Official December 10, 2010 - Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, AU thread

Predictions, previews, reviews, and rants all go here. The last time the band played in Melbourne was on January 19, 2008 on the Lost Highway Tour. The setlist was about as vanilla as it gets, except that they opened and closed with a cover.

The set was as follows.

1. Last Man Standing
2. You Give Love a Bad Name
3. Born to be My Baby
4. We Weren't Born to Follow
5. In These Arms
6. Superman Tonight
7. When We Were Beautiful
8. It's My Life
9. No Apologies
10. We Got It Goin On
11. Keep the Faith
12. Bad Medicine ~ Pretty Woman / Shout
13. Lay Your Hands On Me (Richie)
14. What Do You Got?
15. Diamond Ring
16. I'll Be There For You (Richie & Jon)
17. Something for the Pain
18. Work for the Working Man
19. Thorn In My Side
20. Have A Nice Day
21. Who Says You Can't Go Home
22. Love's the Only Rule

Encore:
23. Dry County
24. Wanted Dead or Alive
25. Livin' on a Prayer

This was the setlist last tour

GLAD ALL OVER - Dave Clark Five cover tune
LOST HIGHWAY
BAD NAME
RAISE YOUR HANDS
RUNAWAY
SUMMERTIME
CAPT. CRASH
IN THESE ARMS
(YOU WANT TO) MAKE A MEMORY
WHOLE LOT OF LEAVIN'
BORN TO BE MY BABY
WE GOT IT GOIN' ON
IT'S MY LIFE
BAD MEDICINE W/ SHOUT
I'LL BE THERE FOR YOU - RICHIE VOX
HAVE A NICE DAY
FAITH
SLEEP
WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T GO HOME
PRAYER

ENCORE:
BLOOD ON BLOOD
HALLELUJAH
WANTED
I LOVE THIS TOWN
TWIST & SHOUT

"Vanilla" with BOBITA is much better than "Non-Vanilla" without those.

I bet NO vanilla for tonight... fingers crossed!!!

I would predict the same show than Perth ...more or less ... I'd say a normal standard setlist with No Apologies and WDYG

This concert, more than any of the others in Oz, might stand a fair chance of an acoustic set...of late, JBJ seems to be more engaged with the audience in an arena rather than a stadium, where, to me, he seems to disengage. A lot of my mates are in Melb for this show and tomorrow's at Etihad, so I'm hoping they get a show like the fans at Vector Arena got.

Shaz I made a mistake by not considering it was another arena (like the auckland show) you are right arena are more intimate and they sound better because the sound is TRAPPED inside the arena .. so the acoustic set that was done during the tour until now will probably happen again but is it special it's another story.... they did acoustic during the whole circle tour it's is *for this tour* average vanilla to make the acoustic set

I think you will get a good show anyway ...

Agreed...unfortunately, I won't be getting a good show...this time round, I skipped it because the cost of tickets were way too much when having to add in travel etc. I do hope my mates get a great show tonight though

Does anybody think they will bring out TILTIL or TMTC on this leg? I think one will pop up, and because TILTIL is the best, it will be the last.

oh bummer I am so sorry .. I truly am ! I have more than usual (too ) many friends in australia that have totally skipped that tour ... how sad