Last night I was so excited to see one of my all time favourite performers the legendary Jimmy Barnes!!!

I saw Jimmy perform twice before over ten years ago, so I couldn’t wait to see if he still had the same venom!
To mark the occasion I made special promo shirts to wear and the ladies in the crowd were asking me if I brought mine at the merchandise stall so they could buy one.

The show started with Jimmy’s daughter Mahalia as the support act. Although I found Mahalia to have a beautiful and strong voice, I was alittle disappointed with the overall performance and heard alot of similar comments. Her appearance looked like she had just woken up and she wore what appeared to be a blanket with holes for limbs, inside out with the tag hanging out the back! (Unless this is a new trend I don’t know of yet) She also did not really work the stage or engage the audience and we spent most of the performance looking at her back.

After a short break my disappointment quickly disappeared when her father appeared and the stage came to life!

Now Jimmy was dressed to impress, oozing confidence and professionalism working the stage and crowd at the same time! He told us a story before each song of when they were written, where and what they were about. His voice and high powered scream had me mesmerised and my legs couldn’t stop tapping as I just wanted to dance like there was no tomorrow making it very hard to sit still.

His musicians were extremely skilled especially a guitar player on the right that was very charismatic and amusing working the stage around Mr Barnes. The two and a half hour nonstop performance from a man, who had recently undergone heart surgery, was engaging, entertaining and enthralling creating an electric atmosphere!
The crowd was screaming, singing, cheering, whistling, applauding and full of diehard fans from our Fraser Coast.

The man is a Legend, a true performer!