Ace Frehley Live @ The Tivoli, Brisbane, Australia

Outer Space

With the dust settled, everything was now running like a well-oiled machine. I made sure that I was going to enjoy the hell out of the final show, and pretty much – Brisbane was the best day of the tour.

We all arrived in Brisbane in the afternoon and had a couple of hours to kill before heading to the venue.

We got to the Tivoli a little after 4pm and checked out where we could hold today’s Meet & Greet.

The Tivoli is such a gorgeous, pristine, classic venue. There was a perfect spot upstairs where we would get the fans to line up and have their shot with Ace.

Everyone was in good spirits and the Meet & Greet was a total breeze.

It seemed like the unexpected technical glitches were nothing but a bad memory.

Just after sound check I found myself in Ace’s dressing room where for the next 30 minutes or so – I got to live out a bit of a boyhood dream… we sat there and just chatted like old friends. It was such a cool moment (for me, at least) and it was nice to see the man behind the vast and great legend. Just a superb moment for me – and something I won’t ever forget.

I had a great night in the pit too and got some decent shots to boot. I was using the new 70-200mm for the gig shoot and got some nice results. I promised the rest of the band I would be shooting them so the rock poses were coming in fast!

They were genuinely blown away by the results and we have organised for the photos getting to them now that the tour is over.

After the show, there were group hugs all around and we organised for one last shot of the band on the now vacant stage.

As the guys posed there, I told them that this’d be the ‘Dressed To Kill’ shot to which they let out a few laughs.

It has been an amazing journey even with the unforeseen technical hiccups a few days ago. At the end of the day, it was all a total and utter success and I am very grateful for the opportunity that I had.

A big thank you to all involved… Frazer and all at Red Ant Touring, Dave (the most amazing tour manager ever), Luisa, Adam, Anthony, Todd, Scotty and of course Ace himself.

Somebody pinch me!

Read the full tour report here.

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