A Night Full of Surprises in Sydney

The Heading in Sydney

Five Horizons brackets 90m after its heading without stating what it measures. Its heading gives the date as 03/09/98, and the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology's gives March 9, 1998, each with Sydney, Australia, as the place.

The Performance

The chronology's soundcheck line gives seven entries in order: "Who You Are," "Pilate," "In Hiding," "Leaving Here," "Mankind," "Footsteps" and "Dead Man." Five Horizons' soundcheck line includes, in order, "Who You Are," "Pilate," "In Hiding," "Leaving Here," "Mankind," "Footsteps" and "Dead Man." The chronology's setlist runs from "Long Road" to "Rearviewmirror," and its entries include, in order, "Hail Hail," "Brain Of J.," "Do The Evolution," "Faithfull," "Corduroy," "Wishlist," "MFC," "Even Flow," "Animal," "Daughter," "Given To Fly," "Jeremy," "Dead Man" and "Better Man." Five Horizons' set line runs from "Long Road" to "Rearviewmirror," and its entries include, in order, "Hail Hail," "Brain of J," "Do the Evolution," "Faithfull," "Corduroy," "Wishlist," "MFC," "Even Flow," "Animal," "Daughter," "Given to Fly," "Jeremy," "Dead Man!" and "Better Man." Both chronologies give the same five encore entries in the same order: "Happy Birthday," "Who You Are," "Go," "Once" and "Leaving Here."

Both notes say that after "Jeremy" the singer sat on a chair, the whole stage dark but for a small light where he sat. In the quiet interlude of "Rearviewmirror," they say, the singer had the band go on playing, the whole audience breathless. The whole place, they say, stood holding its breath as long as it could, the singer motionless for a long while in a blue light. Both notes say a banner from the crowd for Jeff's birthday, which was the next day, was picked up by the singer, and that Jeff, sitting in the middle of the stage, wore it like a cape. A road crew member came out with a cake, they say, and the crowd, led by the singer, sang "Happy Birthday." Both notes say the singer threw the cake, a cream pie, straight into Jeff's face, that Jeff threw it back into the singer's, that the singer threw it on to Stone's and Mike's faces, and that Jack then stuffed the pie in his own face.

The Next Step

Thebarton Oval in Adelaide, two nights earlier, on March 7, is told in The Singer on Drums at Thebarton Oval. The same venue two nights later, on March 11, is told in Jack's Drum Solo in Sydney.