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Pearl Jam : Sydney Entertainment Centre

Grunge stagers grow old gracefully

The last time Pearl Jam were in this building, a raging Eddie Vedder threw himself off a speaker stack, landed face first onto the stage and survived to rant about whichever government was destroying the world that day. Fast forward five years and he’s being carried onstage for a second encore by one of his road crew, wearing a sensible haircut. Still, his political irascibility hasn’t eroded: “your prime-minister is giving Bush a blowjob!” he announces t…

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