Sao
Paulo (Brazil), May 15, 2003
By MARCEL
Photos
courtesy of MTV
Brazil
The concert
in Sao Paulo (May, 15) was simply brilliant. Some people were
waiting in front of the Credicard Hall since monday (May,
12) and 6 hours before the show, the lines were really long.
 At
10:30PM, Daniel, Ben and Chris came in the stage and the crowd
started screaming. It was insane!
It all
started with very long versions of "Steam Will Rise"
and "Emotion Sickness", from Neon Ballroom. They
played these songs almost like a jam session.
"Without
You" was the next and the stage presence of the guys
was amazing. People were really having fun! The performance
of Ben (and his face while playing) was great.
Daniel
changed to his Rickenbacker guitar and the first chords of
"World Upon Your Shoulders" were played. This song
really could be a wonderful single. After "World Upon
Your Shoulders", Daniel said his first words in the night
to the audience: just a "hello" but the crowd screamed
too loud so he spoke a little in portuguese.
The next
three songs Daniel played with the acoustic guitar. "Luv
Your Life", "Tuna In The Brine" and "Across
The Night". Fantastic! In the end of "Across The
Night", Daniel left the guitar and started singing like
he was acting in a theatre.
Again
with the electric guitar, they played "The Greatest View".
Increasingly people were singing along with Daniel. Chris
played the whole concert in silence, sometimes very concentrated.
Always extraordinary.
 Then
they played the well known couple of songs "Ana's Song
(Open Fire)" and "Miss You Love". It was a
superb moment, the songs are even better live. Girls were
delighted and screaming like a Beatles concert in 1966.
The last
songs were heavier, showing the phenomenal capacity and ability
of Daniel with the guitar. "The Door" was perfect,
one of my favorites. "Freak" was the next, and everybody
was jumping like a madman. All the "youth" helped
Daniel singing "Anthem For The Year 2000". Daniel,
Ben and Chris left the stage. Lights off. People screaming.
They came back.
Daniel
sit down in his piano and played an emotional version of "Asylum".
People listened carefully. When Ben and Chris took their places
again, they got straight into "The Lever". No words
to describe the sound these guys can play!!!!
The Instrumental
Jam started and they played, at the same time, angry and gentle.
Daniel was energetic. He left the guitar and took away his
shirt, showing the two piercings. Then he went up in the piano
and played a guitar solo there. Above. When he came down,
he smashed the guitar in the amplifiers and threw it on the
drums. They left the stage (Daniel dancing ballet) and it
was over. Perfect night, perfect songs, perfect musicians,
perfect crowd! A honour! GET THE FUCK UP!
 Set
List:
Steam Will Rise
Emotion Sickness
Without You
World Upon Your Shoulders
Luv Your Life
Tuna In The Brine
Across The Night
The Greatest View
Ana's Song (Open Fire)
Miss You Love
The Door
Freak
Anthem For The Year 200
Encore:
Asylum
The Lever
Instrumental Jam |
By LAURO
Hello, all of you fuckin' (this is for you, Volnei!) "'chair"
fans!
To start the report, I'm going to tell you how I could have
watched the concert. It's a (very very) long history... OK,
one day, like the others, I went to school and a classmate
of mine told me something like this: "Good news for you,
'Uncle Quadrado' (he calls me this way!!! crazy Japanese!!!)!!
silverchair is going to play here in Brazil!!" I got
very interested, but I thought it was just a gossip, like
we are used to hear here. But I didn't forget it...
Some days after, I was surfing on the Internet, so I joined
a Brazilian music site, and there was written that the guys
were going to play here! So I got very very happy, but there
were bad news: they weren't going to play in my state (I live
in Rio Grande Do Sul, very south of Brazil). WHY!?!? A lot
of international famous bands have already played here, just
for examples, recently played: KISS, Sepultura, Metallica,
Roger Waters, Eric Clapton, Rush, Red Hot Chili Peppers (I
went to this one! In 2002. Flea said that it was the best
crowd ever, much better than São Paulo).
