The Peter Pan of Poodle Rock

I love the smell of grass with live music.

Well, the Bon Jovi concert last night was just amazing. The man has still got it. That was proper stadium rock.

It was a strange crowd there though, a real mix. There were people who would have been fans in the eighties, people who are too young to have been fans in the eighties, and people who should have known better in the eighties. But whatever the make-up of the crowd, 30,000 people singing and cheering and shouting and screaming certainly makes for an awesome atmosphere. He really knows how to work an audience too. And coming out for the encore in a Crusaders shirt was a sure way to endear himself to Cantabrians.

The whole thing was just mammoth, and they were on stage for a full two and a half hours. As the man himself said New Jersey is a long way from Christchurch, he doesn't fly out till today and he had nowhere else to go. They played some of the stuff off the new album but plenty of the old favourites too and even threw in a couple of covers. All in all it was 150 minutes of proper entertainment. Well worth the entry fee.

And the support band weren't too bad either.

Oh, and Jon Bon Jovi must have a portrait in his attic back in New Jersey or something because he looks exactly the same as he always did. Ritchie Sambora, on the other hand, looks how Jon should.

The concert was a great way to celebrate our six month NZ anniversary. Is it really half a year since we landed in Auckland ready to begin the next chapter of our lives? 27th July 2007 seems like a lifetime away now. So much has happened since then. Oh hang on, we landed in Nuzziland on 25th July. Our six month celebration should have been on Friday and we missed it. Oh well.