I went to the Robbie William's concert in Adelaide last night with Sarah and Mon. The venue was a football (AFL) park with grandstands and seating reserved for gold and silver tickets, and general admission onto the playing field. We were on the top level of the grandstand, toward the back. We had a decent view of the stage so despite being far away and Robbie looking like a stick figure, we still had heaps of fun. It was definitely enjoyable. I'm not a huge Robbie fan, to be honest with you, but I know and enjoy some of his songs for sure! Still, with the atmosphere and the lighting and effects, and in the company of two very good friends who are huge fans, I was able to get into the swing of things.

Before the concert even started, a couple of police officers came up the aisle next to where we were sitting and went to the back of the grandstand (only 5 or so rows away) and pulled out four mysterious carboard packages. Apparently some of the concert-goers had found them and called for police assistence as nobody was claiming them as theirs. The police put plastic gloves on to open the boxes, and pulled out some sort of mechanical/electrical contraption with wires hanging out ... and then put them all back in and carried the boxes away. So, it looked bomb-ish, but I don't really know what the truth was. That was a bit scary - especially the police officer opening the box and pulling out the contents - not very safe for bystanders if it had turned out to be the worst possible explanation.

I would probably have liked to have left at the point, but my friends were in control of the transportation, so I was much at their mercy, lol. In the end however, it was a fun night with no other scary happenings!

After the initial drama, the concert got under way (not that it was ever held up by the discovery in our area). The opening lights and special effects were very dramatic (in fact, in the end this was the best element of the whole night for me). Among the songs he did were Millenium, Let Me Entertain You, Rock DJ, Kids, Rudebox, Angels, Come Undone, Strong, and Sin Sin Sin. Some people got into it a little too much and threw their bras onto the stage! (Not me, I am too poor and too attached to my sexy lingerie to throw it about like that.)

At the end, we managed to get out rather smartly - after the initial bottleneck caused by everyone trying to exit their seats all at once. When we were outside of the stadium, people were milling about and in some areas had stopped entirely due to too much foot traffic. Sarah employed her usual nightclub tactic. She grabbed Mon's hand, and Mon grabbed mine, and then just towed us through the crowd at an almost-run (I was just dragged along by the two of them - I can't work out if that was a positive or a negative, lol, but it was certainly to do with being the smallest of the three and at the end of the chain). People seem to clear for people running, and also you get to the gaps quicker than anyone else. All in all were exited the venue and got home in around a total of 30 - 40 minutes ... which given that there was a crowd of sixty thousand, was really not too bad at all.