I got a little upset. But I decided to tell my mother about
the concert, and I asked her for paying the trip AND the concert
to me, everything as a birthday gift!!! And, unexpectly, she
accepted!! I got happy, but I knew that it would be difficult.
For you people that are not from Brazil, Rio Grande Do Sul
(the state that I live) is more than 2000 kilometers far from
São Paulo (the location of the concert). And it's very
expensive to pay for the trips and for the concert! But, OK,
she accepted my request.
Right, no problems, I would miss 2 or 3 days at school. But,
I started to work! And things got even more complicated. So
I talked to the people responsible for the misses here, and
they didn't complain about it (thank you, Adriana!!!). My
road to the concert was beginning.
I had to take a bus from Pelotas (the city that I live) to
Porto Alegre (the capital of the state) at 2 in the morning!!!
But, I got it. Finally, I got at the capital. After that,
I took a "TrensUrb" (it's similar to a subway!)
to go to the airport, to take the aeroplane! 9 AM... I'm flying.
10:30: I'm in São Paulo, everything is alright now.
So, I took a taxi around 5 PM to go to the concert. I thought
that nobody would be there, but, for my surprise, there was
a huge line. Some hours after and almost pissed in the pants,
I entered the arena, the Credicard Hall, a perfect place for
a perfect concert. I ran to the bathroom (that was all I needed
at the moment), and after that I went to the room where the
concert was going to take place.
After, long waiting, I was next to the stage, but I got pushed
over and over again, and I went a little to the back of the
crowd. I decided to go drink some water and sit down a little,
because it was only 8 PM and there was the terrible opening
band, called "Detonautas Roque Clube".
Around 9:30 PM that motherfucking band entered. I just waited,
they made two covers of two different Brazilian bands: Legião
Urbana and Raimundos. The first one was OK, but the last one...
oh, my Gosh! They killed the song, I can't explain how the
bass player could make a mistake in the beginning of the song,
I played that riff the first day I bought my bass... And,
also... has anybody told the guys to stop playing scratches
(Clééééston!!!!!!!!!)?? After
the covers, they played their biggest hit, it was kind of
cool, a lot of people jumped. Certainly, the best song of
their concert...
Then, the lights disappeared!!!! My favourite band was going
to play within a few minutes, right in front of me. By that
time I was a little far from the stage, but I started getting
closer to it. 5 minutes later... the curtains are opened!
And a strong opening song played, it was an orchestral stuff...
very cool... and it ended with the arrangements made by Van
Dyke for the song "Across The Night", from "Diorama",
very nice. Everybody started screaming and jumping! I was
expecting Daniel to sit and play "After All These Years",
like the other concerts of the tour. But, for my surprise,
I saw Ben and Chris entering the stage with him, and I noticed
that the blond guy was taking his red SG Gibson. SURPRISE!
Ben started playing the drums and Chris played the big bass
riff of the amazing "Steam Will Rise". In the start
I didn't recognize it, because the volume of the bass was
too low, but after it got higher. Daniel started playing the
cool guitar stuff of the beginning and the crowd never stopped
screaming. I would never imagine that "Steam Will Rise"
could be the opening song of any concert, but it was very
amazing. However, some people didn't know the lyrics of the
song, but, as every opening song of every cool concerts, people
were screaming. I got surprised again and happy to see the
guys playing that song in a longer way, with drums and guitar
solos, very very very nice! The song ended with that relaxing
sound (I can't explain what is that, it's similar to wind
effects, I don't think it's Sweep), as in the album "Neon
Ballroom".
Right after, they played the beginning wonderful riff of the
perfect "Emotion Sickness". I love this song, It
was one of the songs that I was curious the most to see them
playing. Incredible!, better than in the tour of "Neon
Ballroom", as they played in "Rock In Rio 3".
That black Les Paul is the most beautiful guitar in the world.
