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Pearl Jam & Ben Harper downunder rumour

KiwijammerKiwijammer Posts: 10
edited August 2008 in Given To Fly (live)
A big kia ora to fellow deprived NZ fans (10 years and counting...)

There is a rumour on the Ben Harper website forum that BHIC are planning to tour NZ & OZ opening for PJ in November.
Looks like pure speculation and the timing seems unlikely but may as well see if anyone has anything to add, after 10 years I'd REALLY like to believe in what would have to be the ultimate gig!!

Cheers, Brad
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  • ZosoZoso Posts: 6,425
    as much as I would love this to happen it won't... There would have been whispers in the PJ community if infact it was this year or even early next year.
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  • Oz JammerOz Jammer Posts: 9,858
    Yeah this rumour is about 4 months old. Would be cool but I doubt it would happen
  • LukinFanLukinFan Florida Posts: 29,072
    I hope that AUS does get some shows, but please let them finish their new album first- then start the world tour :)
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  • HatredThrownDownHatredThrownDown Posts: 292
    add neil young and crazy horse to the card, then it would be the ultimate gig.
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  • hopethatuchokehopethatuchoke Posts: 2,927
    How many interviews with band members have come out the past few months clearly saying NO MORE SHOWS this year? Ed even mentioned at one of his solo shows last week that it would be the last show for a long while.
  • LukinFanLukinFan Florida Posts: 29,072
    hopethatuchoke wrote:
    How many interviews with band members have come out the past few months clearly saying NO MORE SHOWS this year? Ed even mentioned at one of his solo shows last week that it would be the last show for a long while.
    I agree there will be no more shows- at least no more tours, but I thought Ed said that the NY show that he wouldn't be int he area for awhile. Doesn't mean that they wont be else where :)
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  • ozpjmanozpjman Posts: 872
    I honestly sincerely hope they tour New Zealand soon.

    There is a lot of pent up anger across the ditch, and I think that you have shown enough patience waiting for them to tour.

    A completely side-tracked comment, but anyone seen the Commonwealth Bank ads with the American Ad Agencies???

    Their ad with New Zealand is awesome!! Get your financial planning advice from the CBA (showing map of Australia), so you can retire to.....

    (show map of New Zealand)

    Shebangabang!

    Thats my new name for New Zealand, Shebangabang.

    Sorry, but I really like that ad.

    Here's a link to it in youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPduXO5h4P4
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  • ridewithmeridewithme Posts: 72
    i actually heard this about 6 months ago, and was told to keep it secret. seems someone didnt want to. aaaah the weight is lifted.
    ..how did it come to this?
  • ironlionzion74ironlionzion74 Posts: 75
    HatredThrownDown wrote:
    add neil young and crazy horse to the card, then it would be the ultimate gig.
    I totally agree with that.
  • AmadeusAmadeus Posts: 3
    How fucking happy would i be?
    I missed them in 98, cause my dad decided he was too tired to go on hte night..had tickets. GRRRR

    Even if htey come 09 i'd still kill for tickets. Maybe even gun for opening for them ??
    :P we'll see
  • topetope Posts: 37
    Do you know, I have loved Pearl Jam since my sister bought me Ten on tape for my birthday. The first concert I ever went to was Pearl Jam playing live at the Supertop at Mount Smart in Auckland. I was 14 (1994), dumb and nearly got killed in my dogged perserverance to be at the front when PJ came on. The Supertop, for the bulk of you who I imagine don't know, is a tent. A tent.

    Pearl Jam have the amazing ability to grow with me, as the years have gone by, all of their music constantly appeals to me. In fact, if there ever was going to be a soundtrack to my life, it would be Pearl Jam.

    And, as corny as it sounds, and as much as I cringe as I write this, Pearl Jam has (and continues to) helped me a fuckin lot in the 16 or so years I've known them. Even now, I find whatever mood I'm in, upset angry passive riled melancholic up or down, it helps a lot to listen, its wierd like the music is a friend or something......

    So, here we go, the reason I decided to join up and write this post.... when are they ever coming back to NZ? I remember they came back once more, in '98, and the one concert in wellington that I could go to sold out, and I cried for two weeks. Seriously. And I was a grown up by that stage. But it's not just a band to me, ya see....or do you?

    I heard at one stage that it was because there was nowhere big enough to hold all the people, well that excuse is out now. So what is it? Because I'm telling you it's not fair! I would really love to see them again, this time as an adult, could someone pleeease pass on the message? Or at least fill me in why PJ can come all the way to Australia and not manage that final little ditch jump over to us. It's been bloody torturous hearing about the concerts they've been playing, and Ed's tour, complete with support from our own Liam, and don't get me wrong, the bootlegs and live recordings have helped me through quite a few days.....

    So I have no doubt that these posts are going to change the history of Pearl Jam playing live in NZ. Come on! I live in withdrawal.....

    tope
  • kiwi on the waysidekiwi on the wayside Posts: 2
    it would be awsome id pj came to nz, we always seem to miss out on the good bands they get as far as aussie then for get about us,
    would be cool if they played at my 30th next year at waiheke is, (dreamin)
    been getting into hunger strike (chris cornell and pj)lately,hard to play and sing that one, love to all .minza
  • yellowled24yellowled24 Posts: 3,118
    tope wrote:

    And, as corny as it sounds, and as much as I cringe as I write this, Pearl Jam has (and continues to) helped me a fuckin lot in the 16 or so years I've known them. Even now, I find whatever mood I'm in, upset angry passive riled melancholic up or down, it helps a lot to listen, its wierd like the music is a friend or something......
    Doesnt sound corny to me, and guaranteed that 99% of us on here feel the same way....
    never cringe while telling us how much PJ mean to you, because we are all here for the same reason :)

    Welcome.
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  • AmadeusDAmadeusD Posts: 44
    How about we just bombard there offices and shit with letters, nad emails, and packages telling htem to come to NZ?! They should. THey better.

    They should headline Big Day Out in January.
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  • obiwon76obiwon76 Posts: 568
    I heard a rumour that PJ will be releasing a new album Sept 12th called "Death Magnetic" :)
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  • Gunner_VGunner_V Posts: 230
    obiwon76 wrote:
    I heard a rumour that PJ will be releasing a new album Sept 12th called "Death Magnetic" :)

    isn't that new album of metallica?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica' ... udio_album
  • vedder_soupvedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    Gunner_V wrote:
    isn't that new album of metallica?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica' ... udio_album

    PJ also...
    they will have a fight to the death over the name ;)
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