Sound Relief
| Sound Relief | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | pop, rock, country, Hip Hop |
| Dates | March 14, 2009 |
| Location(s) | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney |
| Founders | Michael Gudinski and Michael Chugg |
| Website | www.soundrelief.com.au |
Sound Relief was a multi-venue rock music concert held on 14 March 2009, which was announced by the Premier of Victoria, John Brumby on 24 February 2009.[1][2] The event was organised by Michael Gudinski and Michael Chugg to raise funds for those affected by the February 2009 Victorian bushfires and Queensland Floods.[1][2]
The event was held simultaneously at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the Sydney Cricket Ground.[1] All the proceeds from the Melbourne Concert and half of the proceeds of the Sydney Concert went to the Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal.[1][2] The other half of the Sydney proceeds went to the Queensland Premier's Disaster Relief Appeal to help flood victims.[1][2]
A special presentation was held mid-way through the concerts, with a satellite link between the two venues. At this time, Kylie Minogue, at the Melbourne event, performed I Still Call Australia Home and Princes William and Harry sent their support via satelitte. Jet and Wolfmother flew interstate to play at both concerts.
Footage was released on DVD on October 9. It contains partial 9-hour footage of the 16-hour concert but every artist who performed at the event is represesnted. The DVD debuted at #2 in the Australian ARIA Top 40 DVDs, has been certified 4× Platinum.[3]
The Concerts
Melbourne Cricket Ground
The line-up for the Melbourne concert featured:[4]
- Jet - "Rip it Up", "Are You Gonna Be My Girl", "Get Me Outta Here", "Look What You've Done" (12:10PM)
- Gabriella Cilmi - "Don't Wanna Go To Bed Now", "Sweet About Me", "Save the Lies", "Whole Lotta Love" (12:55PM)
- Kings of Leon - "Crawl", "Revelry", "On Call", "Use Somebody"(1:40PM)
- Paul Kelly - "Dumb Things", "To Her Door", "God Told Me To", "Leaps and Bounds", "How to Make Gravy", "Meet me in the Middle of the Air" (2:20PM)
- Augie March - "Lupus", "Pennywhistle", "Brundisium", "There Is No Such Place", "This Train Will Be Taking No Passengers", "One Crowded Hour" (3:05PM)
- Bliss N Eso with Paris Wells - "Up Jumped The Boogie", "Eye of the Storm", "Bullet and a Target", "Remember Me", "Party at my Place", "Field of Dreams", "The Sea is Rising" (3:50PM)
- Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson with Troy Cassar-Daley (4:35PM)
- Liam Finn special appearance by Crowded House - "Second Chance", "Lead Balloon", "Don't Dream It's Over", "Weather With You", "Better Be Home Soon" (5:30PM)
- Jack Johnson - "Banana Pancakes", "Times Like These", "Better Together" (6:20PM)
- Wolfmother - "Back Round", "Dimension", "Woman", "White Unicorn", "Joker and the Thief" (7:00PM)
- Kylie Minogue - "I Still Call Australia Home" (7:50PM)
- Hunters & Collectors - "When the River Runs Dry", "Do You See What I See", "Blind Eye", "Say Goodbye", "Holy Grail", "Throw Your Arms Around Me", "The Slab" (encore) (8:00PM)
- Split Enz - "Shark Attack", "Poor Boy", "I Got You", "Message to My Girl", "Dirty Creature", "Pioneer", "Six Months in a Leaky Boat", ""History Never Repeats", "I See Red" (8:55PM)
- Midnight Oil - "Redneck Wonderland", "Read About It", "Blue Sky Mine", "Advance Australia Fair" (instrumental), "One Country", "Beds Are Burning", "King Of The Mountain", "The Dead Heart", "Power and the Passion", "Best Of Both Worlds", "Sometimes" (encore) (9:50)
A number of celebrities shared the MC duties between performances, including music industry icon Molly Meldrum, music producer and event co-organiser Michael Gudinski, Victorian premier John Brumby, skateboarder Tony Hawk and announcers from a range of radio stations, including Dave Hughes, Ed Kavalee, Hamish and Andy and Red Symons.
Hunters & Collectors reunited for the first time in over 10 years for the concert. Midnight Oil also made a comeback with lead singer Peter Garrett, Australia's Minister for Environment and the Arts.
Some members of Crowded House made a surprise appearance with Liam Finn to perform three of their hits. Kings of Leon chose not to perform their popular #1 hit, Sex on Fire, out of respect for the bushfire victims.
During Split Enz's performance of "I See Red", Red Symons walked across the stage, so vocalist Tim Finn literally did "see Red"
The MCG concert sold out quickly[5], with over 80,000 tickets sold[6]. That makes the Melbourne event the largest paid concert event in Australian history.[7]
Sydney Cricket Ground
The line-up for the Sydney concert featured:[8]
- Coldplay - "Life in Technicolor", "Yellow", "Lost!", "Clocks", "Viva La Vida", "You're the Voice" (featuring John Farnham), "Fix You" (Encore) (12:15PM)
- Wolfmother
- Hoodoo Gurus
- Little Birdy
- Architecture In Helsinki
- You Am I - "Frightfully Moderne", "It Ain't Funny How We Don't Talk Anymore", "Gunslingers", "How Much is Enough", "Berlin Chair", "Thank God I've Hit The Bottom", "The Piano up the Tree" (3:40PM)
- Josh Pyke
- Marcia Hines (Special Performance)
- Taylor Swift
- Eskimo Joe
- Jet
- The Presets - "Talk Like That", "Yippiyo-Ay", "Are You The One?", "This Boy's In Love", "Kicking And Screaming", "My People"
- Icehouse
- Barry Gibb with Olivia Newton John
Coldplay singer Chris Martin memorably ran into the crowd halfway through their song Fix You.
Eskimo Joe and Jet both premiered new songs that had not been released yet. Eskimo Joe sung "Foreign Land" and Jet sang "She's A Genius"
Little Birdy sang "Six Months in a Leaky Boat" in Sydney and Split Enz would sing it at Melbourne later that night. This is one of four songs to be performed at both concerts. The others are "Woman" by Wolfmother and "Rip it Up" and "Are You Gonna be my Girl?" by Jet.
Media coverage
ABC radio network Triple J broadcast live music from both venues using their own live music team.
The event was also screened on Max and Channel V, covering the Sydney and Melbourne concerts respectively.
Triple M, Nova and Vega broadcast live from both Sydney and Melbourne.
References
- ^ a b c d e Brumby, John (2009-02-24). "Artists Unit For 'Sound Relief' Bushfire Benefit - Premier of Victoria, Australia". Premier of Victoria. Retrieved 2009-02-25.
- ^ a b c d Mitchell, Geraldine (2009-02-24). "Coldplay, Kings of Leon to headline bushfire relief concerts". Herald Sun. The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd. Retrieved 2009-02-25.
- ^ "Award for bushfire gigs". 2009-07-28. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
- ^ "SOUND RELIEF :: MELBOURNE LINEUP".
- ^ http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=128150
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