Seattle grunge icons Pearl Jam wrap up their 2024 tour with a special show in Sydney.
their last show dark matter The world tour – which is also the final day of their first Australian tour in ten years – took place at Sydney’s ENGIE Arena on Saturday (November 23), performing 27 songs including hits, deep cuts and quintessential cover versions.
One of the more notable covers was the band’s cover of “Hunger Strike”, originally recorded by Temple of the Dog for their only self-titled album, which peaked at number five on the music charts. advertising billboard No. 200 in 1991. ) co-leads on the track.
It has become a grunge anthem, and as such, it is occasionally played by Pearl Jam, last appearing at the band’s show in October 2014 at the Neil Young Bridge School Charity Dinner.
Pearl Jam’s final Australian show also featured covers of The Who’s “Baba O’Riley” and Jimi Hendrix’s “Little Wing,” and their 11-song encore opened with a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “No Surrender.”
In this special performance, the song’s first performance since the band’s New Jersey appearance in June 2006, Vedder takes on an acoustic guitar solo, dedicating the song to its creator. Vedder, who calls Springsteen “a good friend and brother of mine,” explained that if he hadn’t performed the final show of the Pearl Jam world tour, he would have been in Vancouver to watch The Boss world tour wrap up.
“Bruce Springsteen is a magician, he creates magic, and he works hard to create magic,” Vader told the audience. “He is prone to magic at times, but he also has a song of power.
“I know it’s been a difficult time for him and for us back home in our country,” he continued. “We’ll be fine. It just takes some time, a little reset. But when words fail, we rely on music.
Previously, Vedder performed “No Surrender” with Springsteen in October 2004 at Continental Arena in New Jersey as part of the 2004 Vote For Change Tour. At the same show, Vader also guest-starred in “Darkness on the Edge of Town.”
