Last night, I attended my 3rd Billy Joel concert (all in Brisbane, Australia). It was a great night - and I thought it was a real bonus to see him performing out here again (I honestly thought the last time he was here would be the last time I would see him in concert).

I was a bit disappointed in the way he sung 'New York State of Mind'... Usually I love the small differences in the way he performs each song (difference to the way it would sound on the album), but this particular song it just didn't sound quite right. It was as though he was really struggling. But, it was just the one song, and the rest of the performance was great. I loved the opening 'Angry Young Man/Prelude' - it's so well suited to opening a performance! I also loved singing along to 'Scenes from Italian Restaurant' (okay, so I sang to just about all of the performance - but how can you not?!!). It did seem that he used a very similar (if not the same) song list to his 2006 tour (not necessarily a bad thing as they were all brilliant songs). I was really hoping for 'Pressure' but it was not part of the song-list unfortunately. Still, it would be a difficult and unenviable task to decide which of his many, many brilliant songs he should squeeze in to his 2 hour performance.

Billy kept his 'bells and whistles' pretty basic again, like in 2006 (and from memory, it was the same in the early 90's when I saw him before that). The revolving piano and screens were all he needed though - any more would've just been a distraction to his performance. I'd much rather be able to buy a gold class ticket because they're affordable than have a crappier ticket and see extra 'bells and whistles'. If you're reading this Bill, THANKS it is appreciated!

Would love to see him out here again - perhaps when he does those 'Face to Face' tours with Elton John (is this true - he's reuniting with Elton to perform these tours again?) he might come back out.

Being 32, I've pretty much 'grown up' on Billy's songs. It's great to be able to still see him perform the songs that mean so much to me. And there is no comparison to the sound of his music in concert to that on CD.

Thanks Bill, and hope to see you out here again soon (but please get some new jokes!! ).