Friday the fifth of December was a beautiful summers day (a rare occurrence lately)! We started the evening off by going to the Corner Hotel's rooftop kitchen for dinner and drink before walking over to Rod Laver. As we walked onto the floor Scribe said goodnight and walked off the stage, we were all glad about this. After a short wait Nas and his band came out and played a fantastic set. I do wish he had played his older songs in full instead of a medley of older songs and then the new (crapper) songs in full. For some reason Nas was censoring himself as well...what was all that about?
Kanye's first song was Paranoid (off 808s & Heartbreak)and i was so incredibly pumped because i love the new album and had heard he wasnt going to play any songs from it besides love lockdown and heartless. Someone Kanye made all the new songs go for about 15 mins each whilst he whinged over the top of them, at some stages people in the audience just started having conversations with one another and the murmur of conversation could be heard clearer than kanye himself! The whole 'penny' throwing incident ended up being entertainment for a crowd that was getting slightly restless.
The show was, after all, wrongly promoted as the Glow In The Dark tour (which was amazing and i saw it at the start of the year). So instead of only playing 2 songs of 808s & Heartbeak, kanye instead played many songs of that album and the others were mainly from graduation (with a few older hits scattered and cut sort in between).
I forgot what song but at one stage Kanye FORGOT THE LYRICS and instead mumbled the line. best thing to see! Mr. Perfect fucks up.
all in all, the show was at times boring and not at all as good as i had expected. Glad i saw him at the beginning of the year when he was far more entertaining.
