Breakdancing in Brisbane

The Venue in Two Forms

Five Horizons brackets 120m after its heading without stating what it measures. Its heading gives the date as 03/14/98, and the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology's gives March 14, 1998, each with Brisbane, Australia, as the place.

The Performance

The chronology's setlist runs from "Release" to "Porch," and its entries include, in order, "Hail Hail," "Animal," "Do The Evolution," "Faithfull," "Wishlist," "Corduroy," "In My Tree," "Alive," "Nothingman," "Brain Of J.," "Given To Fly," "Daughter," "MFC," "Immortality," "Black" and "Even Flow." Five Horizons gives its main set on a set line. Both chronologies give the same encore entries in the same order: "Footsteps," "Leaving Here," "Better Man," "Spin the Black Circle" and "Rockin' in the Free World."

Five Horizons' note speaks of the crowd being led in a chant, in answer-and-response style. It calls "Even Flow" a big highlight, praising an outstanding solo from Mike, though it adds that Mike was rather detached for the remainder of the night, and it says the singer started breakdancing at the rear of the stage. Five Horizons says the singer brought someone onto the stage, perhaps from the crowd, it wonders, to take Mike's part, as it puts it, on "Leaving Here," and that the singer ended the song with a jump and went quickly into "Better Man." It also says the singer drank and then tipped beer onto the crowd.

The Next Step

Sydney, two nights earlier, on March 12, is told in Throw Your Arms Around Me in Sydney. The following night, March 15, at the same venue, is told in A Partying Mood in Brisbane.