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A photo taken looking down at the stage of the Sydney Opera House with Opeth playing. There is the guitar/vocalist, lead guitarist, bass guitarist, drummer, and hidden away there's also a keyboardist. It's lit with primarily lurid red lighting from behind the band and above, and there are some purple lights in the mix too.

THAT WAS SO GOOD. They played mostly either their older stuff (the heavier songs), and a few off their latest album (which is also on the heavier side of things), and I think there was one song from their proggy middle era right at the start. And they finished with Deliverance as is tradition, and fuck me that is a excellent song to end on.

I'd also forgotten how hilarious the frontman is, haha. I'll need to write up a blog post with some of his quotes, and I took a bunch of RAW photos I need to process tomorrow too.

Posted on 17 November 2025, 23:40

A photo taken with the lights on looking in the same general direction as the last photo, but with the ultra-wide lens. There are quite angled seating boxes at the extreme left and right of the stage, and a bunch of people in seats in front of where I'm sitting. The ceiling has a geometric pattern going in towards the stage, and there are four massive slightly angled panels that are almost in the shape of a guitar pick way up above the stage.

Gotta say, the Sydney Opera House is a pretty neat venue inside. I also didn't realise they'd gotten rid of the doughnut things up near the ceiling!

(And I'm impressed that my internet connection is holding up fine despite how many people there are here.)

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Posted on 17 November 2025, 21:00

A photo taken looking down at the stage of the Sydney Opera House with a four-piece band playing. It's lit solely in blue lights from above and looks very moody.

I'm at the Opera House to see Opeth, first time I've seen them since 2013, and it's a pretty excellent view! (This is just the opening band, Caligula's Horse, but they're very good.)

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Posted on 17 November 2025, 20:23

A photo of the Sydney Opera House, behind it and partly obscured by the Opera House is the distinctive coathanger shape of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. There's some blue sky at the right but most of the sky is cloudy, though in a somewhat dramatic way rather than a bland and boring and flat way.

A photo of gulab jamun, an Indian dessert. It's a single brown round ball sitting in a little silver dish.

For day two, we went for a lovely (if rather windy) afternoon walk up to Circular Quay and around to Mrs Macquarie's Chair, then went for dinner at an Indian restaurant called The Grand Palace. 👌🏻

In related news, I am very full.

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Posted on 11 November 2025, 20:23

A photo of a plate with fried eggs, bacon, and toast on it.

A photo of two white men (me, with a red beard streaked with grey that's getting to be in desperate need of a trim, and my friend who also has a scruffy beard streaked with grey, but his is a very dark brown bordering on black) smiling at the camera.

A wide-angle view taken from the middle of the Sydney Harbour Bridge looking over at the Sydney Opera House. There's a GIANT cruise ship moored at Circular Quay to the right, behind which are a bunch of tall buildings. The sky is all grey and cloudy with very small patches of blue poking through.

Aww yeah, free hotel breakfast. It's been YEARS since I've had anything but cereal for breakfast, haha. A friend went to the show as well, we caught up briefly after the concert then met up for breakfast this morning, then I walked over the Harbour Bridge (which despite having lived in Sydney my entire life, I'd never done before).

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Posted on 3 March 2023, 12:27

A view of the Sydney Opera House with a purple design being projected onto it.

Looking down from seating inside the Opera House towards the stage, everything is hazy from smoke machines and the back of the stage has "UNDERWORLD" projected onto it in giant white letters. Silhouettes of the crowd cheering can be seen in the smoke.

Many bright green lasers shooting out from the stage above the point of view of the photo, with the crowd visible at the bottom in an eerie green glow.

Closely-aligned lasers of red, green, and blue shooting out from the stage below the point of view of the photo. Multicoloured spotlights of the same colours and purple are shining through the smoke machine haze to make rainbow colours.

We went to see Underworld play at the Sydney Opera House tonight, and it seriously ruled. I only have three of their albums but recognised about half of the songs, and the light show was incredible!

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Posted on 31 May 2019, 23:45