So, back to Brisbane for a couple of nights……..16/3/16 – 18/3/16
The first thing we did was met up with Mark and Paula, friends of Tina from way back in the UK. What a great couple who took us along the Wharf for lunch. What an incredible place the wharf was. Very cosmopolitan, again we have vowed if we ever live in Australia we would defiantly come back to Brisbane to live, a thriving metropolis with a vibrant culture in abundance. We also had to search and buy another suitcase for Tina cos one of the legs fell to pieces on the one she was using even though she had only travelled with it for 6 weeks. Strand bags found on Queen St and a second one purchased. That night we got our glad rags on and headed for the Entertainment Centre in Brisbane for the Madonna concert. Only half a dozen stops away from our motel. We had heard on the news that Madonna was being blasted by the press as she was over 2 hours late in starting her concert the night before. We arrived at the venue just after 8 and heard over the tannoy that the supporting act was due on stage at 9pm and Madonna herself sometime after 10pm. They were not wrong, the lights in the arena went down around 10.15pm and the beat started. The audience erupted and after a couple of minutes intro, Madge herself appeared on stage as she came down from the rafters in a large cage. Again the crowd erupted. The whole show was mesmerizing as she sang songs of old and new. The whole place was dancing in the isles, and even though we had the (nose bleed seats – row Z), we had a perfect view of centre stage and actually that where she did the majority of the show, bad look to the ones in the mosh pit who paid $1500 a ticket!!! 2 and a half hours later she completed her show with an encore of ”holiday”. The light show was like nothing we had seen before, spectacular, energizing and leaving everyone in a metaphoric state. Pure brilliance. It was now 12.45am and knowing the last train left at midnight, we had no choice but to head to the taxi stand. We were in luck only a couple of dozen people in front of us. However we could see a line of around 50/60 taxis all waiting, it was only a few minutes before we were in a taxi, and looking back at the line of concert goers, there must have been a few hundred people waiting for a taxi now. All in all a great night, one we will never forget.