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The Beastie Boys played an AWESOME set at the Hordern Pavillion. Saw them in 1999 in Newcastle too. I have loved them since Licensed to Ill came out in 1986. My friend taped it for me (on a cassette), about 13 years later, I got it on CD. The vinyl is so expensive now :(. The opening segment was MixMaster Mike who is just amazing! Then the Beasties came out and “rocked the house”, people were going crazy - it was a great night. As an older fan, I preferred to take my seat in the back of the stadium (in the middle), this way I didn’t get moshed on (re- Newcastle 1999). They opened with Egg Man from Paul’s Boutique. The second song was Brass Monkey and the hits just kept coming. I can remember some songs they didn’t do like Hey Ladies and Fight For Your Right. They missed a few lines a couple of times but the visuals/video segments (fans before the show requesting songs/bloopers of people hurting themselves etc) were gold. Money Mark came out and the boys did a nice In Sound from Way out mellow set, dressed in lovely light blue suits. I needed to go to the toilet when they said goodnight, but I knew they would come back out again. On my way back they had already started Intergalactic, suddenly there were people all around where we were sitting, I just thought everyone was very excited to hear this track and pushed my way back to my seat. Then I realised the Beaties had suddenly appeared at the back of the arena, just metres from where we were now standing and I missed half of it! I’ll never go to the toilet again! See pics here
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Set List
Egg Man, Brass Monkey, Triple Trouble, Root Down, Pass The Mic, Body Movin’, Super Disco Breakin’, Sure Shot, Shake Your Rump, Sabrosa, Ricky’s Theme. Lighten Up , Something’s Got To Give, An Open Letter To Nyc, Time To Get Ill, We Got The, Right Right Now Now, Three Mcs And One Dj, So What’cha Want, Ch-Check It Out, Intergalactic, Gratitude, Sabotage