1. REBEL REBEL

Sydney you crazy mother fuckers, how are ya? For the second time in a row. You know it's STILL good to be back ...... musically.

2. NEW KILLER STAR

3. AFRAID

4. FAME

What's your name? OK we've got a Marilyn here. Do we have any more Marilyn's? A lot of blokes answered that. A lot of blokes called Marilyn in this audience tonight. This does not surprise me. Oh but you're still beautiful the lot of you. Have you had a great day? Wasn't it nice today? What shall we chat about now.? Let's not chat at all, let's do some more music, right?

5. CACTUS

That was a song about a dress. You wait until I start the songs about the women.

Ah this is an old one. We are going to throw in a few new ones from last night. Oh that's for the four of you who came last night. How about this one?

6. PANIC IN DETROIT

This is a new song. Well it's a new song that we've recorded. It's actually very old. It was written in the mid 70s by a guy called Jonathan Richman from a band called Modern Lovers. This one is called quite poetically 'No one called Pablo Picasso an arshole'.

7. PABLO PICASSO

You say 'yeah yeah, enough of this new stuff. Why don't you do something we know?' Heartfelt agreement. Couldn't agree more. I want something I know.

8. ALL THE YOUNG DUDES

Do you know how good that was? It was so good, I'm gonna let you sing the next song on your own. And I'm just gonna watch.

9. CHINA GIRL (AUDIENCE VERSION)

Fucking tragic! Alright, I'll sing this one but you'll have to sing all the others. I'll tell you what deal - well alternate - I'll do this one you do the next.


There's a goth girl. Look I've got a goth girl in the audience. Hi darling. How you doing? Got the teeth? Oh yes I see you have.

10. CHINA GIRL

Thank you. Can we have some more of that? This is Tristan. Tristan's a hobbit. I bought him in New Zealand. I'm serious. Hey Tristan, how are you enjoying it on tour? It's good innit? It's better than those fucking hills, right? Thank you Tristan. He's sorting out my cable. So it's your turn now? We'll your in luck because the next one is instrumental.

11. A NEW CAREER IN A NEW TOWN

That's called A New Career in a New Town. I wrote that a long time ago. It's from an album called Low. This is a new song comparatively. Not comparitively.....that's just being pretentious. This is a new song period. Not comparatively at all. Because comparative would be many years ago.

There's a town in Brasil called Brasillia and it looks like one of the loneliest places in the world. And all the undergrowth is growing back through the stone work. And this song came from that image.

12. THE LONELIEST GUY

A very early album that I had....it meant a lot on me.....I enjoyed working on it very much and this song is the title track from that album and it's called:

13. THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD

14. HALLO SPACEBOY

15. SUNDAY

On guitar, that's EARL SLICK. His worked with on and off since 1974.

Someone whose worked with me even longer than that.....he came with me on the first Spiders trip to America and he is keyboardist MIKE GARSON.

He looks a dream in padded shoulders and stack heel boots.

(Repeats) He looks a dream in padded shoulders and stack heel boots.

That's interesting, those lines play much better to that side of the house.

On keyboards and congas is a fine woman who believe it or not was a leading professor in Quattrocento Italian history before she joined this band. She is just talented in everything she does and touches....speak over seven languages......CATHERINE CAT RUSSEL.

We feel very privileged to be able to put her away from the University at this particular time of the year because it's coming up to marking and books and.....what a bunch of shit I'm talking.

You're not a Professor of Quattrocento Italian stuff are you? And you're not a professor of Paleontology are you? Oh right! I knew one of you was.

How ya doing, alright?

(screams from the audience)

You're much politer than last night's audience. You must be the Saturday night crowd. And you know what, I don't mind. I'm actually relieved because I had to just shout and shout to get them to shut up. So this is kind of pleasant for me. (more shouts from the audience) Alright you'll be up here in a minute!

On drums......STERLING CAMPBELL.

Sterling worked on loads of stuff with me......Black Tie White Noise, the Outside album, Reality - you name it, he was on most of it.

And on guitar from Ireland and a professor of what I made up.....GERRY LEONARD.

This ladies got something new to show you.

Flex darling flex.

(cheers from the audience)

She started that last week when we came to Sydney. It's pretty impressive isn't it?

I wrote a song with Freddie Mercury in the 80s. And obviously I'm going to have do it for you now? Freddies vocal part could only ever be done by one other person in my opinion and that is......miss GAIL ANN DORSEY

16. UNDER PRESSURE

Gail Ann Dorsey. Lovely girl.


17. LIFE ON MARS?

Mike Garson on keyboard.

Actually I like this one. This one's called:

18. LOOKING FOR WATER

Here's a challenge. Here's a song we have not done on tour at all. This is a debut for the song. Errr....it was first recorded by ABBA. We're not doing that one today? This one comes from Hunky Dory. Well do our best but I just wanted to do this one tonight. It's called:

19. QUICKSAND

Thank you. Well done guys. That was......that good. You know it's not often I write a piece of music for.......a piece of furniture. But....this stool means a lot to me. It's got 'do not move' on it. I put that instruction on it years ago, and do you know what? This stool does not move.

20. DAYS

Here a song we haven't done for a long time as well. It's another old one. We haven't done this for weeks. I mean weeks! Seriously, that's a long time for us. All I've got to do is remember it. I see. This ones got a lot to do with Sydney.

21. LET'S DANCE

My book says no one plays drums like Sterling Campbell. Then again that's my book. What should I play now? That's a rhetorical question.

22. WHITE LIGHT WHITE HEAT

Yeah, a Velvet Underground song. From a million years ago. This one is not quite a million years old but it starts up there.

23. ASHES TO ASHES

Thanks a lot. A couple of things I should mention. I heard a really good version of that song Ashes to Ashes, kinda hip hop by an Australian artist, I think her name was Danielle Spencer. It was really very good. Also I would also like to thank very much Something For Kate for doing such an excellent job in Australia. (mock Australian accent) 'A really good band. We're gonna keep em for the rest of the tour'. Which is only about four more cities. It's been a really good time over here. But you know, something....

24. I'M AFRAID OF AMERICANS

We've had a wonderful, great pleasure being here in Sydney. Some of the band have never been here before and they've had the most excellent time.


25. 'HEROES'

Thank you so much.

(Band leave the stage).

26. BRING ME THE DISCO KING

Mike Garson on piano. Well, that was a song called Bring Me The Disco King.

27. FIVE YEARS

Thanks gladly. That's great. Stay in the same ???:

28. HANG ON TO YOURSELF

Thank you. Thank you very much.

29. ZIGGY STARDUST

Thank you so much again. Thank you.