When Daniel hit the distortion everybody screamed, right in
this time of the concert I couldn't believe that I was there.
Well, in the Palm Mute guitar stuff, a lot of people jumped
(I didn't stop!). In the climax of the song (the "Get
Up!!!" part), Daniel left the crowd sing, and he just
played that guitar, and just sang "Won't you stop my
pain...", and that brilliant riff again. Then, the end
of the song, they played it longer too... very nice... the
crowd sang the whole entire lyrics.
No time for rest... "Without You", one of my favourite
stuff of the new album, came. What a fucking great drum line
this song has in the beginning, Ben did it great! Every time
they played the chorus of this song was wonderful, everybody
singing, a wonderful light, and very empolgated Chris Joannou!!
One of the best moments of the concert, certainly. The end
of this song is terrific, one of the most beautiful riffs
Daniel Johns has ever created! The band stopped playing, and
changed their instruments, while they were doing that, one
of the keyboarders played the keyboard stuff that is on "Diorama"
after this song too, it was very beautiful, I smiled at that
time.
Next, "World Upon Your Shoulders". I like this song
very much, the guitar line is perfect. I got a little upset
because a big part of the crowd didn't know the lyrics of
this song, that are awesome. So, I was literally screaming
at the ears of the people who are in front of me... hehehe.
Daniel's both singing and playing is impressing, specially
in the words "a world that's big and violent..."
with that complicated guitar stuff. That Rickenbacker he was
using is very beautiful. Nice moment, the concert continues...
The frontman was going to take his acoustic guitar, but before
he finally said "hi" to the approximadetly 10,000
people there, the answer was screaming, as always. The band
played "Luv Your Life", personally, the song that
less pleases me in the new album. But it was cool, I sang
all the lyrics along with the crowd.
After, "Tuna In The Brine", I wasn't really expecting
to see them playing this song! I like this song, it really
has a different atmosphere. Very experimental one, I enjoy
this kind of stuff. Daniel sang it really fine, I didn't got
disappointed of their live version, but all the orchestral
things were missing. No problem, amazing song!
OK, the name of the tour is "Across The Night Tour",
but silverchair didn't play it on Recife and Belo Horizonte
concerts. So I thought they wouldn't play it in São
Paulo too. But I got surprised when he said "this song
is about being on the road" and smiled to the keyboardists,
that started playing the awesome and epic "Across The
Night". Daniel was singing with crazy and funny hand
movements. Cool song, lots of people sang it. In the "Act
2" of the song, he left his guitar with the roadie and
started singing without playing, it was different, because
everyone is used to see Daniel playing and singing at the
same time. It was very curious to see him singing with those
arms movement, and the climax "I just wanna be aloooone...".
Awesome!
Right, the nice semi-acoustic Rickenbacker was in Johns' hands
again. He said: "The best crowd of the tour... very funny!"
Thank you, Daniel! And also: "The coolest song in the
new album", and started playing the marvelous riff of
"The Greatest View". Nice song (but not the best
of Diorama... in my opinion), everybody sang along, principally
the choruses "I'm watching you...". Daniel's guitar
was with the clean sound low again... but... no problem.
After that, the frontman picked the Red SG again, and I thought:
"Ana's Song (Open Fire)". I was right. He played
the same chords but in a different way before playing and
singing the song, very nice! I like this song very much, and
the crowd certainly enjoyed. I knew that they were going to
play "Miss You Love" right after, and a lot of people
(mainly girls) were there just to listen to this song, since
it's the greatest hit of the guys here in Brazil. When he
sang: "Millionaire say..." a high scream came from
the crowd. The fact that more had my attention during this
song was Chris' face while Daniel was playing by himself.
Chris was like everyone of us, enjoying the song like he was
in the crowd, making movements with his head, good to see!!
And when he started playing he got very concentrated...
After "Miss You Love", the coolest part of the show
was going to start. Daniel dedicated the "next song"
to the people that were upstairs, sitten. Everybody that was
with me, in the middle of the big crowd, started to swear
the ones that were there. But Johns said to us we've got to
jump!! And he told us: "SCREAM if you will jump".
