Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, and another city we haven't been to in 14 years or so and wow, has this town grown up as well. with a population of around 2 million. The city skyline is quite different from what I remember but the coastline still seems as beautiful as ever, at least from the plane! The only drag of course is the traffic! It's gone nuts. You'd think the powers that be would accommodate this into their growth strategies?? Where will it all end? Still, the people here seem to be as pleasant as ever and the crowd at tonight's show at the entertainment theatre was great.

Once again, Richard and Glenn aka. the Maui twins performed at the meet'n'greet. Rapturous applause was the reception. Management (Paul Crockford in cool Mambo shirt that looks like he's wearing a chest full of backstage passes) keeping a watchful eye on the proceedings.




Onto the show...another great Australian Entertainment centre show. Another warm appreciative crowd. a suitable evening to say farewell to Australia once again. As ever, it feels strangely difficult to leave this wonderful country. I've been here five times now and it never really gets any easier to leave, especially as this time I've met up with a few mates who have emigrated from the UK and set up over here. Needless to say, none of them regret making the move in the slightest.

After a load-in, Tim Myer likes to get away from it all - relaxing in the bass case


Baldoni becomes hypnotised with the great Dr. Fletch organ (solo) in Brothers in arms.



a cool shot taken by Harry (drum tech) from stage-right across stage



close-up of Glenn during the meet'n'greet performance.



This is Kerry Lewis. He's the guy off the left hand side of the stage in front of his enormous desk who we rely on for our in-ear mixes. Each one of us in the band has a seperate monitor mix which Kerry gives us, sometimes quite different for each song. You can see his list of presets for each song in the set. It's very much a hands-on job and he's constantly adjusting and tweaking as we go. We all use radio packs which attach to our trouser belts, each tuned to a different frequency, this enables us to move about freely and means the stage isn't cluttered with old fashioned 'wedge' monitors.



off to new Zealand....Maori welcoming committee nervously anticipated!..........