It was a very, very full ICC for Tina Arena. As the crowd shuffled into the room, it was clear to see that Arena draws a wide and varied crowd. It's probably to be expected after 40 years in the game.

Of course, that's what the evening's proceedings were all about - celebrating Arena's four decades in music. Once the crowd were seated, it wasn't long before a video montage began. There was footage from the entirety of her career, flashing back throughout her current album, her ARIA Hall of Fame inductee speech, all the way back to footage of her Young Talent Time performance of Macarthur Park. Just as the crowd were being taken on the journey with the young singer, Arena stepped through the middle panel screen at the back of the stage and took over the vocals from her younger self. If you were there and didn't get overcome with emotion at that point, you have no soul.

Surprisingly, there was a scuffle between a front row patron and a photographer. Arena continued on throughout her song without acknowledging it, then moved onto Heaven Help My Heart. She wrapped up, welcomed the crowd and apologised to the crowd at the front that photographers can sometimes obstruct their view. There were big cheers as she moved onto a refreshed version of Sorrento Moon and then I Need Your Body, where she was joined by her backing singers for a synchronised dance routine before disappearing for a costume change. There was a huge cover of Foreigner's I Want To Know What Love Is and all too quickly it was time for an intermission break. Not before "the one that started it all" - Chains.

The second half of the show began with In Command and rolled on into Symphony Of Life and Woman. The backing singers again came to the front of the stage while extra platforms were added. A select few from the band joined Arena on the largest platform for a reimagined version of Wasn't It Good. The show went quickly, between costume changes and the elaborate video show, and it soon reached the finale. Now I Can Dance was a fitting end for the main show, with Arena asking the crowd to jump up and dance along (not before checking with the previously fighting front row patron that it was fine with them). She disappeared after few tears and huge cheers, returning after encore calls around five minutes later. You Set Fire To My Lifesets closed the show and dammit you know she lit fire to that room.