Anthony Callea is... Totes Gay

So last night it was my great pleasure to see Anthony Callea at one of my favourite venues in Sydney ever. Sydney has too many venues, but not enough good venues:

Allphones Arena - ranks about number 100 on my list, it's too big, it's in the middle of nowhere and despite seeing some ultimate pop stars there (Beyonce, Gwen Stefani & Lady Gaga) the venue has no soul - nada, zip, nothing.

Qantas Credit Card Union Arena - AKA it will always be Sydney Entertainment Centre. So if a large artist has a show at either SEC or Allphones. It's always an easy choice SEC. Near China Town and close to EVERYTHING this venue is a must for Sydney and let's hope they don't fuck up the re development.

Hordern Pavillion - Also soulless and at the white elephant also known as Fox Studios. I have seen some great gigs there and the sound in the venue goes from perfect to rather shit.

Metro, Enmore & Factory Theatre - All perfect depending on the size of the act and the mode you need to be in.

Big Top, Luna Park - Over the bridge and hardly ever used. There is a reason there are limited gigs there.

State Theatre - Great for a sit down gig, but if you want to dance, forget it. Great location.

So the Enmore was perfect for last night, only other venue which could have worked is the State. I also neglected to mention the Star Event Centre mainly because I regard this only for commercial and corporate events I went to (another former Idol gig there) and it lacked everything (except security who made the venue fill like a detention centre).

So back to Anthony, and my boy is it totally awkward when he swears or talks dirty. He is far to clean cut to swear and with an audience filled with older ladies or teen girls it was a bit weird to hear fuck come out of his sweet mouth.

He did have a random fan base with some older ladies rather pissed and vocal in regards to his spray tanned self and random outfit changes.

It was one of those concerts that was so bad and a guilty pleasure that it was fantastic. This evening was full of covers, no originals and he even threw in the Prayer for good measure (marking ten years of his Idol performance of the song) and it was wall to wall George Michael.

I was surprised there were so many Westies there and a sprinkle of gays. There George Michael hits came at you think and fast and with a couple of Idol special appearances Casey Donovan and Damien Leith he belted out a few famous George Michael duets.

Casey Donovan was the highlight and the two looked great together on stage. I Knew You Were Waiting For Me lead us into an interval where the bar was serving up more house wine than at a Shire bar's happy hour and the second act commenced.

Overall it was a fun night and the crowd really loved his admiration of George Michael.

Look cover bands and covers are not usually my bad but this was really a bit of fun.