I don't really think that everyone understood it, 'cuz we
were screaming for everything that he was saying. And he started
playing the opening cool riff of "The Door". Everybody
started jumping and there were some people that moshed too.
This song was full of improvisations and new stuff. Including
guitar solos and Daniel playing with his teeth.
The keyboardists went away and the blond guy started making
improvisations and some noise with his Green Dropped-D Gibson.
Very funny to see it. So, he stopped with the noise and stepped
in the pedal. He looked into us and started playing the motherfuckin'
"Freak", my favourite song ever!!! When Ben came
with the drums, I started jumping crazy, like everyone. I
could see the smiles and the happiness in the faces of the
people that were there, and they were really enjoying that
moment. Daniel made a crazy guitar solo, but I couldn't see
it very well because there was a flag in front of me (an Australian
flag, by the way. Damn girl!).
Right after, the opening keyboard noise of "Anthem For
The Year 2000" rang. I screamed at that moment. Ben came
with the drums line and after Chris and Daniel with the riff.
Everybody was jumping to. Johns asked for us to sing, and
we did it well. The nicest part of this song was when everyone
was singing "we are the youth", the request of the
frontman. I felt the rebel side inside of me when I was screaming
that, with all my soul. This song has very interesting political
lyrics.
So the guys went away. But I knew that they would be back.
Even so, everybody was screaming "silverchair, silverchair,
silverchair!". In a few minutes Daniel, Sam and Julian
came back. Daniel sat at the piano, and I thought "After
All These Years" or "Asylum". Honestly, I was
expecting to listen to the last one. And my desire was realized.
It was certainly the most relaxing moment of the concert.
I noticed that there were a little bit of people that were
singing that song (I was one of them!), but the other ones
were enjoying. I have to say that at that moment I regret
of not having a cigarette lighter with me, hehehehe...
After "Asylum", Ben and Chris were back. I was expecting
to hear "Israel's Son" or "One Way Mule".
And Daniel was with his black guitar, very low-tuned. I told
to the guys that were beside me that it was going to be "One
Way Mule". But I was wrong. "The Lever" came.
I really like this song, very very much. I started jumping
and headbanging. When this song ended, they started playing
a lot of improvisations, Johns jumped at the piano and played
his guitar there, cool guitar solos. They made cool riffs,
I remembered that were some Palm Mutes and the riff ended
with B. When Daniel was making the solos, Chris and Ben made
a kind of "funky" base, which was very nice.
The concert
ended when Ben looked into his drums (I felt he wanted to
break it!) and threw his sticks on it, after he threw them
to the crowd, and they didn't got so far of me! Chris, as
always, went away discrectly, with Sam and Julian. Daniel
let the guitar making a lot of noise, very cool, and he went
away dancing the ballet, BIZARRE!!! Very funny, I laughed
very much. The concert was over.
Here is the set list of the concert, I'm pretty sure that
it was played like this:
Opening: Steam Will Rise
2 - Emotion Sickness
3 - Without You
4 - World Upon Your Shoulders
5 - Luv Your Life
6 - Tuna In The Brine
7 - Across The Night
8 - The Greatest View
9 - Ana's Song (Open Fire)
10 - Miss You Love
11 - The Door
12 - Freak
13 - Anthem For The Year 2000
Encore:
1 - Asylum
2 - The Lever |
May
15th, me and my friends were very anxious, at 6:00 am we went
to the airport to try to see them. And after hours, At 2:16
they arrived and all the fans freaked out. We followed them
until the hotel, but was inpossible to see them. 
The
crowd was full ,with all kinds of people old young and really
young. Detonautas the openning band played around 5 songs.
And everyone were really ansxius when the lights
From
Diorama songs i think across the noght was the most interesting
reactions people sang: across the nightaaaaai it was the moon
that stole my slumber!!!!