', 'Bring the Boys Back Home' (complete with some extremely emotional footage of kids seeing their dads back from the war), a beautiful 'Comfortably Numb' and all the classics through to an eery 'The Trial' at the end of which the whole wall crashed down.
The band did the final song and then 'Waltzing Matilda' for the Aussie crowd and we left. Spoke to some die hard Floyd fans and then caught the busy train back to Sydney city and walked home.
It was a mind-blowingly good gig and just shows how well albums of true quality fair against time. Thanks Claire!
