Paul Kelly M-Z

The stage is set for night two.

I forgot to mention something from the first night. We exchanged email addresses with a couple of people around us. One guy was jotting down the setlist as Paul played the songs and agreed to send them to me. Another woman who we let squeeze between our barstools was taking photos and agreed to send those to us as well. When I got home that night I read the introduction from the book. It describes how the A to Z shows came about and how the audience reacted and behaved. What he described was exactly what we just witnessed…including the exchanging of email addresses!!

When we arrived at The Dakota Tavern for night two we jumped right up to the queue and found that we were right behind Loren, the woman with the camera the night before. Then up from behind came Jim, the man taking down the setlist from Friday. We had plenty of conversation to pass the time waiting for the door to open. It felt just like a party. Someone pointed behind the queue to the intersection of Dundas and Ossington and we all turned to see Paul Kelly scurrying away to beat the traffic light by himself. Something that is probably a little more difficult for him in Australia.

Our seats this night were nearly the same as before, just a couple spots closer to the back putting our vantage just bit to the side of the stage. Again we were excited and again we were not disappointed. This is not surprising since nearly every one of these songs is a ‘hit’ in our household. Two nights totalling around sixty songs, most of which are emotionally charged, left us feeling like we had been through a couple of marathons. We loved every minute and we are already looking forward to another chance to see him again in the future.





Meet Me In The Middle Of The Air (solo, a capella, single note from the piano for pitch)

Midnight Rain

No You

Nukkanya

Oldest Story in the Book

Other People's Houses

Pretty Place

The Ballad of Queenie and Rover

Randwick Bells

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

The Song of the Old Rake

INTERMISSION

Sweet Guy

Sydney From a 747

They Thought I Was Asleep

Thoughts in the Middle of the Night

To Her Door

Until Death Do Them Part

"V" -- "I have not written a V song, so Dan will entertain you"

When I First Met Your Ma

Wintercoat

X (rated) Outta My Head

You Can Put Your Shoes Under My Bed (solo, piano and harmonica; "This piano is more out of tune tonight than it was yesterday")

You're 39, You're Beautiful, and You're Mine

Zoe

ENCORES:

You Can't Take It With You

You're So Fine

Your Little Sister (Is A Big Girl Now)

From Little Things Big Things Grow

SECOND ENCORE

Summer Rain