The Living End

"The previous record of [sold out shows at] the Corner was five shows,” Cheney gleams. They haven’t just eclipsed the record, jointly held by Megan Washington and Matt Corby, they’ve smashed it.

At 51:45 it’s their longest album and, to accommodate, the banter is kept to a minimum tonight.

Though White Noise is far from The Living End’s strongest album, they deliver it with such passion and verve that it’s hard not to get caught up in the moment.

With ten more shows to go, it will be hard to top tonight.

"You know what? I think it’s one thing to book a tour like this and just play all those songs, but we didn’t wanna bluff our way through and just sort of play it; we wanna actually [punches the table to emphasise each word] nail every single song."

"It all came back quite easily, and when it came back it brought with it a whole bunch of memories as well. So it’s been a really, really great experience going back over all of those records.”

“It’s not about the accolades or how many payers or much merch we sold... It’s really about, ‘Shit that felt good when we played’. You hope that never leaves you.”

"When you do tours like this people are always like, ‘Aw, yeah, here they go. They’re gonna do this farewell kind of tour,’ and it’s not that at all – this is more of an event."

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